it was a terrible beauty because of the fundamental transformation of the legend of Ireland and her people which it initiated and the transition to a new Ireland which it inaugurated – for Ireland was indeed to be ‘changed, changed utterly’. Continue reading
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Labor For An Australian Republic, Convention Dinner
Event: LFAR National Republican Constitutional Convention Dinner Date: Thursday 14th April 2016 Venue: Celtic Club – 320 Queen St, Melbourne @ 6:30pm Cost/RSVP: $50 inc Entree & Dinner or free with no dinner. Pay on night or via TryBooking Further Information:lfar.alp@gmail.com or call Daniel White on 0400945239 LFAR National Dinner 2016 (2) LFAR is proud to host our inaugural … Continue reading
Celtic Club Festivities for St Patrick’s Week
There is a lot to get excited about on this St. Paddys Week!
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Celtic Club Activities.
Lots of activities happening in the club for the 1916 centenary.
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From the Green Room of ‘The Plough and the Stars’
STEVE GOME, recently nominated for a Green Room Award, plays Peter, the toy soldier, in The Plough and the Stars, O’Casey’s classic tragic-comedy about the Easter Rising, and has been reflecting on a play he increasingly admires: A bunch of people crammed by circumstance into a confined area who know each other – as family, friend or foe … Continue reading
A Proclamation For An Australian Republic – closing date extended
To celebrate the centenary of the proclamation of the Irish Republic at the Dublin GPO on 24 April 1916, the Melbourne Celtic Club, through its Cultural Heritage Committee is holding a competition to write a Proclamation for an Australian Republic. Continue reading
Féile Bríde 2016
Remembering the women of the 1916 Dublin rising. Continue reading
John Ford, Ireland 1916 Easter Rising Film Night
International film historian Charles Barr charts a pivotal moment in Ireland’s Independence, Continue reading
NYE at the Celtic Club
Celebrate New Year at the Celtic Club! Continue reading
Brigidfest 2016
Celebrating Irish and Irish-Australian women Continue reading