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
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Commemorative Events of the 1916 Easter Rising at the Celtic Club
The Melbourne Celtic Club’s Cultural Heritage Committee is holding a series of commemorative events Continue reading
Irish Films in BBC First British Festival Australia
Never has Ireland looked so colourful and sunny as it has in this film. Continue reading
WB Yeats 150th Anniversary Commemoration
In order to re-create the atmosphere of Coole Park House, the concert will take place in the recital room of Buckleys of Dunnolly, which hosts a beautiful grand piano. Continue reading
Stories Told around the Fires of Time
one imagines that, as with all oral story-tellers, the verse tethers memory to the story’s emotional highs and lows. Continue reading
Celtic Club Events in September
The Celtic Club have got some very exciting news!! Continue reading
Once Upon a Barstool
What a rarity it is to be seduced by the sound of the human voice and the beauty and rhythm of the spoken word: Continue reading
Celtic Club
The 100th Anniversary of the 1916 is next year and the Club has plans to celebrate in style. Continue reading
Ned’s Nemesis
The book really gets into its stride examining the ins and outs of the Kelly trial – especially the ineptitude of Kelly’s lawyer. Continue reading