The 24th April 1916 is the actual date of the Easter Rising in Dublin. Continue reading
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Eurovision Update: Romania’s difficulty is Ireland’s opportunity
A News Item by Tintean’s Eurovision Correspondent Ireland’s chances of qualifying for the Eurovision Song Contest Final have improved overnight with a shock announcement from the European Broadcasting Union. Romania has been disqualified from competing at the Contest in 2016 because its national broadcaster, TVR, has failed to meet an outstanding debt deadline. The issue, … Continue reading
Advanced Joyce course 30 April 2016
This course is designed to cater to the needs of those who have a working knowledge of Ulysses. It focusses on the less naturalistic and more experimental chapters of Ulysses, and in particular Nausicaa, Ithaca, Circe and Cyclops. ADVANCED COURSE I on ULYSSES ‘Melodiotiosities in Pure Effusion’: Joyce’s Avant-Gardism When? 12 noon-6.30pm, Sat. 30 April … Continue reading
The 2016 Kathleen Fitzpatrick History Lecture
This lecture will examine the Rising from two perspectives: as a ‘theatre of war’ and as re-enactment. Continue reading
‘The Pulse’ with Bernard Ryan
My radio program is not “Celtic’ – though Yeats’ ‘Easter 1916’ is read ‘religiously’ this time on my show every year! Continue reading
Ireland at Eurovision 2016 – Nicky and the Balkan Divas
Nicky Byrne’s Eurovision song, ‘Sunlight’ has steadily lost ground as the other entries in the field of 43 countries have been released. Ireland is now ranked 25th in the overall field with the bookmakers. Continue reading
Celtic Club News
This comical musical was a great night’s entertainment Continue reading
Lá na mBratach – 7ú Márta 2016.
Fuair gach meánscoil cuireadh teacht go Baile Átha Cliath ar an 7ú lá de Mhárta. Continue reading
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
A Tsunami of Grief – Poets of the Rising and their friends.
Bloomsday in Melbourne’s A Terrible Beauty: Poetry of the Easter Rising will be a poetry reading with musical accompaniment. It features poems by the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising, as well as poems about them by their friends, with dramatic biographical accounts interwoven through the readings. Directed and MC’d by Liam Gillespie, with cast including: Renee Huish, … Continue reading
