by pabloblanco | Jun 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
CARRYING DAVID A play which recently had its world premiere at the Tyneside Irish Centre in Newcastle could be set to go on a national tour of the UK and Ireland. Carrying David is the story of how Glenn McCrory, a lad from an Irish family, rose from the depths of the...
by pabloblanco | Jun 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
Irish History Lecture Series September 2019-April 2020 Thursdays 7.30pm Free 19 Sept: Sinéad Morrissey: Poetry reading by the inaugural Belfast Poet Laureate, Sinéad Morrissey, currently Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University and Director of the...
by pabloblanco | Jun 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
On a rainy Wednesday afternoon in June, in the village of Annitsford just north of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne, the Tyneside Irish Cultural Society hosted one of their regular meetings for their ‘Raised on Songs and Stories’ project at the United Irish League...
by pabloblanco | Apr 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
We recently took our Raised on Songs and Stories project out to St. Joseph’s church in Stanley, County Durham where we had a very warm welcome from Fr. Kevin Dixon and many of his parishioners. Lady Elsie Robson attended the afternoon of music, chat and food. We...