Tyneside Irish Festival – Irish Flute Workshop

Tyneside Irish Centre 41 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

A fun and friendly tune and ornamentation ensemble workshop on traditional Irish Flute and Whistle (wooden and silver flutes and D whistles high and low all welcome)

£10

Tyneside Irish Festival – Celebrating Our Traditions

Tyneside Irish Centre 41 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

An event by the organisation The Living Tradition featuring music and poetry from different parts of the world including Ireland.

£3

Tyneside Irish Festival – Liam Turner’s Country and Irish Show

Tyneside Irish Centre 41 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Dance and sing along to popular Irish music, country music and Irish folk songs, featuring songs from The Pogues, The Fureys, Van Morrison, Damien Rice, The Saw Doctors and many more.

£5

Tyneside Irish Festival – Jigs to Jacobites

Tyneside Irish Centre 41 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Dr Orfhlaith Ní Bhriain is course director at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. Her book, Jigs to Jacobites: 4000 years of Irish history told through 40 traditional set dances will be brought to life with live dancing and multimedia displays.

Tyneside Irish Festival – Kathleen and Me (Film and talk)

Tyneside Irish Centre 41 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

A film by Janet Behan about her grandmother, Kathleen Behan. Not just a portrait of this extraordinary woman, but a vivid, eye-witness account of the birth of the Irish Republic. It’s full of great stories and songs, some of them written by Kathleen's brother, Peadar, writer of the lyrics to The Soldier's Song. Kathleen also talks candidly and movingly about her son, “little poet,” Brendan.

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