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Lecture – De Valera in the Irish imagination, 1916-2020
Free 7.30pm Tim Ellis: Why did the Long Fellow last so long?: De Valera in the Irish imagination, 1916-2020 Éamon de Valera cast a significant influence over Irish politics for nearly sixty years. Internationally, no other democratically-elected leader, has served as long in office. Crucial to de Valera’s political endurance was a potent, yet also vibrant and changeable public image. This lecture explores the changing ways in which de Valera has been perceived over time. Over his lengthy political career, de…
Find out more »ROSS Wallsend
ROSS is a special project for older Irish people and their friends organised by the Tyneside Irish Cultural Society. One of our aims is to bring together Irish emigrants who settled in the North East region during the 50s and 60s to celebrate their cultural heritage. Our title comes from the famous Dubliner’s song- ‘The Rare Ould Times’ -and we think it sums up many of our childhood memories. Every month ROSS is on the road to a local venue…
Find out more »Lecture – ‘Pogroms’ and ‘Rotten Prods’
Free 7.30pm Connal Parr: 'Pogroms' and 'Rotten Prods': 1920 and the Beginnings of Northern Ireland This lecture will focus on Ulster Unionism around the pivotal year of 1920, addressing how it dealt with the 'threat' of a resurgent Labour movement, along with the connected industrial strife of what would become, the following year, the statelet of Northern Ireland. It will concentrate on the violent shipyard expulsions of July 1920, when, following an incendiary speech by Edward Carson, groups of ‘loyalist’ men attacked Catholics and…
Find out more »Echoes of Erin
Doors open 7.30pm Show 8pm We are delighted to welcome the international Comhaltas tour concert 'Echoes of Erin' to the Irish centre featuring a collaboration of the very best in music, song and dance in what forms a truly memorable and enthralling experience. The annual tour is a highlight of the year with full group and ensemble performances from young traditional musicians and dancers. Click here for tickets or buy them from the Irish centre office. You can also get…
Find out more »ROSS Middlesbrough
ROSS is a special project for older Irish people and their friends organised by the Tyneside Irish Cultural Society. One of our aims is to bring together Irish emigrants who settled in the North East region during the 50s and 60s to celebrate their cultural heritage. Our title comes from the famous Dubliner’s song- ‘The Rare Ould Times’ -and we think it sums up many of our childhood memories. Every month ROSS is on the road to a local venue…
Find out more »St. Patrick’s Party – Dance, Songs and Irish supper.
Dance, sing along and enjoy hot Irish food in preparation for St. Patrick’s Day! Live céili band with dance caller and special guests... Kevin Morrin - Incredible tenor vocalist from Co. Laois, Ireland, performs his new single 'With Luke' and the songs of the great Luke Kelly and The Dubliners. Úna Ní Fhlannagáin - A multi-award winning virtuoso of Irish harp from Co.Galway. Informal Irish supper with bacon, cabbage and mashed potato followed by dessert. Vegan option available. Tickets are…
Find out more »ROSS Sunderland (Cancelled)
This event is not going ahead. ROSS is a special project for older Irish people and their friends organised by the Tyneside Irish Cultural Society. One of our aims is to bring together Irish emigrants who settled in the North East region during the 50s and 60s to celebrate their cultural heritage. Our title comes from the famous Dubliner’s song- ‘The Rare Ould Times’ -and we think it sums up many of our childhood memories. Every month ROSS is on…
Find out more »Murphy’s Wake – Drama (Cancelled)
This event is not going ahead. Murphy's Wake The Cultural Society drama group, ANTICS, present a funny and poignant piece of immersive theatre produced, devised and performed by the group. Come along and be part of the action. There is no door charge but donations will be gratefully received.
Find out more »Tim Edey (Cancelled)
This event is not going ahead. Please contact the office for refunds 0191 2610384. Doors open 7.30pm Show 8pm “ONE OF THE GREATEST MELODEON PLAYERS IN THE WORLD" MIKE HARDING "A ferocious passion and a beautiful tenderness, sensitivity, respect, understanding & love perpetually shines out through the music of virtuoso musician Tim Edey.” SHARON SHANNON “Tim Edey plays a host of different instruments to a standard us mere mortals can only dream of. Listen and weep”- Jim Byrne, The Living…
Find out more »Lecture – Transvestites and Terrorists in Patrick McCabe’s Breakfast on Pluto (Cancelled)
This event is not going ahead. Free 7.30pm Claire Nally: Transvestites and Terrorists in Patrick McCabe’s Breakfast on Pluto (1998) Patrick McCabe’s Breakfast on Pluto (Picador, 1998) presents the transgendered individual who not only interrogates the nature of sexuality but the very stability of gendered identity. Narrated in the first-person, with a fragmented and postmodern style, the elaborate and exuberantly verbose story of Pussy is presented as fluid, multiple and unstable, essentially a ‘feminine’ voice which disrupts the dominant ideology…
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