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Úna Ní Fhlannagáin – Harper
Doors open 7.30pm Show 8pm Úna Ní Fhlannagáin is a harper and singer based in Galway, Ireland. Playing music since age 3, she is rooted in the jigs and reels of North Clare and the sean-nós singing of Connemara and has since performed all over Europe, and in North America, the Middle East, and Asia. Artistic collaborations include Celtic music icon Alan Stivell, Grammy-winner Bobby McFerrin, and free jazz legend, Anthony Braxton. Passionate about music education, she is the first,…
Find out more »Book Club
Book: The Cards of the Gambler Author: Benedict Kiely Meet: Wednesday 22nd May 2019. 7.15pm at the Tyneside Irish Centre.
Find out more »Carrying David – World Premiere Play by Ed Waugh (Hadaway Harry, The Great Joe Wilson)
From the writer of Hadaway Harry, The Great Joe Wilson, Mr Corvan's Music Hall and Sunday for Sammy sketches...Wisecrack Productions present... Carrying David World premiere of the story about Glenn McCrory , the very first North East World boxing champion. Friday, May 31, 7.30pm Saturday, June 1, 2.30pm & 7.30pm Two brothers: one fighting for fame, the other fighting for his life. Inspired by the love of his terminally ill brother David, on June 3, 1989, Glenn McCrory made boxing…
Find out more »Irish Book Club – Film Day Out
On Wednesday 19th June the book club are meeting at the Star & Shadow Cinema, Warwick Street, Newcastle, NE2 1BB. We are combining lunch, a film and the book. 1.30pm: Arrive at the Star & Shadow Cinema. 1.30pm - 2.15pm: Lunch and Wine (lunch will cost £3.50. Wine / beer will be extra) 2.15pm - 4pm: Watch and review the film "Into the West". 4pm - 5pm: Book Club (at Star and Shadow). The Book is The Stray Sod Country by Patrick McCabe.
Find out more »Play – Juno and the Paycock
Juno and the Paycock, tragicomedy in three acts by Sean O’Casey, produced in 1924 and published the following year. Set in the grim slums of Dublin during the Irish civil war of 1922–23, the play chronicles the fortunes of the impoverished Boyle family, into which O’Casey pours all of the strengths and shortcomings of Irish character. A violent death and the grim realities of tenement life throw into relief the swagger and inflated rhetoric of the men struggling for Irish…
Find out more »Play – Juno and the Paycock
Juno and the Paycock, tragicomedy in three acts by Sean O’Casey, produced in 1924 and published the following year. Set in the grim slums of Dublin during the Irish civil war of 1922–23, the play chronicles the fortunes of the impoverished Boyle family, into which O’Casey pours all of the strengths and shortcomings of Irish character. A violent death and the grim realities of tenement life throw into relief the swagger and inflated rhetoric of the men struggling for Irish…
Find out more »Presentation by Irish Ambassador to the UK.
Tyneside Irish Centre Monday 15th July at 7pm Ireland, Brexit and the Common Travel Area Presentation by Adrian O'Neill Irish Ambassador to the UK followed by a reception for the Irish community RSVP or register online on or before 8th July Register online here
Find out more »Talk – Irish crime and secret societies (East Boldon)
Boldon and Cleadon Community Library opened in November following the proposed closure owing to budget cuts. The aim is to keep the library open as a community hub and library. As you will no doubt understand this has a cost to it and in order to keep the library open they have regular guest speakers for which they charge a small fee of £5.00. The guest speaker on 23 July at 7pm is Dr Kyle Hughes who is lecturer in…
Find out more »The Peterloo Massacre – Newcastle Guided walk
Description from Newcastle City Guides - Heritage Walks The Peterloo Massacre - Newcastle's Campaign for the Vote Meet at Grey's Monument 2.30pm. Finish at the Central Station. The walk commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre when people from the North West lost their lives while peacefully campaigning for the vote. We explore the part played by residents from the Newcastle region demanding universal suffrage. £5 for adults, £3 for under 60's, free for accompanied child under 16 www.newcastlecityguides.org.uk
Find out more »Pete Coe’s The Road to Peterloo
Doors open 7pm Show 7.30pm Pete Coe, Brian Peters and Laura Smyth ‘The Road to Peterloo’ tells the tale of one of the most notorious incidents in British labour history – the ‘Peterloo Massacre’ in Manchester in 1819 – through some of the many street ballads that were printed around the time of the event. Three singers and musicians from North West England, Pete Coe, Brian Peters and Laura Smyth, begin the story in the early 19th century, sketching out…
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