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Dinner Dance - Leitrim Assocation London
25-02-2012
Crown Moran Hotel, Cricklewood Broadway, London.
Music - Echoes of Erin
02-03-2012
Tyneside Irish Cultural Society
Manchester’s annual Irish Festival will be turning Albert Square in the city centre ‘Green’ during the St Patrick’s Day Parade celebrations from Thursday 8th March until the parade day itself on Sunday 11 March to celebrate its 17th annual festival. A giant festival banner will adorn the front of Manchester Town Hall, the town hall clock will be turned Green and the Tri-Colour of the Irish Flag ...
Models Angelica Salamlo, Clare MacDougald and Jack Dolla Maestra are pictured here in City West Hotel with headpieces made entirely from hair.
These stunning styles were created by Louise Jordan, Irish Hairstylist of the Year 2011 and Raimondas Pasternackis, Irish Barber of the Year 2011.
Stylists all across Ireland are sharpening their scissors for the upcoming Irish Hairdressing C...
A fairytale story is the label usually given to Mary Byrne’s meteoric rise to fame, and for once the expression is any no way an exaggeration.
There she was, a check-out assistant at Tesco in Dublin, a 50-year-old single parent mother, who might sing at pubs at the weekend. “I’d play for friends and family,” she says, “and do a bit of karaoke. But I never did anything professionally.” Now,...
Mayo and Manchester have joined forces to promote tourism in the West of Ireland ahead of this year's Manchester Irish Festival.
The team behind Mayo County Council’s Diaspora website - www.mayo.ie - have joined forces with the Manchester Mayo Tourism and Business Group and the Manchester Irish Festival.
Manchester Irish Festival's Lawrence Hennigan, whose parents are from just outside Ball...
Hop Farm Music Festival, run by Irish music promoter Vince Power, has been nominated for Best Small Festival at the NME Awards 2012.
Hop Farm takes place every year in the Kent countryside.
The event has no VIP area, so everyone has the same experience, there's no registration, no sponsorship, and no branding.
This year's Hop Farm Festival takes place from June 29 to July 1. The Festival, ...
I'm going to share with you one of my favourite roast dinners.
Your oven does the bulk of the work while you sleep, and you wake up to the most delicious smells radiating from your kitchen, up the stairs and into your bedroom, converting all in your house into early morning bisto kids.
What is this magic I speak of? Overnight slow roast shoulder of pork. I adore this dish, both for the day th...
The Jimmy Hendrix of Irish piping will delight traditional music enthusiasts in London.
Paddy Keenan, a former member of The Bothy Band, performs at the London Irish Centre on Friday, February 3.
Born in Meath to a Travelling family steeped in traditional music - both Keenan’s father and grandfather were uilleann pipers.
Paddy himself took up the pipes at the age of 10, playing his first majo...
Graham Linehan wants to set the record straight about a myth that has spread like wild fire regarding a script he once wrote.
In the fictional version of this story, 20 years ago, Linehan and his co- writer Arthur Matthews were rejected by the Irish broadcaster RTÉ when they pitched an idea for a sitcom about three priests living on an island off the west coast of Ireland.
He laughs when ...
On Valentine's Day Francis Bacon’s most seductive female portrait will be offered to the public for the first time.
The vibrant Portrait of Henrietta Moraes will feature in Christies February 14 evening auction of Post War and Contemporary Art.
Formerly held in a private collection for nearly 30 years, the piece depicts the Dublin-born artist’s friend and model Henrietta Moraes.
Francis Outre...
"Although the band has had its share of sadness, there were plenty of good times. We travelled the world with our music, and had some grand experiences," says fiddler John Sheahan, the man who is the heart of the Dubliners, the very core of the Dubliners' sound.
Over the years the Dubliners featured some of the greatest voices ever to grace Irish music - Luke Kelly, Ronnie Drew, Bobby Lynch ...
Irish film Albert Nobbs has been nominationed for the 84th Academy Awards.
Produced by Alan Moloney's award-winning Irish production company Parallel Films and supported by the Irish Film Board, it has been nominated in the Best Actress category (Glenn Close), Best Supporting Actress (Janet McTeer) and Makeup (Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and Matthew W. Mungle).
Based on the short stor...
Leading the charge for best film at this year’s IFTAs is Brendan Gleeson’s The Guard.
The black comedy, also starring Don Cheadle, is among the features nominated for Best Film at 2012 Awards. Also nominated is period drama Albert Nobbs, Irish psychological thriller Charlie Casanova and rural drama Stella Days.
Reflecting the Irish film and television industry’s continuing development yea...
A number of high-profile names from the North of Ireland are among the latest to be added to the newest edition of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
The lives of 217 men and women who died in 2008 are now part of the dictionary series, which includes 53,084 articles telling the life stories of 58,094 people.
The new additions include a selection of people who shaped or commented on...
Armagh director Brian Kirk’s BBC production of Great Expectations proved to be a smash hit with over six million viewers tuning in each night to the three part series last month.
And with the bicentenary of Charles Dickens’ birth on the horizon, Britain is going to see an array of Dickensian events over the coming months.
Last month’s series on the BBC kicked of proceedings with perhaps t...