Culture; Ireland

The Fight to Keep an Irish Cultural Centre II

Pádraig Belton on June 11, 2011, 5:54 pm

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I’m grateful there’s been a great deal of interest, after my letter in yesterday’s Irish Times and post here, in what the Irish Cultural Centre is about and what makes it distinctive. I’d wondered if I might provide a bit more detail, for those kind enough to be curious. There’s a website devoted to Saving the Centre, explaining its fundraising efforts and the campaign to keep the doors open, and offering a bit more information for the curious. (The Centre’s principal …

The fight to keep an Irish Cultural Centre

Pádraig Belton on June 10, 2011, 6:01 pm

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I just thought I might share a letter which the Irish Times ran this morning. (This seems a bit unhumble, because it’s by me, but I’ll ask all of your forgiveness.) Madam, – I was pleased to read of Culture Ireland’s “Year-long, €5 million, arts-driven charm offensive on the US” (LifeCulture, June 3rd). It is a shame for those emigrating to London that the home of Irish culture here might well be lost within nine months. Hammersmith’s Irish Cultural Centre does …

Heaney Agonistes

Brian Walker on April 4, 2011, 5:08 pm

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Two eloquent contrasting articles one from Roy Greenslade who wouldn’t mind being called a republican sympthiser opposed to violence, and John Paul McCarthy who reads like an uber-( correction) revisonist. The subject is Olivia O’Leary’s eulogy to Seamus Heaney for extending awareness of the northern nationalist experience to the know- nothing south. Pointless to try to arbitrate or adjudicate between them. Both have their points. Of the poet, we take what we like from him. It is his integrity and generosity of …