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Upcoming Events
January, February
& March 2019
The Irish Cultural Centre are delighted to showcase
the very best of Irish Culture in our state of the art
building in Hammersmith, London.

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two years before she died          their highest accolades so far.
                                gave a filmed interview on         There is no telling where these
                                condition that it would not        two will go next!
                                be broadcast in her lifetime.
                                Including reconstructions          “The Lost Brothers sound
                                of key events, ‘I,Dolours’          like the ghost of Hank
                                presents one woman’s story          Williams whispering a secret
19th January                    of life and death in the IRA.       to the Everly Brothers.” –
MUSIC: BRENDAN                                                      The Irish Time
POWER AND TIM                   Director Maurice Sweeney
EDEY                            will join us for a Q+A after       Bar: 7pm; Starts: 8pm,
Tim Edey, voted ‘BBC            the screening.                     Tickets: From £10
Best Musician’ at The
BBC Folk Awards 2012 is         Bar: 6.30pm; Starts: 7.30pm
joined by the UK-based          Tickets: £8
Kiwi harmonica player and
composer Brendan Power
acknowledged by many as
one of the most versatile and
creative mouth harp players
in the world today. Voted                                          26th January
Best Duo, BBC Folk awards.                                         MUSIC: COMPÁNACH
                                                                   Compánach is a performance
Bar: 7pm; Starts: 8pm           25th January                       of Irish music, song and
Tickets from: £10               MUSIC: THE LOST                    dance which uses a
                                BROTHERS                           backdrop of photographic
                                RTE Radio 1 Folk Awards            images in a narrative which
                                2018 “Album of the Year”           links place, cultural life and
                                Nominee and Irish Times            music in the history of Ireland.
                                Best of 2018.
                                                                   Based on the encyclopedia
                                Oisin Leech and Mark               Companion to Irish
24th January                    McCausland are two                 Traditional Music, and
FILM: I, DOLOURS                musicians who understand the       featuring music from each
(2018) DIR MAURICE              meaning of the word harmony        of the 32 counties of Ireland,

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SWEENEY + Q+A                   in both their music and            the Compánach show is a
I, Dolours is a documentary     friendship. It is a harmony that   fabulous night of immersion
revealing the complex           suspends all disbelief. Since      in the music, people and
portrait of Dolours Price;      forming the Lost Brothers in       landscape of Ireland.
militant IRA activist, hunger   2007, they have only gone
striker and vocal opponent      from strength to strength          Bar: 7pm; Starts: 8pm
of the peace process who        with their new album winning       Tickets from: £12.

Every Friday                    a glass of wine or beer from        Beginners session:
FREE WEEKLY                     the Bar: while listening to some    5pm-6.30pm
TRADITIONAL MUSIC               traditional Irish music. A group
SESSIONS                        of musicians lead the session      Advanced session:
Our popular weekly sessions     and welcome musicians to           6.30pm-8pm
are the perfect way to          come along to join in with an
introduce the weekend. Enjoy    instrument or sing a song.          Bar open: 5pm
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31st January - 3rd               joined by artists from the       The latest ICC annual
 February                         community local to the           conference on politics and
                                  ICC in Hammersmith in a          society in Northern Ireland
ST BRIGID’S DAY                   special exhibition to mark St.   since the Good Friday
CELEBRATIONS                      Brigid’s Day.                    Agreement will hear the
                                                                   personal political journeys
                                  Launch: 6.30pm 31st January      of: Margaret Ritchie
                                  (entry strictly by free ticket   (SDLP), Claire Sugden
                                  only, limited availability).     (Independent Unionist),
                                                                   Avila McMurray (Northern
The 1st February, St. Brigid’s    Fri 1st Feb –Sun 3rd Feb         Ireland Women’s Coalition),
Day, is fast becoming a           10am-5pm                         Michelle Gildernew
major annual date in the                                           MP (Sinn Féin), Sorcha
Irish calendar along with         4th Feb -31st March              Eastwood (Alliance Party).
St. Patrick’s Day. Across         9.30am – 5.pm Mon-Fri.
the world on this weekend,                                         Starts: 7.30pm
women’s creativity is being       Free Entry                       Tickets from: £8
celebrated in honour of St.
Brigid. In London, events are
taking place to celebrate the
pioneering and creative role
of women in various aspects
of life – including fine art,
literature, business, politics,
theatre, music and sport. As
part of these celebrations,       1st February:                    2nd February
the ICC is presenting             TROUBLES,                        GAS GAELIC GIRLS
three female-led events           TRAGEDY AND                      ALL-FEMALE
focused on art, politics and      TRAUMA: WOMEN IN                 COMEDY NIGHT
entertainment.                    NORTHERN IRELAND                 HOSTED BY ANNA
                                  POLITICS                         CLIFFORD
                                  Conference chaired by former     Tonight, in honour of St.
                                  President of Ireland, Mary       Brigid’s Day, we feature a
                                  McAleese                         unique all-female line up
                                                                   of hilarious comedians.

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                                  For most of its existence,       Leading the posse as MC
                                  politics in Northern Ireland     will be the boisterous and
                                  was almost exclusively           hysterically funny Irish
31st January                      male dominated. However,         comic Anna Clifford. All
ART: OLD VOICES,                  since the Good Friday            ages and genders likely to
NEW PERCEPTIONS-                  Agreement there has been         be falling out of their chairs
ART EXHIBITION                    a substantial increase in        with laughter!
LAUNCH                            the number and influence
This exhibition showcases         of women politicians             Bar: 7pm; Starts: 8pm.
six female artists from           there to the extent that         Tickets: £8
Ireland: painters Margaret        currently the leaders of
Egan, Hetty Lawlor, Julie         three political parties in the
Cusack, Deidre Walsh and          Northern Ireland Assembly
sculptors Orla de Brí and         are female.
Ana Duncan. They will be
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The film title derives from       its usual collaboration of the
                                  the public referendum on          very best in music, song and
                                  the 34th Amendment to the         dance. This is set to be a truly
                                  Constitution of Ireland.          memorable evening.

                                  Bar: 6.30pm; Start: 7.30pm        Bar open: 7pm; Starts: 8pm
9th February                      Tickets: £8                       Tickets: £15. Family ticket: 2
MUSIC: YE                                                           adults, 2 children £30
VAGABONDS
SUPPORTED BY NÓTA
Nominated ‘Best
Traditional Track’ – BBC
Radio 2 Folk Awards
Nominated ‘ Best Album’
RTE Radio 1 Irish Folk
Awards
Brothers Brían and Diarmuid       16th February                     22nd February
Mac Gloinn grew up playing        MUSIC: THE SANDS                  FILM: BALLYMURPHY
music together around their       FAMILY BAND AND                   PRECEDENT (2018)
hometown of Carlow. After         NA LEANAI                         Award-winning director
moving to Dublin in 2012, they    This special concert will         Callum Macrae’s feature
quickly became a staple of         feature Anne, Colm and           documentary tells the story of
the live music and session        Tommy Sands from the              the shocking death of eleven
scene in Ireland, playing their    legendary Sands Family Band,     innocent people killed by the
own original songs as well         (acclaimed as ‘Ulster’s First    British Army on a Catholic
as folk songs from Ireland,        Family of Folk’). Joining them   estate in Belfast in 1971, and
Scotland, England and              will be the next generation      the fight by their relatives
America. Supported by hugely       of the Sands, the four piece     and survivors to discover the
talented band Nóta.                band ‘Na Leanaí’ (meaning        truth. Screening preceded by
                                  ‘The Kids’) who are fast being    our free regular Friday trad
Bar: 7pm; Starts: 8pm              acclaimed around Europe as       session 5-8pm.
Tickets from: £10                  the new folk sensation!!
                                                                    Bar: 5pm, Starts: 8pm
                                  Bar: 7pm; Starts: 8pm             Tickets: £8
                                  Tickets from: £14

13th February
FILM: THE 34TH (2017)
DIR. LINDA CULLEN,                                                  23rd & 24th February
VANESSA GILDEA                    20th February                     THEATRE: GREATER
This documentary film tells       COMHALTAS ECHOES                  BELFAST FEAT. THE
the story of the hard-fought      OF ERIN TOUR 2019                 CAIRN STRING
and divisive campaign for         Ireland’s finest musicians        QUARTET
marriage equality in Ireland,     arrive on their annual UK Tour!   Sold-out smash-hit of
culminating in the legalising     A Comhaltas event is always       the Edinburgh Festival
of same-sex marriage in 2015.     an enthralling experience with    Fringe 2016
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✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ (The Telegraph,       This awesome trio ‘KGB’ are
Edinburgh Guide,                synonymous with Irish music
Broadway Baby)                  at it’s greatest!
✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ (The Times, The
Guardian, The Herald,           Bar: 7pm; Starts: 8pm Tickets
Scotland on Sunday)             from: £16
                                                                  8th March
A compelling, funny, and                                          THE MULCAHY FAMILY
heart-breaking gig-theatre                                        & FAIR PLÉ LADIES OF
mash-up which unites                                              LONDON
poetic storytelling and                                           In honour of International
powerful composition with                                         Women’s Day and in
the Cairn String Quartet                                          collaboration with Irish Music
to explore the strange and      3rd March                         in London, we celebrate the
hopeful city of Belfast.        THEATRE: SEAMUS                   contribution of women to
                                O’ROURKE: STRIPPED                Irish music. Led by awesome
Bar: 7pm; Starts: 8pm           AND READY                         musicians Louise and Michelle
Tickets from: £14               Irish Poet and actor, Seamus      Mulcahy, who together with
                                O’Rourke is joined by             their legendary accordion-
                                Singer/Songwriter Fiona           playing father Mick, are known
                                Maria FitzPatrick, renowned       as the ‘first family of traditional
                                musician, Seanen Brennan          Irish Music’. They won
                                and London based piper,           Traditional Album of the Year
                                John Devine for a rare and        in 2016. They will be joined
                                raw glimpse of rural Irish life   by the ‘Fair Plé Ladies of
                                in the modern day. Often          London’ traditional musicians
2nd March                       uproarious - often sad -          and singers. Preceded by our
MUSIC: KGB - KEENAN,            sometimes silly, but always       regular free Friday evening trad
GAVIN, AND BYRNE                stimulating. This quartet         session 5-8pm.
In a move that is sure          will bring you off to the far
to energise the Irish           fields – break your back with     Bar: 5pm; Starts: 8pm
traditional music scene,        honest toil, drive you on like    Tickets from £10
three of Ireland’s finest       there’s no tomorrow, but they
instrumentalists have come      will always feed you well. A      9th March
together to form a new group.   beautiful afternoon of music,     CÉILÍ: A NIGHT OF
Paddy Keenan, Frankie           song and story.                   LIVELY IRISH MUSIC
Gavin and Dermot Byrne                                            AND CÉILÍ DANCING
merge their considerable        Bar: 3pm; Starts: 4pm,            See website for band details.
musical talents for a series    Tickets from: £11                 Bar 7pm; Starts 8pm
of special performances.                                          Tickets: From £8

2nd Friday of every month       unique storytelling session
 STORYTELLING:                  with guest storytellers from
‘AROUND THE                     all over the world, hosted by
 FIRE’, MONTHLY                 our resident storyteller Kate
 STORYTELLING                   Corkery. Kate will be joined
 SESSION                        by Sarah Rundle on February
On the 2nd Friday of each       8th and her guest in March        Starts: 8pm
month, the ICC hosts a          will be Daniel Morden.            Tickets: £8
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ST PATRICKS WEEKEND 15th-17th March

                                      15th March                        16th March                       17th March
                                      COMEDY: FUNNY                     MUSIC: SEÁN KEANE                MUSIC: FOUR MEN
                                      FECKERS FOR                       IN CONCERT                       AND A DOG
                                      PADDY’S WEEKEND                   Seán Keane from County           Five of Ireland’s most
                                      This Stand Up Comedy Night        Galway, is one of Irelands       exhilarating master musicians
                                      is hosted by Dublin Comic,        greatest singer songwriters,     blend vivacious high energy
                                      Wes Dalton. An Irish Dublin       described as the ‘distinctive    Irish ‘trad’ with Southern
                                      charmer, who has cheekiness       voice of Ireland’, he comes to   rock, rap, jazz, gypsy, blues,
                                      and likability ‘down to a tee’.   The Irish Cultural Centre with   blue grass, polka, county
                                      It’s a fun and friendly night     his band, to play an inspiring   swing, and even salsa! Their
                                      aimed at bringing acts and        concert to get us all in the     live shows are a fast and
                                      audiences together through        mood for St Patricks day.        infectious musical force. The
                                      laughter silliness and plenty                                      best band we can think of for
                                      of shenanigans! Free trad         Bar: 7pm Starts: 8pm             a fantastic celebration of Irish
                                      session 5pm-8pm beforehand.       Tickets from: £16                music on St Patrick’s Day!
                                      All welcome!
                                                                                                         Bar: 6.30pm; Starts: 7.30pm
                                      Bar: 5pm; Starts: 8pm                                              Tickets from: £22
                                      Tickets: £10

                                      23rd March                        29th March                       30th March
                                      MUSIC: ALTAN                      MUSIC: PHELIM                    THEATRE: ‘BAT THE
                                      The Folk super group joins        DREW AND BAND                    RABBIT, FATHER
                                      us for a night of their best      Phelim Drew, the son of          THE SON’ 30 YEAR
                                      songs. No Irish traditional       Ronnie Drew, the most            REVIVAL
                                      band in the last dozen            famous member of iconic Irish    Donal O’Kelly performs his
                                      years has had a wider             band The Dubliners, brings       solo play Bat the Father
                                      impact on audiences and           you his fabulous music show      Rabbit the Son:- An explosive
                                      music lovers throughout the       which celebrates the life and    psychological analysis of
                                      world than Altan.                 music of Ronnie Drew and         the generation that gave us
                                                                        The Dubliners. Phelim Drew       the era of Tribunal inquiries
                                      Bar: 7pm; Starts: 8pm             and his band will bring you      in Ireland. “Superbly written
                                      Tickets from: £20                 on magical intimate musical      and performed portrayal of
                                                                        journey through songs ,music     a father/son relationship” -
                                                                        and great stories.               Irish Times

                                                                        Bar: 7pm; Starts: 8pm            Bar: 7pm; Starts: 8pm
                                                                        Tickets from: £18                Tickets from: £10
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HOW TO GET HERE                                                                                              NEW CLASSES
                                                                                                             Poetry: An introduction to
By tube to Hammersmith                                                                                       poetic writing referencing
(zone 2) We are two minutes
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walk from the stations.
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By Car We are situated                                                     MONTHLY TEA DANCE                 February – 15th April, 7.00pm
outside the congestion                                                     he Tea dances are fun-filled
charging zone and there is on-                                             monthly dances that take          Literature: A Tale of two
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JANUARY                                          22nd Film: Ballymurphy Precedent (2018)
                                                      Starts: 8pm, Tickets: £8
12th Music: The Unwanted - Starts: 8pm
                                                 23rd & 24th Theatre: Greater Belfast with
     Tickets: £12/£10
                                                      the Cairn String Quartet
17th Tea dance - Starts: 1.30pm                       Starts: 8pm - Tickets: £16/£14
     Tickets: £5 on door
19th Music: Tim Edey and Brendan                 MARCH:
     Power - Starts: 8pm - Tickets: £12/£10      2nd Music: KGB (Kennan, Gavin and
24th Film: ‘I, Dolours’ Followed by Q&A              Byrne) - Starts: 8pm - Tickets: £18/£16
     with Director Maurice Sweeney               3rd   Theatre: Seamus O’Rourke:
     Starts: 7.30pm - Tickets: £8                      Stripped and Ready - Starts: 4pm
25th Music: The Lost Brothers                          Tickets: £12.50/£11
     Starts: 8pm - Tickets: £12/£10              8th   Storytelling: Around the Fire with
26th Music: Compánach - Starts: 8pm                    Kate Corkery and special guest
     Tickets: £12                                      Daniel Morden - Starts: 8pm
                                                       Tickets: £8
31st Old Voices, New Perceptions: Art
     exhibition Launch (limited availability)    8th   The Mulcahy Family and Fair Plé
     Starts: 6.30pm                                    Ladies of London - Starts: 8pm
     Runs: 1st Feb – 31st March                        Tickets: 12/£10
                                                 9th   Irish trad masterclass and Trad
FEBRUARY:                                              Gathering with The Mulcahy Family
                                                       Starts: 2.30pm
1st   Conference: Troubles, Tragedy
                                                       Tickets - Adults: £10; Under 18s: £6
      and Trauma: Women in Northern
      Ireland Politics - Starts: 7.30pm          9th   Céilí – music and céilí dancing
      Tickets: £10/£8                                  Starts: 8pm - Tickets £9/£8
2nd Comedy: Gas Gaelic Girls - All               14th St. Patrick’s Tea Dance
    Female Comedy Night with Anna                     Starts: 1.30pm - Tickets: £5 on door
    Clifford - Starts: 8pm - Tickets: £8
                                                 15th Comedy: St Patricks Funny
8th   Storytelling: Around the Fireside               Feckers with Wes Dalton
      with Kate Corkery and Sarah                     Starts: 8pm - Tickets: £10/9

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      Rundle - Starts: 8pm - Tickets: £8
                                                 16th Music: Seán Keane - Starts: 8pm
9th   Music: Ye Vagabonds with Nóta -                 Tickets: £18/16
      Starts: 8pm - Tickets: £12/£10
                                                 17th Music: Four Men and a Dog
13th Film: The 34th - Starts: 7.30pm                  Starts: 7.30pm - Tickets: £24/£22
     Tickets: £8
                                                 23rd Music: Altan - Starts: 8pm
16th Music: The Sands Family Band                     Tickets: £20/£18
     with Ná Leanai - Starts: 8pm
     Tickets: £16/£14                            29th Music: Phelim Drew and Band
                                                      Starts: 8pm - Tickets: £20/18
20th Music: Comhaltas Echoes of Erin
     Tour 2019 - Starts: 7.30pm - Tickets:       30th Theatre: ‘Bat the Father, Rabbit
     £15 family ticket 2 Adults 2 children £30        the Son’ 30 year revival tour
                                                      Starts: 8pm - Tickets: £12/10
21st Tea Dance - Starts: 1.30pm
     Tickets: £5 on door
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