Manchester will celebrate the city's thirteenth Irish Festival in March this year with an action packed two weeks of Irish Art, Comedy, Dance, Music, Sport and Theatre.
Variety Club Pride of Eireann Awards
Palace Hotel
13th June 2008
The Variety Club children’s charity are proud to announce our inaugural prestigious awards dinner
to celebrate the achievements of Ireland’s finest from the world of entertainment, music, sport,
media and community
Ticket price includes a sumptuous three course dinner and entertainment after the award Ceremony.
This event promises to be one of the highlights of the 2008 calendar so book early to avoid disappointment
Some of the stars in attendance on the night include
Philomena Begley
Frank Carson
Jimmy Cricket
Eamon Holmes
Dickie Rock
Brendan o'Carroll
Foster & Allen
Plus many more Surprise Guests
Ticket price £60.00
Telephone the Variety Club office: 0161 236 0500
Palace Hotel,
Oxford Road, Manchester
This Event is supported by the
FULL IRISH RADIO SHOW
Full Irish Show All Fm 96.9fm
Friday 7th of March 2008 to Thursday 20th March 2008
The festival which is now established as one of the biggest Irish Festivals in
Europe, is launched on Friday 7th of March 2008 and runs through to Thursday
the 20th March 2008
All Events for the 2008 Manchester Irish Festival are listed by day
Boddingtons Unsigned 2008 Final
Syd Bozko, Playing Johnny Blue
Manchester Irish Festival 2008
For further information on the events during the Levenshulme TradFest and for any suggestions and queries please Email Us
Or contact us on 0161 257 2484.
The annual Manchester Irish Festival Parade saw over seventy floats march from Cheetham Hill to Albert Square.
This makes it one of the biggest Irish parades in the UK.
Thousands of people lined the streets to cheer on the spectacular and enjoy the Irish market and entertainment in the festival marquee in Albert Square.
Aer Arann, Europe’s premier regional airline, operate flights to 4 great destinations in the “Real Ireland” – Galway and Sligo in the West and Kerry and Waterford in the South.
Aer Arann are offering the chance to win return flights for 2 from Manchester to any one of these fantastic destinations!
Just answer the following question:
Which Irish county is famous for its hand-cut glass?
The ‘Young, Gifted & Green’ show at the Lowry Theatre part of the opening celebrations of the Festiva helped raise close to £10,000 for Francis House children’s hospice.
Special guests included ‘James Keegan’, current principal with ‘Lord of the Dance’ Mike McGoldrick, Dezi Donnelly , Emma Sweeney, Mairead Hussey, Nicola Cahill and the Keegan Kennedy School of Irish Dancing.
Friday 7 March was the launch night of Levenshulme's ‘tradfest’ which featured Claire Mooney and others
James Cannon and the Sinners appeared in m19bar on Sunday and Sean Cannon, lead singer from Ireland’s legendary traditional Irish band ‘The Dubliner’s’ popped in to support his son.
‘Dana’ launched this years Irish Festival at Manchester Town Hall on Friday 7 March.
Also appearing at the launch were poet Tony Walsh, James Keegan, singers Ged Graham and ‘Kerry Firth’ the Morgan School of Irish Dancing, St Bernards R.C. Primary School choir from Burnage and Traditional Irish Band ‘Cluas’.
Levenshulme radio station All fm (96.9fm) are broadcasting a live link up show from County Mayo in conjunction with their "Full Irish Radio Show"
Mid West Radio in Mayo will be broadcasting live every Monday Tuesday Wednesday from 11am - noon on 96.9fm and streaming live on the web.
You can listed to the All fm webstream by clicking on this link. Launch Webstream
The show features Paul Claffey.
St. Patricks Day 2008
This year St.Patrick’s feast Day has officially been moved to Saturday 15 March by the Vatican. The reason for this is that Easter is very early this year and as a result the 17 March falls on the Monday of Holy Week.
No liturgical feast takes precedence over the days of Holy Week so St Patrick’s feast day will come two days earlier on Saturday March 15th to avoid such a conflict.
The last time this happened was in 1940 and it will be probably be another 68 years before it happens again. St Patrick’s Day will return to the 17 March in 2009
