The Manchester Irish Festival: 4th - 19th March 2006
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Saturday 11th March
Manchester Irish Festival Message Board
Markets
and Festival Tent
Albert Square
Manchester Festival Markets
10.00am – 5.00pm
Heineken Festival Tent
11.00am - 8.00pm
Dance in aid of Diabetes UK
English Martyrs Parish Centre
Alexandra Rd South Whalley Range
0161 226 1107
Music by Sally Glennon & her Band
Kieran Cunningham
Union Inn
Stockport Road, Levenshulme 0161 224 1271
8pm-late Admission: FREE
Kieran Cunningham provides an evening of Soapstar – superstar’ with his unique blend of Irish classics paying homage to everyone from the Chieftains to the Saw Doctors. Sponsored by Guinness
I Keano
The Lowry
Salford Quays
2.30pm & 7.30pm
0870 787 5790
The Manchester Irish Festival are proud to bring the UK premier of ‘I, Keano’ described as Up Pompeii meets Father Ted (with a hint of Spitting Image). “Unmercifully Funny” The Irish Times, “A masterfully executed musical comedy” The Times. For further details visit www.thelowry.com
The
Flags
by Bridget O’Connor
The Studio, Royal Exchange Theatre
Box Office 0161 833 9833 www.royalexchange.co.uk
JJ and Howie are lifeguards on the second worst beach in Ireland. They dream of Banna Strand, the perfect beach with ‘tits and ass as far as the eye can see’. The jobs at Banna are unexpectedly vacant, presenting and opportunity for the lads. But somking, losing the lifeguard manual, and the dead birds on the beach mean their chances are slim. Until a young woman comes to the beach with surprising intentions and Aonter is offered up to JJ as a way out. Bridget O’ Connor’s comedy about ambition, dreams and the taste of Pot Noodles answers the question: what is the real reason for The Flags. With Francis Magee and Kieran Cunningham
Whistle
in the Dark
by Tom Murphy
Royal Exchange Theatre
Box Office 0161 833 9833 www.royalexchange.co.uk
England, the early 1960s, somewhere in Coventry; into the home of Michael Carney and his English wife come his brawling family of brothers and their father, the fire-breathing Dada. Michael came to England for a better life but as the Carney brothers gear up to confront a rival gang for control of the area, Michael is forced to take a stand as age old resentments and tensions begin to explode. Written when he was 25, A Whistle in the Dark launched Tom Murphy onto the stage in London and Dublin to a storm of shock, controversy and applause. Now regarded as a classic of Irish drama it remains a devastating portrait of the pull of tribalism and violence in men and the desperate need to stand against it. The show features Gary Whelan as Dada, with Patrick O’Kane as Michael.
National Irish Studies Conference
Town Hall Manchester
Albert Square
9.30am – 3.30pm
Talks and workshops including Professor Ford ‘Sectarianism and religious hatred in Northern Ireland’, Michael Sheehan ‘Manchester’s Irish Story’, Gemma Clark ‘The Free State in flames: New politics or old prejudices. A study of arson during the Irish Civil War’, Páidi Ó Seighin‘A walk along the western seaboard of Ireland.’, and Dr. John Dunleavy ‘Michael Davitt’.
Contact Walter Cassin 0161 445 9327.
Green Hot Clover
O’Shea’s Irish Bar
Princess St, City Centre
0161 236 3906
8pm – 1am
£2
One of the youngest and most enthusiastic bands on the circuit.
Woodstock
The Irish Association Club
Chorlton, 0161 881 2898
8pm
Roger Gabriel
Whalley Hotel
Whalley Range
8pm
£2 in advance £3.50
Door
Charity Race Night in Aid of Dr Barnados
Hennigan’s Sports Bar
Stockport Road, Levenshulme, 0161 257 2702
Starts 8.00pm til Late
Fancy a night out at the races? Enjoy a flutter for charity.
Sponsored by
Guinness
Reunion night of traditional music
Irish World Heritage Centre
8.00pm
£3, £5 on door
With original members of St Malachys Ceili Band. In aid of Women for Women
Cancer Charity and Irish Community Care (Youth Projects).
Contact Michelle
O’Leary on 07960101100.
The Lancashire Celtic Cross Feis
Manchester Town Hall
In Conjunction with the Manchester Irish Festival
9am
All Dancers Welcome
For further info call Marji
on 01625 426 568.
Tony Sullivan
Dunicans Bar
(The Great Western), Moss Side.
0161 226 2724
8pm
JIB Sound
Talbot Catholic Club
Eldon Place, Eccles Tel:0161 789 1021
8pm
Festival Party Disco with Tom Dee
The Pack Horse
Stockport Road, Levenshulme
0161 224 4355
8pm-1am Admission: Free
Tom Dee hosts this special Irish Festival club night with Prizes and Give-aways.
Sponsored by Budweiser