St Bede's College

Whalley Range, Manchester

Irish Charity Concert

‘Young, Gifted & Green’s annual Irish Charity Concert hosted by Alan Keegan from BBC Radio Manchester.

Special Guest Appearence from Dezi Donnelly.

Doors Open 7pm, show starts 7.15pm prompt.

Tickets £10

Tickets are selling very fast and tickets must be purchased in advance.

More info on: Tel: 0161 226 3323

Irish Festival Market

Albert Square

Manchester Markets is delighted to announce the return of the famous Manchester Irish Festival Market which once again will be held in Albert Square, outside the historic Manchester Town Hall, and will feature the very best in Irish art and crafts and foods bringing you a real taste of Ireland giving you a real opportunity to sample a small taste of what Ireland has to offer.

Union Irish Music Lounge

845 Stockport Road, Levenshulme, Manchester M19 3PW

Tel No: 0161 224 1271

Friday Night Irish Karaoke session with ‘the Doc’

Fancy singing ‘Danny Boy’ or ‘Fairy Tale of New York’?  Then why not join legendary presenter ‘The Doc’ from Irish County and Western supergroup ‘Driftwood’ for a night of great  classic Irish tunes. 

8pm-late

Admission: FREE

The Pack Horse

861 Stockport Road, Levenshulme, Manchester M19 3PW

Telephone 0161 224 4355

Irish Blood, English Heart

A club night in tribute to The Smiths. Indie Irish DJ James H dusts off his collection of hits by the second generation Irish band ‘The Smiths’ on the anniversary of their break up twenty years ago. Plus hits from ‘Morrisey’, ‘Oasis’, ‘Badly Drawn Boy’ and other Manchester bands with Irish roots.

Doors 8pm

Admission:  Free before 10pm

St Kentigern's Social Club,

Fallowfield

Jimmy Buckley

Jimmy Buckley on tour from Ireland.

8pm - 2am.

Admission £8.

Tel 0161-224-2033

St Mary’s Parish Centre

Elbow St , Levenshulme

Festival Bingo!

Eyes down for a full house at this Friday night session of Bingo straight after Coronation Street. What else have you got to do on a Friday night?

8pm-9.30pm

Tel 079 66 00 8625

The Palace Theatre, Manchester

The Producers

In Mel Brooks smash hit musical "The Producers" down on his luck theatrical producer Max Bialystock and his accountant Leo Bloom hatch the ultimate theatrical scam, to raise more money than they need to produce a sure-fire Broadway disaster! What do they need? The most tasteless musical in history and the world's worst director!

Chubby Bolton comedian Peter Kay, famous for such memorable catch phrases as "Garlic...Bread?", "Put t' big light on" and "Wanna brew?" and no stranger to directing himself is now starring as Roger DeBris, the camp director who is hired to put on the worst musical in Broadway history, "Springtime For Hitler".

Joining Peter, directly from the West End production are CORY ENGLISH as Max Bialystock and JOHN GORDON SINCLAIR as Leo Bloom. With direction and choreography by Susan Stroman, THE PRODUCERS is a guaranteed evening of “SHEER, UTTER, UNADULTERATED JOY!”

Times: Monday - Saturday 7.30pm
plus Wednesday & Saturday 2.30pm

Ticket Prices: £12.50 - £40.00

Palace theatre Manchester

Manchester Town Hall, Sculpture Hall

Tory Island Painters Exhibition

Tory island lies nine miles off the north-west coast of Donegal and is the most isolated of Ireland’s inhabited islands. It can be cut off from the mainland for weeks at a time since it is surrounded by some of the most treacherous waters of Ireland’s Atlantic coast.

English painter Derek Hill visited Tory island in 1956 to paint the island’s dramatic seascapes. While painting one day an islander, James Dixon, remarked that he could paint just as well. Dixon’s success with Hill’s encouragement culminated in a school of painters who were to exhibit their paintings in many cities throughout the world.

The success of the Tory painters is unique among any island community throughout the whole of Western Europe as only one of them had received any formal artistic training. The present school of painters comprises four islanders, Patsy-Dan Rodgers, Anton Meenan, Ruairi Rodgers and Michael Finbar Rodgers. Each artist has developed his own individual and easily recognisable style.

9am-5pm

Admission:  Free

Telephone 0161 223 3158

The Council of Irish Associations Annual Dinner
and Dance
IWHC. Queens Rd, Cheetham Hill, Manchester.

7.30pm - Admission ticket only - £22.00

Music by TR DALLAS for further details call Anne 0161 434 8989 or Michael 0161 203 4132

Showcase event of music, dancing, drama
and oral history
St Peter’s High School, Kirkmanshulme Ln, Manchester, M12 4WB - 0161 248 1550

7 pm

Featuring the renowned Irish actor Michael Collins, Liffey St, Michelle O’Leary, the Students of St Peters High School. In partnership with Comhaltas Ceolteoiri Eireann, the Irish World Heritage Centre, St Peters High School and the Traveller and Mobile Children Service.

Jimmy Buckley
St Kentigern's Social Club, Fallowfield - 0161-224-2033

8pm - 2am - £8

On tour from Ireland

Takin The Mick
O’Sheas Irish Bar, 80 Princess Street, Manchester
0161 236 3906

9pm – 2am

The bands name might be Takin The Mick but you won’t get more serious musicians and these lads. Featuring vocals from Gavin Jones, keyboards from Roger Hughes and the brilliant Kenji Fento on saxophone playing all the favourites from the Commitments and a whole lot more. The hardest working band in Manchester!

Peter Mylett Mayo Man
Whalley Hotel Brook’s Bar, Whalley Range – 0161 232 7159

8pm - Free

Mustang
The Southern Nightclub, Mauldeth Road West, Chorlton
0161 881 7048

8pm

Come and enjoy the craic!