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.

Arcadia Sports Centre

Yew Tree Avenue off Stockport Road, Levenshulme

St Mary’s Junior Gaelic Football Challenge Trophy

sponsored by Levenshulme Fleadh

St Mary’s Award winning junior Gaelic Football team are putting on a tournament open to all junior Gaelic Football teams aged 10-12. 

To register your team contact Brenda on 077 46 79 8609, spectators are welcome to come along and show their support.  The tournament will take place on the outdoor pitch outside Arcadia Sports centre, just behind the Church Pub off Stockport Road in Levenshulme village.

Admission:  Free

12 noon-5pm

Tel 077 46 79 8609

The Pack Horse

861 Stockport Road, Levenshulme, Manchester M19 3PW

Telephone 0161 224 4355

Celtic Rock night with ‘the Band from County Hell’ plus Irish club night with Tom Dee - Sponsored by Budweiser

The award winning eight piece Celtic Rock band make this exclusive appearance at this years Irish Festival.  The band have appeared on countless TV shows including ‘live at the London Palladium’. 

Doors:8pm, concert starts 8.30pm

Admission: £3 adv

Union Irish Music Lounge

845 Stockport Road, Levenshulme, Manchester M19 3PW

Tel No: 0161 224 1271

Irish Music night

with Kieran Cunningham

Sponsored by Guinness

Fresh from his appearances in the nations TV Soaps and Theatre productions, the award winning actor & singer 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.

8pm-late

Admission: FREE

Hennigan’s Sports Bar

908 Stockport Road, Levenshulme, Manchester, M19 3AD

0161 257 2702

Six Nations Party - Scotland v Ireland

Sponsored by Guinness

Watch Ireland take on their Celtic cousins in the Six Nations cup screened live from Murrayfield.

Doors 12noon

Admission Free

M19 Bar

847 Stockport Road, Levenshulme, Manchester, M19 3PW

Telephone:  0161 225 8359

An Evening with Irish Pipes player Becky Taylor

Becky Taylor plus Dave Krosky, ‘Flair’ and Adam Kelly

Sponsored by Guinness

This special traditional Irish concert will feature the renowned Irish pipes player Becky Taylor accompanied by guitarist Dave Kosky  www.beckytaylor.info. 

Special guests include the singer songwriter Adam Kelly and traditional Irish music and dance group ‘Flair’ from Young, Gifted & Green. 

Guest musicians are welcome to join in the Irish session after the concert.

Doors 7.30pm, concert starts 8pm

Admission : £5

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 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

Steven Smyth

St Kentigern's Social Club

Fallowfield - 0161-224-2033

8pm - 2am - £8

A great musician, night not to be missed

Showcase event of music, dancing, drama
and oral history Irish World Heritage Centre, Queens Rd, Cheetham Hill - 0161 205 4007

7.30pm

£4 in advance, £5 on the door, £1 concession and Comhaltas members

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.

Neil Diamond (Dave)
Whalley Hotel

Brook’s Bar, Whalley Range

8pm

FREE

0161 232 7159

Pat Jordon and Finnians Rainbow

English Martyr’s Parish Centre

Alexandra Rd South, Whalley Range

Come and enjoy this excellent band. Pat Jordon from Co Wicklow puts on a first rate show. Food on sale by Rafferty Catering.

8pm

Admission £3 Members £3

0161 226 1107

The Exiles band

The Irish Association Social Club

High Lane, Chorlton

Come along and dance the night away.

8pm

Admission £4 Members £2.

0161 881 2898

Irish Rovers Showband

The Royal Oak

Barlow Moor Rd, Chorlton

Come and enjoy the music and craic.

9-30pm

Free

0161 860 7438

Tony Sullivan
Dunicans Bar

Sedgeborough Road

Moss Side - 0161 226 2724

Come and enjoy the craic.

8pm

Free

Green Hot Clover

O’Sheas Irish Bar

80 Princess Street, Manchester

Green Hot Clover are one of the youngest bands on the circuit. Combine this with their doubtless talent and you have a great band playing great Irish music.

9pm – 2am

Sponsored by Pro Music Limited

0161 236 3906