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Irish Connections is the second exhibition of work by first, second and third generation Irish artists and artists working on Irish themes. The Exhibition will run from Monday12th September- Friday 30th September 2011. The event will be held at the Workstation Gallery, part of Sheffield’s Cultural Quarter on Paternoster Row. It is next to the Showroom Cinema, it is open to the public: Monday to Friday 9am-8pm. There will be a preview evening on Friday16th September, 6-8pm. all SIA members welcome.
Participating artists: Paul Dearden, Nuala Price, Clare Hughes, Mary Sewell, Colleen Penny, Austin Pinkney and Bernadette O’Callaghan.
The preview will be followed by an evening of Irish Music, session led by Chris O’Malley and Des Hurley (pictured at the 2010 exhibition) at the Rutland Arms further down Paternoster Row, where there will also be an Irish Connections Art Exhibition of smaller work. Free Buffet provided.
Chris and Des are both highly acclaimed musicians, they play at festivals and events throughout Britain and Ireland. Both are directors of the Irish Arts Foundation, this is an organisation based in Leeds but has an international reach.
One of Irelands funniest and most successful plays of the last decade ‘The Rare Oul’ Times’ is welcomed to the ‘Farm Road Social Club Sheffield on the 4th November at 8.15pm.
Set in 1950s Dublin in the back room of the Bailey Pub, the audience are eavesdroppers as two of Ireland’s most volatile writers and drinkers, Brendan Behan and Patrick Kavanagh discuss with great humour, their loves, lives, successes and failures in the Dublin of that period. The play highlights the complexities of both men, their fiery temperaments, their love of the spoken and written word and also their unfulfilled longings for literary recognition.
‘The Rare Oul Times’ allows Behan to be at his most outrageous and Kavanagh to be at his most vitriolic and as in life, the humour the songs and banter flow faster than the river Liffey itself.
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Farm Road Social Club, (back of the casino on Queens Road), Sheffield S2 2TP.
Performance starts at 8.15 prompt. Admission £7 Concessions £5
Tickets will be available in September, we will also be able to announce where tickets are available from at this time.
Crookes Social Club, Mulehouse Road, Sheffield, S10 1TD
8.30pm – 11.30pm Admission £5
Michael Coyne is an accomplished accordionist and singer with an easy listening style. He was born in Liverpool, and his father and maternal grandfather were born and raised in the same small parish of Killeen on the outskirts of Louisburgh in County Mayo.
He was introduced to Irish music at a very early age and as a boy, attended both Comhalthas music / singing lessons and Irish dance classes in the Irish Centre in Liverpool. He was a member of the junior ceili band in Liverpool which won three All-Ireland titles back in the 1970s.
Now, Michael travels wherever the music takes him! Some of you who used to attend the Irish week in Pontin’s in the 90’s would remember Michael as a regular entertainer in the lounge. Michael plays all of his music “live” on the accordion whilst at the same time playing keyboard foot pedals to provide accompaniment. Many of his followers enjoy his mellow vocals along with his great ability to provide dance music. The dance floor is always full when Michael is in full swing.
The Frances Cassidy School of Irish Dance was the first Irish dance school to be established in Sheffield, sadly Frances passed away a few years back. The tradition and high standards of this school is now carried on by a former dancer of the school, Elizabeth Webster.
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