Glasgow
St Patrick’s Festival
MARCH 2010
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Friday 12 March
- Schools Gaelic Football Tournament. Glenconner Park. Garngad Royston
Rd
Friday
12 March ‘Come
and Try’ workshop in Irish Gaelic Daisy St Centre Govanhill G42 7pm – 9pm
Saturday 13 March 11am
Mass St Mary’s Abercromby St. Celebrant Archbishop Conti.
Gaelic Choir and Traditional Musicians.
Bus to take people to Marquee after
Mass
Saturday 13 March 2010 1pm Festival Marquee
Glenconner Park Royston Rd.
Opened by Paul Martin MSP and Deputy Lord Provost Alan Stewart
Featuring The Heist, The Wakes, Nigerian Choir, Comhaltas
Musicians, Irish Dancers, the Friel Sisters,
Bouncy castle, stalls, face painting and great fun. Comedian BIG ‘O’
3pm Seamus Moore and Band ( JCB song)
This is a family Friendly Festival and has a strict no Alcohol policy
Saturday 13 March
2010 8pm Festival
Dance with Seamus Moore and Big 'O' in
the Kingspark Hotel
Saturday 13 March -
ART EXHIBITION 1pm-4pm
St Roch’s church Hall Royston Rd –
featuring work from
Glasgow’s Irish community
Sunday 14 March – ART
EXHIBITION 2pm- 4pm Our Lady of Consolation Hall Inglefield St
Govanhill
G42
Sunday 14 March
GAELIC Mass 1pm Our Lady
of Consolation Inglefield St Govanhill. Priest from Donegal Gaeltacht
SUNDAY 14 March Irish Film
Night at GFT Rose St 8pm Two films the First one features the Dubliners in an unfinished comedy and the second is a fearutre
from the Clare Fleadh of 1960.Tickets from GFT
Monday 15 March
1pm. Free Schools Concert for
Glasgow Children .Organised jointly with
the Education Dept and GIHG
Monday 15 March St. Patrick’s Festival Concert Glasgow City Halls
Candleriggs G1. 7.30pm
Tickets from Concert hall and City Halls. Box Office
Monday 15 March Winners of the Schools St Patrick’s Day Art Competition announced.
Presentation
by Frank Boyle Scotland’s leading Political cartoonist in the City
Halls at 2pm.
Tuesday 16 March
History Talk by Stephen Coyle Historian and author.The Contribution of
the Irish in Scotland to the War of Independence 1918 - 1922
Larkfield Centre Govanhill 7.30pm
Wednesday
17 March St
Patrick’s Day Ceili Couper Institute Clarkston Rd. 8pm
Music by St Roch’s Céilí
Band.
Organised by Irish Minstrels CCE branch
Thursday 18 March
'Come and Try' Adult Irish Céilí class St Helens Hall
Langside Rd( Shawlands Cross) 8pm.
Friday 19 March
Céilí - St Andrew’s in the Square. 8pm till late.
Music by The Four Provinces Céilí Band Supper £13.50
Festival
organised by Garngad Irish Heritage Group
www.gihg.org
The
Festival is supported by Glasgow City Council and the Irish Governments Emigrant Fund
