04 July 2014
Entries for The Hawk’s Well Theatre’s iYeats International Poetry competition open on Yeats Day Friday 13th Hawk’s Well Theatre in 2009 to mark the 50th Yeats International Summer School and the 70th anniversary of the death of W. B Yeats. The iYeats Poetry competition is an online national and international poetry competition which has won a prestigious reputation for the [...]
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23 May 2014
That time of year is almost upon us again and it is soon time to dust off those Edwardian bonnets and boaters and get ready to celebrate another great Bloomsday on 16th June at the Ibsen Museum.
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31 March 2014
Jean Kavanagh’s first collection, Other Places, moves between diverse but not incidental locations: Dublin, Clare, Oslo and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Kavanagh is not a nomad in the sense of someone wandering aimlessly, but nomadic as in following a fixed pattern of movement. The places the poet calls home are realized through [...]
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17 March 2014
St. Patrick's Day parade in Oslo 15th March 2014 was a success in beautiful sunshine.
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03 March 2014
The Oslo St. Patrick’s Day Committee is pleased to invite you and yours to our St Patrick’s Day parade Saturday 15th of March 2014 at 13.00. Starting at Jernbanetorget, ending at Universitetsplassen.
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03 March 2014
Irrgrønn is a celebration of contemporary Irish literature taking place in the Litteraturhuset, Oslo March 14th -15th 2014. Irrgrønn is the greenish shade copper turns over time. The name was chosen as a reference to the recent convulsive period in Irish history. The country moved through a period of Celtic Tiger extravagance and ostentation, on [...]
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03 March 2014
The Dubliner has supported (and imported) many great Irish musicians over the years. This year, over the St Patrick’s Day weekend, the Irish group Measca, great traditional musicians, will be performing at the Dubliner. …and food and refreshments, including Irish favourites, will be served throughout the day …. (and I am thinking [...]
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27 February 2014
While Europe remembers 1914, and Norway remembers 1814, Ireland will remember 1014. On 23 April 1014, 7000 Munster Irish under the leadership of Brian Boru defeated a 6600 strong Leinster force under the combined leadership of Máel Mórda and Viking Sigtrygg Silkbeard. Brian was victorious but lost his own life late in the day when [...]
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26 February 2014
St. Patrick's Day Parade 2014 is sponsored by Hard Rock Cafe, Tourism Ireland, DNV GL, The Dubliner, The Norwegian-Irish Business Association and Clonakilty Blackpudding.
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26 February 2014
St. Patrick’s Day 2014 The annual Mass to celebrate St Patrick and the Irish community in the Oslo area, their families, and friends of Ireland, will take place this year on Thursday 13 March at 1800 in St Olav’s RC Cathedral, Akersveien 1, Oslo. It will be followed at 1900 by a social gathering, or [...]
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