'Agnes Browne'
Tuesday 4th March 11am
FREE EVENT: booking advisable
Leeds Industrial Museum, Canal Road , Leeds LS12 1QF
This event is part of our 'Irish History Month' project.
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To begin the month-long celebration on Tuesday 4th March is a screening of the film ‘Agnes Browne’ at the smallest cinema in the North of England. The cinema at Armley Mills Leeds Industrial Museum has vintage fittings rescued from the old Palace Picture House in Armley, which closed its doors back in 1964 and boasts positively roomy capacity of 24 seats! Based on the book ‘The Mammy’ by Brendan O’Carroll of Mrs Brown’s Boys fame, this 1990 film is a sentimental character study directed by and starring Anjelica Huston, about a feisty Irish widow struggling to raise seven children in 1960s Dublin.
'Irish People of Colour'
Wednesday 5th March 7pm
Tickets £PWYF
Northlight Arts Centre, Cafe & Event Space, 31 Potternewton Lane, Leeds LS7 3LW
This event is part of our 'Irish History Month' project.
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On Wednesday 5th March Conrad Koza Bryan talks about his new book 'Irish People of Colour: A social history of mixed-race Irish in Britain and Ireland' and his own experience as a mixed-race Irish person. This event is in collaboration with Leeds Irish Health & Homes is part of the Leeds Art History Group and Northlight Arts Centre talks.
'Untold Stories: The Leeds Irish Community'
Saturday 8th March 11am
FREE EVENT
Swarthmore Education Centre, 2-7 Woodhouse Square, Leeds LS3 1AD
This event is part of our 'Irish History Month' project.
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On the morning of Saturday 8th March at The Swarthmore Centre, Yorkshire Archaeological & History Society present ‘Untold Stories: The Leeds Irish Community.’ This event features a verbal presentation using the Untold Stories website and documentary as well as live traditional Irish music. The Untold Stories project looks at the experiences of the emigrant Irish community in Leeds in the second half of the twentieth century, particularly their settlement patterns and cultural traditions such as music, dance, song, and sport.
Traditional Irish Music Afternoon
Saturday 8th March 1pm
FREE EVENT
Northlight Arts Centre, Cafe & Event Space, 31 Potternewton Lane, Leeds LS7 3LW
This event is part of our 'Irish History Month' project.
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To celebrate International Women’s Day on Saturday 8th March, Irish Arts Foundation will be hosting a Traditional Irish Music Afternoon featuring local musicians Siobhan Rouse (Wooden Flute) and Éabha Gaughan Quinn (Concertina) at Northlight Arts in Potternewton starting at 1.00pm. Café open, coffee and cake, licensed bar, pop in and enjoy some live Irish tunes. All musicians welcome.
'The Wonder'
Wednesday 12th March 6pm
£10.50/£8.50
Hyde Park Picture House, 73 Brudenell Rd, Leeds LS6 1JD
This event is part of our 'Irish History Month' project.
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On Wednesday 12th March Hyde Park Picture House shows ‘The Wonder’ in collaboration with Films at Heart. Set in The Irish Midlands in 1862, the story follows a young girl who stops eating but remains miraculously alive and well. Tourists and pilgrims mass to witness the girl who is said to have survived without food for months. English nurse Lib Wright (Florence Pugh) is brought to the tiny village to observe eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell. Is the village harbouring a saint ‘surviving on manna from heaven’ or is something else going on?
A morning of traditional Irish music and song
Thursday 13th March 11:15am
£4.50 includes lunch and refreshments
Richmond Hill Elders Association, 8 Long Close Lane, Leeds LS9 8NP
This event is part of our 'Irish History Month' project.
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A morning of traditional Irish music hosted by local singers and musicians takes place at Richmond Hill Community Centre in East Leeds on the morning of Thursday 13th March. The area of Richmond Hill, historically known as ‘The Bank’, was the first area of settlement for the Leeds Irish community who arrived in the city during the Irish famine between 1845 and 1849.
'Men at Lunch'
Friday 14th March 7pm
£PWYF
Chapel FM Arts Centre1081 York Road, Leeds LS14 6JB
This event is part of our 'Irish History Month' project.
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On Friday 14th March at Chapel FM screens ‘Men at Lunch’, the 2012 documentary on the history behind the iconic photograph taken in 1932. The film is set during the construction of 30 Rockefeller Plaza, its Irish connections, and the story of immigration in New York at the turn of the century. With live music, food and refreshments.
'That They May Face The Rising Sun'
Thursday 20th March 7:30pm
Tickets £7
Seven Artspace, 31(a) Harrogate Road, Chapel Allerton, Leeds, LS7 3PD
This event is part of our 'Irish History Month' project.
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On Thursday 20th March, Screen Seven presents 'That They May Face The Rising Sun' Based on the internationally acclaimed Irish author John McGahern's award winning novel of the same name, ‘That They May Face the Rising Sun’ is a vivid evocation of nature, humanity and life itself, set in a 1980's rural community in Ireland. Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among a small, rural, lakeside community in Ireland near to where Joe grew up in County Leitrim.
'Small Things Like These'
Saturday 22nd March 7pm
Tickets £6.50
Oakwood Community Cinema, Roundhay Parochial Hall, Fitzroy Drive, LS8 4AB
This event is part of our 'Irish History Month' project.
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It is 1985 in the run-up to Christmas in County Wexford, Ireland. Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy) toils as a coal merchant working to support himself, his wife and his five daughters. Early one morning while out delivering coal at the local convent, he makes a discovery that forces him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a town controlled by the Catholic Church. The film will be preceded by a short presentation from Ant Hanlon CEO Leeds Irish Health & Homes about the work of the ‘Fréa Renewing Roots’ project, reaching out to former residents of Mother and Baby & County Homes in Ireland, now living in the North of England.
'Phil Lynott: The Long Goodbye'
Thursday 27th March 7pm
Tickets £6
Northlight Arts Centre, Cafe & Event Space, 31 Potternewton Lane, Leeds LS7 3LW
This event is part of our 'Irish History Month' project.
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On Thursday 27th March ' Northlight Arts Centre will be showing ‘Phil Lynott: The Long Goodbye'. Philip Parris Lynott took the world by storm when he dominated the stage with his most notable rock band Thin Lizzy. The Irish frontman battled his way to the top whilst fighting prejudice. He achieved fame and fortune whilst being a member of the band. Their hit songs such as ‘Whiskey In The Jar’, ‘The Boys are Back’ and many more solidified their names in musical history. Philip was a consistent member of Thin Lizzy and was arguably the driving force for its success.
'Timeline'
Throughout March
FREE EVENT
55 Bedford Drive, Leeds LS16 6DJ
This event is part of our 'Irish History Month' project.
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Throughout the month Irish Arts Foundation will be continuing our ongoing work with schools and community groups across Leeds and our Irish educational and cultural exhibition ‘Timeline,’ can be viewed at The Welcome In Community Centre & Café in the Tinshill area of the city.
Bealtaine: An evening of Traditional Irish Music & Song
Friday 2nd May 6:45pm
FREE EVENT
The Terminus, Stonegate Road, Meanwood, Leeds, LS6 4HY
Kevin Mullowney (Guitar & Vocals) & Des Hurley ( Button Accordion & Fiddle)
"Bealtaine" marks the midway point between the spring equinox and the summer solstice and heralding the start of summer.
‘The Wheel of the Year’ is the celtic calendar and focuses on the cyclical change of seasons evenly spaced throughout the year, celebrating the transition of the sun throughout the seasons combined with the solstices and equinoxes. Lughnasadh (Aug 1st), Samhain,(Oct 31st), Imbolc (Feb 1st) and Bealtaine (May 1st).
We are also be working directly with a number of community groups to celebrate ‘Bealtaine’.
Exploring the Musical Traditions of County Leitrim & County Fermanagh
Throughout 2025
ONLINE PRESENTATION
Supported by Arts Council England, the project also includes stories from the North Leitrim Leeds-Irish diaspora.
Available online now.
Exploring the Musical Traditions of County Cork & County Kerry
Throughout 2025
ONLINE PRESENTATION
The project explores the musical traditions of County Cork and County Kerry in the south-west of Ireland, in particular the music of the ‘Sliabh Luachra’ area.
‘Sliabh Luachra’ (pronounced Sleeve Loucra) is the mountainous region along the Cork/Kerry border in the province of Munster straddling the county boundaries of Cork and Kerry.
The name ‘Sliabh Luachra’ means "a mountain of rushes". Supported by Arts Council England, the project also includes musical stories from the Cork & Kerry Leeds-Irish diaspora.
Available online now.
The Leeds Irish Music Programme
All shows now available online
FREE RADIO BROADCAST
East Leeds FM, Old Seacroft Chapel, 1081 York Road, Leeds LS14 6JB
In addition to exploring different traditional Irish music historical regional influences and themes, the four programmes during Irish History Month 2021 caught up with local Irish organisations Leeds CCE (Irish Musicians Association), Leeds Irish Health & Homes, The Leeds St Patrick’s Day Committee and Leeds Irish Centre. East Leeds FM have up a standalone radio show page on the Chapel FM website for the series to listen back to all the programmes.
www.chapelfm.co.uk
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