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Halloween at the Christchurch Irish ClubHalloween at the Christchurch Irish Club

Join us at the Christchurch Irish Society Hall for an enchanting afternoon filled with traditional Irish games, lively activities, and a dash of Halloween magic.

 

Bring your little lads and fairies for a festive celebration. We'll have prizes for the best-dressed, traditional games with a Halloween twist, and captivating storytelling featuring Irish myths and legends. This is an in-person event, so come along and enjoy a magically eerie time!

Come fed and watered - afternoon tea with a delightful Irish touch will be served.

 

Date and Time: Sunday, 3rd November from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM

 

Location: Christchurch Irish Society, 29 Domain Terrace, Spreydon

 

Cost: $5.00 per child. Due to limited space, be sure to secure your tickets soon!

Grab your tickets here

We look forward to seeing you for a truly bewitching Halloween party!

 

Club Night Cancelled this FridayClub Night Cancelled this Friday

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we have decided to cancel Club Night this Friday evening.

We'll be back up and running in no time.

We apologise to those who were looking forward to catching up.

 

 

Kids C 1Kids Céilí with The Christchurch Celtic Orchestra

This Sunday the Christchurch Celtic Orchestra and Southern Cross Irish Dance Academy are throwing a different kind of céilí - a Kids' Céilí!

There is a large amount of interest in this event and tickets are running out - don't miss out - book yours here.

 

Date: Sunday 8th September

Time: 2:30pm - 3:30pm

Location: 29 Domain Terrace, Spreydon

Cost: $5 per dancer

 

With live music by the Celtic Orchestra and expert dance calling and guidance from Southern Cross Irish Dance School, don't miss out on this opportunity to have a go at a variety of favourite group dances. Suitable for children from 4-12yrs. Teens and adults welcome to join in and dance in their own groups. No experience necessary - all instruction provided.

 

 

Kids C 1Kids Céilí with The Christchurch Celtic Orchestra

This Sunday the Christchurch Celtic Orchestra and Southern Cross Irish Dance Academy are throwing a different kind of céilí - a Kids' Céilí!

 

Date: Sunday 8th September

Time: 2:30pm - 3:30pm

Location: 29 Domain Terrace, Spreydon

Cost: $5 per dancer

 

With live music by the Celtic Orchestra and expert dance calling and guidance from Southern Cross Irish Dance School, don't miss out on this opportunity to have a go at a variety of favourite group dances. Suitable for children from 4-12yrs. Teens and adults welcome to join in and dance in their own groups. No experience necessary - all instruction provided. Book your tickets here.

 

 

KneecapNZ International Film Festival - Kneecap

NZ International Film Festival is Screening Kneecap

 

Never has a film had so much fun with Irish indigeneity. Rich Peppiatt’s sophomore feature forgoes the bleak Belfast of car-bombings and sectarian conflict in its following of the rise of Irish-language hip-hop group Kneecap. Members Naoise and Liam (both playing themselves) capitalise on the “intergenerational trauma” of The Troubles as an easy ticket to score prescription drugs. That isn’t to say those dark days have been forgotten; rather that these lads from West Belfast won’t let that history define them. After a close call with the garda, Liam is introduced to schoolteacher JJ (also playing himself) who discovers lyrics in Gaeilge in Liam’s notebook. Alongside Naoise, they form the group Kneecap and become a sensation on both sides of the border. Despite their affinity for courting controversy with songs ranging from the rebellious ("C.E.A.R.T.A", which is the Irish word for rights) to the ridiculous ("Your Sniffer Dogs Are Shite"), the band fast become a political symbol for the Irish Language Act.

 

The first Irish-language film to ever play at Sundance, the film, like the eponymous band, is unapologetically proud to be Irish. With parallels to African American culture in the 1980s and ’90s, the trio use hip-hop as a means of expression, using storytelling as a form of resistance against corrupt authority figures, not least the duplicitously named Radical Republicans Against Drugs.

Kneecap is a rip-roaring two-finger salute to the establishment and a resounding statement that the Irish language is here to stay.

 

Christchurch

Friday 16 August: 8:30PM Lumiere Cinemas (Bernhardt)

Wednesday 21 August: 4:00PM Lumiere Cinemas (Bernhardt)

Saturday 24 August: 8:30PM Lumiere Cinemas (Bardot)
 
Book your tickets here

Afternoon Tea for KeelyAfternoon Tea with Keely

Join us at the clubrooms today for Afternoon Tea!

 

This afternoon from 1:30pm - 4:30pm

29 Domain Terrace, Spreydon

 

Come and give your support and best wishes to Keely O'Grady before she heads off to Ireland and represents us on stage as our New Zealand Rose of Tralee. There are some huge prizes to be won today, as the mega raffle is being drawn. 

 

PRIZES INCLUDE: Dental Consultation Voucher, 32" TV, 6 Hampers, 4 Bottles of Wine, a bottle of Whiskey, and many more.

 

 

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