Cultural Exchange

Cultural Exchange-Dublin, has been created in order to gather foreign people living in Dublin by arranging different parties-events where everyone will have the chance to interact each other while having fun in a great international atmosphere.
We want to promote a type of events in Dublin where people from all over the world living in Dublin can meet in order to:
– Share experiences
– Meet people from many different nationalities.
– Understand, learn and respect different points of views depnding on the own cullture.
– Promote, Cultural Exchange.
– Promote integration to all international comunities livingin Dublin.
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and all this in a very informal meeting while having some drinks (alcoholic or non alcoholic), eating some international food, dancing musics of the world in order to create a great intercultural atmosphere while having fun.
In spite of having so many different cultures living together in Dublin, we believe that we can have a common factor for all of us by these Cultural Exchange Parties.
As this is a new project, we wish to invite you to participate and take part of this Cultural Exchange by representing your country.
Cultural Exchange Launch Party will be celebrated on Thursday 6 May at Sin Theatre Bar (Temple Bar) and it can host up to 800 people.

Cultural Exchange Party
Thursday 6 May
Sin Theatre Bar (Temple Bar, Sycamore Street 17-19).
Tickets (only door): 8 euro, 6 euro (with flyer)
Door open 8 p.m. Free canapes and international food served to welcome our early international guests.
Drinks from 3euros
Ethnic music, 90´s dance music, international tunes. Speaker and DJ

Liam Carson author of “Call Mother a Lonely Field” literature evening

A reading/discussion with Liam Carson, author of Call Mother a Lonely Field. Thursday, May 13th, 20 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2 @ 7.30p.m.
Wine will be served; admission is free and all are welcome.

Liam Carson’s Call Mother a Lonely Field, published by Hag’s Head Press, has been described as a memoir worthy to stand beside Fiche Bliain ag Fás (Twenty Years a Growing). It is a richly evocative story of an Irish-speaking Belfast childhood where the language is a tearmann or sanctuary, a repository of stories and a resource for the spirit.

The arrival of new languages in Ireland causes us to look anew at how language is a source of nourishment and stability. There are many thousands of Polish speakers among us and we hope to compare how language nourishes and enriches our experience.

The Irish Polish Society is dedicated to cultural exchange between Ireland and Poland and organizes readings, musical events, exhibitions etc to further mutual understanding. This unique cross-cultural event will start with a reading, accompanied by song and images, and will conclude with a discussion. Wine will be served; admission is free and all are welcome.

For information contact: Pat Quigley – patquig2002@yahoo.com
Phone: 085 7133106
www.irishpolishsociety.ie

PRAISE FOR CALL MOTHER A LONELY FIELD

A selection of the excellent reviews that Call Mother a Lonely Field by Liam Carson has received:
“Like the city he grew up in, Liam Carson’s memoir of life in Belfast winds like a tangled web of streets, dreams, cultures and philosophies, where very page, pavement and street corner offer another dab of colour to a fascinating picture” Michael Foley, Sunday Times“Liam Carson has written an evocative, and, at times, profoundly thoughtful and moving short memoir of his parents and growing up in west Belfast in the 1960s and 1970s… His mother’s descent into Alzheimer’s is described with a tenderness that is almost unbearable… Every mother should have a son like this—and indeed it is a lucky child who had parents like his. Liam Carson has done them both proud in this affectionate, haunting, highly readable and, at times, poetic memoir.”
—Maurice Hayes, Irish Independent
“Call Mother a Lonely Place is an immensely pleasurable book, and a valuable addition to the canon of Irish autobiography… What makes Call Mother a Lonely Field such an unusual and pleasing memoir is the feel of collage it achieves. Lots of family photographs and cartoons and period advertisements are reproduced and incorporated seamlessly into the written text… This is a small book, and a hauntingly simple one. Though similar to Hugo Hamilton’s wonderful The Speckled People in subject, its style is much closer to a Blasket Island memoir relocated to Belfast in that city’s most turbulent decades.”
—Conor O’Callaghan, The Irish Times
“The moral and cultural passion of these two extraordinary people [Carson’s parents] throbs through Liam Carson’s loving memoir. It throbs through Liam’s prose and the poetry of his brother Ciaran Carson. Call Mother a Lonely Field reminds us that beneath the barren landscape of Northern Ireland, Christianity and the Irish language run like deep rivers. Writers, like water diviners, can find fresh outlets for these healing waters. Liam Carson is such a diviner.”
—Eoghan Harris, Sunday Independent
“I love the scale of this book: small and intense. A jewel. Carson’s father’s word for alluring, beguiling, enchanting—meallacach—is exactly fit for the book. It’s in a class of its own.”
—Paula Meehan
“This beautifully written memoir lingers like a series of dreams”
—Tom Galvin, Evening Herald
“Liam Carson has written the most moving memoir… a lyrical prose poem about being one of the first generation of Belfast children to be actually raised – reluctantly at times – with Irish.”
—Pól Ó Muirí, IrishTimes.com