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    • 15 Oct 2024
    • 19:30
    • Zita Folkets Bio, Birger Jarlsgatan 37, Stockholm
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    The Swedish-Irish Society is delighted to announce an exclusive preview screening for members and friends in Stockholm.

    KNEECAP!!!

    Join us for an exclusive preview screening of one of the most talked about films of 2024, Kneecap! 

    When fate brings Belfast schoolteacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed ‘low life scum’ Naoise & Liam Óg, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish language, KNEECAP fast become the unlikely figureheads of a Civil Rights movement to save their mother tongue. But the trio must first overcome police, paramilitaries & politicians trying to silence their defiant sound - whilst their anarchic approach to life often makes them their own worst enemies.

    In this fiercely original sex, drugs and hip-hop biopic KNEECAP play themselves, laying down a global rallying cry for the defense of native cultures.

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    Kneecap premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival on 18 January, the first film in the Irish language to do so, where it won the NEXT Audience Award. Its Irish premiere at the 36th edition of the Galway Film Fleadh, won Best Irish Film, the Audience Award and the Irish Language Feature Film Award.

    Kneecap now has the honour of representing Ireland at the next Academy Awards. IFTA Academy CEO, Áine Moriarty said: “The Irish Academy is delighted to announce Kneecap to represent Ireland in the Oscar International Feature Film category. What a brilliantly creative powerhouse of a film, with its bold and fearless storytelling and its raw and boisterous screen performances."

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    Come and join us for an evening you won't forget!

    Check-in from 19:30. The film will start showing after a welcome from SIS and friends of the Society at 20:00. There is a lovely bar in Zita cinema that serves food and drinks. It'll be open before and after the film, for a mingle and any post-film craic!

    Please note: As it stands now the film will have Swedish subtitles but we are working to secure a version with English subtitles.

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    Watch the official trailer.


    • 20 Oct 2024
    • 13:30
    • Wirströms City (obs! not Gamla stan), Kungsgatan 7, 11143 Stockholm
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    Welcome! Céad Mile Fáilte! Välkommen!

    Join us for a crab buffet lunch in Stockholm. The buffet includes beautiful wild Atlantic crab from Donegal, Ireland, served with bread, cheese, salad, followed by tea/coffee and something sweet.

    We hope to arrange a short session of céilí dancing after the lunch. Céilí dancing is traditional group dancing from Ireland and you will be very welcome to join in even if you've never tried before!

    If you don't eat crab you are still welcome to join us. You will order from the regular menu and pay the restaurant directly. You still need to register so we know how many are joining as numbers are limited.

    The crabs are very kindly sponsored by Seasam Food AB, who import these and other delicious seafood to Sweden. If you can't make the lunch, these Irish crabs are available in larger supermarkets under the brand name "Ullmo". Read more about them here: Seasam/Ullmos sortiment inkl krabba.

    Please note the venue is a new pub, Wirströms City, not Wirströms Gamla stan! It is run by the same fabulous team as the original Wirströms, but located close to Östermalmstorg tunnelbana station.
    • 6 Nov 2024
    • 18:00 - 19:30
    • Wirströms Pub, Gamla stan, Stockholm
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    We have a winner! For the next meeting of the Swedish-Irish Society Book Club we will be reading Solar Bones by Mike McCormack! Hope you enjoy the book and see you all on November 6!

    Set in Louisburgh, Co Mayo on All Souls’ Day 2008, Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones (2016) takes us into the world of Marcus Conway, ‘husband, father and a civil engineer in some small way responsible for the wild rush of buildings, roads and bridges that disrupted life in Ireland during the boom that in the book has just gone bust.’ The novel is a ‘magnificent song’ according to Ian Sansom, possessing ‘such peculiar depth, such consonances and dissonances that it is a reminder that a writer of talent can seemingly take any place, any set of characters, any situation and create from them a total vision of the reality. This is a book about Mayo, Ireland, Europe, the world, the solar system, the universe.’
    Come and join us on November 6 – a few days after All Souls’ – for a lively discussion of life and death in Solar Bones!
    • 7 Dec 2024
    • 18:00
    • 8 Dec 2024
    • 01:00
    • Läkarsällskapet, Klara Östra kyrkogata 10, Stockholm
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    Our always popular annual Christmas dinner returns!

    It’s always a great night of Swedish and Irish traditions with new and old friends. 

    Join us to get a taste of "home away from home". A welcome drink will be followed by a Swedish Christmas buffet with an Irish touch. We've even arranged for a certain special very dark Irish beverage to be available...

    For entertainment we usually have a raffle with great prizes, traditional carol singing, and if we're lucky, live music by a local trubadour.

    The location couldn't be more central - a stone's throw from T-centralen, in the atmospheric and charming Läkarsällskapet hus (built 1904-6).

    • 15 Mar 2025
    • Göteborg

    St Patrick is coming to the West Coast!

    Watch this space!

    Want to get involved or know more? Email info@swedishirish.se.

    • 15 Mar 2025
    • Magistratsparken, Malmö

    Don't miss Malmö's third St Patrick's Day* Parade!

    Everyone is Irish on St Patrick's Day, as we like to say! Whether you are Irish, Swedish or Swedish-Irish, come along and meet the other members of this growing community.

    Want to get involved or know more? Drop us a line at info@swedishirish.se


Past events

28 Sep 2024 Swedish-Irish Society's 75th Anniversary Celebration (Fully booked!)
18 Sep 2024 Book Club 18/9: Remembering Edna O'Brien
24 Aug 2024 Family Day - NB Venue change! Swedish Irish Society & Stockholm Gaels
14 Aug 2024 Book Club
16 Jun 2024 Celebrating 120 years of Bloomsday (Stockholm)
15 Jun 2024 (Cancelled) Walk and fika (Stockholm)
12 Jun 2024 Sourdough bread course by Ferm Bakery (Stockholm)
30 May 2024 After-work drinks (Stockholm)
29 May 2024 Sourdough bread course by Ferm Bakery (Stockholm)
20 May 2024 Book Club
18 May 2024 "Canaries", Saturday evening performance SOLD OUT
18 May 2024 "Canaries", Saturday matinee performance
17 May 2024 "Canaries", Friday evening performance SOLD OUT
17 May 2024 Spuds and Sill perform "Canaries", 17th & 18th May (Stockholm)
17 Apr 2024 Annual General Meeting / Årsmöte 2024
16 Mar 2024 St Patrick's Day Parade Stockholm
16 Mar 2024 St Patrick's Day Parade Malmö
26 Feb 2024 Book Club - inaugural meeting!
16 Feb 2024 Bloomsday Social Club
4 Feb 2024 Rashers and Reading! (Breakfast and Bookswap Stockholm)
10 Dec 2023 Swedish-Irish Christmas Dinner (Malmö FULLY BOOKED!)
9 Dec 2023 Swedish-Irish Christmas Dinner (Stockholm)
2 Dec 2023 Embassy of Ireland's Kids Christmas Afternoon
4 Nov 2023 Hallowe'en Spooky Ghost Walk and Party (Stockholm)
21 Oct 2023 Whiskey Tasting (incl dinner) (Stockholm)
30 Sep 2023 Whiskey Tasting (Malmö)
17 Sep 2023 Annual Crab Lunch (Stockholm)
19 Aug 2023 Save the Date: Family Day - Swedish Irish Society & Stockholm Gaels
17 Jun 2023 Gaelic Games Day
15 Jun 2023 Guided Brewery Tour and Tasting (Stockholm)
21 May 2023 Bookswap and Storytelling (Malmö)
13 May 2023 Dancing at Lughnasa, Saturday evening performance
13 May 2023 Spuds and Sill perform "Dancing at Lughnasa", (Stockholm)
12 May 2023 Dancing at Lughnasa, Friday evening performance SOLD OUT!
12 May 2023 Spuds and Sill perform "Dancing at Lughnasa", (Stockholm)
27 Apr 2023 Irish Speakers Gathering (Stockholm)
26 Apr 2023 Annual General Meeting / Årsmöte 2023
19 Apr 2023 Exclusive Film Screening Stockholm - An Cailín Ciúin (Eng. subtitles)
18 Mar 2023 St Patrick's Day Parade Stockholm
18 Mar 2023 St Patrick's Day Parade Malmö
20 Feb 2023 Film Screening Stockholm - Banshees of Inisherin
5 Feb 2023 Rashers and Reading! (Breakfast and Bookswap Stockholm)
4 Feb 2023 Watch Ireland in the Six Nations (Stockholm)
15 Jan 2023 Malmö-region Swedish-Irish Meet-up
26 Nov 2022 The Swedish-Irish Christmas Dinner
26 Nov 2022 Embassy of Ireland's Kids Christmas Afternoon
30 Oct 2022 Hallowe'en Spooky Ghost Walk (incl report)
15 Oct 2022 Exclusive Oysters & Guinness Evening (incl report)
4 Sep 2022 Annual Crab Lunch 2022
19 Mar 2022 St Patrick's Day Parade 2022
12 Dec 2021 Online Christmas Storytelling Event with Spuds and Sill
4 Dec 2021 Swedish Irish Society Christmas Dinner 2021
20 Nov 2021 Whiskey tasting
30 Oct 2021 Hallowe'en Spooky Ghost Trail
14 Oct 2021 Wilde Times
26 Sep 2021 Annual Crab Lunch 2021
4 Sep 2021 Swedish-Irish Family Day 2021
15 May 2021 Swedish-Irish Spring Book Swap
6 May 2021 Annual General Meeting / Årsmöte 2021
12 Dec 2020 Online Christmas Storytelling Event with Spuds and Sill
1 Nov 2020 Cancelled: Children's Hallowe'en Party 2020
26 Sep 2020 Annual Crab Lunch 2020
14 Mar 2020 Cancelled: St Patrick's Day Parade 2020
7 Dec 2019 Swedish Irish Society Christmas Dinner 2019
26 Oct 2019 Hallowe'en party for children
28 Sep 2019 Annual Crab Lunch
16 Jun 2019 Bloomsday Event in association with Spuds and Sill
7 Jun 2019 Swedish-Irish AW/Drinks at Hellas
11 May 2019 Annual General Meeting / Årsmöte 2018 and 70th birthday Party!
16 Mar 2019 St Patrick's Day Parade 2019
16 Feb 2019 Movie Night-Handsome Devil
29 Jan 2019 St. Patrick's Day Sub Committee Volunteer Meeting!
14 Jan 2019 Coffee Tasting with Muttley & Jack
8 Dec 2018 Annual Swedish Irish Society Christmas Dinner
27 Oct 2018 Hallowe'en party for children
17 Oct 2018 "Learnings from Successful Professionals in Sweden" Hosted by The Irish Chamber of Commerce in Sweden
29 Sep 2018 Annual Crab Lunch
23 Jul 2018 UN Cinema Presents "The Queen of Ireland"
6 Jun 2018 Swedish-Irish Family & Friends Picnic
21 May 2018 Annual General Meeting / Årsmöte 2018
16 May 2018 Caint, comhrá, craic! Stockholm Irish language meet-up
8 May 2018 Monthly Mingle May
3 May 2018 May Board Meeting
25 Apr 2018 Fika as Gaeilge/på iriska/in Irish
6 Apr 2018 Spuds and Sill presents "Big Maggie"
3 Apr 2018 Monthly Mingle April
3 Apr 2018 Popup Gaeltacht
17 Mar 2018 St Patrick's Day Parade
7 Mar 2018 Meeting for parade volunteers
1 Mar 2018 Pop-up Gaeltacht/Mingle in Irish
31 Jan 2018 Charity Irish Breakfast & Bookswap

Strengthening the cultural bonds between Sweden and Ireland – and having fun while we do it!

Founded in Stockholm in 1949

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