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• Irish Dance Class

  • Start
    19 Oct 2025
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  • End
    26 Oct 2025
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  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    Kustgatan 10414 56 Göteborg

  The classes will be 100kr for SIS members and 120kr for non members, pay as you go.

  You can bring one child under 18 years old for free.

  Feel free to spread the word we’d love as many people to come to spread the culture of Irish dancing!

  
  

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• Spooktacular Halloween Disco (Gothenburg)

  • When
    25 Oct 2025
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    13:30 - 15:30
  • Location
    Kustgatan 10, SE-414 55 Göteborg, Sverige

  Save the Date!
  
  Calling all little ghouls, witches, and superheroes…
You’re invited to a Spooky Halloween Party in Gothenburg! ✨

  Time and place: Kustgatan 10, SE-414 55 Göteborg, Sverige

  There will be lots of Halloween fun for kids!

  70kr per child.

  Mark your calendars and get ready for a hauntingly good time!

  
  

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• Spooktacular Halloween Disco (Stockholm)

  • When
    25 Oct 2025
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    14:00 - 16:00
  • Location
    Gotlandsgatan 43, Stockholm

  Save the Date!
  
  Calling all little ghouls, witches, and superheroes…
You’re invited to a Spooky Halloween Party in Stockholm! ✨

  Where: To be confirmed

  
  There will be lots of Halloween fun for kids!
  More details to follow!
  
  Mark your calendars and get ready for a hauntingly good time!

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• October Book Club: ”Blackbird House” by Alice Hoffman

  • When
    28 Oct 2025
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    18:00 - 19:30
  • Location
    Wirströms City, Kungsgatan 7

  Our next book will be American writer Alice Hoffman’s Blackbird House (2004). Set in a farmhouse on the tip of Cape Cod in rural Massachussetts, Blackbird House is a collection of twelve intricately connected stories that trace the history of the farm's inhabitants over 200 years. From a storm raging in 1778 to the present day, stories of love and loss are woven through the history of the house, its inhabitants and its ghosts. "I feel like in my life I have such a rational, pessimistic outlook,” Alice Hoffman said in an interview, “and what I do in my fiction is allow myself to go to a place I would never go to in real life." Join us on October 28 to see where she takes us in Blackbird House!
  
  No registration necessary.

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• Halloween - Samhain Fancy Dress Party

  • Start
    31 Oct 2025
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    20:00
  • End
    1 Nov 2025
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    01:00
  • Location
    Contrast Public House Tredje Långgatan 16, 413 03 Göteborg

  The West Coast Swedish Irish Society presents Halloween-Samhain Party

   You're Invited to a Spooktacular Bash! Where Costumes, Cackles & Creepy Cocktails Await! at West Coasts Haunted Hideaway (an old fire station with real ghosts!)

    Dress to Distress!
  We’re throwing a Costume Contest so fierce it’ll raise the dead with a fang-tastic prize and eternal bragging rights.

  Whether you're a ghoul, a glam-pire, a ghost with the most or just here for the boos , Dust off your broomsticks, unleash your inner monster, and let’s have a howl of a time! 

  Music provided by DJ Slick Normal and Guests.

  50kr for those in fancy dress (wearing your mates hat does not count!) 100kr for everyone else.

  ***All money raised is going towards next years SPD celebrations***

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• Exclusive Film Screening (Stockholm) - Small Things Like These

  • When
    4 Nov 2025
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    18:30
  • Location
    Zita Folkets Bio, Birger Jarlsgatan 37, Stockholm
  • Spaces left
    33

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  The Swedish-Irish Society is delighted to announce an exclusive preview screening for members and friends in Stockholm.

  

  Small Things Like These!!!

  Join us for an exclusive preview screening! 

  

  Small Things Like These is a haunting and deeply moving historical drama set in 1985 Ireland, adapted from Claire Keegan’s acclaimed novella. Cillian Murphy delivers a quietly powerful performance as Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and devoted father who uncovers disturbing secrets at a local convent—linked to the infamous Magdalene laundries. As Christmas approaches, Bill is forced to confront not only the town’s complicity but also his own past, in a story that explores moral courage, silence, and redemption.

  Directed by Tim Mielants and written by Enda Walsh, the film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival to critical acclaim and has since earned multiple awards, including Best Film and Best Lead Actor at the Irish Film & Television Awards.

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

  Check-in from 18:15. The film will start showing after a welcome from SIS and friends of the Society at 18:30. 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!

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  Ticket Info – Small Things Like These 

  Early Bird Member Tickets – only 100 kr!
  Limited to the first 50 tickets
  Valid until 9 October or until sold out

  ️ Member Tickets (after Early Bird or from 10 Oct): 120 kr
  ️ Non-Member Tickets: 140 kr

  Don’t miss your chance to see this powerful film at a great price!

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

   

  
  

  
  

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• Afterworks Meet Up

  • When
    6 Nov 2025
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    18:00
  • Location
    The Northern Quarter Andra Långgatan 4b, 413 04 Göteborg

  The West Coast Swedish Irish Society invites you to Afterwork at The Northern Quarter. Whether you are new to Gothenburg or practically a local, we hope you join us the first Thursday of the month for a chance to meet others in the community, practice some cúpla focal or even start to learn, share music and stories, swap books or get tips on where to find all your favorite treats and essentials from back home but most importantly have the craíc. Maybe you are not Irish and have an interest in the culture, come along and you'll receive a céad míle fáilte.

  
  

  The Northern Quarter 

  Andra Långgatan 4b, 413 04 Göteborg

  18:00

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• Rashers and Reading! (Breakfast and Bookswap, Stockholm)

  • When
    9 Nov 2025
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    12:30 - 14:30
  • Location
    Wirströms City, Kungsgatan 7, Stockholm

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  Come and enjoy a traditional Irish breakfast on Sunday 9th November and pick up a pre-loved book or two. Perfect to get through a grey November!

  Wirströms pub (Kungsgatan 7) will be organising a special full Irish breakfast* for the occasion. A vegetarian breakfast option will be available.
  

  Payment is to be made directly to Wirströms on the day. 

  You can bring 2-3 books, and you'll be asked to bring home any that aren't taken. Swedish or English is fine!

  Please register by 1 Nov so we and Wirströms can plan the event accordingly.

  *The "full Irish breakfast” for 195kr includes sausages, pudding, bacon (rashers), beans, egg, brown bread and tea/ coffee. The vegetarian 159kr option includes halloumi, egg, beans, mushrooms, tomato, brown bread and tea/coffee.

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• Whiskey Tasting, incl food, music (Stockholm)

  • When
    13 Nov 2025
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    18:00
  • Location
    Hovslagargatan 5, Stockholm
  • Spaces left
    16

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  Members only!

  Don’t miss an evening of whiskey tasting, food and music.

  Tasting (plus a talk) by Olof Noreus Senior Whiskey Brand Ambassador for Pernod Ricard Sweden & Irish Distillers.

  An Italian-themed buffet will be served afterwards. Entertainment by Loughy.

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• Swedish-Irish Society Christmas Dinner (Stockholm)

  • Start
    6 Dec 2025
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    18:00
  • End
    7 Dec 2025
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    01:00
  • Location
    Läkarsällskapet, Klara Östra kyrkogata 10, Stockholm
  • Spaces left
    80

  Our always popular annual Christmas dinner to be held at Läkaresällskapet again this year!

  It’s sure to be once again 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 will have a raffle with great prizes, traditional carol singing, and live music.

  All this, and the location couldn't be more central - a stone's throw from T-centralen, in the atmospheric and charming Läkaresällskapet Hus (built 1904-6).

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