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• Exclusive Film Screening (Stockholm) - Kneecap

  • When
    15 Oct 2024
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    19:30
  • Location
    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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• Annual Crab Lunch (Stockholm)

  • When
    20 Oct 2024
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    13:30
  • Location
    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.

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• Book Club 6/11 Solar Bones by Mike McCormack

  • When
    6 Nov 2024
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    18:00 - 19:30
  • Location
    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!

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• Save-the-date! Swedish-Irish Christmas Dinner (Stockholm)

  • Start
    7 Dec 2024
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    18:00
  • End
    8 Dec 2024
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    01:00
  • Location
    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).

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• Gothenburg's St Patrick's Day Parade

  • When
    15 Mar 2025
  • Location
    Göteborg

  St Patrick is coming to the West Coast!

  Watch this space!

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

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• Malmö's St Patrick's Day Parade

  • When
    15 Mar 2025
  • Location
    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

  
  

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