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• Irish Dancing Class

  • When
    12 Oct 2025
  •  
    12:00 - 13:00
  • Location
    Kustgatan 10

  What a fantastic introduction day we had last week. Everyone enjoyed themselves.

  The classes will be 100kr for SIS members and 120kr for non members. At the moment it is 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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• Hike at Hellasgården(Stockholm)

  • When
    19 Oct 2025
  •  
    11:00
  • Location
    Hellasgården, Nacka

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  Hi everyone!
  
  On Sunday the 19th of October we're planning a hike in Nackareservatet in  (Nacka Nature Reserve) in Stockholm.
  The hike will be around 7.5 km at a fairly relaxed pace, starting and ending at the Hellasgården recreational area near Källtorp lake. We'll be following a marked trail and the terrain is mostly gravel paths and is not difficult. I recommend bringing shoes that can handle a bit of mud, and rain gear too if we get any showery spells.
  
  There are spots for having fika along the walk and there's also a shorter route that is 5 km long which takes about 1 hour, at a brisk pace. So feel free to take a packed lunch of snacks if you like!
  At Hellasgården they have a Café for lunch before or fika after (if we're quick), and a restaurant which is open until 17
  
  The hike starts at 11:00 from Hellasgården bus stop (beside the tennis courts, across the road from the restaurant and main car park). So put it in your calendar and we hope to see you there!
  
  Oh, don't forget to bring a camera for those autumn leaves!
  
  P.s. If the weather is rubbish we may cancel, so keep an eye on our event.
  
  Instructions on how to get to Hellasgården with public transport are as follows:
  
  1. Take a bus from Slussen: the 401 (towards Älta), it stops at Hellasgården and goes through Henriksdal and Sickla.
  
  2. Take a bus from Nacka: the 840 (from Strand to Handenterminalen) and 821 (from Nacka Sjukhus to Tyresö Centrum), both stop at Hellasgården.
  
  TL;DR
  7 km nature hike from Hellasgården to Hellasgården @ 1100 on 19/10/2025
  
  /Ben McHugh, Swedish Irish Society

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• Spooktacular Halloween Disco (Gothenburg)

  • When
    25 Oct 2025
  •  
    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!
  More details to follow!
  
  Mark your calendars and get ready for a hauntingly good time!

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• Spooktacular Halloween Disco (Stockholm)

  • When
    25 Oct 2025
  •  
    14:00 - 16:00
  • Location
    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
  •  
    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! 

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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

  • When
    4 Nov 2025
  •  
    18:30
  • Location
    Zita Folkets Bio, Birger Jarlsgatan 37, Stockholm
  • Spaces left
    43

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

  • When
    9 Nov 2025
  •  
    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
  •  
    18:00
  • Location
    Hovslagargatan 5, Stockholm
  • Spaces left
    23

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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
  •  
    18:00
  • End
    7 Dec 2025
  •  
    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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