This year’s London Saint Patrick’s Parade (Sunday 16th March 2008) started from Hyde Park Corner at 12 noon passed Piccadilly Circus, Lower Regent Street, Trafalgar Square and finished in Whitehall. The Parade included approx 4,000 participants made up of marching bands colourful costumes, community groups, Irish dancing schools, pageantry and floats with Irish music, costumes… Continue reading London Saint Patrick’s Parade
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Carlow Dance
Carlow Emmigrants still have a spring in their step! The passion felt for Carlow was evident in South London recently when the County Carlow Association London held their Spring event on Friday 29th Feb 2008. Two hundred people danced the night away to the tunes of ‘Cupla’. As the advert said, ‘On tour from Garryhill’,… Continue reading Carlow Dance
Carlow Dinner Dance 2007 Photos
The 2007 Carlow Dinner Dance was held on 13 October 2007.
Annual Dinner Dance
It seems like no time since last year’s Dinner Dance which was a great success. Thanks to everyone who joined us and helped to make the evening so enjoyable for us all. Our Dinner Dance this year (which will be our 39th) will take place on Saturday 13th October, as usual, at The Irish Centre,… Continue reading Annual Dinner Dance
Crawley Irish Festival
Now in it’s 12th year the Festival attracts some ten thousand people to the town and has built a reputation as a great family day out over the August Bank Holiday weekend. The event showcases some of the best musical talent from Britain and Ireland on three live entertainment stages, showing modern, traditional Irish music… Continue reading Crawley Irish Festival
Southwark Irish Festival
As usual the County Carlow Association London (CCAL) will be running a stall on Sunday 1st July at Peckham Rye Common, SE15. A great line-up of entertainment is in store including our very own, home grown, Richie Kavanagh who will be appearing on the Irish World stage. If you want to help on our stall… Continue reading Southwark Irish Festival
Internet Explorer 7 Users
Visitors to the London Carlow Association website who use Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) may be experiencing some problems relating to the way the website is displayed. IE7 users users may notice that the boxes that appear on the left and right-hand of the webpage have gaps within them and are also not parallel to one… Continue reading Internet Explorer 7 Users
Cricket:Ireland-Sussex
County Brighton, the group representing the Irish community along the sussex coast, is helping to make Irish Cricket a big hit this Bank Holiday Monday – May 28th 2007. The Blarney Army are coming Sussex and you can be there too. Following the fantastic performance of the Irish cricket team – and their fans –… Continue reading Cricket:Ireland-Sussex
Website Launch
The committee met to commemorate the launch of our website and we hope you all like it.
2007 AGM Held
Our AGM was held on Tuesday 3rd April at The Irish Centre and was very well attended, in fact, the best for some years. It was great to see so many long standing members turn up and the event proved to be a great opportunity for some of us to catch up with old friends.… Continue reading 2007 AGM Held