April 2020

CORONA VIRUS UPDATE!

IN LINE WITH GOVERNMENT INSTRUCTION ACCESS TO THE CENTRE AND ALL BOOKINGS HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. FOR ANY ENQUIRIES OR EMERGENCIES PLEASE CONTACT

TONY BRENNAN, CENTRE MANAGER

info@haringey-irish.com

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Tom Cowan and Sanjiv Ahluwalia, (back row) Foreign & Commonwealth Office visited Haringey Irish Centre recently. Also present Sam Ezoua, staff, Betty Doocey, HIP, Teresa Intavarant, staff, Cindy O’Garro, treasurer, Bernie McGowan, secretary.

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Some people enjoying a catch up at the Film Club

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Monday

Salsa Night Bar Latina Nights…Home of Probably the Best Salsa Club Night’s in London!

Organiser: Nicky Price tel: 07932 668 277

www.barlatina.com

Tuesday

Irish Dancing / Junior Set Dancing Classes 4.30 pm Teacher: Bernadette Trainor .

Adult Set Dancing Classes 8.00 pm Teacher: Margaret Morrin tel: 020 8642 5343

www.trainorschool.co.uk

Thursday

25 Card Drive 9pm Organiser: Phil/ Margaret Smith tel: 07812 506 213

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Social Inclusion Film Club

Monday  2^nd March   –  This is my Father  The film portrays a tragic love story set in late 1930s Ireland, focusing on the relationship between Fiona Flynn (Moya Farrelly), a beautiful, feisty seventeen-year-old from a middle-class family and Kieran O’Dea (Aidan Quinn), a shy labourer in his early thirties and the search decades later by their son, Kieran Johnson, (James Caan) to find his roots in late 1990s Ireland. The film is told as an interweaving of the nineties setting, where Kieran is hearing the story of his parents and the events of the 1930s. Kieran Johnson grew into adulthood unaware of his parents’ story or of the tragic events that caused his mother to leave Ireland on her own while pregnant.  The story highlights the issues of prejudice , classism, alcoholism and social and religious conservatism in rural 1930s Ireland.

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The big thanks to the card players of HICCC who raised £800 in respect of the maintenance fund for the centre. Special thanks to Phil, Margaret Smith, Ted Crowley and Bernadette McGowan as well as all who attended and participated.

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