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Pub life
Gaelic sports day
Luxembourg’s Irish pubs will celebrate with special events all over the St. Patrick’s weekend. The Black Stuff in Pulvermühle is hosting Irish dancing with Tir na n’Og on the 15th and live music with the Aisling Fallon band on the 17th. Urban in the old town will also be making sure the celebrations go with a bang and The Pyg down in Clausen will host a traditional Irish band as well as local heroes The AyeTunes on March 17. www.blackstuff.lu, www.urban.lu, The Pyg is on Facebook
The Gaelic Sports Club Luxembourg, which this year celebrates its 35th anniversary, is hosting an all-day exhibition of Gaelic games and Irish culture at the home of FC Avenir Beggen. The event includes Gaelic football and hurling, as well as face-painting, for children. A bar and grill will ensure thirst is slated and hunger sated. The event starts at 11 a.m. and entrance is free. March 15, Stade Avenir Beggen, Luxembourg-Beggen, www.gaa.lu 05
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Film festival
Best of new Irish cinema
Irish Club Dinner Party
Cuba hosts Céilí
Four new Irish films are being shown at the St. Patrick’s Film Festival at the Utopia. The four films include Lenny Abrahamson’s heartbreaking teen drama, What Richard Did (photo), which picked up five IFTA awards this year and has been hailed as one of the most important Irish film of this century. Other IFTA award winners on show include documentary Men at Lunch, about New York construction workers in the 1920s (the title is taken from the iconic photograph of men sitting on a girder high above the New York streets). Music biopic Good Vibrations, about the godfather of Belfast punk Terri Hooley, who helped bring The Undertones to wider attention, also won an award for best costume. The final film in the short season is Jump, a crime caper comedy-drama about 20-somethings in Derry on New Year’s Eve. The festival is part of an initiative of Ireland’s presidency of the EU and is organised in conjunction with the Irish Film Institute, under the patronage of the Embassy of Ireland and linked with the British & Irish Film Season. March 20-23, Ciné Utopia, avenue de la Faïencerie, Luxembourg-Limpertsberg, www.utopolis.lu
The Irish Club of Luxembourg’s St. Patrick’s Dinner Party is being hosted at FuBar on Friday March 15. The menu consists of smoked salmon, Irish stew, traditional apple pie and Irish coffee. Music will be provided by Stephen Moynihan (photo) and the Ireland stand at the International Bazaar will run a charity tombola during the evening. Tickets at €30 can be booked via email: party@irishclub.lu. March 15, FuBar, rue de la Tour Jacob, Luxembourg-Clausen, www.irishclub.lu
Traditional Irish band Ceolmhar, featuring Holly Geraghty on concertina and Jonathan Roche on accordion, plays live music at a Céilí at Brasserie de l’Arrêt on St. Patrick’s Day. Described as “an explosive cultural cocktail” as the Irish take over the Cuban bar, the event will “satisfy anyone’s demand for reels, jigs and hornpipes.” It takes place from 3 to 6 p.m. March 17, Brasserie de l’Arrêt, route de Longwy, Luxembourg-Merl
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