News

JOYICITY: OCTOBER 2023

In this issue: A word from our President, Kevin Wright – Reflecting on Our Journey: The Canadian Irish Migration Preservation Network – The Siamsa Singers: Celtic-focused choir returns to their autumn classes – St. Patrick’s Parade Royalty Unite for Cause – Concordia Irish Studies Ph.D Student’s historical analysis of Irish mafia romance novels – Halloween Traditions and History: Where to celebrate Samhain in Montreal!

2023-10-25
History, Music, Traditions

JOYICITY: NOVEMBER 2022

In This Issue: – A Word From The President, Kevin Wright – Origins And Pursuits For The United Irish Societies Of Montreal – ‘Ripples’: A Reflection By Irish Poet Rachel Mccrum – Costello Irish Dance’s Coach Casey Costello Is Training Champions – The Soulanges Irish Society: Making Ripples Since 2019 – The Wheel Club: Then And Now

2022-11-30
Dance, History, Poetry, Traditions

JOYICITY: MAY 2021

In this issue: — A word from the President, Kevin Wright — Origins of the St. Patrick’s Society — Montreal-based Celtic Trio Bùmarang launches debut CD in May, 2021 — Ciné Gael Montreal: Twenty-eight years of the best in Irish cinema — Corned Beef and Cabbage: Irish? Jewish?? or Both??? — Miss Bonely, Mr. Deasy and their Mustnots, Donots and Cants, by Anne Lewis

2021-05-21
Cinema, History, Music, Recipes

JOYICITY: MARCH 2021

In this issue: A word from the President, Kevin Wright — In Memoriam: Judith Schurman (extracts from her eulogy) — From Oileán Iathghlas Éireann to La Belle Province — The Point St. Charles Community Theatre — The Ancient Order of Hibernians — The Montreal Irish Monument Park Foundation

JOYICITY: DECEMBER 2020

In this issue: • A word from the President, Kevin Wright • Background on The Midnight Court • A brief history of Bloomsday Montréal • The Wagner-Joyce connection • Irish Montréal Experiences • Na Ceithre Séasúir/The Four Seasons

2020-12-20
History, Origins, Traditions

“NO PEN, NO INK…”

Disease epidemics have been the inspiration for many a writer and his work. Boccaccio wrote his Decameron at the time of the Black Death in 1348. A recent article in the Guardian newspaper asked whether Shakespeare wrote King Lear in the lockdown of 1606. Even Joyce may have been inspired to write his first play (now lost, presumed destroyed by the author), A Brilliant Career, by the Dublin bubonic plague scare of 1900, according to Frank McNally in a recent article in the Irish Times.