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!
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
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
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
WHAT IS BLOOMSDAY?
Bloomsday marks the day — June 16, 1904 — that Leopold Bloom walked through Dublin in James Joyce’s epic novel Ulysses.
This bold and fearless novel walks us through the lives of workaday Dubliners as it re-imagines the Greek myth, and spins its tale through the hero’s sensual and self-examining interior monologue.
MEMORY AND MEMORIALS: COMMEMORATING THE IRISH FAMINE
Margaret Kelleher, Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at University College, Dublin addresses the challenge of how we choose to remember an event that has been called everything from an unfortunate tragedy to mass murder.