On Sunday, May 17th, 2015, detective skills – and an appetite – will be necessary at the Crown Moran Hotel in Cricklewood, North London for the Aisling Return to Ireland project’s latest fundraising event. Actors from the Green Curtain Theatre company will be presenting “From Flatfeet to Flatline”. Guests will enjoy a delicious two-course meal… Read More
About the Author
Alex McDonnel
My English Tongue, My Irish Heart
A newly commissioned play based on a book by a Manchester-based Irish academic is about to embark on a month-long tour of community arts venues in Ireland and the UK. Entitled My English Tongue, My Irish Heart, this unique play is based on The Literature of Irish in Britain: Autobiography and Memoir, 1725-2001 (2009), a… Read More
The Aisling Project Prize Draw – Tickets to see Ire v Fra at RWC 2015
The Aisling Project has received the incredibly generous donation of 2 pairs of tickets (Categories B and C) for the Rugby World Cup match between Ireland and France on 11th of October, courtesy of our great friend and supporter Pat Logue, guvnor of the Sheephaven Bay pub in Camden. Tickets for this match have been… Read More
Friends in the North
We have had thoughts of returning to the North-East corner of Ireland for some years now, in fact our last trip in that direction was about 17 years ago when we travelled to Castlewhellan in Co Down to stay in some wonderful traditional style cottages in the Mourne Mountains. I have some friends from Co…. Read More
Letter from the Coordinator
This has been a busy few weeks and only the second time I have physically posted anything on the website and it is a very rewarding and exciting experience. As I wrote in the welcome message to readers last month, for many years we have been blessed to have Jim McCool as our editor and… Read More
Back in the World
Sometimes I think we go on too much about drink in these pages so in this one it is all about the lack of the stuff. On our June trip all the returners are ex–drinkers, ex–alcoholics and ex-hung-over–feeling–sick-and-sorry-for-themselves-the-next-day kind of people. There’s nothing new about this of course we have been running ‘dry’ trips for… Read More