Οπως ίσως ήδη γνωρίζεις το Σάββατο 8 Ιουνίου  έρχεται  η συγγραφέας Στέργια Κάββαλου από την Ελλάδα ειδικά για να μιλήσει για  τα βιβλία της στα παιδιά και στους ενήλικες της Ελληνικής Κοινότητας.
Μετά το τέλος της συζήτησης θα ακολουθήσει εργαστήρι συγγραφής. Θα θέλαμε λοιπόν να ξέρουμε πόσοι θα παραβρεθούν στην εκδήλωση για να προετοιμάσουμε τον χώρο ανάλογα.

Παιδική συνάντηση και εργαστήρι συγγραφής Σάββατο 8 Ιουνίου στις 2.00μμ και συζήτηση ενηλίκων και εργαστήρι Κυριακή 9 στις 2.00μμ 

Για αυτό σε παρακάλουμε να μας ενημερώσεις μέχρι τη Τετάρτη 25/5/2013 αν θα έρθεις μέσω ηλετρονικού ταχυδρομείου, school@helleniccommunity.ie
Με φιλικούς χαιρετισμούς,

Σχολική  Επιτροπή

The parish council with the  Hellenic community would like to celebrate Easter Sunday Greek style with a BBQ after the end of  The Vespers of Agape around  1pm in the church grounds.

We are going to organise this BBQ ourselves and would love as many from the Hellenic community to join us.  We are asking for each family to participate as regarding to food.  We would ask that each family bring some meat suitable for cooking on BBQ and if each family could bring either salads/other starters/gyka/pitta/Easter biscuits or whatever each person feels they would like to cook/bake.

If everybody could get back to me to let me know what each family will bring would be great so we don’t have the same of everything or end up with too much salads etc.  Then I can email you all again and let you all know if we need anything else etc.  We would love to have some music too so anybody with some Cd’s that they would like to hear bring them along too.

Also if you know of other people who are not included in this email and would like to come to forward them the details. My mobile is 087 1924528 if  anybody wishes to contact me.

Thanks all,
Martina/Kostas Halkiadakis

Dear compatriots and friends of the Greek community

The Hellenic Community and the Greek Orthodox Parish of the Annunciation are organising a gathering to celebrate our National Day of March 25^th. The event will take place at the Belmont Room in O’Connell’s Restaurant in Donnybrook (http://www.oconnellsdonnybrook.com/) on Sunday 24 March at 3 p.m. after the celebration at the Greek School.

The menu will include:

• Seasonal vegetable soup as a starter – served upon arrival at the table
• Main course – a choice out of two dishes and including a vegetarian option – buffet
• Mixed berry compote roulade for dessert with coffee or tea – served at the table

The total  menu cost will be €23.50

The drinks will be charged separately at the restaurant bar.

The children’s menu (for children below 12 years) will include

• Brest of Irish chicken goujons and chips or
  Castletownbere landed fresh fish goujons and chips or
  Penne pasta with cheese and tomato sauce (both ‘on the side’) or 
  Penne pasta Bolognese
• Chocolate brownee with a little ice cream for dessert

The menu will cost €12.5 per child

Please make your reservations by contacting the secretary of the Hellenic Community Mr Chris Lazaris in secretary@helleniccommunity.ie or in  087 629 2365 or reply to this email by Wednesday the 20^th of March at the latest as there is a maximum sitting capacity of 90 people and we need to give final numbers to the restaurant.  Please indicate if you wish to have the vegetarian option in you main course.

Payment can be made

• By cash to any member of the board
• By Bank transfer  (bank account is in https://www.hellenic.ie/membership/payment/)
• By Paypal
• By cheque to our treasurer , Michael Youlton, https://www.hellenic.ie/membership/payment/
• Pay upon arrival

We hope to see you there to celebrate together.

On behalf of the HC Committee and of the Parish Council

Thomais Kakouli

Dear Parents and Friends,

We would like to invite you to the School Christmas celebration this Sunday 16/12, at 1.30 pm

The celebration will include songs and poems. At the end of the celebrations  ‘Santa ‘ will give to all the kids of the Greek community a small gift.

The cost is 2 euro per child.

Please let me know if your child will attend to avoid any dissapointment.

Dear members and friends,

We will meet on Friday, the 15th June at O’Connells restaurant in Dunnybrook, (www.oconnellsdonnybrook.com) at 19:00 to say goodbye to our teacher Vaios.

There will be a 3-course dinner and tea/coffee the price of which is 35 euro for adults and 15 euro for children up to 10 years.

We kindly ask you to confirm by Wednesday 13/6, email secretary@helleniccommunity.ie or 087 6292365 (Chris)

On behalf of the Board
Chris Lazaris
Secretary of the Hellenic Community of Ireland

Dimitri Papadimitriou
Piano Recital
NCH, Monday 19th March, 8pm

Greek pianist Dimitri Papadimitriou has been praised for his unique artistry from both the press and the prestigious teachers with whom he has interacted. He has already appeared several times with the Greek National Radio Symphony Orchestra, with the most recent collaboration being his Live Radio debut. He just performed Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto with the Athens State Orchestra in the Athens Megaron Concert Hall, after winning last’s year national concerto competition.

After last year’s Liszt Recital in the John Field Room, Dimitri Papadimitriou is returning to perform Mozart’s elegant piano sonata in C major, one of Brahms’ finest late works and an exciting combination of Russian repertoire, including Prokofiev’s exhilarating 7th Sonata.

Programme
Mozart Piano Sonata in C major K.330
Brahms Klavierstücke op.118
Shostakovich Prelude and Fugue in D minor
Tchaikovsky Dumka
Prokofiev Piano Sonata No.7

Tickets €15 (Concessions €10)

Classic Stage Ireland presents the first ever Irish production of The Oresteia Trilogy

Classic Stage Ireland (CSI) continues its acclaimed exploration of Greek Tragedy at Project Arts Centre this March with a full-scale staging of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon in a new adaptation by Andy Hinds. The production is Part I of the Oresteia Trilogy

The Oresteia is the only fully intact Ancient Greek trilogy to survive and is widely considered to be one of the greatest achievements of Western culture. Following its presentation of Agamemnon, CSI will complete the trilogy later this year with a staging of the two concluding parts, to mark the first professional presentation of trilogy for the Irish stage.

Once again CSI has assembled a large and exceptionally talented company for this production including CSI favourites, Lesa Thurman and Michael Bates as Clytemnestra and Agamemnon respectively – a continuation of their portrayal of the characters from the company’s 2011 production of Iphigenia in Aulis.

The Oresteia trilogy consists of Agamemnon, Libation Bearers and Eumenides. It is the seminal text of Greek theatre becoming a classic soon after its first performance in 458 B.C.

Part I: Agamemnon – March 16 – 31, Project Arts Centre

In Iphigenia in Aulis (CSI, June 2011), Clytemnestra swore vengeance on her husband, Agamemnon, for sacrificing their daughter, Iphigenia – all so that his thousand ships could sail to conquer Troy.

When Agamemnon returns in triumph Clytemnestra appears to have forgotten her vow of vengeance and greets him with shows of overwhelming joy; however her true intent is yet to be revealed. When she invites her husband to enter the palace on a river of blood-red cloth, a great foreboding fills the hearts of the city elders. The curse on the royal house of Argos is not yet broken…

Listings Information
Venue:Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar
Time: 8:15pm
Dates:19March –31 March2012
Previews:16 and 17 March 2012
Post-show Discussions: 21 and 25 March 2012
Tickets:€20/16/14

Book Tickets: http://projectartscentre.ie/programme/whats-on/1492-agamemnon

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/372221056124082/
www.classicstageireland.com

For more information, images or press tickets please contact:
Roísín McGann, Project Arts Centre, +353 1 8819608, roisin@projectartscentre.ie

Claire Hefferon, General Manager Classic

Please click here for the Press Release

Dear all,

We would like to thank all who attended the Greek dinner the previous Saturday. It was an excellent evening and we hope you had a great time. You can find some pictures here. We would like to thank our sponsors for their contribution:

• The beauty center: Face & Body works, Raheny, Dublin 5, www.fabw.ie

• The Greek restaurant: Corfu Restaurant,12 Parliament street, Dublin 2

• The Greek-Cypriot restaurant in Malahide: Cape Greko Restaurant, New Street ,Malahide.

All profits from the annual dinner benefit the Greek community

Kind Regards,

Dr. Labros Chatzis MD, PhD, BPlast.
President Hellenic Community Ireland and all the members of the board

Irish-Hellenic Society
Inaugural Lecture 21 October 2011 at 7pm in Global Irish Institute Clinton Auditorium, UCD, Belfield Dublin 4
By Professor Roderick Beaton ­

The new Prometheus: why Byron went to fight in the Greek Revolution

The story of Byron’s death at Mesolonghi on 19 April 1824 is well known.

It ended one ofthe most extraordinary poetic careers in English literature, and added one ofthe best-known names in Europe at the time to the roll-call of foreign Philhellenes who gave their lives for the independence of Greece.
But beyond the legend ofheroic self-sacrifice in a noble cause, there is another story to be told.

What was it, about Byron’s personality, his career as a poet, his political ideas, that brought him to the point of committing his life and his wealth to the cause of  Greece?

Was it mere gesture, as some have supposed?

What did Greece really mean for Byron, at the beginning ofthe 1820s?

What did he have to contribute to the struggle?

These are the questions that this lecture addresses.

Dear friends,

We wish to invite you to the annual dinner of the Hellenic Community on Sat 29 Oct at 19:00 in O’Connells restaurant (www.oconnellsdonnybrook.com), first floor (Belmont Room).

Address: 133/135 Morehampton Road, Donnybrooκ, Dublin 4.

A 4-course dinner will be served at a cost of ?30 per person, not including drinks. There will be a 2-course dinner for children at a cost of ?15.

Payment will be settled at the door on arrival.

If you wish to attend, please book your place(s) by contacting Maria Gioni (086 337 5399) or Kassiani Papadopoulou (087 960 5403), by 26 Oct at the latest.

It will be a great joy for us to see you all there and have the opportunity to get to know each other, meet new people and see old friends!

Best regards to all and see you soon,
Lampros Chatzis
President of the Hellenic Community of Ireland