Participation of the Past President of the Hellenic Community of Ireland Dr. Thomais Kakouli, in the music show of Mr Harry O’Rahilly “One World Show” in Dublin South FM 93.9 on 16 November 2009. Dr. Kakouli had the opportunity to discuss about the Greek musical tradition and the Hellenic Community of Ireland.

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The Divine Liturgy for the Greek National Day of 25th of March will take place at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation (46 Arbour Hill, Dublin) on Sunday the 21st of March at 11:00.

Dear Members,

Please be advised that we call an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Hellenic Community on Saturday 12 December at 2 p.m. We regret that the attached file is only in Greek, where more details on the need for this meeting are described. The EGM will be dealing with only two issues, that is (a) the acceptance by the General Assembly of the motion of the consensual enrolment of our Greek Orthodox members to the polling catalogue of our Greek Orthodox Church and (b) the approval of the newly proposed Trustees (Mr Tsouros and Prof. Florides) of the church property by the General Assembly.
Members who are unable to attend, should communicate their views to the President in this email address before Saturday.

Warm Regards

On behalf of the Management Board

Dr Thomais Kakouli
President
Hellenic Community of Ireland

Dear members and friends of the Hellenic Community,

On Monday 16 November 2009 at 4:30 p.m. please tune at 93.9 FM in your radios. I will have the pleasure of giving an interview at the radio station Dublin South FM 93.9 FM at the One World Show. It will be a live radio show, lasting half an hour, on Greek music and at the same time I will have the opportunity to also represent our Community.
I would like to thank Michael Youlton, George Chouliaras and George Tsoutsas for helping me decide the music content of the show.

With warm regards

On the behalf of the Management Board of the Hellenic Community

Thomais Kakouli
President
Hellenic Community of Ireland

Watch interviews of Fr Hieremias Karampelas of the Holy Monastery Panagias Sgrapas Pilias to the local media in May 2008, during distribution of humanitarian aid at the village of Alagonia on Mount Tayetos, which was badly struck by fire in August 2007.  Fr Hieremias equipped his mission with funds sent to him by the Hellenic Community of Ireland. The Hellenic Community of Ireland organised a music night under the initiative of Ms Gemma Deery (see pictures) and fund-raised in our Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation in Dublin the amount of 8,000 euro, which was provided for this aid. The Hellenic Community of Ireland wishes to thank its members, Ms Gemma Deery and Ms  Dimphne Ní Bhraonain, the Irish Hellenic Society and especially Mr Paddy Sammon, and all the philhellenists of Ireland for their support and contribution.

Dear members and friends,

we would like to inform you of an event organised by the Irish-Hellenic society and it is in relation to a  lecture that will be delivered by the poet and Press Counselor of the Greek Embassy of Dublin, Yiorgos Chouliaras, on Wednesday 14th of October 2009 at 8pm at the United Arts Club (3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2).

More information here.

On behalf of the board of management,

Dr. Theodora Lola-Luz
Secretary Hellenic Community of Ireland

Dear members and friends of the Hellenic Community,

The Hellenic Community of Ireland strongly supports cultural activities aiming at the promotion of the Hellenic Culture, the attraction of other Cultures to it, and vice-versa, and the development of ties of friendship among the Greek and other peoples. Under this spirit, I would like to draw your attention on the activities of the Classical Association of Ireland (download flyer) and the School of Philosophy and Economic Science (download flyer). I would like to make a special reference here to three very special colleagues, Dr Christina Souyoutzoglou-Haywood of the Classical Association of Ireland, and Mr and Mrs David Horan of the School of Philosophy and Economic Science, who for many year strive to uphold and promote the values that I mention above.

Finally, please be advised that the Hellenic Community of Ireland has paid a group subscription to the Classical Association of Ireland for 2009 and thus all Hellenic Community members are also members of the Classical Association of Ireland for the current year.

On behalf of the Management Board of the Hellenic Community

Warm Regards,

Thomais Kakouli
President of the Hellenic Community of Ireland

Dear members, friends and students of the Greek School,

Following the kind request of  our teacher Mr. Vaios Manolis we would like to inform you that:

1. The Library of the Greek School is now in operation. You can borrow books during the following times:

Tuesday: 5-7 pm
Saturday: 12:12:15
Sunday: after the Holly Liturgy (when the teacher is there)

2. We would like to remind you the Kafenio (Greek Cafe) is in operation again every Tuesday after 5pm. Please note that over the next couple of days we will be installing NOVA, and so it will be possible to open the Kafenio during weekends.

3. We would kindly ask parents whose kids attend the Greek Saturday to school, to inform the teacher ( 0876603500, manolisvaios@gmail.com) whether they would be interested for their kids to be occupied by the teacher on Thursdays between 6-7:30pm. Please inform the teacher by 10/10/09.

On behalf of the teacher and the School committee

Dr. Theodora Lola-Luz
Secretary Hellenic Community of Ireland

Dear members and friends of the Hellenic Community

I am writing to inform you (in case that you are not aware of it yet) that for almost a year now the ladies of the Greek community, in Dublin and in the wider area, are gathering once a month to celebrate name days for that month, usually at a restaurant of their liking. There is already a «core group» of women that participate, but as we believe that these gatherings will bring the community members closer together and even bring new members, I am sending this invitation so that whoever from the ladies was not aware of this, to join in if she wishes so. The only requirement is that she knows Greek as we consider these events great opportunities to speak our mother tongue. Irish friends or of other nationalities who know Greek are very welcome.
The organiser of these events is Ms Maria Gioni. If you wish to participate please contact Maria (dimitris052004@yahoo.ie, 0863375399) so that she can enroll you in the ladies communication list. Our next get together has been planned for the Thursday the 17th of September.

It was with great joy that we were recently informed that gatherings like these may also happen with the men of the community as well. Mr Sotirios Magoufis offered to organise something similar for the gentlemen of our community. We kindly urge you to get in touch with Sotirios (sotirios.magoufis@analog.com, 0872438127) who is willing not only to organise the gatherings, but also to come all the way from Limerick for them, so his efforts should be even more supported by your participation.

We hope that you respond to the efforts of Maria and Sotirios to bring together and warm our community members as winter is approaching!

Warm Regards

On the behalf of the Management Board

Thomais Kakouli
President
Hellenic Community of Ireland

The past president of the Hellenic Community of Ireland, Dr. Thomais Kakouli, live on ERA on 23rd of July 2009.

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