Time flies! It’s that time of year to get your walking shoes and marching boots ready for the St Patrick’s Day Parade, which will be held in London on Sunday next March 12th.
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Happy New Year!
We’re delighted to kick off 2023 with a fantastic online event. Join us on Tuesday 24th of January at 8pm for ‘Roger Casement Queer Icon of the 1916 Rising – A Disputed Legacy’.
Vanessa Monaghan Chair LILGBT,
Colum Mackey Chair Lewisham Irish Community Centre,
Kathleen Sheridan Lewisham Irish Community Centre
On Friday last, December 2nd, some of the committee had the pleasure of joining the good folks in Lewisham Irish Centre to celebrate their 30th anniversary.
If you were at our AGM in October, you would have heard us discuss that we wanted to give a gift, but something that was truly unique. We were delighted to be able to commission a local LGBTQ+ artist and our network treasurer, Yvonne Devine, to create that gift.
On Friday, it was a lovely honour to present Kathleen Sheridan, CEO and Colum Mackey, Chair of Lewisham Irish with the commissioned painting of the centre.
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To celebrate the first anniversary of the release of ‘Queering The Green’, editor Paul Maddern will join us to discuss the queer poetry anthology on November 22nd at 8pm.
Published by Lifeboat Press in Belfast, Queering the Green brings together 31 of the most distinctive Irish poets to emerge since 2000 and, taken together, these writers represent the multiplicity and vibrancy of the queer experience in 21st Century Ireland. Several are already recognised as leading poets in Ireland, but the anthology also includes poets at the beginning of their career who are redefining the landscape of Irish poetry.
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London Irish LGBT Network 