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BLOOMSDAY 2024 Programme

Friday, 14th of June 14.00 Opening (Joyce Statue, Main Square) Opening speeches, handover of the Szombathely Bloom Award, stamping up to the murals 15.00 Inauguration of the Murals (Parking area in Kőszegi u.) Artists: Mark Joyce and Stella Koleszár 16.00 Raising the flag of Bloomlandia and beer tapping (square in front of the Music School) …

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Irish Speaker Series – A Decade Fostering Democratic- CEU Irish Speaker Series Lecture by Pat Cox, former President of the European Parliament.

Invitation On the 10th anniversary of our Irish Speaker Series, the CEU Democracy Institute, in partnership with the Embassy of Ireland to Hungary, cordially invites you to a lecture by Pat Cox, former President of the European Parliament.” ”Homecoming”: Hungary’s 2004 Accession & the Future of EU Enlargement. Date: May 2nd, 17.30-19.00 Venue: CEU, Auditorium A, 1051 Budapest Nador utca 9. After …

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St. Patrick’s Day celebrations in Budapest

written by Alicia Soede (Engish studies BA student, Kodolányi University) Recently, we had the opportunity to volunteer for this year’s St. Patrick’s Day celebrations in Budapest, proudly representing Kodolányi János University. The celebrations took place in Liberty Square, offering a great selection of traditional Irish food and drink, such as Guinness and Kilkenny. We were …

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The Beauty Queen of Leenaned -a dramatized play reading at Brody House

Experience the classic play “The Beauty Queen of Leenane” by Martin McDonagh in a unique dramatized play reading at Brody House in Budapest!   This 1996 dramatic play premiered with the Druid Theatre Company in Galway, Ireland and features talented Irish actors along with a distinguished member of the Expect Community’s relative.   Catch the …

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Loreena McKennitt returns with a new album

The Canadian Celtic singer, Loreena McKennitt releases a new album in 2024. ‘The Road Back Home’ returns to the songstress’ musical roots. It was recorded in the summer of 2023 when she performed at four folk festivals in Ontario, it captures the early Celtic tunes, the bursts of energy and inspired spontaneity of the folk …

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Kelta punk a Parkban – 2024-ben érkezik a Dropkick Murphys!

A huszonnyolc éves pályafutással a háta mögött még mindig az újdonságokat kutató Dropkick Murphys csapata nem fél kísérletezni, és a műfaji korlátokat még hírből sem ismerik. Kelta gyökerekkel átszőtt punk rock zenéjük ráadásul élőben még vadabb, mint amire számítanánk. Június 11-én szinte napra pontosan 10 év után újra a Budapest Parkban állnak színpadra. A zenekar …

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Krisztina Kodó: George Bernard Shaw: a Literary Classic Writer in Hungarian; Hungarian Reception of George Bernard Shaw’s Works from 1956 to the Present

Article George Bernard Shaw is considered a literary classic writer in Hungarian. This statement serves as the hypothesis of the article which examines Shaw’s reception in Hungary from 1956 to the present. Arms and the Man (1893) was the first play performed in Hungary in 1904 which firmly set Shaw in the Hungarian literary canon. …