The Irish Association will host their pre-Christmas lunch in Belfast on 15 December. It will be held in the Ulster Reform Club, Royal Avenue, Belfast with drinks starting at 12.30 and a buffet lunch at 1.00. It is important that all attending should let us know beforehand so the club can cater for our numbers. The cost of lunch will...
A conference being led by the Institute of Irish Studies is being held on Wednesday 3rd December in the Barnett room, The Harbour Office, Belfast entitled "From Boundary Commission to Border Poll? A Century of the Irish Border. We are pleased to be associated with this conference and our President will be reporting on the outcome of our recent...
The Irish Association will host their Autumn Lunch at Wynn's Hotel at 1.00 pm on Saturday, 15 Nov.
We enjoyed lunch followed by an address from Dr Philip McGarry who talked about the important and historic Linen Hall Library, situated in central Belfast. Philip is the current president of the library, a former chair of the Alliance Party and a member of our association.
North South Symposium on Education and Culture
This was the third event in our exciting programme entitled 'A vision for the future of North-South co-operation? Strand 2 of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement- a generation on'. On 18 February at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin a symposium looked at health and the environment.
The guest speaker was Dr Judith Gillespie, CBE.
This was the second event in our exciting programme entitled 'A vision for the future of North-South co-operation? Strand 2 of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement- a generation on'. On 25 Nov. at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin a symposium will look at the economic effects of Strand 2.
The guest speaker at this lunch was Professor Evelyn Collins. Evelyn is the former chief executive of the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland and current chair of the Parades Commission for Northern Ireland.
