CCÉ Musical Arts and Dance Week 

8th - 12th July   

The O'Neill-Malcom Branch of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann (CCÉ) and Mitch Fanning (Director) are pleased to invite you to participate in CCÉ Musical Arts & Dance Week 2013. Now in its seventh year, CCÉ MAD Week will again feature an exceptional faculty in all areas of study. For further information, please click here or see the flier. 

IDEATE Festival Kilkenny  

Taking place in Kilkenny, Ireland on 5-6 July:

IDEATE is a multi-disciplinary mini-festival event about making. It explores and celebrates craft, design and creativity through experimentation and collaboration. Imagining the future potential for craft, design and the creative process through shared practice, new technologies and a fusion of music, making, experimentation, talks, random happenings and exploration. Further information is here. 

BIG HOUSE is a festival set in the house and beautiful parklands of Castletown House, in Celbridge, Co Kildare, from 3rd-5th August. Enjoy tea-time theatrics or dance in the colonnades, discover rock 'n roll in the ballroom or tap your toes to trad with a twist, picnic on the lawn as an opera plays out before you, pause by the silver screen, or bathe in the sounds of a classical quartet by the lake. And later get lost in a forest full of mechanical birds, or speak your mind at the Big House Parliament.

For further information, please click here. 

 AOH Ceremony at the Arsenal Memorial  (in March) 

Memorial stone dedication for the Arsenal Memorial in Congressional Cemetery in Washington, DC by AOH / LAOH with National Historian Mike McCormack and Sons of the Civil War representative Steve Hammond.

Above is a video of the dedication of a granite name stone at the site of the Arsenal Memorial in the Congressional Cemetery earlier this year, by the AOH/LAOH.  The Memorial commemorates the 21 young girls who perished in an explosion while working at the Washington Arsenal in 1864.