To celebrate the Romania National Day and the Day of the Great Union 2021 the Romanian Embassy in Dublin organised a reception together with a intercultural programme in Kilkenny, Ireland on the 30th of November 2021.
To mark the Romanian National Day we met in People's Park Limerick and while respecting social distancing we recorded this video message for all our friends of all nationalities!
As part of the Excursions Performance Festival, Ania Bas facilitated a language fair, titled "Sell your language" on Bedford Row, in the centre of Limerick.
We had all kind of reactions, from "I speak English and I don't need any other language" to "What can you teach me in 5 min?"
But there were quite a few people willing to try, for all kind of reasons: time to spend before meeting someone, impressing the house mate's Romanian boyfriend, and so on. One interesting aspect was that nobody ever thought of making a trip to Romania and they knew no Romanian people in Ireland. We showed and shared a few pictures of the Voronet monastery and spoke about the Martisor tradition.
It was an interesting experience, although in the last part of the afternoon it was freezing cold.
The Nepalese women invited members or eiro to attend at Nepalese Teej Festival Limerick.
It was a colourful event, we listen to traditional Nepalese music and enjoyed traditional tasty and spicy food and traditional dances.
The event was dedicated to the women in Nepal and takes place every year.
6:00 Guests Reception
Romanian wine and finger food will be served
6:15 Official Welcome
6:40 Launch of Romanian Book and Music Collection
Limerick City Librarian, Mr. Damien Dullaghan will present an introduction to the Romanian Book and Music Collection in the Limerick Library
6:45 Introduction to Irish and Romanian Historical context with Dr. Matthew Potter
A comparison of the history of two countries situated at the opposite edges of Europe. In his speech Dr. Potter will highlight not only the main moments in Irish and Romanian history but also what our histories have in common.
Dr. Potter graduated from the University of London with a first class honours degree in history in 1989 and from NUI Galway in 2002 with a Ph.D in history. Having worked for Limerick City Council for many years, he has been later appointed to the staff of the History Department in the University of Limerick. He is the author of many books on the history of Limerick including “The Government and the People of Limerick: The History of Limerick Corporation/City Council 1197-2006” which is the first scholarly account of the entire history of an Irish municipal authority ever written.
7:15 Romanian Poems by Mihai Eminescu (1850-1889)
A reading of the acclaimed poem “The Legend of the Evening Star” (Luceafarul) in both English and Romanian.
"While Eminescu is often described as the essence of the Romanian soul, modern literary language in Romania is also much indebted to him. His work encompassed every genre of poetry (love, philosophical, cosmological, mythological, historical, socio-satiric, etc.) as well as prose and journalism.
Eminescu is considered Europe's last great romantic not in the least because he gave voice of such unmistakable music to the sadness of love. His legacy, however, transcends the confines of Romanticism, the literary and philosophical Western traditions, the far east influences and even the obvious imprint of the Romanian folklore. Blessed with the touch of genius, his synthesis is a personal world of meaning about the life of man and of the cosmos in archetypal images of universal worth." www.luceafarul.com
7:45 Break
8:00 Romanian Music Concert with The Contempo Quartet
The evening will conclude with a mixed program of Romanian traditional music transcending into classical compositions performed by Contempo.
ConTempo String Quartet was formed in 1995 in Bucharest, Romania. Recognised as one of the world’s top string quartets, ConTempo has won a record of 14 International Prizes and performed more that 1,000 concerts all over the world, including Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, Berliner Philarmoniker, Theatre Chatelet in Paris, Opera House in Tel Aviv, Gedai Hall in Tokyo and Palazzo Quirinale in Rome. Based in Galway, over the past ten years ConTempo have worked with over 15,000 students across Ireland. They have presented 275 concerts in Galway city and county, performing 240 works from 85 composers, both classical and contemporary. www.contempoquartet.com
The evening's concert will include:
Romanian Traditional music including
Transylvanian Dance
Hora Spiccatto
Men's Dance (Calusul)
Classical works including
Dvorak - American String Quartet
Paul Constantinescu - Presto from Concerto for strings
On Sunday the 31st of July, RTE Comtempo Quartet, the Romanian Cultural Institute and the Limerick City Gallery of Art will present a concert of Romanian Traditional and Classical music at 3pm in the City Gallery of Art, Limerick!
This is an rare opportunity to listen to Romanian music in Limerick, please circulate to all friends that are interested to experience it!
We look forward to meet you Sunday the 31st!
NEPSIS - The Youth Orthodox Association of Ireland is organising a festival dedicated to Romanian traditions on September 14-15, 2019, in Dublin.
eiro, as a partner, will participate and support this festival by being involved in organising the exhibition of Romanian traditions.
"The overall objective of this project is to revive and promote the interest for the Romanian traditions by forming a team of young people with initiative, who know their roots and can create projects and initiate intercultural dialogue within the Romanian community in Ireland".
"Through the chosen theme: Youth, Adolescence, Marriage we want to provide young people with a clarity of vision regarding maturity by helping them to discover skills and tools that can help them in their future", pr.Cristian Nistor, the Nepsis Ireland representative, told the news agency Basilica.
The festival will be held at the Saint John the Baptist Cultural Center, Long Mile Road, in the capital of Ireland between 14th and 15th of September 2019.
In programme:
Invitati:
For more information
A concert of good quality music, tasty wine and wonderful people, hosted in a great location as Saint Mary's Cathedral, is what any person needs from time to time, anyone who wants to enjoy life, loves meeting new people and exploring new cultures. The " Romanian Rhapsody" concert was a mix of traditional, classical and ritual music accompanied by live visuals just perfect for the whole family, where everyone, be it children, teens, parents and grandparents will be filled with positive energy from the music, excellent Romanian wine and traditional snacks, completed by the presence of wonderful people of the Limerick community.
The concert organised by the Romanian Embassy in Dublin with the support of the Romanian community from Limerick was a great opportunity for the whole local community to explore Romanian culture through music, live visuals, food and wine tastings. The music and live visuals were the "food" for the souls of the participants. It was a unique experience for the Limerick community as this type of events are not very often organised and the fact that the tickets were sold out with a few days before the event proved the uniqueness of the event that we, as a community hope to see more of them.
I have no doubt that the entire audience had a great evening. The end of the concert was followed by a short photo session with the artists, our guests and organisers, including HE Mrs. Manuela Breazu, Ambassador of Romania.
I recommend to everyone a concert of this kind, which guarantees great moments in the present and for the past, when transformed into memories.
Written by Maria Plamada, 12/04/2019
A concert, wine & canapé reception prior to the concert!
This event is organised as part of the special programme celebrating Romania’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union (1 January 2019 - 30 June 2019) by HE Mrs. Manuela Breazu, Ambassador of Romania.
The ‘Romanian Rhapsody’ event is a mix of traditional, classical and ritual music accompanied by live visuals. The event includes musical works from various regions of Romania such as Geampara, Transylvanian dance, Hora Stacatto, Calușul oltenesc and classical pieces written by Paul Constantinescu, Grigoras Dinicu & George Enescu.
RTÉ ConTempo Quartet (Bogdan Sofei and Ingrid Nicola- violins, Andreea Banciu- viola and Adrian Mantu- cello) was formed in 1995 in Bucharest, Romania and were appointed as Galway Music Residency’s Quartet in Residence in 2003 and RTÉ’s Quartet in Residence in 2014. The Quartet has won fourteen international prizes at competitions across Europe (including London, Berlin, Prague, Munich, Rome, Graz, Hamburg) performing over two thousand concerts worldwide in venues such as Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, Tel Aviv Opera House, Geidai Tokyo, NCH Dublin and Théatre du ChâteletParis. The Quartet has the honour of performing in front of great personalities such as HRH Prince Charles, Nelson Mandela, former President of South-Africa, HE Mr. Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland, Pope John Paul II, Nobel Prize laureates and Hollywood stars.In 2018 the National University of Ireland awarded its members with honorary doctorates in recognition of their cultural work. The Quartet’s discography can be found on the Sony, Universal, RTÉ and HBO labels.
Aileen Cahill is an Irish musician and she completed her Masters in Solo Piano under Dr. John O'Conor at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, and was awarded a Fellowship Diploma for vocal and instrumental accompaniment from the London College of Music. Aileen has won many prizes and has been a frequent soloist with ensembles such as Budweis Philharmonic Orchestra (Czech), the Irish Youth Wind Ensemble, RTÉ ConTempo Quartet and Concorde. She is a repetiteur at Maynooth University.
Iulian Pușca is a Romanian panflute player, born in Moldavia. He is the winner of the prestigious 'Freemasons Young Musician of the year Award’ in Dublin. Mr Puscais a graduate of DIT, holding an MA in music. He performs regularly as a soloist, with various European orchestras, as a chamber musician and other folk orchestras and renaissance ensembles.
Mihai Cucu is a Romanian artist. He has worked extensively as a video artist at festivals in many countries, including Romania, Ireland, UK, Germany, Netherlands and Greece, amongst others. In addition to creating visuals for contemporary music performance and directing short films, Mihai has worked prolifically as a photographer and video editor. His work has been widely acclaimed both by the media and the artistic community.
Thursday, 11 April 2019, 7PM, wine & canapés reception will start at 6:30pm, prior to the concert
Register at the link below (Sold-out)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/romanian-rhapsody-concert-wine-canape-rece…
We invite you to celebrate together
Romanian National Day and 100 Years since the Great Union of 1918
at the launch of
“Experience Romania”
An Exhibition of Romanian Culture and Tradition
Friday, 30th November 2018 from 5:30pm
The Hunt Museum
Rutland Street, Limerick
Exhibition Open 01.12.2018 - 09.12.2018, From 11AM to 3PM
Experience the magic of Romania through the senses!
From the sound of “toaca” that calls monastics to prayer in ancient monasteries of Northern Romania to exceptional visual imagery from Moldova, Walachia, Transylvania and Dobruja, from touching raw Romanian produce to the scent of exquisite plants, with famous Romanian wine and tasty food, let your senses bring you closer to a far away land and people that have a lot more in common with Ireland and the Irish people. More than expected!
We will listen to Live Romanian Traditional Music and we invite you to join us in a traditional dance!
This event is part of the Europeana Migration Collections Days and the European Year of Cultural Heritage!
Registrations through EventBrite are recommended to assist us with the event administration!
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Romanian Orthodox Deanery from Ireland, with the blessing of I.P.S. Iosif organizes religious services(one Sunday per month) at Westbourne Convent – Sister of Mercy, Courtbrack Avenue, Limerick, Sunday morning at 11:15 am.
For details call to the following phone numbers: pr. Tudor Ghita(086 - 2282690) or Maria Plamada (087-7521358)