Ken O'Keefe and Fiachra Ó Luain were aboard the 'Gaza Flotilla' that was brutally attacked by Israeli armed forces. Hear their first hand account of being abducted in international waters, forcefully taken to 'Israel', beaten, and subsequently deported from a country they never voluntarily entered. Followed by music from Pól Mac Adaim and Barry Kerr.
Contact: Friends of Palestine
Danny O’Flaherty and Friends
Thursday 8th July 2010
Price: £8 /£6
Time: 8pm
Venue: Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich, 216 Falls Road
Danny O’Flaherty is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and Irish speaker. Now based in the USA, he returns to Ireland for an intimate concert in West Belfast in support of Aisling Ghéar, the Cultúrlann’s resident theatre company.
Contact: Frainc Mac Cionnaith, 9096 4180
Cliftonville v FC Utd
Saturday 17th July, 2010
Price: £8 / £5
Time: 3pm
Venue: Donegall Celtic Park, Suffolk Road
Ireland's oldest soccer club come to West Belfast to take on FC Utd - the club set up, owned and run by Man Utd fans. The atmosphere is guaranteed to be electric.
Contact: Cliftonville FC, 9075 4628
Amnesty International Murals
Friday 30th July 2010
Price: Free
Time: 12 noon-1245pm
Venue: International Wall, Divis Street
Formal launch of Amnesty International's murals on its current Demand Dignity, a Poverty and Human Rights global Campaign that profiles world human right abuses in relation to corporate accountability, maternal health and slums/informal settlements and forced evictions
The murals have been designed and created by Amnesty International's Belfast Youth Group and local mural artists
Contact: Féile an Phobail 02890 313440
Damien Dempsey
Friday 30th July 2010
Price: £10
Time: 8pm
Venue: Féile Marquee, Bank Square
Damien Dempsey is back in West Belfast playing live at Féile an Phobail.
Contact: Féile an Phobail, 9031 3440
Stones in his Pockets
Friday 30th to Sat 31st July 2010
Price: TBC
Time: 8pm
Venue: Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich, 216 Falls Road
This is an award-winning, hilarious and sometimes poignant tale of a quiet Irish community and the change wrought by the arrival of a massive Hollywood
movie shoot. Universally loved by all who see it, Stones in his Pockets has a disarming simplistic charm all of its own. The play is in Irish with simultaneous translation available on your own personal headset, or you can read accompanying scene notes
Contact: Aisling Ghéar, 9020 8040
Pigeon Top
Friday 30th July 2010
Price: £3
Time: 10.00pm
Venue: The Hercules Bar
Four mighty talents have joined forces to become Pigeon Top. Shane McAleer, Darragh Murphy, Ryan O'Donnell and Kevin Sweeney produce a variety of trad tunes and American folk / blues songs.
Contact: Féile an Phobail, 9031 3440
Na Bopóga
Saturday 31st July 2010
Price: £3 per child / £5 per family
Time: 12.30pm
Venue: Cultúrlann Mac Adam Ó Fiaich, 216 Falls Road
Plúra Lúra, Nóra Bhéag and the other Irish-speaking puppets are back with interactive stories, songs and dances for children between 0 and 6 years of age. A great opportunity for young ones to learn and socialise at the same time!
Contact: Frainc Mac Cionnaith, 9096 4180
Imagining the Republic
Saturday 31st July 2010
Price: Free
Time: 12.30pm
Venue: St Mary's University College
Throughout the 19th and 20th Century Irish nationalists have imagined 'The Republic' in very different ways.Jude Collins interviews Eoin Ó Broin on his ideas.
Contact: Féile an Phobail, 9031 3440
Meadows to Mountains Walk
Saturday 31st July 2010
Price: Free
Time: 9am
Venue: Leaves St Gall's GAA
Free transport will be provided back to St Galls at 3pm for tea, coffee and sandwiches as well as craic agus ceol with traditional music from Loch Lao. Stout footwear, rucksack, raincoat and packed lunch essential. Dogs on leads at all times.
Contact: Aidan Crean, 07851 113907
1798 Rebellion Tour
Saturday 31st July 2010
Price: TBC
Time: 9.30am - 3.30pm
Venue: Belfast, Antrim and Down
The guided tour will visit locations and monements and tell the story of the 1798 rebellion in Ulster. Contact Jack for admission prices.
Contact: Jack Ó Duibhfinn, 9059 6217 or 07598 946162
Everlast
Saturday 31st July 2010
Price: £10
Time: 8pm
Venue: Féile Marquee, Bank Square
See the House of Pain frontman play live at Féile an Phobail.
Contact: Féile an Phobail, 9031 3440
Féile Drive-In Movies
Saturday 31st July- Monday 2nd August 2010
Price: £6
Time: 9.30pm
Venue: Andersonstown Leisure Centre
Entrance via leisure centre side gates, screens start at 10pm movies include Mamma Mia, Jaws and Snatch for people without a car translink are providing a double decker bus
