Engaged with its members, that is.
This year, we’ve ramped our communications with members so that you learn about events and happenings more than ever before.
Committee Member, Clare Murphy, has launched The Celtic Club Melbourne Podcast. It’s available through Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify, and is already proving popular, so you can stay in touch with all things Melbourne Irish on your way to work in the car or on the tram.
All about Melbourne’s Irish community!
Clare Murphy brings you monthly interviews with members and visitors of our community on news, events, film, music, books and other media.
Hospitality continues to be offered at The Celtic Club at Metropolitan in North Melbourne. Operations have been revised to find the right opening hours for our home away from home. Venue manager, Andrew, tells us “3 or 4 nights a week is when we see members and non-members visit for a pint. The taps are flowing well on Fridays especially, and people have been asking for meals again”.
The Celtic Club has been giving urgent consideration to finding cost effective ways to reopen the Metro’s kitchen. The plan is to improve the kitchen facilities and provide flexible service options. We are confident that with the right planning we can make it even better for private functions and Christmas get togethers.
If you’ve always wanted to get into - or get further into - James Joyce’s classic novel, now’s your chance.
And where better to start than at the beginning? Join Bloomsday in Melbourne's Joycean experts Frances Devlin-Glass and Steve Carey as we guide you through the first two chapters of the book.
We look forward to seeing you there!
When: 7th September, 10:00am
Where: Celtic Club Offices, 420 William Street, West Melbourne.
Price: $90 ($80 with concession)
Earlier this year, the Celtic Club Committee decided to review our then Accountant’s recommendation of a Capital Gains Tax [C.G.T.] payment of $3 million to the Australian Tax Office in 2018/19. This review resulted in us successfully submitting a reduced payment of approximately $2.5 million C.G.T. to the Australian Tax Office. This action by the Committee has improved our bottom line by $500,000, and given us more funds to spend on our Club’s development.
Join the Celtic Club at the Metropolitan on 11th September to meet Des Tobin, the author of 'Just a Man Called Phonse - The anything but ordinary life of A.V. (Phonse) Tobin.'
Hosted by Brian Gillespie, this Irish History Circle meeting will take a dive into Tobin’s fifth book - a lively and entertaining story of his father Phonse who lived an anything but ordinary life reflecting a bygone era in Melbourne Irish history.
All are welcome to this free event hosted by the Irish History Circle - we look forward to seeing you there!
When: 11th September, 7:30pm
Where: Celtic at Metropolitan, Courtney Street, North Melbourne.
Price: Free!
19/8/2019
Dear Fellow Members,
I regret that I am forced to again rebut the lies and misrepresentations of Dire Straits in their e-mail to Members dated 13 August.
I apologise to our Members again for the ongoing breach of our Member’s private email details through their e-mails and web site activity. We will continue to pursue both legal and IT solutions to this ongoing contemptuous practice of unauthorised access to our Member data base.
The ISAANZ invites you to attend a free seminar on 'The Female Hero in Irish Mythology'. This paper examines the hidden stories of the female heroes in Irish mythology, using Aislinge Óenguso: The Dream of Óengus; Tóruigheacht Dhiarmada Agus Ghráinne: The Pursuit of Diarmaid and Gráinne; and Longes mac nUislenn:The Exile of the Sons of Uisliu as examples.
After the seminar, the speaker usually joins any interested audience members for dinner at a local cafe or hotel.
When: 6pm, 27th August
Where: Oratory at Newman College, Swanston St, Carlton
Price: Free!
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10/7/2019
Dear Members,
Trust you and your families are well.
Our Club is in an interesting and challenging transitional stage. Whilst our overall financial situation remains excellent [over $17 million in the bank, with no debts] we had to take drastic action to control spiralling losses. These actions, while difficult to undertake, have been successful and the Club is now financially back on track. Furthermore, we have now paid the last tax on our sale proceeds, the deferred Capital Gains Tax, of approximately $2.5 million.
The Celtic Club is pleased to be sponsoring this event and have 2x race entries to give away - direct message us on Facebook if you would like the opportunity to represent the club!
Everyone is invited to run, walk, with a dog in tow or push the pram around the course! And the post-run BBQ tradition will continue along with refreshments!
When: 8th September
Where: Studley Park, Fairfield VIC
Price: $30 over 14s, Under 14s free if accompanied by an adult
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