Venue: Council Chamber, Williamstown Town Hall
Date: Sunday 28th October 2018, 5pm (Following the ceremony at the Famine Rock)
MC: Professor Ronan McDonald, the Gerry Higgins Professor Irish Studies at the University of Melbourne
Panel: Professor Elizabeth Malcolm, Associate Professor Dianne Hall, Dr Fidelma Breen and Dr Val Noone
Eureka commemorations and celebrations are based on the Eureka events that occurred in Ballarat around December 3rd 1854.
Cuimhneachan Idirnaisiunta An Ghorta Mhoir
International Irish Famine Commemoration, and 20th Annual Melbourne Famine Commemoration
Commemoration of the Great Irish Famine and the arrival of Irish Orphan Girls
Sunday 28th October 2018, 2.30pm-4pm
Held over the Queen’s Birthday long weekend this festival in beautiful Portarlington on the Bellarine Peninsula is considered as Australia’s largest and most diverse celebration of Celtic culture- both traditional and contemporary.
