October 2015
Premier of @HOME Documentary to screen at the Celtic Club, Melbourne
27 October 2015
A heart-warming documentary looking at how Irish seniors living in Melbourne have embraced social media as a means of staying in contact with home.
September 2015
Australia represented at Global Irish Parliamentary Forum
3 September 2015
Representatives from Australia were among an international group of 44 Irish-connected parliamentarians who gathered in Dublin on 3 September for the first-ever Global Irish Parliamentarians’ Forum. The forum aimed to foster Ireland’s relationship with its diaspora by bringing together Irish-connected political representatives who serve in national parliaments and state assemblies in Australia, Canada, France, the UK and the USA.
Welcome to Graham Hartnett, new Second Secretary at the Embassy of Ireland
1 September 2015
Ambassador Noel White welcomed Graham Hartnett to Canberra. Graham has taken up the post of Second Secretary at the Embassy of Ireland and has taken over responsibility for consular affairs, administration, and cultural relations.
August 2015
New Musical production ‘The Haunted Celts’ in Canberra
20 August 2015
The Embassy of Ireland is delighted to support a new musical production tracing Irish history from the early Celts to modern Ireland through music, song, and dance.Irish-born musical director and producer of 'The Haunted Celts', Caroline McNicholas, brings her production to Canberra at ANU’s Theatre 3 on Friday 21 and Saturday 22 August. The show features guest singers - exclusively brought over from Ireland - and a cast of over 30 dancers and musicians from Canberra.
Celebrating 150 years of W.B. Yeats
2 August 2015
Join us for an afternoon of poetry and song to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Irish poet William Butler Yeats.
July 2015
Ms Niamh McMahon appointed Honorary Consul General for Ireland in New Zealand
9 July 2015
It gives me great pleasure to announce the appointment by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Charles Flanagan T.D., of Ms Niamh McMahon as Honorary Consul General for Ireland in New Zealand. Niamh succeeds Rodney Walshe who retired in March this year.
June 2015
Australasian Irish Studies Conference
18-20 June 2015
The 21st Australasian Irish Studies conference will be held at Maynooth University, Kildare, Ireland from 18 to 20 June this year. The conference series was initiated in 1980 by the distinguished Irish historian Oliver MacDonagh.
Fieldays – a success for Irish companies in New Zealand
15 June 2015
Ambassador White attended New Zealand’s National ‘Fieldays’ - the largest agricultural exhibition in the Southern Hemisphere - held in Mystery Creek. This year, seventeen Irish agri-sector companies, supported by Enterprise Ireland, exhibited at the event. Sales secured by Irish companies were in excess of $1m at the event itself, with a further $5m potential sales developed.
Australia and New Zealand represented at Global Irish Civic Forum
3-4 June 2015
The Irish in Australia and New Zealand were ably represented at the first Global Irish Civic Forum which took place at Dublin Castle on 3 – 4 June. The first ever Forum saw almost 200 representatives of over 140 organisations working with the Irish diaspora gather to share their experience.
April 2015
Rodney Walshe, Honorary Consul General to New Zealand, retires
1 April 2015
The Embassy of Ireland would like to express our deep appreciation to Rodney Walshe for his years of tireless service for Ireland in New Zealand, and to wish him well on his retirement.
March 2015
St. Patrick’s Day in Australia
6 March 2015
If you find yourself in Australia on St. Patrick’s Day, there is plenty going on in celebration of our Patron Saint.
St. Patrick’s Day in New Zealand
6 March 2015
If you find yourself in New Zealand on St. Patrick’s Day, there is plenty going on in celebration of our Patron Saint.
January 2015
Launch of Cricket World Cup 2015 in Canberra
12 January 2015
Sarah Mangan, Chargé d’Affaires a.i. at the Embassy of Ireland, was on hand to participate in the launch of the Canberra leg of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 Trophy Tour.