Traditional Irish Music - August 2011 - Comhaltas Culturlann

Cultúrlann na hÉireann

Irish Music Centre

32 Belgrave Square

Monkstown

Co. Dublin

+353 1 2800295

http://comhaltas.ie/locations/detail/culturlann/

(only 20 minutes walk from DLTC Language school)

Irish Music

August 2011

Informal Music Session

Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday nights in the bar.

Starts about 8.30/9pm. Free on Tuesday and Wednesday;  3€ on Friday/Saturday.

Ceili

Traditional Irish music show - €10 per person – Friday nights - starts at 9pm

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Cultúrlann na hÉireann (an Irish Cultural Institute), home to ComhaltasCeoltóiríÉireann, was established in 1976 and many Irish traditional music and dance events take place in the Cultúrlann. It has:

·          Cultural Information Agency

·          Training and Education Centre

·          Library of books and archive of traditional recordings

·          Shop (CDs, books etc)

Killiney Martello Tower school visit

The French Festival of Boats took place in Dun Laoghaire last weekend and as the French Navy frigate left Dun Laoghaire, the cannon was fired from the Martello tower in Killiney - see the video http://photopol.com/martello/f​rench_salute.wmv. The historic tower has been lovingly restored over the last 10 years by its owner and DLTC English Language students were priviliged to be able to visit it earlier this summer. We're going to see if we can visit again next week.

Here's a web page about the tower: http://photopol.com/martello/no7.html

Welcome to the family!

Bob Golden, director of the DLTC English Language School, talks to the Irish Times about English language students staying with host families in Ireland: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/health/2011/0816/1224302518342.html

What students have been saying about our courses recently:

There is an expression in English: "Don't blow your own trumpet". Anybody knows what it means? Well it warns people not to boast about their own achievements. However when you see what students have been saying this summer about our course English language courses at the DLTC Language School, you can forgive us for blowing just a little. Well done to all the teachers and staff for doing such a great job! - you can read our students comments here: http://www.dltc.ie/en/student_comments.asp

Spanish and Italian Evening Classes starting September/October 2011

It's been a great summer so far here and there's lots more to come in August but I just want to let people know that the DLTC Language School has a schedule for our Autumn Spanish and Italian evening courses. The part-time language courses will be starting up again in September and October - for our ninth year running! The first course is a beginners Spanish course which is starting on 5th September - much earlier than the other courses which mostly start at the end of September or start of October. We have 4 different levels of Italian and 5 different levels of Spanish ranging from beginner's to intermediate conversation. All the classes focus as much as possible on getting students speaking and, with an average of 7/8 students per class (maximum 11), students should get good practice at speaking. Booking is in advance and, with limited class sizes, early booking is advisable. As usual, all teachers are fully-qualified teachers and native-speakers. We're only 200 metres from Dun Laoghaire DART station and there's lots of free on-street parking (free after 7pm and courses start at 7.15pm!) directly in front of the school.

For more info on Spanish courses
For more info on Italian courses

Hope to see you in September! Ciao! Hasta Setiembre!