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Dear members and friends of the Hellenic Community of Ireland,

Our best wishes for the year 2020!
We are happy to announce that the majority of our activities will take place in our new premises 19 Belvedere Place, Dublin 1. We would like to thank all of you and our partners that have supported us along the way so far.

The classes of our school will begin in week starting on Monday 6/1/2020 at our new premises 19 Belvedere Place, Dublin 1.

Our Greek Business and Arts Festival will take place on 23rd February 2020 at the beautiful space of CHQ in collaboration with the EPIC museum, the magnificent museum of Irish Diaspora. We invite you to come and meet the Greeks in Diaspora! More information will follow soon.

The cutting of our Vasilopita will take place during the Greek Festival, on 23rd February.

It is with great sadness that we inform you of the peacefully passing of Professor Frixos Joannides on Saturday 25th May. at Belmont Nursing Home. Beloved husband of Peggy and much loved father of Michael, Markos and Kimon; sadly missed by his loving wife, sons, daughters-in-law Yvonne, Jen and Linda, grandchildren Emma, Ella, Luke, Jessica and Danny. We want to express our condolences to his family.

Frixos Joannides’ funeral will take place on Wednesday, May 29 2019, at 11:30 am in the RC Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour (Foxrcok Church), Stillorgan Road, Foxrock, D18, followed by burial at Shanganagh Cemetery, South Co.Dublin. 

The family of Frixos Joannides asks anyone who wants to donate to his memory, to make it to the Greek Orthodox Parish in the following account:
IBAN: IE53 AIBK 9311 5223 4597 97
BIC: AIBKIE2D
Account name: GREEK ORTHODOX PARISH

Book of condolences https://rip.ie/cb.php?dn=389119

Professor Frixos Joannidis originally from Cyprus, was one of the first Greeks to have settled on the island. In Ireland he worked as a professor of engineering at University College Dublin and took over duties as the Consul of Cyprus until the establishment of the Cypriot Embassy in Dublin. He had been one of the founders of Irish-Hellenic Society (1962) Hellenic Community οf Ireland (1964), Greek Orthodox Community (80s) and the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation in Dublin (1994). At the same time, he was the first Modern Greek language teacher to Greek children before the establishment of the Greek School of Ireland (2003).

Dear friends and members,

We wish you happy Christmas and a joyful new year.

You can watch in Hellenic Community of Ireland (HCI) YouTube channel a playlist with Greek carols Link

On Sunday 16th December last, we organized a Christmas event at the Deaf Village, Ireland. You can watch a short video. Link

Αγαπητά μέλη και φίλοι της Ελληνικής Κοινότητας Ιρλανδίας,

Σας προσκαλούμε να συμμετάσχετε στην Παιδική Χριστουγεννιάτικη Γιορτή της Κοινότητας μας, που οργανώνει το Ελληνικό Σχολείο Δουβλίνου.
Σας περιμένουμε την Κυριακή 16 Δεκεμβρίου στο Deaf Village Ireland (7 Ratoath Rd, Cabra West, Dublin 7 – D07N4N8) στις 2:30μμ.

Περισσότερες πληροφορίες σε επόμενη ενημέρωση.

Προσπαθούμε να οργανώσουμε χριστουγεννιάτικες γιορτές και σε άλλες περιοχές της Ιρλανδίας και κάθε βοήθεια για το σκοπό αυτό ,είναι ευπρόσδεκτη.
Μπορείτε να επικοινωνήσετε μαζί μας στο
secretary@helleniccommunity.ie
καθώς και στο email
της σχολικής επιτροπής: school@helleniccommunity.ie

Dear Regular members of the Hellenic Community of Ireland,

We are reminding you of the planned Extra Ordinary Meeting ( EGM) at 13:00 on Sunday 7th October that was postponed from 3rd June 2018. Please note that the EGM will be held at the Guinness Enterprise Center (GEC), (Taylor’s Ln, Ushers, Dublin 8) and not at the Broomsbridge Educate Together School as it was planned.

We are happy to announce that we have signed a License Agreement for CoWork with the GEC that allows us to use their premises.

On the day of our EGM we are going to have with us Mr Peter Smith, Director of The Institute of Minority Entrepreneurship, Dublin Institute of Technology to help us with the phrasing and comprehension of new law requirements. He has studied our present constitution very carefully and helps us draft the new one as attached.

It is the first time that the constitution of the Hellenic Community has been first drafted in English and subsequently translated in Greek. We had to take that approach in order to bring on board the Irish practice and know how. Also, please find attached a document that states the main differences between the present and proposed institution that attempts to help its comprehension. We only have that document in English.

Apart from the proposed constitution we are adopting a set of “by laws” that will be separately discussed in our Annual General Meetings (AGM) planned for Sunday 25th November 2018, together with the elections. These “by laws” will include the present “specific objectives” stated in our present constitution as well as other details.

Please make sure you pay your membership before 5pm on Saturday 6th October 2018, if you haven’t already done so.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the members of our Board as well as all the other members of our Community for supporting me through this difficult time.

Regards

Stella Xenopoulou
President
Hellenic Community of Ireland

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Dear members and friends of the Hellenic Community of Ireland,

We are pleased to invite you to the Culture Night 2018 event «Aesop’s fables», which will take place on Friday 21 Sep 2018 at Gutter Bookshop, Cow’s Lane, Temple Bar, from 5 pm till 5:45pm, where stories from this great storyteller will be read. This event is an initiative of Dr Franchesca De La Morgia, Mother Tongues Director, and Ms Aimee van Wylick, Culture Night National Coordinator.

We will have the opportunity to enjoy our teachers Xanthi Bakoyanni, Vassiliki Ploumbi, and Paddy Sammon reading stories in Greek (modern and ancient!) and more.

We would like to thank Mother Tongues and Culture Night, whom our Community is supporting, and also Mr Robert Johnston of Gutter Bookshop, for making this event possible.
Relevant links:
https://mothertongues.ie/events/culture-night-2018
https://culturenight.ie/event/the-gutter-bookshop
http://gutterbookshop.com/events.html

Μ. Βρετανίας και της Βόρειας Ευρώπης για το νέο διδακτικό έτος 2018-2019 από τον Συντονιστή Εκπαίδευσης Λονδίνου

Η ξένοιαστη εποχή του καλοκαιριού πέρασε γρήγορα κι εφέτος και οι όμορφες ημέρες των διακοπών αποτελούν πλέον μια γλυκιά ανάμνηση. Έτσι τα σχολεία ξανάνοιξαν πάλι τη ζεστή αγκαλιά τους για να υποδεχθούν τους μαθητές κοντά τους και να συνεχίσουν τη μαθησιακή προσπάθεια για την ελληνόγλωσση εκπαίδευση και τη διάπλαση του χαρακτήρα.
Με την έναρξη του νέου σχολικού έτους 2018-2019 θα ήθελα να εκφράσω προς όλους, εκπαιδευτικούς, γονείς και μαθητές τις θερμότερες ευχές μου για μια δημιουργική σχολική χρονιά. Εύχομαι καλή δύναμη, για να μπορέσουμε να συνεχίσουμε το παιδαγωγικό μας έργο με την απαιτούμενη πίστη και αφοσίωση. Συγχαρητήρια στους εκπαιδευτικούς των αμιγώς ελληνικών σχολικών μονάδων, των Τμημάτων Ελληνικής Γλώσσας και Πολιτισμού (Τ.Ε.Γ.) και των Ελληνικών Παροικιακών Σχολείων, καθώς και στις Σχολικές Επιτροπές και τους Προέδρους τους. Ιδιαιτέρως ευχαριστώ τους εκπροσώπους της Εκκλησίας και των Ελληνικών Κοινοτήτων. Συνεργαστήκαμε στενά κατά την περασμένη χρονιά. Προσβλέπω στην ανανέωση και ενίσχυση της επιτυχούς συνεργασίας μας.

Surprised and shocked by the recent tragic fires that attacked our fellow humans in Attica – Greece, together with the Greek Orthodox Community and a number of well known as well as anonymous Irish friends, like for example the Kilnaughtin Group in Rathkeale (Patrick Comeford) , or the unique Donal Lunny and the special Theo Dorgan, we will act accordingly: we will help as much as we can. Immediately with the organization of a musical evening, the income of which will be given to the victims of the recent fires.
A number of Greek musicians as well as Irish artists involved in music and the arts will participate unselfishly in this musical evening.
The musical evening will take place on Saturday September 1st in the
Grand Social premises in Lower Liffey Street, Dublin 1.

Lets make a humanity appointment.
We will wait for all of you in this unique occasion in order to show our practical solidarity towards our distressed compatriots.
COMMUNICATION:
For tickets to the event and further information please contact:

Stacy Fieldmann through greecefires@gmail.com
Michael Youlton, Treasurer of the Hellenic Community, at myoulton@yahoo.com or through 086 8159487 and
Paddy Sammon at psammon@gmail.com or 085 1174710

Tickets are 25 EURO and the evening will begin at 19.30
Donations towards the event can be sent to a special account we have opened in our bank which will be used only for this purpose. Our objective is the money to arrive to the hands of people who really need the support and to that end we have already started communicating with some of the families involved :
Attica Fires Account in AIB
Account number: 26256158
Sort Code: 931012
IBAN : IE50AIBK93101226256158,       BIC :/Swift: AIBKIE2D
We want to have this opportunity to warmly thank our friend and member Stacy Fieldmann for the tremendous organizational effort she has invested in this activity.

Dear members and friends of the Hellenic Community of Ireland,

We would like to inform you that the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Hellenic Republic, Mr Terence Quick, will meet with the students, parents and teachers of the Hellenic School on Saturday, March 24 at 12:00 at the Dublin school premises in Arbour Hill.

At 13.00, the minister will attend the light lunch organized by the Hellenic Community at the Collins Barracks Museum cafe and you are most welcomed.

He will be informed about issues that concern Greeks in Ireland such as their business and cultural activity.

We call on Greek entrepreneurs and artists who want to exhibit a sample of their work to be in the cafe at 12:30.

Αγαπητοί γονείς, κηδεμόνες, μέλη  και φίλοι της Ελληνικής Κοινότητας Ιρλανδίας,   Σάς καλούμε φέτος στην πρώτη εκδήλωση της Ελληνικής Κοινότητας για την 25η Μαρτίου που είναι αυτή του σχολείου μας και θα πραγματοποιηθεί την ερχόμενη Κυριακή 11/3/18 από τις 15:00-16:30 στην σχολική  αίθουσα, 46 Arbour Hill, Dublin 7.

Για λόγους που είναι εντελώς εκτός δικού μας ελέγχου και ευθύνης, η σχολική γιορτή θα πραγματοποιηθεί φέτος τμηματικά στην μικρή και ζεστή σχολική μας αίθουσα αυτή την Κυριακή ξεκινώντας στις 15:00.