2026:

Gaelic football invitational On Saturday 28th February Den Haag GAA will be hosting our 18th annual Gaelic football invitational. Preparations are ongoing and if you’re interested in volunteering on the day, please contact Mary Gavin on irishclubnl@gmail.com Keep an eye on the Den Haag GAA website and Instagram for more details.Join us for a great day out!

ICN Book Club The Book Club will hold its next meeting on Friday, 27th February at 6:30pm at the Babylon / Leonardo Hotel in The Hague (in the bar/restaurant area). This month we will be discussing the bestselling book, “There are Rivers in the Sky”, by Elif Shafak. Looking forward to a lovely evening.Please reach out to Assumpta Dulohery (assumpta@ziggo.nl) for further details.

ICN St. Brigid’s Day Walk 2026 On Sunday 1st February, members gathered at the Peace Palace in The Hague to mark St. Brigid’s Day with a refreshing afternoon walk. Despite the winter chill, it was a lovely opportunity to come together, stretch the legs, and enjoy good company in a beautiful setting.A big thank you to Mary Gavin for coordinating the event and to everyone who participated. We look forward to many more community walks throughout the year .

ICN Annual General Meeting 2026 We began the year with our New Year’s Brainstorm and Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Friday 23rd January at Café Restaurant de Haagsche Bier Kluis in The Hague.It was a productive evening where members shared ideas, offered feedback, and discussed the future direction of the Irish Club Netherlands. The AGM also provided an opportunity for members to step forward and join the board, helping to ensure the continued growth and success of ICN activities.Thank you to everyone who attended, contributed, and volunteered their time to support the club moving forward.

Nollaig na mBan 2026 Our ICN ladies started the year off right with a get-together to celebrate Nollaig na mBan.They gathered on Sunday 4th January at the White Horse Pub in Old Rijswijk for a lovely afternoon of cosy chats, warm company, and New Year cheer!

2025:

Thanks to all our members that made our Christmas dinner into such a special night!

Annual Christmas party tickets are available! Book yours now! Contact out Secretary email. Tickets are limited 😀 irishclubnlsecretary@gmail.com

Photos from the Party!

40 YEARS!

The Irish Club Netherlands proudly presents forty years of good times! On the 13th of September we will have our biggest celebration yet! RSVP to icn40th@gmail.com

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2025 Annual Bloomsday will be held in the wonderful AMARE from 19:30 hours on Monday 16 June.

(Come along and meet old friends or make new ones – Céad míle fáilte) – Readings commence 20:00 hours SHARP

Address:

Spuiplein 160, 

2511 DG  The Hague

in Amare – the venue is called KUNSTPLEIN on the ground floor.. 

See link:

The Hague Bloomsday 2025 — Readings from James Joyce’s Ulysses | Amare | Stage for music and dance

The Hague Bloomsday 2025 — Readings from James Joyce’s Ulysses | Amare | podium voor muziek en dans

Paul Treanor has organized a reading of excerpts from James Joyce’s Ulyssess.  

This years readers are : Paul Treanor, Donal Merren, Eoin Cannon, Greg Tyrrell, Mike Smyth, Sheila Clarke and Trish McAteer accompanied by three talented classical musicians:

about | Emma Zoe Elkinson – talented FLAUTIST   

Eva Crowley (OBAH) and Charlotte Broady (HARP)

If unable to attend yourself, feel free to share with friends/colleagues/family/neighbours.

As many other activities happening in AMARE most days/nights of the week – see: Amare | Stage for music and dance

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We had a great time at the Christmas party last year!

Jazz aan de gracht 2024!

Thanks to all who attended our wonderful event last week.

We invite you to attend another Bloomsday event in the center of The Hague. 

We are honoured to have a wonderful group of readers again 8 newbies and 2 regulars in fact 1 has been a reader since the first Bloomsday and decades more Bloomsdays – guess who that might be? the one and only!!!

2024 Readers:

1. Aoife McGeough

2. Catherine Fitzgerald 

3. Donal Merren

4. Eoin Cannon

5. Greg Tyrrell

6. Julia Hamilton

7. Mike Smyth

9. Sheila Clarke      .

10. Stephen Eustace

Dramatized and directed by Paul Treanor.

Produced by Mary Gavin

The program commences at midday 12:00 o’clock – it being Father’s Day and the start of the EUROS with Netherlands playing that afternoon . 

We thought it best to start your Sunday enjoying the company of the talented Irish Club Netherlands actors/actresses playing scenes from the novel Ulysses by James Joyce. They bring with burning humour life in Dublin on Thursday 16th June 1904. 

Enjoy listening to the conversations they have, the gossip, the jokes, the explosions of anger, the helpless sighs, the desire, everything is played out against a backdrop of Dublin, tender and poor – beautiful and smutty at the same time.  . 

Venue is MIllers (Upstairs Function Room), Plein 10 The Hague millers den haag – Search (bing.com)

FREE entrance – let us know if you intend joining us by responding to this mail as space in limited.

Drinks/Food on your own account from the bar or restaurant downstairs.

TRAIL WALKS

Thanks to all those who took part in the trail walks in April and May! Trail walks are free for members of the ICN and Den Haag GAA.