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Link: St. Patrick’s Parade, Digbeth | Created in Birmingham

St. Patrick’s Parade, Digbeth | Created in Birmingham – A rather brilliant little film by Willian Fallows shot at the St Patrick’s Parade in Digbeth on Sunday 13th March. I’m very tempted to have a go at this sort of … Continue reading

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Getgood Link: St Patrick’s Festival » Blog

St Patrick’s Festival » Blog – The St Patrick’s Festival committee are holding their annual general meeting at 7.30pm on Tuesday 18th January at The Irish Centre: As we plan to make each year more special than the last, we … Continue reading

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Getgood Link: KeepDigbethVibrant.co.uk – Do not let digbeth die!

KeepDigbethVibrant.co.uk – Do not let digbeth die! – ‘Noddy’ has a good old rant about ‘The Environmental Taliban…beavering away to emasculate the St Patrick’s Day Parade’ with extra barriers, clamp-downs on street drinking and the confiscation of plastic cups.

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Some St Patrick’s Parade links

There’s quite a few YouTube films and Flickr sets of Sunday’s St Patrick’s Festival parade out there already.  Here are a few: A lovely set of photos on Flickr by Birmingham photographer Matt Murtgagh ‘St Patrick’s Day’ by Kaakidele ‘Birmingham … Continue reading

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The busy Digbeth March hare: St Patrick’s Festival and We Are Eastside

Digbeth is set to get brilliantly busy this month with the impending St Patrick’s Festival weekend, closely followed by the launch of We Are Eastside, which will coincide with 7 Inch Cinema’s Flatpack Film Festival. St Patrick’s Festival Birmingham This … Continue reading

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Getgood Link: St Patrick’s Literary Festival Update « Wrote Under Publishing

St Patrick’s Literary Festival Update « Wrote Under Publishing – I received this email from St Patrick’s Festival organiser Kent Davis today: Everyone knows that the Irish have an extremely enviable literary history. But what do most know of the … Continue reading

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Birmingham St. Patrick’s Festival community meeting Thurs 4th Feb

The Birmingham St. Patrick’s Festival Committee are holding a community meeting at the Irish Centre on Thursday 4th February at 7pm in order to discuss all their plans for this year’s Birmingham St Patrick’s Festival and Parade, which this year … Continue reading

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YouTube – Big Dave pulls the South Birmingham College Bus – Dave is big. So big he can pull a bus.

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The craic was good in Cricklewood

Ultan Cowley talks about Irish Navvies from Nicky Getgood on Vimeo. One part of the St Patrick’s Festival I did manage to make was this presentation by Ultan Cowley, bringing to life the world of the 20th century Irish navvy.  … Continue reading

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Parade Day Linkage

As you know, I pretty much missed out on the weekend, but thanks to the internet I get to see what happened all the same.  I get to see pictures of pretty Irish dancers by Very Quiet via Created in … Continue reading

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