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[ 21 April 2010 ]

20-year reunion

OCs who left in 1990 who are interested in a reunion due to be held on September 11th in Dublin, should contact Anna Nichols via e-mail at oldcolumban1990@yahoo.co.uk, or by mobile phone at 00-353--86-8141888 or by post at Covehill, Sandycove, Kinsale,Co. Cork.

[ 05 September 2010 ]

Golf outing, September 16th

The 2nd Annual Old Columban Golf Outing is taking place on Thursday 16th September 2010. This year, due to popular demand, the outing will take place at Kilmashogue Golf Club. We will play in 4’s to allow for a fourball team prize, as well as the usual singles competition prize. It is an eighteen hole competition and the first tee off time will be at 1pm. The cost including a three course dinner at the clubhouse is 55 Euro.

Please send me an email confirming that you will be able to play and I will let you know your tee off time nearer the date,

Many thanks, Kenneth Large

comprint@iol.ie
01 8557347
087 2561367

[ 09 June 2010 ]

2010 AGM

The Annual General Meeting of the Society is being held this evening, St Columba's Day, starting at 6.30pm in the Kildare Street and University Club, St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2. All members are, of course, welcome.

[ 06 May 2010 ]

2010 OCS Bulletin

Our annual magazine, the Old Columban Society Bulletin, is now available online via the members' area. Sign in on the right-hand side of this page, put in your username and password, and then you can download the Bulletin on the right under 'Download OCS Bulletins'.

The paper version of the magazine is currently at the packers, and will be posted out shortly to all members; if you do not receive yours, please contact the Secretary.

[ 15 February 2010 ]

Cramer Consort Concert

On March 2, at 8.00pm, in the Trinity College Chapel in Dublin, there is the inaugural concert by the Cramer Consort, directed by Colm Carey (left SCC in 1988), with Peter Barley (Organ) and members of the Campanile Consort.Programme - James MacMillan – Missa Brevis, Christus Vincit; Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Missa Brevis, Motets;Kenneth Leighton – Kyrie (from Missa de Gloria, Dublin Festival Mass), Scherzo and Passacaglia.

Tickets €15, €12 (Concession), €5 (Student).

The Cramer Consort is a flexible project-based ensemble, and while the founding members are all UK based consort singers, the aspiration is to have performers drawn from both Ireland and the UK - instruments as well as voices depending on the programme.