East & Central Europe Newsletter: January 19th, 2009

Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Georgia, Hungary ,Israel, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey, Ukraine

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to Irish Resources, Events and News - in Continental Europe

Poland
ISTA Feis in February in Cracow.

ISTA - one of the most known Irish danincing schools in Poland invites everyone to the third annual ISTA feis in Cracow. This year the event is to be hold on February 27th-28th in the same fantastic place: NCK in Cracow. Once again there will be three wonderfull adjudicators from Ireland and UK, and an excellent Musician.
This year adjudicators are:

• Tanya Dirrane Hobbs ADCRG, London
• Gerrard Meehan ADCRG, Essex
• Christopher Ryan ADCRG, Cork

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Czech Republic
New Czech Literature Portal website in English.

"The mission of the portal first of all lies in the promotion of Czech literature abroad. In this respect, our aim is to reach scholars, students, translators, editors, literary centers, organizers of literary events, journalists, compatriots and, last but not least, the general public interested in Czech literature,"says Jaroslav Balvín, who was responsible for translating and launching an English-language version of the site.
"The portal reads as a virtual survey of Czech literature, with an illustrated database of literary links and bibliographies. Perhaps more importantly, however, the site offers English-language readers an introduction to many contemporary Czech writers, whose work might otherwise be lost in translation."

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Czech Republic, Poland and other countries
Irish basketball players that play in the Leagues across Europe.

Irish basketball players are with clubs in Cyprus, Czech Republic, Spain, France, Germany, Greece, italy, Kosovo, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Switzerland and Sweden.
Wherever you are in Europe - there is a good chance that an Irish basketball player is playing with a club in the country you are in.
As well as playing in top flight basketball Nationally in these countries, Brian Bracey's AEL in Cyprus are also in the Euro Challenge, against other European clubs, Levon Kendall is with Greece Euroleague team Marousi.
In Italy the Serie A club Banca Terrcas with Jesse Young also plays in the EuroCup as well as SerieA this year. Patrick Burke is in Poland with Euroleague team Assec.Prokom, which is also heading the local Polish PLK league. Jim Moran's Gran Canaria are playing in Europe this year in the Euro Cup.

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All Europe
Irish Cultural events added in Czech Republic, France, Belgium and Netherlands - and Portugal, Spain and Italy.

100s of daily Irish cultural events have just been added onto Europeanirish events.
International and European Irish Studies conferences have been added -which will take place during 2010 in Reims, Rennes, and Nantes France, in Leuven Belgium, in Prague Czech Republic, Torino Italy, and Almeria Spain.
Near Strasbourg, the Rhine Valley Irish Association May Feis Ceol has been added, and dozens of events and exhibition days for Centre Culturel Irlandais have been added for Paris, France - as well as an Irish Club in Lyon.
The St Patrick's Day events in France, Portugal, Belgium and Netherlands by the PACA Irish Club Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur, the Irish Association Portugal and the Irish Clubs in Belgium and netherlands have now been included as well.

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Next week's events:

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• Croatia - High Jump Indoor Meeting Slobodna Dalmacija (6.1. Indoor Meetings with National Permit) Split
• Czech Republic - Lord of the Dance 3 shows in Czech Republic - 4-6 Feb 2010, in Ostrava, Karlovy Vary, and Prague
• Czech Republic - Athletics: Grand Prix Olymp Prague
• Hungary - Soccer: Republic of Ireland U17 Team V Hungary , Friendly at Home 9th feb and 11th Feb
• Israel -  Soccer: Irish U16 Team V Israel, Friendly
• Poland  - Badminton - Polish International Junior Championships Kedzierzyn-Kozle
• Poland - Pedros Cup- European Athletics Indoor Meetings in Bydgoszcz
• Romania - Athletics: Indoor Grand Prix Bucharest
• Russia - Athletics: Russian Winter - IAAF Indoor Meeting, Moscow
• Serbia - European Athletics : White Cross Cross Country, Belgrade
• Slovakia - Lord of the Dance 3 shows in Slovakia - Zilina and Bratislava on 8-9 Feb 2010
• Turkey - Badminton: Turkiye Junior International

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