August 2025 QIA Newsletter

We hope you enjoy the QIA Newsletter for August 2025, available HERE. This edition is full of forthcoming events as well as great pictures of the Irish dancers, a reference to a fabulous Bloomsday as well as interesting features concerning Ernest Shackleton and the author Conal Creedon. The board has recommended that the QIA be a leading sponsor of the Irish Film Festival Australia 2025 and the National Irish Dancing Championships 2025. I really hope you contribute to the Queensland Irish Heritage Fund, particularly for Senior Members. (Queensland Irish Heritage Trust Fund – BSB: 084-961 Account: 700646478) Now is the time to renew your membership.…

Full program of Irish Film Festival Australia

  The 2025 Irish Film Festival Australia, sponsored by Queensland Irish Association, is now showing in Brisbane from 16 to 19 October at Palace Barracks, Petrie Terrace. Here is the full program:   Thursday 16 October Opening night party 6.30pm Fran The Man – 7.45pm Fran the Man A laugh-out-loud, soccer-fuelled mockumentary about a small Irish football club that stumbles into an international match-fixing scandal.…

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