Gramophone Society Invitation

Gerry Callaghan 2017-09-30

Athlone Gramophone society have very kindly invited us to their regular meetings. See below for details:

Glad to have discovered your site.

Music is truly international, which is why members decided to invite Asylum Seekers in Athlone to our meetings.
We meet every second Thursday in the Prince of Wales Hotel at 8.15 pm.
The next meeting is on Thursday 5th October. This will be a bring-your-own night when members and visitors are asked to bring along a CD with a favourite piece of music to be played on the night (max duration about 5 minutes).

Anyone who enjoyes listening to music in comfortable surroundings is very welcome…..no charge!
Please ask for Nora, Mel, Ivan, Mary or Norman.

Anyone got interesting music they would like to play? I’ve got Arabic and South African music, nothing much from Afghanistan or Pakistan.

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We also work on the Temple Direct Provision site in Horseleap, Moate.

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Convention refugees are people who have made their own way to Ireland and have applied for recognition of refugee status when they arrive.

Various official and unofficial routes and methods are used to travel to Ireland. These change continually, depending on weather conditions and enforcement levels at crossings.

On arrival people are normally housed for a few weeks in Baleskin, near Dublin airport. They are then dispersed to various direct provision centres around the country.

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See Definition of a Refugee