Monday, May 20, Slí Eile opened a new community farm project in Churchtown Mallow. — Jeremy Irons, a patron of Sli Eile, was at the opening – from TV3 News
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Jeremy Irons is a patron of the charity Action for Sick Children.
Further information on Action for Sick Children can be found on:
A fundraiser from Crewe hopes she has hit on a ‘novel’ idea to generate cash for Parkinson’s UK.
Susan Pickup has written to famous people asking them to list their favourite smells, and the memories they evoke.
Contributors to her Smellebrities book include Sir Bruce Forsyth, Kimberley Walsh, Suzi Quatro, Jeremy Irons, Alan Titchmarsh and Jane Asher.
The book, illustrated by Susan’s daughter, Jessica, is being launched at Bentley Motors in Crewe on Monday, April 15, 2013, as part of Parkinson’s Awareness week.
Parkinson’s is a degenerative neurological condition that leads to progressive memory loss.
Every sale of Susan’s book will help generate funds for Parkinson’s UK to fund research into finding a cure for the illness.
Susan’s husband was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2003.
She said: “It was quite a shock to be told at the age of 43 that he had Parkinson’s. Over the last ten years symptoms have become more noticeable but he copes amazingly well, continues to work part time and is so positive.”
Susan helps out regularly at Crewe’s Parkinson’s branch, helping to ensure local people affected by the illness know about the support available in their area.
A programme of events are planned for 2013 including lunch clubs, a frock exchange, afternoon tea and a young at heart group which meets at the Duke of Gloucester in Crewe. See http://www.crewe-parkinsons.org or call 07592554270 for more.
Copies of the book are available from Amazon and Lulu or by emailing smellebrities@hotmail.com
Jeremy Irons will be one of the performers at a star-studded charity gala for Friendship Works.
Baroness Helena Kennedy QC and Dame Eileen Atkins have also joined the star-studded cast for our Gala Show: An Evening with the Stars on Sunday 3 March.
The show at Shakespeare’s Underglobe, will feature special performances from the cream of Britain’s acting talent, including event organiser and Patron, Tim Pigott-Smith, Patron Jonathan Pryce CBE, Hattie Morahan, Jon Snow, and Richard Stilgoe.
Guests will be treated to a champagne reception at this celebrated historic venue on the banks of the Thames, followed by unforgettable and one-off performances, and an exceptional three-course meal.
Join us for An Evening with the Stars on Sunday 3 March, celebrate the best of British talent, and help raise funds for mentoring.
Tickets are £2oo0 for a table of 10, or £200 for individual tickets.
Buy your tickets online here or download a booking form and return it to Olwen Sisupalan, Events Manager, at olwen@friendshipworks.org.uk.
For more information about the event and ways to be involved, please call Olwen on 03331 500116/07702 945548 or email olwen@friendshipworks.org.uk.
Jeremy Irons participated in a Christmas Carol Concert to benefit the Prince’s Foundation for Children and the Arts.
Jeremy read the poem “Christmas” by John Betjeman (text at the bottom of this post).
See an album of photos from the event HERE.
Details from cadoganhall.com
Join Children & the Arts at Holy Trinity for their sixth annual carol concert for a festive evening with special guests Julie Walters, Jeremy Irons, Emilia Fox, Brian Blessed, John Suchet, Laura van der Heijden and Amore. Collegium Musicum of London also perform.
The Prince’s Foundation for Children & the Arts champions the power of the arts to transform the lives of disadvantaged children throughout the UK. Since 2006 they have worked with over 100,000 children and have ambitious plans to build on this in future.
Christmas by John Betjeman
The bells of waiting Advent ring,
The Tortoise stove is lit again
And lamp-oil light across the night
Has caught the streaks of winter rain
In many a stained-glass window sheen
From Crimson Lake to Hookers Green.
The holly in the windy hedge
And round the Manor House the yew
Will soon be stripped to deck the ledge,
The altar, font and arch and pew,
So that the villagers can say
‘The church looks nice’ on Christmas Day.
Provincial Public Houses blaze,
Corporation tramcars clang,
On lighted tenements I gaze,
Where paper decorations hang,
And bunting in the red Town Hall
Says ‘Merry Christmas to you all’.
And London shops on Christmas Eve
Are strung with silver bells and flowers
As hurrying clerks the City leave
To pigeon-haunted classic towers,
And marbled clouds go scudding by
The many-steepled London sky.
And girls in slacks remember Dad,
And oafish louts remember Mum,
And sleepless children’s hearts are glad.
And Christmas-morning bells say ‘Come!’
Even to shining ones who dwell
Safe in the Dorchester Hotel.
And is it true,
This most tremendous tale of all,
Seen in a stained-glass window’s hue,
A Baby in an ox’s stall ?
The Maker of the stars and sea
Become a Child on earth for me ?
And is it true ? For if it is,
No loving fingers tying strings
Around those tissued fripperies,
The sweet and silly Christmas things,
Bath salts and inexpensive scent
And hideous tie so kindly meant,
No love that in a family dwells,
No carolling in frosty air,
Nor all the steeple-shaking bells
Can with this single Truth compare –
That God was man in Palestine
And lives today in Bread and Wine.
From www.childrenandarts.org.uk
We are delighted to announce that renowned British Actor Jeremy Irons has joined our fantastic line up of guests at this year’s Carol Concert.
Buy tickets HERE – (Very limited seating still available as of 29 November)
Jeremy, an Ambassador for Children & the Arts will be joining Julie Walters, Emilia Fox, Brian Blessed, John Suchet, Amore, Laura van der Heijden and The Collegium Musicum of London Chamber Choir who will all be delivering a Christmas reading or live music performance at the concert on Monday 10 December at Holy Trinity Church in Sloane Square.
Doors to the church open at 7pm and the performance will begin at 7.15pm. Delicious mulled wine and warm mince pies will be sold outside the church courtesy of Partridges in Sloane Square so make sure you get there early!
Tickets can be purchased from Cadogan Hall Box Office online or call 020 7730 4500.
Posted: 01 November 2012
Jeremy Irons today (1 Nov) urged people throughout the UK to send a message of solidarity and hope to men, women and children around the world whose rights have been denied as he helped to launch Amnesty International’s Write for Rights Campaign.
Write for Rights – which runs from 1 November to 31 December – successfully connects men and women, young and old in the UK with people elsewhere who have been wrongly imprisoned, at risk of harassment and intimidation for carrying out human rights work, and to family members seeking justice for their loved ones. It also enables supporters to call upon the authorities for a protection of their basic rights.
Jeremy Irons has taken action on behalf of Hakamada Iwao, a 76-year-old Japanese man who has been on death row for the past 44 years – the approximate length of Irons’s acting career. Amnesty considers Hakamada to have received an unfair trial and recent new forensic test results disclosed by Hakamada’s defence team found no match between Hakamada’s DNA and samples taken from clothing he is alleged by the prosecution to have worn at the time of the crime. Hakamada’s lawyers believe the results may strengthen his appeal. Amnesty is urging the Japanese government to stop the execution of Hakamada.
Jeremy Irons said:
“The basic freedoms afforded to me which have enabled me to have a successful career have been bitterly denied to thousands of others around the world. People like Hakamada Iwao who’s spent 44 years of his life on death row after an unfair trial. That is a cruel injustice. Hakamada has had no idea if each new day will be his last before he is dragged from his cell and hanged.
“We can, and must, use our rights to call for the enjoyment of basic rights of others around the world. Just five minutes is all it takes to stand up for someone around the world who so desperately needs to know that others care. Please take five minutes to be part of Amnesty’s Write for Rights Campaign.”
Fifteen cases are highlighted in this year’s Write for Rights Campaign. They include residents of Kenya’s Deep Sea settlement, a slum situated in Nairobi, who are at risk of being forcibly evicted from their homes, Young Women for Change – a grassroots feminist movement in Afghanistan and Azza Hilal Ahmad Suleiman – a 49-year-old woman who is fighting for justice after Egyptian soldiers attacked her while she attended a large protest near Tahrir Square in December 2011. Picking up a pen and paper is just one way in which supporters can take part in Write for Rights this year. Other actions include leaving a comment on a blog post for Syrian activist, Anas al-Shogre who was arrested in May 2011 and has been held incommunicado ever since, and also taking a photo action in solidarity with the imprisoned Pussy Riot duo.
Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said:
“Write for Rights is such an important and effective campaign for Amnesty. Not only does it remind the recipients of the cards that thousands of people are aware of their plight and are standing in solidarity with them, it also sends a worrying signal to the authorities who see the number of messages being delivered to these men and women at risk that the world is standing up with them, and for them.
“Daily thousands of human rights defenders and ordinary men, women and children are put in situations where no one should be – without their freedoms, and without their rights. It is important that those of us who are able to exercise our rights come together to ensure others can enjoy their rights as well.”
For more information visit www.amnesty.org.uk/write
A gold bar from the movie Die Hard with a Vengeance is up for auction on ebay.co.uk
Shipping is only available to the United Kingdom.
All proceeds benefit the Royal London Society for the Blind.
Auction ends 26 Sep, 2012 14:01:22 BST
Jeremy Irons was back again as emcee of the Sunflower Jam concert and charity auction at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
This year’s event took place on Sunday 16 September.
For more information on The Sunflower Jam, click HERE.
Jeremy Irons has contributed a piece of artwork to the SixbyEight Charity Art Exhibition.
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To see all of the artwork in the SixbyEight exhibition go HERE.
This charity art event starts on the 11th November where patrons will have the opportunity to purchase art from professional and amateur artists. SixbyEight has collated in excess of four hundred pieces of art all measuring 6×8″ which will be sold at £40 each and all signed on the reverse , so a purchase is unknown – an ‘artistic gamble’, all proceeds from this event will then be donated to Hop Skip and Jump .
A private view will be held at the Bristol Gallery on the 11th November from 7pm, by invitation only (Due to overwhelming demand all tickets for the private view are now sold out), followed by the open view on 12th-13th November from 10am – 5pm. All donated works will be available to purchase.
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