This program offers a unique window into the Irish diaspora in the Caribbean, as well as Cuban history and culture. Not to mention the craic will be awesome in organized concerts and into the wee hours sesiuns. On top of it, all the excitement and enjoyment of discovering our too long forbidden neighbor. Our trip is licensed by the US Treasury Department so is available to everyone, professional and amateur musicians and dancers, diaspora hobbyists and academics, just plain fans and the curious. The program is tentative until the CeltFest schedule
is final.
Sunday April 14, 2013
Fly to Havana
CeltFest program
Monday April 15, 2013
9:00 am Lecture at Hotel Palacio O'Farrill. Discussion on 16th
– 18th century Irish presence
10:00 am Tour "In the
Irish Footsteps of Old Havana
12.30 pm Lunch at Asociacion
Yoruba, visit Santaria exhibit
2:00 pm Ferry to church in Regla
2:30 pm Performance by AfroCuban group Nsila Cheche
5:30 private briefing on
social/economic changes; US Cuba relations
Dinner on own
CeltFest Program
*
may be replaced by CeltFest program
Tuesday April 16, 2013
9:00 am Departing for a Tour
of the South West and Havana Railroad Route
(Box lunch and 2 drinks
included)
Places to visit in the
morning and afternoon:
• Monument to workers at
Capitolio and Villanueva Station.
• The swamp at Cerro: railway workshops.
• Santiago de las Vegas
(Agronomic Station).
• Corner (railroad station);
leprosarium San Lazaro (O'Naghten).
• Bejucal (Municipal Museum),
(Railway Museum) (Parish Church).
• Quivicán (Ingenio Espiritu
Santo: V Marqués de San Felipe y Santiago O 'Farrill-O'Reilly).
• Guines (Municipal Museum,
Railroad Museum, ruins of the mill "Alexandria"; ruins of wit
"The Netherlands," Calvo Gate O 'Farrill).
Dinner on own
CeltFest program
Wednesday April 17, 2013
9:00 am Lecture at Hotel Palacio O'Farrill. Discussion on 19th
– 20th century Irish presence
10:00 am Tour "In the
Footsteps Irish in Old Havana
1.00 PM Lunch on own
3:00 - 6: 00 pm Depart for
National Library "José Martí" for a talk by Irish academic and
performance of traditional Celtic music ensemble
Dinner on own
CeltFest program
Thursday 18 April 2013
9:00 am Departing to Matanzas
Places to visit in the
morning and afternoon:
Habana del Este:
• Fortress of Cojimar and Bacuranao (Taking of Havana
• Santa Cruz del Norte
(Hershey, former sugar refinery town of FC, White House, Matanzas).
Matanzas:
• Fortress of San Severino.
• The Museum Morrillo.
• House of Culture Bonifacio
Byrne.
• O'Reilly Streets, before
Rio, Tirry and Madan.
• House Bonifacio Byrne
(Contreras. 30,208).
• House of Charities (Byrne).
1:00 to 2:00 pm Lunch at
Hotel Velasco
Cárdenas:
• Oscar María de Rojas Museum
• Flag House.
• beach Camacho (J. O'Brien).
5: 00 pm Check in at hotel in
Varadero
Transportation included for
evening activities
(meet/sessiun with Asturian
or Galician celtic group in/from Matanzas
Friday 19 April 2013
Breakfast at the Hotel
9:00 am Departing to Havana
(Box lunch and 2 drinks
included)
Places to visit in the
morning and afternoon:
Limonar:
• Municipal Museum
• San Patricio Farm(Mary
Gowen Brooks).
• Villa Ariadne (Rufus King).
San Antonio de Cabezas:
• Parish Church
• Ruins of San Antonio de
Varela sugar mill.
Madruga:
• Municipal Museum
• La Paila, sulfur water
source
Tapaste
• Parish Church (R. J.
O'Farrill)
Cotorro
• St. Patrick (Ricardo
O'Farrill)
• Villa Casañas, Loma de Tierra,
Km 20 Carretera Central (Arturo "Chico" O'Farrill)
Santa Maria del Rosario
(Cotorro)
• Parish Church
• Source of sulfur water
• House of Jose Maria Chacon
y Calvo (Restaurante El Meson).
• Hill of the Three Crosses
(Memorial slave rebellion).
Return to Havana
9:00 pm Opera de la Calle
Saturday 20 April 2013
Pending activities of Havana
CeltFest: Gala Concert, etc.
Sunday 21 April 2013
Transfer to Havana
airport for the flight back to Cancun .
For further information on cost or to obtain a PDF registration form, contact John McAuliff jmcauliff@ffrd.org
[block print above by Mario Cruz Moscoso, Cienfuegos, Cuba]
