Ulster Reform Club Events Diary
Tuesday 14th February 2012 - St Valentine’s Dinner
Format - Drinks reception from 7.15pm, Gourmet Dinner will commence at 7.45pm, with our roaming romantic accordionist Ivan Black. Commencing at dessert there will be live music from the Siobhan Pettit Quartet. McAlindon Wines/Direct Wine Shipments have selected a range of new wines to accompany the menu for the evening.
Aperitif
La Casada Pinot Grigio Rose, Veneto, Italy
Menu
Pan-fried cured Irish Salmon
served on a Fricassee of Peas with Lemon Foam & Baby Herbs
Man Vintners Sauvignon Blanc, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Roasted Sweet Potato & Pancetta Soup
with toasted Pumpkin Seeds and a Kale & Pecorino Pesto
Char-grilled Shorthorn Organic Beef Fillet
wild Mushrooms gratinated with Kearney Blue Cheese
& an Oxtail Jus
Finca La Estacada 6 months oak, Ucles, Spain
&
Martín Códax Música en El Camino, Rioja, Spain
Selection of finest Cheeses
Triple Chocolate & Espresso Tart
with Chocolate Caramel Syrup
& Vanilla Bean Ice Cream
Campbells Rutherglen Muscat N.V. Half Bottle, Rutherglen, Victoria, Australia
Freshly ground & brewed Coffee, with hand-rolled Truffles
Dress: Smart Casual
£50 per person including a glass of La Casada Pinot Grigio Rose, gourmet dinner and wines presented at each course by Peter McAlindon of McAlindon Wines/Direct Wine Shipments.
‘By ticket only’
Saturday 25th February 2012 - Ireland v Italy Rugby International - Aviva Stadium
The House, Sports & Social Committee has organised a trip for this 6-Nations International.
The Kick Off is 1.30pm, therefore the plan is to leave Belfast by coach, arriving at the Stephens Green Hibernian Club (SGHC) in time for breakfast rolls and coffee. Then off to the Aviva Stadium for the match, returning to the SGHC for a late buffet lunch, then back to Belfast later that evening.
- Meet at Belfast Harlequins RFC for tea or coffee at 8am courtesy of Amarc catering
- Depart by luxury coach to the SGHC at 8.30am sharp
- Breakfast rolls & coffee at SGHC 11.15am
- Depart SGHC for the Aviva Stadium by coach at 12.15pm
- Match Kick Off – 1.30pm
- coach back for Post Match Buffet at SGHC
- coach departs SGHC for HRFC 6pm approximately
£120.00 per person, including match ticket
Dress: casual
‘By ticket only’
Friday 2nd March 2012 - The President’s Dinner
£50 per person, including reception drink, six-course dinner and wine with meal.
Thursday 15th March 2012 - Titanic Cinema Night & Supper
Dress: Smart Casual
‘by ticket only’
£30 Per person, including films & supper
Mr Mike Catto, Ireland’s leading film critic, will examine how the story of the most famous ship ever built has fascinated film makers around the world for almost a century, starting with some of the remaining images from "Saved from the Titanic", made only weeks after the Belfast-built liner sank in the North Atlantic on Sunday April 14th 1912.
Blending rare archival footage of interpretations of the Titanic story from the German film "Nacht und Eis" made in 1912 to James Cameron’s 1997 Hollywood blockbuster, Mr Catto traces how cinema’s insatiable appetite for that fateful night has continued unabated.
There have been many different "takes" on the sinking including the 1919 fictional love story entitled "Atlantis", the incredibly named "Sex", made in 1920 by the silent Ben-Hur director Fred Niblo, which tells the story of flapper girls on board a ship called Gigantic, and the 1929 British-made "Atlantic" which changed the ship’s name to avoid litigation!
Mr Catto has obtained unique footage of the Nazi Germany version made in 1943, designed as a propaganda coup with steerage passengers portrayed as poor German and Irish victims persecuted by callous British officers under instruction from rich Jewish First Class voyagers, and he has extracts from lesser-known versions like "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" from 1964, "SOS Titanic" of 1980, the 1996 Canadian-made "Titanic" with George C. Scott and a young Catherine Zeta Jones, the French/Italian/Spanish co-production "La Camarera del Titanic", and many more.
Add the best-known interpretations- Jan Negulesco’s 1953 "Titanic" starring Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyck, Roy Ward Baker’s "A NIght to Remember" of 1958 with Kenneth More, and Cameron’s most recent version due for re-release in 2012- and you are guaranteed a night to remember at the Ulster Reform Club.
Supper Menu
Beef Bourguignon
&
Lemon Sole deep-fried in Tempura Batter
served with Salsa Rosso
Chef’s freshly prepared Salads & Breads
Freshly ground & brewed Coffee served with hand-rolled Truffles
Dress: Smart Casual
‘by ticket only’
£30 Per person, including films & supper
Saturday 17th March 2012 - 6 Nations International Rugby Saturday at the Club
Format - Members purchase a ticket in advance which will entitle them to a large glass of Guinness or equivalent, accompanied by freshly-made Steak & Stout Pie, Peas & Ulster Champ.
The House, Sports & Social Committee are pleased to announce the opening of the Club on St Patrick’s Day. This year we will be showing live, on two plasma televisions, in the Old Billiard Room:
- Italy v Scotland, Kick off - 12.30pm
- Wales v France, Kick off - 2.45pm
- England v Ireland, Kick off - 5pm
The Club will open from noon, with bar last orders at 7.30pm. The pie lunches will be served 3pm through 4.30pm.
£10 per person, to include Pie & a large Guinness
‘by ticket only’
Dress: casual
Tuesday 20th March 2012 - Guest Speaker Lunch with Sue Barker
Ms Barker has been Britain’s leading female sports presenter for the past two decades, having made a seamless transition from top tennis player to the world of broadcasting.
Based in California, her playing career began in 1973 and within three years she had risen to number 3 in the World Rankings, having won the 1976 French Open and, in 1977, she reached the semi-finals of both Wimbledon and, for the second time in two years, the Australian Open. She played her last professional match in 1984 having won 11 singles and 12 doubles titles and joined Channel 7 in Australia in 1985 as a commentator and reporter before moving to British Sky Broadcasting in 1990 and then, in 1993, to the BBC.
Sue has become established as the main presenter for Wimbledon and other major tennis tournaments and has anchored the BBC’s coverage of Summer and Winter Olympics, Commonwealth Games, World and European Athletics Championships and the Grand National and the Derby. Currently the presenter of A Question of Sport on BBC television, Sue has been one of the main presenters for the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year for fifteen years.
This will be her second visit to the Club and, given the reception she received eight years ago, book early to avoid disappointment!
Menu
Broccoli & Cashel Blue Cheese Soup
with crispy Parma Ham & Crusty Bread
Prime Smoked, French-trimmed Irish Bacon Loin Chop
Char-grilled & served on Wok-fried Greens
with a Button Mushroom & Drambuie Sauce
Chef’s selection of Vegetables and Potatoes
Freshly ground & brewed Coffee
£25.50 per person
‘By ticket only’
Thursday 19th April 2012 - TITANIC THEATRE AT THE CLUB
Format
Arrive from 7pm
Theatre in the Old Billiard Room at 7.30pm sharp
Supper served at 9pm
Following 2011’s sold out, inaugural play, the House, Sports & Social Committee are pleased to announce another evening of live theatre, this year to commemorate the sinking of the Titanic.
The disaster that was the sinking of the Titanic occurred on the night of April 14/15 1912. It was not only the worst maritime accident in history with the loss of over fifteen hundred people but it also heralded the end of an era.
A small group of local people (including one of our members – Dick Mackenzie) has formed a company limited by guarantee to commission (with the support of the Arts Council) a number of new works for a festival of creative arts in the week leading up to the 100th anniversary of the loss of the Titanic.
This Festival seeks to reflect the creative energy that drove the people of Belfast in the first decade of the twentieth century in industrial terms and which now continues to permeate the arts in this small part of the world.
The Festival will comprise a play about emigration in the Lyric Theatre; a specially commissioned song cycle to be performed in the Public Record Office in Titanic Quarter; an art exhibition in the Golden Thread Theatre; a new “Requiem for the lost souls of the Titanic” in St. Anne’s Cathedral by local composer – Philip Hammond; and a one man play to be performed in the Barge beside the Waterfront Hall.
This newly commissioned one-man play will be from the pen of one of the leading Titanic experts, James Wilson Foster, formerly Professor of English in the University of British Columbia, who has in retirement moved back to his native Northern Ireland.
This play will be his first essay on stage and will be based on the last hour of Thomas Andrews, the designer of Titanic and a member of the Ulster Reform Club who was lost in the tragedy. His memorial is on the wall of the third level landing of the Club. The play will be staged by Kabosh the Belfast-based, multi-award winning theatre company.
Supper menu
Beef & wild Mushroom Pie with a rich Red Wine Jus
&
Goujons of fresh Plaice, Cod & Salmon
In a crispy Tempura Batter, with a roasted Sun-blush Tomato & Chive Sauce
Vegetable fried Rice
Peppered Scallop Potatoes
A selection of freshly prepared Salads & home-made Breads
Freshly ground & brewed Coffee
served with hand-rolled Truffles
Dress: Black Tie
‘by ticket only’
£30 per person, including play & supper