GAA Games on Big Screen at UICC Sunday, May 28, 2017. GAA Ulster Football Senior Championship: 6:00am Derry vs Tyrone GAA Leinster Hurling Championship: 8:00am Dublin vs Galway Doors Open at 5:45am Admission is $20.00 at the door for this game. Children are welcome and are free United Irish Cultural…
Celebrate JFK's 100th Birthday • May 28 Join Irish democrats and community leaders at a celebration reception on the 100th birthday of John F. Kennedy. Enjoy speakers and tributes at hosted reception that takes place from 3-5pm at the United Irish Cultural Center. Contact Eileen Kivlehan at [email protected]
Bay Area Book Festival • June 3 & 4 Over the weekend of June 3rd and 4th, 2017, the third annual Bay Area Book Festival will fill downtown Berkeley with a literary extravaganza that offers pleasure to anyone who has ever loved a book. Irish writers featured this year on…
Where cutting-edge marketers and creatives come to get their funny on! FunnyBizz is the only conference of its kind, bringing leading thinkers from the seemingly disparate worlds of comedy and business together to help the world stop synergizing its valueadds and learn to find its funny. Modern businesses succeed or…
Masquerade: Treason, the Holocaust, and an Irish Impostor - City Lights 7pm Phyllis Ursula James. Nora O’Mara. Róisín Ní Mhéara. Like her name, the life of Rosaleen James changed many times as she followed a convoluted path from abandoned child, to foster daughter of an aristocratic British family, to traitor…
Bloomsday with Thomas Lynch • Berkeley Lynch reads from James Joyce’s “Ulysses.” 2 p.m. Mrs. Dalloway’s, 2904 College Ave., Berkeley. (510) 704-8222. www.mrsdalloways.com.
Annual Bloomsday Celebration Dinner, Concert, and Community Readings Friday, June 16, 2017 - 6:00pm Eat, Read, Drink, and Walk on the Wild Side of Dublin! The evening begins with a special Bloomsday menu with lively musical interludes featuring a Celtic music ensemble with singers Melanie O’Reilly, Esther Mulligan, & John…
Handsome Devil • June 17, 20 An unlikely yet authentic bond develops between two teenage boys at an Irish boarding school, in this charming, rugby-centric dramedy from talented Irish writer-director John Butler. Sixteen-year-old Ned, with his spiky dyed red hair and ambiguous sexuality, is the music-geek outcast more smitten with…
Frameline Film Festival Three Irish films feature at this year’s Frameline Film Festival, A Date for Mad Mary • June 18, 24 Mary has always been a firecracker — picking fights, mouthing off, and getting wasted at the pub with her best mate, Charlene. But after serving six months in…
Acclaimed Irish writer Colm Tóibín is the author of nine novels including Brooklyn and Nora Webster and has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize three times. His literary subjects have included the imagined inner life of Henry James and the life of Mary, the mother of Jesus. In his…
A Date for Mad Mary • June 24 Mary has always been a firecracker — picking fights, mouthing off, and getting wasted at the pub with her best mate, Charlene. But after serving six months in lockup, Mary returns home to find that Charlene has moved on; she’s more interested…
Join The Crooked Road Ceili Band for a wonderfully warm evening of traditional Irish melodies with Jack, Doug, Julie, and David and songs sung solo and duet by Erin-Ruth Thompson and Julie Horner. Lively tunes on the hammered dulcimer, concertina, Irish wooden flute, fiddle, and guitar. Bring your dancing shoes!
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