166th Saint Patrick's Day Parade & Festival St. Patrick's Day Parade info A full day of activity is planned for the St. Patrick's Day Festival at Civic Center Plaza and on Grove Street, Polk to Larkin Street. The colorful festivities surrounding the parade will showcase Irish Culture through live performance…
Sunday, March 12th Time: 12:30-1:30pm Children’s Hour of Song and Dance Join Crossroads for a lively hour of Irish dancing and music for children of all ages! The Brosnan School of Irish Dance will provide a wonderful array of Jigs, Reels and Hornpipes for all to enjoy. We’ll also enjoy…
Centenary Celebration of the Pearse and Connolly Fife and Drum Band Sunday, March 12th Time: 2:00-4:00pm Join Crossroads for a centenary celebration of the legendary Pearse and Connolly Fife and Drum Band! Founded in Butte, Montana in 1917, the band moved to San Francisco in the 1920s and has been…
Please join Irish Network Bay Area in celebrating St. Patrick's week with a private breakfast with Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Frances Fitzgerald T.D. This exclusive event will give attendees the opportunity to hear directly from Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister on events that are shaping politics in Ireland and across…
Humanities West presents the next installment of their salon series "Celebrating Irish Music" Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day early with a performance of Irish music featuring multi-instrumentalists Shira Kammen and Jim Oakden Hotel Rex, 562 Sutter St., San Francisco. Tix at City Box Office 415 392 4400 or www.cityboxoffice.com . $25.
St. Patrick's Festival at CB Hannegan's • Mar 17 It's that time of year again at CB Hannegan's in Los Gatos for the annual huge and fantastic St. Patrick's day party. Join thousands for music, dancing, and home cooked - tickets are $55 and can be purchased at the bar.…
Hibernian Newman Luncheon • March 17 The Hibernian Newman Club of San Francisco is a non-profit organization of business and professional people of Irish descent whose residence or place of business is located within the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Established in 1964, the Hibernian Newman Club has supported the Newman…
Join us for the 2nd Annual St. Patrick's Day tour of the Dogpatch led by San Francisco City Guides! Once called "Irish Hill", the Dogpatch became home to thousands of working class Irish, Scottish and English immigrants during the 1860's. Learn about the infamous neighborhood and visit historical sites during…
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in a true Bay Area tradition with Lucia Comnes & Her Rockin’ Irish Band: a 4-piece folk powerhouse that combines influences from Rock, Blues and Bluegrass to deliver upbeat Irish and Americana roots music. With her fiery fiddling, Comnes leads high energy sets of groove-oriented traditional…
Saturday & Sunday, March 18 & 19, 2017 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Dublin Civic Center 100 Civic Plaza Dublin, CA 94568 Green and White Gala, Dublin Sister City Association, Friday,March 17, 2017, 6:00 p.m. Dublin Senior Center, 7600 Amador Valley Boulevard Pancake Breakfast, Alameda County Firefighters - Local 55,…
Saturday, Mar 18, 3pm Listen at 91.7 or on-line, http://www.kalw.org/ The Black Brothers, Shay and Michael Black, return to KALW after a long absence. The brothers will catch us up on what they've been doing and regale us with their songs and family stories. They'll perform with their band on…
Annual Banquet, March 19. The ILHS presents their annual St. Patrick’s Banquet on Sunday, March 19 at the Saint Patrick’s Ballroom in the United Irish Cultural Center. This year's event features harpist and storyteller Patrick Ball, with song and dramatic reading by Esther Mulligan, and music by fiddler, Anne Goess. Contact…
Saturday, March 25th Time: 1:00-3:00pm Chinese and Irish Workers in the Construction of the Transcontinental Railroad Gordon H. Chang, Professor of American History and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford, and Barry P. McCarron, Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow of Irish Studies at New York University,…
Family Stories Workshop • Mar 26 Family Stories Workshop: Creating Narratives from Family Records. Margaret Cooley will give a talk and teach a workshop on how she began without any records, stories or photographs and found enough information to recreate a family story and write a book, The McQueeneys: From…
There is so much to do at Whiskies of the World in San Jose! Meeting whisky distillers, owners, and brand ambassadors as you taste and experience their finest spirits from around the world. Included in the admission is a two hour tasting experience starting at 6:00PM or 8:10PM, a souvenir…
Benefiting Breast Cancer Emergency Fund Whiskies of the World gathers the world’s most fascinating distilled spirits along with their makers and ambassadors to give its guests an opportunity to sample, learn and experience a night of delicious spirited fun. The 18th Expo will be on the SF Belle Hornblower Yacht…
Irish Culture Bay Area Special Offer! Buy one ticket, get one free (enter IRISH at checkout) “Daughter of a Garbageman” is a tale of Maureen Langan’s 1970’s upbringing in New Jersey. Her Irish mother and Bronx-born father, a New York City sanitation worker, told her to work hard, get educated…
It is time for the IIPC Spring Sports Day!!! Join the Irish Immigration Pastoral Center next Sunday, April 2 from 1.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m. Sports Day will take place at George Washington Grove in Golden Gate Park (enter at Lincoln & 25th Avenue). All are welcome to join - families, with or without kids,…
Sunday, April 2nd, 1-3pm Join Irish-American Crossroads for this seventh annual event honoring the life histories of participants in the Irish Oral History Archive of the San Francisco Bay Area, a project of Irish-American Crossroads. Bring the whole family to this wonderful event! United Irish Cultural Center, St. Francis Room…
The Memory Stick, SJ Stage • April 5-30 WORLD PREMIERE, international co-sponsored co-production by San Jose Stage Company and Dublin City Arts Office. Written by Donal O'Kelly, award-winning Irish playwright and actor. Cultures collide when Bridget, a young Chicagoan, meets a Lakota Sioux and a fellow American from Jersey on…
Join Dubliner David Nihill for a great night of laughter for an even greater cause! For one night only thanks to Argonaut we have access to the old Avalon Ballroom, which hosted bands like Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, The Doors, and the Steve Miller Band. It’s a really cool space…
The Memory Stick, SJ Stage • April 5-30 WORLD PREMIERE, international co-sponsored co-production by San Jose Stage Company and Dublin City Arts Office. Written by Donal O'Kelly, award-winning Irish playwright and actor. Cultures collide when Bridget, a young Chicagoan, meets a Lakota Sioux and a fellow American from Jersey on…
The Memory Stick, SJ Stage • April 5-30 WORLD PREMIERE, international co-sponsored co-production by San Jose Stage Company and Dublin City Arts Office. Written by Donal O'Kelly, award-winning Irish playwright and actor. Cultures collide when Bridget, a young Chicagoan, meets a Lakota Sioux and a fellow American from Jersey on…
The Memory Stick, SJ Stage • April 5-30 WORLD PREMIERE, international co-sponsored co-production by San Jose Stage Company and Dublin City Arts Office. Written by Donal O'Kelly, award-winning Irish playwright and actor. Cultures collide when Bridget, a young Chicagoan, meets a Lakota Sioux and a fellow American from Jersey on…
Irish Literary & Historical Society Speaker Series • April 23 The Irish Literary & Historical Society welcomes Irish Consul General Philip Grant on April 23rd. He will speak on Ireland and Brexit and the looming challenges facing Ireland’s economic and political integration with Europe amidst her deep ties with the…
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