A Brú na Bóinne (Newgrange) Riddle In this lecture, Jo Coffey will discuss Brú na Bóinne (Newgrange) which was built 5 millennia ago during a Golden Age in Ireland. The monument gives evidence of a high degree of social organization among a people who had sophisticated expertise in astronomy, architecture,…
Join the Irish Center community for a fun filled afternoon as they take a look at a unique history of the Gold Rush through the eyes of featured guest, Countess Lola Montez aka Rick Shelton, historian & performer, who will regale with her experiences as an Irish 49er, and entertain…
Come to a hands-on training session taught by Inge Harding-Barlow at the Menlo Park Family History Center. The session will cover researching family history in the UK and Ireland. There is no cost for the training sessions, but limited space available, so reserve a spot today.
Evelyn Rose, Project Director and Founder of the Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project, will share the amazing life story of Irish American San Francisco aviation pioneer Daniel John Maloney, ancestor of a well-known family in Noe Valley. He began his career as an aeronaut performing at the pleasuring grounds known…
A Workshop for writers, bloggers, and family historians, presented by the Irish-American Crossroad Festival takes place at the United Irish Cultural Center, Saturday, March 30th. Writer and blogger, Elizabeth Creely will show you how to tell your family’s story and map your family’s past using city directions, census data and…
Join Crossroads Irish American Festival on March 30th, for the annual festival Oral History event at the UICC, featuring guests who have shared their stories with the Archive. This year's interviewees include Paul Reynolds, born to Irish parents in Boston in 1928, and Ann Quinn, from Waterford, who settled in…
Visual displays play an important political role in Northern Ireland. They are often the most visible sign of sectarian division and attitudes in a society still marked by division thirty years after the end of the so-called ‘Troubles’. Violence still prevails in that country and sometimes it coalesces around Orange…
Eugene O’Neill, the only American playwright to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, told his son Eugene, Jr., that “The one thing that explains more than anything about me is the fact that I’m Irish. And, strangely enough,” O’Neill complained, “it is something that all the writers who have attempted…
Honoring an Immigrant and Pioneer champion of Women's rights and Workers' rights at her grave in Cypress Lawn Cemetery. Featured Speaker - Dennis Kelly, Past President of UESF. Meet inside entrance arch at Cypress Lawn East Side Gardens, 1363 El Camino Real, Colma. For further info, call 415-585-6506.
Join the Irish American Democratic Club in celebrating the life of John F. Kennedy, with Sheriff Vicki Hennessy and Roma Guy, Social Justice Activist . Supporting the Young Women’s Freedom Center, a radical model for decriminalization. more For more information, please contact Sharon at [email protected]
The 20th Annual Eugene O’Neill Festival takes place in Danville, August 24-September 29. The 2nd Annual Eugene O’Neill International Festival of Theatre takes place in New Ross, Ireland October 9 – 14. The Danville festival will feature three plays – Long Day’s Journey Into Night, The Glass Menagerie and The…
Fundraiser for the Patrick J. Dowling Library at the UICC, Wine Tasting & Book Event “Brave Hearts - A San Francisco Story - The Grit and Dreams of an Irish Immigrant Family” by Jean Mahoney Enjoy Jean Mahoney’s dramatic reading from her book, Brave Hearts. Brave Hearts is a vivid…
Noted Irish historian, Ruan O’Donnell, will share his insights on the life and times of Robert Emmet, leader of the 1803 Rebellion and author of his famous Speech from the Dock. This is the 100th year anniversary of the dedication of his statue in the band concourse in the Golden…
Join the United Irish Societies of San Francisco in commemorating the 100th anniversary of the dedication of Robert Emmet’s statue in the band concourse in the Golden Gate Park. The celebration will include a dramatic reading of his famous speech from the dock along with bag pipers, Irish music and…
Presented by the San Francisco Historical Society in association with the Consulate General of Ireland, Western United States For more information and TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devalera-in-san-francisco-100-years-of-ireland-and-california-1919-2019-tickets-70226989817 On 18th July, 1919, as part of a nationwide tour of the US, the self-styled “President of the Irish Republic,” Éamon DeValera travelled to San Francisco.…
Spanning four generations of a mixed-race family, Alison Hart’s debut novel Mostly White is a powerful tale of inter-generational trauma and the healing brought by wildness, music, and the resilience of women. The novel begins with Emma, who survives the abuse of an Indian residential school in 1890s Maine. Beaten…
In James Joyce and the Matter of Paris, Catherine Flynn recovers the paradigmatic city of European urban modernity as the foundational context of Joyce's imaginative consciousness. Beginning with Joyce's underexamined first exile in 1902–03, she shows the significance for his writing of the time he spent in Paris and of…
This four part series will take place every Monday starting October 14 and ending November 4th! Dr. Myles Dungan (PhD Trinity College, Dublin, 2012) will be leading the conversation. For three years (1919-1922), Irish radical nationalists took on the military might of the British Empire in an uneven struggle. This…
To mark the release of the new edition of "Douglas Hyde: My American Journey," the editors of Douglas Hyde's newly published diary and travelogue across North America shed light on his time and experiences at Berkeley and San Francisco and what they tell us about the local Irish community before…
This four part series will take place every Monday starting October 14 and ending November 4th! Dr. Myles Dungan (PhD Trinity College, Dublin, 2012) will be leading the conversation. For three years (1919-1922), Irish radical nationalists took on the military might of the British Empire in an uneven struggle. This…
This four part series will take place every Monday starting October 14 and ending November 4th. Dr. Myles Dungan (PhD Trinity College, Dublin, 2012) will be leading the conversation. For three years (1919-1922), Irish radical nationalists took on the military might of the British Empire in an uneven struggle. This…
This four part series will take place every Monday starting October 14 and ending November 4th! Dr. Myles Dungan (PhD Trinity College, Dublin, 2012) will be leading the conversation. For three years (1919-1922), Irish radical nationalists took on the military might of the British Empire in an uneven struggle. This…
A chairde, Please join us on Friday, November 8th at the Consulate General of Ireland, San Francisco for our #IrelandinSF Speaker Series & Networking Breakfast! We are delighted by how this networking initiative has brought together so many people from our community, both the well-established and- just as importantly- those newly arrived in the…
In partnership with Hinterland. The story of two Irish-born engineers, from very different backgrounds, who had a profound impact on the growth of California's two greatest cities -- by guaranteeing adequate supplies of water. One of California's leading historians and activists, Gray Brechin (Imperial San Francisco) will discuss the controversial…
Filmmaker Geordie Lynch tells the epic tale of how the discovery of silver in 1859 transformed San Francisco from a mining boomtown into a world-class metropolis. Geordie's presentation intersperses video clips from his documentary film-in-progress "City of White Gold" with a fascinating account of four Irishmen from humble origins who challenged…
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