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Tell Your Family’s Story

United Irish Cultural Center, San Francisco 2700 45th Ave, San Francisco, CA, United States

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…

Oral Histories of the Irish in San Francisco

CA, United States

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…

Lecture: Political Imagery and Bonfires in Northern Ireland

UC Berkeley, 201 Moses Hall CA, United States

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 & Ireland @SF Main Library

San Francisco Public Library 100 Larkin St., San Francisco, CA, United States

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…

Free

Kate Kennedy Remembrance

Cypress Lawn Cemetery El Camino Real, Colma, CA, United States

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.

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Celebrating JFK @ UICC

United Irish Cultural Center, San Francisco 2700 45th Ave, San Francisco, CA, United States

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]

Opening Night of Eugene O’Neill Festival, Danville

Danville, CA Danville, CA, United States

  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…

Brave Hearts – A San Francisco Story. Reading & Wine Tasting at UICC

United Irish Cultural Center, San Francisco 2700 45th Ave, San Francisco, CA, United States

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…

Robert Emmet, Irish Patriot (Lecture)

United Irish Cultural Center, San Francisco 2700 45th Ave, San Francisco, CA, United States

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…

Free

Robert Emmet Commemoration (Golden Gate Park)

Golden Gate Park, Band Concourse 75 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr, San Francisco, CA, United States

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…

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DeValera in San Francisco: 100 years of Ireland and California (1919 – 2019)

San Francisco Historical Society 608 Commercial Street, San Francisco, CA 94111 608 Commercial Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

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.…

$20

Alison Hart reading, Fairfax

The Indie Alley 69 Bolinas Road, Fairfax, CA, United States

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…

James Joyce and the Matter of Paris, City Lights

City Lights 261 Columbus Ave , San Francisco, CA, United States

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…

Irish Revolution History- Dr. Myles Dungan

Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United States

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…

Douglas Hyde in California

UC Berkeley, Wheeler Hall 322 Wheeler Hall, Berkeley, CA, United States

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…

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Irish Revolution History- Dr. Myles Dungan

Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United States

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…

Irish Revolution History- Dr. Myles Dungan

Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United States

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…

Irish Revolution History- Dr. Myles Dungan

Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United States

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…

#IrelandinSF Speaker Series & Networking Breakfast

Consulate General of Ireland, San Francsico 100 Pine Street, Suite 3350, San Francisco, CA, United States

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…

Free

The Waterboys: O’Shaughnessy, Mulholland and the Delivery of ‘Liquid Gold’

Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United States

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…

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The Irish of the Comstock Lode

Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United States

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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The Alpha Male in Irish History

Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United States

In partnership with Hinterland. Irish historian and broadcaster Myles Dungan on 'How to Keep Great Irish Women Down (temporarily)' -- a tongue-in-cheek survey of Irish 'alpha' males from Charles Stewart Parnell to the prurient and relentless Roman Catholic Archbishop John Charles McQuaid. Daniel Cassidy was a much-loved musician, and academic…

$10

Tom Maguire: An Irish Impresario in 19th Century San Francisco

Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United States

In partnership with Hinterland. Glen Gendzel, San Jose State University historian, looks at the rollercoaster career of Tom Maguire, son of New York Irish pre-Famine immigrants. Maguire was an illiterate taxi driver when he joined the California Gold Rush. He then rose to the top of the theater business in…

$10

Slow Printing in a Digital World

Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United States

In partnership with Hinterland. In 2017, the town of Kells inherited a mothballed printing works in which lurked some rare and precious 19th century offset machines. They are now at the centre of The Printworks (a Mark Smith project) where 21st century types (pun intended) will come to learn and…

$10

SF Irish Film Festival – Irish DocFest

Delancey Street Theater San Francisco, CA, United States

4.00 PM   Shooting the Darkness – Tom Burke (52 mins) “Photographers don’t take sides, they take pictures.” A powerful new documentary about the men who unwittingly became war photographers on the streets of their own Northern Irish towns. They did not leave home in search of war and adventure: the…

$16

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