Robert Emmett Day in Golden Gate
Irish Music and Dancing at the Music Concourse (Bandshell) near the Academy of Sciences in the Golden Gate Park.
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ILHS Speaker Series: Micheline Sheehy Skeffington
Micheline Sheehy Skeffington • Sunday, November 12 Hanna and Francis Sheehy Skeffington, nationalists, pacifists, feminists, socialists: their role in early 20th century Ireland National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway) Professor Emerita Micheline Sheehy Skeffington will speak on the US organizing activities and political legacy of her grandmother, Hanna…
Join the Wren Boys, Sunset, SF
Wrenboys • Annual December 26th Celebration Wren Day, also known as Wren’s Day, Day of the Wren, or Hunt the Wren Day (Irish: Lá an Dreoilín), is celebrated on 26 December, St. Stephen’s Day. The tradition consists of “hunting” a fake wren and putting it on top of a decorated…
ILHS Speaker Series: Tom Clancy
The January 28 ILHS program will feature independent scholar Tom Clancy, who will explore the recent history of Ireland in his lecture titled “Go, move, shift: Exploring Irish cultural changes through ten songs“. Clancy will discuss a number of key songs, their singers, writers and contexts from Ireland’s folk and…
Crossroads Festival: Indigenous-Irish Relationships
La Peña Cultural Center 3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States"A Dialogue About Indigenous-Irish Relationships and Building Solidarity on Ohlone Land" Co-Sponsored with: Sogorea Te’ Land Trust. This event is an Irish community fundraiser for the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, highlighting the campaign to save the West Berkeley Shellmound while considering local and global relationships between Irish and American Indian…
James Silas Rogers: Irish-American Autobiography, Koret SF
San Francisco Main Library Civic Center, 100 Larkin Street, San FranciscoExploration with James Silas Rogers • Mar 11 Is there still a distinct Irish identity in America? James Rogers’ new book, Irish-American Autobiography: the Divided Hearts of Athletes, Priests, Pilgrims and More, says yes, though it’s often an indirect one. True, the age of heroic immigration is over, and today…
ILHS St. Patrick’s Banquet, UICC
ILHS St. Patrick's Banquet • Mar 11 The Literary & History Society's Saint Patrick's Banquet this year commemorates the SF Irish Labor Movement, honoring former ILHS Board Chairman Edward Callanan. Tickets and information at ilhssf.org or email event chair Maureen Barry
Experiences of Chinese Diplomat in Dublin
United Irish Cultural Center, San Francisco 2700 45th Ave, San Francisco, CA, United StatesExperiences of Chinese Diplomat Luo Linquan • April 15 On Sunday, April 15th, Luo Linquan will speak about his experiences as Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Ireland and as Chinese Consul General in San Francisco, UICC, 5pm. Experiences of Chinese Diplomat Luo Linquan in Dublin and…
Kate Kennedy Remembrance • Colma
Colma 1370 El Camino Real,, Colma, CA, United StatesKate Kennedy Remembrance • June 3 Kate Kennedy Remembrance: A tribute to a 19th Century Champion for Women’s Rights and Workers’ Rights. Sunday, June 3, 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM, Cypress Lawn Cemetery, Colma Sponsored by Irish Marvels Past and Present, the United Irish Cultural Center and the United Irish…
ReJoyce, Edinburgh Castle 1-5pm
Edinburgh Castle 950 Geary Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesReJoyce A Celebration of James Joyce with dramatic readings and song. Saturday June 16th 1-5pm Edinburgh Castle 950 Geary St. Sponsored by the Anna Livia Players More info: 415-728-8573
Bloomsday at Mrs. Dalloway’s
Mrs. Dalloway's 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesBloomsday at Mrs. Dalloway’s Thomas Lynch reads from James Joyce’s “Ulysses.” 2 p.m. Mrs. Dalloway’s, 2904 College Ave., Berkeley. www.mrsdalloways.com
Bloomsday @ Mechanics, SF
Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United StatesMusic, Readings, and Cuisine! Eat, Drink, Read, 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, and John Ilyin accompanied by Anne Goess on violin and others! This…
Opening Reception Exhibit of Irish Fair 1898 Posters
United Irish Cultural Center, San Francisco 2700 45th Ave, San Francisco, CA, United States“A Place For All Things Irish”, sponsored by the UICC, held at UICC, date is 8/16/, 6 pm, it is-opening night reception of an exhibit of posters telling the story of the Irish San Francisco Societies and their dream of building an Irish Hall including the Irish Fair of 1898.
Robert Emmet Commemoration
United Irish Cultural Center, San Francisco 2700 45th Ave, San Francisco, CA, United States“Let no man write my epitaph: for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them. Let them and me repose in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times, and other men, can do justice to my character; when my country takes her place…
Robert Emmet Commemoration
Golden Gate Park, Band Concourse 75 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr, San Francisco, CA, United States“Let no man write my epitaph: for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them. Let them and me repose in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times, and other men, can do justice to my character; when my country takes her place…
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The Cripple of Inishmaan
SCU•Presents Mayer Theatre Corner of Franklin & Lafayette, Santa Clara, CA, United StatesLimited Time Offer: Buy 1 ticket, Get 1 free for a friend using the code IRISHFESTBOGO. Offer expires Oct 26. Before becoming an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, McDonagh was an award-winning playwright. This Irish dark comedy takes place on the remote Aran Islands off the coast…
$10 – $20
ILHS Speaker Series: Klondike Mike
United Irish Cultural Center, San Francisco 2700 45th Ave, San Francisco, CA, United StatesILHS: Talk by Claudia O’Callaghan November 18 @ 5:00 pm A talk by Claudia O’Callaghan titled “Klondike Mike, an Alaskan Oddyssey”. This year marks the 220th Anniversary of the Klondike Gold Rush, which consisted of 3 movements: The Klondike Rush (Yukon Territory) 1896 -1899, the Nome Rush (1899 – 1909)…
$5
Irish Marvels Past and Present, UICC
United Irish Cultural Center, San Francisco 2700 45th Ave, San Francisco, CA, United StatesA 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,…
“Irish 49ers” at the UICC
CA, United StatesJoin 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…
$10
Family History Research Training
Menlo Park Family History Center 1107 Valparaiso Avenue, Menlo Park, CA, United StatesCome 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.
ILHS Speaker Series on Aviation Pioneer Daniel Maloney
United Irish Cultural Center, San Francisco 2700 45th Ave, San Francisco, CA, United StatesEvelyn 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…
Tell Your Family’s Story
United Irish Cultural Center, San Francisco 2700 45th Ave, San Francisco, CA, United StatesA 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 StatesJoin 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 StatesVisual 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…
CALENDAR SPONSORED IN PART BY THE CONSULATE GENERAL OF IRELAND, SAN FRANCISCO