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ReJoyce, Edinburgh Castle 1-5pm

Edinburgh Castle 950 Geary Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

ReJoyce 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 States

Bloomsday 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 States

Music, 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…

FREE

The Cripple of Inishmaan

SCU•Presents Mayer Theatre Corner of Franklin & Lafayette, Santa Clara, CA, United States

  Limited 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 States

ILHS: 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 States

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,…

“Irish 49ers” at the UICC

CA, United States

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…

$10

Family History Research Training

Menlo Park Family History Center 1107 Valparaiso Avenue, Menlo Park, CA, United States

  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.

ILHS Speaker Series on Aviation Pioneer Daniel Maloney

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

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…

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.

Free

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…

Free

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…

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