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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
On September 19, 2020, a 39-year SF singing tradition goes virtual! This folk music “landmark” on the historic ships at Hyde Street Pier now returns online, hosting singers from across the Bay Area – and the country. Visit https://maritime.org/events-home/chantey-sing/ for details, including links to a signup sheet, info for lead…
The Consulate General of Ireland in San Francisco and the United Irish Cultural Center invite you to join us on 30 October at 4 pm PST, as we celebrate Halloween, and the start of winter with Clodagh Doyle, Keeper of the Irish Folklife Division of the National Museum of Ireland…
W.B. Yeats lived through some of the most consequential years in modern Irish history. Born just two years before the failed Fenian Rising of 1867, by the time he died on the eve of World War II, Ireland had become an independent republic in all but name. Yeats was no…
This 10th anniversary event features two participants of the Irish Oral History Archive of the San Francisco Bay Area: Geraldine Finn and Elizabeth Shaughnessy. Geraldine Finn is the Senior Director, People Strategy & Innovation at Twitter. Elizabeth Shaughnessy is an Irish chess player and trainer who regularly represents the national…
This Easter, Clifton House, the home of the Belfast Charitable Society and the original Poor House in Belfast, is running a special series of online talks at a time that would suit our American neighbours across the pond. Plots and Plotters, the history of the 1798 Rebellion will take place at 6pm, UK time (10am in…
This Easter, Clifton House, the home of the Belfast Charitable Society and the original Poor House in Belfast, is running a special series of online talks at a time that would suit our American neighbours across the pond. Plots and Plotters, the history of the 1798 Rebellion will take place at 6pm, UK time (10am in…
The lecture will examine the role played by John Hume, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and widely acknowledged to be the architect of the Good Friday Agreement, in transforming politics in Northern Ireland. His focus on relationships between the various protagonists challenged traditional ways of defining the conflict in Northern Ireland,…
This Easter, Clifton House, the home of the Belfast Charitable Society and the original Poor House in Belfast, is running a special series of online talks at a time that would suit our American neighbours across the pond. Plots and Plotters, the history of the 1798 Rebellion will take place at 6pm, UK time (10am in…
Series of FREE online Irish History Talks Online talks at 1pm and 7pm BST Hawaii (2am / 8am) , Alaska (4am / 10am), Pacific (5am / 11am), Mountain (6am / 12noon), Central (7am / 1pm) and Eastern (8am / 2pm). From 10th June 2021 to the 14th July 2021,…
Pathways Virtual Art Exhibition by Bernie Joyce Bernie Joyce is a a visual artist from Connemara. Her virtual exhibition Pathways was launched online Easter Sunday and will continue until the end of the year. It has been featured on the Board Fáilte and Discover Ireland websites. The exhibition focuses on…
On Sunday, September 12th, “San Patricios Day” will be put on at Wawona Gates by sponsoring organizations the United Irish Cultural Center, Dowling Library, Irish Culture Bay Area and the San Francisco Irish Mexican Association. The St. Patrick’s Battalion was made up of Irish conscripted soldiers who deserted the U.S.…
Get ready for Halloween by joining the SF Irish Consulate, United Irish Cultural Center, and Shaping San Francisco, Saturday 23 October 12–2pm for the "Valencia Street: Corridor to Colma" walking tour of San Francisco that revisits the history of Valencia Street when it was home to a dozen Irish funeral homes, and includes…
Annie Holland is an Irish artist/photographer and filmmaker (www.anniehollandart.com) Holland's photographic exhibition entitled “Children of The Free State” will be on display at the UICC in March 2022 as part of the St Patrick's celebrations and also to coincide with the centenary of the establishment of the Irish Free State…
The Hyde Street Pier chantey sing, normally on the 1st Saturday night of each month aboard the ferryboat Eureka, has switched date and time and is virtual throughout the pandemic, on the 3rd Saturday of each month, 11am-1pm. Sing along on chanteys and other songs of the sea in this…
August 22nd is the centenary of the death of Michael Collins during the Irish civil War. Collins was described by Arthur Griffith, the then Acting President of Dail Eireann (The Irish Parliament), as the man “who won the War of Independence for Ireland”. Local Irish historian, Sean Murphy, is offering…
August 22nd is the centenary of the death of Michael Collins during the Irish civil War. Collins was described by Arthur Griffith, the then Acting President of Dail Eireann (The Irish Parliament), as the man “who won the War of Independence for Ireland”. Local Irish historian, Sean Murphy, is offering…
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