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IRISH & CELTIC STUDIES
Irish Studies at Berkeley Celebrates Robert and Rebecca Tracy
UC Berkeley, Wheeler Hall 322 Wheeler Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesIrish Connections: Celebrating the Contributions of Robert and Rebecca Tracy to Irish Studies at Berkeley and Beyond We hope that you will join us on Thursday, March 22nd for a "Irish Connections: A Celebration of the Contributions of Robert and Rebecca Tracy to Irish Studies at Berkeley and in the Bay Area." …
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On McBride’s “A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing” UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley, Wheeler Hall 322 Wheeler Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesJoin the Irish Studies Program at UC Berkeley for an engaging conversation with Paige Reynolds on Eimear McBride's recent novel, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing (2013) FALSE COMFORT: SEX, PRAYER AND MODERNISM IN EIMEAR MCBRIDE'S A GIRL IS A HALF-FORMED THING April 16 5-6:30 pm 300 Wheeler Hall UC Berkeley campus …
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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
Present & Future of the Irish Language, Berkeley
Townsend Center for the Humanities Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, United StatesWhat is the state of the Irish language in a globalized world? Long under threat, Irish has rebounded in recent decades, thriving as a community and literary language while serving as Ireland's official language and an official language of the European Union. While Irish remains a crucial marker of cultural…
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
Hollow Hills & Holy Places: A Celtic Reflection, San Jose
Center for Spiritual Living San Jose 1195 Clark Street, San Jose, CA, CA, United StatesHOLLOW HILLS & HOLY PLACES: A CELTIC REFLECTION ON JUSTICE IN OUR MODERN WORLD Join brothers Owen & Mícheál (Moley) O'Súilleabháin for an evening of entertainment and education using music, conversation, innocence, life experience and wicked Irish humor to bring thousands of years of Celtic tradition to bear on our…
$40 – $65
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…
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 StatesPresented 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
Douglas Hyde in California
UC Berkeley, Wheeler Hall 322 Wheeler Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesTo 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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#IrelandinSF Speaker Series & Networking Breakfast
Consulate General of Ireland, San Francsico 100 Pine Street, Suite 3350, San Francisco, CA, United StatesA 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…
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The Alpha Male in Irish History
Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn 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
The Irresistible Rise of the Type Trail
Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn partnership with Hinterland. Kells-based artist (via the far less chic location of Paris) Mark Smith will discuss the first decade of a unique project combining type, linguistics, art installation, and lots of walking. The annual Kells Type Trail -- a multilingual extravaganza of creative design based on the Irish…
$10
Celts, Kilts and Croatians
Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn partnership with Hinterland. How the Clash met the Clancy Brothers and gave birth to the Pogues, and what strange Fairy Tales of New York followed. Jim Lockhart -- the legendary Horslips Celtic-rock multi-instrumental frontman, long-time music producer, and all-round good egg, offers his take on the development of a…
$15
James Joyce and Paris
Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn partnership with Hinterland. James Joyce arrived in Paris to study medicine in 1902, with orders from his parents to return home for Christmas. A discouraging start to what became an extraordinary relationship between man and city. In James Joyce and the Matter of Paris, UC Berkeley Professor of English,…
$10
The Cruelty Men: Irish Novel of the Year, 2019
Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn partnership with Hinterland. Emer Martin is a true renaissance woman (adult writer, children's writer, artist, filmmaker). Her fourth novel, The Cruelty Men, was nominated for Irish Novel of the Year 2019, and was described by Irvine Welsh as 'a tidal wave that drags you like a piece of debris…
$10
Brexit — An Irish Perspective
Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn partnership with Hinterland. The UK has a Halloween appointment with destiny. If that manifests as a 'no deal' implosion, Boris's trick is unlikely to be Ireland's treat. Ireland's San Francisco Consul General Robert O'Driscoll, Derryman Matt Regan (Senior VP Government Relations with the BAYAREA Council), and Irish journalist and…
$15
Adapting Lying in Wait
Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United Statesn partnership with Hinterland. The theatrical adaptation sessions of Matt Spangler (The Kite Runner) have become a feature of the Hinterland (Kells) festival. This time it's slightly different in that Matt only has to travel from Mountain View to explain how he would approach adapting Liz Nugent's chiller Lying in…
$10
Liz Nugent — Public Interview
Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn partnership with Hinterland. With her debut novel Unravelling Oliver mystery writer Liz Nugent made a spectacular entrance onto the Irish and international literary stage. She followed up with Lying In Wait and Skin Deep, and her books have all been number one bestsellers. She has been long-listed for the…
$15
Horslips and Shamrock’n’roll
Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn partnership with Hinterland. Irish music -- where it has come from, how it's been developing, why Sinéad (O'Connor of course) sings sean-nós, and how Horslips fit into the story. The second instalment of Irish musical legend, Jim Lockhart's musings on the 'Long March' of modern Irish popular music, and…
$15
The Short Stories of Ethel Rohan
Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn partnership with Hinterland. As well as being an accomplished novelist -- her 2017 debut, The Weight of Him was a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book -- Ethel Rohan is also a master of that very Irish (and Russian, and American) format, the short story. She has two well-received short…
$10
Adapting STRIKING BACK
Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn partnership with Hinterland. Kellie Hughes (Irish theatre director) and Matt Spangler (The Kite Runner) discuss their stage adaptation of Mary Manning's saga of her role in the 1984 anti-Apartheid supermarket produce strike, a creative process that began at Hinterland (Kells) in 2018, and moved forward with a rehearsed reading…
$15
The Inner Triple Spiral at Brú na Bóinne (Newgrange)
United Irish Cultural Center, San Francisco 2700 45th Ave, San Francisco, CA, United StatesNewgrange is one of the most celebrated buildings in Ireland. Built on the River Boyne over five thousand years ago, it is older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian Pyramids. It was underground for much of that five thousand years, but the people kept its memory alive in stories about the…
$5.00
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