The Festival in Danville, California, and San Francisco features 4 plays, a concert, and other events. Long Day's Journey Into Night is performed Sept. 14-29, at Tao House, where it was written. Other plays: The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, Aug. 30-Sept. 15, at Village Theatre, Danville The Second Girl…
Internationally acclaimed novelist Emma Donoghue writes poignant, gripping fiction drawn from both history and newsprint. Don’t miss her September visit for a new book built around the bones of WWII. Dublin-born Donoghue is perhaps best known for Room, about a kidnapped woman held captive with a young son. A runaway bestseller, Room’s…
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…
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…
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 conversation with Heidi Julavits Sally Rooney “writes about tricky commonplace things (text messages, sex) with a familiarity no one else has” (The Paris Review). Her novels Conversations with Friends and Normal People, are nuanced portraits of people in their twenties, exploring their relationships to one another and the structures of class, abuse, and intimacy. Born…
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. Mary Manning knew virtually nothing about apartheid in South Africa when, at the age of 21, she carried out a directive of her union and refused to 'ring up' the sale of two Outspan oranges. She was suspended by Dunne's Stores and nine of her co-workers…
In 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…
In 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…
Celebrate Bloomsday online with readings from James Joyce's Ulysses by Berkeley faculty and members of the Irish and Irish-American community in Dublin, Los Angeles, Seattle, and the Bay Area. Host Catherine Flynn will situate each reading in the Dublin of 1904. This event is co-organized by the UC Berkeley Irish…
Join the UC Berkeley Irish Studies Program for a reading and Q&A with acclaimed Irish author Mike McCormack. McCormack will read from his prize-winning novel Solar Bones (2018 International Dublin Literary Award, winner of the 2016 Goldsmith Prize, and the 2017 Booker nominee) along with excerpts from his sci-fi side…
'Christmas Card from San Francisco' Saturday, December 19th, 8pm Irish time (12:00 noon PST) IN THIS WORLD OF SOCIAL DISTANCING, WHERE MANY OF US CANNOT MAKE IT HOME TO BE WITH OUR LOVED ONES THIS YEAR, LET US GET TOGETHER AND CELEBRATE WHAT IT IS TO BE "IRISH" AT CHRISTMAS…
A virtual gathering of inspiration, music & conversation live from the west coast of Ireland with bestselling Irish author Ruairí McKiernan. About this Event Chelsea Green Publishing is proud to partner with the United Irish Cultural Center in San Francisco to bring you this free virtual event with acclaimed author,…
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…
Salon will be hosted by West Coast writer Lori Cassels. The event will feature a sample of "Ghosts of Tao House," a filmed theatre series initiated in response to the pandemic, presented by Eric Fraisher Hayes, Artistic Director of Eugene O'Neill Foundation's Tao House in Northern California.Other presenters include writers…
Collective life and individual subjectivity are increasingly routed through and constituted by data and digital space. Meanwhile, the use of AI increases in nearly every domain of human endeavor. How are areas of culture that we understand to be deeply human—the arts, creativity, the humanities—reshaping and reshaped by ever-improving forms of machine intelligence? How can theater…
Host Eric Falci (Professor of English, UC Berkeley) will talk with Catherine Flynn (Irish Studies at UC Berkeley), co-members of the podcast team Rafael Aguilar and Emily Moell, and guests including Irish Ambassador Dan Mulhall and Professor Robert Spoo (University of Tulsa) to celebrate the launch of U22: The Centenary…
Our featured author for the Reading Room is Claire Keegan, originally from Co. Wicklow who is known for her award-winning short stories. We will discuss her latest work, Small Things Like These, a novella published in 2021, a tale of one man’s courage and a remarkable portrait of love and family. Join us on…
Ireland has been the source of some of the most exhilarating and subversive new fiction in recent years, and these are three of its shining stars. Claire-Louise Bennett made a splash with her debut collection, Pond, and more than delivers on its promise with Checkout 19, a narratively unconventional novel featuring a…
Here’s a Halloween treat for you! Round up the little ones and start your Halloween weekend off with some fantastic online storytelling to get everyone in the Halloween spirit. No stranger to the UICC programming line-up and eager to make her return to our community, Máire derives the stories she…
Sponsored by Center for the Art of Translation Co-presented by Culture Ireland, Consulate General of Ireland San Francisco, and Irish Culture Bay Area Litquake is thrilled to be able to feature one of Ireland's major rising literary stars, Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi, in this event which emphasizes her recent anthology Writing…
A Community Outreach Program of the Irish Immigration Pastoral Center, the Reading Room on Thursday, December 1 at 7:00 p.m. features a newly released work 'Trespasses' by Louise Kennedy. A historical fiction novel set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, Louise Kennedy’s debut novel is bursting with love, loyalty, and…
As St. Brigid is the patron of poets and scholars and Imbolc aligns with a publication milestone and birthday of James Joyce, what better time to bring in Joyce scholar Michael James Fallon to discuss the abridgement of that infamous, eponymous tome, the legendary classic of modern Irish literature. February…
Benefit Concert for The Center for Spiritual Living San José: An Evening of Celtic Poetry & Song to Celebrate Our Collective Resilience with Irish Brothers, Mícheál & Owen Ó Súilleabháin The brothers Ó Súilleabháin embody the Celtic creative spirit through an authentic and deeply moving performance that marries the mystical…
CALENDAR SPONSORED IN PART BY THE CONSULATE GENERAL OF IRELAND, SAN FRANCISCO
