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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

On McBride’s “A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing” UC Berkeley

UC Berkeley, Wheeler Hall 322 Wheeler Hall, Berkeley, CA, United States

Join 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  …

Free

Irish Writers at Bay Area Book Festival

The Auditorium at Berkeley City College 2050 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, United States

Irish Writers at Bay Area Book Festival • April 28 Breaking Literary Ground: Ambitious Young Writers from Ireland features Eimear McBride, David Hayden, and Liz Nugent, April 28, 10am For the third year in a row, the festival showcases some of today’s most powerful writers who come from our land…

Jess Kidd / MR. FLOOD’S LAST RESORT

Book Passage Corte Madera, CA, United States

Maud Drennan is a dedicated caregiver whose sunny disposition masks a deep sadness. A tragic childhood event left her haunted, in the company of a cast of prattling saints who pop in and out of her life like tourists. Other than visiting her agoraphobic neighbor, Maud keeps to herself, finding…

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Helena Byrne • UICC

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

Following the release of her third studio album ‘Tóraíocht Shonais’ (Pursuit of Happiness), Helena returns to North America in May with her new show ‘The Pursuit of Happiness’. Helena delves into the music, superstitions & folklore of Ireland, alongside incredible stories of Irish emigration through the ages; the Great Famine,…

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…

ILHS Speaker Series, Carl Nolte

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

ILHS Speaker Series 2018 • Sep 30 Carl Nolte on his life and career in San Francisco – “From Portrero Hill to Fifth & Mission” Carl Nolte began his long journalistic career in San Francisco in 1961. Since then he has observed and reported on some of the biggest news…

The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde, Arion Press SF

Arion Press 1802 Hays Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

  Check out the exquisite new publication of  The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde, with an introduction by Merlin Holland, Wilde’s grandson, at Presidio-based fine press book publisher Arion Press. Artist Sandow Birk will talk about his illustrations, which put a very modern-day twist into these 130-year-old tales. The deluxe…

Free

Emer Martin: ILHS Speaker Series

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

The ILHS presents writer Emer Martin, who will speak about her widely acclaimed new novel The Cruelty Men, a sweeping multi-generational account of an Irish-speaking family who moved from Kerry to the Meath Gaeltacht and the disasters that befall their children in Irish institutions. Sunday, Jan 27th, 5pm at the UICC,…

ILHS Speaker Series: Irish in Australia, Mairéid Sullivan

The Marker 501 Geary Street (at Taylor), San Francisco, CA, United States

ILHS Celebrates Irish Diaspora of Australia on March 10 with Mairéid Sullivan, author, singer/song writer and historian– West Cork born, San Francisco raised, and Australian citizen Irish Literary and Historical Society of San Francisco will team with Mairéid Sullivan to present the storied Irish diaspora of Australia at a luncheon…

$65

YMTC presents musical “A Man of No Importance”

El Cerrito High School Performing Arts Theater 540 Ashbury Avenue, El Cerrito, CA, United States

Youth Musical Theater Company (YMTC) continues its 14th season with A Man of No Importance. The show opens Saturday, March 9, at the El Cerrito High School Performing Arts Theater. Set in Dublin, Ireland, A Man of No Importance is from the same artistic team who created Ragtime. Alfie Byrne…

$16 – $32

YMTC presents musical “A Man of No Importance” 2pm

El Cerrito High School Performing Arts Theater 540 Ashbury Avenue, El Cerrito, CA, United States

Youth Musical Theater Company (YMTC) continues its 14th season with A Man of No Importance. The show opens Saturday, March 9, at the El Cerrito High School Performing Arts Theater. Set in Dublin, Ireland, A Man of No Importance is from the same artistic team who created Ragtime. Alfie Byrne…

$16 – $32

Poetry Flash presents Susan Millar DuMars and Austin Smith

Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley, United States

Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Susan Millar DuMars and Austin Smith. Irish-American poet Susan Millar DuMars is visiting from Ireland for this reading. Her new book of poems is Naked: New and Selected. Poetry Ireland Review says, “Her poetry, influenced by the directness of the American tradition, comes as a breath of fresh…

Poetry at Whitney

Whitney Modern 24 N Santa Cruz Ave, Los Gatos, CA, United States

Celebrate national poetry month with Whitney Modern, and hear Montalvo Lucas Artist Fellow and former Santa Clara County Poet Laureate, Sally Ashton, read from her latest book of poems, The Behaviour of Clocks, which uses Einstein’s famous thought experiments to transcend poetic inquiry into time and memory. Thought inducing poetry…

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…

ILHS Speaker Series: David Emmons

United Irish Cultural Center 2700 45th Avenue, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, United States

Join distinguished historian and Professor, David Emmons, as he returns to ILHS and shares excerpts from his upcoming manuscript, tentatively titled: Fosterland: Irish Catholics in Protestant America, 1830-1930. Emmons is the author of two prize winning Irish American books: The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town and Beyond…

Chang-Rae Lee & Eavan Boland

Levinthal Hall 424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA, United States

Join authors Chang-Rae Lee and Dublin-born Eavan Boland, as they discuss diasporic literature.  Both authors share inspirational stories of emigration, and will lecture on their impressions of diasporic literature, culture, and experience.  This free event is held at Levinthal Hall, Stanford, on May 1.

Criminally Good Writing at Bay Area Book Festival

Brower Center 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Three celebrated Irish writers – Mike McCormack (Solar Bones); Catherine Ryan Howard (Distress Signals) and Emilie Pine (Notes to Self) – join the Bay Area Book Festival lineup for “Writing Irish” (1pm). Crime writer Catherine Ryan Howard takes part in “Criminally Good Writing” at (10am).

Writing Irish

Brower Center 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

The Bay Area Book Festival invites you to Writing Irish. Three celebrated Irish writers join the Festival this year. Award winning, Mike McCormack, and author of  "Solar Bones," is joined by Catherine Ryan Howard, author of thriller, "Distress Signals", with Emilie Pine, author of heartfelt, "Notes to Self".  If you…

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

Bloomsday Celebration: A Reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses

David Brower Center, Tamalpais Room 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, United States

Irish Studies at Berkeley presents a Bloomsday Celebration To celebrate Bloomsday, the day on which Ulysses is set, Professors from UC Berkeley’s English Department will read passages from James Joyce's famous novel. Introduced by Catherine Flynn and also featuring Dan Blanton, Joshua Gang, Mark Goble, Donna Jones, Katie Synder, and…

Free

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…

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