Celebrate the life and work of Irish writer James Joyce by reading an excerpt from Ulysses or listening to others read. Be part of the worldwide Bloomsday celebrations held in Dublin, San Francisco and throughout the world. Readings will be limited to 5 minutes per person, more or less. Period…
Muses, Music and Dramatic Readings from James Joyce’s Ulysses Presented by the Mechanics' Institute, co-sponsored by The Irish Literary & Historical Society Sojourn though the streets of Dublin with Leopold Bloom and other characters featured in James Joyce’s quintessential novel Ulysses and other works. The evening includes dramatic readings and…
Mary Pat Kelly Reading From Of Irish Blood • June 25 It’s 1903. Nora Kelly, twenty-four, is talented, outspoken, progressive, and climbing the ladder of opportunity, until she falls for an attractive but dangerous man who sends her running back to the Old World her family had fled. Nora takes…
Poetry with Judy Wells & Dale Jensen, Berkeley • August 21 Judy Wells has published eleven collections of poetry including: I Dream of Circus Characters, Little Lulu Talks with Vincent Van Gogh, Call Home, and Everything Irish. She was recently honored to read at the San Francisco Crossroads Irish-American Festival…
The Crossroads Salon is a forum for writers/artists who have Irish or Irish-American heritages or are interested in exploring Irish-American themes, as well as for readers/viewers who want to participate in this exploration. This month’s Salon features Linda Norton who will read from her forthcoming work, Dark White. Crossroads Salon…
Ahead of LGBT history month, Irish writer Hilary McCollum explores the role of fiction and drama in reclaiming lost LGBT lives and filling in the gaps in LGBT history. Hilary's novel, Golddigger, spans the Irish famine and California gold rush. Available from Bella Books and Amazon. Visit www.hilarymccollum.com
This acclaimed new play from Northern Ireland uncovers the largely unknown but fascinating alliance between Welsh miners and the lesbian and gay community in Thatcher-era Britain. Beneath the heel of oppression, the two groups discover that standing together makes for the strongest union of all. These captivating historical events also…
Michael Parker on Seamus Heaney • October 6 "Facing the Music: Public Imperatives in Seamus Heaney's Late Poetry" A talk and presentation by Michael Parker, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Central Lancashire. Parker is wide-ranging scholar of modern and contemporary literature, who is completing a major…
Readings of Emma Donoghue's Work • Oct 8, 18 Word for Word Performing Arts Company is an ensemble whose mission is to tell great stories with elegant theatricality, staging performances of classic and contemporary fiction. On October 8, Word for Word presents “Night Vision” by Emma Donoghue. The first, is…
October 12 • From Hardback to Hollywood: The Expansive Career of Dennis Lehane Irish American author Dennis Lehane grew up in the Dorchester section of Boston. Since his first novel, A Drink Before the War, won the Shamus Award, he’s published nine more novels with William Morrow that have been…
Litquake 2015 • October 15 Original Shorts: Love-Hate one of Litquake 2015 events features Dubliner and SF resident Ethel Rohan. Ethel's first novel, The Kingdom Keeper, will publish from St. Martin’s Press in early 2017. She is also the author of two story collections, Goodnight Nobody and Cut Through the Bone, the…
October 8 - Jeanine Stevens - The Early Bards and Celtic Symbolism October 15 - Tony Kendrew - Three Welsh Thomases October 22 - Michael Gorman - Poetry, Druids and the Celtic Bardic Tradition October 29 - Maureen Hurley - Axe-Heads and Blind Poets: Anthony Rafery, The End of A…
Readings of Emma Donoghue's Work • Oct 8, 18 Word for Word Performing Arts Company is an ensemble whose mission is to tell great stories with elegant theatricality, staging performances of classic and contemporary fiction. On October 8, Word for Word presents “Night Vision” by Emma Donoghue. The first, is…
October 8 - Jeanine Stevens - The Early Bards and Celtic Symbolism October 15 - Tony Kendrew - Three Welsh Thomases October 22 - Michael Gorman - Poetry, Druids and the Celtic Bardic Tradition October 29 - Maureen Hurley - Axe-Heads and Blind Poets: Anthony Rafery, The End of A…
October 8 - Jeanine Stevens - The Early Bards and Celtic Symbolism October 15 - Tony Kendrew - Three Welsh Thomases October 22 - Michael Gorman - Poetry, Druids and the Celtic Bardic Tradition October 29 - Maureen Hurley - Axe-Heads and Blind Poets: Anthony Rafery, The End of A…
DATE CHANGED FROM OCTOBER 25 This month at the Irish Literary and Historical Society's monthly speaker series, Clare Moriarty will speak about "Berkeley’s Marvelous Mathematics". George Berkeley is undoubtedly Ireland’s most celebrated philosopher, but his role in the history of mathematics is less renowned. In a heated debate between the British and Continental…
Kathleen Walkup, Professor of Book Art, Mills College, Oakland presents a talk titled: Pulling the Devil by the Tail: Cuala Press, Elizabeth Corbet Yeats and the Ghost of Albert Bender on Sunday November 22 2015, UICC at 5pm One of the more iconic images in the history of printing is that…
Join us for the Crossroads Salon, a forum for writers/artists who have Irish or Irish-American heritages or are interested in exploring Irish-American themes, as well as for readers/viewers who want to participate in this exploration. This meeting of the Crossroads Salon will take place in Oakland near Lake Merritt on…
Wilde Irish Productions presents A dramatized staged reading of the James Joyce's masterpiece THE DEAD From his short story collection DUBLINERS We join Greta and Gabriel Conroy as they attend the annual Christmas party of their aunts the Misses Morkans in their home on Usher Island, Dublin. It is the Feast…
The James Connolly Easter Rising Tour 2016 - January 10th to 30th, 2016. Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore begin a year of celebration! James Connolly and the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising. From the publication of Songs of Freedom in 1907 to the declaration of the Irish Republic on…
Poetry Reading, Berkeley • January 15 Judy Wells was born in San Francisco and raised in Martinez, California. She taught writing and literature at Bay Area colleges before a career as an Academic Counselor in the School of Extended Education at Saint Mary’s College of California, and as a faculty…
22nd Annual Burns Night January 16, 2016 ~ 5 to 11 PM Mountain View Masonic Temple 890 Church Street, Mountain View Each January the South Bay Scottish Society hosts a traditional Burns Supper, carrying on the tradition started in Scotland to honor the birthday of Scotland's immortal bard. The typical…
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Discussion Group. Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - 6:45pm - 7:45pm This modernist bildungsroman traces the religious and intellectual evolution of Stephen Dedalus. Joyce’s debut novel uses literary techniques the author would develop further in his later works, and concerns the awakening…
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Discussion Group. Wednesday, February 24, 2016 – 6:45pm – 7:45pm This modernist bildungsroman traces the religious and intellectual evolution of Stephen Dedalus. Joyce’s debut novel uses literary techniques the author would develop further in his later works, and concerns the awakening and…
Word for Word‘s latest full production features stories by Emma Donoghue and Colm Tóibín at Z Space, Florida St. San Francisco, from Feb 24 – April 3. “Night Vision”, Directed by Becca Wolff Emma Donoghue’s “Night Vision”, from The Woman Who Gave Birth To Rabbits, tells of young, blind Frances…
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