The Irish Center is ready to celebrate Oktoberfest! Put on your Lederhosen & Dirndl and enjoy the Bavarian festivities! The night will include music by "The Internationals", games and dancing. The night will start at 5pm and end at midnight with live music from 6-11. Purchase tickets through the link…
Join us in Santa Cruz for Irish music, Irish dancing, and a community mixer, all in one action-packed fundraiser for the upcoming 2020 Comhaltas North American convention! For generations, the highlight of Irish social life was the Hooley. Music, dance, song, good conversation, and merriment flowing freely as described in…
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…
To 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…
The ninth annual Fairfax Irish Festival will be taking place October 18-20 in Fairfax's downtown area. There will be singers, Irish Dancers and musicians at different locations. Check out the link to see a detailed schedule with the locations for the different stages!
The Irish rock band is performing at the 19 Broadway Bar Night Club on Friday, October 18! Tickets are $15 through EventBrite.
Join The Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM) for an evening of community and celebration of The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma. Refreshments and appetizers will be served. All who have participated in CMBM programs or are interested in learning about our work are welcome.
The chart topping Celtic band, Gaelic Storm is coming to Berkeley on October 19. From bluegrass fans and country cowboys to Deadheads, rock & rollers and Celtic fanatics, Gaelic Storm has built one of the most diverse fan bases in modern music. See them at the Cornerstone in Berkeley on…
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…
Come and see The Celtic Tenors perform Irish classics and popular contemporary songs with some humorous banter intermixed. They will be performing at the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz on October 22! Tickets are available through EventBrite.
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…
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…
Every six months Dubliner David Nihill runs a comedy show featuring six headlining comedians with all proceeds going to NorCal SCI, a Bay Area-based 501c3 non-profit whose mission is to help people affected by or living with a Spinal Cord Injury/Disorder. The next one is 11/07 at La Peña Cultural…
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 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. 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…
In 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…
In 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,…
In partnership with Hinterland. Broadcaster Brian Murphy is almost as well-known to Irish sports fans as to San Franciscans. He is the sage and erudite 'US Murph' of the Second Captains podcast. As well as four hours a day 'on air' on KNBR Radio's 'Murph and Mac' morning show he…
In 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…
In 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…
n 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…
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