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…
In 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…
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. Glen Gendzel, San Jose State University historian, looks at the rollercoaster career of Tom Maguire, son of New York Irish pre-Famine immigrants. Maguire was an illiterate taxi driver when he joined the California Gold Rush. He then rose to the top of the theater business in…
In 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…
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…
In partnership with Hinterland. What do you do if you don't like public speaking and you have to speak in public? You hide in a closet, right? Not if you're Dave Nihill. Instead you learn to be a stand-up comedian. You keep at it until you win one of the…
In partnership with Hinterland. In 2017, the town of Kells inherited a mothballed printing works in which lurked some rare and precious 19th century offset machines. They are now at the centre of The Printworks (a Mark Smith project) where 21st century types (pun intended) will come to learn and…
A special group of Irish men and women have been responsible for the preservation of the tradition of Irish ballad singing over the past 50 years. Derek Warfield is a distinguished name among them. Derek Warfield and The Young Wolfe Tones are bringing that musical tradition forward with a reverence…
"A Winter Gift" is presented by three of the premier Celtic Harpists in the world. Patrick Ball, Lisa Lynne & Aryeh Frankfurter perform Celtic legends, along with Irish and English literature woven together with beloved and rare pieces of holiday music. It is a blend of music and oratory, falling…
A chairde, Please join us on Friday, December 6th at the Consulate General of Ireland, San Francisco for a festive #IrelandinSF Speaker Series & Networking Breakfast! This month we are thrilled to welcome Professor Noel O' Connor and Mr. Damien Breen. Professor O'Connor is visiting us from Ireland and is the Interim CEO of Insight the SFI Research…
Women in Leadership Luncheon 2019 - The Ireland Funds, Progress through Philanthropy Honorary Speaker Mary Ricks President Kennedy Wilson Mary Ricks is President of Kennedy Wilson, a global real estate company headquartered in Beverly Hills, California with over $16 billion in assets under management. Mary oversees Kennedy Wilson’s investment activities,…
The 5th Irish Christmas Hooley will take place on Saturday, December 7th, at the Rotary Summit Center operated by the Fairmont Hotel in downtown San Jose. Join the party for dinner, dancing, craic agus ceol! More information and tickets here: http://bit.ly/Hooley2019. Questions, contact [email protected].
The Celtic Society of the Monterey Bay is pleased to present the 14th Annual Winterdance, an evening of festive music, song and dance performed by Molly's Revenge, with special guest vocalists and Irish dancers. The performance will include Christmas songs, old and new, all played with a Celtic twist. The performance…
The Celtic Society of the Monterey Bay is pleased to present a concert with guitarist extraordinaire and singer/songwriter John Doyle, along with former bandmate Mick McAuley, on Thursday, Dec. 12, 7:30PM at Michael’s On Main in Soquel. If you are interested in Irish music at all, you'll surely know the…
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