GAA Games on Big Screen at UICC Sunday, May 28, 2017. GAA Ulster Football Senior Championship: 6:00am Derry vs Tyrone GAA Leinster Hurling Championship: 8:00am Dublin vs Galway Doors Open at 5:45am Admission is $20.00 at the door for this game. Children are welcome and are free United Irish Cultural…
Celebrate JFK's 100th Birthday • May 28 Join Irish democrats and community leaders at a celebration reception on the 100th birthday of John F. Kennedy. Enjoy speakers and tributes at hosted reception that takes place from 3-5pm at the United Irish Cultural Center. Contact Eileen Kivlehan at [email protected]
Bay Area Book Festival • June 3 & 4 Over the weekend of June 3rd and 4th, 2017, the third annual Bay Area Book Festival will fill downtown Berkeley with a literary extravaganza that offers pleasure to anyone who has ever loved a book. Irish writers featured this year on…
Where cutting-edge marketers and creatives come to get their funny on! FunnyBizz is the only conference of its kind, bringing leading thinkers from the seemingly disparate worlds of comedy and business together to help the world stop synergizing its valueadds and learn to find its funny. Modern businesses succeed or…
Masquerade: Treason, the Holocaust, and an Irish Impostor - City Lights 7pm Phyllis Ursula James. Nora O’Mara. Róisín Ní Mhéara. Like her name, the life of Rosaleen James changed many times as she followed a convoluted path from abandoned child, to foster daughter of an aristocratic British family, to traitor…
Bloomsday with Thomas Lynch • Berkeley Lynch reads from James Joyce’s “Ulysses.” 2 p.m. Mrs. Dalloway’s, 2904 College Ave., Berkeley. (510) 704-8222. www.mrsdalloways.com.
Annual Bloomsday Celebration Dinner, Concert, and Community Readings Friday, June 16, 2017 - 6:00pm Eat, Read, Drink, 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, & John…
Handsome Devil • June 17, 20 An unlikely yet authentic bond develops between two teenage boys at an Irish boarding school, in this charming, rugby-centric dramedy from talented Irish writer-director John Butler. Sixteen-year-old Ned, with his spiky dyed red hair and ambiguous sexuality, is the music-geek outcast more smitten with…
Frameline Film Festival Three Irish films feature at this year’s Frameline Film Festival, A Date for Mad Mary • June 18, 24 Mary has always been a firecracker — picking fights, mouthing off, and getting wasted at the pub with her best mate, Charlene. But after serving six months in…
Judy Wells, Dale Jensen, Lynn Ireland, Carol Sheldon, Gabrielle Rilleau, and Susan Robinson will read Tuesday, June 20th, at 7 pm at Larkspur Library, 400 Magnolia Avenue, in Larkspur with the Marin Traveling Show hosted by Prartho Sereno. Judy Wells' latest poetry collection, The Glass Ship (Sugartown, 2014), completes her…
Handsome Devil • June 17, 20 An unlikely yet authentic bond develops between two teenage boys at an Irish boarding school, in this charming, rugby-centric dramedy from talented Irish writer-director John Butler. Sixteen-year-old Ned, with his spiky dyed red hair and ambiguous sexuality, is the music-geek outcast more smitten with…
Acclaimed Irish writer Colm Tóibín is the author of nine novels including Brooklyn and Nora Webster and has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize three times. His literary subjects have included the imagined inner life of Henry James and the life of Mary, the mother of Jesus. In his…
A Date for Mad Mary • June 24 Mary has always been a firecracker — picking fights, mouthing off, and getting wasted at the pub with her best mate, Charlene. But after serving six months in lockup, Mary returns home to find that Charlene has moved on; she’s more interested…
Join The Crooked Road Ceili Band for a wonderfully warm evening of traditional Irish melodies with Jack, Doug, Julie, and David and songs sung solo and duet by Erin-Ruth Thompson and Julie Horner. Lively tunes on the hammered dulcimer, concertina, Irish wooden flute, fiddle, and guitar. Bring your dancing shoes!
Opening weekend. Free. Tony Award Winning Mime Troupe performs WALLS in Berkeley and San Francisco. WALLS asks the question: How can a nation of immigrants declare war on immigration? The answer: FEAR!L. Mary Jones (Velina Brown) knows all about fear. As a top agent for I.C.E. - Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
Join us at Wolfhound Bar for our first ever live show featuring Irish piano maestro Johnny Holden who will sing and play your favorite tunes. A souful voice and expert musicianship not to be missed.
WALLS asks the question: How can a nation of immigrants declare war on immigration? The answer: FEAR!L. Mary Jones (Velina Brown) knows all about fear. As a top agent for I.C.E. - Immigration and Customs Enforcement - she knows how to stoke fear to keep her country safe. Fear of people…
Chloe Agnew & Friends Saturday July 8th, 2017 Show 8pm Pre-Show 7.15pm with Ryan Doyle (link to https://www.ryandoylemusic.com/) http://www.chloeagnewofficial.com/ "Chloë Agnew has gained international fame for her integral part as one of the original, and youngest members of the internationally acclaimed music group ‘Celtic Woman’ since she was 14 years old.…
This tour will focus on the history of San Francisco’s famed waterfront and the role of its Irish and Irish-American workers, leaders, and martyrs. It will also include the cases of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings who faced a labor frame-up in the Preparedness Day Bombing in San Francisco in…
Immigration attorney Jim Byrne of the Law Offices of James M. Byrne, San Francisco will outline the visa options after the J1 IWT program. The seminar will cover and discuss the following: *Options if you didn't get the H1-B - Can I reapply next year? *Other visa options: L1 Inter-Company,…
Come to Albert Park in San Rafael on Thursday, July 13, for Irish Heritage Night with The San Rafael Pacifics Baseball Club! The Pacifics will host Irish Heritage Night at 7:05 PM, presented by Johnny Foley’s Irish House. The first 250 fans to the game will receive special Irish coffee mugs,…
Irish-American Crossroads is pleased to announce a second round of the popular Walking the Rising walking tour! Join San Francisco writer Elizabeth Creely on a walking tour of the Mission District’s revolutionary Irish past. On Sunday, April 24th, 1916, seven Irishmen declared Ireland to be an independent state, free from centuries of British…
KALW presents Celtic and Irish music shows Saturday afternoons: 2pm: Thistle and Shamrock with Fiona Ritchie 3pm: Folk Music and Beyond with JoAnn Maher and Bob Campbell 5pm: A Patchwork Quilt with Kevin Vance San Francisco: KALW-FM / 91.7 Online: http://thistleradio.com/ http://kalw.org/post/fiona-ritchie-kalw#stream/0
The Irish singing priest who became a worldwide internet sensation after his rendition of Hallelujah went viral on YouTube (55 million views so far!) will perform at the Irish Center this summer on Saturday July 22nd. You tube link Original Big surprise for Bride and Groom...Chris and Leah Wedding 5 April 2014 Original…
Lark Camp • July 28-August 5 Imagine idyllic days and nights in a magical redwood forest in Mendocino, filled with all the music, dance, and good times you can stand. That's kind of close to what Lark Camp World Music & Dance Celebration is like. Lark In The Morning Music…
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