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Easter 1916 Rising and its Legacy, Berkeley • April 29

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

Easter 1916 Rising and its Legacy, Berkeley • April 29 Reflecting on the Rising: The 1916 Centenary. This event, co-sponsored by the Celtic Studies Program, the Irish Studies Program, and the English Department, will include a roundtable discussion on the 1916 Rising and its legacy, featuring: Catherine Flynn, Assistant Professor…

Film Screening of Michael Collins (1996)

Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United States

Directed by Neil Jordan, Liam Neeson, and Aidan Quinn, this biopic of the IRA co-founder Michael Collins, Rickman plays Éamon de Valera as a man who begins as Collins’ revolutionary ally and ends as his philosophical opponent. Covering the end of the Easter rising to Collins’ assassination in 1920, this movie was…

Free – $10

Culann’s Hounds

Peri's Bar 29 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax, CA, United States

PsychaCeltic  -  Amazing rocking Celtic sounds!

$8

National League Hurling Final on Big Screen at UICC

2016 GAA Allianz National League Hurling Final Watch the games all season on the UICC big screen in great company and comfort. Sunday, May 1, 2016 7:30am            Clare vs Waterford Doors Open at 7:15am $20.00 at the door Children are welcome and are free United Irish Cultural Center, 2700 45th…

Walking the Rebellion, Mission District SF

518 Valencia 518 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA

Sunday, May 1, 12 noon. Meet up at 518 Valencia Street @ 16th Street, San Francisco On Sunday, April 24th, 1916, seven Irishmen declared Ireland to be an independent state, free from centuries of British rule. The “Easter Uprising” is a hallowed event in Irish-American history, revered as a moment when…

Filoli Flower Show

Enjoy viewing floral interpretations of "California Then and Now 1916-2016." New designers join our perennial exhibitors to interpret this year's theme. The traditional Mother's Day event celebrates both the past century and the Filoli House's 100 birthday through flower arrangements.

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Jim Page and Teresa Tudury Concert

Two amazing singer/songwriters, Jim Page and Teresa Tudury, will share their music in what should be a great nights entertainment. Suggested donation $20. To reserve seats and retrieve venue information email [email protected] For information on the artists Jim Page https://youtu.be/kokHkOBroYo www.jimpage.net  Teresa Tudury https://youtu.be/bu09ulsaOFE www.teresatudury.net

Free

Silicon Valley Fleadh, Mountain View

St. Stephen's Green

3rd Annual Silicon Valley Fleadh • May 7, 8 Fleadh (pronounced “Fla”) is a festival and gathering to celebrate Irish culture. After an acclaimed second edition, the 2016 and third edition of the Silicon Valley Irish Fleadh will take place on May 7th and 8th 2016 in downtown Mountain View.…

Darkness Into Light Walk for Self-Harm and Suicide Prevention

Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco, CA, United States

Darkness into Light has become an iconic walk that started in Dublin, Ireland and has now turned into a global response. This symbolic 5k walk begins while it is still dark and finishes just as the dawn is rising. This reflects the service offered at Pieta House, where there is…

Emerald Society Dinner, UICC

Emerald Society Dinner • May 7 The San Francisco Bay Area Law Enforcement Emerald Society is honoring two SFPD officers of Italian descent and will be awarding Citizen of the Year to Martin Connolly, of Johnny Foleys Restaurant and Bar. Visit UICC website for more details.

Comedy Chop At Kells Irish Bar

The Purple Onion at Kells Irish Bar 530 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA, United States

Six comedians will step into the ring of The Purple Onion at Kells Irish Bar, but only one will come out on top. Don't worry it's not the Hunger Games, it's The Comedy Chop. In this hilarious stand-up competition, San Francisco's funniest people will face-off against one another for the Chop title,…

$5

Blues Harp Woman show

Blues Roots DJ/Promoter Norman Davis along with the Freight & Salvage is proud to present a special evening with Blues Harp Women; spotlighting on a diverse group of female harp players. This particular show spurs from the Ruf Records release, a double cd called Blues Harp Women produced by Norman…

$22

The Least of Them by David Herrera Performance Company

Z Space 450 Florida Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

Featuring new music composed/performed by Colm Ó Riain.  Adam Starkopf  & Josh Roberts, the David Herrera Performance Company seeks to examine perceived notions of identity that people have toward skin tone while challenging its audience to reflect and confront their own biases.   What drives communities to set up political, racial, and…

$20 – $30

2016 St. Cecilia Irish Classic Golf Tournament

Gleneagles Golf Course at McLaren Park 2100 Sunnydale Avenue, San Francisco,, CA, United States

The Men of St Cecilia - Golf Tornament 12:30 Check-in / 1:30 PM Shotgun Start 9 – Hole, Team Scramble Format with BBQ Afterwards, 2 drink coupons, and lots of FUN! $100.00 per person if paid before April 15th / $125.00 after 4/15 *********************** Full payment and registration by April 15th.  Please…

$107 – $160

John Faulkner Concert

London-born multi-instrumentalist, film composer, producer, and songwriter John Faulkner, will be performing in Fairfax! John has played with many of the best Irish traditional musicians over the years and lives in County Galway. see event with a suggested donation $15 To reserve seats and retrieve venue address email [email protected] For information on the…

Free

Ariana Strahl and Miles Graber: The Hermit Songs

Maybeck Studio for the Performing Arts 1537 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley , CA, United States

The performance will center on Barber's Hermit Songs, a ten-song cycle based on anonymous poems written by Irish monks and scholars from the 8th to the 13th centuries.  Irish-American Soprano Ariana Strahl has been called ‘the discovery of the night’ (Voralberger Nachrichten) and has been celebrated as a singer with ‘fearless, accurate…

$20

The Shams

The Legionnaire Saloon 2272 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA, United States

The Shams began in 2011 in San Francisco, lead by energetic and charismatic front man Sean Daly, from Donegal, Ireland. In the last year, The Shams released their award-winning EP "One and All",  embarked on a Northwest tour and sold out the legendary Great American Music Hall in San Francisco.…

San Francisco Folk Club presents Thompsonia, Brass Farthing, Steve Baughman, Noctambule, Yes Ma’am, Judi Jaeger & Bob Reid, Richard Adrianowicz

Bridging the past and the future of the Bay Area’s roots music scene, this show features Thompsonia – Eric & Suzy Thompson (Any Old Time, Black Mountain Boys, Blue Flame String Band, Texas Sheiks, California Cajun Orchestra, etc. etc.) have joined forces with their daughter, Allegra (Midnite Ramblers, Wendy Burch…

$20 – $22

Broken Hearts Club Band – fundraiser at UICC

The Broken Hearts Club Band play a one-off special musical benefit for the American Heart Association at the United Irish Cultural Center on May 20. Local musicians Vincie Keehan, Rory McNamara, John Caulfield and Michael Black have each been treated for some form of heart issue over recent years, hence…

Legends of the Celtic Harp featuring Patrick Ball, Lisa Lynne and Aryeh Frankfurter

  Three of the premier Celtic harpers in the world take you deep into the myths, magic and fabled history of this most captivating instrument. Featuring Patrick Ball (Celtic harp and spoken word), Lisa Lynne (Celtic harp, Irish bouzouki, and mandolin), and Aryeh Frankfurter (Celtic harp, cittern, and nyckelharpa). Yerba…

Free

ILHS Speaker, David Brundage at UICC

David Brundage, ILHS Speaker • May 22 In this important work of deep learning and insight, David Brundage gives us the first full-scale history of Irish nationalists in the United States. Beginning with the brief exile of Theobald Wolfe Tone, founder of Irish republican nationalism, in Philadelphia on the eve…

Celtic Myths and Legends, Commonwealth Club SF

Join us to discuss Celtic Myths and Legends by Peter Berresford Ellis, an enchanting collection of the sagas of gods and goddesses, fabulous beasts, strange creatures, and heroes like Cuchulain, Fingal and King Arthur, including popular myths and legends from all six Celtic cultures: Irish, Scots, Manx, Welsh, Cornish and…

Celebrate Irish Goddess Maeve/Medb

Ellis Lake Park Concord 1740 Ellis st, Concord, CA, United States

Celebrate Maeve/Medb Irish Goddess of Sovereignty, war, love/sexuality, & magic. Daughters of the Goddess is a Aloha Dianic womyn-only Goddess Temple dedicated to honoring Multicultural Goddesses through rituals and celebrating ceremonies of Womyn's Mysteries in the Spirit of Aloha. We generally have two rituals a month and are always looking…

$15

One Lane Bridge Concert

Don Quixotes International Music Hall CA

One Lane Bridge, featuring local Celtic music heroes, John Weed from Molly's Revenge, whom I'm sure weed all agree is one of the finest fiddlers on terra firma, Aria DiSalvio, whose cello salvos songlike & celestial & makes you salivate for further from her & William Coulter in whose mighty…

$13 – $15

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