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IIPC Active Retirement Club Monthly Mass and Luncheon

ACTIVE RETIREMENT CLUB OUTREACH PROGRAM Join the IIPC for their Active Retirement Club Monthly Mass and Luncheon at the United Irish Cultural Center, Thursday May 11, 2017. Mass will be celebrated by Fr. Brendan McBride at 12.15 p.m. followed by guest speaker and luncheon. Guest speaker this month is Rosa…

$20

Silicon Valley Irish Fleadh

If you missed a chance to get tickets to U2 this month, fret not as the amazing U2 tribute band Zoo Station head up this year's Silicon Valley Fleadh at St. Stephen's Green in Mountain View May 13th and 14th. Live artists and performers will take center stage all weekend…

Hanneke Cassel

Don Quixote's International Music Hall 6275 Highway 9, Felton, CA, United States

"...her musical ideas are savvy and sophisticated, but her throaty, gusting style is deeply banked in the Scottish and Cape Breton traditions." -- Boston Globe Members $15.00 Non-Members: Advance $17.00 Door $20.00 More information: http://www.celticsociety.org/

U2 Joshua Tree Tour, Levi Stadium Santa Clara

Levi's Stadium Santa Clara, CA, United States

U2 Joshua Tree Tour, Levi Stadium • May 17 Celebrating the 30th anniversary of The Joshua Tree and performing the album in full, every night, U2: The Joshua Tree Tour 2017 kicks off in Vancouver on 12th May for a run of dates across North America, ending in July back…

ILHS, Elizabeth Drew on Samuel Beckett

Irish Literary & Historical Society Speaker Series • May 21 Elizabeth Drew on Samuel Beckett Trinity PhD scholar,  will speak on the presence of Ireland in the writings of Nobel Laureate Samuel Beckett. Samuel Beckett, one of the most acclaimed writers of the 20th century, was born in Foxrock, Co.…

IIPC Active Retirement Club Cairde Café

Join the IIPC for their Active Retirement Club Coffee Morning! Cairde Café meets on the fourth Tuesday of every month from 10.00 a.m. at the UICC. It is a chance to meet familiar and new faces in a friendly relaxed gathering. Tea and soda bread are served and there is…

$5

GAA Games – Live on Big Screen at UICC

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…

JFK’s 100th Birthday Celebration at UICC

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 Fest – New Irish Writing

Hotel Shattuck Plaza Berkeley

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…

FunnyBizz Conference

The Chapel 777 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA, United States

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” author Mark Hull at City Lights

City Lights 261 Columbus Ave , San Francisco, CA, United States

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

Mrs. Dalloway's 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, United States

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 @ Mechanics’ SF

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

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, film. Victoria Theater.

Victoria Theater, SF 2961 16th St. , San Francisco, United States

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…

A Date for Mad Mary, film. Victoria Theater.

Victoria Theater, SF 2961 16th St. , San Francisco, United States

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…

Poet Judy Wells and Friends, Larkspur

Larkspur Library 400 Magnolia Avenue, Larkspur , CA, United States

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, film. Victoria Theater

Victoria Theater, SF 2961 16th St. , San Francisco, United States

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…

Colm Tóibín, JCC SF

Jewish Community Center 3200 California St, San Francisco, CA, United States

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, film. Landmark, Piedmont

Landmark Theater, Piedmont 4186 Piedmont Ave. , Oakland, CA, United States

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…

The Crooked Road Ceili Band @ UICC

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!

WALLS San Francisco Mime Troupe

Cedar Rose Park, Berkeley 1300 Rose Street@Chestnut, Berkeley, CA, United States

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…

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Johnny Holden, Piano Maestro – Oakland

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 performed by Tony Award Winning SF MIME Troupe

Dolores Park 19th Street@Dolores Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

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…

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Chloe Agnew & Friends, UICC

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.…

LABOR FEST 2017 Irish Labor History Walk

Marine Fireman's Union 240 2nd Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

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…

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