The Young Dubliners
19 Broadway Bar & Nightclub Fairfax, CA, United StatesThe Irish rock band is performing at the 19 Broadway Bar Night Club on Friday, October 18! Tickets are $15 through EventBrite.
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CMBM Reunion and Book Party
United Irish Cultural Center 2700 45th Avenue, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, United StatesJoin 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.
Gaelic Storm Comes to Berkeley
Cornerstone 2367 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesThe 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…
Irish Revolution History- Dr. Myles Dungan
Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United StatesThis 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…
The Celtic Tenors
Rio Theatre 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCome 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.
Irish Revolution History- Dr. Myles Dungan
Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United StatesThis 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…
Irish Revolution History- Dr. Myles Dungan
Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United StatesThis 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…
Comedy For A Spinal Cause
La Pena Cultural Centre 3105 Shattuck Ave Berkeley, Berkeley, CAEvery 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…
$25
#IrelandinSF Speaker Series & Networking Breakfast
Consulate General of Ireland, San Francsico 100 Pine Street, Suite 3350, San Francisco, CA, United StatesA 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…
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The Waterboys: O’Shaughnessy, Mulholland and the Delivery of ‘Liquid Gold’
Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn 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…
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The Irish of the Comstock Lode
Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United StatesFilmmaker 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…
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Sally Rooney
Sydney Goldstein Theater 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn 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…
$29
The Alpha Male in Irish History
Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn 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…
$10
The Irresistible Rise of the Type Trail
Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn 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…
$10
Celts, Kilts and Croatians
Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn 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…
$15
James Joyce and Paris
Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn 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,…
$10
Brian Murphy: A Life in Sport
Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn 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…
$15
The Cruelty Men: Irish Novel of the Year, 2019
Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn 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…
$10
Brexit — An Irish Perspective
Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn 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…
$15
Adapting Lying in Wait
Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United Statesn 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…
$10
Liz Nugent — Public Interview
Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn 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…
$15
The 1984 Anti-Apartheid Produce Strike
Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn 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…
$10
Tom Maguire: An Irish Impresario in 19th Century San Francisco
Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn 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…
$10
Horslips and Shamrock’n’roll
Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn 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…
$15
The Short Stories of Ethel Rohan
Mechanics' Institute 3rd Floor Library 57 Post Street , San Francisco, CA, United StatesIn 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…
$10
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