Posts Tagged ‘History’
Irish Arts Minnesota honors Jan Casey!
IAM salutes a woman who has volunteered, recruited, coordinated, booked, organized, and supported Irish Arts Minnesota, The Center for Irish Music, Irish Fair of Minnesota, and The Celtic Junction Arts…
More >New Deals and Eight-Hand Reels: Irish Music, Dance and Culture in the Depression-Era Twin Cities
Attend this free event in person, or join the webinar! Eoin McKiernan Library Director Brian Miller explores the Irish cultural landscape of the Twin Cities in the 1930s including fiddler…
More >Irish Traditional Musicians in Chicago 1920–2020 with Richie Piggot
This presentation is drawn from Richie Piggot’s recently published book Cry of a People Gone. It will include a history of the development of Chicago and that city’s attraction for Irish…
More >Appreciating the Gael Linn Film Saoirse? (1961)
“Saoirse” film depicts the tumultuous years from 1919-22 which led to the formation of the Irish Free State and the partition of Ireland.
More >Book Discussion: “Constance Markievicz: Irish Revolutionary”
Join Dr. Kevin Byrne and Dr. Steven Griffith for a free, two-night discussion of Anne Haverty’s, Constance Markievicz: Irish Revolutionary (2016). Constance Gore-Booth was born into the privileged world of…
More >Irish American Club: lecture and panel discussion
The McKiernan Library will host a talk by Director Brian Miller on the history of the Twin Cities Irish American Club (circa 1948-1983) in conjunction with the unveiling of the…
More >Transformative figures and the challenge of archiving their work
A conversation with archivist Niamh Ní Charra, drawing from her experience working on two iconic Irish archives; The Gaelic League and the Mary Robinson collections at the University of Galway.
More >Book Discussion: “Michael Collins: A Life”
Book Discussion on “Michael Collins: A Life” by James Mackey. Collins was a consequential figure in early 20th-century Irish history. Free!
More >Book Discussion: “Michael Collins: A Life”
Book Discussion on “Michael Collins: A Life” by James Mackey. Collins was a consequential figure in early 20th-century Irish history. Free!
More >“The Unsung Hero,” a play by David Gilna
The Unsung Hero is a love story from Easter week 1916 between Michael O’Rahilly (The O’Rahilly) the Co-Founder of The Irish Volunteers and his wife Nancy O’Rahilly Vice-president of the Cumann na mBan.
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