Events
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Bloomsday Planning for 2022
1/28/22 Board Members met last evening to begin planning for our 2022 – Bloomsday Festival! Join Irish Network MN on Thursday, June 16, 2022 for our 5th annual Bloomsday Festival. We will again be celebrating at the beautiful Summit Manor from 5 – 8 PM. Come for an exciting evening filled with drama, costumes, music, dancing, conversations, food, drinks and fun! More information to follow! Sláinte!
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Planning for a New Year!
11/18/21 – Our Board Members met last evening to begin planning our upcoming partnerships and events. We are excited and looking forward to a great year! We welcome two new members to our board – Kathy Luby and Amaya Cork and our new Vice President, Pat Duffy!
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Ten Men Dead- A Minnesota Remembrance of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike
Ten Men Dead- A Minnesota Remembrance of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike Saturday, October 16, 2021 from 3 PM – 6 PM at the Dubliner Pub The event is free and all are welcome. Join us as we recognize the 40th anniversary of the Irish Hunger Strikers – Ten political prisoners who died in 1981. The event will include biographies of the prisoners, readings from their letters, music and refreshments. Presented as a partnership with Irish Fair of Minnesota, Minnesotan’s for a United Ireland, the Irish Gazette, the Communications Workers of America Local 7250, the St Paul’s St Patrick’s Day Parade Association and the Dubliner Pub. More than 100,000 people…
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Ambassador’s Reception
Welcome Ambassador Daniel Mulhall, his wife Greta, and Consul General, Kevin Byrne to the outdoor stage at Celtic Junction Arts Center. Please join Irish Network Minnesota, August 23 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
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Bloomsday Event 2021
Thank you to everyone who joined us for Irish Network Minnesota’s (virtual) 2021 – 4th Annual – Bloomsday Festival! Special thanks to Stephen Murray whose wonderful direction, creative scripting and emceeing brought a complicated chapter of “Ulysses” to life! We so appreciate Stephen’s creativity, hard work and extensive time spent on making this year’s virtual Bloomsday Festival a wonderful experience for everyone! Thank you to Daniel Mulhall, Ambassador of Ireland, Norma Ces, Assistant to the Ambassador and Ragnar Eamon Almqvist, Irish Cultural Attache. Thank you to our wonderful artists and readers Sean Ewert, John Highberger, Carrie Harding, Paul Miller, Kathy Luby, Dan Gleason and Eddie Owens. Congratulations to Ethna McKieran,…
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Bloomsday 2021
Join Irish Network Minnesota for our 4th Annual Bloomsday Festival. This year’s virtual event will take place on Wednesday, June 16, 2021 at 7:30 PM. To join the event click below for your free ticket and link! Tune in and celebrate Bloomsday and James Joyce’s novel Ulysses. Hosted by Stephen Murray, this online event that will feature live music, poetry, an award presentation, and (of course) a reading of the famous novel. You may also come and celebrate with IN MN at the Dubliner Pub for a Bloomsday Festival Watch Party. 2162 University Avenue West, St Paul, MN at 7:30 PM. Period attire always encouraged! Celebrate James Joyce’s “Ulysses” the novel…
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Bloomsday – Save the Date!
Save the Date for Irish Network Minnesota’s 4th Annual Bloomsday celebration. This year IN MN will present a virtual Bloomsday event on Wednesday, June 16, 2021 at 7:30 PM
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St Patrick’s Day 2021 – Irish Music & Dance Association
The Irish Music and Dance Association (IMDA) St Patrick’s Day Pajama Party celebration. This year’s celebration will be a fully virtual presentation, with Irish music, Irish dance and Irish theatre throughout the big day – Wednesday, March 17, 2021. IMDA will be bringing you some of your old favorite music and Irish dancing. Three sets of entertainment are planned –a morning set, a mid-day set and an afternoon set. Tune in to the IMDA website or the IMDA Facebook Page and join in a full day of wonderful entertainment featuring our own local talented musicians, dancers and actors. Image and information from the IMDA website. Link to IMDA March Newsletter…
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March On! And Help to March Out Hunger 2021
Annually, IN MN and our partner March Out Hunger (MOH) team up with the Saint Paul St Patrick’s Day Association along with the Minnesota FoodShare program. The Irish are no strangers to hunger and as we know 2020-2021 has been a very difficult hear. MANY people have been experiencing hunger- even those right in our neighborhoods. Join us at this year’s 2021 Irish Mask-arade, a St. Patrick’s Day Drive-Thru celebration in Saint Paul. We will be at the parade collecting non-perishable food items, personal hygiene products, and cleaning supplies. Look for the Finnegans Reverse Food Truck to drop your donations off on the day of the drive-thru celebration on St. Patrick’s Day! …
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Éigse CIM Virtual Gaela Event
The Center for Irish Music (CIM) annual fundraiser will feature emcee Máirtín de Cógáin, a celtic art themed silent auction and a traditional Irish music concert by CIM instructors. To get tickets to this free virtual event, go to the CIM website. February 20, 2021 6:30 pm Pre-Show | 7:00 pm Program & Concert The Center for Irish Music (CIM) is a thriving nonprofit community music school based in St. Paul’s Hamline-Midway neighborhood inside the Celtic Junction building. The CIM is dedicated to handing down traditional Irish music to the next generation of musicians in our community. Through private lessons, group classes, sessions and events featuring world-class artists, the CIM…
