Events
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Irish Night with the Saints
Join Irish Network Minnesota on Thursday, July 25, 2019 @ 7:05 for Irish Night at St Paul Saints baseball. Come out and join us as the St Paul Saints take on the Cleburne Railroaders at CHS Field! Cheer on the Saints with IN Mn in Section 101! CHS Field 360 Broadway Street North Saint Paul, MN 55101
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Aer Lingus direct – Dublin to MSP
Irish Network MN was on hand to celebrate Aer Lingus’ inaugural service to Minneapolis-St. Paul. The new Minneapolis – St. Paul – Dublin service will initially operate six times weekly, and by August 2019 will increase to a daily, year-round service.
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Amazing Bloomsday 2019
Thank you friends and members for attending the Irish Network-MN 3rd Annual Bloomsday Festival and celebrating Ireland’s literary icon James Joyce and his most famous novel Ulysses! What special night of music, dance, readings, art, food, drinks, conversation and good friends. A very special thank you and much appreciation to our our amazing sponsors/partners, David and Amber at Summit Manor, Fitzgerald In Saint Paul, Friends of the St. Paul Library, The Ancient Order of Hibernians in America Division 4, Finnegans, March Out Hunger, Extended Exposures and Irish Gazette. What an honor it was to have as our Special guests Patrick Coleman, Acquisition librarian at the Minnesota Historical Center, the St.…
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Bloomsday Festival 2019
Irish Network Minnesota’s 3rd Annual Bloomsday Festival This year Irish Network Minnesota is partnering with the Fitzgerald in St. Paul group (a nonprofit organization devoted to celebrating author F. Scott Fitzgerald) to celebrate Fitzgerald’s good friend James Joyce and his epic book, Ulysses. What is Bloomsday? Want to learn more? Our 3rd Annual Bloomsday Festival also features playwright Stephen Murray, who provides us with dramatic direction. Summit Manor – 275 Summit Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55102 Thursday, June 13, 2019 from 5 – 8 PM Social Hour from 5 – 6 PM $20 at the door – includes wine, beer, appetizers, and music along with dramatic readings from James Joyce’s book…
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Fr McCabe Memorial
Memorial to be placed and dedicated to Father Patrick McCabe The Fenian Memorial Committee of America is working to erect a memorial stone at the grave of Father Patrick McCabe (1827-1899) of, Arnaghan, Lough Gowna, Co. Cavan, who was instrumental in the escape of the great Fenian, John Boyle O’Reilly and six military Fenians from Fremantle Prison in Western Australia to America aboard the whaling vessel the Catalpa which sailed from New Bedford, Massachusetts to rescue them and bring them to New York, before they dispersed to different parts of the U.S. All funds raised will go towards the memorial for Father McCabe, who is buried in St. Mary Cemetary…
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Joyce, Fitzgerald & Bloomsday
Irish Network MN and Fitzgerald in St Paul presentation and discussion of James Joyce, F Scott Fitzgerald and Bloomsday. Presented by IN MN board members Desmond Keogh and Martie McMahon at the Fitzfirst Monthy Series. Sunday, May 5, 2019 – George Latimer Central Library – 90 West 4th Street, Saint Paul – Free and open to the public. Fitzgerald in Saint Paul is dedicated to celebrating the life and literature of F. Scott Fitzgerald in his hometown of Saint Paul. FitzFirst is co-sponsored by The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library.
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St Patrick’s Day 2019
March Out Hunger (MOH) at the Saint Paul St Patrick’s Day Parade! March 16, 2019, beginning at noon, join Irish Network Minnesota and our partners March Out Hunger and the Irish Gazette as we support our local food shelves at this year’s 53rd annual St. Patrick’s Day. Bring your food or monetary donation to the parade and look for the green Finnegans Reverse Food Truck along the parade route as we march along to collect your donations! Annually Irish Network MN teams with the St Patrick’s Association and Minnesota Food Share to march out hunger. It is a statewide, grassroots food-drive, in which, every dollar donated goes to local food…
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Whiskey Tasting at Shamrocks
Great way to warm up on a winter afternoon! Thank you Shamrocks Irish Nook, Hell Cat Maggie Irish Whiskey and the St Paul Saint Patrick’s Association for the great afternoon get together of friends, new acquaintances and learning about Irish Whiskey! Great collaboration with the St Paul Saint Patrick’s Association and a great beginning for this year’s Irish Season in Saint Paul, MN!
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Hell-Cat Maggie Whiskey Tasting
Join Irish Network Minnesota and the St. Paul Saint Patrick’s Day Association for an afternoon of Whiskey tasting presented by Hell-Cat Maggie Irish Whiskey. Learn more about “usisge beatha” (“wish-ga bah-ha”) – Irish for “water of life”. Shamrock’s Irish Nook 995 West 7th Street, Saint Paul Saturday – February 23, 2019 1-3pm Cost $15 at the door – Includes free St Patrick’s Day button, appetizers and whiskey tasting! Come join us.
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About Bloomsday
Bloomsday is named after the central character in James Joyce’s book Ulysses, Leopold Bloom. The story follows Bloom as he goes to appointments, enjoys meals, conversations and wanderings around the city of Dublin on Thursday 16 June 1904. It is celebrated both in Dublin, around the world and in St Paul, Minnesota! When James Joyce published his story of a day in the life of Leopold Bloom in 1922, it was considered scandalous. It was declared obscene in the United States until 1933. The novel has been called all-inclusive, because it explores every human feeling or activity imaginable. The short list includes sex, politics, parenting, death, religion, sado-masochism and xenophobia.…
