Mary Sue McFarland Brooks, Board Chair of Irish Network Minnesota and retired Public Affairs Coordinator for the Minnesota Department of Transportation, is a pivotal member of St. Paul’s Irish Community. She is 100% Irish- American with her four corners being McFarland, Reagan, O’Hanlon, and Farrell. During her time at MnDOT, she was responsible for communications…
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Ethna “Essie” McKiernan – Honored Alum
Minnesota poet and social advocate, Ethna McKiernan was honored this past summer by her High School – Visitation School, Mendota Heights, MN. Excerpt from Visitation School Vision! newsletter: The Visitation Alumnae Board honored Essie McKiernan ’69 posthumously as the 2023 Distinguished Alumna on August 11, 2023. Essie’s sister Nuala McKiernan Rosensteel ‘66 spoke at the…
Bloomsday is Celebrated in St. Paul
Bloomsday will be celebrated again on June 15 at Summit Manor Reception House, 275 Summit Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota from 5-8pm. Dust off you beautifully festooned hats because it’s time to celebrate the sixth anniversary of Irish Network’s noted celebration. There will be readings from Ulysses and music and a period costume contest, delicious refreshments…
Inside the Irish Gazette March 2023
Your link to the latest issue of the Irish Gazette – March 17, 2023
Landmark Center to host 41st St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations
Join Irish Arts Minnesota (IAM) at the Landmark Center in downtown St. Paul to celebrate our 41st Annual St. Patrick’s Day and Sundays at Landmark: Day of Irish Dance celebrations! These are two opportunities to experience and learn about Irish dance, music, and arts of all kinds in a family friendly gathering. The fun starts…
Suspect Santa
Just in time for Christmas, award-wining St. Paul author Mike Faricy has come out with yet another ‘work of genius’. His thirty-third book in the popular Dev Haskell series, Suspect Santa. A humorous crime fiction tale set in St. Paul Suspect Santa has private investigator Dev Haskell, contacted by local millionaire Arthur (Arty Farty) Grumley. They were high school classmates, and Haskell never liked…
Katie McMahon – Celtic Christmas 2022
The family tradition is back! Katie McMahon’s Celtic Christmas 2022 The O’Shaughnessy at St Catherine University 2004 Randolph Ave, St Paul, MN 55105 Friday, December 09, 2022 Doors Open: 7pm // Show: 7:30pm $5 to $28 Katie McMahon has graced stages around the world as the original voice of Riverdance. Her ode to the holidays,…
Sister Celeste’s Sing-A-Long Event
It’s that time of year and Sister Celeste is determined to get everyone in pitch-perfect shape for the holy season! Join her and Sr. Margarita in the former St. Agatha’s Conservatory Chapel. There will be a wee vocal warm-up (Sister has a pitch pipe…which doesn’t mean she sings on-key!) followed by a festive round of Christmas Bingo there…
Hardship to Hope: James Hack Tuke, Archbishop Ireland and the Irish Emigration of the 1800s
On Thursday, November 17, the Center for Irish Studies, and St. Thomas Libraries will co-host the Center for Irish Studies Fall 2022 Symposium. Originally distinguished as the first public event on campus that was cancelled in 2019 because of the pandemic, the Center and University Libraries are delighted to host three well-known scholars – Jane…
The Dead Fitzgeralds
By KleckoParis Breakfast Publications2022 Reviewed by Mary McFarland The book launch for The Dead Fitzgeralds was Sept., 24 at 1 p.m. at Subtext Books, 6 West 5th. St. in downtown Saint. Paul. The Dead Fitzgeralds by Klecko could also be called just The Dead, (apologies to James Joyce) as it remembers so many who have…