AMERICAN CELTIC punk band Dropkick Murphys will celebrate St Patrick’s Day 2022 live and in-person in their hometown of Boston, with a free live stream of the event being broadcast to fans around the world from House of Blues in Boston. It will kick off on March 17th at 9pm ET. The live stream also…
St. Patrick’s Day Parade 2022
We are lucky #17 in the parade line up and Irish Network Minnesota is #18! Join us Thursday, March 17th at the St Patrick’s Day Parade in downtown Saint Paul from 12 – 1:30 PM. Parade route this year starts in Rice Park (5th St & Market St) and will travel along 5th Street, ending…
Bloomsday 2022
SAVE THE DATE: Don’t miss the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday on Thursday, June 16 from 5-8 p.m. Join your friends at the beautiful Summit Manor event venue, located at 275 Summit Avenue in St. Paul, for a one-of-a-kind evening. The international celebration of James Joyce’s book, Ulysses will be celebrated locally by the Minnesota chapter…
Bloody Sunday Anniversary
January 30, 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of that tragic day in Derry known as “Bloody Sunday” when 26 peaceful civic rights demonstrators were shot in 1972 with 14 of them killed by British soldiers. The demonstrators were protesting the British policy of Internment without trail, giving the British Government the power to arrest anyone…
Women’s Christmas to be Held at Kieran’s Irish Pub
Minneapolis St. Patrick’s Day Association to revive Women’s Christmas Jan. 9 at Kieran’s For a lucky 13 years, Minneapolis was home to one final holiday bash of the season that filled an Irish pub with women on a Sunday afternoon in January. Lucky for all, it will happen again in 2022. Kieran’s Irish Pub will…
Father James Nugent – A Connemara Hero of the 1880 Assisted Emigration Scheme
by Dr. Maxine Keoghan It was with great interest that I read the articles in the Irish Gazette of Minnesota’s Connemara immigrants who settled there in the 1880’s. I attended university in the west of Ireland in the city of Galway and have always been fascinated by Connemara – its landscape and its people. I…
Lonely Planet Choses Dublin in Top Ten Travel Destinations
Best in Travel 2022 is Lonely Planet’s 17th annual collection of the world’s hottest destinations and must-have travel experiences for the year ahead. Listing the top 10 countries, regions and cities that should be on every globe-trotter’s to-do list, the world’s number one travel guidebook puts Dublin at number seven in its top 10 cities….
Minnesota Company Is Leading America into Irish and American Whiskey Traditions
O’Shaughnessy Distilling Co, located in Minneapolis’s Prospect Park is capturing the imagination of American Whiskey affectionados by producing triple distillation whiskey here in Minnesota. The name of the first product to be released from O’Shaughnessy Distilling Company, Keeper’s Heart Irish American Whiskey. Keeper’s Heart Irish American blend is a blend of triple distilled Irish pot still…
Malachy McCourt Book is Reissued
A publishing group plans to reissue Malachy McCourt’s first memoir, “A Monk Swimming” detailing his life in Ireland and later return to the United States where he operated a successful Manhattan tavern frequented by entertainment celebrities. The issue date and publisher will be announced in the next issue of THE IRISH GAZETTE. McCourt was born in New York…
University of St. Thomas Irish Studies
Introducing University of St. Thomas, Irish Studies Director, David Gardiner. David Gardiner joined the University of St. Thomas Irish Studies program as director in 2019. Then the world changed. Gardiner is interested in expanding the direction of The Center for Irish Studies:Though a 1989 graduate of St. Thomas, he says that he remains “a bit…