Programs Schedule
Irish Cultural Society
of San Antonio Texas
Promoting Awareness of Irish Culture
February 17, 2008 Regular Monthly MeetingProgram to be "The Values Divide" by John Francis Burke, Ph.D
Dept of Political Science at University of St. Thomas.
John Francis Burke is a political theorist who focuses on the
challenges posed to democracy by multiculturalism in the
U.S. Southwest. The author of Mestizo Democracy: The Politics
of Crossing Borders (2002) and several articles on the subject,
he has been engaged for over a decade in fostering interchange
between Houston's diverse cultural, linguistic, and racial groups,
especially in religious communities.
"The Values Divide" presentation will consider how "values" have characterized
American politics starting with the election of John Kennedy, up to the present day,
and some notes on Irish-American Political Patterns.
November 25, 2007 Regular Monthly Meeting
Program to be Jim and Maggie Fox
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October 21. 2007 Regular Monthly Meeting
Miriam Gallagher,Irish playwright, novelist & screenwriter, was born in
Waterford.
Since 1983, over twenty of her plays have been performed in Ireland,
Europe, USA & Canada and work translated into Irish, Dutch, French,
Finnish and Russian. Her film Gypsies, screened at Irish Film Centre,
Galway Film Fleadh, Foyle Film Festival, New York's Lincoln Center,
Plaza cinemas, San Francisco & at International Children's Film Festival
at Hyderabad, India.
She has received several international awards and in 2000 was invited to present work at
the 5th International Women's Playwrights Conference in Athens & Delphi.
Miriam has served on committee of the Irish PEN, and as its vice president. She has
also served on the Irish Writers Union committee, on the council of the Society of Irish
Playwrights and as a judge for the O.Z. Whitehead Play Competition. She has served as a
member of the Awards Panel for Arts & Disability Forum. She has given scriptwriting
courses, worked in professional, prison & community theatre, given readings, creative
writing courses, and has been a visiting lecturer at universities in Dublin, Galway,
Athens, New York, Boston & Pretoria.
June 10, 2007 Annual General ICS meeting
Hanna Davidson Pankowsky shares her Holocost Experiences
with today's decendents of the Irish Famine
May 20, 2007 Regular ICS meeting
"The Irish Celtic Tiger: Where it came from and How it Works"
Presented by Dr. Joseph McFadden, Professor of History
and President Emeritus of the University of St. Thomas
April 15, 2007 Regular ICS meeting
"Exploring the Christian Heritage of the Celts"
Presented By Clan á Chalmain (Clan of the Dove)
February 18, 2007 Regular ICS meeting
Paul Cohen
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English,
Texas State University, San Marcos, TX 78666
This Month's presentation will be on Laurence Sterne’s
Tristram Shandy (18th century).
As the Lieutenant of Inishmore is one of the funniest
plays, Tristram Shandy is the funniest novel
and has long had the reputation as the most unfilmable
of novels.
Dr. Cohen considers Tristram Shandy "The greatest
shaggy-dog story in the language."
Previous Presentations:
Dr. Cohen has previously entertained us with some of the
most interesting and educational presentations including:
James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Bloomsday in Dublin, and Ulysses,
Flann O'Brien, and The plays of Martin McDonagh.
October 15, 2006
Regular ICS meeting
The Highland Pipers
Their website is
harleypipers@sbcglobal.net
April 15 to May 8th
The Clearing
A Play by Helen Edmundson
The Jewish Community Center, Sheldon Vexler Theater
Intersection of Military Drive and Wurzbach
Thursdays at 7:30 PM, Saturdays at 8:00 PM, Sundays
at 2:30 PM.
Oliver Cromwell is regarded as a social reformer in England;
In Ireland his name is quite justly as much a symbol of racial
persecution as Adolf Hitler's. "The Clearing" is set in Co.
Kildare, Ireland. By 1650 Cromwell has suppressed most of
Ireland, leaving it in ruins. It is the tale of a small few
who fought back in desperation.
April 24th 2004 at 6:PM
Visual Arts in Ireland
by Brian Kennedy
at the SAC Visual Arts & Technology Center
950 Lewis at Dewey (off San Pedro)
Brian Kennedy was Born in Belfast in 1949, he earned his
Diploma and Higher Diploma in Fine Arts from Belfast College
of Art. He has exhibited widely in Europe and North America
and has held residencies in Ireland, Italy, Scotland, the USA,
most recently as the Arts Council of Northern Ireland's fellow
at The British School in Rome. His main focus has always been
large scale site-specific installations. He has also worked on
photography, painting and performing arts.
April 16, 2004 at 7: 00 PM
The Junior Comhaltas Group from Kilkenny Ireland will present
an evening of music, singing, and dancing.
St. Gregory The Great Hall.
Traditional Irish Singers, Dancers, and Musicians. They
are Internationally known from Ireland and the rest of
Europe and as far away as New Zealand. These folks are
the all Ireland Champs. This is their first time in
San Antonio, Texas. The comhaltas is an authentic Irish
traditional type of performance.
May 9th 2003 at 7 PM Regular ICS Meeting
The Williamite War and the Flight of the Wild Geese
Presented by Evelyn Coleman
Visual Arts & Technology Bldg. at San Antonio College
corner of Dewey & Lewis at 7 PM
She is on tour with the Irish American Cultural Institute
Evelyn Coleman is currently responsible for the operation
of the visitor services at the National Monuments of Charles
Fort and Desmond Castle/International Museum of Wine, in
Kinsale, Co. Cork, Barryscourt Castle in East Cork and
Dungaven Castle in Co. Waterford.
November 19, 2000 Regular ICS Meeting at 4 PM
Share her interests in Ireland by Lucy McBee
at St Gregory the Great Center, 709 Beryl SATX.
Lucy McBee is a winner in the Irish Catagory of
the Poetry Contest.