April 2022

2022 St. Patrick’s Season is a Huge Success It was great to be back gathering again, after the abrupt cancellation of all the 2020 St. Patrick’s events and the muted 2021 activities. The energy and buzz around the Center was great, and people were so happy to be out...

Parade Contest

UICC Photo Contest Send us your Best!   The Irish Center SF Parade Bus is on the move this Saturday!  PARADE, PICTURES, & PRIZES!  When you’re at the parade Saturday make some noise for the Irish Center SF Parade Bus—it’ll be packed full of everything...

March 2022

A Look Back in Time Growing up as a “garsún” (small boy) in rural west Limerick, I often spent weekends and holidays in Ashford, Co. Limerick, with my grandparents Michael and Josephine O’Connor. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, small farm enterprises dotted the...

February 2022

Praise the Youth and they will flourish!  “Mol an Óige agus tiocfaidh sí” — The early weeks of each New Year at the Center are the ones which have been historically quiet after normally busy Christmas and New Years celebrations in the community. That...

January 2022

Culture and Arts Program Expansion Planned for 2022  A very Happy New Year to our members. Many thanks to all those who helped us end 2021 on a high note, with very generous responses to our annual appeal, library raffle and several funded pledges to the 2025 Project....