June 2022

Investing in the next generation of Irish American Leaders Leo T Walsh Program 2022 — Our educational scholarship program continues to be one of our most popular community engagements and attracts a robust number of applicants annually. Established in 1994, the Leo T...

May 2022

 April may signal the start of baseball season nationwide but pride of place this month in the community goes to the local Cooley Keegan branch of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann (C.C.E) based here in the San Francisco area.  Last month, the local Comhaltas...

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...

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....