by UICC | Mar 1, 2022 | Message from UICC President
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...
by UICC | Feb 1, 2022 | Message from UICC President
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...
by UICC | Jan 1, 2022 | Message from UICC President
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....
by UICC | Dec 1, 2021 | Message from UICC President
This time last year we faced an uncertain future as the Irish Center was temporarily closed in the run up to Christmas and well into the New Year due to the Shelter in Place mandated by the local Public Health Dept. We had survived very challenging times all through...
by UICC | Nov 1, 2021 | Message from UICC President
Connecting the Dots………… In 2005 Steve Jobs gave the commencement address at Stanford University. During his oration he outlined several stories from his life – one of those stories was entitled “Connecting the Dots.” The story was a retrospective of his early life,...
by UICC | Oct 2, 2021 | Message from UICC President
“Daddy are you really going to Build a new Irish Center?” My daughter Roisín turned 7 years old on Sept 19th and I brought her along with me to the Center as I popped in to take some photos at Katherine Scanlon’s 90th Birthday celebration for the bulletin. As we...
