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Featuring Eileen Ivers, honoring Dan Ryan Hesse
6 pm, Muehlebach Towers, Honoring Dan Ryan Hesse, CEO Sprint, as the John J. Sullivan Jr. Foundation Humanitarian award winner and featuring Grammy award-winning Irish fiddler Eileen Ivers & Immigrant Soul. Come join us for this high Irish event of the Season! Go to Gala tab for more information.
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1 – 3 pm, fees
Hedge schools arose in Ireland when school was forbidden to the Irish, so teachers taught whenever and wherever they could, bringing the word to the people.
For this unique workshop, local expert teachers Peter Reilly Adams, Renata Henley and Mike O’Laughlin provide a history of hedge schools, including: Wild Geese-Flight of the Earls and the Civil War era. Session options include: Beginning Irish Language Notes; Irish History Through Song; Irish Family History, DNA Testing, Rare Books and Sean Nós (Irish singing style).
All participants gather together at the end for more Irish songs, language and history. Visit the instructor podcasts at Irishroots.com.
9 am also March 27, April 17, May 15. All workshops are at the Irish Museum and Cultural Center in Union Station conference room. Click here for more information.
Free for IMCC members, $5/session suggested donation for general, IMCC memberships will be available at the door. RSVPs are encouraged.
All welcome to come play and listen! Jan 17, Feb 21, March 21, Apr 18, May 16, Jun 20, Jul 18, Aug 15, Sept 19, Oct 17, Nov 21, Dec 19
1 – 4 pm; Free to all
6:30 pm also March 30, April 27, May 25. For February: The Burning of Bridget Cleary by Angela Bourke, a nonfiction account of a woman suspected of being a witch and then killed for it in rural Tipperary in 1895. Check out this New York Times review** of the book alongside another also written about Mrs. Cleary. click for more information
2 pm, suggested donation $5 for adults
All youth ages 6 – 18 are invited to sing, play an instrument, dance, give a reading; share an original drawing or painting, photograph or sculpture - anything Irish related!
Everyone is invited to come enjoy young people sharing their talents and their enthusiasm for the heritage at this non-competition showcase of area youth. No fee for participating. All welcome! Share your heritage! Email Rachel at info@irishmuseum.org to sign up talent or call 816-682-2356. IMCC Talent Showcase entry form 2010
11 am – 3 pm, free
2 pm, Col. James Crofutt gives his first-person narrative of Missouri ’s 7th “Irish” Brigade.
Come see, hear and experience up close Civil War re-enactors who made up Missouri ’s Missouri ’s Irish Brigade. Medical demonstrations, real Civil War artifacts, rolls of the 7th Brigade (look up your ancestors) and live period music. Men and women with authentic firearms, tents, equipment and dress will share their knowledge and enthusiasm of this part of Kansas City ’s regional Irish
10 am – 4 pm, Free entrance, $1 tickets for some activities. Warm refreshments.
What do you do with the whole family on St. Pat’s?
Bring them to the Irish Center before or after the Parade! There will be family-friendly games, crafts, music, contests and refreshments all day! While everyone’s having fun, we’ll also learn something about our Irish heritage! Detailed schedule will be posted soon.
Free or $1 activities include face painting, decorate an Irish bowler hat, make Celtic art stained glass page, plant a shamrock to take home, Irish balloon figures, Irish karaoke, music, storytelling, your name in Gaelic, Reddest Head contest, scavenger hunt. Workshops include Irish dance, penny whistle and bodhran (Celtic drum).
10 am – 4 pm, free
Sharing older Irish history, Society for Creative Anachronism friends bring weaving, chain mail, storytelling, harp, games and more to life to share with all.
2 pm A free program in recognition of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement between the Republic and Northern Ireland, all are invited to learn more about efforts to create peace and the history and the current state of the conflicts. Watch this space for presenters and more information. Sponsored by Children for Peace in Ireland. All welcome.
6 pm Celtic whiskey tasting, dinner and entertainment.
Irish whiskey: single-malt, blended, mountain or spring water, peat fire, smokey or smooth. Think you know your Uisce Beatha (Water of Life) whiskey? Come taste several Irish whiskeys and learn the differences, the similarities and the nuances from the experts. Also enjoy some Celtic camaraderie, a dinner by Raglan Road and appropriate music for the evening.
6 pm dinner followed by program
$40 IMCC, $45 general public, $270 for table of six. RSVP to info@irishmuseum.org, Rachel at 816-474-3848. Cash, check or credit card pre-pay or at the door.
Please join the fun and learn!
The Irish Center was listed in USA Today as a place that gives our city International Flair. Check out the article here: http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/10great/2009-10-22-united-nations-day_N.htm
Listen to Celtic Crossings radio show, 1510 am, Sundays at 10 – 11:30 am to hear about all the Irish happenings in town.
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