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Introduction to Irish Class
A course meant for an absolute beginner in the Irish language. Topics covered will include the history and development of the language in Ireland, common phrases, beginning grammar, and conversation basics. This class will meet from 12 – 1:30pm on Saturdays. Classes will be held on October 8, 15, 22, 29, and November 5 at the Kansas City Irish Center.
Find out more »Revive Your Irish Class
A course meant for students who have had prior experience with the Irish language The course will include more robust activities to rebuild conversation skills, sentence construction, vocabulary, and reading comprehension. This class will meet from 2 – 3:30pm on Saturdays. Classes will be held on October 8, 15, 22, 29, and November 5 at the Kansas City Irish Center.
Find out more »Derry Girls Season 3 Screening
Erin, Orla, Michelle, Clare, and the wee English fella are back! We’re excited the third and final season of Derry Girls has made its way to the US, and we want you to join us to watch! Find your favorite ’90s garb, grab a drink from our wee pub, and settle in for one more season featuring our favorite Northern Irish teens. This event is free – please register so we know to expect you!
Find out more »Introduction to Irish Class
A course meant for an absolute beginner in the Irish language. Topics covered will include the history and development of the language in Ireland, common phrases, beginning grammar, and conversation basics. This class will meet from 12 – 1:30pm on Saturdays. Classes will be held on October 8, 15, 22, 29, and November 5 at the Kansas City Irish Center.
Find out more »Revive Your Irish Class
A course meant for students who have had prior experience with the Irish language The course will include more robust activities to rebuild conversation skills, sentence construction, vocabulary, and reading comprehension. This class will meet from 2 – 3:30pm on Saturdays. Classes will be held on October 8, 15, 22, 29, and November 5 at the Kansas City Irish Center.
Find out more »Introduction to Irish Class
A course meant for an absolute beginner in the Irish language. Topics covered will include the history and development of the language in Ireland, common phrases, beginning grammar, and conversation basics. This class will meet from 12 – 1:30pm on Saturdays. Classes will be held on October 8, 15, 22, 29, and November 5 at the Kansas City Irish Center.
Find out more »Revive Your Irish Class
A course meant for students who have had prior experience with the Irish language The course will include more robust activities to rebuild conversation skills, sentence construction, vocabulary, and reading comprehension. This class will meet from 2 – 3:30pm on Saturdays. Classes will be held on October 8, 15, 22, 29, and November 5 at the Kansas City Irish Center.
Find out more »‘Snow’ by John Banville
Snow by John Banville The year is 1957 and the Catholic Church rules Ireland with an iron fist. Strafford—flinty, visibly Protestant, and determined to identify the murderer—faces obstruction at every turn, from the heavily accumulating snow to the culture of silence in this tight-knit community. As he delves further, he learns the Osbornes are not at all what they seem. And when his own deputy goes missing, Strafford must work to unravel the ever-expanding mystery before the community’s secrets, like…
Find out more »Introduction to Irish Class
A course meant for an absolute beginner in the Irish language. Topics covered will include the history and development of the language in Ireland, common phrases, beginning grammar, and conversation basics. This class will meet from 12 – 1:30pm on Saturdays. Classes will be held on October 8, 15, 22, 29, and November 5 at the Kansas City Irish Center.
Find out more »Revive Your Irish Class
A course meant for students who have had prior experience with the Irish language The course will include more robust activities to rebuild conversation skills, sentence construction, vocabulary, and reading comprehension. This class will meet from 2 – 3:30pm on Saturdays. Classes will be held on October 8, 15, 22, 29, and November 5 at the Kansas City Irish Center.
Find out more »Byrne & Kelly
Celtic Thunder’s Neil Byrne and Ryan Kelly are returning to Kansas City for a night of music and storytelling – what the Irish do best! Driven by dynamic vocal harmonies, the duo seamlessly combines genres like traditional Irish and Americana to create a fresh, Celtic folk sound that has garnered comparisons to iconic folk-rock duos like Simon & Garfunkel and The Everly Brothers. General Admission Ticket $40.00 General Admission seating for one. Doors for GA seating open at 7 p.m.;…
Find out more »Introduction to Irish Class
A course meant for an absolute beginner in the Irish language. Topics covered will include the history and development of the language in Ireland, common phrases, beginning grammar, and conversation basics. This class will meet from 12 – 1:30pm on Saturdays. Classes will be held on October 8, 15, 22, 29, and November 5 at the Kansas City Irish Center.
Find out more »Revive Your Irish Class
A course meant for students who have had prior experience with the Irish language The course will include more robust activities to rebuild conversation skills, sentence construction, vocabulary, and reading comprehension. This class will meet from 2 – 3:30pm on Saturdays. Classes will be held on October 8, 15, 22, 29, and November 5 at the Kansas City Irish Center.
Find out more »‘Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?’ by Séamas O’Reilly
Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? by Séamas O’Reilly After the untimely death of his mother, five-year-old Séamas O’Reilly and his ten siblings were left to the care of their loving but understandably beleaguered father. In this thoroughly delightful memoir, we follow O’Reilly and the rest of his rowdy clan as they learn to cook, clean, do the laundry, and struggle (often hilariously) to keep the household running smoothly and turn into adults in the absence of the woman who had…
Find out more »‘Beautiful World, Where Are You’ by Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together,…
Find out more »‘Small Things Like These’ by Claire Keegan
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. Already an international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply…
Find out more »‘The Victory of Sinn Fein’ by P.S. O’Hegarty
The Victory of Sinn Fein by P.S. O’Hegarty A valuable first-hand account of the tumultuous events in Ireland from 1916 to 1923, written from a now almost forgotten viewpoint – that of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. O’Hegarty’s heroes were Arthur Griffith, the founder of Sinn Fein, and Michael Collins.
Find out more »Selected Poems by W.B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats is widely considered to be one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. He belonged to the Protestant, Anglo-Irish minority that had controlled the economic, political, social, and cultural life of Ireland since at least the end of the 17th century. Most members of this minority considered themselves English people who happened to have been born in Ireland, but Yeats staunchly affirmed his Irish nationality. Although he lived in London for 14 years of his childhood…
Find out more »‘Strange Flowers’ by Donal Ryan
Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan In 1973 Moll Gladney goes missing from the Tipperary hillside where she was born. Slowly her parents, Paddy and Kit, begin to accept that she’s gone forever. But she returns, changed, and with a few surprises for her family and neighbours. Nothing is ever the same again for the Gladneys, who learn that fate cares little for duty, that life rarely conforms to expectation, that God can’t be relied upon to heed any prayer. A…
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