The Irish Center.
If you haven't been, stop by. If you haven't been lately, you haven't been. First of all, you may have noticed that name. Gone is the clunky former moniker "The Kansas City Irish Museum And Cultural Center." This is no museum. There's not a dusty antique in sight, except when I'm down there. It's a vibrant, active, interesting and fun place to be. Learn the Irish language. Find your roots. Do your Christmas shopping. Discover Irish culture. Learn to play or dance to traditional Irish music. Sip a pint of the black. Or rent the space and host your own event.
Find out about all the great things going on at The Irish Center at their website. And even the website is undergoing exciting changes, with a top-to-bottom new site and new web address (www.irishcenterkc.org) coming next week. The Irish Center of Kansas City is located in the lower level of historic Union Station and is open Wednesday through Saturday, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM and Sundays noon to 4:00. Hope to see you there.
Next up at the Irish Center: The Irish Laureates. Join energetic and widely published Irish scholar and UMKC Professor Steve Dilks at the Irish Center for our Fall 2011 Irish Literary Series.
All discussions take place on the following Saturdays, 4:15-6:00 p.m. at The Irish Center:
October 8 – W.B. Yeats - Cathleen Ni Houlihan & Easter 1916
October 22 – James Joyce - The Dead
November 19 – Samuel Becket - Waiting for Godot
December 3 – Seamus Heaney - poems from North
Texts and historical materials will be provided. Cocktails and snacks will be provided free of charge. To reserve your place and order the reading materials in advance, please contace Steve Dilks at dilkss@umkc.edu or the Irish Center at renata@irishmuseum.org.
The Fall 2011 Irish Literary Series is sponsored by the UMKC Department of English, The Irish Center, and Kansas City Irish Fest.
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2 comments:
Why 'failed'...Ms. Mahoney is going to be a complete success in 2012.
It's a long standing tradition/inside joke that we refer to all Irish Fest presidencies as "failed", though none of them have been. We have no doubt that Laren will be an outstanding leader.
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