Court of St. Brigid Scholarship
Pageant
AOH Walsh Division Hall, 24242
Grand River Avenue in Detroit. Sponsored by Ladies AOH, Rose Kennedy
Division. Event selects 2009 AOH St. Brigid Queen & Court.
$5.00
52th
ANNUAL MAID OF ERIN PAGEANT
At
the Gaelic League, 2068 Michigan Avenue, Detroit
(Located 4 blocks west of old Tiger Stadium)
St. Patrick's Parade Fundraiser
Feb 28, 2010
Detroit
International Feis - Irish Dance Competitions
Dublin
(Ohio) Irish Festival
Clare
Irish Festival (Clare, MI)
Cleveland
Irish Cultural Festival
Dublin
Ohio Irish Festival
Flint's
St. Patrick's Day Celebration
Great Lakes
Feis (Lansing)
Irish Summerfest (Eastlake,
Ohio) Aug
Midwest
Fleadh Cheoil
Milwaukee
Irish Fest August
Michigan Irish
Music Festival - Muskegon
Mid
Michigan Irish Festival (September)
Rockford
Celtic Festival (August)
Saline Celtic
Festival
The
Alma Highland Games
The
Kalamazoo Scottish Festival
St. Andrew's
Society Games (Livonia)
Toledo
Irish Festival
Oh These Irish Hills
Festival (Irish Hills, Lenewee Co.)
Wheatland
Music Festival
Other
Midwest events...
Saint Ryan -
Ann Arbor artist. Beautiful series from Inishbofin, Co. Galway, Ireland.
If you know of an event, spot a error or have
a suggestion, please send it on.
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Ireland's National Anthem, history,
words in Gaelic and English as well as sound files.
Irish Declaration of Independence..
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Irish American Information
Service
Irish American
Post of Milwaukee
Irish
Voice (NY)
SUNDAY
Conor
O'Neill's Pub, Ann Arbor
7:00 -10:00 pm
Session hosted alternately by Marty
Somberg and Mick Gavin.
SUNDAY
Gaelic League/Irish
American Club, Detroit
Harp lessons with Lynn Reid
TUESDAY
Dick O'Dow's, 160 W. Maple, Birmingham, MI 48009
Most every Tuesday night from 9:00ish until at least 11:00 or later.
Slow session. Good for beginners. Open to all.
www.sessionite.com
 THURSDAY
Irish Music Lessons
Flanagan-O'Hare Studio, Birmingham
7:00 - 10:00pm
Detroit IMA Irish Music-Dance-Language Classes. You or your children
can learn to play fiddle, concertina, whistle, harp or lset dancing www.DetroitIMA.org
1st THURSDAY/MONTH
The
White Crow, Saginaw
7:00 - 9:00pm
Session hosted by Jean Marie Learman
CONCERT VENUES
The Ark (Ann
Arbor)
The
White Crow (Saginaw)
The Ten Pound Fiddle, (E. Lansing)
History
of Corktown - Detroit's oldest neighborhood
 Irish
Genealogical Society of Michigan
Meetings at the Gaelic League,
3rd or 4th Saturday of the month. All meetings open to the public/no
charge. Bill O'Neill 248-540-7294
Irish Family
History Foundation
MODERN JOURNEYS
The Irish In Detroit, Volumes 1 & 2
More Info on
the books..
FACTS: THE IRISH IN DETROIT
Assimilation: Scorned in the 19th Century by native-born
Americans as a bad influence on the country, the Irish are thoroughly
melted into the population: According to the U.S. Census Bureau, more
than 500,000 metro Detroiter's claim some Irish ancestry.
Arrival: In the 1840s.
Neighborhoods: Downtown; around Mt. Elliott-E. Jefferson
and most notably on the near west side, in what became Corktown.
Peak: By 1850, the Irish were the region's biggest
ethnic group, about a third of the foreign-born population. The Germans
soon surpassed them.
Stats: In 1850, 1 in 7 Detroiters had been born in
Ireland. By 1880, that figure was 1 in 20. In 1910, it was 1 in 80.
Clout: Detroit's Irish became influential in law,
law enforcement, politics and the Catholic Church. But they never dominated
Detroit the way the Irish dominated Boston, Chicago, New York and San
Francisco in either population or power.
Sources: The Detroit Almanac, "The Irish on the
Urban Frontier," by Jo Ellen Vinyard More...
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