ARCHIVE:

March 6 - March 13, 2004

The Irish have met at the American crossroads for five
hundred years. From San Francisco to Santiago de
Chile, Irish experience is woven into the Americas in
countless ways. CROSSROADS 2004 will showcase San
Francisco as a cultural crossroads of Ireland and America.
Join us for a week-long gathering to uncover the strands
of the Irish American story. Through poetry, song,
story and film, we celebrate this community at the
CROSSROADS - IRISH AMERICAN FESTIVAL, 2004.
From the decade of the CELTIC FESTIVAL to GATES OF
GOLD 2002, and IRISH CONNECTIONS 2003, the Irish
Arts Foundation and the Irish Studies Program at New
College of California are committed to creating a space
for the creative energies of Irish cultural expression.
CROSSROADS 2004 continues the tradition of providing
substantive programming in the San Francisco Bay Area
during the month of March and indeed, beyond.
– Margaret Mc Peake - New College of California
– Conor Howard - Irish Arts Foundation

Calendar of Events

Saturday - March 6th
Koret Auditorium - Main Library
Supported by the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library

2 - 3:30pm -
Irish History Through Poetry Music & Song
Narrated by Sue Jean Halvorsen with performances
by The Gasmen, Irish musical ensemble, along with
Colm O’Riain and Pireeni Sundaraligam
Sponsored by the Irish Literary and Historical Society.

3:30 - 5pm - Hybrid Irish Histories

Moderator: Margaret Mc Peake, Co-Director,
Irish Studies Program, New College of California

Peter Linebaugh, Professor of History, University of
Toledo; Author: The Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden
History of the Revolutionary Atlantic

Kerby Miller, Professor of History, University of
Missouri at Columbia; Author: Emigrants and Exiles:
Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America; Editor:
Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters & Memoirs

Janet Nolan, Professor of History, Loyola University,
Chicago; Author: Servants of the Poor: Education and
Mobility in Ireland and Irish America, 1880-1920

Patrick O’Sullivan, Director, Irish Diaspora Research
Unit, University of Bradford, England; Editor: The
Irish World Wide: History, Heritage and Identity

Sunday - March 7th
Delancey Street Theatre - $10
600 Embarcadero, SF (at Brannan Street)

7:30 - 9:30pm - A Literary & Musical Variety Show

Interlocutors: Conor Howard, IAF
and Sedge Thompson, West Coast Live

James Liddy, Poet and Professor of English,
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Author:
Gold Set Dancing (Salmon Poetry)

Mary O’Donoghue, Poet and Visiting Lecturer,
Babson College; Author: Tulle (Salmon Poetry)

Eddie Stack, Co-Founder of the IAF; Author:
Out of the Blue and The West (Tintaun)

AND FEATURING: Daniel Cassidy, The Gasmen,
Emer Martin, Melanie O'Reilly, Colm O’Riain and
Pireeni Sundaraligam and other surprise guests!

(This event will be broadcast on Saturday, February 13th
on KALW 91.7FM - A West Coast Live SPECIAL)

Limited Seating:
RESERVATIONS Suggested: 415-495-7380
REFRESHMENTS: 6:30 - 7:30pm

Monday - March 8th
New College of California Cultural Center
777 Valencia Street (at 18th Street)

7:30 - 9:30pm - The Irish Language in America /
An Gaeilge sa Mheiricea

Moderator: Turla Ó Colbaird,
Coordinator, Breacghaeltacht Berkeley
Daniel Cassidy, Co-Director of the Irish Studies

Program, New College of California; Film Director:
Uncensored Voices (1996); Civil Rights & Civil Wrongs (1994)

Micheal Ó hAodha, University of Limerick, Ireland

Esther O'Hara, Professor of Irish, New College and
U.C. Berkeley

Co-sponsored by Seachtain na Gaeilge (www.snag.ie)

March 10th & 11th - 7 -10pm
Delancey Street Theatre - $10

Wednesday - Award-Winning Irish Films

“YuMing is Aimm Dom” (2003) Director: Daniel O'Hara
Chinese Immigrant comes to terms with the Irish. (15 min)

“Black Tunnels” (2003) Director: Hillary Dully
Provocative documentary on teen alienation. (52 min)

“Headrush” (2003) Director: Shimmy Marcus. Crime
comedy-2 disillusioned youths smuggle cannabis. (85 min)

Thursday - Contemporary Irish Classics

“Valley of Ghosts” (2003) Director: Emer Martin
Comedy set in Silicon Valley - the new wild west.(16 min)

“Dublin Story”(2003) Director: Tom Hopkins -Street kidslives
starkly contrasted -Academy Award short-list. (14 min)

“Zulu 9” (2001) Director: Allan Gilsenan - Smuggling
of African migrants into Ireland as its theme. (11 min)

“If I Could Read the Sky”(1999) Director: Nichola Bruce
Dramatic - Irish immigration and exile. (83 min)

Friday - March 12th
New College of California Cultural Center

7:30 - 9:30pm - Irish Americans in the
Labor Movement

Moderator: Daniel Cassidy, New College Irish Studies

Mike Casey, President, Hotel Employees and
Restaurant Employees Union, (HERE) Local 2

Tom Hayden, Former State Senator;
Author: Irish on the Inside; Irish Hunger

Mary Foley, Past President of the California Nurses
Association (CNA) and American Nurses Association (ANA)

Josie Mooney, Executive Director, SEIU, Local 790

Patrick Mulligan, Financial Sec.,Carpenters Union Local #22