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This site includes the postings from the Irish Aires email list. This includes a listing of Irish/Celtic events in the Houston area and other information that the Irish Aires radio program posts.
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Celtic Music in Texas
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Note: These mailings assembled by unpaid volunteers in a
sleep-deprivation experiment. All schedules subject to change or perhaps
even error. Send listings, preferably in text-only format, to
calendar@texcelt.org. The calendar covers Monday to Monday (under normal
circumstances) and is mailed over the weekend (under normal
circumstances). Submit your listings by Friday. Regular events are
listed once a month.
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EVENTS IN CENTRAL TEXAS
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Thursday, March 17, 2005
St. Patrick's Day Throwdown
celebrating the Irish roots of bluegrass
Mother Egan's
Austin, TX
noon - midnight
$5 donation at the door to benefit the Celtic Cultural Center
Entertainment includes the Weary Boys, Tea Merchants, Cluan, Chisholm
County Line, Ptarmigan, Irish Dance Center, Clickety Cloggers, Jeff Moore,
Silver Thistle Pipes & Drums
For information contact Donnelle Mckaskle at 512-431-6290
http://celticcenter.org/
St. Patrick's Day Celebration
Fado Irish Pub
214 W 4th St.
Austin, TX
512/457-0172
Music includes Blaggards and Silver Thistle Pipes & Drums
B.D. Riley's Pub
St. Patrick's Day Celebration
204 E. 6th St.
Austin, TX
512/494-1335
11 AM Gan Fidil
2 PM Tip the Jar
6 PM Cluan
9 PM Pubcrawler
midnight The Tea Merchants
No Cover
St. Patrick's Day Celebration
Dog & Duck Pub
Austin, TX
Music includes Silver Thistle Pipes & Drums
Silver Thistle Pipes & Drums
North By Northwest
Austin, TX
noon - 1:30 PM
St. Patrick's Day Beginner Social
Austin Scottish Country Dance Society
Quicksilver Dance Studio
Austin, TX
7 - 9 PM
Bring a snack to share!
Brazos Valley Celtic Association St. Patrick's Day Party
Carney's Pub
3410 South College
Bryan, TX
http://www.bvcelts.org/BVCAmain2.html
Friday, March 18, 2005
Tea Merchants
Irish Dragoon Pub
Killeen, TX
8:30 PM
Saturday & Sunday, March 19-20, 2005
Brobdingnagian Bards
Excalibur Fantasy Faire
Rocky Hill Ranch
Smithville, TX
512/303-3801
http://thebards.net/
Sunday, March 20, 2005
Irish Heritage Day
Institute of Texan Cultures
801 S. Bowie
San Antonio, TX
noon - 5 PM
(210) 458-2330
$7 adults; $4 children 3-12, seniors 65+, military; free for children 2 &
younger
Guest speakers: Jean Kelly, founder and director of the Speedwell Trust,
and Harry McKillop, humanitarian (1 PM)
Entertainment includes Irish dancers, Boru, Foxes, and harper Doc Grauzer
Activities include kids korner, storyteller, Irish "tattoo,"
make St. Brigid's Cross, Celtic coloring, etc., Celtic sales, genealogy,
travel & video, scone making demo, Book of Kells, more.
For information contact Tina Luther at Tina.Luther@utsa.edu or
(210) 458-2237
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EVENTS IN EAST TEXAS, MISSISSIPPI, AND LOUISIANA
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Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Thistle & Harp: Celtic Heritage Society of East Texas
Monthly meeting
Oakland Heights Baptist Church
1607 Judson Rd
Longview, TX
7 - 9 PM
http://www.txcelt.com/
Thursday, March 17, 2005
St. Patrick's Day Celebration
McGonigel's Mucky Duck Pub
2425 Norfolk
Houston, TX
713/528-5999
$14
Entertainment starts at noon and includes Wyndnwyre, EJ Jones, Jiggernaut,
the Rogues, O'Mhaoileidigh Irish Dancers, Tartanic, Martin Burniston's
Irish Singalong, and the Irish Session Players
http://www.mcgonigels.com/stpatricks2005.htm
Houston St. Patrick's Festival
Meridian
1503 Chartres
Houston, TX
no cover
5 PM
Music includes The Flying Fish Sailors, Constant Billy, Godfrey’s Rangers,
Paisley Close, and dancers and pipers
http://www.meridianhouston.com/
Constant Billy
KPFT, 90.1 FM
Houston, TX
2:30 PM
http://www.constantbilly.com/
St. Patrick's Day
Brian O'Neill's
5555 Morningside
Houston, TX
713/522-2603
1:30 - 5:30 PM Murder the Stout (singalong)
6 PM The Slags
7:30 PM McTeggart Irish Dancers
8 PM The Slags
10 PM Trey Clark Band
Liam Tierney
Molly's Pub
Houston, TX
4 PM
Irish Society 3rd Annual St Patrick’s Day Mass
Chapel of St. Basil
University of St. Thomas
3802 Yoakum
Houston, TX
10:30 AM
Followed by corned beef & cabbage brunch at 11:45 AM in the Scanlan Room.
Brunch cost $20 for Irish Society members; $30 for nonmembers
For more info call Lori Gallagher at 713-525-3592 or email irishstudies @
stthom.edu.
http://www.theirishsociety.org/
Brazos Valley Celtic Association St. Patrick's Day Party
Carney's Pub
3410 South College
Bryan, TX
http://www.bvcelts.org/BVCAmain2.html
Monday, March 21, 2005
"Early Irish Travel on the Galway Line: Transatlantic Triumph or Heroic
Failure?"
Lecture by Timothy Collins, a Chartered Librarian in the James Hardiman
Library, National University of Ireland, and Galway Graduate of University
College Galway in marine sciences and scholar of maritime history Director
of the Centre for Landscapes Studies, National University of Ireland,
Galway
Ahern Room
Crooker Center
University of St. Thomas
3909 Graustark
Houston, TX
Free and open to the public; no RSVP required
7 PM
Sponsored by Len Ivins on behalf of Ann Caraway Ivins, the UST Center for
Irish Studies and the Irish Society
For more info call Lori Gallagher at 713-525-3592 or email
irishstudies@stthom.edu
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EVENTS IN NORTH TEXAS, OKLAHOMA, AND ARKANSAS
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Thursday, March 17, 2005
St. Patrick's Day
Tipperary Inn
5815 Live Oak
Dallas, TX
8 PM - midnight
Entertainment includes Amberhawke, Behan, Boru's Ghost
Spriggan
Irish Rover Pub & Restaurant
8250 Gaylord Pkwy
Frisco, TX
214-618-6222
4 - 6 PM
http://www.spriggan.org/
Gallus
MacHenry's
7618 Camp Bowie West Blvd
Fort Worth, TX
817-377-0202
8 PM - midnight
http://www.geocities.com/Gallustrad/
St. Patrick's Day
Trinity Hall Irish Pub and Restaurant
5321 East Mockingbird Lane #250
Dallas, TX
214-887-3600
11:30 AM - 3:30 PM Jigsaw
afternoon Irish Sing Along
9 PM Seamus Stout
Friday, March 18, 2005
Scottish Mayhem
MacHenry's
7618 Camp Bowie West Blvd
Fort Worth, TX
817-377-0202
http://www.scottishmayhem.com/
Gallus
Trinity Hall Irish Pub and Restaurant
5321 East Mockingbird Lane #250
Dallas, TX
214-887-3600
9 PM - 1 AM
http://www.geocities.com/Gallustrad/
Sunday, March 20, 2005
Gallus
Celtic Spring
Lightcatcher Winery
6925 Confederate Park Road
Fort Worth, TX
4 - 7 PM
$10
No children under 12, please
http://www.geocities.com/Gallustrad/
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EVENTS IN SOUTH TEXAS
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Sunday, March 20, 2005
Irish Heritage Day
Institute of Texan Cultures
801 S. Bowie
San Antonio, TX
noon - 5 PM
(210) 458-2330
$7 adults; $4 children 3-12, seniors 65+, military; free for children 2 &
younger
Guest speakers: Jean Kelly, founder and director of the Speedwell Trust,
and Harry McKillop, humanitarian (1 PM)
Entertainment includes Irish dancers, Boru, Foxes, and harper Doc Grauzer
Activities include kids korner, storyteller, Irish "tattoo,"
make St. Brigid's Cross, Celtic coloring, etc., Celtic sales, genealogy,
travel & video, scone making demo, Book of Kells, more.
For information contact Tina Luther at Tina.Luther@utsa.edu or
(210) 458-2237
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Texas Celtic Music Network
http://texcelt.org
calendar@texcelt.org
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