December 2020 Update on the Leadville Irish Miners’ Memorial The mound that will be the foundation of the centerpiece sculpture and been completed and will settle over the winter. A second load of soil was delivered and bedded into place by our talented excavator/molder Nathan, just as the first snow arrived in Leadville. Check out [...]
2020 Irish Network Colorado - Virtual Events Over the past few months we have had a couple of well attended virtual events. First was the Finding Motherland event with Helen Thorpe. Helen spoke about life on a dairy farm in Ireland where her mother grew up and her family's decision to immigrate to the United [...]
2020 Virtual Christmas Ceiliúradh - Irish Network Colorado Date: Sunday, December 20th, 2020 Time: 4.30pm MST Venue: Zoom Meeting RSVP: Click here Join us for a trip down memory lane as some of our Irish members and friends share how they celebrated the Christmas season. We will also have some chat about food and drink and [...]
Helen Thorpe has recently published a book called Finding Motherland - a wonderful collection of essays on topics like life on the dairy farm in Ireland where her mother grew up and her family's decision to immigrate to the United States and how that reshaped her parents. In the final essay, she shows how the problematic relationship [...]
Historic Mount Olivet Cemetery Tour with Dennis Gallagher of the Irish Network Colorado Date: Sunday, April 19th, 2020 Time: 2pm Venue: Mount Olivet Cemetery Tickets: Click here Join our Irish Network for an historic and unique tour of Mount Olivet Cemetery where 150,000 Denverites are buried. The tour will be led by the distinguished civic leader, academic, historian, [...]
Paddy's Day at the Soiled Dove with High Time and Reálta - Irish Network Colorado Date: Tuesday, March 17th, 2020 Time: 7.30pm Venue: The Soiled Dove Underground Irish Network Colorado are co-hosting with Celtic Events an exciting gig at the Soiled Dove on St. Patrick's Day - two up and coming bands from Ireland will be performing - [...]
From Dublin to Denver - An Irreverent Discussion - Irish Network Colorado Date: Saturday, March 7th, 2020 Time: 2pm Venue: The Abbey Tavern RSVP: Click here Come out to hear a mighty slagfest amongst a panel of jackeens who have been banished from 'The Big Smoke' of Dublin to become an ethnic minority amongst the Irish community [...]
First Annual Rambling House at Nallens Pub - Irish Network Colorado We hosted our first Rambling House on Saturday, January 25th at 2pm upstairs at Nallens Irish Pub. On long winter nights in Ireland, people congregated in a local rambling house for storytelling, singing, dancing and the odd bit of gossip. It was how our [...]
Another Successful Walking Tour with Dennis Gallagher - Irish Network Colorado Thirty people enjoyed a wonderful stroll around Globeville on October 20th and were treated to fascinating stories of days gone by. So much history in such a small area in Denver that still has many Polish, Russian and Slovenian influences. Many thanks to Dennis [...]
Hello, Irish and Irish-American Friends, and Friends of Ireland! Tá súil againn go bhfuil sibh ag baint taitnimh as an aimsir faoi lathair - tá athrú ag teacht! We hope you are enjoying the weather at the moment - there is a change coming! Come enjoy an historic walk with Dennis Gallagher in a couple [...]