Celtic Thunder’s Neil Byrne: Eyes of Eire Tour

Maine Irish Heritage Center 34 Gray St, Portland, ME, United States

Neil Byrne is an Irish singer/songwriter/musician and one of the principal singers in the world-renowned group Celtic Thunder. Many times over, Celtic Thunder has been Billboard’s Top World Artist. It has graced the stages across the United States, Canada, and Australia and cruises in the Caribbean, including performances at The White House, the Boston Celtics, […]

$45.00 – $75.00

Knitting across Ireland with Rachel Bingham Kessler

Maine Irish Heritage Center 34 Gray St, Portland, ME, United States

Visit 44Clovers.com for more details on the trip! Join Rachel Bingham Kessler in the Library at MIHC on April 21st for an enjoyable afternoon. You'll learn about the origins of Aran knitting and how you can join her upcoming unique knitting tour of Ireland. Homemade Irish refreshments will be served, and everyone who attends automatically […]

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Maine Irish Reads “Christine Falls” by Benjamin Black

Maine Irish Heritage Center 34 Gray St, Portland, ME, United States

In the debut crime novel from the Booker-winning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of a conspiracy among the city’s high Catholic societyIt’s not the dead that seem strange to Quirke. It’s the living. One night, after a few drinks at an office party, Quirke shuffles down […]

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Poetry Night Celebrating Seamus Heaney

Maine Irish Heritage Center 34 Gray St, Portland, ME, United States

In celebration of National Poetry Month (and Seamus Heaney's birthday!), we will be hosting an evening of poetry readings featuring three extraordinary Maine poets: Robert Breen, Jeri Theriault, and Jeffrey Thomson. Doors open at 6:30 PM, and readings begin at 7:00 PM. Admission is free. Donations in support of the Maine Irish Heritage Center are […]

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Book Talk Jack Cashman

Maine Irish Heritage Center 34 Gray St, Portland, ME, United States

"An Irishman's Story of Survival" by Jack Cashman About the event: Join us at the Maine Irish Heritage Center on Sunday, March 24th, from 1pm to 3pm for an author reading and discussion of "An Irishman's Story of Survival" with Jack Cashman. About the book: "Every life is a tapestry of challenges, with resilience as its […]

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Maine Irish Reads

Maine Irish Heritage Center 34 Gray St, Portland, ME, United States

Named Book of the Month Club's Book of the Year, 2017 Selected one of New York Times Readers’ Favorite Books of 2017 Winner of the 2018 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award  From the beloved New York Times best-selling author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, a sweeping, heartfelt saga about the course of one man's life, beginning and ending in post-war […]

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