* Please Note: Our Celebration Dinner scheduled for March 5, 2021, Friday has been POSTPONED. The New Date is September 17, 2021, Friday, at the Petroleum Club.
Our Honoree is Pete Little, Host of the Irish Aires Radio Show - KPFT 90.1, 2004 St. Patrick's Parade Grand Marshal and Irish Society Board Member!
May 7, 2021, Friday - Dan's House of Hope Golf Outing
DHOH will be hosting its 10th Annual “Driving FORE Hope” golf outing at Houston National Golf Club on Friday, May 7, 2021 – socially distanced of course. Food, beverages and prizes are included, and the entire event will be outside.
For more information, contact Roger at info@danshouseofhope.org.
The tournament will be held at:
Houston National Golf Club 16500 Houston National Boulevard Houston, TX 77095
Go to danshouseofhope.org to register to play golf or make a donation if you cannot make the golf outing.
May 21, 2021 - A Farther Shore: The Irish Civil War
Presented by Dr. Gemma Clark and Dr. Gavin Foster 12:00 pm CST l Live Stream via Zoom Free and open to the public Space is limited.
Please Register by Wednesday, May 19, 2021 REGISTER Here.
The University of St. Thomas William J. Flynn Center for Irish Studies is pleased to collaborate with the Embassy of Ireland to the United States and the Consulate General of Ireland in Austin, Texas in A Farther Shore: American Reflections on the Advent of Irish Independence (1921-1922), a series reflecting on the final years of Ireland’s decade of centenaries. Join Ambassador Daniel Mulhall, Dr. Gemma Clark and Dr. Gavin Foster as they discuss the Irish Civil War. UST Irish Studies Assistant Professor Jonathan Ó Néill will moderate the discussion. Dr. Gavin Foster will present: “Conflict and Memory: Ireland’s Civil War” Dr. Gavin Foster is Associate Professor of Irish History in the School of Irish Studies, Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. His book, The Irish civil war and society: politics, class, and conflict (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), was awarded the American Conference for Irish Studies’ 2015 ‘James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize for Books on History and Social Sciences’. He has published articles and essays in The Atlas of the Irish Revolution Kerry: History and Society Field Day Review Saothar: Journal of the Irish Labour History Society Éire-Ireland: Journal of Irish Studies New Hibernia Review History Ireland and the Revolution Papers, among others. He is currently writing a study of the Irish Civil War and revolutionary memory based on extensive oral history interviews and research conducted with funding from the Government of Quebec.
Dr. Gemma Clark will present: “Women’s interactions with the Irish Civil War: Gender-based harm in perspective” Dr. Gemma Clark is Senior Lecturer in British and Irish History at University of Exeter, with research and teaching specialisms in violence. Her first book, Everyday Violence in the Irish Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2014), examines the conflict (1922–23) over the Anglo-Irish Treaty. She has also published on sectarianism, gender-based violence, and arson, in outlets including The Irish Times, Irish Historical Studies, and The Atlas of the Irish Revolution. Gemma is currently writing a global history of arson and has received British Academy funding for a related project – ‘Exporting Arson: Incendiarism as Protest in the Global Irish Diaspora’ – which uses case studies from the USA and Australia to explain why malicious burning is deployed more intensively in some conflicts and movements than others.
