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Entertainment on 5 different stages all three days!

Please check back here often for complete schedule as it becomes finalized.

  

 Friday, July 11Saturday, July 12Sunday, July 13
Main Stage

7:00 -  8:30    

Donofinn

 

9:00 - 11:00    

THE TOSSERS

 

12:15 -  1:15    

Irish Heritage Singers

 

1:30 -  3:00    

The Dooley Brothers 

 

3:30 -  5:00    

The Larkin and Moran Brothers

 

5:30 -  7:00    

SOLAS

 

7:30 -  9:00    

SEVEN NATIONS

 

9:30 - 11:00    

THE YOUNG DUBLINERS

12:00 -  2:00    

The Dooley Brothers

 

 2:30 -  4:00    

Bua

 

 4:30 -  6:30    

THE MAKEM AND SPAIN BROTHERS

 

 7:00 -  9:00    

GAELIC STORM

Raffle Stage

6:30 - 7:00

McNulty Irish Dancers 

 

8:30 - 9:00

Potato Eating Contest

1:00-1:30

Sheila Tully Academy of Irish Dance

 

3:00 - 3:30

Academy of Irish Music

 

5:00 - 5:30

Chicago Celtic Pipe Band

 

9:00 - 9:30

Shannon Rovers Irish Pipe Band

2:00 - 2:30

Misericordia Heartbreakers

 

4:00 – 4:30

Sham-ROCK Stars!

 

6:30 - 7:00

Academy of Irish Music

 

9:00 - 9:30

Bagpipes & Drums of the Emerald Society CPD

Fifth Province Stage

6:00 - 7:45

Joe McShane and the Silver Bridge Band

 

8:15 - 9:45

Finbarr Fagan's Band

 

10:15 - Close

The Muck Brothers

 

 

 

 

12:00 - 1:30

Cu Roi

 

2:00 - 3:30

Fast Eddie and Billy O'Donohue

 

4:00 - 5:30

Kennedy's Kitchen

 

6:00 - 7:30

Paddy Homan and Creevey

 

8:00 - 9:30

Bua

 

10:00 - Close

The Mickey Finns

 

12:30 - 2:00

Baal Tinne

 

2:30 - 4:30

Dyed in the Wool

 

5:00 - 6:30

The Katie Sullivan Band

 

7:00 - 9:00

The Mickey Finns

 

9:30 - Close

The Chancey Brothers w/Special Guests

 

Auditorium Stage

 

6:00 - 7:00

Seanachai Theatre Company 

 

7:15 - 7:45

Mulhern School of Irish Dance

 

12:00-1:00

Seanachai Theatre Company


1:30-2:15

Gaelic Park Players


2:30-3:00

Mullane-Healy-O'Brien Irish Dance Academy


3:15-4:15

Gavin Coyle


4:30-5:00

Trinity Academy of Irish Dance


5:30-6:30

Did Your Mother Come From Ireland?


6:45-9:00

One Page Play Finals

 

 

1:30-2:00

Sham-ROCK Stars!


2:00-2:30

Spriorad Damhsa


2:45-3:30

Shapeshifters


4:00–4:45

Milwaukee Irish Arts

Folk Tent

7:00-8:00

McDonagh Girls


9:00-10:00

Platform 29

12:30 Traditional Irish Music: ACADEMY OF IRISH MUSIC


1:30 Irish Dance Lessons: TRINITY ACADEMY OF IRISH DANCE


2:15 Children’s Sing-a-long: WIGGLEWORMS FROM THE OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC


3:15 Irish Music Lessons on the Bodhran: MIKE AUSTIN


4:00 Irish Ceili and Set Dancing Demonstration – FRANCIS O’NEILL CLUB AND THE IRISH MUSICIANS


6:30 Traditional Irish Sing Song with THE MALARKEY BROTHERS


7:30 Open traditional Music session with MIKE AUSTIN AND FRIENDS

12:30 Traditional Irish Music: MURPHY ROCHE JUNIOR BAND


1:15 Irish Dance Lessons: TRINITY ACADEMY OF IRISH DANCE


2:00 Children’s Sing-a-long: WIGGLEWORMS FROM THE OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC


3:00 Traditional Irish Sing Song: PAT MCKENNA AND SEAN O’DONNELL


4:00 Irish Bagpipe Demonstration: CHICAGO CELTIC PIPE BAND


5:00 Irish Music Lessons on the Bodhran: JOHN DEVENS


5:30 Traditional Irish Sing Song with THE MALARKEY BROTHERS

 3rd Floor Theatre

12:30-1:30:

Irish Lesson


1:30-2:30:

Moore’s Melodies—poetry and music


3:00-4:00:

Film Shorts


4:00-5:00:

Salon Concert


5:00-5:30:

Film Shorts


5:30-6:30:

Irish Heritage Singers

12:30-1:30:

Poetry Readings


1:30-2:00:

Film Shorts


2:00-2:30:

Did Your Mother Come From Ireland?


3:00-4:30:

Novelshop 2008


4:30-5:30:

Gavin Coyle


6:00-7:00

Irish Heritage Singers

 McGinty Room 

7:00pm - 8:00pm

Ceili Lessons

 

8:00pm - 11:00pm

Ceili

 

6:00pm - 8:00pm

Ceili Lessons

 

8:00pm - 11:00pm

Ceili

 

5:00pm - 7:00pm

Ceili Lessons

 

7:00pm - 10:00pm

Ceili

Shamrock American Room 

3:00-5:00

Tea Room

 3:00-5:00

Tea Room

Library

6:00pm - 8:00pm

BIG Book Sale

12:00-6pm

BIG Book Sale - Second Hand Prose and Poetry

 


 12:00-6pm
Genealogy Research

2:00

William Butler Yeats, His Life and Poetry – a lecture by Professor Casey


4:30

Thomas Moore – Materials on his life and music



12:00-6pm 

BIG Book Sale - Second Hand Prose and Poetry

 


12:00-6pm 

Genealogy Research

 

Museum

 

 

6:00-8:00 p.m.

Open

12:00-6:00 p.m.

Open

12:00-6:00 p.m.

Open

Art Gallery

6:00-8:00

Irish Cottage and Castle Birdhouses

12:00-6:00 p.m.

Irish Cottage and Castle Birdhouses

 

12:00-6:00 p.m.

Irish Cottage and Castle Birdhouses