Join us for the Irish Language Immersion Weekend (Deireadh Seachtaine Gaeilge)!

When:
March 1st – 3rd, 2019

Where:
Celtic Milwaukee Center in Wauwatosa

Featuring:

• Irish lessons for everyone from complete beginners to advanced learners
• Douglas Hyde Memorial Lecture
• Movie shorts and more
• Siopa Gaeilge-Irish language books and media shop
• Tour of Ward Irish Music Archives

Free for pre-registered UWM Students
$75 for the weekend
$50 for Saturday only

View the schedule and register here!

Social gathering at County Clare Inn, 1234 Astor Street, Milwaukee.

View the event flyer here.

This year’s Douglas Hyde Memorial Lecture features Dr. Bryan Rindfleisch, Assistant Professor of History, Marquette University.

Throughout the eighteenth-century, Scots-Irish traders (or “Ulster traders”) immigrated to the American South to take part in the deerskin trade. Many of these traders intermarried with the Creek and Cherokee Indians, creating families and communities in the process. This talk focuses specifically on the family of George Galphin, one of the wealthiest Indian traders in South Carolina and Georgia prior to the American Revolution and originally from County Armagh, who forged a series of “Ulster Connections” to Creek Country and Native America.