☘☘☘ Monday February 12 at 19:30 – Irish Heritage Quebec will hold an activity in McMahon Hall, 1145 de Salaberry in Quebec City. Local historian Joe Lonergan will give a presentation entitled The Irish Coves of Quebec City 1851-1891. Friends and members are invited to attend. Refreshments will be served and parking stubs for Îlot St-Patrick will be validated. For more information phone Irish Heritage Quebec at 418-704-3404. ☘☘☘
☘☘☘ Monday December 11 at 19:30 – Irish Heritage Quebec will hold an activity in McMahon Hall, 1145 de Salaberry in Quebec City. Vice-President John Bertrand who takes a great interest in vexillogy, the science of flags will give a presentation on the suggested adoption of a flag of his design for Irish Heritage Quebec. This will be followed by the presentation of an appreciative plaque to the playwright Émile Proulx-Cloutier for the production of his well acclaimed Grosse Ïle : 1847. Émile Proulx-Cloutier will discuss the future of his play and field any question on its production and future. There will be a draw for to tickets to a December 2024 presentation of this play at Le Bordée in Quebec City. Friends and members are invited to attend. Refreshments will be served and parking stubs for Îlot St-Patrick will be validated. For more information phone Irish Heritage Quebec at 418-704-3404. ☘☘☘
Monday November 13 at 19:30 – Irish Heritage Quebec will hold an activity in McMahon Hall, 1145 de Salaberry in Quebec City. Retired Major Alec Cooper, MD will give a presentation on his personal experiences of war. Dr. Cooper is a veteran of two wars and a Clinical Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at Laval University. Friends and members are invited to attend. Refreshments will be served and parking stubs for Îlot St-Patrick will be validated. For more information phone Irish Heritage Quebec at 418-704-3404.
☘☘☘ Monday October 16 at 19:30 – Irish Heritage Quebec will hold an activity in McMahon Hall, 1145 de Salaberry in Quebec City. Lorraine O’Donnell will give a presentation entitled The Contribution of Québécois Women of Irish Descent. A former resident of Quebec City, her research focus is Canadian women’s history and history/heritage projects that involve and help build communities. Lorraine O’Donnell has a Ph.D. in History from McGill and works at the Quebec English-Speaking Communities Research Network at Concordia University. Friends and members are invited to attend. Refreshments will be served and parking stubs for Îlot St-Patrick will be validated. For more information phone Irish Heritage Quebec at 418-704-3404. ☘☘☘
☘☘☘ Monday September 11 at 19:30 – Irish Heritage Quebec will hold an activity in McMahon Hall, 1145 de Salaberry in Quebec City. J. Hugh O’Donnell will give a presentation entitled Surveying; Four Generations of O’Donnells. Tracing his family’s Quebec City roots, J. Hugh will touch on the establishment of Quebec City’s water system, the search for Champlain’s grave and family achievements. Friends and members are invited to attend. Refreshments will be served and parking stubs for Îlot St-Patrick will be validated. For more information phone Irish Heritage Quebec at 418-704-3404.
Hugh is a graduate of Laval University in Geodetic Sciences and holds commissions in Ontario and Quebec. He served as Surveyor General of Ontario, Assistant Deputy Minister of Geomatics Canada and Executive Vice President of the Canadian Commercial Corporation. In the private sector he worked for Marshall Macklin Monaghan, a multi-disciplinary engineering firm which specialized in areas of planning, infrastructure, hospitality and health care. Hugh was responsible for business development of the firm’s activities worldwide leading international marketing and sales initiatives to organizations in the Middle East, China, Korea and Latin America. ☘☘☘
Monday June 19 at 19:30 – Irish Heritage Quebec will hold an activity in McMahon Hall, 1145 de Salaberry in Quebec City. Keelan Harkin will give a presentation titled, Irish Authors and the Irish Free State. Keelan Harkin PhD is an Assistant Professor at the Concordia Course of Irish Studies. His subject deals with the socio-political disappointments and aspirations reflected in the works of Irish writers with Ireland in the 1930s. Friends and members are invited to attend. Please arrive by 19:20 as the church door will be locked at 19:30. Refreshments will be served and parking stubs for Îlot St-Patrick will be validated. For more information phone Irish Heritage Quebec at 418-704-3404
☘☘☘ Monday April 17 at 19:30 – Irish Heritage Quebec will hold an activity in McMahon Hall, 1145 de Salaberry in Quebec City. Steven L. Cameron of Coirneal Cealteach, Sainte-Agathe-de-Lotbinière will give a presentation titled The Two Sides of Father James Nelligan. The presentation will examine the two sides of a priest among his Irish immigrant flock radicalized by oppression. Friends and members are invited to attend. Refreshments will be served and parking stubs for Îlot St-Patrick will be validated. For more information phone Irish Heritage Quebec at 418-704-3404. ☘☘☘
Monday, March 20 at 19:30 – Irish Heritage Quebec will hold an activity in McMahon Hall, 1145 de Salaberry in Quebec City. Members and friends are invited to attend. Playwright Émile Proulx-Cloutier, author of the successful play “Grosse-Île, 1847 (Dans les mots de ceux qui l’ont vécu)” will be interviewed on his research and the creative process that led to the play. He will be interviewed by Sébastien Proulx, former Quebec minister of education. This activity is being held in association with the Défilé de la Saint-Patrick de Quebec. The conference will be in both English and French. We hope to see many of you there. Please arrive by 19:20 because we must lock the church door on de Salaberry at 19:30. Refreshments will be served and parking stubs for Îlot St-Patrick will be validated. For more information, please phone Irish Heritage Quebec at 418-704-3414
Monday, February 13 at 19:30 – Irish Heritage Quebec will hold an activity in McMahon Hall, 1145 de Salaberry in Quebec City. John Bertrand, Vice-President of Irish Heritage Quebec, will give a presentation entitled The Irish Tricolour explaining how it came to be the national flag. John Bertrand is a graduate of Laval University and a member of three different national vexillological associations. Members and friends are invited to attend. We hope to see many of you there. Please arrive by 19:20 because we must lock the church door on de Salaberry at 19:30. Refreshments will be served and parking stubs for Îlot St-Patrick will be validated. For more information, please phone Irish Heritage Quebec at 418-704-3404.
Irish Heritage will hold its first activity this year on January 16 at 19:30 hours in McMahon Hall, 1145 de Salaberry in Quebec City. Joe Lonergan will give a presentation on the history of the Sons of Ireland Hockey Club. Members and friends are invited to attend. We hope to see many of you there. Please arrive by 19:20 because we must lock the church door on de Salaberry at 19:30. Refreshments will be served and parking stubs from Îlot St-Patrick will be validated. For more information, phone Irish Heritage Quebec at 418-704-3404.