
Please join us for our May ‘First Friday’ Networking Breakfast, taking place on the second Friday of the month (9 May), which will focus on the intergenerational impact of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) across our region. From grassroots clubs to college campuses and first responder teams, the GAA continues to bring together players, families, and fans across generations—preserving cultural heritage while building a sense of community and shared identity.
Consulate General of Ireland, New York
200 Park Avenue Floor 17, New York, NY, 10166

Irish Arts Center
Wherever else I feel myself to be a stranger, I will remember I have a home in Belfast”—FREDERICK DOUGLASS In 1845, only seven years after escaping slavery, the abolitionist Frederick Douglass journeyed across the Atlantic to Ireland, where, in Belfast, he felt so welcomed that he declared of the city: “Wherever else I feel myself to be a stranger, I will remember I have a home.” Inspired by Douglass’s historic visit and galvanized by racial tensions in the aftermath of Brexit, the celebrated Belfast-based artist and DJ Kwame Daniels set out to create an artistic production that would bring the people of Belfast closer to Black cultures. His North Star, a flagship project of Belfast 2024, the city’s largest cultural program to date, melds music—jazz, gospel, classical, hip-hop and electronic—with spoken word and storytelling for a large-scale, immersive theatrical experience featuring artists and young people from the community responding to the question: What makes a place home to new people, to new ideas? This is a show about belonging like nothing you’ve ever seen. Join us.
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