About

Mission Statement:
Through our programs and services, the Columcille Irish Cultural Center promotes the knowledge and awareness of the Irish people’s history, and our contribution to the development of the New York City metropolitan area. In addition, we serve as a public facility and forum to showcase our Irish heritage and the impact of the Irish in America.

We achieve our stated mission statement by through activities such as:

  • Providing Public access to our library consisting of nearly one thousand books covering Irish history and poetry, hundreds of recordings, tapes, CD-ROM’s, numerous artifacts and memorabilia.
  • Providing an annual Irish Historical Scholarship of two thousand dollars open to all eighth grade school children of Staten Island.
  • Holding an annual Staten Ireland Irish Fair initiated 1999.  This two day cultural event provides a public venue for Irish crafts, music, dance, food and history.
  • Providing an Irish Honor Guard, available upon request at no charge to the general public for ceremonial functions.
  • Providing Irish Ceili Set Dancing classes.
  • Presentations of plays based on Irish Culture.
  • Presentations of books and poetry readings by Irish/Irish American authors.
  • Providing Irish musical instrument instructions.
  • Organizing and sponsoring numerous cultural tours to places of historical Irish/Irish American value such as the coal mines of Pennsylvania (home of the Molly Maguire’s) and the Battlefields of Antietam.

Corporate Sponsorship:
We take sponsors for our ancillary music tents which are known as The Pub Tent and The Traditional Tent. For $500 dollars, you can have your company name or logo appear at the main entrance  of either tent as well as at the stage area of that particular tent for both days as well as a mention in the 8 page Fair Journal. Another way you can help the Cultural Center during fair weekend is with a “Band Sponsorship” which entails your company name or logo to appear on the main stage for one of the two days at the rate of $250 dollars. You will also have your name appear in the 8 page Fair Journal. We also offer the Business Card Lawn Sign sponsorship. For $50 dollars, your business card will appear on a 24″ X 18″ lawn sign for both days at the entrance to the fair. Your business name will also appear in the fair 8-page journal. If you would like to help out the cause and support the quest for our own free-standing building, please mail payment to:

CICC – IRISH FAIR
c/o AL BARRY
88 Lester Street
Staten Island, NY 10314-4034

or fax your request to (718) 442 – 7705