Mission Statement

Through our programs and services, the St.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 the heritage of the Irish people and the impact of the Irish in America.  We achieve our mission statement through these activities::

• 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 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 coalmines of Pennsylvania (home of the Molly Maguire’s), the Battlefields of Antietam, and The Statue of Liberty.