THIS EVENT IS LIVE AND IN PERSON. It will take place at the Brookland location of Busboys & Poets (at 625 Monroe Street NE - across Michigan Avenue from the National Shrine). There will be a cash bar and individual food orders (B&P Menu)  

TICKETS at $10 per person are available to Harvard Club and OLLI-AU Members HERE (friends from Barnard, Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, INSEAD, MIT, Princeton and Smith are also welcome) 

There may be a hybrid component to this event. If so, the link to join it virtually will be posted here: XXXXX 

CONTACT: Please contact event organizer, Bob Kolodney (at bobkolive@gmail.com) if you would like to collaborate in running activities or if you have any ideas or feedback - in particular you might like to check out the music playlist below to make sure that your favorite songs are included.

Whether or not you attend this event,PLEASE ENJOY THIS WEBSITE (however, OLLI and the Harvard Club  disclaim responsibility for any injuries resulting from excess laughter or other undue emotional exhilaration)

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A Celebration of 

Blarney, Good Cheer, Literature, and Spring

On this web page:

• Program

• Yeats Poems

• Heaney Poems

• Lewis Carroll Poems

• Stout Tasting

• Irish Bulls

• Arkansas Glossary

• Drunken Sailor and Popeye Lyrics

• Limericks and Tongue Twisters

• Jokes

• Library of Satirical Curiosities

• Music Playlist

• Entertaining Videos

• Tom Lehrer Recordings

• Tour Ireland

• Riverdance

• Cirque du Soleil

• Fireworks

Program (Party Activities):

1. Raffles for Prizes Pictured Below (a contest in summoning luck)

2. Reading of Poems by WB Yeats and Seamus Heaney

3. Reading or playing of any other literary passages, recordings or videos that anyone would like to share

4. Tongue Twister/Limerick recitation contest

5. Ireland trivia contest 

6. Joke-telling contest 

7. Individual, Group and recorded singing and listening

8. Step dance, Cirque du Soleil and Fireworks viewing

Yeats Poems

Heaney Poems:

Lewis Carroll Poems:

   Stout Tasting:

Alternative Beverage Tasting

(spider diagrams for Red Wine, White Wine, Whisky, Cola):

Irish Bulls:

Arkansas Glossary:

Limericks and Tongue Twisters:

Drunken Sailor and Popeye the Sailor Man:

Jokes:

Library of Satires and Spoofs:

Music Playlist:

Entertaining Videos:

Tom Lehrer Songs:

Tour Ireland with Rick Steves:

Riverdance Playlist:

  Cirque du Soleil Playlist:

 Fireworks Playlist:

       Prizes: