# Event Details - **Event Name**: April Book Club at the Irish Cultural Center - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 09 Apr, 2026 at 05:30 pm – Thu, 09 Apr, 2026 at 06:30 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: The Irish Cultural Center Book Club explores Irish and Irish-American literature.About this EventJoin us in the Irish Cultural Center Book Club. We’ll enjoy good craic and delve into Irish and Irish-American literature. This event is open to all, ICC Patrons and the general public.This month's meeting takes place on Thursday, April 9 from 5:30–6:30 pm at the ICC.We are reading Ring of Salt by Betsy Cornwell. Participants are encouraged to arrive a few minutes early to get settled, perhaps grab a drink, mix and mingle. You are welcome to stay after at the Trinity Pub to socialize with dinner or drinks.In addition to our regular dinner menu, we offer a specially priced Book Club Buffet at $15.50 per person, plus tax and tip. Guests of Book Club attendees are also welcome to partake in the buffet.About the BookAt twenty-four, Betsy Cornwell runs away to Ireland for a fresh start. Leaving behind a painful past, she chases her dream of becoming a novelist to the misty shores of the Aran Islands. Five years later, Betsy is trapped in an abusive marriage, isolated and afraid with a newborn baby. On her son’s first birthday, she must flee home again, this time turning to the women around her—her local survivor support group, a trusted family friend, and an online Smith College alumnae network—for help she’d never known she could ask for.When she discovers a historic knitting factory and former cinema on Ireland’s rugged Connemara coastline, left empty and crumbling for years, that precarious dream becomes her lifeline.Ring of Salt combines a powerful and relatable narrative of survivorship and healing with lush writing about the windswept landscapes and rich mythology of rural Ireland to craft a real-world fairy tale about the ordinary, but no less life-changing, forms of magic we can all access: vulnerability, community, and the power of telling your own story. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/west-springfield/april-book-club-at-the-irish-cultural-center/100001985230208996 - **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Meetups, Nonprofit - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: West Springfield - **state**: MA - **country**: United States - **location**: Irish Cultural Center of Western New England - **lat**: 42.1301764 - **long**: -72.64207859999999 - **full address**: Irish Cultural Center of Western New England, 429 Morgan Road, West Springfield, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: April Book Club at the Irish Cultural Center - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/fe04cd6e2f681ce713b021afbe01c06b1e9771df5a8e87d5358151ebb972f785-rimg-w1200-h600-dc465e29-gmir.jpg?v=1773654619 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is April Book Club at the Irish Cultural Center being held? - **A:** April Book Club at the Irish Cultural Center takes place on Thu, 09 Apr, 2026 at 05:30 pm to Thu, 09 Apr, 2026 at 06:30 pm at Irish Cultural Center of Western New England, 429 Morgan Road, West Springfield, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing April Book Club at the Irish Cultural Center? - **A:** April Book Club at the Irish Cultural Center is organized by Irish Cultural Center of Western New England. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "April Book Club at the Irish Cultural Center", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/fe04cd6e2f681ce713b021afbe01c06b1e9771df5a8e87d5358151ebb972f785-rimg-w1200-h600-dc465e29-gmir.jpg?v=1773654619", "startDate": "2026-04-09T17:30:00-04:00", "endDate": "2026-04-09T18:30:00-04:00", "url": "https://allevents.in/west-springfield/april-book-club-at-the-irish-cultural-center/100001985230208996", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Irish Cultural Center of Western New England", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "429 Morgan Road", "postalCode": "01089", "addressLocality": "West Springfield", "addressRegion": "MA", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "42.1301764", "longitude": "-72.64207859999999" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "The Irish Cultural Center Book Club explores Irish and Irish-American literature.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-03-16", "availabilityEnds": "2026-04-09T18:30:00-04:00", "validFrom": "2026-03-16", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/west-springfield/april-book-club-at-the-irish-cultural-center/100001985230208996" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-03-16", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-03-16", "url": "https://allevents.in/west-springfield/april-book-club-at-the-irish-cultural-center/100001985230208996", "price": 0, "name": "Registration" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Irish Cultural Center of Western New England", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/irish-cultural-center-of-western-new-england/22585058", "description": "The mission of the Irish Cultural Center of Western New England is to cultivate a connection with Ireland, through the arts, culture, history, language, and heritage. 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