Welcome to the official website of the Michael J. Quill Irish Cultural and Sports Centre. The Michael J. Quill Irish Cultural and Sports Centre (MJQICSC) were formed in 1987 by a group of people who wanted to help preserve Irish Cultures and Sports in America. This was especially important in the town of East Durham where the MJQICSC is located.

East Durham is known as the Emerald Isle of the Catskills. It got this name due to the thousands of Irish families that would vacation there every year. They choose East Durham because before the era of modern jet plane it was too expensive to travel to Ireland and East Durham was the closest thing that resembled Ireland.

The MJQICSC has a large patch of land along Route 145. Within this patch of land there are Festival Grounds, Gaelic Pitches, The Irish Park, The John E. Law memorial, September 11th memorial and much more.

We invite you to have a look around our website and see all that there is to do at the MJQICSC. We also have many concerts and events that we hold annually with picture pages and event calendars; we look forward to seeing you at one of these events soon.

 

 

 2010 Memorial Day Festival (May 29th -30th)