Céad Míle Fáilte! One Hundred Thousand Welcomes! Founded in 1974, the Dane County Shamrock Club welcomes everyone to join and Celebrate Your Love of All Things Irish - need not be Irish to join! We are a social and charitable non-profit group sharing Irish culture with and for our local communities in the Madison area, and Dane County. www.danecountyshamrockclub.org.
Yearly, we host several events and participate in local fundraisers.
- St. Patrick's Day banquet - March 8, 2026, 12noon, at Rex's Innkeeper, Waunakee
- Irish Flag Raising Ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda, 11:30am, March 15, 2026
- St. Patrick's Day Parade - DCSC unit walks in the parade, around the Capitol Square, 1:30pm, March 15, 2026
- Irish Person of the Year honored each year
- Boys and Girls Club - Shamrocker Team walks in the Shamrock Shuffle - March 14, 2026
- New for 2026 - Silver Sponsor for the 2026 National Collegiate Irish Dance Championships, hosted by UW Sláinte Irish Dancers, Madison, Wisc April 11, 2026, UW Memorial Union
- BratFest - Shamrocker Team volunteers and supports BratFest, May 23 - 25, 2026
- Summer Picnic - July, date tbd
- Quarterly Book Club meetings - see our Facebook page and website
- Annual Halfway to St. Patrick's Day Social Céilí dance (tentative) - October, date tbd
- Christmas Banquet - First Sunday of the December
Sláinte! Good Health! ~Dane County Shamrockers
