Iowa Irish Fest

10/19/2026

Good luck to the Cedar Falls and Waverly-Shell Rock Girls' Rugby teams, who will represent Iowa at the Girls' High School 7s Championship later this week.

Announcement!

Cedar Falls and Waverly-Shell Rock will represent Iowa at the Girls High School 7s Championship in Meridian, Idaho, October 23–24.
Both teams play three pool matches on Friday, with Saturday’s matchups determined by pool results.
Friday’s schedule is on the graphic. All times are Mountain time—add one hour for Iowa.
Good luck to the players and coaches from both teams.
Follow the schedule and scores at rugbyiowa.org/external-tournaments/ghs7-2026-iowa

10/19/2026

10/15/2026

It's National Mushroom Day! Did you know that Ireland is a leading European producer and exporter of mushrooms?

10/14/2026

Calling all our creative friends to check out this opportunity.

10/10/2026

Come visit us now downtown at Main Street Waterloo Fall Fest now till 4 pm. We are conveniently located at Anton's Garden.

10/06/2026

Halloween, as we know it today, began in Ireland as Samhain.

Halloween as the world knows it began in Ireland as Samhain, the old feast that marked the end of the harvest and the start of the dark half of the year. By the early twentieth century it was a night of games in farmhouse kitchens, and the most popular of all was snap apple.

An apple was hung from a string on a rafter, and the children tried to bite it with their hands behind their backs, laughing and swinging and getting nowhere. Beside it there might be a basin of water with apples floating in it, hazelnuts roasting on the hearth, and a turnip hollowed out as a lantern.

Many of the games were forms of fortune telling, used to guess who would marry or who would travel. Irish emigrants carried these customs across the Atlantic in the nineteenth century, and from them grew the Halloween that millions now celebrate.

10/05/2026

Stop by our booth this Saturday at Main Street Waterloo's Fall Fest and purchase the past Iowa Irish Fest poster you are missing in your collection.