by Brendan Claybrendanjamesclay@gmail.com In 2013, eight teams of Irish dancers competed at the first Villanova Intercollegiate Irish Dance Festival, founded by then students Rory Beglane and Mattisan Rowan and team faculty advisor George Pinchock. On Saturday, November 10, Villanova hosted… Continue Reading
By Tim McCloskey The cold weeks between New Year’s Day and St. Patrick’s Day have traditionally been a slow and painful period for Philly’s downtown Irish bars, but one group of diehard soccer fans have been throwing an annual event… Continue Reading
Photo (above): © Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved By Brendan Clay 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens (dir. J.J. Abrams) ends with the movie’s new Force-wielding protagonist, Rey, tracking down a grizzled, bearded Luke Skywalker living as a… Continue Reading
Photos: Brendan Clay By Brendan Clay On Saturday, November 4th, Villanova University hosted its fifth annual Intercollegiate Irish Dance Festival in St. Mary’s Gym on Villanova’s campus. The festival is a showcase of some of the best Irish dance American… Continue Reading
Photo: Sarah Flynn By Brendan Clay Irish folk band Lankum released their new album Between the Earth and Sky on October 27th. This is the first album they will be releasing under the name Lankum, as they were previously called… Continue Reading
[Above: Senator John Blake, D-Lankawanna, Maureen McGuigan, Lackawanna County Deputy Director of Arts and Culture and Robin Hiteshew, photographer] The Arts and Culture for Lackawanna County presented “The Face of Irish Music”— an exhibit of photographs by Philadelphia resident Robin… Continue Reading
Photo by Jennifer Logue By Brendan Clay Airing ad free on WPPM 106.5 FM on Thursdays from 3 to 5 pm, CRAIC Radio is a music program put together by two men from Dublin who have been part of the… Continue Reading
An intense look into the life of the First Lady immediately after the assassination. By Thom Nickels Look at photographs of the grassy knoll at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, where President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade sped away after an… Continue Reading
Article and Videos By Brendan Clay It’s Labor Day, September 5, 2016, and the Villanova Irish Dance Team is hard at work preparing to compete. An upbeat pop number blares throughout the tiny dance studio in St. Mary’s Hall on… Continue Reading
By Brendan Clay Come Easter, America will be joining Ireland and the rest of the global Irish diaspora in commemorating the hundredth anniversary of Ireland’s Easter Rebellion, when the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) led an armed occupation in Dublin on… Continue Reading