By Brendan Clay “There’s a huge Irish population in Havertown and Delaware County,” said Tom Kelly, the chairman and executive director of Kelly Music for Life. “Havertown is often referred to as the 33rd county of Ireland.” That’s one big… Continue Reading
(Above) Anthony Waskie, Ph.D. president of General Meade Society of Philadelphia and vice president of the GAR Civil War Museum & Library was the master of ceremonies at St. Anne Parish Gravesite Dedication Ceremony By Brendan Clay On a rainy… Continue Reading
By Brendan Clay Philadelphia’s connections to Ireland just got a lot more direct. At around quarter after 4 p.m. on March 25th, the first Aer Lingus flight from Dublin to Philadelphia touched down at the Philadelphia International Airport. Its arrival… 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
By Brendan Clay In 1983, a couple emigrated from Ireland’s County Cavan to Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania where they got married and started a family. The husband had come to America before and worked at Cavan Construction with his brother. When… 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
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 The crowd arrived early on Sunday, April 24 while the weather was still cool. They gathered around the Irish Memorial, a 12-foot high bronze sculpture depicting bedraggled Irish refugees from the great starvation of the 1840s and… Continue Reading