By Peter Makem Ireland is suddenly a lonely place. Old securities have been shattered since the people of the United Kingdom — specifically the people of England — voted to leave the European Union, voted Brexit, an abbreviation of British… 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
Caption: (above) St. Anne Parish 170th Anniversary and Tribute to First Responders—An American flag flew from the top of the Philadelphia Fire Department Ladder Company 16 hook-and-ladder truck. By Russell W. Wylie Only a few weeks after the Continental Congress established… Continue Reading
by Msgr. Francis A. Carbine When Pope Francis speaks on the Parkway in Philadelphia during his September visit, listen carefully! You may hear traces of an Irish lilt. In fact, the future Pope studied English for three months in Milltown,… Continue Reading
Caption (above): McGregor the Irishman delivers something no other fighter can: a new audience in the nation of Ireland. By Brendan Clay I’m sitting at the bar at Tír na nÓg in center city sipping on a water and waiting… Continue Reading
Caption (above): Some Philadelphia area students currently attending Trinity College Dublin, are here with the Provost in Parliament Square in front of the Campanile. (L-R) Francesca Crooks of Gwynedd Mercy Academy High School ’12, Elizabeth Maguire of Gwynedd Mercy Academy… Continue Reading
Patricia Campbell, a psychiatric nurse from County Tyrone and the president of the Independent Workers Union in Ireland received the Passion for Peace award at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Chestnut Hill on Sunday, March 22nd. Campbell, who began her… Continue Reading
By Brendan Clay On February 20 the Delco Gaels hosted the 2015 Dancing Like a Star competition at the Springfield Country Club. Every year since 2012, the Delaware County-based youth Gaelic football and hurling club seeks out members of the… Continue Reading
By Chris McLoone The Glenside Gaelic Club held its first annual Father’s Day Tournament on June 15 at Bishop McDevitt High School, located in Wyncote, PA. For a first-time event, the tournament went off largely without a hitch. Families… Continue Reading