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Looking Back…
(Celtic Cross photo (Above) by author Anne Mourier. Also by Anne Mourier, “Be Rose” 2019 diptych photography (pictured below)) Looking back … I can feel it … and you can feel it … something is off balance. The poor are poorer, life expectancy is decreasing even in the US, animals and plants are dying at […]
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New Irish-American Partnership for Biggest Building Blitz in South Africa Global Partnership Brings Over 2000 Irish and American Volunteers Together to Replace Shacks with New Homes in South African Township
The groundbreaking partnership aims to bring over 2000 volunteers from the”U.S.”and”Ireland”to the Khayelitsha township, located approximately 25 miles outside”Cape Town. Meaning Xhosa for “our new home,” Khayelitsha is one of the youngest and biggest townships in the”Cape”Flats area. The Blitz will take place at the overcrowded Site C, the oldest part of the township with […]
What”s In a Name? Ken Hannon Larson Will Show You At the 2008 Colorado Irish Festival”s Irish Surnames (Sloinnte Gael) Exhibit
As a school boy he listened as his history teacher talked for two days about the Algonkin Indian tribe of Canada who were constantly at war with the Iroquois Nation of upstate New York. “On the second day I asked, “Can you tell me why these two were not getting along?” and his answer to […]
Update to Rosemary Nelson Murder Inquiry
Fearing for her safety and the safety of her family, Nelson went to the RUC looking for protection. Her cries for help were denied. Nelson then went to many people with reports of threats against her life and her subsequent requests for protection ” including Burke with whom she met in Lurgan at a March […]
ROCKIN’ OUT MS MAY 2008
Why would an Irish musician living in the Netherlands contact a blues-rock musician in Colorado? Mark Gilligan contacted someone he had never heard about before as he started to search for other musicians that were suffering from the same disease that he was, MS, multiple sclerosis. Mark has performed most of his life, including with Noel […]
Denver Attorney Tom Burke Summoned to Testify in Rosemary Nelson Murder Inquiry in Belfast
Rosemary Nelson, mother of 3 young children, drove from her home in LurgenLurgan, a town in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, on March 15, 1999. A hundred yards from her home and down the street from her children”s school, a bomb that had been placed under her car detonated. Friends and family rushed to the wreckage […]
The Iambics of Newfoundland Notes from an Unknown Shore
Reviewed by Mary McWay Seaman, Celtic Connection, April, 2008 How often do our mortal selves bear scrutiny as a mighty chunk of nature, chiseled as we are by technological realignments to flesh, blood and bone? Probably not too often; rather, we use “nature” as a reference to outdoor surroundings and the birds, the beasts and the […]
The Irish and Irish Studies in Montana
Native-American lore preserves an illuminating record of a complex and extensive interaction between indigenous peoples and the Irish on many different levels. On one level, the happy consummation of native and Irish led to the emergence of the M”ti community, a mixed-blood people who trace their ancestry back to the intermarriage of Indian and Irish-speaking […]
CUIS & CC Volunteers Thank You Party April 12 at “Best New Venue” The Falcon Live Music by The Prodigals and Angus Mohr
Colorado United Irish Societies, the folks behind the annual Colorado Irish Festival, and The Celtic Connection newspaper are throwing an “All-Ages” “Thank You” party for their volunteers and supporters on Saturday, April 12 from noon to 6pm at the exciting multi-use entertainment hot spot, The Falcon. Colorado United Irish Societies, the folks behind the annual […]
Stones In His Pockets
a review by Cindy Reich I was smitten before ever seeing the play upon entering the Denver Victorian Playhouse. A lovely house in a residential neighborhood, built in 1911 with a small theater built in the basement. The Bungalow Theater was active for decades and then later was used as a church space and even a […]
Celtic Thunder Airing
Nationwide in March
CD/DVD Release March 4th
Celtic Thunder, a brand-new show created and produced by Sharon Browne, the original producer of Celtic Woman, will make its debut in the U.S. with a Public Television special airing on local stations nationwide beginning this month. It will air March 14th at 7 pm on Channel 12. Celtic Thunder, a brand-new show created and […]
A Conversation with Phil Coulter
by Cindy Reich Phil Coulter is no slouch. He wrote songs for Elvis, wrote the mega-hit “Saturday Night” for the Bay City Rollers and produced three albums for “Planxty” (for the traditional music lovers in the audience). It”s impossible to pin him down and put him in a box. Pop songs that he”s written have gone […]
O”Boyle”s Tell East Coast
to “Kiss Off” and Open
“Pogue Mahone”s” in Parker
The O”Boyle”s recently celebrated their first anniversary at their Irish pub and restaurant and are delighted with the results of their efforts and risk. “We opened our doors January 1st 2007 and have never looked back ” I have to say, of all the places”I have worked from Dublin to Melbourne Australia to New York, […]