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Not one, not two, not three, but MANY Irish festivals are coming our way. Clear your calendars! Also, Gaelic football season starts this week (buy sunscreen now). And there’s much, much more. Read on.

Catch Seamus Begley and Oisin MacDiarmada at Coatesville, take to the dance floor with the Galway Society, help the Little Sisters of the Poor at a Scythian concert, and learn the words “batter up” in Irish: Friday is Irish Heritage Night at the Phiillies. Tickets are going fast.

A Mass in memory of the late bishop, a native of Philadelphia, will be held this week at Cardinal O’Hara High School where he served as its first president. Here, his story is told by those who knew and loved him.

On Saturday, AOH Notre Dame Div. 1 is hosting a benefit for the family of Brad Fox, a decorated Marine Corps veteran and Plymouth Township police officer who was killed in the line of duty last year. Also coming up: A Hunger Strikers memorial in Gloucester City, the Galway Society Dinner Dance, and Irish Night at the Philadelphia Union’s stadium in Chester.

Dancers at Sunday’s Four Provinces Feis helped raise money for the family of 7-year-old Jane Richard who lost a leg in the Boston Marathon bombing. More than 100 Irish dance schools, individuals, and organizations have joined in the Philadelphia Loves Boston Campaign to support the Richard family, whose son, Martin, 8, was one of three people killed in the attack.

Take 100 pictures of fight night. Well, we almost did! Check out the exciting and successful Young Irelands GFC fundraiser at the Irish Center on April 26. Or as we like to call it: Blood, Sweat, and Beers.

Local Irish dance schools and a number of other organizations are raising money for the family of Jane Richard, the 7-year-old dancer who lost a leg in the Boston Marathon bombings that also killed her brother, Martin, on April 15. Find out how you can help.

This week: A little music, a little dancing, a little drama, a little fighting. No, not at your house! See where you can enjoy it all.