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A Festival of Videos

It was all something of a blur toward the end. And yet we persevered and captured the sights and sounds of the 2011 Philadelphia Ceili Group Festival. Check out the moving pictures.

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Inis Nua

New Offerings from Inis Nua Theatre Company

Two Irish plays and five readings are on tap for the coming theater season.

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Help the Inis Nua Theatre Company Get to NYC

Help the Inis Nua Theatre Company Get to NYC

The local theatre company, which shows plays from Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales, has been invited to present “Dublin by Lamplight” at the 1st Irish Theatre Festival. They need traveling money. Here’s how to help.

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Catherine Barry’s new memoir, “Charlie & Me”

Catherine Barry & Charlie: The Dublin Author Pens Her Story of Recovery

Dublin born and bred, author Catherine Barry has released a funny and poignant new memoir about her struggle for sobriety, assisted by her sponsor and savior, Charlie.

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John Hurley with son Liam

Shining a Bright Light on an Ancient Irish Martial Art

Years in the making, John W. Hurley’s exhaustively researched book uncovers the lost history of the shillelagh and its use in stick fighting.

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Colin Quinn in “Long Story Short”

Colin Quinn Makes a “Long Story Short”

Colin Quinn uses his humor to draw parallels between the ancient world and our own twisted modern society in “Long Story Short,” his one man show playing at The Suzanne Roberts Theatre.

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5 Questions With Colin Quinn

In which the star of the one-man show “Long Story Short,” explains how he boils down the history of the world into 75 minutes of sardonic, on-target comedy. The show rolls into Philadelphia this week for a good long run.

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Patrick Fitzgerald and Cara Seymour

Review: Gibraltar: An Adaptation after James Joyce’s Ulysses

The play, focusing on characters Leopold and Molly Bloom, is a tender and complex love story. It has its final Bloomsday week showing at Plays and Players on Saturday. Challenging? Yes. Worth seeing? You bet.

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