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We’ll have more details as we get closer, but here’s a quick heads-up on this year’s program, scheduled to run from September 8 through 10 at the Philadelphia Irish Center.

Two young performers–a ballerina and an Irish stepdancer–who have given their all to their passion for dance will be among many celebrated performers at a benefit dance gala next week for a new organization that brings dance to special needs children.

It’s one huge party for the Irish (and wannabes) this Sunday along the Delaware River waterfront at Penn’s Landing’s Great Plaza.

Neither wind nor gloom of night stays these courageous Celts from the happy completion of their appointed partying.

If you were there, relive the experience. (These videos will help you remember what you forgot.) And if you weren’t there, here’s what you missed.

The Mid-Atlantic Oireachtas is coming to Philly this week. To get you pumped for the competition, we put together a big video playlist featuring Philly-area schools.

A Rambling House event at the Irish Center raised more than $2,000 for victims of the spring floods in Tennessee. A group of Philly dancers have a connection–they were stranded by those same raging waters.

If you love Irish dance, most of the major Delaware Valley-area dance schools take to their tappy little toes at the annual Penn’s Landing Irish Festival. The 2010 festival was no exception. Here are a few quick peeks at their performances.