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Organizers hope the new youth Gaelic athletic club will catch fire with local kids, and help perpetuate Irish culture, throughout the area.

The 2013 winner of the annual event, part of the international Rose of Tralee festival, is congressional aide Brittany Killion.

Tempest, the John Byrne Band, Cillian Vallely and Ryan McGiver, and the Jameson Sisters (who will doing a concert at a castle) make this a tuneful week.

As they do every year, a small group of stalwarts remember the promise of a united Ireland.

The Young Irelands Gaelic Football Club is reprising its successful fundraiser–amateur boxing–on April 27 at the Irish Center in Philadelphia. We talk to novice boxer Jackie Daley who assures us she’s going to fight like anything but a girl.

A popular North Wales restaurant renowned for its tasty Southwestern fare is about to blend the fire of peppers with the smoke of Irish whiskey.

From Donegal to Philadelphia, the McGill family was the featured guest at this month’s Ceili Group Singers’ Session.

A mix of old and new this week. There will be a new Philly Rose of Tralee this weekend; a new play opens that combines a little Irish sports rivalry and a lot of comedy, a staging of Oscar Wilde’s “Salome” at Villanova, an Easter Rising ceremony, and a visit by two award-winning Irish traditional singers of different generations.