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It might have started out as Scottish, but the Horsham historic site’s 15th annual Celtic Festival includes Celts of all stripes.

We interviewed Maeve Donnelly in 2007, just before her Coatesville Traditional Irish Music Series concert with Scottish guitarist Tony McManus. She returns Wednesday for a show with the brilliant East Cork flute player Conal Ó Gráda.

You can also be Irish in Annapolis and down the shore this week–there’s an Irish fest in Maryland and Jamison is hitting the bars this weekend in N. Wildwood and Sea Isle. The Kildare’s West Chester session is turning into a fundraiser on Sunday for two young boys competing this summer in the All-Ireland music championships. And the Coleman brothers are in town!

Penn senior lecturer Allyn Miner spent years learning to play the challenging Indian string instrument, the sitar. But then she discovered Irish music and, fiddle in hand, she added a new cultural tradition to her repertoire.

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.

Philadelphia Police Detective Tim Brooks, an Irish-American, remembers the day, a year ago, when he responded to the Duck Boat crash in the Delaware. He was honored for the actions he took that day, which saved a woman and three children.

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.

Farrelly, Ireland’s New York vice consul, is headed back home in August at the end of his rotation. Friends at the Philadelphia Irish Center made sure he got a nice send-off.