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In late June, the youth football club will head to Ireland to test their mettle against the locals in a national tourney.

Our noble experiment in online Irish community-building is coming to an end. But, hey … you can still find us on Facebook!

A little Celtic rock, a little Irish dancing, some benefits, and the Derry Social are on tap for the weekend. And later on, the only American to ever win three All-Irelands for different instruments, Isaac Alderson, will be in town for a Philadelphia Ceili Group concert—he’s a one-man band, but he’s bringing two other great musicians with him.

Learn about four Inspirational Irish Women Award winners–and get your tickets to this gala event that will raise money for the Philadelphia Irish Center.

A new organization, Irish Network-Philadelphia, launched this week with a happy hour that seemed to leave a lot of people very happy just to have met one another. And that’s the point.

The Icelandic act of God that kept planes grounded all over Europe also almost delayed the arrival of the film here. But the Philadelphia Ceili Group has it at last, and will show it at the Irish Center Friday, May 7.

Irish night at the Phillies tonight! This week—Tempest, Burning Bridget Cleary, Gaelic Storm, Dougie MacLean, and, for a change of pace, Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet, Seamus Heaney. It’s quite a week.

Former prosecutor turned genealogist Deborah Large Fox helps others locate their elusive Irish forebears. Learn how she does it.