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A documentary on the future of Ireland’s traveling people will be screened at the University of Pennsylvania Museum on Sunday. Joseph Lennon, director of Villanova’s Irish Studies Programs, answers our questions about these often maligned, often romanticized nomadic people.

We look back on in-depth interviews with band leader and uilleann piper Paddy Moloney and singer-bodhran player Kevin Conneff. Oh, and there’s a contest, too!

Hidden away for several years, an important piece of Philadelphia Irish musical history now holds a place of prominence.

Burlington County St. Patrick’s Day Parade Grand Marshal Marie Hempsey, the mid-Atlantic coordinator for Project Children, knows all about sectarian rifts. She knows how to heal them, too.

Food, drink, dance and rebel songs … a great start to the Philadelphia St. Patrick’s Day fund-raising season.

Where were you when the lights went on? We hope it was in the Philadelphia Irish Center’s cozy Fireside Room taking in the tunes.

This weekend, hear the horrifying story behind the bones found at the Duffy’s Cut archeology site in Malvern from one of the men who found them. There’s plenty of live trad music in the region this week, a couple of fundraisers, and the Irish ambassador will be in town to help honor several local business people.

A local company is selling merchandise featuring an image of a drunk vomiting shamrocks. It’s one of a number of retailers Irish activists have their sights on this season.