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Happy 25th IDC
On Friday October 6th, The Irish Diaspora Center celebrated it’s 25th Anniversary providing services to Irish Community. Special awards were presented: Thomas Griffin,Esq. – The Annie Moore Award Francis Marinelli – The Legacy Award William McCray & James Reardon – The Liam Hegarty Award Also in Attendance was Ms. Helena Nolan, Consul General Of Ireland
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A Beau-tea-ful Send-Off for Philly’s Rose
Marissa Berry, Philadelphia’s 2023 Rose of Tralee, will be heading off to Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland in a week to participate in the annual international festival that’s been going on since 1957. She’ll be competing with Roses from around the world for the coveted title of International Rose of Tralee. Friends, family and members of the Philadelphia Irish community gave her a send-off tea at the Irish Diaspora Center in Havertown on Sunday. The 28-year-old […] Read More
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Join a Trip to Visit the Grave of a Lady of Knock Witness in New York City
Photo of Knock Shrine in County Mayo taken by Denise Foley On a rainy August night in 1879, a five-year-old boy named John Curry witnessed one of the most significant events in Irish Catholic history while sitting on the shoulders of his 11-year-old cousin. There, on the south gable of the Church of St, John the Baptist in Knock, County Mayo, Ireland, little John and more than a dozen other local residents saw an apparition […] Read More
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2023 Mass at the Irish Memorial – The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
Huge thank you to everyone who made our Mass special Special gratitude to our celebrant:Rev. Michael Callaghan, CMChaplain, Camilla Hall, infirmary for Sisters,Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary at Immaculata University,Malvern PA 19355 Music Ministry: Karen Boyce McCollum and John HoeyLectors: Andrew Maloney and Jim CoyneGift Bearers: John Donovan and Michael Flynn Sincere appreciation to everyone whocontributed to making this Mass possible especially:Norbert McGettigan, VP, Irish MemorialEveryone who help get the word outOur flag […] Read More
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Trivia with “Billy D”
I stopped in the’ Pub on the Pike’, Rockledge’s Gaul & Co Malt House to see what all the quizzo hubbub was about. Billy Donahue of Shantys fame was holding court and trying to stump the house full of Quizzo buffs. As I looked around, everyone sitting at the tables in both rooms and even those at the bar had their sheets and pencils in front of them anxiously waiting for the next question. The […] Read More
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Dinner and Dancing “At the Crossroads”
Inspired by Janet McShain’s beautiful painting, that graces the stage at the Commodore John Barry Arts and Cultural Center, Pari Livermore and Kathy Magee Burns conceived of this event to benefit the Irish Center. The crossroads dance was a type of event popular in Ireland years ago, in which people would congregate at the large cleared space of a crossroads to dance. The tradition of the dance was continued in America at local Social clubs, […] Read More
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2023 Philadelphia Rose of Tralee
Softly smooth gentle to the eye. Oh, so fragile and sweet to smell a woman is a blessing from the sky. Each is uniquely enfolded in its own delicate form. But all possess adorable traits that were specifically created and magnificently transform her position and are able to withstand any life-raining storm. Her empowerment of alluring beauty is shapely made with everything in tack a persona of wonder that it doesn’t lack. A woman can […] Read More
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Learn the Shocking True Story Behind This Novel of Immigration
John Heagney’s four years of family history research turned up some surprises, particularly for his wife Linda. She came from the Scots-Irish clan that owned Dunluce Castle, the fairytale cliffside ruins on the spectacular Antrim coast in Northern Ireland. She had three ancestors on the Mayflower. His own ancestors trod a more humble path. “As far back as the 18th century it was Heagney the dirt farmer, Heagney the dirt farmer, Heagney the dirt farmer, Heagney […] Read More
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107th Easter Rising Commemoration Éirí Amach na Cásca 24-29 April 1916
Today family and friends came together, to honor those that lived, breathed and died for Irish Freedom. Luke Dillion the hardest man of all… (1850-1930) ” I came to Philadelphia and joined the Clan na Gael, A secret band of Irishmen who would twist old England’s tail. We swore to bomb proud London town, Right up to the palace wall, And they sent me there to do the job, As the Hardest man of all.” […] Read More