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The World Goes Green On St. Patrick’s Day
Every year on St. Patrick’s Day the World goes Green! Courtesy of our friends at Tourism Ireland and kindly narrated by Liam Neeson.
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TORONTO IRISH PLAYERS BRING EDINBURGH WINNER TO TORONTO
Toronto Irish Players are proud to bring Little Gem, the debut script from Dublin’s Elaine Murphy, to the stage at Alumnae Theatre. First presented at the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2008 (Fishamble Award for Best New Irish Writing), it travelled to the Edinburg Fringe in 2009 (Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award), before heading off […]
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Some Ghosts of Blarney Castle
By Peter Garland M. A. The Blarney Stone is reputed to give eloquence, but if the stones themselves could talk what stories they would tell. For instance, in the second half of the eighteenth century there lived in Blarney Castle an Anglo-Irish girl named Mary Anne Jefferyes (pronounced Jefferies). Her great-grandfather had bought the heap […]
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Flogging Molly Hit Canada in Support of New Album
White Buffalo & Dylan Walshe undoubtedly won over some new fans during their opening sets on Tuesday night in Toronto but there was little doubt as to who the masses were there to see. The faithful gathered at the Danforth Music Hall exploded when Celtic rockers Flogging Molly took the stage to kickoff 90-minutes of […]
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Fáilte Ireland Announces €11.5m Capital Funding for OPW Visitor Sites
Announcement includes significant funding for Dublin Castle, the Rock of Cashel as well as Newgrange and the Brú na Bóinne Visitor Centre Fáilte Ireland today announced €11.5m in funding from its Capital Grants budget for ten key OPW projects in Dublin and within the Ireland’s Ancient East region. The funding is in the context of […]
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Forgotten.
Forgotten is about the yearning to know one’s history — what began with a fire at 295 George Street in Toronto becomes the catalyst to share the story of over 100,000 children who came to Canada as indentured farm labour and domestics. This is the forgotten heritage of many Canadians, both of the children themselves […]
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Irish Style
As we move into spring with buds starting to blossom and birds chirping happily, we can start to see the light at the end of the tunnel. This calls for fresh new styles and colours to brighten our days and make the winter blues a thing of the past. Our annual trip to Dublin proved […]
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“Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!” Yeats
William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin on June 13, 1865. With Lady Gregory and others, he founded the Irish Literary Theatre, from which developed the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 1896. His poetry includes Mosada (Dublin, Sealy, Bryers & Walker, 1886); The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (London, Kegan Paul, 1889) Crossways, 1889; The […]
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde was born in Westland Row, Dublin on October 16th, 1854 to an eminent surgeon, William Wilde and the famous nationalist poet, Lady Jane Wilde, known as Speranza (her Selected Poems were published in Dublin in 1900). He settled in London in 1879. In 1882 he embarked on a lecture tour of the United […]
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Join Us Singing Molly Malone through the streets of TO!
Celtic Canada will be singing through the streets of TO…and we want you to sing with us…. join us for the craic as we sing a favourite Irish song… Molly Malone… Going Live in the Streets of Toronto this St. Patrick’s Day Parade March 19th starting at Noon. Like us on Facebook/Twitter post you and your […]