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The Irish Flag will be raised at Toronto City Hall
The Irish Flag will be raised at Toronto City Hall Sunday, March 5th @ 11:00 a.m. This tradition marks the arrival of St. Patrick’s Day! Recognizing the significant contributions made by the Irish community to celebrate cultural heritage and rich traditions with a month long calendar of popular events within the Irish community. We encourage […]
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Ottawa Gaels made their mark at the GAA World Games in Ireland
A homecoming that was centuries in the making took place last summer in Dublin and the Ottawa Gaels were well represented on the Team Canada squads. The Gaelic games that came to Canada with early Irish settlers has flourished in modern times under the Canada GAA and returned home to Ireland where teams representing the […]
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Score for tourism! Tourism Ireland captialises on Six Nations clash to boost tourism from Italy and to support 2023 Rugby World Cup bid
Score for tourism! Tourism Ireland captialises on Six Nations clash to boost tourism from Italy and to support 2023 Rugby World Cup bid – Tourism Ireland Italy coach Conor O’Shea (centre) with Niamh Kinsella, Tourism Ireland’s Manager Italy, and Irish Ambassador to Italy Bobby McDonagh, at the Piazza Barberini in Rome, on the eve of […]
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Celtic Soul!
Celebrated Canadian actor and funny man Jay Baruchel has an obsession with a sport and a team – far from home, in another continent: he is a massive fan of Glasgow’s Celtic Football Club. And like millions of fans around the world, Jay defies crazy distances and time differences to get his fix of ‘football’. […]
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The Night Joe Dolan’s Car Broke Down.
The Night Joe Dolan’s Car Broke Down by Padraic McIntyre Directed by Michael Hiller Imagine being stranded with a national legend – Joe Dolan – in a rural pub in Cavan on the night his car breaks down. That’s just the sort of fantasy scenario that’s imagined in this comedy, which comes to Canada […]
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St. Patrick’s Day on Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada
On Fogo Island, an island off the island of Newfoundland, Canada, the Irish heritage runs four centuries deep. Fogo Island Inn’s neighbouring community of Tilting is where families with Irish surnames such as Foley, Dwyer, Burke, Greene and McGrath reside. There are no strangers on the island, only friends you’ve yet to meet. Family names, […]
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Tourism Ireland sets its sights on another record year for tourism to the island of Ireland from North America – +9% increase in revenue from 1.7 million visitors in 2017
Tourism Ireland launches 2017 marketing plans in New York Tourism Ireland in the United States launched its marketing plans for 2017 yesterday (Tuesday, 31 January) – at an event in New York attended by leading tour operators, travel agents and journalists from the tri-State area. The organisation aims to surpass the record-breaking performance of 2016 […]
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Irish Documentaries Shine at Sundance Film Festival
Neasa Ní Chianáin and David Rane’s In Loco Parentis and Frankie Fenton’s It’s Not Yet Dark are currently taking the Sundance Film Festival by storm, with both documentaries receiving rave reviews from the international press. Supported by IFB, In Loco Parentis and It’s Not Yet Dark are screening in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the […]
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Irish Canadian Immigration Centre Celebrates 5 Years!!
It was 11.30pm December 21st 2011 when Eamonn O’Loghlin, the chair of the newly established Irish Canadian Immigration Centre, called to offer me the position of the centre’s first executive director. That phone call was a Christmas present I will never forget. We opened just two weeks later, with a formal opening following on St […]
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Happy New Year!!! Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh!!
“May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light. May good luck pursue you each morning and night.”