This Just In: Ohio Renaissance Festival Honors Harp Day
The Ohio Renaissance Festival, in collaboration with Harp Ireland, celebrates Harp Day on October 21 with enchanting performances by Jay and Abby Michaels, known as The Harper and The Minstrel. Delight in Medieval, Renaissance, and Celtic music played on various instruments, including historical harps, wooden flutes, penny whistles, viola da gamba, hammered dulcimer, and beautiful singing. Join in the celebration of this historic instrument at the Ohio Renaissance Festival.
Out of the Mailbag, Comes Songs & Stories: Six Decades On, Derek Warfield Continues to Entertain Audiences and Commemorate Irish Patriotism
By John O’Brien, Jr@Jobjr Derek Warfield and the Young Wolfe Tones Set to Perform at Cleveland Irish Cultural Festival and Milwaukee Irish Fest Derek Warfield has spent more than sixty […]
Out of the Mailbag, Comes Songs & Stories: High Kings Release New Album
By John O’Brien, Jr@Jobjr The High Kings, Finbarr Clancy (Tipperary), Darren Holden (Kilkenny), Paul O’ Brien (Laois) and Brian Dunphy (Dublin) known collectively as Ireland’s most successful modern-era folk act, are […]
Stone Mad: The Making of a Wall
STONE MAD: The Making of a Wall By John Digney One might wonder why a person would travel 4,000 miles to a distant island just to labor over a pile […]
Out of the Mailbag, Comes Songs & Stories: This Will Be, by Terry Boyle
Out of the Mailbag, Comes Songs & Stories: This Will Be By Terry Boyle 2022. 45 poems, 64 Pages. Review By John O’Brien, Jr. Terry Boyle has long been one […]
Cleveland Comhrá: Patricia Krueger-Harding
Cleveland Comhrá: Patricia Krueger-Harding by Bob Carney A few weeks back, Mary and I had just finished walking our dogs around Hinckley Lake, when a man came up and asked […]
The Artists Around Us ~ Deirdre Hill Brown
The Artist Around Us: Deirdre Hill Brown I grew up in Lakewood, Ohio, from a very Irish Family! My Parents, Leo and Phillis Hill, were from Dublin, before settling in […]
On This Day in Irish History / The Artist Around Us Poetry
On This Day in Irish History by Terry Kenneally ON THIS DAY in IRISH HISTORY […]
Blowin’ In: In the Presence of Angels
Blowin’ In: In the Presence of Angels by Sue Mangan “It is coming on Christmas. They’re cutting down trees. They’re putting up reindeer Singing songs of joy and peace. I […]
Blowin’ In: Superstition or Prophecy Fulfilled? By Susan Mangan
Fireside Always there would be stories of lights Hovering among bushes or at the foot of a meadow; maybe a goat with cold horns pluming into the moon: a tingle […]
