Wow, What an absolutley crazy, happy, stressful and fun week, with some drama thrown in, just to keep us honest.
Friday nite had record crowds, great weather, and, when Quagmyre, the opening act on the Celtic Thunder Stage, out of Toronto, lost a few of their members to immigration problems, a special fill-in guest appearance by […]
nd so it Continues… Wednesday’s edition. The blog was getting too long, so I am breaking it up. Here’s what happened today (go back to the last blog if you’d like to get Sunday thru Tuesday’s blog and pics).
Got up nice and early, around 6ish, getting all the final pieces to take out to the […]
A Continuous blog about the week around organizing the 24th Annual Cleveland’s Irish Cultural Festival - It goes from the bottom up, from oldest to today.
Tuesday July 18th
It all started out so well. Got up early, got a lot of paperwork caught up, did the radio show with Gerry Glennon on Midwest Irish Radio […]
I got a call today from Gerry Glennon, a fantastic Disk Jockey on one of my all time favorite radio shows, Midwest Irish Radio, out of Mayo, Ireland, on the internet, at, surprisingly enough, www.midwestirishradio.com. Gerry finally got my book, sent to him about 2 months ago and he kindly invited me on the show […]
Hi All,
Only 5 days till the 24th Cleveland’s Irish Cultural Festival!
Started by my father, and a group of incredibly dedicated, creative and engaging volunteers, which now number over 425, the festival is a living passion, to present, promote and preserve our wonderful Irish heritage.
So, each day you will find a daily recap, from Monday July […]
Hello,
I have a briefly free evening (it is 11:30 p.m.) from preparing for the 24th Annual Cleveland’s Irish Cultural Festival, to be held next weekend, July 21-23 at the Berea Fairgrounds in Cleveland, Ohio - www.clevelandirish.org.
This will be our 24th year and it just keeps growing and growing and (knock on my wooden head) great […]
swiped from Tuathal
Some interesting Irish facts, some might just surprise you…..
The tune of the “Star Spangled Banner” was composed by the great blind harper Turlough OCarolan, who died about 35 years before the American revolution.
Brick-throwing between teenagers living in mixed Protestant and Catholic areas in Northern Ireland is still so common - and so pointless […]
Three sides, three perspectives, all end the same. Are we really that different?
(background - the 12th of July is an Orange Order day of celebration, in rememberance of when the Protestant King, King William*, defeated the Catholic King, King James, in the Battle of the Boyne, in the 1600’s. Now 400 years later, […]
Oh my aching heart, another touching and true blog from Tuathal
(the flippin link thing doesn’t work)
http://www.myspace.com/gabha_bheil
Heroes and Heroines, they surround us in everyday life. Anyone can think of a hero off the top of their heads. Be it the firefighters of 9/11, Mother Theresa to the unknown hero of Tiananmen Square.
Yet heroic acts happen everyday, […]
This is a LONG blog. I won’t be offended if you skip it.
There was an Irish festival this weekend (I know, you say, “isn’t there one very weekend, John?”), in Eastlake, Ohio. It was held at the minor league’s Lake Erie Captains stadium for the first time. I had a table for my book there:
Here’s […]