A digital tourism marketing campaign offering a 5-day getaway break to County Clare had attracted more than 34,000 entries from across the United States and Canada. Hosted by the Cliffs of Moher Experience and supported by Tourism Ireland, Aer Lingus and Clare tourism operators, the ‘Epic Trip’ competition targeted the North American market and reached…
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Landmark Center to host 41st St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations
Join Irish Arts Minnesota (IAM) at the Landmark Center in downtown St. Paul to celebrate our 41st Annual St. Patrick’s Day and Sundays at Landmark: Day of Irish Dance celebrations! These are two opportunities to experience and learn about Irish dance, music, and arts of all kinds in a family friendly gathering. The fun starts…
Suspect Santa
Just in time for Christmas, award-wining St. Paul author Mike Faricy has come out with yet another ‘work of genius’. His thirty-third book in the popular Dev Haskell series, Suspect Santa. A humorous crime fiction tale set in St. Paul Suspect Santa has private investigator Dev Haskell, contacted by local millionaire Arthur (Arty Farty) Grumley. They were high school classmates, and Haskell never liked…
Katie McMahon – Celtic Christmas 2022
The family tradition is back! Katie McMahon’s Celtic Christmas 2022 The O’Shaughnessy at St Catherine University 2004 Randolph Ave, St Paul, MN 55105 Friday, December 09, 2022 Doors Open: 7pm // Show: 7:30pm $5 to $28 Katie McMahon has graced stages around the world as the original voice of Riverdance. Her ode to the holidays,…
Christmas Old and New in Ireland
Special to The Irish Gazette Ireland’s last white Christmas was in 2010 when approximately 10.5 inches of snow fell and temperatures plummeted in some areas. It was one of nine white Christmases officially recorded there in the past 60 years – 1964, 1970, 1980, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2010. According to their long-term…
The Banshees of Inisherin
Film Review The Banshees of Inisherin Directed by MartinMcDonagh By Mary McFarland Leave it to the Irish in these confusing times to deliver a confounding package of Irish mysticism wrapped up in an allegorical metaphor. The Bansees of Inisherin, directed by Martin McDonagh, is based on the ending of a lifelong friendship between Padraic and Colm…
Sister Celeste’s Sing-A-Long Event
It’s that time of year and Sister Celeste is determined to get everyone in pitch-perfect shape for the holy season! Join her and Sr. Margarita in the former St. Agatha’s Conservatory Chapel. There will be a wee vocal warm-up (Sister has a pitch pipe…which doesn’t mean she sings on-key!) followed by a festive round of Christmas Bingo there…
Hardship to Hope: James Hack Tuke, Archbishop Ireland and the Irish Emigration of the 1800s
On Thursday, November 17, the Center for Irish Studies, and St. Thomas Libraries will co-host the Center for Irish Studies Fall 2022 Symposium. Originally distinguished as the first public event on campus that was cancelled in 2019 because of the pandemic, the Center and University Libraries are delighted to host three well-known scholars – Jane…
Birth Information and Tracing Act Passed in Ireland
Special to The Irish GazetteContributions from multiple sources Irish people who were sent to Britain, the US and elsewhere for adoption when they were children as a result of decades-long Catholic hostility towards unmarried mothers will be entitled to unrestricted access to their birth certificates and other official records in Ireland for the first time…
New Irish Ambassador to U.S.
Special to the Irish Gazette Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason assumed her role as Ireland’s 19th Ambassador to the U.S. in August of 2022. Geraldine was Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Ireland to the United Nations in New York from 2017 to assuming her current role in 2022. Previously she served as Ambassador to France and…