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Forgotten Irish mining families remembered in moving Leadville, Colorado ceremony
Several hundred people gathered last month to unveil the first phase of a memorial to Irish miners and their families who died and were buried in u...
October 08, 2022
by Aileen Gorman Leong
Festival lives up to expectations
On the weekend of Sept. 10-11, a brave and poetic contingent of the Irish American Writers & Artists ventured across the wild and mighty New York H...
September 23, 2022
by Jenifer Kelly
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TRASNA MEIRICEÁ: How the Irish language helped a Belfast actor rediscover Ireland in the U.S.
New York had long held a fascination for Joseph Jones, or Seosamh Mac Seoin, as he’s known in Irish language circles, since he was a young child gr...
July 11, 2022
by Aileen Gorman Leong
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Trasna Mheiriceá: The St Louis computer wizard revolutionizing Irish language learning
If we allowed ourselves to reminisce and think back on our school days, remembering how we rhymed off our 12 times tables and reeled off our agam, ...
June 30, 2022
by Aileen Gorman Leong
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Trasna Meiriceá: Irish Old and New at UConn
So, what’s in store for all those Irish language seekers and speakers at the University of Connecticut? In the village of Storrs and town of Mansfi...
May 30, 2022
by Aileen Gorman Leong
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TRASNA MEIRICEÁ: Irish language takes wings in Big Sky Country
In the Big Sky Country of Montana, where mountains rise majestically in name and nature, and rivers run through it, proud generations have kept the...
May 28, 2022
by Aileen Gorman Leong
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TRASNA MEIRICEÁ: Twin Cities Irish team up with Armagh visitors for Gaeilge mini-college
In Minnesota’s state capital of Saint Paul, where histories and rivers combine, lives and legacies converge at the Celtic Junction Arts Center wher...
May 02, 2022
by Aileen Gorman Leong
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TRASNA MEIRICEÁ: Cooking up an Irish storm at Big Apple Arts Center
Feast or Famine was the theme of the New York Irish Arts Center’s Irish Language Festival and Lá na Gaeilge on April 3. In the Hell’s Kitchen area ...
April 16, 2022
by Aileen Gorman Leong
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Trasna Meiriceá: Meet the teacher who's never been to Ireland but is blazing a trail for Irish language in Philly
On the streets of Philadelphia, where history celebrates ancient voices and those first independent steps of the nation, Gaeilgeoirí Philadelphia a...
April 11, 2022
by Aileen Gorman Leong
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With deep roots in Ireland, Villanova is a home-from-home for Cavan Gaeilge teacher
Villanova University, 30 minutes north of Philadelphia, PA, has always had an Irish connection. Founded by two Irish Augustinian friars in 1842, Ir...
April 03, 2022
by Aileen Gorman Leong
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Connolly was there: How one Monaghan man brought Irish lessons to D.C. — and to America
In the nation’s capital, an online community of Irish speakers, Let’s Learn Irish, founded by Monaghan native Ronan Connolly, brings the Irish lang...
March 25, 2022
by Aileen F. Gorman Leong
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TRASNA MEIRICEÁ: Irish language is no problem for Houston students
In a city forever associated with the space program, the William J. Flynn Center for Irish Studies at the University of St Thomas in Houston, TX, c...
March 03, 2022
by Aileen Gorman-Leong in Philadelphia
Festival lives up to expectations
