Bikers Bring in Bucks for Hospitalized Irish Kids
Harley-Davidson enthusiasts from all parts of Ireland kicked off their "8 States in 8 Days: Route 66 Challenge" on Oct. 2 to raise money for the Children's Hospital on Temple Street in Dublin.[More]
 

Loads of Thanks in Irish Thanksgiving
By Lori Alexander
The weeks leading up to my native holiday could have been spent anywhere. A touch of frost in the morning. Golden leaves drifting from the old sycamores that line our lane.  Flurries of recipes arriving in my in box, and my shopping list growing on the kitchen slate.  I was enchanted by visions of basting turkey, steamy windows, and slowly baking pies. [More]
 

Yanks Still Interested in Ireland, Says Tourism Chief
By George Houde
American travel to Ireland will undergo a renewal of interest in 2003, if John O'Donoghue's optimistic forecasts of tourism for the Emerald Isle hold true. "I think we will have a buoyancy in the American market next year," O'Donoghue told The Irish American Post on a recent visit to Chicago.[More]
 

No, Blarney...AAA to Host Tour of Ireland
By Martin Hintz
A golden glow regularly floods over Ireland as a typical afternoon slowly drifts into an easy nighttime. The light casts its soft sheen across the rough Atlantic, even moderating the surf raging around the rugged, wind-whipped Cliffs of Moher.[More]
 
 
 

Black 47
	Looking Back Over All Those Years By Larry Kirwan Thirteen years! Where did the time go? It hardly seems like yesterday, but still... I won't go into the history of the band. The obvious events have been well-documented and if you have a yearning for an inside, highly subjective account, get thee to www.black47.com/albums.htm.  [More]
	Call Us What You Like, We Aren't Sure By Larry Kirwan One of the questions that comes up frequently in interviews is "how would you describe your music?" To this day, that question leaves me stumped. If anyone has any bright ideas, drop a line to the discussion board at www.black47.com Perhaps, you can solve this enigma and spare me a bucket full of conflicting words. [More]
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East Meets West at Rose of Tralee Competition
By Dave Abbott
Dateline:  Tokyo
Beckett, Shaw, Synge, O'Casey , Behan and the other literary nationalists can lay down their pens, "The Poor Mouth" as writer Flann O'Brien called it, is over. Take a look around. The whole world has gone bonkers about all things Irish.[More]
 
 

Military Bands and Dr. Bruce Gleason
	A Military Band That Horses Around Makes Great Music By Martin Hintz If you want to know about mounted military bands, ask Bruce Gleason, an assistant professor of graduate music education at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul. "These bands connect with so much of a country's culture and history. They were usually attached to major courts as calvary regiments," he explained. [More]
	Once Signalers in Battle, Mounted Military Bands Today Lead Ceremonial Parades By Dr. Bruce Gleason When Medieval European mercenaries showed up to recover the Holy Land during the Crusades, on at least one occasion (May 16, 1291, in the attack of Saint-Jean d'Acre in present-day Akko, Israel) they were met by Muslim warriors being led into battle by hundreds of kettledrummers on the backs of camels. [More]

Dreaming of Pizza, It's a Dog's Life
By Donna McGlinchey-Mahon
Once again the Heavens had opened, and Hurricane Paddy was batterin' the 'bejesus' out of the Ballycastle pebbledash on our wee front wall. Peering through the tiny window of our cozy, damp living room, I was sorely tempted to write "s.e.x." in the steam again, but retracted sharply as I recalled the last time I'd committed such a heinous crime.[More]
 

Dem' Bones Get Boyles Goin'
By Martin Hintz
"Dem bones, dem dry bones" are great music-makers when played by a master rhythm-man such as Cedarburg's David Boyle. Bones are just that...bones. They have a long history as a folk instrument, especially in Gaelic countries, said Boyle.[More]
 

Flogging Molly: Musical Pub Grub
By Stephen V. Camelio
Special to The Irish American Post
"We play soul music," says Flogging Molly's Bob Schmidt without a hint of irony or reference to Roddy Doyle's The Commitments. "The people are hungry for something different and we give it to them." [More]
 

There's Love and There's Sex and There's the 46A
By Mattie Lennon
Patrick Kavanagh said, "No man can adequately describe Irish life who ignores the Gaelic Athletic Association. Football runs women a hard race as a topic of conversation." To suggest that the man from Enniskeen was anything less than accurate could incur the wrath of many from the "stony gray hills," but I do contend that in the articulation stakes, buses come in a comfortable third. [More]