Community Features & Events
TRASNA MHEIRICEÁ: Celebrating Irish language at annual Irish Arts Center Lá na Gaeilge
Gaeilgeoirí gathered at the Irish Arts Center in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen area on May 13 for the annual Lá na Gaeilge — blessed by a beautiful Big...
June 01, 2023
by Aileen Gorman Leong
Culture
TRASNA MHEIRICEÁ: NY Gaeilge teacher wins acclaim for first Irish flick
Ireland’s film industry has been placed firmly in the spotlight recently with Oscar nominations, locations lauded, and artists receiving worldwide ...
May 11, 2023
by Aileen Gorman Leong
Community Features & Events
TRASNA MHEIRICEÁ: An International Women's Day salute to Natalie O'Shea of the Twin Cities Irish centre
In the fabric of Minnesota’s history and culture is embroidered the name of someone to be celebrated not only on International Women’s Day but on e...
March 08, 2023
by Aileen Gorman Leong
Community Features & Events
TRASNA MHEIRICEÁ: A Kerry Gaeltacht outpost in Western Mass
Springfield, MA has been called the City of Firsts for its many innovations and for its proud Irish American community the city really is first amo...
January 08, 2023
by Aileen Gorman Leong
Community Features & Events
TRASNA MHEIRICEÁ: Golden era for Irish Language in San Francisco
There’s always been a rich history of Irish culture and language in the Golden City and that legacy is fuelling a revival today of interest in An G...
January 05, 2023
by Aileen Gorman Leong
Community Features & Events
Albany's Conradh wants to share gift with others
Craobh Chumar an Dá Uisce, or the Two Rivers Gaelic League, is a branch of Conradh na Gaeilge, founded in Albany, NY, in 2016, which takes its name...
October 17, 2022
by Aileen Gorman Leong
Community Features & Events
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
News
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
News
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
News
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
News
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
Festival lives up to expectations
