Originally from Atlantic Canada, Bill Blakeney obtained an Honours degree in English from the University of Kings College and an LL.B through Dalhousie Law School....
In the second instalment of a two-part feature article, Rosalie MacEachern looks at the educational programs that are revitalizing Gaelic along parts of Canada’s east...
Gaelic, once considered the language of the poor, the backward and the aged, is now tripping from the tongues of teenagers in Antigonish County, Nova...
The Celtic Studies program at St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto offers a wide variety of undergraduate courses on the languages, literature, history,...
Prominent Scots from across the United States are meeting near Chicago this weekend for the Scottish North American Leadership Conference. Here, President of the American...
When 28-year-old Brian Cunningham arrived in the U.S. three years ago from Connemara, Ireland, his goal was to introduce sean-nós Irish dance to America. This...
Based in Boston, Massachusetts, Kieran Jordan is a performer, teacher, and choreographer of Irish dance. Recently we spoke with her about her involvement with this...
Atlantic Canada’s first and only “new trad” Celtic festival explores Celtic-Acadian musical links in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia this weekend. Details here!
Since Roman times, millions of people have thought of themselves as "British", but this identity was only created with the Union of England, Wales and...
It’s a quiet morning in Ireland - several weeks before a virus swept the world and changed everything - and Cillian Murphy, the 43-year-old actor born...
A growing movement aims to have Asturias acknowledged as a Celtic nation. Fernán Morán, President of the Asturian Celtic League, believes that Asturian Celtic culture...
The Celts that settled in what we know as Northern Ireland today, were the Ulaid (Old Irish) or the Ulaidh (Modern Irish). They were a people of early...
Folks still recognize Allan Hawco as Jake Doyle, the impulsive, wise-cracking, GTO-driving half of a St. John’s father and son private-eye series Republic of Doyle...
Celts have always been associated with the northern European lands and of inhabiting Ireland, Scotland and Wales; but it is true that Celtic tribes did...
