Everyone loves to help a friend, but pioneering medical doctor and novelist Margaret Todd, born in Glasgow in 1859, would doubtless have preferred to be...
When New England fiddler and folk singer Lissa Schneckenburger takes the stage at this week’s Crossroads International Celtic Festival, she will be tapping into generations...
The inaugural Crossroads International Celtic Festival begins tomorrow and features some of North America’s finest musicians at a variety of venues across western Maine. Recently...
After just one year at the Dublin Institute of Technology’s Music Conservatory, Canadian fiddler Kathleen Gorey-McSorley has discovered innovative traditional music and acquired a new band...
Some of the world’s top athletes will be in Pembrokshire this Sunday for the 3rd annual IRONMAN Wales competition. Recently we spoke with Kevin Stewart, Managing...
James Hare is Executive Director of the National Trust for Scotland Foundation USA. Here, he answers our Seven Celtic Questions and explains his passion for discovering...
His indifference to childhood lessons in piano and trombone left Kevin Palm thinking he was not a musician. Then, at age 39, the Ohio-based aviation...
A family tradition continues this weekend at the Calgary Highland Games as Andrew Smith, Pipe Major of the Alberta Caledonia Pipe Band, carries a torch...
It will be a new twist on old traditions this weekend, as the 150+ year-old Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival welcomes the LGBT community to the festivities...
One of North America’s premier Celtic events takes place this weekend, as the Calgary Highland Games celebrates its 100th anniversary. Here, festival historian Ann Lidgren...
Quebec City is a colourful cornucopia of culture anytime of the year. Beginning tomorrow, and running over 11 days, le Festival Celtique de Quebec paints...
Concerts, competitions, seminars, banquets and an awards gala are all part of the fun at this weekend’s North American Festival of Wales in Toronto. Recently...
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...
The quaint community of Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, is as charming as its name. There, the famed Rose Manor Inn welcomes visitors from around the world....
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...
