You go away for a few days and look what happens. Our calendar goes into a major funk, breaks down, and there’s no “How to be Irish in Philly” feature. I bet all of you just stayed home, didn’t you?
Well, here’s a mid-week peek at what’s up (including, finally, our calendar):
Angelina Carberry and Martin Quinn are on tap at the Irish Center for Friday night. They are a delightful duo (tenor banjo and button accordian) that will reel and jig all night if you let them. Please, let them!
And we like the fact that folks are taking our encouragement to “put everything but the family picnic up on our calendar” seriously. If you happen to be in County Cavan on the weekend, there’s a celebration of the music and art of Donovan (“Sunshine Superman”) at the County Cavan Museum in Ballyjamesduff. Honest, you can read all the details on our calendar. We don’t know who put it up.
Since we’re already here, let’s take a look at the next week or so, shall we?
The Irish Club is holding its first Irish Picnic (we don’t know what they’re going to throw on the barbie, so prepare for hot dogs or bangers) on Saturday at the De la Salle Swim Club in Springfield, Delaware County.
Also on Saturday, the Philadelphia Shamrocks take on the Hibernians in Allentown at 4 PM at Haines Mill Fields. These hurlers just keep getting better and better and this is the first of the best of three games for the Joe Lyons Cup.
Down at Penns Landing on Tuesday, July 14, the good ship Eithne pulls into port. The flagship of the Irish Navy will be in Philadelphia for three days and on Thursday, the crew will take on local Gaelic Athletic Association players in what is described as “a friendly game of football” at Cardinal Dougherty field. Apparently, the writer of the press release announcing the game has never actually seen a game of Gaelic football. Friendly? I don’t think so. Be that as it may, the ship will be open over the three days and there will be various and sundry official events, some of which are open to the public.
On Friday, July 17, the group Cheap Whiskey (two members of the better known Broken Shillelaghs) will be performing at Doc and Joe’s Tavern in Gloucester City, NJ (which, by the way, is a happenin’ place to hear Irish music, just over the bridge from Philly—who knew?).
