Enjoy Christmas all over again at the Irish Center lunch on Monday.
Wear your green along with your red and white to the Temple-UCF game on Sunday at the Liacouras Center for the Owl’s first annual Irish Heritage Day. There are discounted tickets for Irish groups, so check our calendar for a contact and spend Sunday courtside. Go Owls!
On Monday, celebrate Little Christmas at the Irish Center at the Immigration Center/Irish Center senior lunch. It’s always a festive occasion, with great food and live music (dancing is encouraged).
While there aren’t lots of special events this week, one look at our calendar will tell you that there are still plenty of ways to be Irish, with sessions almost every night somewhere, Irish dance lessons at the Irish Center and at the New Castle County (Delaware) Irish Society hall in Wilmington, a mom and babies play group at the Immigration Center in Upper Darby on Thursday, and the Vince Gallagher and Marianne MacDonald radio shows on Sundays from 11 to 1 PM on WTMR 800 AM, which you can stream on the web rom anywhere, even Ireland. Make one of your New Year’s resolutions to get more Irish this year. It’s not just for St. Patrick’s Day.
And let us help!
We’ll be adding January events to our calendar this week so if you haven’t posted yours already, send it to us via the “contact us” button and we’ll take care of it. You’re also welcome to post your events on our Facebook page. We’re getting closer to 5,000 members on that page where there’s now a lively discussion going on about a proposed situation comedy on the Irish “famine” for Britain’s Channel 4. That discussion has spawned a change.org petition asking Channel 4 to reconsider making light of an event that killed more than 1 million people and forced another million to leave Ireland (some of whom may be responsible for us being here). Go where it’s all happening!
And do us a favor: When you’re stocking up on your St. Patrick’s Day gear or are looking for a nice Irish gift for someone, click on our ads for Celtic Clothing. Chadds Ford’s Charlie Lord, who owns the company, is giving us a 15% commission for everything sold through our site. We don’t make much money from ad sales–barely enough to cover our expenses–so we need a bit extra to add more bells and whistles to the site and to occasionally pay our fabulous freelance photographers to go to events that we can’t cover. You’ll be helping two local businesses and some deserving photographers! Thanks!
