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Great Day of GAA Play

We have nearly 60 pics from Sunday’s action at the Philadelphia Gaelic Athletic Association field in Limerick. Sadly, we couldn’t be there for the whole amazing afternoon at the GAA’s terrific new venue. (Just think … there’d probably be more than a milliion pics.)

In any case, we have the under-14 camogie (the ladies’ version of hurling) between the Philly Shamrocks and the St. Brigid’s team from New Yawk. (I didn’t really hear any of them talk like that.)

That particular game is noteworthy in that it was the first camogie played at the new Limerick fields. The Philly team beat the St. Brigid’s but it was not for want of trying by the New York team in the second half. Great game all-round.

St. Pat’s Donegal won the junior football finals against the Kevin Barry’s. On to Chicago and the North American finals. 6-9 to 1-7 in the St. Pat’s favor.

August 28, 2015 by Jeff Meade

How to Be Irish in Philly

How To Be Irish in Philly This Week

Rob Dunleavy and Michael Boyce of Blackthorn doing a duet?

We’re rich! We’re rich!

Rich in Irish entertainment that is. It all starts this weekend when Blackthorn, Galway Guild and the Shanty’s perform on the same stage—Harrah’s Philadelphia Casino in Chester—on Saturday night. They’re calling it “Irish Paradise,” and it sure sounds that way to me.

If you’re in Upper Darby on Saturday, stop in at Cawley’s Irish Pub at 9 PM and show your support for the Young Irelands Gaelic Football Club–regional champs!–by eating some beef and drinking some beer. Cawley’s is at 7919W. Chester Pike. Music will be provided by John Lefty Kelly. Proceeds from the benefit will help the Young Irelands get to Chicago for the national championships in which they’ll face Vancouver in the first round on Friday, September 4.

August 28, 2015 by Denise Foley

Arts

Family Portrait

Cesar Viveros

Margie Riccheza, a fine arts student at Temple’s Tyler School of Art, is sitting cross-legged on the floor in a wide open studio on Vine Street, carefully applying a ribbon of dark pink paint onto a five-foot-square sheet of parachute cloth. Thin lines of ink delineate the area where she applies the paint, and that particular area is marked with a number corresponding to the color of paint she is to use in that space.

The whole sheet is like that—streaks and squiggles and amoeba-shaped spots bounded by thin lines, each space marked with a roughly drawn number. This is paint-by-the-numbers on a huge scale. Many brightly colored panels line the wall. Some are completed, and others—like this one—are works in progress.

At a table nearby, Monica Matthieu sits, snipping small bits of colored glass into rough-edged shapes, gluing them onto large flower-shaped forms. “It’s like a puzzle, but with color,” she says, smiling, but not looking up from her work. “It’s very relaxing.”

August 21, 2015 by Jeff Meade

Music

They Are Women: Hear Them Roar

The ladies of Girsa

There was no grand plan. It didn’t start out this way. No one was advocating, one way or another.

But here’s what happened: The grand finale concert of the 41^st Annual Philadelphia Ceili Group Festival (September 10, 11 & 12th) is going to shine a big, bright spotlight on female Irish musicians.

The sweet-singing Mary Courtney will open the Saturday night concert—a treat in and of itself—and the all-female Irish traditional band Girsa will wrap things up, most likely with their usual burst of energy.

August 21, 2015 by Jeff Meade

How to Be Irish in Philly

How To Be Irish in Philly This Week

Paddy O’Brien and Nathan Gourley

This Sunday, the annual Mass of the Golden Rose will be said at St. Patrick’s Church in King of Prussia, starting at noon. Irish Thunder Pipes and Drums, the AOH Notre Dame Div. 1 Color Guard, and St. Patrick’s Choir will take part. An Irish festival, with music, dancing, food and drink, will follow.

A ceili, featuring Tom McHugh and Jimmy and John McGillian, is scheduled for Saturday night at St Patrick’s–bring your dancing shoes.

August 21, 2015 by Denise Foley

News, People, Sports

Up Tyrone!

Tyrone fans in Philly.

More than a dozen Tyrone GAA fans, many of them Tyrone natives, dashed up the front steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum, Rocky-style, last Sunday to pose for a photo to share with Tyrone fans across the world.

Their team is facing Kerry, the reigning champs, this Sunday in Croke Park in Dublin in semi-final action. The last time Tyrone made it to the All-Ireland was in 2008. This weekend, the coach who took them to victory in 2008, 2005, and, for the first time ever, in 2003, Mickey Harte, is hoping for number 4.

The reason for the photo—which was to join all the other photos from around the world—was to show support for the team which was, until this week, facing the loss of a key player. Tiernan McCann was facing an eight-week ban for allegedly overreacting to an opposing player from Kerry touching his head during a quarter final game at Croke Park. Officials said McCann “dived” when his hair was ruffled, leading sports writers to dub the incident “rufflegate.” That ban was lifted this week by the Central Hearings Committee.

August 21, 2015 by Denise Foley

Sports

Finals and Kids’ Games at GAA Field This Weekend

Glenside Gaelic will be facing off with the Delco Gaels on Sunday.

There’s plenty of sports action at the Philadelphia’s GAA fields in Limerick this Sunday, starting at noon with under-14 camogie—the feminine version of hurling—with the Philadelphia Shamrocks vs. New York. The Shamrocks are a brand new team this year.

You can also see junior and senior championship and final games and the all important hurling final between the Allentown Hibernians and the Na Toraidhe team from Philadelphia.

The Delaware County Gaels Under 10 team will also be facing off against the Glenside Gaelic Club in football starting at 4 PM.

The fields are located in the countryside of Limerick at 484 Longview Road. The setting is beautiful and you can see the cooling towers of the Limerick nuclear plant a little more up close and personal than usual.

August 21, 2015 by Denise Foley

Sports

This Week’s GAA Action

Get ready for some football.

It’s championship season for the Philadelphia Gaelic Athletic Association. Here’s the lineup for this Sunday:

1 PM, the Young Irelands face off against the Kevin Barry’s in junior championship action.

2:30 PM, the Allentown Hibernians and the Na Toraidhe hurlers tangle for the hurling championship.

At 4 there will be senior semi-final action between the Young Irelands and the Kevin Barrys.

Championship football and hurling will continue on Sunday, August starting at 1 PM at the Limerick fields at 484 Longview Road.

August 14, 2015 by Denise Foley

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