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Irish Thymes Blog
Some Recent posts:
Local Boston Irish set dancers drafted for the kitchen hooley scene in
new Irish Play The
Banshee of Crokey Hill - print a flyer for the play [PDF]!
Listen to your choice of Irish music on Internet radio and podcasts. [Click the "Listen" button below to play music in a new window; come back to Irish Thymes by clicking on the Irish Thymes tab or window that will remain open. To stop the muisc, close the radio station window or tab.]
Listen to Boston's "Celtic Sojurn" 24 hours a day bringing you traditional and contemporary music from around the Celtic world hosted by native Irishman Brian O'Donovan. The live weekly radio show may be heard Saturdays from noon to 3pm on WGBH
89.7.
More
radio stations playing Irish music>>
The old style is new again. Sean-Nós (literally "old style") dancing is spreading in popularity among Irish dance enthusiasts. Read more about sean-nós dancing >>
New Irish step dance classes are starting again in Januay. Find an Irish dance class >>
Print a flyer for the Danver Set Dancing class >>more on Danvers and other Irish Set Dancing classes
Eden, a marital drama, won the Magner's Irish Film Festival 2008 "Best
Film" award. Read more >>
It appears Boston liked Red Roses and Petrol, a
screen adaptation of the internationally successful Irish stage play by
Joseph O’Connor starring Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange,
NBC’s “Heroes”) and featuring music from the popular
band Flogging Molly. Read more >>
"I forget time and place, and I am suddenly thousands
of memories old . . . as old as the ancient stones, fairies, and stories
from Ireland. The music and my feet have brought me home again. I am home
again and I haven't gone back across the sea." [Excerpt: Hope
in New York City" by Cynthia Neale, page 105 more more selected Irish
and Irish American books >>]
If you're into Irish set dancing, you may be interested in viewing these
videos (free on the web, mostly YouTube) demonstrating many of the popular
Irish set dances. Don't miss this wonderful vintage
set dancing
video professionally filmed in Ireland
in 1929 and more short videos of various
set dances. >>
Wherever you are in and around Boston, you'll be sure to find a Traditional
Irish Music session nearby. View a list of the local
pubs where musicians gather to play Irish music on instruments such
as the fiddle, tin whistle, flute, accordion, harp, uilleann pipes, bodhran,
Irish guitar, and Anglo concertina.
View photos of the Beara Peninsula >>
Enjoy a nicely-done narrated documentary of Irish History more on Irish history>>
Any day is a good day for Irish Bread.
Here's a family favorite Irish
Bread recipe and some links to oather Irish
Recipes and also some recipes
using thyme >>
Planning a trip to Ireland from the United States? There are many sites
to help get you there and guide you to what may interest you. Try
starting with Ireland's Aer
Lingus specials to Dublin and Shannon and have a look at other
airlines flying to and around Ireland. Check kayak.com. Continental, or American and other airlines, too. View current Aer Lingus special offers.
Coming our way from Ireland? Welcome! Here are some places your may want
to visit:
Links to more U.S. Cities >>
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