Dayton Celtic Festival
Dayton, OhioWe were at the Dayton Celtic Festival July 26th through 29th, 2019! We had not been to the Dayton festival before, […]
Author: David McDonnell
Golden Eagles
Are They The Good Guys Or The Bad Guys? (This is a 2019 update of Interim and Random Musings in Wolverine Café, […]
Motor City Irish Festival
Greenmead Historical Park It was June 7th, 8th, and 9th, 2019, in Livonia, Michigan, and we returned to the Motor City Irish […]
The Curragh of Kildare
The Plains and Horse Racing Curragh is the name of a large open plain area in County Kildare. It is one of […]
Celtic Canada Magazine
Canada’s Worst Summer Ever In my spare time I wrote an article for Celtic Canada on line magazine. It’s in the Spring, […]
The Curragh Traditional Irish Pub
Holland, Michigan – June 2019 We told some Irish tales and yarns to help The Curragh Traditional Irish Pub celebrate its 15th […]
Chulainn’s Hound
The stories of Cu Chulainn (Coo- HULL-an) are at least 2,000 years old. He was the most well-known, and perhaps the bravest […]
The Mutant Pooka of Kildare
This is an original story, written by me in October, 2018, which I told to children in 2019 and no doubt will […]
Artist Dale McDonnell
Ireland’s Artistic Son – From Michigan to Minnesota to New Mexico I wrote earlier in this blog about artist Daniel McDonald, and […]
The Curragh & St. Brendan
A curragh is a type of boat. It is sometimes pronounced “KERR-ic” with a “c” or “k” sound at the end, and […]