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This 2-day festival was held on May 1st and 2nd as a community fundraiser for White Rock Lake Park, a well-known area in Dallas, Texas. The location on the banks of White Rock Lake was all one could hope for… a great place to watch musical groups, people, children, and animals. While the weather...

The North Texas Irish Festival is being held March 5-7, 2010 at Fair Park in Dallas, TX. The list of performers scheduled to appear is amazing! With both international and U.S.-based musicians appearing, the festival has got to be fantastic. It will be just the thing to energize us all for the remaining weeks...

I never know who or what I will find as I casually surf the Internet. I was fortunate enough recently to come across a singer/songwriter named Eoin (pronounced Owen) Harrington. Although Eoin had played piano and guitar since he was a boy in Dublin, Ireland, he became a chemical engineer as an adult and...

Trinity Hall Irish Restaurant and Pub, in Dallas, TX, is located in Mockingbird Station, 5321 East Mockingbird. I stopped by recently to have lunch after I checked out their website www.trinityhall.tv. Everything on their menu sounded delicious. I was after an Irish meal, and the corned beef and cabbage was perfect! The restaurant has...

One of the “must see” sites for any visitor to Portland, Oregon, (especially those with Irish roots) is the Irish Famine Memorial. It is dedicated to the memory of those Irish who died during the disastrous Great Irish Potato Famine between 1845 and 1851. The tragic famine, caused by the loss of potato crops...