Search Irish Post:


Click here to sign petition!

Recruitireland.commyhome.ie
















  Services
  NEW!
  NEW! I-MODE
  Contact Details
 

 

 
Regular Columns
  Irish Dancing with John Egan
 

Joe Giltrap

  Malcolm Rogers
  Siúlach Scéalach le Sharon Ní Chonchúir (new)
 

 

 
Irish Dancing with John Egan | Wednesday, November 19, 2008

British Open Championships

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON was the location chosen for the recent British Open Championships in Irish dancing.  more »

Liverpool feis

OVER 400 young dancers entered this year’s Liverpool Feis which was held at Broughton Hall High School in the West Derby area of Liverpool.  more »

Silver anniversary of the All-Scotland Championships

ABOUT 1,000 dancers from 132 dance schools around the world descended on the Grand Hall and Palace Theatre in Kilmarnock to take part in the silver anniversary of the All-Scotland Championships.  more »

Feis goes from strength to strength

THE VILLAGE of Orton Longueville, just a short hop, skip and jump from downtown Peterborough, is as picturesque a village as any you will find anywhere in East Anglia.  more »

Joseph Loughlin Memorial Feis, Sidcup

DEDICATED to the memory of her late father, Joseph Loughlin, this annual feis was started by teacher Julie Loughlin.  more »

Weekend feast of music and dance

SIXTY years ago in 1948 the late Betty Kelly, a dance teacher and musician of great renown, started the annual Manchester Feis and it is still the oldest continuously run one in the country.  more »

Portrait of an Irish dancer: Therese Corless

AT the tender age of 15 Therese Corless has achieved in Irish dancing more than most senior dancers have before they decide to call it a day, yet this modest, unassuming girl is reluctant to even consider what her next achievement might be.  more »

Grove Feis in Kent

ORGANISED by teacher Elaine Day whose Grove dance school in Kent is a member of the Celtic Association of Irish Dancing (CAID), this feis attracted entries from most of its constituent dance schools in Britain.  more »

O’Gara Class Feis, Oxfordshire

THE village of Woodcote, outside Reading, was the picturesque setting for teacher Viv O’Gara’s class feis.  more »

Boyle O’Dowda Class Feis

THE HAMPSHIRE-BASED Boyle O’Dowda academy recently held its summer class feis in the coastal town of Fareham. Many of the academy’s dancers, whose ages range from just four to 21, were competing in a feis for the first time, albeit in internal competition with school colleagues of the same age group.  more »




 



 

 



Voice of the Irish in Britain:
 News | Sport | Entertainment | Community Focus | Letters | Contact us | Media pack


© Irish Post,
2008.