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Savannah Irish Festival celebrates halfway to St. Patrick’s Day
When it comes to reasons for celebrating with food and drinks at your local pub, there’s nothing better than the annual St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. Some people just can’t wait […]
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Seldom Sober / Live Stream
They play a healthy mix of originals, traditional Irish tunes, and more, and they do it amazingly
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Celtic Ceol Feis: Authentically Irish
Now, hosted by the Savannah Waterfront Association, Celtic Ceol Feis happens this Saturday at Emmet Park, on Bay Street
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Moira Nelligan and the Dixie Jigs @Sentient Bean
The fiddle-wielding Nelligan is a former Savannah resident with her roots now planted in Decatur.
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Fighting Irish
It’s hard to visualize this during St. Patrick’s Day week in Savannah, but the Irish in America didn’t always have a strong sense of ethnic pride. “Irish identity in the […]
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Here’s to Kevin Barry’s
An Gorta Mór, “the great hunger,” ravaged Ireland of her people, laid a foundation for her modern politics and provided the catalyst for the mass emigration of her people. In […]
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Don’t call it a comeback
Those of us who’ve been complaining about the dearth of live music on River Street over St. Patrick’s Day weekend can just shut up, because this year, it’s baaaack. If […]
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The three Irish tenors
Since 1980, Ground Zero for Irish music in Savannah has been Kevin Barry’s on River Street
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St. Patrick’s Day FAQs
So you can just walk around and drink in Savannah? Crazy. Yes, to-go cups are one of the most enlightened and wonderful things about our fair city. Anyone over 21 […]
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Irish Girl Power
“How do I get to Tara Feis?” “Practice, kid. Practice!” For Maeve Flanagan, who sings and plays fiddle and tin whistle, a career in Irish music was inevitable. Her mother […]
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An Irish spring fling
This year’s 19th annual Tara Feis event, held Saturday, March 13, is sponsored by the City of Savannah Department of Cultural Affairs. It was “originally started because the community felt […]