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Scottish Fleadh a showcase for talent
This year’s Scottish Fleadh was a huge success as hundreds of musicians descended on Woodfarm High School for the annual Scottish Championships in traditional Irish music, song, dance and...
No Irish community invovlement in new sectarianism working group?
Following the repeal of the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications Act, a new working group has been convened by the Justice Committee to consider the legal definition...
New milestone for Great Hunger Memorial
The work of Coiste Cuimhneachain an Gorta Mór (Great Hunger Memorial Committee) has reached another milestone as the first designs for the highly anticipated memorial in Glasgow are submitted...
Literary festival aims to foster Celtic links
The links between Scotland and Ireland stretch back to time immemorial, but while many cultural links in many spheres have been formalised, those whose passion lies in the literary...
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Academic Maureen McBride gives a stinging analysis of the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act...
The controversial Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2012 looks set to be scrapped following Labour MSP James Kelly’s Member’s Bill seeking to repeal the legislation.
The...
Glasgow performance of Blood Upon the Rose set for sell out
PLAYWRIGHT Gerry Cunningham is looking forward to unveiling his story of the love affair at the heart of the Easter Rising to a Glasgow audience this Easter Monday—and his...
Holyrood votes on the Offensive Behaviour act on Thursday, so what next for the...
A vote will take place in the Scottish Parliament this Thursday which could bring the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act one step closer to finally being repealed.
The Irish community...
Mhairi Black’s reference to ‘plastic Irishmen’ is totally unacceptable for a Member of Parliament
The 2014 Scottish independence referendum was a landmark for a number of reasons, but for our community it confirmed a major change. In the preceding decades, it was easy...
Big-hearted Govan group raise funds to bring Belfast kids to Glasgow to watch their...
40 young people from the Ardoyne district of Belfast are eagerly awaiting a trip to Glasgow, thanks to the efforts of the Govan Emerald.
Fundraising has been going on frantically...
Final design of Glasgow Great Hunger Memorial expected by the summer
Glasgow's Irish community will know what their long-awaited memorial to the Great Hunger will look like by this summer, after the details of a design competition were announced by...