Eileen Dahill/Minnesota Tangled up in you. My life with a Dylan Fan. My friend Patti Ryan is from Minnesota and a Dylan Fan. From her earliest years she has been a musician. She even met her husband of over 30 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Eileen Dahill/North America Every Irish Fair needs a Welshman It was great to run into John Dingley from Wales at the Minnesota Irish Fair last weekend. He sat down and chatted with my mom and I for a Welsh minute. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I woke up to find it is Paul McCartney Day in Minnesota. Our Governor, Mark Dayton, has declared it! I only know two friends who snared tickets for the show that sold out in 20 minutes tonight. Steve and his […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Eileen Dahill/Minnesota Altan and Screaming Orphans from Donegal will perform at Minnesota’s Irish Fair August 8-10th. Irish Fair Three days is not enough to see all the local and international performers at the Minnesota Irish Festival! It is a FREE […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Lighthouse Swim last weekend was enhanced by the appearance of a pod of Dolphins who joined the swimmers. The winner of the Lighthouse Race, which was from the pier round the lighthouse and back, did it in an astonishing […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From SouthWestJournal.com Bob Dylan’s apartment and early recording site—now Blowin’ in the Wind I’m sorry I didn’t get to it sooner. This week’s destination could have been a national historic site now but it’s vanished. A couple weeks ago I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Eileen Dahill/Minnesota The Brian Boru Irish Bagpipe Band My Uncle Pat Creighton from Belfast and his friend Emmett McCarthy, who played for the Irish Army, were one of the founding members of the Brian Boru Bagpipe Band established in 1962 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
By Eileen Dahill. It started out as a street dance. Irish Dancers that I teach were invited to a birthday party. It was Teresa’s 21st birthday party last night and she wanted a street dance (and two more ear piercings). […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Eileen Dahill/St. Paul-Minneapolis/N. America I did not like Charlie Roth when I first met him. For about 3 minutes. In 2010 I arrived at the Festival Theater in St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin to go backstage with two dancers from my […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Eileen Dahill/Minnesota In the winter of 2009 my brother Sean drove his two sons, Seamus and Connor, and their friend Nolan to Coon Lake Minnesota to ice fish. Coon Lake has a pop-up village of fishing tents and ice houses […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…