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Celtic Cross tests news songs from upcoming CD for rapturous audience (IrishCentral)

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 05:33:20 PDT

Celtic CrossI had the rare pleasure of seeing Celtic Cross not once but twice in the last seven days The band’s long-awaited follow-up to the award-winning Shores of America was derailed when their Hoboken recording studio was flooded following Hurricane Sandy, so they’re taking the time to road test the new songs in front of a rapturous audience “I think everyone is overly ready for some new material,” jokes singer Kathleen Fee “Everything has been positive and digging the new stuff READ MORE

A Celtic Crossing 2013 (IrishCentral)

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 03:01:57 PST

On Saturday night March 2nd, 7:30 pm at the newly re- opened Norwood Theater, a brilliant cast of singers and dancers will join local singer Pauline Wells as they kick off a celebration of Boston’s Irish heritage and the upcoming St Patrick’s Day holiday for 2013 READ MORE

Celtic Cross’s Kathleen Vesey Fee prepares for Montauk summer sessions (IrishCentral)

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 09:32:57 PDT

Kathleen FeeThe summer season is a busy one for Irish musicians They no sooner get a break from the St Patrick’s Day festivities before rolling into a busy festival calendar during the warm months For Celtic Cross’s lead singer Kathleen Vesey Fee, she is combining music and vacation when she brings a few musicians onto the dock of Swallow East in Montauk for a series of Tuesday evening shows through August READ MORE

Celtic Cross turns 25 (IrishCentral)

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 07:25:03 PDT

I caught up with Kathleen Vesey Fee of the group Celtic Cross over the weekend The band is super excited about this Big Green Season in particular because it marks their 25th anniversaryConsidering Fee isn’t 40 yet, you could say that the band just might have another few decades ahead of them This group of brothers and a sister have just added drummer Ryan Cavan, who joined the band a few weeks ago READ MORE

Scottish yachtsman patents Celtic cross as a rediscovered navigational tool (IrishCentral)

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 02:40:13 PDT

The Celtic cross is not a gory object like the common European or Latin American crucifix depicting the remains of Roman execution More often the Celtic cross is depicted in bare geometry that is sometimes ornamented with mathematically precise knotwork Joseph Campbell thought the peculiar cross with circle represented chakra ascension, and quoted WBYeats' line "ancient Ireland knew it all," in describing his theory of Gaelic Ireland's Tibetan-like achievements at spiritual culture A Scottish researcher and yachtsman, however, has patented the Celtic cross as a tool--re-discovered---he claims, and which he thinks useful in navigation, astronomy, surveying, cartography and time keeping READ MORE

A Celtic Cross is placed at Bunker Hill to remember the Irish buried there (IrishCentral)

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:42:07 PST

By: Ed Callahan and Dan Casey

The cemetery is gated and well hidden, and there have been no burials in it for three score years and more. It’s a lovely, grassy, tranquil place, and Dan Mahoney, the parish priest, remarks how all the headstones face northeast toward home, toward Ireland.

AOH commemoration marks 100th anniversary of the Celtic Cross on Grosse Île (IrishCentral)

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:20:04 PDT

By: MARIANNA O’GALLAGHER

“Children of the Gael died in the thousands on this island having fled from the laws of the foreign tyrants and an artificial famine in the years 1847-48. God's loyal blessing upon them. Let this monument be a token to their name and honour from the Gaels of America. God Save Ireland.” - Inscription on Celtic Cross, Grosse Île, Canada

AOH to celebrate centenary of Celtic cross on 'Canada's Ellis Island' (IrishCentral)

Wed, 20 May 2009 07:52:48 PDT

By: ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS IN CANADA

In August of this year, Grosse Ile, Canada’s Ellis Island, will celebrate the 100^th anniversary of the unveiling of one of the largest Celtic crosses in the world to commemorate the thousands of Irish immigrants whose final resting place was the Canadian island.

A Celtic Cross for Annie Moore (IrishCentral)

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 09:54:30 PDT

By: BRIDGET ENGLISH

Annie Moore, the first immigrant to arrive at Ellis Island, has finally found a final resting place after years of uncertainty. READ MORE