IrishCentral Upstate New York - b5cc3275d518416eacb61d676e8d84d1 http://www.irishcentral.com/topics/Upstate+New+York IrishCentral Upstate New York en-us http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/Craic-in-upstate-New-York-is-about-to-explode-with-Catskills-Irish-Arts-Week-161458135.html http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/Craic-in-upstate-New-York-is-about-to-explode-with-Catskills-Irish-Arts-Week-161458135.html Craic in upstate New York is about to explode with Catskills Irish Arts Week (IrishCentral) Thu, 05 Jul 2012 10:30:30 PDT
By: PAUL KEATING

The craic in the Catskills is about to explode up and down Route 145 in East Durham, New York; the heart of the Irish Catskills. It’s time for the 18th Annual Catskills Irish Arts Week hosted by the Michael J. Quill Irish Cultural and Sports Centre taking place July 15 to 21 in the historic hamlet. It is the largest gathering of Irish traditional musicians in North America at the internationally respected summer school known as the “Willie Clancy Summer School of the West” upon which it was modeled. High praise indeed since the WCSS is celebrating 40 years this July also right before the CIAW and quite a few teachers will be at both schools.

READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/google-spots-an-acre-of-ireland-in-upstate-new-york-159412535.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/google-spots-an-acre-of-ireland-in-upstate-new-york-159412535.html Google spots an acre of Ireland in upstate New York (IrishCentral) Mon, 18 Jun 2012 06:15:19 PDT
You know the old line about the Great Wall of China being the only manmade object visible from outer space?  Now Google Maps and Google Earth are bringing the whole world into focus, right down this acre’s worth of Ireland, rendered in red brick in the Irish Park in the upstate New York town of East Durham  It’s the largest county-accurate map of Ireland in the worldThe park was built in 2001 at a cost of 500,000, funded in part by New York State, Greene County and the Michael J Quill Irish Cultural & Sports Centre, Inc READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/new-york-state-of-mind/carry-on-camping-in-the-catskills--an-irish-take-on-the-wild-outdoors-124681459.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/new-york-state-of-mind/carry-on-camping-in-the-catskills--an-irish-take-on-the-wild-outdoors-124681459.html Carry on camping in the Catskills- an Irish take on the wild outdoors (IrishCentral) Tue, 28 Jun 2011 04:35:18 PDT
Gibson, Harris and I about to trek for our supperLast Saturday I found myself in unfamiliar territory  There was me, a slippery log and a river that I had to cross somewhere deep in the in the Catskills Mountains in upstate New York How had Jennifer Grey made this look so easy?My three friends had each skipped across the wooden log with the agility of a tight rope walker READ MORE ]]>