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Sunday, 28th May at 8pm

Here’s our top pick of things to do in Sligo this weekend. As ever, there is something for everyone with music, theatre and a 5km run among our selection.

With its towering portico, keystoned lintels and garland-adorned cut-stone panels, the building at 1532 N. Wauwatosa Ave. is pure Colonial/Georgian Revival. It hardly looks like the exterior of a beehive of Celtic cultural activity, but thats exactly what it is today.

As Liam Clancy remembers it, being asked to perform on The Ed Sullivan Show did not seem like a big deal. “We just did not understand the significance,” he told Irish America in a recent interview, during a publicity tour to promote a brilliant rerelease of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem performing live at

At 7 p.m. March 10,  you will get a chance to hear one of the most accomplished and exciting Irish groups touring when Teada comes to Utica.

As Liam Clancy remembers it, being asked to perform on The Ed Sullivan Show did not seem like a big deal. “We just did not understand the significance,” he told Irish America in a recent interview, during a publicity tour to promote a brilliant rerelease of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem performing live at New York City’s Carnegie Hall in 1963. Two years before that historic performance, as Clancy recalls, they were a group of slightly shady characters best known in that bohemian red...

(5 out of 5 stars) "Released in 1987, this is the final recording made by Liam Clancey and Tommy Makem before the duo split up. Its also by far the most interesting musically, and at least some of the credit goes to producer/musician/arranger extraordinaire Donal Lunny.Lunny, whos worked with just about everybody in the Irish music world, contributed bouzoukis, bodhrans and keyboards to the 13 songs. He also did much of the arranging, so much of Weve Come A Long Way has more variety than previ...