Canada Ireland Foundation’s Executive Director, William Peat, sat down with CBC Metro Morning this St. Patrick’s Day to discuss the upcoming Bealtaine Theatre Festival, as well as our “jewel box on the waterfront”, the Corleck – a new venue for arts, heritage and cultural programming opening this November. Listen Here.

By Robert G. Kearns Special to The Globe and Mail After a happy childhood growing up in Ireland, I chose to emigrate to Canada in November, 1979. I was 24 years of age. My Irish father and British mother and an aunt who lived with us were loving and caring. Of my three siblings, only […]

What will become an international trail of Irish famine victims began in St. John’s this week, a reflection of what the country’s ambassador calls the strength of the Irish diaspora in Newfoundland and Labrador. A trail of bronze shoes, cast from real antique shoes discovered bundled in the thatch of a 19th-century cottage in Ireland, will […]