TRADITIONAL music heavyweights Sharon Shannon and Luka Bloom will be among the Irish artists showcasing their talents at next year’s Celtic Connections Festival in Glasgow.

A NEW book entitled Glasgow Corporation Transport and the Donegal Connection by regular contributor to The Irish Voice, Hugh Dougherty, was launched recently in the County Museum in Letterkenny.

THE life and times of the publisher, home-ruler, land reformer and radical, John Ferguson (1836-1906), were brought to life in a fascinating presentation by social historian Sean Thomas McDonagh, in Grace’s Irish Centre late last month.

SCOTLAND’S Irish dance schools celebrated another successful set of performances recently at the Great Britain Championships in London.

CATHERINE Connolly has been inaugurated as the 10th President of Ireland, after winning the presidential election in a landslide.

A RECENTLY resurrected initiative by the Edinburgh Emerald Irish Social Group has been pivotal in helping people who have mobility issues.

GRACE’S Irish Centre is set to play host to two events that will shine a light on two notable figures in Irish history.

A SPECIAL event was held in Edinburgh recently to announce the return of the Mowi Hurling-Shinty International to Scotland for the first time since 2018.

ON SATURDAY September 27, the Consulate General of Ireland hosted the Irish Culture and Heritage Day in Edinburgh; an event that has been firmly re-established as an annual opportunity for Irish people of all ages and generations to come together to celebrate our shared heritage.

A TRAVELLING exhibition celebrating the work of Donegal men and women in Scotland between 1940 and 1990 opened to the public in the Glasgow City Archives at the Mitchell Library last month.

TWO NEW documentaries are set to excite and entertain audiences in Edinburgh and Glasgow over the next two months.

THE latest book by regular contributor to The Irish Voice, Hugh Dougherty, tells of his time on the platform and in the driving cab of Western SMT buses as a Glasgow University student from 1969 to 1972.

THE summer is a period of change in many consulates and embassies around the world, and it is no different here in Edinburgh.

HIBERNIAN FC celebrated its 150th anniversary in fantastic fashion at the start of last month with a number of events to mark the milestone.

THE recent Irish Roots programme at the Govanhill International Festival and Carnival—which formed part of the Glasgow 850 celebrations—proved to be a huge success.

THE Consulate General of Ireland recently announced that this year’s Irish Culture and Heritage Day will take place at the Grange Cricket Club in Stockbridge on Saturday September 27.

THE grave of Celtic great Tommy McInally was among those vandalised amid a horrifying act of vandalism in St Conval’s Cemetery in Barrhead, during which a number of headstones were attacked and a large crucifix was set on fire.

THE hopes of Palestinian children planning to travel to Ireland for a summer of sport amid the destruction and devastation surrounding them have been dashed after their visa applications were rejected.

A HIBS legend and a living link to the foundation of the club, no-one better embodies the history and spirit of the Edinburgh club, and now Pat Stanton has been honoured with the renaming of the East Stand at Easter Road.

THE manager of a co-operative for a small island off the south-west coast of County Cork is appealing to families among the Irish diaspora to follow his lead and make it their new home.