Perhaps you didn’t know that the inhabitants of Cork have a distinct accent, one that sets them apart from other Irish. The tone to their accent tends to be more high-pitched than the standard Irish accent, and the English spoken in Cork has many dialect words that are peculiar to the city and...
Bushstock is a one-of-a-kind, one-day long music festival taking place Saturday 4th June 2011. The festival is put on by Communion Music, which began promoting monthly club night shows in London in 2006. Communion has since grown into its own record label and now hosts nine monthly club nights on th...
The Dublin City Soul Festival—“a celebration of peace, unity, and love.” The motto of the festival, which takes place May 26-29, says it well as it attempts to bring people together to enjoy great music and to support a great cause. The festival was created in 2007 by Chris Maher, ...
The 2011 West End Festival, which will take place Friday 3 to Sunday 26 June in Glasgow, began as a small, local festival in 1996, focusing on Byrnes Road in Glasgow. It has grown tremendously since, with minimum involvement from local and federal authorities. The West End Festival is truly an examp...
Although the population of Galway, Ireland is predominately Irish, almost 20% of its residents are non-Irish. Half of this group is made up of white Europeans, coming from Poland and other Central European nations. An even smaller portion of this segment of Galway is Latin in origin, and the city ev...