Potomac Festival

Celebrating Celtic Culture

By Irish America Staff
April / May 2003

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A weekend celebration of Celtic culture is set for Burke, Virginia with the 10th annual Potomac Celtic Festival on June 14 and 15. All 1200 acres of Morven Park's international equestrian center will be transformed into a hub of continuous music and dance on eight stages, a craft market with 50 Celtic art and crafts exhibitors, reenactments of Celtic history from the 1st … [Read more...] about Celebrating Celtic Culture

September 25, 1917

Thomas Ashe, member of the Gaelic League, the Irish Republican Brotherhood and one of the founders of the Irish Volunteers, died from a hunger strike on this day in 1917. Ashe, who was born in Co. Kerry, took part in the Easter Uprising of 1916 as a commander of the Fingal Battalion of the Irish Volunteers. On May 8, 1916, both Ashe and De Valera were court martialled by the British and sentenced to death. He was released but then charged with sedition and returned to prison in August of 1917. There, he began a hunger strike in protest that he be treated with a prisoner of war status.

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