Canada’s next Ambassador to Ireland, Kevin Vickers, will attend Canada’s 32nd Irish Festival on the Miramichi. The annual festival will be held July 16th - 19th on Waterford Green. As a committee we are excited for Miramichier Kevin Vickers and his appointment as Ambassador to Ireland and naturally we are tremendously excited he will be […]
From Miramichi Online - July 19, 2014. After only one day of events, the perfect weather is making the festival organizers look like geniuses, and will probably help fund a revival that the festival desperately needs. As one of the people in attendance at the Irish Festival put it, “I think they have somebody looking […]
Miramichi Leader Mon Jul 21 2014 Samantha Magee Miramichi Leader The Irish have the luck, it seems, as this weekend’s 31st annual Canada’s Irish Festival on the Miramichi has gone off without a hitch, despite the gamble organizers took to have the majority of the events outdoors. Paddy Quinn, a co-president alongside Tracey (Chopper) Robinson, […]
The co-presidents of the Miramichi Irish Festival say the festival needed a change, but say they were a bit nervous to take the festival outdoors. “For years this festival was the place to be. Hotels were full, campgrounds were full, and people were sleeping on couches of people they met on the festival floor. It […]
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