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Submitted photos The 17th annual Missouri River Irish Festival will be held at Lewis & Clark Boathouse parking lot on May 26-28. Expect plenty of live music, food and adult beverage vendors, a ‘Wee Folk’ Village, along with a cultural exhibit and an Irish pub. The festival is put on by the Irish Chapter of the St. Charles Sister Cities program.
The Missouri River Irish Festival, put on by the St. Charles Sister Cities-Irish Chapter, celebrates the link between St. Charles and Inishowen, Ireland By Brett Auten If you are looking for a “craicing” time, you can always expect a brilliant weekend when the Missouri River Irish Festival unfurls. More than 10,000 visitors come through the festival, making it one of the biggest free Irish festivals in the Midwest. The threeday extravaganza is aptly presented by the St. Charles Sister Cities-Irish Chapter and funds made by the festival support student exchanges. This year, the group is sending three St. Charles-area students at a cost of approximately $1,400 each plus additional travel expenses once they have landed on the Green Island. This rotating exchange, odd years, Ireland comes to the States and even years, the States goes to Ireland. Students (from either
St. Charles High or St. Charles West) stay with host families, go on excursions, attend school and discover the diverse world around them. The festival will be held at Lewis & Clark Boathouse parking lot on May 26-28. Expect plenty of live music, food and adult beverage vendors. The Shamrock’s Stage will feature plenty of live music around the clock and the ‘Wee Folk’ Village will be the perfect location for the kids. An on-site Irish Pub will feature whiskey tastings, fun pub contests, a Guinness perfect pour, and more. Inishowen and its schools is a rural area and money is much more scarce thus the Irish Chapter has collected books for its high school libraries, collected baseball equipment and sent it over, donated to restore a damaged park, purchased a defibrillator, sent a sports
team to the national finals, and raised money to help pay for a new gymnasium floor. “Our mission is to encourage and implement high quality programs that will foster mutual understanding, friendship and goodwill through cultural, social, business and educational exchanges between us,” Carla O’Day, a longtime Irish Chapter member, said. Inishowen is a peninsula in the north of County Donegal in Ireland and is the largest peninsula on the island. It’s arguably best known as the entry point for Malin Head – the most northerly point in Ireland – and the starting point for Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way. The peninsula measures at a staggering 550 square miles. See ’IRISH’ page 2
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