One of the single best things about being an Irish dancer here at Inis Cairde is that we get to spend so much time together performing with our friends during the month of March! How lucky are we to have an entire month to not only celebrate Irish everything, but also to share our love of Irish dancing with the community! This season has been particularly exciting; we started our month off with international festivals at both The Franciscan Preschool and at Marbles Kids Museu

Inis Cairde is the only Irish dancing school in the Triangle that hosts its own competition annually. Each February dancers, adjudicators and musicians travel from all over North America to compete in our feis, pronounced "fesh." The dancers are divided by age and by level, with the smallest beginners competing in the First Feis competition, all the way up to World level dancers in the Open Championship level. Competitions began Friday night and continued throughout the day o

This past Saturday was a bright and chilly day for Raleigh's annual St. Patrick's Day Parade! Inis Cairde had close to 100 dancers and family members marching (and jigging) along behind our friend Kevin's antique red truck, decked out, of course, in the colors of the Irish flag. From year to year, we never know what the March weather will bring, so this year our dancers bundled up in tracksuits, scarves, mittens, and tons of creative shamrock shenanigans to enjoy the experien