We're hosting our 25th annual Wren Party on St. Stephen's Day … 7 p.m. on Dec. 26 at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 235 Limekiln Pike in Glenside. But not everyone can make it to the party – especially if…
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Dec 16, 2024
Dec 16, 2024
We're hosting our 25th annual Wren Party on St. Stephen's Day … 7 p.m. on Dec. 26 at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 235 Limekiln Pike in Glenside. But not everyone can make it to the party – especially if…
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Dec 5, 2024
Extend your Christmas holiday. Come celebrate the feast of St. Stephen in a uniquely Irish way the following day, Dec. 26.
You can join the revelry with the Philadelphia/Delaware Valley branch of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann (pronounced COAL-tus KYOL-TOR-ee AIR-in). CCÉ…
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Nov 30, 2023
Extend your Christmas holiday. Come celebrate the feast of St. Stephen in a uniquely Irish way the following day, December 26.
You can join the revelry with the Philadelphia/Delaware Valley branch of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann (pronounced COAL-tus KYOL-TOR-ee AIR-in). CCÉ…
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Jan 1, 2023
Two years after the pandemic closed off any possibility of Comhaltas Philadelphia-Delaware Valley hosting its annual St. Stephen’s Day Wren Party, the event returned for 2022.
With attendees filling the hall and taking up all the tables, it was a…
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Nov 17, 2022
Check out our nifty new poster. All the details there. If you have an idea off the top of your head for a wren hat to help celebrate the feast of St. Stephen (December 26), now is the time to…
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Nov 14, 2022
Extend your Christmas holiday. Come celebrate the feast of St. Stephen in a uniquely Irish way the following day, December 26.
You can join the revelry with the Philadelphia/Delaware Valley branch of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann (pronounced COAL-tus KYOL-TOR-ee AIR-in). CCÉ…
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Dec 26, 2021
It’s St. Stephen’s Day, and we have our Wren Hat Competition Winners! Thank you to all of our contestants who participated this year, and to those folks who reached out with questions and/or promises of participating next year!
Our judges…
Read moreDec 15, 2021
Attention all wren boys (and girls, of course). It’s almost time to celebrate the feast of St. Stephen—December 26.
Tradition has it that on that day, the wren boys go from house to house within their towns and villages in…
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Dec 5, 2020
December 26 is the feast day of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr.
Legend has it that St. Stephen’s hiding place was betrayed by the chattering of a wren.For centuries, the feast day has been recalled in Ireland by the…
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Nov 17, 2019
Bring your Wren hat and your family and friends!
The big 20th anniversary celebration is December 26 at 7 p.m. at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 235 Limekiln Pike, Glenside, PA 19038.
Expect a night of dancing and music a-plenty…
Read moreDec 13, 2018
Legend has it that it was the chattering of a wren who gave away St. Stephen’s hiding place in a bush, leading to his murder and martyrdom.
Fast forward several centuries to the Emerald Isle, where the so-called “wren boys”…
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