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Dec 16, 2024

Our Virtual Wren Hat Contest is Under Way!

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

Get Your Irish On with a Post-Christmas Party in Glenside

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

Come to the Annual Wren Party December 26

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

Bringing Back the Wren Party in Philadelphia

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

Our Online Wren Hat Competition is Up and Running

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

Come to the 23rd Annual Wren Party

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

2021 Wren Hat Winners

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…

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Dec 15, 2021

Wren Hat Competition, With Prizes

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

St. Stephen's Day Wren Hat Competition

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

Get Set for the 2019 Annual Wren Party and Ceili

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…

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Dec 13, 2018

Come to the Wren Party

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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