Irish eyes will be smiling at this halfway-to-St. Patrick’s Day event. Long Grove’s annual Irish Days festival hours are 10:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Aug. 31, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Sept 1 and 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Sept. 2 ...

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SHEFFIELD — Growing up in London, fiddle player Kevin Burke received the best education in Irish traditional music that anyone could ask for. When Burke came of age in the 1960s, the influx of Irish ...