The Irish connection to Canada will be front and center at the next meeting of the Portland Hibernian Society on October 15 at Kells Restaurant. Two related stories in the PDX HI: The new PM of Canada, Mark Carney, has a special appreciation for the Ireland-Canada connection. His parents are from Co.Mayo. AND, by coincidence, it was announced this morning Oct 8 that a Canadian writer just won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Gemma Whelan talks with Hibernian Daniel Curran about her pivot to publishing with Shangana Press, named after her childhood home in Dublin. Daniel has details about the annual theater tour to Ireland she runs with her husband.