By: Jeff Meade

What are your favorite Irish love songs? Who are your favorite female performers in Irish music? What was your scariest drive in Ireland?

You can join these conversations and more with your Irish-minded friends and neighbors at BallyPhilly, the online community of irishphiladelphia.com. Why, you can almost smell the peat smoke! (Bonus: It never rains.)

This is no stupid bloody chat room. It’s not one of those dopey, anemic discussion boards. In BallyPhilly, you can share your Ireland photos and favorite Irish YouTube videos, or start an online group where you and others can meet to share information about your favorite Irish interest, hobby or passion—dance, history, language, food, travel, pubs, politics, poetry, Celtic spirituality, art, theatre, whatever. You can post your favorite tunes. You can even launch your very own blog and impress us all with your literary flair. (Just like me. I write good. I write real good.)

We created BallyPhilly just a week ago and already there are 40 local folks wandering about the streets of our virtual Irish town. (Ten more, and we’ll have to open a Starbucks.)

It costs nothing to join. Come join the fun at BallyPhilly.