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Pub Information, locations and reviews.Jim McDonoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12682985051110001179noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-160289554395445529.post-6470936663065765752010-06-04T10:42:00.000-07:002010-06-04T11:14:15.811-07:00Bloomsday Celebrations<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Bloomsday has become an iconic </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>commemoration of a literary milestone, </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Ulysses, the great novel by James Joyce, </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>was set on and transpires on </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>June 16, 1904 in Dubln. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The characters, the city and the story </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>have attained mythical status in some </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>literary circles and Bloomsday has evolved </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>into a day that commemorates and savors </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>that glorious fictional piece of time.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">I was recently struck by the realization that reading James Joyce </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">changed my life in many ways.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> My intent now is to spend a portion </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">of my time promoting my belief that reading, enjoying and learning </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">about James Joyce and his works can be a very expansive </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">and positive endeavor. My first step was to start the </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">James Joyce Colloquium and it has already opened doors and given </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">my limited knowledge and understanding of Joyce and his writing </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">a boost. I hope that my readers will check this out and consider </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">joining the group. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here are links to the latest issue of the </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Irish E-Missive which has a brief feature on the Joyce project </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">and to our new FaceBook Group.</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs028/1102459560768/archive/1103450333282.html"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">IRISH E-MISSIVE </span></span></a><br />
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</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=106351242744517">James Joyce Colloquium</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">More on James Joyce here soon. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><b><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jim McDonough</span></span></i></div><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Manhattan, Kansas </span></i><b><br />
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</b></span>Jim McDonoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12682985051110001179noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-160289554395445529.post-52930697845016333712010-04-10T11:35:00.000-07:002010-04-17T08:34:29.582-07:00Easter Rising of 1916---Monday, April 24<span style="font-size: x-large;">EASTER MONDAY 1916</span><br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Irish Uprising Remembered</span></i><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">When I was very young, my father, </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Joseph Aloysius McDonough </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">taught me a lot about Irish History. One of the things that I remember </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">most vividly is his story of the failed Easter Rising of 1916. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">He told me that when he heard the news of the defeat, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">surrender and execution of the rebels that it was the </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">most heartbreaking experience of his life</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">and the saddest day of his life. </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pop was a young man at the time and his family and the </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Irish community in Ohio were all keenly aware of the </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Irish Cause for Freedom and were strong Fenian Supporters. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">His distant cousin, Thomas McDonagh, had stayed with his family</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">when he had visited the States on speaking and fund-raising tours.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">My Irish Roots go deep, my grandfather Patrick,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">an immigrant to America,</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> was a refugee </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">from the Irish Famine of the 1840s. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">It is only in the past year or so that I have had the time </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(I always had the inclination) to start reading a lot more.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am profoundly amazed and grateful that such great men </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">of character and intelligence are drawn to the </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">causes of revolution. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>American and Irish Heroes All</b></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">It happened in America with the likes of Washington, Franklin </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">and Jefferson and it was also the case in Ireland. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">The seven signers of the Irish Proclamation were all great men; </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">just not quite as lucky as the American Founders. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">I guess that <i><b>Luck of the Irish</b></i> skips around a bit.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">All of these men were brave, committed, decent, thoughtful </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">and willing to risk everything for what they believed was just and right.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">We are all lucky that we share this wonderful common heritage.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span><br />
The fateful events, the spark for Irish Resistance and Liberty <br />
of <b> Easter Monday, April 24, 1916,</b> will live on in the <br />
hearts of the Irish and the Pan Irish Diaspora for all time.<br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-weight: normal;">The signers of the IRISH PROCLAMATION </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-weight: normal;">were all killed in the Rebellion or <br />
captured and executed.<br />
<b><i>The signers were:</i></b><span style="color: #003300; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> <br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Thomas J. Clarke, </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #003300; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Sean Mac Diarmada, </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #003300; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Thomas MacDonagh, Patrick Pearse, </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #003300; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><span style="color: #003300; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eamonn Ceannt, James Connolly, <br />
and Joseph Mary Plunkett.</span><br />
</span>All of the patriots died heroically;</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-weight: normal;"> <br />
<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">James Connolly </span>who was considered the leader, had been wounded <br />
in the Rebellion and captured. After a quick show trial he was tied to <br />
a </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-weight: normal;">chair so he could be upright when he was shot. <br />
<br />
All of the signers were members of the Irish Military Council which <br />
had planned the Easter Rising of 1916.The honor of signing first <br />
was given to the oldest and most tested member of the group,<br />
<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Thomas J. Clarke.</span>At the age of 18, Clarke had joined the <br />
Irish Republican Brotherhood. He was born in 1857 and had <br />
served fifteen years in prison for his revolutionary activities. <br />
Clarke fought at the GPO and was taken into custody after the<br />
surrender on April 29. Clarke was held in Kilmainham Gaol <br />
(then known as the NEW JAIL) until his execution by <br />
firing squad on May 3.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Thomas MacDonagh</span>, had surrendered and he regretted <br />
that he had not fought on to the death or escaped. He wrote from <br />
his cell in the last hours of his life to surviving members of his <br />
regiment that </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-weight: normal;">they should always try to escape and never surrender <br />
in </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-weight: normal;">future battles so that they might live to fight another day.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Padraig (Patrick) </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Pearse</span> read the Irish Proclamation<br />
aloud to a small crowd when the Irish Rebels were briefly <br />
in control of the General Post Office. He was captured by <br />
during the British counter attack. Pearse was executed</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">on May 3.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Sean Mac Diarmada (McDermott) </span>is perhaps the least well known <br />
of the signers. He was a great man and a credit to the Irish Race. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">MacDiarmada was born on February 28, 1883 in Kityclogher in <br />
County Leitrim near the Donegal border, a monument stands there <br />
in his memory. In Belfast, he joined the Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH). </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">He rose quickly through the myriad groups dedicated to </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Irish Nationalism and finally in 1910 to a position as managing editor </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">of the newspaper "Irish Freedom" <br />
He had met Thomas Clarke in 1908 in Dublin and the two worked <br />
together for "THE CAUSE" till the end of their days. <br />
He was captured at his station at the GPO on April 29 and after a <br />
court-martial on May 9, Mac Diarmada was executed by firing squad <br />
on May 12, 1916 at the age of 33.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Eamonn Ceannt</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">,</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> was born Edward Kent in Galway in 1881. <br />
At a young age, his family moved to Dublin where he joined the <br />
Gaelic League. After joining the Irish Republican Brotherhood <br />
in 1913, he quickly rose to a position of authority. As one of the <br />
ounders of the Military Committee, he was on Secret British Lists <br />
and was considered a threat. He was briefly held at the New Jail <br />
after his capture at the South Dublin Union. He saw and<br />
was responsible for some of the fiercest resistance and fighting <br />
in the Rebellion but he followed order and surrendered when <br />
ordered to do so. He was executed on May 8 in Kilmainham. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br />
</span><br />
</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Joseph Plunkett</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span> was an Irish Rebel. Mystic and a poet.<br />
He was a devout Catholic and his deep faith was (and still is) <br />
an inspiration to many and to the</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> <br />
justness of the Irish cause </span><span style="font-style: italic;">for freedom.</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Plunkett was born in Dublin </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">and educated at Belvedere College <br />
and Stonyhurst College. He was editor of the <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Irish Review</span> and a <br />
co-founder of the Irish Theatre in Dublin. Plunkett was a close <br />
friend to both Thomas MacDonagh and Padraic Pearse, <br />
also noted Irish poets. <br />
He was captured and held by the British army in the Richmond <br />
Barracks. In the morning of May 4, just before his execution <br />
in the courtyard of Kilmainham jail, he married his longtime fiance, <br />
Grace Gifford. Plunkett was only 28.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-weight: normal;"><br />
</span>Link to the Irish Proclamation:<br />
<a href="http://www.iol.ie/%7Edluby/proclaim.htm">http://www.iol.ie/~dluby/proclaim.htm</a><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">I See His Blood Upon the Rose </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>by Joseph Mary Plunkett</i> (1887-1916)</span> <br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>I see his blood upon the rose </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>And in the stars the glory of His eyes, </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b> His body gleams amid eternal snows, </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b> His tears fall from the skies.<br />
I see his face in every flower; </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>The thunder and the singing of the birds Are but His voice</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b> -- and carven by His power Rocks are His written words.<br />
All pathways by His feet are worn, </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b> His strong heart stirs the ever-beating sea, </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b> His crown of thorns is twined with every thorn, </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b> His cross is every tree.</b></span><br />
<br />
<i>About this poem by Plunkett.</i><br />
<i>One of the old Irish Priests at the Brother's of St. Patrick</i><br />
<i>taught this to my son Mark almost twenty years ago.</i><br />
<i>That was the first time I had ever heard it; </i><br />
<i>it has been a boon</i><br />
<i>to my faith ever since.</i><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.rc.net/wcc/ireland/plunkt1.htm">http://www.rc.net/wcc/ireland/plunkt1.htm</a>Jim McDonoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12682985051110001179noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-160289554395445529.post-28366566584766370102010-03-04T20:24:00.000-08:002010-03-17T12:26:50.983-07:00Countdown To Saint Patrick's Day!!<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Happy </b><b style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Saint Patrick's Day!</b></span><br />
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<b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">A Wee Bit About the </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Great Saint Patrick...</span></b><br />
Believe it or not; he did NOT invent GREEN BEER!<br />
St Patrick, best known as the Missionary Apostle and patron <br />
Saint of Ireland was born in Roman Britain around 387AD.<br />
Captured as a youth and sold into slavery by Irish pirates; <br />
he turned to his Christian Faith for solace and strength during <br />
his years in captivity. When he finally escaped; he vowed to<br />
return to spread the "GOOD NEWS".<br />
The dates are murky in history but it is believed that he<br />
returned to Ireland as early as 415. We know that he<br />
worked faithfully as a zealous priest and bishop<br />
for the rest of his long life. <br />
<i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Some sources say that Patrick dies in 493AD;</span></b></i><br />
<i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">other sources say 460 or 461. --Ed.)</span></b></i><br />
One thing we know for sure; Patrick was a great man of<br />
strong will and deep faith in the TRIUNE GOD. <br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Saint Patrick's Breastplate </span></b><br />
A prayer and sometime hymn, written and preached by him<br />
has come down to us in several forms;<br />
it was written in Ancient Irish and translated into<br />
Latin during the Middle Ages. <br />
It demonstrates his Faith and Fighting Spirit.<br />
St. Patrick prepared these words before his battles<br />
and debates with the Druids. <br />
He credits these prayers for his victory over Pagans<br />
and his ability to build the Irish Church.<br />
<br />
<b><i>I bind myself today to God's Power to guide me,</i></b><br />
<b><i>God's Might to uphold me.</i></b><br />
<b><i>God's Wisdom to teach me,</i></b><br />
<b><i>God's Eye to watch over me,</i></b><br />
<b><i>God's Ear to hear me,</i></b><br />
<b><i>God's Word to give me speech,</i></b><br />
<b><i>God's Hand to guide me,</i></b><br />
<b><i>God's Way to lie before me,</i></b><br />
<b><i>God's Shield to shelter me...</i></b><br />
<b><i><br />
</i></b><br />
<b><i>Christ protect me today;</i></b><br />
<b><i>Against every poison,</i></b><br />
<b><i>Against burning,</i></b><br />
<b><i>Against drowning,</i></b><br />
<b><i>Against death-wounds...</i></b><br />
<b><i><br />
</i></b><br />
<b><i>Christ with me,</i></b><br />
<b><i>Christ before me,</i></b><br />
<b><i>Christ behind me,</i></b><br />
<b><i>Christ beneath me,</i></b><br />
<b><i>Christ above me,</i></b><br />
<b><i>Christ at my right,</i></b><br />
<b><i>Christ at my left,</i></b><br />
<b><i>Christ in the fort...</i></b><br />
<br />
This above excerpt is just a partial English translation; <br />
the entire work can be found online. One source is:<br />
<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11554a.htm">www.newadvent.org/cathen/11554a.htm</a><br />
<br />
<div style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Patrick Facts</b></span></div>Here are a few more items of interest about the <br />
Great Saint and his Grand Day!<br />
Did you know that GREEN is associated with the Irish<br />
and Ireland because of the Shamrock and the great green<br />
of the land itself but that Blue was the dominant color<br />
of his vestments. <br />
In Ireland you will often hear the reference<br />
to "St. Patrick Blue"<br />
<br />
The Shamrock is also associated with Saint Patrick's Day,<br />
Ireland and the Irish because legend has it<br />
that St. Patrick himself used the little plant, native to Ireland,<br />
to explain how the Trinity or as he called it<br />
THE TRIUNE GOD, could exist as a single entity. <br />
The Irish of the time of Patrick were very tuned into nature<br />
and their surroundings; so it was a perfect metaphor.<br />
<br />
Another legend that St. Patrick drove poisonous snakes<br />
out of Ireland; often attributed to him as one of his miracles<br />
is probably not true. Evidence suggests that post-glacial<br />
Ireland never had any snakes in the first place.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>EARLY LIFE</b></span><br />
We know for sure that St. Patrick was born in Roman Britain<br />
but it is not certain exactly where. Many scholars think<br />
St. Patrick was born in Kilpatrick, near Dumbarton<br />
in Scotland. There is another group that think the great saint<br />
was born in present day Wales.<br />
<i><b>From his own writings,</b></i><br />
we do know that Patrick was born to Christian parents,<br />
that his given name was Maewyn Succat<br />
and that he was kidnapped by Irish pirates at 16<br />
and sold into slavery in Ireland. <br />
At about the age of 20, Saint Patrick escaped<br />
and sailors took him back to Britain.<br />
In a dream he was told to leave Ireland by walking<br />
to the coast and looking for a ship.<br />
Dreams and visions came to him for the rest of his life<br />
and he considered them Divine Intervention.<br />
After studying for the priesthood,<br />
Saint Patrick was ordained<br />
by Saint Germanus, the Bishop of Auxerre around 416.<br />
In 432, Pope Celestine I consecrated him as a bishop.<br />
It is not totally clear if St. Patrick was in<br />
Ireland during all of this period or not.<br />
We do know for sure that Saint Patrick arrived<br />
back to Ireland to spread the <i><b>Good News </b></i>as a<br />
new Bishop. It is written in many ancient texts<br />
that he arrived at Slane on March 25, 433.<br />
Patrick must have spent a lot of his life in good company.<br />
Many of his disciples and converts were<br />
also made saints for their work with him:<br />
Auxilius, Beningnus, Iserninus and Fiacc ,<br />
all were canonized by the early Church.<br />
<br />
Most scholars believe that St Patrick died on March 17<br />
in 461AD. It is a national holiday in Ireland<br />
and also on the island of Montserrat in the Caribbean<br />
which was founded by Irish refugees.<br />
It is a bank holiday in Northern Ireland and a provincial holiday<br />
in the Canadian province of Newfoundland.<br />
There have been many failed attempts to make it a <br />
National Holiday in the United States. <br />
Should we be working on making it a legal Holiday?<br />
<br />
And finally, here is a great traditional Irish Toast<br />
for St. Patrick's Day;<br />
<br />
<i><b><span style="font-size: large;"> "May the roof above us never fall in, and </span></b></i><br />
<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">may we friends beneath it never fall out."</span></b></i><br />
<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Happy Saint Patrick's Day</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">to You and Yours!</span><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></i></b></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Jim McDonough,</i></span></b></div><b style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Las Vegas, New Mexico</span></span></b><i><b><span style="font-size: large;"></span></b></i><br />
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Here is a link to last week's Irish E-Missive:Jim McDonoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12682985051110001179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-160289554395445529.post-62969124950860269022010-01-09T10:44:00.000-08:002010-01-10T18:45:47.750-08:00Exploring Irish America<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CMatt%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><o:smarttagtype name="place" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="country-region" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="City" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="PlaceType" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype name="PlaceName" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:smarttagtype><style>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Exploring Irish <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place></b></span><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size: large;">By Jim McDonough</span><o:p></o:p></i></b><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Happy New Year to all our advertisers, friends and readers! Without the response and support of our advertisers, there would be no Irish News and Entertainment or Irish News <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region> online; so please patronize them whenever possible.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The breadth of the Fourth of July Celebrations around the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region> this past year started this writer thinking about the profound influence that Irish immigrants have had on <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>. We noticed that one of our great advertisers and also a fine establishment, Muldoon’s Pub in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Newport Beach</st1:place></st1:city>, was closed in honor of the holiday. Good on Muldoon’s; a nice gesture especially for their staff!<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">There was a time and not so long ago when almost every business was closed for the Independence Day Celebrations throughout <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>. A couple of years ago, we happened to be in Cincinnati and the old fashioned feel to the day got me thinking back to the various ethnic and civic contingents that marched in the local parades held throughout the city when I was growing up there. There were <i>Paddys </i>galore in all the groups from various churches, the Hibernians, City and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">County</st1:placetype> <st1:placename w:st="on">Workers</st1:placename></st1:place>, the VFW, to all sorts of unions and enterprises, Masonic Lodges and even with the Italians who ran the Knights of Columbus We did a brief story on it then. <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Now that the first issue of a new year is upon us; it is a good time to talk about our plan for 2010 and remembering those <i>Paddys</i> from long ago got me to thinking about the Irish in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">We’re still here just a lot quieter and a lot less hyphenated.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The abundance of Irish named towns, counties and roads throughout the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> is evident all over the country. It is also evident of the origins of the early settlers: Murphy, Murfeesboro and even the city of <st1:city w:st="on">McDonough</st1:city> in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Georgia</st1:country-region></st1:place>! We once visited Dollywood, a great Amusement Park located in the heart of the Smokey Mountains...one of the most popular stores at Dollywood is the Irish Shop, loaded with imported gifts from Ireland and a great variety of Irish Shirts, a whole line of Genealogy items that can be customized with almost any Irish Surname. The Irish and Celtic roots of American bluegrass and country music are well documented and worthy of a series of features too.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This new feature will serve as a tour through Irish America and our reports will highlight our visits throughout and comments on Irish <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>I’ll lend a hand as I’ll be on the road a lot with the paper and my pubguide.com duties, our regular writers are excited about it too. Barbara Singer did a nice feature on the Irish history of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cleveland</st1:place></st1:city> in our last issue. You can almost always find a decent Irish Pub in every urban center and college town and we want to explore that also. We are also going to accept submissions from our readers and freelancers; so if you are out there </b><b><i>Exploring Irish America</i></b><b>, please consider sharing your story with us. Call the office or E-mail us to work out details.</b></span><br />
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</div><b><span style="font-size: large;">The latest Irish News USA E-Missive </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">is posted. </span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We will have a website up with links </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">to all the back issues later this month.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Please have a look: <br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs028/1102459560768/archive/1102927850232.html">http://archive./Irish News USA January2010Week1</a></span><br />
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Jim McDonoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12682985051110001179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-160289554395445529.post-71890938643750865402009-12-30T17:10:00.000-08:002010-01-01T20:35:34.522-08:00Jim Sheridan In America!<span style="color: #999999;"></span><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;"><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;">Dear ALL THINGS IRISH Readers</span>,<br />
Happy New Year to Everyone. It has been a great year<br />
for me and McDonough Media.<br />
Thank you all for your continuing support and readership.<br />
We just got this information and thought we might pass it on.<br />
We just missed the cut-off for the<br />
Irish News USA Irish E-Missive<br />
and the event is in early January.<br />
Here is a link to the latest E-Missive #11:<br />
<a href="http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs028/1102459560768/archive/1102904498992.html">http://archive.constantcontact.com/IRISHNEWSUSA #11</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">THE AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE </span></b></span><br />
<i><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">PRESENTS...</span></b></span></i> <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><u><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">JIM SHERIDAN IN AMERICA</span></b></u></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Co-presented by the Irish Film Board </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">and the L.A. Irish Film Festival</span></b></span> <br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">January 8 & 9</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">At the Aero Theatre</span></b></span> <br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">1328 Montana Avenue, </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Santa Monica, CA</span></b></span> <br />
<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></b> <br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Six-time Academy Award nominee Jim Sheridan burst onto the international film scene with his 1989 masterpiece MY LEFT FOOT, which announced him as a major talent. He continued to move audiences with powerful dramas set in his native Ireland (IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, THE BOXER) as well as America (IN AMERICA, GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN'). All of his films are profoundly character-driven yet broad in scope, examining the geographical, cultural and economic factors that influence how we live. </span><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The Cinematheque will present some of Jim Sheridan's best films alongside his latest powerful work, BROTHERS, with Mr. Sheridan live in-person.</span></i></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Series compiled by Grant Moninger and Gwen Deglise. Program notes by Jim Hemphill.</span> <br />
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Friday, January 8 - 7:30 PM JIM SHERIDAN</span></b> <br />
<i><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Jim Sheridan In Person!</span> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Double Feature:</span></i><b> <span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">BROTHERS</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">, 2009, Lionsgate, 110 min. Dir. Jim Sheridan. When Sam (Tobey Maguire) is reported dead in Iraq, his brother, Tommy (Jake Gyllenhaal), pitches in to help Sam's widow and high school sweetheart, Grace (Natalie Portman). Their mutual mourning brings Tommy and Grace closer together - a situation that becomes extremely complicated when Sam returns from Iraq, alive and well (physically, if not mentally).</span> <br />
<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">IN AMERICA</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">, 2003, Fox Searchlight, 103 min. Dir. Jim Sheridan. To begin all over again is a classic American dream, Irish émigrés Johnny and Sarah (Paddy Considine and Samantha Morton) discover it’s hard to do when they hit the streets of modern-day Manhattan, their two spunky young daughters in tow, and emerge into a realm as comical and adventure-filled as it is strange and terrifying.</span><b><i> <span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Discussion in between films with director Jim Sheridan.</span></i></b><br />
<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Saturday, January 9 - 7:30 PM JIM SHERIDAN </span></b> <br />
<i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Double Feature:</span></i><b> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">MY LEFT FOOT: THE STORY OF CHRISTY BROWN</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">, 1989, Miramax, 103 min. Dir. Jim Sheridan. In an Oscar-winning performance, Daniel Day-Lewis plays Christy Brown, a painter with cerebral palsy who can only control his left foot. In spite of his disability, Brown becomes an important writer and artist in this heartbreaking yet profoundly inspirational tale.<br />
</span><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">, 1993, Universal, 133 min. Director </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">Jim Sheridan and Daniel Day-Lewis reunite for the true story of the Guildford Four, a group falsely convicted of an IRA pub bombing. Pete Postlethwaite and Emma Thompson co-star in this drama that beautifully combines character study and political history to create a modern classic. </span>Jim McDonoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12682985051110001179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-160289554395445529.post-51302002051566818882009-12-28T06:37:00.000-08:002009-12-28T16:19:02.435-08:00Looking to the New Year!<span style="font-size: large;"><b>2010</b></span><br />
Goals and Dreams and Morbid Reality <br />
or the IRISH Life Tour Continues...<br />
for the next week, I will be writing about and expanding<br />
on three topics of Irish Interest;<br />
RIVERDANCE, THE CHIEFTAINS and<br />
VISITING IRELAND THIS YEAR. <br />
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I think it is my Irish Catholic fascination<br />
with the Shamrock that makes me think of<br />
THREE things in clusters at one time.<br />
I like to come up with three of everything!<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">TRIADS!</span><br />
To get your year off to a great start, may I suggest a variant<br />
that suits you of my idea.<br />
Sit down and write down some goals of a personal, family<br />
and business nature.<br />
Think of some of your dreams or loftier ambitions for your life;<br />
put them on paper; tell someway; <i>make them real!</i><br />
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Then throw in a balance---<br />
consider the world and what part you play in it and<br />
what small course correction that you might take to make it a better place;<br />
volunteer, donate some money or time or both and maybe just be nicer...<br />
something positive.<br />
If a large number of us would think in these terms; the aggregate<br />
effect would make a difference for the common good.<br />
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Now, the THREE IRISH POINTS of INTEREST...<br />
Riverdance is on its final tour.<br />
One of the stops is 16 performances at the<br />
Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles. <br />
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The Chieftains are coming to the states and this wonderful group,<br />
known as Ireland's Musical Ambassadors to the world will be palying at the<br />
Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts in Southern California.<br />
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Finally, this is a great year to go to Ireland!<br />
The recession has lowered rates a bit and there are some good deals on airfare.<br />
We will be expanding on this a lot over the next few weeks. <br />
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More soon: <br />
meanwhile we invite you to sign up fr our FREE<br />
Weekly Irish E-Missive.<br />
Here is a link:<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs028/1102459560768/archive/1102895882064.html"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>http://archive.IrishNewsUSA #9</b></span><br />
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Your comments and questions are always appreciated.<br />
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>See Box Below...</b></i></span><br />
</div>Jim McDonough<br />
Manhattan, KansasJim McDonoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12682985051110001179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-160289554395445529.post-38355717977914267082009-12-23T12:48:00.000-08:002009-12-23T16:39:36.091-08:00<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Merry Christmas to All!</span></b><br />
<div style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>First Up...Here is a Link</b></span><br />
</div><div style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>to IRISH NEWS USA #10</b></span><br />
</div><div style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Good stuff here on </b></span><br />
</div><div style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Irish Christmas Traditions</b></span><br />
</div><div style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>and A Christmas appeal </b></span><br />
</div><div style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>for Wells of Life.</b></span><br />
</div><div style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Please have a look...</b></span><br />
</div><div style="color: #274e13;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs028/1102459560768/archive/1102897202274.html">http://archive.IrishNewsUSA #10</a></span></b><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>This is shaping up to be a great </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Christmas Season for me and </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>I am exceptionally blessed and lucky. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>It is amazing how much</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>more energy and focus I have. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>I give myself high marks for finally getting </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>into the habit of long walks, </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>a lot less drinking, </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>no smoking and slightly improved diet. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>My renewed faith in God and</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>my own strange allegiance to my</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Irish Catholic heritage has</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>helped a lot too. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>The biggest blessing I have is my family. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>My son Mark has also been a great help </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>to me. He is big in the moral support area</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>and he has helped a lot with the business</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>by running errands and helping </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>with the books. The other incredible turn </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>of tides is that I am also living an almost stress </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>free existence thanks to my son Matt </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>and his wife, the best daughter-in-law </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>in the world, Chasity. <br />
</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Last year at this time, I was so ill and miserable </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>that I thought it was probably going to be </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>my last Christmas. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>I was seemingly old, stressed and worn out.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>The biggest stress that I now have is publishing </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>the <i>Irish News & Entertainment</i>. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>My paper has not been a financial success for many years </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>and my son and his wife think I'm nuts</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>and stupidly stubborn for doing it still.<br />
</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Stress is a killer and it appears that the correlation to </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>being a publisher of an Irish paper and stress is high! </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Unless, I can fix that fairly soon, </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>my print publishing days are numbered. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Any input from any of my readers on this </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>topic will be appreciated. Now back to Christmas!!</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I've had time this year to send out a few cards, a few gifts </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">and have actually bought a few presents for my sons early; </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">first time ever for that. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The so called War On Christmas amazes me.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">What the heck has happened</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">in America that makes people so snide and</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">cantankerous. I am all for Christmas in all </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">its many forms and traditions.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I think Bill O'Reilly and his</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>WE SAY</b> Merry Christmas slogan</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">is not just silly but obnoxius.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Say Merry Christmas by all means,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">but for God's Sake don't</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">do so in a pugnacious manner.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The other idiots who complain about the </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">separation of religion and the state are </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">even higher on my Eat Coal list! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">In the words of that wonderful and </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">often misunderstood American, Rodney King,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">"Can't we just all get along!"</span><br />
<div style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Hope you all are enjoying the </b></span></i><br />
</div><div style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Winter Solstice with your</b></span></i><br />
</div><div style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Glorious Christmas!</b></span></i><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"> <b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Jim McDonough,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Manhattan, Kansas</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">12/23/09<b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> <br />
</span></b>Jim McDonoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12682985051110001179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-160289554395445529.post-30528270483056106292009-12-06T19:28:00.000-08:002009-12-21T10:37:57.425-08:002.3 Million Euros for Irish Arts Center - Budget Lesson from Ireland <br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Announces </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">€2.3million Towards Construction of </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">New Irish Arts Centre in New York </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Global Irish Economic Forum</span></b></span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">detailed by </span></b></span></i></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Mr Micheál Martin, T.D</i></span>.</span> </span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></b></span><br />
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</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #274e13;"> <span style="color: black;"> Speaker Christine Quinn and </span></span></span></span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="color: black;"> Micheál Martin, T.D. </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> The Minister for Foreign Affairs, </span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Micheál Martin, T.D., </span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">today announced a major grant for a landmark </span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Irish project in New York. </span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Minister Martin said that a total of €2.3 million will be </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">provided immediately towards the construction of a </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">the Irish Arts Centre in Manhattan. </span></span><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">The Minister said one of the main themes to emerge from </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">the attendees at the Global Irish Economic Forum </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">was the importance of Irish Culture to the image Ireland abroad and in particular in the USA. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">He noted that this was also an important conclusion of the </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Strategic Review of Ireland US Relations, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">published by the Taoiseach last March. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Minister Martin said he was extremely impressed by the arguments </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">made at Farmleigh by members of the business and cultural sectors alike. </span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Announcing the grant from the Emigrant Support Programme </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">managed by the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Minister said:</span></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">“The allocation of such significant funding is a clear demonstration of the Government’s strong commitment to the building of the new Irish Arts Centre in New York. This funding is a response to the extraordinary gesture of the City of New York in making a site, valued at $12 million available for the project, along with a further $8 million in capital funding.</span></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">The construction of the New York Irish Arts Centre is identified as a priority in the revised </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Programme for Government and I would like to pay tribute to </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Minister Martin Cullen for his longstanding support and commitment to the project.</span></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The new Centre will project a dynamic image of Ireland and Irish America across the US; it will facilitate extensive Irish-related cultural, business and community programmes; will showcase quality contemporary Irish theatre and art; and will also provide an invaluable resource for the Irish emigrant community in the US”. </span></span></span></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">The Minister paid warm tribute to New York City Mayor Bloomberg and Speaker Christine Quinn for their exceptional support for the initiative. He also thanked Gabriel Byrne for his support for the Arts Centre and for his longstanding work in promoting Irish culture throughout the US. </span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Minister Martin said that this major initiative demonstrates how seriously the Government views the outcome of the Farmleigh Forum: “Everybody at Farmleigh said that the success of the Conference could only be judged by the quality of the follow up. Today I have begun to demonstrate that despite the difficult budgetary situation, we are determined to continue investing in our unique resource- the Irish Diaspora and its cultural heritage.</span></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">This is just the beginning and I will be making further announcements in the New Year. </span></span><br />
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</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-IE"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Other ideas which are being actively progressed include: a new Global Irish Network; the establishment of an Irish innovation centre in Silicon Valley; the Gateway Ireland portal, which would serve as a key online focus for promoting Ireland abroad and engaging with our global community; expanded educational exchange and scholarship programmes to increase engagement with younger generations; and a new Farmleigh Overseas Graduate Programme. </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tms Rmn';">I am aware that a number of other Departments are also taking forward initiatives suggested at Farmleigh. I am similarly encouraged by the fact that significant work has already been undertaken by participants themselves on a number of projects that are more suitably advanced by the private sector. </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">These will have the support of the Government.”<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tms Rmn';"></span></span></span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">He pointed out that a<span lang="EN-IE" style="color: black;">t its meeting on 13 October, the Government considered a comprehensive report prepared by the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Irish Management Institute. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="color: black;">The full report contains a detailed list of the main themes and specific proposals </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="color: black;">to emerge and is available at:</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="color: black;"> <a href="http://www.dfa.ie/" target="_blank">www.dfa.ie</a> </span></span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="color: black;">More at:</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span lang="EN-IE" style="color: black;"> <a href="http://www.globalirishforum.ie/" target="_blank">www.globalirishforum.ie</a> </span></span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Even Ireland Suffers Budget Crunch</b></span><br />
The Celtic Tiger is going to be forced to take its belt in a notch<br />
according to a story in the Irish Times of yesterday<br />
(Monday, December 7);<br />
The Irish government will announce details this week to<br />
curtail and cut government spending across the board.<br />
This is quite interesting in view of the grant that the<br />
Irish Government just made to the Irish Arts Centre.<br />
However, it also proves a point;<br />
the Irish cut spending across the board so that<br />
no part of the spending cuts hurts one department more<br />
than any other. Again a lesson we could learn from the<br />
better balanced Irish politicians!<br />
See the entire story at:<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2009/1207/1224260242397.html">irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Lesson To Be Learned...</b></span><br />
We need to take heed of the Republic of Irelands actions<br />
and insist that our local,state and Federal government act in a similar fashion.<br />
The elitist professional politicians and<br />
entrenched bureaucrats that are running things now<br />
are not going to go gently into the good night. <br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We have a real fight on our hands!</span><br />
Bill O'Reilly came up with an interesting idea on his show late<br />
last week; the Fox News Commentator proposed a<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Federal Sales Tax of 2% on EVERYTHING </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>sold in the US except food.</b></span><br />
<i><b>Two stipulations were called for:</b></i><br />
First that the Emergency Sales Tax be temporary<br />
---for five years maximum.<br />
and that it go along with a freeze in government spending.<br />
O'Reilly claims that competition in the marketplace<br />
would ease and absorb the disruptions caused by the tax.<br />
<br />
I could support this if the federal government was mandated<br />
to not just freeze spending but to also cut spending by 3%.<br />
The combination could make a significant dent in the<br />
Federal Deficit over Five Years.<br />
If we do not do something of this magnitude immediately,<br />
we are going to totally ruin the economy and leave a legacy<br />
of total economic chaos to our children.<br />
I think this plan and the plan outlined in my<br />
Economics of Chaos blog of a few weeks ago to put<br />
Congress into the Social Security program and<br />
take away the ridiculous pensions that they have voted<br />
for themselves would go a long way toward returning<br />
us to some fiscal sanity. <br />
<br />
We do indeed have a real fight on our hands;<br />
this is absolutely the Second American Revolution.<br />
I also believe that it we do not elect a slate of<br />
real conservatives and independents to office in 2010<br />
that our American Democracy and our very way of life<br />
will be lost to the Lovers of Big Government<br />
and Big Corporations. <br />
<b><i>TheTime is Ripe</i></b><br />
This is a clarion call to save America!<br />
Start now by considering a run for office yourself<br />
as an independent fiscal conservation.<br />
We need patriots.<br />
Find others like us and work and support to elect<br />
people who love America and its tradition of freedom.<br />
We need to empty the public trough from which these pigs<br />
who claim they are public servants feed. <b> </b><br />
<b>Together, it can be done.<br />
God Bless America. </b><br />
<b>May 2010 be a year of change that we can trust. </b><br />
<b>Change that we can control. </b><br />
<b>A change to return sovereignty to the people.</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Slan agus bennacht,</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Jim McDonough</b></i></span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">12/7/09</span><br />
</b>Jim McDonoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12682985051110001179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-160289554395445529.post-73446735560559569322009-11-15T20:44:00.000-08:002009-12-07T19:14:26.388-08:00Mid-November All Things Irish<div style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><div id="pastedDivNode" style="display: inline; visibility: hidden;">On V http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs028/1102459560768/archive/1102Up838699127.htmlhttp://archive.constantcontact.com/fs028/1102459560768/archive/1102838699127.html<br />
</div></div><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>We did not get to see the Irish Gangster film </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup><i>Boondock Saints II </i>yet. </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>It might have to wait till video. </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>The reviews were generally bad and the only </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>E-mail report we got was basically </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>a warning not to see it.</sup></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>There are some good Irish/Celtic offerings for </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>those of us who like live stage productions.</sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>Here is a quick run down.</sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><sup>Druid Theatre</sup></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><sup>Dylan Thomas at ACS</sup></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><sup>Ray Bradbury Christmas Gift</sup></b></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup><b>We will start with the Bradbury Gift... </b><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>Ray Bradbury is a literary legend and </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>a national treasure. </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>He is also a very nice gentleman and </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>he loves Ireland and the </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>Irish Experience in general. </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>I had the good fortune and opportunity to </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>meet him a few times through my </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>Irish News & Entertainment position </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>as publisher/photographer and organizer.</sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>We did an Irish News night at his </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>hit play Falling Upward </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>and he was in attendance and addressed </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>the audience and cast. </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>He stayed on for a little social after and was a delight.</sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>Ray Bradbury's Irish connection goes back to </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>1954 when he wrote the screenplay for </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>John Huston's film based on Moby Dick </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>which was filmed in part in Ireland. </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>Falling Upward is based on his memories of an </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>Irish Pub that he frequented.</sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>I like Ray Bradbury. He is kind and gracious and a true genius. </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>Bradbury is also very easy to meet. </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>In fact he has a Christmas Gift </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>in store for all of his fans. </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>In December on three successive </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>Saturday Evenings he will be </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>in South Pasadena, California </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>for a showcase of his new play and to share his own </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>Christmas experiences with the public. </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>This is a rare opportunity to meet one of </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>the leading writers of our time. </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>Bradbury for years has personally sponsored </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>a series of theater evenings and plays</sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup> under the banner; THE PLAY’S THE THING. </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>It is under this group that the preview for his </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>new play will be held.</sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>Here are the details from Bradbury's </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>PR Guru Phil Sokoloff.</sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">RAY BRADBURY’S </span></sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup><span style="font-size: x-large;">MERRY CHRISTMAS 2116</span><br />
At the Fremont Center Theatre – </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>Saturdays, December 5, 12 and 19 at 8.00 pm <br />
For several years now, </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>the Fremont Centre Theatre has played host </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>to a special Christmas show from Ray Bradbury. </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>This is a special treat for fans of Ray Bradbury: </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>an advance look at his newest work for the stage, </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>as well as the opportunity to share </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>holiday-time memories with their literary hero, </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>who will appear in person. </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>The new musical production will have its </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>formal World Premiere </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>at the Fremont Centre Theatre </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>on Saturday, January 16, 2010.</sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>It will be running through February 27.<br />
In Ray Bradbury’s Merry Christmas 2116, </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>an aging couple, approaching the 40th anniversary </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>of their married lives together, each decide to </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>give their spouse a present. </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>As coincidence would have it, </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>Mr. Wycherly and Mrs. Wycherly</sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup> each separately approach a maker of realistic, </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>lifelike robots called marionettes, </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>although they have no strings. </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>Mr. Wycherly requests that Mr. Marionette </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>manufacture a highly customized younger, </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>more vital version of himself to please </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>Mrs. Wycherly. </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>The Missus, for her part, asks the robot-maker </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>to fashion a young, hot, sassy, saucy </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>version of herself for her Mister. </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>When the new marionettes are each delivered to </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>their designated recipients, the fun really begins. </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>It’s a work of Bradbury’s humor, warmth and joy, </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>perfect for the season.<br />
This musical was first conceived fifty years ago </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>for two Bradbury friends, the husband and wife </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>team of Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester, </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>with director James Whale attached. </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>With Whale’s sudden death, </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>the project was set aside.<br />
Book and lyrics by Ray Bradbury. </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>John Hoke composed the brand </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>new musical score. </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>Directed and choreographed </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>by Steve Josephson. </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>Produced by Ray Bradbury and </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>by Racquel Lehrman, Theatre Planners. </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>The cast includes David Stoneman, </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>Rob Harryman, </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>Lisa Morrice, Jessie McLean, </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>Steve Josephson, Samantha Marcella, </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>Christine Reese and Anthony Scarano. </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>Presented by Ray Bradbury’s </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>Pandemonium Theatre Company </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>and Gallimaufry Performing Arts.<br />
In addition to the musical, </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>the second segment of the December evenings </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>will be a personal appearance by Ray Bradbury, </sup></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><sup>sharing the reminiscences </sup></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><sup>of a legendary life and career. </sup></span><br />
</div><sup><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">Ray Bradbury will also be available </span></sup><br />
<sup><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">to sign books for his fans.</span></sup><br />
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><sup><br />
Fremont Centre Theatre<br />
1000 Fremont Ave. (at El Centro)<br />
South Pasadena, CA Abundant free parking </sup></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><sup>behind the theater. <br />
Close to the Mission St. Station of </sup></b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><sup>the Metrolink Gold Line. <br />
Saturdays at 8 p.m. on </sup></b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><sup>December 5, 12 and 19, 2009<br />
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Admission: $20 Seniors: $15 </sup></b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><sup>Students: $10<br />
Reservations and information: </sup></b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><sup>(323) 960-4451</sup></b></span><br />
</div><sup><b> </b> <br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Online ticketing: </span></b> </sup><br />
<sup><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.plays411.com/raybradbury">www.Plays411.com/raybradbury</a> </b></span></sup><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #336600;"><span style="color: #cc9900;"><span style="color: #336600;"> <b>The musical will have its formal </b></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #336600;"><span style="color: #cc9900;"><span style="color: #336600;">World Premiere for the press at</span></span></span></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #336600;"><span style="color: #cc9900;"><span style="color: #336600;">Fremont Centre Theatre on </span></span></span></span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #336600;"><span style="color: #cc9900;"><span style="color: #336600;">Saturday, January 16, 2010</span></span></span></span></b><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #336600;"><span style="color: #cc9900;"><br />
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This is a powerful stage presentation of one his most masterful works.<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Doctor and The Devils</i></span><br />
The Doctor and the Devils, was written in the 1950s by Thomas<br />
The story is the classic tale about grave robbers Burke and Hare and Scottish surgeon </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #336600;"><span style="color: #cc9900;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Dr. Robert Knox.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #336600;"><span style="color: #cc9900;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Here is a link to their really good website: </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #336600;"><span style="color: #cc9900;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.thedoctorandthedevils.com%20/">thedoctorandthedevils.com </a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #336600;"><span style="color: #cc9900;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #336600;"><span style="color: #cc9900;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> There is also a film version of this and it to offers a fair synopsis of the story....<br />
(which also yielded the 1945 Val Lewton classic The Body Snatcher). </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #336600;"><span style="color: #cc9900;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">"Timothy Dalton plays 18th century doctor Thomas Rock, who must rely upon </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #336600;"><span style="color: #cc9900;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">the disreputable Robert Fallon (Jonathan Pryce) and Timothy Broom (Stephen Rea) </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #336600;"><span style="color: #cc9900;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">to provide fresh cadavers for Dr. Rock's teaching hospital. </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #336600;"><span style="color: #cc9900;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">When they can't dig up corpses fast enough to suit Dr. Rock, Fallon and Broom </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #336600;"><span style="color: #cc9900;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">decide to streamline their methods via murder</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #336600;"><span style="color: #cc9900;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">."</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<div style="color: #660000;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">More Dylan Thomas in December... </span></span></span></span></i><br />
</div><div id="pastedDivNode" style="display: inline;"><div style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Saturday, December 19 <br />
at 8PM</span><br />
</div><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">An Claidheamh Soluis/The Celtic Arts Center </span></span><br />
</div></div><div id="pastedDivNode" style="display: inline;"><div id="pastedDivNode" style="display: inline;"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Christmas Event</span></span></b></span><br />
ACS will present an evening of readings<br />
</div></div><div id="pastedDivNode" style="display: inline;"><div id="pastedDivNode" style="display: inline;">from the works of Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas,<br />
</div></div><div id="pastedDivNode" style="display: inline;"><div id="pastedDivNode" style="display: inline;">including 'A Child's Christmas in Wales,' <br />
read by actor/director Joe Praml.<br />
</div></div><div id="pastedDivNode" style="display: inline;"><div id="pastedDivNode" style="display: inline;"><b>Holiday Refreshments will be served.</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Raven Playhouse<br />
5233 Lankershim Blvd.<br />
North Hollywood, CA<br />
Admission $10 <br />
$7 for member</span></b><br />
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<b>More information about the Celtic Arts Center:</b><br />
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<div id="pastedDivNode" style="display: inline;"><div id="pastedDivNode" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://www.celticartscenter.com%20%20"><span style="font-size: large;">http://www.celticartscenter.com </span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.celticartscenter.com/" linktype="link" style="font-weight: normal;" track="on">ACS Christmas</a></span><br />
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<sup>Music for the Holidays.</sup><br />
<sup>Another Triade,,,</sup><br />
<sup>Again ACS</sup><br />
<sup>Michael Londra</sup><br />
<sup>Tare/</sup><br />
<div style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Spotlight on Irish Theater.</i><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">New York Theatre Trip Planned</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">The Irish News USA is organizing a group outing to New York to go to a couple plays, </span></b></span><br />
</div><div style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">do a NYC PUB CRAWL, have a group dinner and basically enjoy a bit of the </span></b></span><br />
</div><div style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">Christmas Season in the City that never sleeps. <br />
We are planning on seeing these two plays; </span></b></span><br />
</div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #336600;"><span style="color: #cc9900;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #336600;"><span style="color: #336600; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><b>Finians Rainbow and The Doctor and the Devils.</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #336600;"><span style="color: #cc9900;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #336600;"><span style="color: #336600; font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><b>Older post:</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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</div>Today is Friday the 13th. I hope all of our friends and readers had a decent day.<br />
The Irish of popular culture and imagination are a superstitious lot but I don't know of any un-lucky tales about this day in Irish lore. The best thing I could find was the fact that Rossini died on this day and he supposedly hated Fridays and the number thirteen (triskaidekaphobia).<br />
The fear of Friday the 13th is called <i>paraskevidekatriaphobia</i>,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th#cite_note-1"> </a></sup>a word derived from the concatenation of the Greek words <i>Paraskeví</i> (meaning <i>Friday</i>), and <i>dekatreís</i> (meaning <i>thirteen</i>), attached to <i>phobía</i> (meaning <i>fear</i>). The term triskaidekaphobia derives from the Greek words "tris", meaning 'three', "kai", meaning 'and', and "deka", meaning 'ten' and good old phobia. That is all of got.<br />
All the best,<br />
Jim<br />
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</sup>Jim McDonoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12682985051110001179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-160289554395445529.post-57477028108351773522009-10-29T09:05:00.000-07:002009-11-05T07:59:57.421-08:00All Things Irish Happy Samhain.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>This weekend is Halloween. </b></span><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>To all our friends and readers, </b></span><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>we wish you a delightful and benignly </b></span><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>frightful weekend. Halloween has </b></span><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Celtic Roots so we devoted the last issue </b></span><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>of our new weekly </b></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>to Samhain, </b></span><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>the Celtic New Year </b></span><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>as well as</b></span><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Halloween!</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>We have two fine contributors; </b></span><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Adrien Rain Burke</i> </b></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>know, I have started a new weekly offering </b></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Our intention is to get it out every </b></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>In it is information on how to subscribe </b></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I'm also about ready to post a new piece on </b></span><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>my Economics of Chaos blog; that should be </b></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>One final note on the printed version of </b></span><br />
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</div><div class="gmail_quote"><b>by John Cassidy</b><br />
</div><div class="gmail_quote">The book was launched in theCroke Park on Wednesday 21st October. It was launched by Dave Dinneen a grand-nephew of Frank Dinneen who bought Croke Park in 1908 for £3,500 and held it in trust for the GAA until 1913.<br />
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</div><div><b>Shake your shillelagh in Montana and you will surely get a few smiles from the Irish Americans. The Irish came to Montana to be miner's, loggers, railroad builders and farmers. It has been said that by the early 1900's there were more Irish in Butte, Montana, than in the city of Boston. They brought with them names like Murphy, Daly, Sullivan and O'Reilly. A work ethic built on the American dream and a strong Catholic back ground proved them unstoppable. </b><br />
</div><div><b> Montana is 570 miles wide and 315 miles deep, the fourth largest state, giving its Irish population room to spread out and find a place to call home.</b><br />
</div><div><b> A success story in our area is that of Marcus Daly, who was born in County Cavan. He came to Montana and started the mining company that would be known as The Anaconda Company. The similarities of the landscape would entice his fellow Irishman to come to work for his company. When Daly needed lumbar for his mines he incorporated the City of Hamilton where the saw mills provided people with income and a sleepy town to raise their families, The Daly's kept a </b><b> summer home in the city, and it is currently being restored as a historical site. </b><b><a href="http://dalymansion.org/" target="_blank">Welcome to the Daly Mansion website</a> . </b><br />
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</div><div><b>In early August the city of Butte is over-run with Irish, Irish Americans and Irish-for-the-day folks who come for the craic of this wonderful celebration. From dawn to dusk there is an activity to interest all.</b><br />
</div><div><b><a href="http://www.mtgaelic.org/" target="_blank">Montana Gaelic Cultural Society</a> </b><br />
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</div><div><b>There are many pubs with an Irish flair, my personal favorite is Sean Kelly's, the Shepherds pie is wonderful.</b><br />
</div><div><b><a href="http://www.virtualmontana.com/montanadirectory/montanalistings/GC/montana15697.htm" target="_blank">Sean Kelly's - Missoula, MT</a> </b><br />
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</div><div><b>And we cannot leave out , Pug Mahon's Irish Pub in Billings. I've not had the pleasure of visiting this establishment yet.....but some day~~</b><br />
</div><div><b><a href="http://www.pugmahons.com/about.htm" target="_blank">Pug Mahon's Irish Pub :: About Us</a> </b><br />
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</div><div><b>Montana is a great vacation spot, but as Granny would say, "Oh, you can come for a visit, but I haven't got the room for you to move in with me.</b><br />
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</div>Jim McDonoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12682985051110001179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-160289554395445529.post-20519953112898548282009-10-10T20:01:00.000-07:002009-10-21T06:53:22.600-07:00An Irish Portal<div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}"> </h3><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}">My son Matt is teaching a class on WWI this semester. He puts together a very effective Powerpoint presentation for each lecture and he is using this photo. Thought you all might enjoy seeing it:<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the interest of full disclosure, this blogger </span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><i><span style="font-size: large;">We hope you will enjoy them all </span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">as all the websites </span></i></b><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>are well worth a visit.</b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">We will list them in our next </span></b><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.concern.net/">Concern.net</a></span></b><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Concern Worlwide was founded in Ireland by individuals concerned about the plight of Civil War victims in Biafra. </b></span><br />
</div><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Now for more than <a href="http://www.concern.net/about/our-history/concerns-40-years">forty years ,</a></b><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Concern has been dedicated to reducing suffering and fighting hunger and poverty. Today, Concern’s work is needed more than ever</span>.<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">There are many ways that you can help. Please find out more about Concern toda</span>y.</span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.seventymillion.org/">Seventymillion.org</a></span></b><br />
</div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">This a fascinating project and you are invited to become part of it.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">The organizers are attempting to shed light on the Irish Diaspora through an ingenious interactive site. Give it a try. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Your history</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> can become part of this worldwide exercise.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="http://www.azirish.org/">Arizona Irish Center</a></b></span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: large;">The Irish Center is located near downtown Phoenix</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> and has a long history of promoting Irish Culture </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and Events. The Center holds two Irish Festivals </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">each year and hosts numerous Celtic and Irish </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Concerts and Events. The Center itself is a modern </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">facility and boasts a very nice auditorium </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and gift shop, all are constructed in the style of a </span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: large;">Drop by on any Monday and enjoy or </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">traditional Celtic music jam session.</span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's a grand time for all!</span><br />
</div><span style="font-size: large;">Did we mention? Its FREE to members </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.irish-american.org/">Irish-American.org</a></span></b><br />
</div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">"Céad Mile Fáilte" </span></b></span> <br />
<div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"A Hundred Thousand Welcomes!"</i></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Irish American Heritage Center in Chicago is one </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">of the premiere Irish cultural organizations in the </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">United States. It is a destination for people of Irish </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">descent as well as those who wish to learn more about </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the Irish heritage. There's no place quite like the </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Irish American Heritage Center when it comes to </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">providing the very best in Irish culture through the arts, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">history, education, dance and social outlets.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.irishfest.com/">IrishFest.com </a></span></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Founded in 1981, the Milwaukee Irish Festival </span></span><br />
</div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">has become one of the premier annual Irish </span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">Events </span></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">in the United States. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">Their mission is to promote and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">celebrate all aspects of</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Irish Culture and to instill in </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">future generations an appreciation of Irish Heritage. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The organizers have expanded the four day annual </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Irish Festival into year round Irish interest projects </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">with an Irish Summer School and a Youth Group.<br />
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</div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="http://www.irishimportshop.com/">IrishImportShop.com</a></b></span><br />
</div><span style="font-size: large;">For almost fifty years the Irish Import Shop has </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">been the largest retailer of wonderful imported </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Irish goods and food in Southern California. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The shop expanded to a second location in </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">San Diego's Old Town three years ago.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The owners have also been great supporters of </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Irish culture and events. A visit to either shop is </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">always a worthwhile endeavor. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Now they are online and will ship promptly </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">around the United States.</span><br />
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<div style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.irishabroad.com/"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">IrishAbroad.com </span></b></a><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <br />
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</div><span style="font-size: large;">Social networking for Irish people abroad or in </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Ireland. IrishAbroad has almost 250,000 members </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">around the world.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The site is open to Irish expats, descendants and </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">any person who wants to travel to Ireland. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It is a great online source for Irish </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Information, </span><span style="font-size: large;">News, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Community and Friendship.</span><br />
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<div style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.joycecollection.com/"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">JoyceCollection.com </span></b></a><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">This is a magnificent collection of James Joyce. </span><br />
<div style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;">The collection consists of First Editions, </span><br />
</div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;">Signed Copies, original memorabilia </span><br />
</div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;">and ephemera. It was collected by noted </span><br />
</div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;">Joyce scholar and collector, Robert Hunter </span><br />
</div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;">over the past fifty years.<br />
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</div></div><div style="color: #eeeeee;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Hunter Joyce Collection is for sale.</span> </span></b></i><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It is a great scholastic collection and </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">ideally it should go to a worthy library or </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">university. If you are interested or know of </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a potential donor who might be willing to </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">turn it into a gift, we know a University of </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">great standing that wants the collection. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Contact and details are available through </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the Joyce Collection website above.</span><br />
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</div><a href="http://www.pubguide.com%20/"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">PubGuide.com </span></b></a><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">PubGuide.com is a list of pubs, mostly in </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">California. The site is expanding and now</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">asking for submissions from around the U.S. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It is set up so you can find pubs by zipcodes. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The site also has a handy built in <b>MapQuest </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">feature, ideal for organizing Pub Crawls. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">PubGuide.com</span><span style="font-size: large;"> is a work in progress. If you </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">have a pub that you would like to see listed or </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">if you are a publican who wants more information; </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Please contact: <a href="mailto:jim@pubguide.com">jim@pubguide.com</a></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #274e13;">Kathleen McGowan</span></b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Irish Music Spotlight</span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">There is a tremendous amount of Irish and </span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Celtic Music available today. </span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Youtube and Internet Radio sites have both </span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">served to expand the genre. One of our favorite </span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">ways to get a good dose of great music</span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">is still to enjoy a performance at a local pub. </span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">One of the best Irish Musicians around California </span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and the West is Hugh Lehane. Hugh is a gifted </span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">artist and entertainer who hails from the Old Sod. </span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">He is a genuine Irish gentleman and one of the most </span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">sincere and hard working individuals that I've ever met. </span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you get the chance, try to see one of his shows.</span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span id="role_document" style="color: black;"></span></b></span><br />
<div><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span id="role_document" style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.hughmusic.com/" target="_blank">www.hughmusic.com</a></span></b></span><br />
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</div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span id="role_document" style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/hughlehane" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/hughlehane</a></span></b></span><br />
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<a href="http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=57154784&blogId=514198707">http://Hugh's Blogs.myspace.com</a></span></b></span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>More on my campaign to </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>Skip A Meal....</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Since, I started this lifestyle change; I have lost about five pounds and saved about $35. </span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">on food. That is in about three weeks. I plan on donated the money that I have saved </span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">by the end of October. I hope some of our readers will consider joining me in this </span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">effort and share your story with us.</span><b><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>This is a repeat of the post that started my quest to help myself and those </b></span><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>folks desperately in need of help. These are grim times in many parts of the </b></span><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>world and WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERANCE!</b></span><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;">"I'd like to share some insights that I've had over the past few weeks. As most of you know in the past year, I was seriously ill. Thanks to God, the prayers, love and concern of my family and friends, Great American Health Care and a bit of my own Irish Luck; I am now healthy. I've had a lot of time to think and be inspired. The sources for some of these inspirational thoughts were family members who went to Africa earlier this year with a church group to do some volunteer work at an orphanage for aids victims and my good friend, Nick Jordan, who has been working on African relief projects for several years. I really think that we can make a difference and here is my request.<br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Help feed the hungry.</b></i></span><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;">Thousands of our fellow humans starve to death every year. Yet, in the United States, obesity is one of our major health problems. We could, and in fact, we do grow enough food to feed the world. <br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Here is how you can get involved and help.</i></b></span><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Raise you own consciousness on the issue. When writing this blog I took an evening and researched the subject and learned a lot. Do the same. There are links at the end of this piece to give you a head start. Then spread the word; help raise the awareness of your family and friends on the facts.<br />
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</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Get involved...Skip a meal...</span></b></i><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This writer is sorry to admit it but I am overweight...I have been overeating for at least 30 years.<br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">That easily adds up to at least 1500 meals that I could have and should have skipped in the past thirty years!<br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Had I skipped those meals and sent only an average of $3. per meal to a worthy relief organization; that would have been $4500. $4500!! <br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">My life would be dramatically improved; had I acted and not procrastinated all these years.<br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">One thing for sure, I would not be quite as heavy as I am now. Some of the other facts are even more compelling; science has now proven that losing weight and being thiner extends life and makes you healthier!! And the other more grim reality about this fanciful might have been scenario is that even a small donation could easily have saved a life.<br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Take the pledge with me; start skipping a meal a week. The reward will be immediate.</b></span><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>If you are in a position to donate $3 or $4 or so for that skipped meal to a worthy group that is fighting hunger; all the better." <i>JmcD, September, '09</i></b></span><br />
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</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Resources:</b></span><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.concern.net/">www.concern.net</a></span><br />
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</div><b style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.wellsoflifeafrica.org/" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">www.wellsoflifeafrica.org</span></a></span></b><br />
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<div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1255230317862"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A final note; we already have thirty members in our new</span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Please visit the page and join us if you are interested.</span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">We are going to take the turn the paper into a </span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">national media group and we need help. <br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=170927905604">Facebook</a></b></span><br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=170927905604"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>IrishNewsWritersGroup</b></span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.celticartscenter.com/"><br />
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</span>Jim McDonoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12682985051110001179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-160289554395445529.post-42628056362733466502009-10-06T16:23:00.000-07:002009-10-13T20:11:27.133-07:00ALL THINGS IRISH<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We highly recommend this soon to be published </span></b></span><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">book by <i>NY Times</i> Best Selling Author, </span></b></span><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Kathleen McGowan</span></b></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65xLs6O2laU&feature=autofb"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;">www.youtube.com/watch?v=65xLs6O2laU&feature=autofb</span></a><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Irish Soccer This Saturday, October 10</span><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">2010 World Cup Qualifier:<b style="color: #274e13;"> </b></span><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="color: #274e13;">Ireland vs. Italy</b></span><br />
</div><i><span style="font-size: large;">From Dublin, Ireland.</span></i><br />
<div style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.livesoccertv.com/channels/setanta-sports/">www.livesoccertv.com/channels/setanta-sports/</a></b></span><br />
</div><i><span style="font-size: small;">Go online for locations near you.</span></i><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Broadcast at The Harp Inn in </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Costa Mesa, California</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Call pub for details.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Harp Inn</span><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <b><i> "Sunday at the Harp Inn"</i></b></span><br />
</div><span style="font-size: large;">with Rick Boyle and LIVE IRISH MUSIC <br />
Start Time: Sunday, October 11 at 4:00pm<br />
End Time: Sunday, October 11 at 8:00pm</span><br />
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130 E 17th St</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Costa Mesa, CA 92627<br />
(949) 646-8855</span><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; clear: both; color: #0c343d; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.harpinn.com/"><b><span style="font-size: large;">www.harpinn.com</span></b></a><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">FINIAN'S RAINBOW</span></span></b></i> -<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">New York City Center Encores! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">SOLD-OUT SMASH HIT</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Coming to Broadway</span><br />
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With a sparkling score of beloved standards a whimsical story that<br />
dances between romance, satire and fairy tale,<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>FINIAN’S RAINBOW </b></span><br />
is a musical theater treasure.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Set in the mythical southern state of Missitucky,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> <b>FINIAN’S RAINBOW</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> a bigoted southern senator, a credit crisis, a pesky leprechaun </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">and a complicated love affair that gives birth to some of the most<br />
witty, charming and heartfelt songs ever written for the stage.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>The Irish American Presidents <br />
<i>and their words of wisdom</i></b> </span><br />
<div style="color: #0c343d;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Andrew Jackson was the seventh President </span></b><br />
</div><div style="color: #0c343d;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">of the United States from 1829–1837</span></b><br />
</div><div style="color: #0c343d;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">"It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.<br />
distinctions of society will always exist under every just government. Equality of talents, of education or of wealth cannot be produced by human institutions. In the full enjoyment of the gifts of Heaven and the fruits of superior industry, economy and virtue, EVERY PERSON is equally to protection by law; <br />
but when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society---the farmers, mechanics and laborers---who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government." <br />
"There are no necessary evils in government, its evils exist only in its abuses. </span></span></b><br />
</div><div style="color: #0c343d;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors</span></span></b><br />
</div><div style="color: #0c343d;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing."</span></span></b><br />
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Those words are a great and timely quote from Andrew Jackson who like many of our Presidents </span></span></b><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">The bequest came at a time when he was having a financial crises. </span></b> <br />
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</div><div style="color: black;">Colleagues, and Patriots:<br />
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</div><div style="color: black;"> This to alert you that I have been invited to guest on THE VICTORIA TAFT SHOW, tonight, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009, at 6:35 p.m., PDT, broadcasting out of Portland, OR, at 860AM, and heard nationwide live online at www.KPAM.com.<br />
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</div><div style="color: black;"> The subject of the interview will be on the U.S. Supreme Court's hearing oral argument today in the Mojave Desert Veterans Memorial Case.<br />
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</div><div style="color: black;"> It will also include the New York Times, the self-proclaimed "newspaper of record," making an egregiously false assertion of alleged fact in its editorial today, citing what has been proved to be a "hoax" in support of the NY Times call on the Supreme Court to destroy the Cross at the Mojave Desert Veterans Memorial. My demand letter to the NY Times to correct and retract its egregious error of fact is attached at the conclusion of this Broadcast Alert. Why the NY Times would perpetuate this hoax designed to deceive the American public, needs to be explained. Indeed, didn't the editors or reporters of the august NY T imes even read the court of appeal opinion detailing the facts before the NY Times pu blished an editorial falsely claiming that an alleged Buddhist had been discriminatorily=2 0denied the right to establish a Buddhist shine near the memorial? As detailed below, it is but a hoax concocted and carried out by ACLU's plaintiff Frank Buno, his phony crony Herman R. Hoops who invented the name "Serpa San Harold Horpa" to pretend to be a Buddhist, and the ACLU, which in nine years of litigation has known of the hoax but never corrected nor repudiated it when it was reported as a real instance of discrimination by the media. (See my letter to the NY Times below.)<br />
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</div><div style="color: black;"> The Mojave Desert Veterans Memorial Case will have nationwide impact, deciding whether 300,000,000 Americans will have the right to establish veterans memorials in manner in which American citizens and their communities choose, including symbols or expressions which have a religious aspect; or whether such choices may be vetoed by ACLU and the atheists, agnostics, and secular-cleansing fanatics it represents on claims they are "offended" by the sight of a Christian Cross, or other symbol with a religious aspect, at a veterans memorial.<br />
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</div><div style="color: black;"> Although most Americans are unaware of it, the ACLU is reaping millions of dollars in judge-ordered, taxpayer-paid attorney fee "awards" in Establishment of Religion Clause cases against veterans memorials, the Boy Scouts, and other targets of the ACLU's politically-driven, secular-cleansi ng fanaticism. The ACLU is exploiting the Civil Rights Attorney Fees Act and other federal fee-shifting statutes to fleece taxpayers and enrich itself and/or to use the very threat of imposition of such fees if suit is filed under the Establishment Clause as a "club" to bludgeon public bodies into surrender to the ACLU's fanatical secular-cleansing demands. <br />
</div><div style="color: black;"> The American Legion has been a leader in calling on Congress to reform the law to stop the abusive Establishment Clause litigation attacks of the ACLU and its exploitation of the civil rights acts for profit and intimidation.<br />
</div><div style="color: black;"> The importance of the of the Mojave Desert Veterans Memorial Case, and related Mt. Soledad National Veterans Memorial Case, now on appeal in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal, cannot be overstated. The American Legion Department of California, and The American Legion, are participating in these cases as amicus curiae, represented by the Alliance Defense Fund and Liberty Legal Institute respectively, as is the Thomas More Law Center, which has led the fight to save the Mt. Soledad National Veterans Memorial. <br />
</div><div style="color: black;">More information on the cases can be found at www.CALEGION.org, www.LEGION.org.<br />
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</div><div style="color: black;"> Tune in, and call in to discuss yo ur point of view on the Victoria Taft Show -- news you can trust, unlike the NY Times -- tonight, 6:35 p.m., www.KPAM.com or AM 860.<br />
</div><div style="color: black;"> Call-in No: 877-774-KPAM, or 503-335-0860.<br />
</div><div style="color: black;">--Rees<br />
</div><div style="color: black;">REES LLOYD, Attorney<br />
</div><div style="color: black;">(Life Member Riverside Post 79,<br />
</div><div style="color: black;">Past Commander District 21 (Cal), <br />
</div><div style="color: black;">Director, Defense of Veterans Memorials Project<br />
</div><div style="color: black;">of The American Legion Department of California <br />
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</div><div style="color: black;">951-867-1551<br />
</div><div style="color: black;">[*For identification only. The views expressed on this broadcast are solely those Rees Lloyd and not necessarily of any person or organization he may represent.]<br />
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</div><div style="color: black;">Victoria Taft<br />
</div><div style="color: black;">"The Victoria Taft Show"<br />
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</div><div style="color: black;">victoria@victoriataft.com<br />
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</div><div style="color: black;">Letters@nytimes.com, Public@nytimes.com,<br />
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</div><div style="color: black;">EGREGIOUS ERROR OF FACT IN EDITORIAL NEEDS CORRECTION FORTHWITH AND PROMINENTLY <br />
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</div><div style="color: black;"> "The New York Times is guilty of an egregious disservice and deception in its editorial “The Constitution and the Cross” (Oct. 7, 2007), pertaining to the Mojave Desert Veterans Memorial Case (Buono vs. Salazar) which is pending before the Supreme Court, by perpetuating the hoax that: “In 1999, the National Park Service denied a request by an individual to place a Buddhist memorial in the area.”<br />
</div><div style="color: black;"> The truth is stated in t he Court of Appeal decision itself. The Court wrote:<br />
</div><div style="color: black;"> “The controversy surrounding the cross surfaced in 1999, when NPS [National Park Service]20received a letter from an individual who identified himself as ‘Sherpa San Harold Horpa’ of Jensen, Utah. The person who sent the letter under the alias ‘Sherpa San Harold Horpa’ is also known to [ACLU=2 0plaintiff Frank] Buono as Herman R. Hoops (‘Hoops’), a retired NPS employee and long-time acquaintance of Buono. Hoops requested permission from NPS to erect a ‘stupa’ (a dome-shaped Buddhist shrine) on a rock outcrop at a trail head located near the cross.”<br />
</div><div style="color: black;"> Thus, this case, began with a hoax of discrimination against Buddhists in favor of Christians concocted by ACLU’s plaintiff Frank Buono, former Associate Superintendent of the Mojave Park Preserve, and his crony, NPS retiree Herman R. Hoops, a/k/a “Sherpa San Harold Horpa (sic).”<br />
</div><div style="color: black;"> In short, there is absolutely no evidence of discriminatory trea tment adverse to purported “Buddhists” or anyone else in the record of this case, including the hoaxsters “Sherpa San Harold Horpa” and ACLU’s plaintiff Frank Buono – the former Ass’t Superintendent of the Mojave Preserve who had the power to object to the memorial and cross=2 0but did nothing until retiring, moving to Oregon, and then suing through the ACLU to destroy a cross honoring veterans a thousand miles away in the remote desert, e leven miles off the nearest highway, because he is “offended” by the20sight of a cross at a veterans memorial on public land.<br />
</div><div style="color: black;"> The Mojave Desert Veterans Memorial Case will be a landmark deciding whether 300-million Americans in may have the right to choose how to honor their war dead and other veterans, or whether the ACLU and single persons “offended” by the sight of symbols of a religious significance at veterans memorials will have a veto power over such decisions.<br />
</div><div style="color: black;"> This is an issue of great importance to veterans, and ought to be to all Americans. The views and opinions of Americans should not be misshaped by perpetuation by the NY Times of the utterly false, conc octed hoax of Plaintiff Frank Buono, “Sherpa San Harold Horpa,” and the ACLU, that there was an act of exclusionary discrimination against anyone at the Mojave Desert WWI Veterans Memorial.<br />
</div><div style="color: black;"> &nb sp; Finally, as a former staff attorney three decades ago of the ACLU of Southern California which brought this misbegotten case, and which by such fanatical secular-cleansing litigation has become the Taliban of American liberal sec ularism contemporarily, I am appalled that the ACLU itself has not acted for these nine long years of litigation to repudiate the hoax which the NY Times now perpetuates as has CNN and other like-minded media.<br />
</div><div style="color: black;"> The NY Times should correct its error, forthwith, or forfeit any claim to credibility.<br />
</div><div style="color: black;">Rees Lloyd, Attorney and Director of the Defense of Veterans Memorials Project of The American Legion Department of California and the Alliance Defense Fund (amicus curiae in the Mojave Desert Veterans Memorial Case (Buono vs. Salazaer)."<br />
</div><div style="color: black;">95 1-867-1551<br />
</div><div style="color: black;">ReesLloyd@aol.com<br />
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</div></div>Jim McDonoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12682985051110001179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-160289554395445529.post-60602942462971267752009-09-26T15:43:00.000-07:002009-10-01T09:50:29.122-07:00ALL THINGS IRISH<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">October has become a favorite month for people of many Celtic persuasions to “gather beside the seaside” at Seaside Park in Ventura. The Seaside Highland Games will return for a seventh year to the Ventura County Fairgrounds this October 10th and 11th 2009 for another rousing Festival of all things Scottish. Many favorite Celtic/Irish/Scottish entertainers including Eric Rigler & Bad Haggis, Alex Beaton, the Wicked Tinkers, Highland Way and America’s favorite, Celtic Spring, will be there! Ventura’s own Claddagh Dance Company will take the stage periodically over the weekend.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> The pageantry will be non-stop from Saturday noon’s Grand Parade and Opening Ceremonies to a final Massed Band Farewell at Games Closing on Sunday night. Your youngsters will want to spend all day in the very entertaining Children’s Glen and you will find plenty of shopping bargains among the forty-plus Celtic Vendors! Eighty clans with several new ones this year.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> If there is dance, there must be music and, in addition to the three stages for our star-quality entertainers will be bagpipers and bagpipe bands, the Ventura British Brass (as fine a brass band as you will find anywhere), the Scottish Fiddlers of Los Angeles and the Celtic Arts Center Gaelic Choir. Gaelic Language classes, Genealogy seminars with Arlene Eakle and a study of the art of Scotch Malt Whisky—with samples! Saturday will end in a blaze of glory with a FREE CELTIC ROCK CONCERT featuring Bad Haggis, the Tinkers and Highland Way from five until about eight pm. BE THERE!!</span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"> The giants—the SAAA Highland Heavies—will amaze you with their physical feats of strength and agility and the always popular sheep-herding dog demonstrations. </span><br />
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</div><b>The Highlander Warriors of an earlier and romantic age where edged weapons were king</b><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>—and expertly demonstrate their use.</b><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>In addition.</i>..a huge Darts Tournament staged by the Ventura County Dart Association. <br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"> The SHG Food Court stands ready to satisfy with great Scottish/Celtic food and drink. Whether it’s bangers and mash or hot dogs and beer—all is there for your enjoyment.<br />
Rounding out your day, don’t forget to view the beautiful British car collection and please help our Yellow Ribbon America & The America’s Heroes Foundation by contributing in any way you can. We are dedicated to supporting our country through this worthy organization even as peace is being sought on many fronts. Come to the Seaside Games for some happy hours at a bargain fare ($12 to $18 adults, $10 to $17 senior & military, $3 children). <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #cccccc; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Breakfast Meeting. Great group of folks with one thing in common; "Their Love of Ireland" </b></span><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #cccccc; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Good Friends and Great Craic. Sometimes a special guest or entertainment is provided. </b></span><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #cccccc; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>1st Tuesday of every month. The October meeting is at a new location. </b></span><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #cccccc; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Katella Deli & Bakery</b></span><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #cccccc; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>4470 Katella Ave, Los Alamitos, Ca 90720 </b></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #cccccc; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> Call Loretta at (714) 557-8983 </b></span><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #274e13;">E-mail:</span> <a href="mailto:lorettamullen@att.net">lorettamullen@att.net</a> </b></span><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #274e13;">or</span> <a href="mailto:pbeireanua@att.net">pbeireanua@att.net </a></b></span><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #274e13; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Restaurant # for directions or details: (562)594-5754</b></span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> <span style="color: #e69138;">1st Irish 2009, New York's Annual Festival of Irish Theatre</span></b></span> <br />
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powered by Origin Theatre Company.<br />
21 Irish playwrights at 12 venues across New York<br />
More information: <b><a href="http://www.1stirish.org/">www.1stIrish.org</a></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Saturday and Sunday, </b> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>October 10 & 11</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">9:00am to 5:00pm</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Seaside Highland Games</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Ventura Fairgrounds</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Ventura California</span><br />
<a href="http://www.seaside-games.com%20%20%20/"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <span style="font-size: large;">www.seaside-games.com</span></span></b></a><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b> Ride for Life</b></i> to San Manuel Casino</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
Bus will leave from the Knights of Columbus Hall in Van Nuys, <br />
(corner of Valerio and Van Nuys Blvd.) <br />
Cost is $20 dollars.<br />
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</i></span></span></b><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">WELSH CHOIR OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA </span></span><br style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">CONCERT WITH WELSH SOPRANO JULIA BENTHAM</span></i><br style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">SAINT CROSS EPISCOPAL CHURCH </span><br style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">1818 MONTEREY BLVD. </span></span></span></span><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">HERMOSA BEACH, CA 90254 </span><br style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">more information contact:</span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><br />
Caroline Roper-Deyo </i></span></span></b><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">at:</span></span></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;">Irish papers have reported that Darren Sutherland, who won an Olympic bronze medal at the Beijing Games in 2008 was found dead at his home according to his manager Frank Maloney. Sutherland was only 27.<br />
Sutherland was unbeaten in his first four pro fights, and was scheduled to fight on October 16. He was due to appear with Maloney at a news conference to talk about his next fight and when he did not respond to a call, the manager went to look for him. Sutherland's death was called a suicide.<br />
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Olympic middleweight champion James DeGale, who beat Sutherland in Beijing, paid tribute to his former rival.<br />
"He had an Olympic bronze medal and his whole life to look forward to," the Englishman said. "He had a great future and my heart goes out to everyone who knew him."<br />
Former Featherweight Champion Barry McGuiggan said Sutherland had the ability to win a world title."It is an absolute tragedy, I would describe Darren as a phenomenal talent. He represented his country with pride as an amateur and I believe he would have become a world champion in the professional ranks one day."<br />
Darren John Sutherland was born in Dublin on April 18, 1982. He was raised in County Meath and died in London on September 14, 2009. </span></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;">On a more somber note, I'd like to share some insights that I've had over the past few weeks. As most of you know in the past year, I was seriously ill. Thanks to God, the prayers, love and concern of my family and friends, Great American Health Care and a bit of my own Irish Luck; I am now healthy. I've had a lot of time to think and be inspired. The sources for some of these inspirational thoughts were family members who went to Africa earlier this year with a church group to do some volunteer work at an orphanage for aids victims and my good friend, Nick Jordan, who has been working on African relief projects for several years. I really think that we can make a difference and here is my request.<br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Help feed the hungry.</b></i></span><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;">Thousands of our fellow humans starve to death every year. Yet, in the United States, obesity is one of our major health problems. We could, and in fact, we do grow enough food to feed the world. <br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Here is how you can get involved and help.</i></b></span><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Raise you own consciousness on the issue. When writing this blog I took an evening and researched the subject and learned a lot. Do the same. There are links at the end of this piece to give you a head start. Then spread the word; help raise the awareness of your family and friends on the facts.<br />
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</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Get involved...Skip a meal...</span></b></i><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">This writer is sorry to admit it but I am overweight...I have been overeating for at least 30 years.<br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">That easily adds up to at least 1500 meals that I could have and should have skipped in the past thirty years!<br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Had I skipped those meals and sent only an average of $3. per meal to a worthy relief organization; that would have been $4500. $4500!! <br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">My life would be dramatically improved; had I acted and not procrastinated all these years.<br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">One thing for sure, I would not be quite as heavy as I am now. Some of the other facts are even more compelling; science has now proven that losing weight and being thiner extends life and makes you healthier!! And the other more grim reality about this fanciful might have been scenario is that even a small donation could easily have saved a life.<br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Take the pledge with me; start skipping a meal a week. The reward will be immediate.</b></span><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>If you are in a position to donate $3 or $4 or so for that skipped meal to a worthy group that is fighting hunger; all the better.</b></span><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><i>Resources:</i></b><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.crs.org/">www.crs.org</a></span><br />
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</div><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.concern.net/">www.concern.net</a></span><br />
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</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.wellsoflifeafrica.org/" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">www.wellsoflifeafrica.org</span></a></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Youtube Link to Ken O'Malley</b></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> Below is a link to a montage of two concerts with my good friend and Irish baladeer, Ken O'Malley.</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Ken performs at the recent Celtic Arts Center concert/fundraiser at the Ford Amphitheater in LA with his band and solo at St. Thomas University in Houston. <br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>I'll share another tidbit, I've always hoped that O'Malley will be there to sing </b><i><b>Carricfergus</b></i><b> at my far distant Irish Wake.</b></span><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><b>Dublin-born O'Malley is a great talent. I hope all you </b><b>ALL THINGS IRISH readers enjoy the tunes.</b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Thats it for this blog. I'll keep you posted.</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Slante,</b></span><br />
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</div>Jim McDonoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12682985051110001179noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-160289554395445529.post-34712424878282450442009-09-12T11:25:00.000-07:002009-10-13T19:31:49.320-07:00ALL THINGS IRISH<h1 class="really-large" style="font-weight: normal;">What's your Celtic Zodiac sign? </h1><h1 class="really-large" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Click here to take the quiz.</b></span> </h1><a href="http://apps.facebook.com/whatsyourcellenpfx/quiz/questions?quiz_metric%5Bactivated_at%5D=1255467610&quiz_metric%5Bclicked_attribute%5D=feeds_clicked&_fb_fromhash=8ca6b34c50f422d0ab5db5e15718b124"><span style="font-size: large;">What's Your Celtic Zodiac Sign Cool Quiz</span></a><br />
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<b>A Letter from the Publisher</b><br />
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Well Folks, the die is cast. We will be printing another issue of the <br />
<b>Irish News and Entertainment<i></i></b> after a three month hiatus. It will actually be our <b>17th. Anniversary Issue</b>.<br />
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<i>Special thanks </i>to The Los Angeles County Fair, The Seaside Highland Games and Terry McCartan at Metro Acura and Honda for committing in front to advertise with us online and in print.<br />
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We are confident that the interest and readership is still out there for a quality niche market publication.<br />
As mentioned before, a lot if factors contributed to our suspension of publication; my health issues, the economy in general and a loss of long time advertisers and readers in Southern California owing primarily to a demographic shift there over the past ten years.<br />
Let me briefly discuss the reasons why I think things have changed. On a personal note, I am healthy again. I have made a full recovery. On the business side, we will expand the paper beyond Southern California.<br />
There are millions of people throughout the States that are interested in an Irish paper and we will fill the void both in print and online.<br />
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We will need a lot of support to bring the <b>Irish News and Entertainment<i></i></b> to its full potential. <br />
I think this blog will help achieve our goals. There will be changes in content and in distribution. <br />
We are going to add several new and expanded features. Our Calendars were always popular and we will expand them. New features such as a CELTIC CROSSWORD PUZZLE are being developed.<br />
As we go national, we expect to garner more advertising. We have already negotiated a barter advertising deal with a music distributor so we will start our successful free Irish Music CD with a subscription offer again.<br />
To the many people who have called and written me and expressed an interest in this project, we send a sincere thanks to you. To all our readers, your thoughts and feedback are appreciated and needed. <br />
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Jim McDonough<br />
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</b><span style="font-size: large;">CURRENT IRISH EVENTS</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">September 1st - October 4th 2009. </span><br />
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1st Irish 2009, New York's Annual Festival of Irish Theatre</b></span><br />
powered b<a href="http://www.fordtheatres.org.%20%20%20/"></a>y Origin Theatre Company.<br />
21 Irish playwrights at 12 venues across New York<br />
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More information: <b><a href="http://www.1stirish.org/">www.1stIrish.org</a></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Los Angeles Area </span></b><b></b><br />
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The Sixth Annual Celtic Concert Series </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">at The Ford</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Amphithetre</span></b><br />
The concert will feature the McKasson's from Seattle as headliners. <br />
For the last five years The Celtic Arts Center has hosted the best Celtic concert event in the Southland at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre and this year's show on September 20th at 7PM, promises to continue the tradition. The line up includes The McKassons, from Seattle, headlining with their special guest, LA's own Ken O'Malley, joining them onstage. The Los Angeles Police Emerald Society Pipes and Drums will kick off the evening an hour earlier this year. Then "Highland Way" from San Diego, with their Scottish traditional tunes will be up first followed by the crowd pleasing "Slugger O'Toole" and their high energy songs. The world class Scottish fiddling band The McKassons will end the show with the Margaret Cleary Dancers with their beautiful traditional dresses, featured throughout the evening. "We have a nice mix of Irish and Scottish music this year." said Thom MacNamara veteran producer of the show. "It will be a great night of traditional Celtic music and dance for the whole family". The event is a fund raiser for The Celtic Arts Center and has become a tradition in Los Angeles. "The outdoor setting of the Ford makes it a special night for us each year. It brings out the Celtic community and it has an intimate feel, like a big family reunion picnic." Said Adrein Burke, president of the The Celtic Arts Center. The concert is scheduled for Sunday September 20th, 2009 at 7PM at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood. Tickets are $20 and $22 before Sept 13 and $25 and $27 after Sept 13th. Student/child price $12 and group rates available. For tickets, log on to www.fordtheatres.org or call the Ford Box Office at 323 461-3673 Fiddles that pulse with electric energy; violas that hum like the plaintive croon of cicadas; banjos that sing like springtime incarnate: Seattle-based McKassons aren’t your average fiddle band. One of the genres fastest rising talents, the McKassons create evocative soundtracks for adventures in distant lands and stories yet untold. The McKassons bring a distinctly American sensibility to traditional Scottish folk, composing songs that have the feel of Celtic music blended with the spirit of folk rock and bluegrass. Ken O'Malley belts out a feisty blend of traditional and new Irish folk music, both lyrical and instrumental. He sings about every-thing from the subtleties of true love, to the struggle of the working class, to the joy of a pint of beer at the end of a long, hard ,journey. Everything is played with style and flair. Ken is equally talented with a guitar or mandolin and his singing is strong and passionate. Slugger O'Toole is an LA-based Celtic trad/rock quintet who share a passion for the drinking, fighting & work songs of Ireland. They hail from the four corners, and were thrown together by their mutual love of the music and culture. Slugger concocts a lethal brew of foot-stomping classics, deft instrumentals and five-part a cappella killers. Everybody sweats, everybody sings! From his native homeland, Scotland, Brian Caldwell of Glasgow leads Highland Way on a musical journey through traditional and modern Celtic melodies. Joining Brian are Heloise Love (on vocals, guitar and percussion), Paul Graham Castellanos (on fiddle, mandolin, guitar, banjo and varied strings), and Richard Gordon Heinz, (on vocals, bass and keyboard). Rousing songs and haunting ballads blend with original instrumental medleys and touches of whimsy in performances featuring traditional Celtic music from Scotland and Ireland, with some added original and contemporary Celtic melodies. The Ford Amphitheatre is located at 2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East, Hollywood, CA 90068, just off the 101 Hollywood Freeway across from the Hollywood Bowl and south of Universal Studios. The grounds open two hours before showtime for picnicking. The Ford offers a number of dining options: a variety of food and beverages is available on site and box dinners for evening events may be ordered in advance. Patrons are welcome to bring their own food and drink. The Ford is disabled accessible. Portable wireless listening devices are available upon request. On-site, stacked parking costs $5 per vehicle for evening shows and $1 per vehicle for morning family shows. For evening shows only, FREE non-stacked parking serviced by a FREE shuttle to the Ford, for evening amphitheatre performances only, is available at the Universal City Metro Station lot at Lankershim Blvd. and Campo de Cahuenga. The shuttle, which cycles every15-20 minutes, stops in the "kiss and ride" area. This event is part of the Ford Amphitheatre 2009 Season, a multi-disciplinary arts series produced by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission in cooperation with Los Angeles Countybased arts organizations. For a complete season schedule, directions to the theater and parking information, log on<b> to www.FordTheatres.org.<br />
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More information:<a href="http://www.celticartscenter.com/"> www.celticartscenter.com</a>Jim McDonoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12682985051110001179noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-160289554395445529.post-25199102713309619762009-08-28T09:40:00.000-07:002009-10-13T19:34:11.428-07:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwsDGLX19N56FkwIB6XFE_-KpUmTCcqAjLZNcYjOqI0HhzDcjAAJRSmD43mYVbllX7rWb1ZaCluNDix5_bkqDwjFVEV6nsCVPWHUIC15lT6mgUzDECoymFpnoqfVEur0zvKkHkgDZj8qE/s1600-h/Last+of+the+Pride.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375057022158582370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwsDGLX19N56FkwIB6XFE_-KpUmTCcqAjLZNcYjOqI0HhzDcjAAJRSmD43mYVbllX7rWb1ZaCluNDix5_bkqDwjFVEV6nsCVPWHUIC15lT6mgUzDECoymFpnoqfVEur0zvKkHkgDZj8qE/s320/Last+of+the+Pride.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 232px;" /></a><br />
Irish News and Commentary: <span style="font-weight: bold;">Tempus Fugit<span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span><br />
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From Seattle to Cork, Special memorials and Masses have been held or are being planned in honor of the late Senator Ted Kennedy. It is fitting that we pause and remember this man and the time in which he lived. For me, it is the span of my entire adult life. His reach was broad and long in time and effort. He will be remembered not just for his legislative achievements, especially in education and children's health care but for being a staunch, proud liberal.<br />
As an Irish-American, I always appreciated his love of Ireland and the Irish. Kennedy was one of the first American politicians to see and voice his thoughts that <br />
"The Troubles" in the north of Ireland were civil rights issues. In the Senate in 1971 Kennedy pointed out that "Ulster is becoming Britain's Vietnam" and called for a united Ireland. After Bloody Sunday 1972, when British soldiers killed 13 civil rights marchers in Derry, Kennedy called for a British withdrawal from Northern Ireland. All through the 1970s and 1980s, he kept the Irish Civil Rights agenda alive and led a group that was to become known as the "Four Horsemen".<br />
The four were Ted Kennedy, Tip O'Neill, Hugh Carey and Sen. Patrick Moynihan.<br />
U.S. ambassador to Ireland, Jean Kennedy Smith and Senator Kennedy were very influential in allowing Gerry Adams into the US against the wishes of the British government in 1994. That bold change in policy was the catalyst, that with the guidance of Senator George Mitchell, finally led to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. So we owe the peace in Ireland today thanks in large part to the late senator.<br />
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Yesterday, Ireland's Taoiseach (Prime Minister), Brian Cowen, said: "In good days and bad, Ted Kennedy worked valiantly for the cause of peace on this island."<br />
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Micheál Martin, Ireland's Foreign Minister, said that the former senator "knew and loved Ireland - its people, its music and its culture", adding that "his special dedication to the peace process was unrivalled and deeply held".<br />
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Our colleague Trina Vargo sent us the following to share with our readers. Vargo served as Foreign Policy Adviser to Senator Kennedy from 1987-1998 and was heavily involved in the Northern Ireland peace process. She subsequently founded, and is president of, the US-Ireland Alliance.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">"Senator Kennedy s commitment to Ireland and Northern Ireland spanned forty years and no one has contributed more to the strengthening of the relationship between the US and the island of Ireland. He encouraged me to create the US-Ireland Alliance and everyone at the Alliance is grateful for the continuous support he gave to the organization and the Mitchell Scholarship program. Personally, he gave me, at a very young age, an incredible opportunity to be a part of making a difference in a way that few people get. I told him when I left his employ that, no matter what I did with the rest of my life, the way that I see things would, to a very great extent, be shaped by the way that I learned to see things by working with him. And for that I feel honored and privileged -- but most of all I feel incredibly lucky -- that he allowed me to be a part of his work."</span> <br />
August 26, 2009 <br />
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OnGoing Irish Calendar...<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><br />
The Friends of Ireland in Orange County California will gather for their Monthly Breakfast Meeting on <br />
Tuesday, September 1st at 10:00am. We will meet, as usual, at 10 A.M. on September 1st at the Starting Gate Restaurant, 5052 Katella Ave., Los Alamitos (across from the race course).<br />
The move to a new location is NOW set for the October 6 meeting.<br />
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If you plan to attend, please respond to by e-mail to pbeireanua@att.net, by Monday, August 31. Anyone living in Southern California is invited to join these great folks for the Breakfast Meeting. Speakers and Entertainment vary but the craic is always great!! <br />
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My great source for many things Irish is Adrien Rain Burke, the current chairperson of the Celtic Arts Center in Los Angeles. Adrien just gave me a new look for my blog. Both her talent and good work are very much appreciated. She also just let us know that there is a grand Youtube segment of the All Ireland Uilleann Pipes Championships. <br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKiY2bsxWN8&feature=channel_page </span><br />
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Special Offer,<span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span> thanks to Sean Gunning for sending this to us.<br />
In a first for WWMPC, we would like to offer you a truly unique gift! With each online DVD purchase, we will include several authentic film frames that our editors have cut directly from an official 35mm release print of Red Roses and Petrol. You can literally ‘Own a Piece of the Film’ that was projected in cinemas during the US theatrical engagement!<br />
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This very special DVD 'Collector's Offer' is available for order now through Monday, September 14, 2009, while supplies last. Orders can be placed online at http://www.wwmpc.com/special-dvd-offer.<br />
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The soundtrack CD is also available for pre-order from Warrior Records at the following site: http://www.warriorrecords.com/redrosesandpetrol/<br />
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A brief synopsis of the film:<br />
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Amid a haze of cigarette smoke and uneaten food, the family of Enda Doyle (Malcolm McDowell -- A Clockwork Orange, NBC’s ”Heroes”) gathers in Dublin for his wake. A university librarian, poet, and rascal, Doyle has left behind a trail of unresolved issues, a dysfunctional family, and a disturbing mystery. A cache of self-recorded video diaries sheds light on who he really was and the secrets he was never able to share. Based on the acclaimed play by Joseph O’Connor, Red Roses and Petrol explores the complex dynamics of family relationships with sharp humor and surprising turns, taking us on an intense emotional journey into the depths of what is truth and what is love. Also starring Max Beesley (BBC’s “Hotel Babylon”), Susan Lynch (Waking Ned Devine), and former Miss Ireland Olivia Tracey, with songs by Flogging Molly and Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles.Jim McDonoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12682985051110001179noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-160289554395445529.post-21876998639263962362009-08-25T08:46:00.000-07:002009-10-13T19:34:59.703-07:00Keep Yer Irish Up 24/7I have been asked a lot about the fate of the Irish News & Entertainment newspaper. <br />
There is no definitive answer to the question yet; the best that I can say is to please be patient. I published the paper for 16 years. I would like to see it continue but in a down market, changing demographics in Southern California and some health issues; I had to suspend publication.<br />
In the meantime; please start reading this blog and our E-mails through Constant Contact. The Celtic Arts Center in Los Angeles is planning their SIXTH ANNUAL CONCERT in September. We will be doing an E-mail with details of that and other Irish/Celtic events soon. To be added to our list for Irish/Celtic information and to receive updates on the Irish News; please send your E-mail address to IrishNewsUSA@aol.com.<br />
For tips and news that you want to share through this blog; please E-mail me at jmcdonough44@gmail.com.<br />
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Also you are always invited to visit our: <span style="font-weight: bold;">www.pubguide.com</span> site.<br />
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Adrien Burke was kind enough to send us the information and link below.<br />
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LISTEN to Radio ACS - music of The Celtic Arts Center: <br />
http://www.rawsound.com/RadioACS/ 24/7 <br />
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CD: "Ceiltis - 20 years on" a compilation of Celtic music for every mood on the occasion of An Claidheamh Soluis/The Celtic Arts Center's 20th year. <br />
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All profits benefit The Celtic Arts Center, a small non-profit, <br />
501[c]3 corporation dedicated to promoting Celtic Arts & Language, award-winning theater, fabulous concerts, and home of the longest-running traditional music session in Southern California. <br />
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Hear it at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ceiltis <br />
For more about An Claidheamh Soluis: <br />
http://www.celticartscenter.com <br />
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Tara. ancient seat of the Kings of Ireland, is in danger of being <br />
surrounded by a freeway, while many other ancient sites in the vicinity are under threat, or have already been destroyed. <br />
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Supporters of Tara <br />
have released a compilation CD to raise funds for their effort. You can help by purchasing their record: <br />
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Tara:http://www.myspace.com/TaracompilationcdJim McDonoughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12682985051110001179noreply@blogger.com0