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October 2017 Ceolta Notes
October 2017 Ceolta Notes By Rodger hara The Rocky Mountain Fiddle Club presents their Fall Festival at The Old Gallery in Allenspark, CO on the 21st from 10 AM – 9 PM. www.theoldgallery.org Located on the eastern edge of Rocky Mountain National Park, classes in Klezmer, Texas fiddle, singing, Scottish and Cape Breton fiddle tunes, […]
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Wife From Hell
forwarded to us by Conny Cones A police officer pulls over a speeding car. The officer says, ” I clocked you at 80 miles per hour, sir.”The driver says, “Gee, officer I had it on cruise control at 60, perhaps your radar gun needs calibrating.”Not looking up from her knitting the wife says: “Now don’t […]
The Very First Ever Blonde GUY Joke.
forwarded to us from Debbie McComick An Irishman, a Mexican and a Blonde Guy were doing construction work on scaffolding on the 20th floor of a building.They were eating lunch and the Irishman said, “Corned beef and cabbage! If I get corned beef and cabbage one more time for lunch, I’m going to jump off […]
Beoga Mischief ” Beoga
When Beoga released their first album “A Lovely Madness” in 2002, it became my favorite album of the year. It was quirky, innovative and darn good fun! Additionally, this Antrim based band are all extremely talented musicians. Beoga are now back with “Mischief” and I’m delighted to say that this new release is as good […]
A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia
Reviewed by Mary McWay Seaman,Celtic Connection, May, 2007A full sensory excursion to the beginnings of the British penal colony in New South Wales awaits in Thomas Keneally’s A COMMONWEALTH OF THIEVES: THE IMPROBABLE BIRTH OF AUSTRALIA. The book also offers an escorted tour through the mean streets of late 18th-century England and its barbarous prisons. […]
Flourishing Oideas Gael Irish Language Programs
Oideas Gael courses are not just for absolute beginners, but also ideally suited for individuals, who have been out of touch and are now keen to brush up on their conversational Irish. The most popular programmes are the Irish language courses for adults, offered at all levels. As these courses focus on spoken Irish, in […]
Movie Matters: The Wind That Shakes the Barley: A Review
Many personal tales of Ireland’s brief civil war (1922 -1 923) have never been recorded, but thanks to this film (fictional), some composite accounts from rural County Cork will be preserved. The drama opens in 1920 with two siblings, Teddy O’Donovan, an IRA man continuing the fight for independence in the wake of the Easter […]
O’Caruso Wins Award for Born Again Irish
Carusos book is a true story of how he, a young New York Italian, raised in an Orthodox Jewish community, becomes the Irish “O’Caruso” as a result of an airplane crash of Flying Tiger Lines Flight 923 which occurred in the North Atlantic Ocean, at night during a raging storm, 500 miles off the West […]
Denver Gaels Update
The Denver Gaels football and hurling team each had their game debut at Dicks Sporting Goods fields on Sunday afternoon April 15, 2007. There were people of all ages playing as well as sitting on the sidelines enjoying the games. Over 25 new players came to try their hand at the sports for two hours […]
Be Wary of Rubble from the Troubles
The article quoted a spokesman for the Office of the First and Deputy First Minister having said: “This office is aware that a number of artifacts purported to be from the former Maze/Long Kesh site have been offered for sale on the internet auction site eBay. Purchasers should be aware that in many cases it […]
Irish Baseball Goes to Cooperstown!
In March “The Emerald Diamond” was seen on SportsNet cable TV and played at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Stories in newspapers and on TV stations continue to pop up as sports media people learn about the inspirational story. Fitzgerald recently put a shortened version of the film on the Internet to help […]
The Leadville Irish; Life, Labor and Loss at 10,200 Feet
A search in the Annunciation Catholic church records reveals that the most common Irish surnames in Leadville in 1880 were nearly identical with the most common surnames in the Beara peninsula, revealed in the Griffith Valuation Records of 1845: LeadvilleSullivanMurphyWalshMcDonaldMcCarthyHarringtonLynchGallgherRyan BearaSullivanMurphyMcCarthyHarringtonLynchRyan
Irish Government Announces $50,000 For Irish Undocumented in America
Speaking in advance of the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform public meeting in Dublin held April 14, the Minister said the additional money will bring the total Government funding of ILIR to $133,000 since its establishment in December 2005. Since becoming Minister for Foreign Affairs, I have insisted that finding a resolution to the situation […]