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- IRISH RACES
- PRE-RACE CÉILI
- SAMMAMISH CONCERT
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- 15TH FEICEÁIL
- IRISH BASEBALL
- IHC AGM
- NEWSPAPER
DISTRIBUTION
- IRISH CAMP
- GAELIC GAMES
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- SOCCER CAMP
- POKER CHAMP
- EMMET FELLOW
- PLAY
- PIGOTT DONATION
- DON’T FORGET
NEWS FROM
- TAOISEACH AGAIN
- LISBURN BREAKTHROUGH
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- SUBMARINE INVENTOR
- GUINNESS MOVE
- UNKNOWN ART
- TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHTS
- TID-BITS
- IRISH ARTHUR
- GENEALOGY
- IRISH PROVERB
Irish Heritage Club - www.irishclub.org
IRISH RACES – Coupons for FREE Admission to Irish day at Emerald
Downs this
Sunday, June 24, can be printed off the IHC website at
www.irishclub.org/races.htm.
Free Activities for Kids include Pony Rides,
Face Painters, etc. There’s an Irish Pub in a tent with
Guinness-on-tap,
Irish music, dancers, etc. Buses will run from
the Galway Arms, Owl ‘n
Thistle, Kangaroo & Kiwi, Paddy Coynes,
etc.
For racetrack information, call
253-288-7000 or visit www.emeralddowns.com.
PRE-RACE CÉILI – A Céili Dance tomorrow,
Saturday, June 23,
Grange Hall, suited to adults and children
over 12. The Grange Hall is at
the
www.hoilands.com/ceilisteps.htm.
SAMMAMISH CONCERT - Sunday, June 24th,
Sammamish Presbyterian Church with acoustic guitarist Dan Carollo
(www.celtograss.com), uilleann Piper Eliot Grasso (www.eliotgrasso.com) and
the Baile Glas
dancers (www.baileglas.com) - see www.spconline.org.
Friday-Sunday, September 28-30 on a
are invited to join the Mayor and his party in
and the more the merrier! For details, contact Heidi Kinsella
at
425-822-2333 or visit www.etitravel.com/galway
. Forinformation, visit www.galwayoysterfest.com.
15TH FEICEÁIL - The Irish Heritage
Club will have gatherings on the 15th of
each month for people
to socialize, at a movie, meal, or excursion, etc.,
without a lot of bother.
Everyone is invited to participate. The first 15th
Feiceáil gathering is
Sunday, July 15th, for an all day trip to Sol Duc
Falls and Ancient Groves Nature Trail
in Olympic National Park
(www.nps.gov/archive/olym/dayhike.htm).
Bring a lunch and plan to take the
10:10 AM Edmonds
Ferry and drive from
more information,
contact Melissa at 206-229-8512 or melissae@irishclub.org.
IRISH BASEBALL – Discounted admission
tickets are available to Irish Night
at the Mariners,
Tuesday, July 31, for the Mariners vs. L A Angels at Safeco
Field. $18 View Reserved
Seats are $10, and $38 Field Level Seats are $24,
and each ticket
includes an Irish Night Mariners baseball cap. For tickets,
IHC AGM - Irish Heritage Club Board
Members elected on June 1 are Charles
Hadrann (reelected), Nanci Spieker
(reelected), Suzanne Green, Kathleen
Anderson, and Judy Donoghue.
The new Club President is Melissa Estelle,
Vice-President Ralph Kosche,
Secretary Wendy Zboyan, Membership Secretary
Frank Gill and
Treasurer John Keane. For more information, contact
MelissaE@irishclub.org
or visit www.irishclub.org.
NEWSPAPER DISTRIBUTION – The monthly
Celtic Connection newspaper, which
reports on the Irish and
Celtic communities of the
help with distributing
the newspaper each month in the
Catholine Butler at
604-434-3747 or cbutler@telus.net.
IRISH CAMP -
daily, in Seattle Center
House. Aimed at 4 - 8 year-olds, with sessions
focusing on Irish culture, Céili Dance, Language, and Folklore & Crafts.
Contact 206-335-5013 or celticroots_seattle@hotmail.com.
GAELIC GAMES - The
Seattle Gaels sponsor a two day Gaelic Football and
Hurling Youth
Sports Camp, Saturday and Sunday, July 14th & 15th. A daylong
Tournament will be
held Saturday, July 21, at
teams from
Francisco. For
information, call 206-953-8460 or email
Friday, July 13,
Alder,
band and caller Sam
Keator. For information, contact 503-691-2078 or
SOCCER CAMP – A Seattle-based
experience to the NW youth
soccer community using coaches from
the
information, visit www.SeattleSoccerCamps.com.
POKER CHAMP -
Ciaran O’Leary from
$727,012 first
prize in the No-Limit Hold'em tournament at the 2007
World
Series of Poker in
$1,500 to play. O’Leary operates a
remodeling/construction company in
EMMET FELLOW -
Claire McHugh from
King’s
in
PLAY - The School for Scandal, a play
by Irish writer Richard Brinsley
(Lower Level), Thursdays-Sundays
until July 1.
in 1751 and The
School for Scandal is considered one of the greatest
comedies of manners in
English, an 18th century version of “Desperate
Housewives”. For information,
visit www.seattleshakespeare.org.
PIGOTT DONATION - A
donation from
American History
Lectureship at
announcement, Mark Pigott, Chairman and CEO of PACCAR, spoke of his
great-grandparents, Michael and Anna Pigott, who left
son William settled in
called PACCAR, known
mainly as a worldwide manufacturer of premium
CONGRATULATIONS -
to Cora and Patrick (who hails from
a baby daughter in
early June. The first American in the Finney family,
Penelope Ann, weighed in at 6 pounds 14 ounces!
• The Irish
Community Picnic, Sunday, July 22,
Park in
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28 & 29,
www.srsirishdance.com/DFLhome.htm.
• That 32-question
non-intrusive survey of the
Irish-born is
ongoing. Contact Melissa at 206-229-8512 or
• To watch GAA games live from
subscribe to Setanta
Broadband Service at www.setanta.com.
TAOISEACH AGAIN – Following the Irish
General Election, Bertie Ahern was
re-elected to an historic
third term as Taoiseach (Prime Minister) in a
three-party coalition
government. Ahern is the first Taoiseach to serve
three terms since Éamon De Valera.
LISBURN BREAKTHROUGH – Last Monday,
Irish President Mary McAleese received a
warm welcome when she
addressed Lisburn City Council, her first-ever
reception by a
Unionist-controlled City Council in
there at the invitation
of Councillor Trevor Lunn,
the Mayor of Lisburn who
last March was a guest
of the Irish Heritage Club at
Day celebrations. Might Mayor Lunn’s
part in making possible
his breakthrough invitation to President McAleese?
park, haunting
sculptures accompany a 25-meter wall inscribed with 1,100
names of Irish victims
who died there between May and October of 1847. For
information, visit www.irelandparkfoundation.com.
SUBMARINE INVENTOR
- The inventor of the modern submarine, John Philip
first submarine
commissioned by the US Navy.
GUINNESS MOVE - A newspaper
claims that Guinness is moving from its St
James's Gate
location to the outskirts of
brewed for almost 250
years on the banks of the Liffey where, in 1759,
Arthur Guinness took out a 9,000
year lease on a disused brewery. Guinness
is brewed at almost
50 sites around the world but over 130 million gallons
are still produced at
St James's Gate, which also houses a visitor center,
UNKNOWN ART - A collection of
Irish art, including paintings by Jack B Yeats
and Louis le Brocquy, are on sale after an Irish art gallery purchased
them
from the family of a
for the last 50 years.
The man was hoping to raise around $50,000 for
medical expenses, but
instead received over $1.5 million. For more
information, see www.colouredrain.com.
TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHTS – Irish budget
airline, Ryanair, has plans to launch
transatlantic flights to five or
six
with some flights for
as little as $12. The company uses sales of food,
drink, duty-free goods
and in-flight entertainment to boost revenues. One
hub
that employs several
former Ryanair employees, currently offers flights
from
• Popular video website YouTube has unveiled an Irish version of its website
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• The cost of sample items in
world: a cup of coffee,
including service, $4; a Bus or subway ride $2.02;
monthly rental of a
two-bedroom luxury unfurnished apartment $1,608.
• The average cost of unleaded gas in
equates to $5.91 per US
gallon.
• Between 1995 and 2002,
• Today, more than 80 percent of
Irish students earn the equivalent of a
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• In 2006, Irish budget airline Ryanair carried 40.5 million international
passengers, more than any
other airline in the world. The top US
international carrier was
American Airlines with 21 million.
• Since random breathalyzer testing
was introduced in
ago, there has been a
23% decrease in the number of road fatalities.
• Ryanair
recently ordered a further 27 Boeing 737-800s, which brings
Ryanair's total firm orders
for B737-800s to 308.
• Currently
call in a very long
pipeline that extends all the way from
•
Secondary (High) School students,
finished today after 2 ½ weeks of exams.
• $4.82 billion is spent annually on
gambling in
• Burglars broke into a police
station in Ballynahinch, Co Down, but after
ransacking the place, they
left without taking anything.
IRISH ARTHUR - A professor at
King Arthur of the Knights of the
Round Table was Irish rather than British.
His research indicates that Arthur
was an Irish war leader and he claims the
Irish enjoyed political control over
large areas of western
GENEALOGY
professional genealogist who
will deliver a tailored research plan to guests
who want to combine
their holiday with learning more about their Irish
Is fearr lán doirn de cheird
ná lán mála
d’ór - A handful of skill is better
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