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IHC MEETING - The Irish Heritage Club will show 60 minutes of the historical documentary Saoirse? (Freedom?) on Sunday evening, November 11, at 6 PM, at Assumption Church Hall, 6201 33rd Avenue NE, Seattle. The film features fascinating photos and film archive material from the period between 1918 and 1922. It depicts the Irish War of Independence and the creation of the Irish Free State, and ends just as the Irish civil war breaks. Commentary is in Gaelic with subtitles in English. An IHC general membership meeting and a social hour will follow at 7 PM. For information, call (206) 223-3608 or e-mail wendyz@irishclub.org. SPEAKING IRISH - The kickoff for "As Gaeilge," an Irish language (Gaelic) conversational gathering, is October 16, 7 PM in Seattle. It's a casual meeting to get to know one another, determine the format, where and when to meet, etc. Those who know the basics, both beginners and intermediate Irish speakers, are welcome. For details and location, call (206) 423-7297 or email WendyZ@irishclub.org. CELTIC CONCERT - Violinist Jamie Laval and mandolin champion Ashley Broder form a stunning instrumental duo rendering traditional Irish and Scottish music with hints of classical refinement and ethnic music from around the world. They perform in Seattle on October 27, 7:30 PM at the Music Center of the Northwest, 901 N 96th Street. For information, call (206) 523-0565 or visit www.JamieLaval.com. $17 at door, $15 at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/19606. YEAT'S FESTIVAL - The Wild Geese will read poetry by William Butler Yeats at Murphy's Pub, 1928 N 45th, Seattle, October 22. Poems will be interspersed with music during the regular traditional Irish music seisiún. For information, e-mail wjoseph@cmc.net. IRISH TENORS - Anthony Kearns, Finbar Wright and Karl Scully, are back in Seattle for their fabulous Holiday Concert on December 17, 7:30 PM at Seattle's Benaroya Hall, in a benefit for the Ballard and Shoreline senior centers. Reserved seats range from $40 to $1500 (includes a post-concert wine, dessert and photo reception). The Irish Tenors remain one of Ireland's most successful touring acts, second only to U2. For more information and tickets, contact (206) 215-4747 or www.brownpapertickets.com/event/18869. CELTIC NIGHTS - An evening of ancient Celtic lore, traditional Irish songs and mesmerizing new works in a cathedral setting, Celtic Nights features the choral sounds of the Irish sensation, Anúna, the unique musical group comprised of 16 singers that was the original vocal group featured in Riverdance. In Seattle, they will be joined by the Slieveloughane Irish Dancers and musicians from the Irish Pipers Club at Saint Mark's Cathedral, 1245 10th Avenue E, Seattle, October 26 and 27, 8 PM. For more information and tickets visit www.seattlechoralcompany.org. HARP SCHOOL - Magical Strings start their fall classes in the beginning and intermediate Celtic Harp in Olalla, Seattle, and Bellevue the week of October 15. Students with no prior musical training are welcome. For more information, call (253) 857-3716; or visit www.magicalstrings.com. PIPING CONCERT - The fall concert series of the Keith Highlanders Pipe Band, with champion fiddlers, Highland dancers and the Comerford Irish dancers, will be October 25, 26 and& 27, 7:30 PM, at the Kirkland Performance Center. For information, call (425) 893-9900, or visit www.kpcenter.org. IRISH STUDIES - The 23rd meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies/West was held recently at Tacoma Community College. Among those attending was Irish Consul General Émer Deane. For information, e-mail kreid@tacomacc.edu. VISA LOTTERY - The DV-2009 Lottery online entry begins at noon EDT on October 3, and ends at noon EST on December 2. Information and instructions are on the Department of State website at http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/types/types_1318.html. MONTHLY FEICEÁIL - The monthly Feiceáil is held on the 15th of each month and provides a chance to get together and share with friends, old and new! For information on the October 15 Feiceáil gathering, call (206) 321-4576 or melissae@irishclub.org. KNITTING GROUP - There's interest in forming an Irish knitting/crocheting/quilting group for young and old, experienced and beginners, males and females. Working "one stitch" at a time, it's both a fun and meaningful way to share creativity. Shawls, etc., can be donated to deserving organizations. For more information, contact Wendy at (206) 423-7297 or wendyz@irishclub.org. MARITIME AWARD - Seattle's Catholic Seamen's Club Chaplain, Fr. Tony Haycock, recently received the Maritime Achievement Award from the Propeller Club, Port of Seattle Chapter, the first time in 60 years that a chaplain has won the honor. Haycock was honored for his many years of ministry to seafarers of all religions and none. He is also a talented Irish musician who spent much of his early years in County Wexford. IRISH FILM - P.S. I Love You, the book written by Cecilia Ahern (the daughter of Ireland's Taoiseach Bertie Ahern), has been made into a film starring Hilary Swank. Before her Irishman husband died following an illness, he arranged for his wife to receive a series of letters and messages after his death, each signing off the same way: P.S. I Love You. The film opens in Seattle on December 21. For details, visit www.ceceliaahern.ie. SISTER CITY TRIP TO GALWAY Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels has returned to Seattle following his first ever visit to Ireland where he spent four days leading a sister city delegation to Galway. Among the events specially organized for the Seattleites visit was a reception and dinner in their honor. Mayor Nickels was also a special guest at the Galway Oyster Festival Parade and at the Oyster Festival's Gala Ball. A tour of Connemara was also arranged for the Seattle visitors and the Mayor's party also visited the Burren and the Cliffs of Moher in County. Clare. Despite Seattle and Galway being Sister Cities since 1986, it was the first time that a Seattle Mayor had ever visited Galway. The visit occurred 25 years after the first official Seattle Galway contact in September 1982 when a group of 18 Seattleites traveled to Ireland looking for an Irish Sister City. That group met with the Mayors of Dublin, Limerick, Waterford, and Cork, and even with Lord Iveagh, the head of Guinness! They arrived in Galway in the middle of the Oyster Festival, and had a meeting with Galway's Deputy Mayor Mary Byrne. Upon their return to Seattle, the group's consensus was that, of all the Irish cities visited, Galway had the most in common with Seattle. It took four more years until the Seattle Galway sister city relationship was finally formalized in 1986. While in Ireland, Mayor Nickels also visited Thurles and the nearby village of Gortnahoe, County Tipperary. His great-great-grandparents, William and Catherine (Carney) Ryan, were born in Thurles in 1822 and they later moved to Gortnahoe from where they emigrated to the U.S. in 1852, settling in Illinois where Greg Nickels was born in 1955. Mayor Nickels and his wife Sharon and daughter Cary were welcomed to Gortnahoe by a group of schoolchildren and parishioners led by the local parish priest, Canon John O'Rourke, who had done extensive research into the Mayor's links to Gortnahoe. Mayor Nickels even met a distant relative of his, Anna Hayden, who, like the Mayor, is a descendant of the Carneys of Gortnahoe. Later Mayor Nickels visited Thurles where his great-great-grandparents were born in 1822. He was greeted there by the Mayor of Thurles, Michel Grogan, and by the Archbishop of Cashel and Emily, Most Rev. Dermot Clifford, who gave him a tour of the Cathedral of the Assumption where the Mayor's great-great-grandparents were baptized. He also toured the town's Famine Museum before heading on to Galway. For more information on the Seattle Galway Sister City Association, e-mail seattlegalway@irishclub.org or visit www.seattlegalway.org .
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