Foras Cultuir Gaeil Aontuighthe United Irish Cultural Center, Inc. 2700 - 45th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94116 Tel: 415-661-2700 Fax: 415-661-8620 E-mail: [email protected] www.irishcentersf.org

BOARD MESSAGE Volume XLV No. 11 Dear Members, November 2014 As we come into the month of November, we do so with joy and excitement. October was absolutely wonderful in so many ways! Our San Francisco Giants led the way! The momentum of fall is with us, as we look forward to an absolutely wonderful November and holiday season. Events in November include some significant Sunday activities: a Library Open House on Sunday, November 2nd. Check out the library’s new look and wonderful collection of artifacts; a superb fashion show on Sunday, November 16th, sponsored by the LAOH, Division 2; the Annual Deceased Members’ Mass on Sunday, November 23rd at 10:00 a.m. It is with great respect that we celebrate the lives of those who gave 2014-2015 OFFICERS so much. BOARD OF DIRECTORS I would like to rectify an omission that occurred in the October Bulletin. When thanking the wonderful Building Committee and the incredible volunteers who helped during the August closure of the Judith Kell Center, I left out the name of one of the primary contributors on the Committee: Gerry Cassidy. Apologies President to Gerry and kudo’s to him and those who were mentioned in the October Bulletin for their stellar contribution to our beloved Center. Caitie O’Shea I am bringing my large family and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving with the UICC’s incredible Vice President Thanksgiving dinner. I hope to see many of you with your family, friends and others as our very talented chefs, kitchen folks and servers are gearing up to give you the very best. John Tucker There is a surprise offering in the mix, Rosie Keehan, our Rose of Tralee, is organizing a “Last Secretary Rose of Summer” competition for those of us who “barely” miss the age cut-off for the Rose of Tralee competition. This event will serve as a kick-off for the January Rose of Tralee event. Yours truly will be in the Michael Bowler competition and more information regarding date and time will be forthcoming. Others who will admit to Treasurer being “around” my age are welcome to inquire in regard to joining the competition. More information will be forthcoming. Megan Cummins As mentioned in the email blast, there will be no General Membership Meeting in November as Michael Leboeuf Thanksgiving falls on our usual meeting date. Although we usually do not have a membership meeting in Bill Luqué December, we will have a “Membership Appreciation Meeting” in December this year. Your Board has set the date for this “first” on December 11th. Stay tuned by referring to the December Bulletin message. Additionally we are going to have a traditional Irish holiday variety show, “An Irish Christmas”, on Wednesday, December 10th. Please calendar the date. Your Board of Directors and I am thankful for the wonderful opportunity of serving as your Board this year. I would like to close with best wishes to the family of John (our former BOD President) and Arleen Gallagher on the marriage of their son, Tim, in Milwaukee (brrrrrrr) on November 22nd. The word is they have found an Irish piper and dancers for the celebration in Wisconsin!!

In Caring Unity, Judith Kell, President Purpose ~ Respect ~ Organization ~ Unity ~ Determination

THERE WILL BE NO GENERAL MEETING THIS MONTH THURSDAY NIGHT DINNER CLUB

There will be no Thursday Night Dinner in November and December. The Dinners will resume in 2015 if there is enough interest. SILVER

Friday, November 7, is the date for our Silver Gaels luncheon and card playing at 12:30 pm. All are welcome. Q Thank you everyone for the Mass cards and get well cards we received. Your good wishes helped in our speedy recovery! —Chris & Tony Sheehan

Annual Memorial Mass

to Honor Our Deceased Members of the United Irish Cultural Center

Have you seen this Sunday, November 23, 2014 smiling man, lately? Tom, we miss you and your jokes. St. Francis Room ~ 10 am

— Your Friends Brunch to follow in the main dining room. Reservations are suggested UICC 415/661-2700

DEADLINE for DECEMBER 2014 BULLETIN is NOVEMBER 15 Please call the UICC with questions at 415/661-2700. If you have specific questions contact: Adrienne Verreos Falcon Associates Inc. • tel: 415/468-4130 • fax: 415/468-3549 • email: [email protected] NOVEMBER CALENDAR

■ NOVEMBER 1, SATURDAY Music at the Bar • Irish Marvels, Past and Present Study Group 2:00pm - 4:00pm ~ UICC Board Room Everyone welcome. For more information call Jo Coffey 415/585-6506 Saturday, November 1 or email: [email protected] Kevin Roche & Company ■ NOVEMBER 2, SUNDAY Saturday, November 15 • Poetry Workshop ~ 1pm Comhaltas Traditional Irish Dancing UICC Board Room Contact Sean Casey 415/668-0102 or [email protected] • Library Open House ~ 2pm - 4pm Save the Date!

th ■ NOVEMBER 11, TUESDAY December 6 • 49er Goal Rusher Booster Club Dinner ~ 6:00pm Rebel Cork Dinner Call Sue Hoffman for reservations 415/665-4483 December 7th ■ NOVEMBER 13, THURSDAY Comhaltas Christmas Ceili • IIPC Senior Mass & Luncheon ~ 12:15pm See Ad December 10th • Set Dancing Classes ~ 7:30pm - 9:30pm An Irish Christmas For info call Josephine Brogan 415/681-4803 ecember th ■ NOVEMBER 15, SATURDAY D 11 IIPC Active Retirees Mass & Lunch • Comhaltas West Region Convention 12 noon ~ St. Francis Room Member Appreciation Night For info call Josephine Brogan 415/681-4803 December 12th ■ NOVEMBER 16, SUNDAY LAOH, Div 1 Christmas Luncheon • S.F. Ladies Ancient Order of Hiberians Div 2 Ulster Christmas Party San Francisco Syle Fashion Show and Lunch 11am ~ no host cocktails Noon ~ Luncheon December 21st $55 per person/$15 child RSVP by November 10 2nd Annual Cookie Decorating Party Call Pam Naughton 415/566-1936 Community Christmas Party ■ NOVEMBER 20, THURSDAY with the IIPC and the GAA • Set Dancing Classes ~ 7:30pm - 9:30pm For info call Josephine Brogan 415/681-4803 ■ NOVEMBER 23, SUNDAY ■ NOVEMBER 27, THURSDAY • Annual Deceased Members Mass - 10:00am • Happy Thanksgiving! St Patrick’s Room Come & Enjoy Our • Irish Literary & Historical Society Traditional Thanksgiving Dinner 4:30pm ~ St Francis Room Make your reservations early. 415/661-2700 Dr. Matt Spangler, an award -winning playwright and theatre director, who will speak on the topic “Staging ■ NOVEMBER 28, FRIDAY Intercultural Ireland: Theatre and Inward Migration” • UICC will be closed. All business resumes ILHS Members free - Visitors $5 www.ILHSSF.org on Saturday, November 29.

MEMBERSHIP CORNER

Irish Prayer of Thanksgiving May you live a long life, Full of gladness and health, With a pocket full of gold, As the least of your wealth.

May the dreams you hold dearest, Be those which come true, The kindness you spread, ONE NIGHT ONLY! Keep returning to you. —Unknown Happy Thanksgiving to all.

Welcome to our NEW Members: Sean Cleary, Frank Dunnigan, James Ferrell, Sharon Johnson, Patricia Madigan, Margaret Overbay, Keith Poulsen, Conor Tucker

Welcome to our new Transfer Members: Moira Casey, Pena Coen, Ryan Gavney, and Michael Panion

Condolences to the Family and Friends of our Deceased Members: Michael Breen, Mary Coen, Jeremiah (Jerry) K Cronin, Anne Marie Duffy, Joanne Fitzpatrick, Sr Jacqueline Golden, Joseph Hession, Joan Lagan, Jeanmarie (Jeannie) Maher, Warren Maloney, Cecilia Mateik, William (Bill) McDonagh, Eugene McMahon, Maureen O’Malley, Nancy Roddick, John (Jack) Ward

****************************************************************** IMPORTANT NOTICE: Deceased Members Mass will be on November 23 at 10am.

****************************************************************** MEMBER NEWS Please tell us about your holiday and/or vacation adventures, special events or what’s on your mind. Send/share Member news items or comments for inclusion in the Membership Corner of the monthly UICC newsletter by sending them to the attention of MEMBERSHIP at UICC or e-mail news to: [email protected]

Please make any comments or corrections regarding information in this Membership Section to the UICC Membership Committee at [email protected] PATRICK J. DOWLING LIBRARY NEWS

TREASURES OF THE PATRICK J. DOWLING LIBRARY

“ you never know what you are going to find when you go through the collection of books at the library” —Pat D’Arcy

A few months ago long time volunteer, Pat D’Arcy, was sorting through some books at the library when she came upon an anthology of stories about the Bantry Bay area, It Might Have Been But Yesterday. I am not even sure why she was looking through those books since she usually catalogs books, but fortunately she did since it contains stories about her uncle, Michael Walsh, and her first cousins, Frank, Vinnie, and Noel who are still alive and residing in Bantry. The anthology chronicles the story of how her uncle was involved in the transportation of petrol that had come aground in Bantry Bay when a military ship had been torpedoed during WWI and how the petrol was used by Sinn Fein to drive voters to polling places and another story about her cousins involvement with a handball court/ social club. Pat related the stories to her Bantry cousins on Facebook, who told her to keep sending more stories. Kind of fun how the stories came to San Francisco from Bantry in the form of this little anthology and back to Bantry via Facebook.

LIBRARY OPEN HOUSE

EVERYONE WITH AN INTEREST IN OUR WONDERFUL LIBRARY IS CORDIALLY INVITED TO OUR OPEN HOUSE

Featuring the renovations and new additions to the collection

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2 FROM 2PM TO 4PM

Drop by for a cup of tea and check out the library’s new look

Law Offices of DINING ROOM Jack Riordan ­— LUNCH­ — Kerry Riordan Sykes* THURSDAY - FRIDAY Maureen S. McFadden* 11:30AM TO 2PM *Certified Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust & Probate Law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization ­— DINNER from 5PM — 377 West Portal Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94127 THURSDAY - SUNDAY (415) 661-9050

Free Initial Consultation — SUNDAY BRUNCH — 10AM TO 2PM Brennan & Associates q q Insurance Brokers PRIX-FIXE DINNER MENU License No. 0649629 $20 FOR MEMBERS Thomas J. Brennan $21 FOR NON-MEMBERS Business Insurance Specialists Thursday and Sunday evenings 800-826-5550

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“Our Family Serving Yours” Terence A Redmond Attorney at Law Celebrations of Life A Native San Franciscan Serving San Franciscans for 37 years

PERSONAL INJURY PROFESSIONAL NEGLIGENCE Please contact our Pre-Planning Department for your FREE Personal Planning Guide FAMILY LAW q CRIMINAL DEFENSE Duggan’s Serra Mortuary, Daly City FD1098 IMMIGRATION LAW 415/587-4500 650/756-4500 Financing is available - call now Sullivan’s Funeral Home & Cremation Svcs FD 228 415/621-4567 www.duggansserra.com (415) 395-9000

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“… The capacity crowd nearly brought the house down at the end of the evening.” (The Village News)

An Irish Christmas brings just about everything to the table – joy, hope, laughter, friendship, celebration, of life through storytelling, music, song, and dance in a night that sparkles with life and a bit of ‘magic!’ Dancers dance through the generations over brooms, on half doors, around butter churns, into the world of mythology and out again. Songs spinning out of the mists and into the familiar Silent Night, Little Drummer Boy and Carol of the Bells, and superb music of the pipes, flutes, fiddles, button accordion and bodhráns are just the beginning of this great Irish night! You can be sure of a rip-roaring celebration of Christmas from the heart of glorious Ireland with a superb team of Irish traditional musicians, dancers from the Kerry Dance Troupe led by Ciaran Maguire (Magic of the Dance), the Kerry Records voice squad, and Irish actor Sheelagh Cullen. We will journey through Christmas in Ireland and celebrate the great tradition of butter making, chase the wren on St. Stephen’s day, draw down the half door for spectacular dance, enjoy superb music-making, singing of Christmas carols and great storytelling in an unforgettable Irish night. Irish folk theatre at its best! So come and refresh your spirit, dust off the cares of the world and dance home with a smile in your heart as this joyful night brings you to a wonderful Ireland that echoes so forcefully in millions of hearts throughout the world. You can be certain of a GREAT IRISH WELCOME!

Wednesday, December 10th at 7:00 PM Early bird tickets before Nov. 30th are $30, after $35 Kids $5

Tickets available at UICC bar OR online at https://sfirishcenter.vbotickets.com/events For information call 415/860-1854

Sponsored by Jump Into Ireland 32/50 CLUB The 32/50 Drawings #1 The winning combination was New Hampshire & Antrim held by Christine Smith for $550 32/50 Club Pat Cunningham Theresa Kavanagh Randy Weaver 32/50 Club John/Margaret Duffy RoseMary Kennedy Robert M. Twomey 32/50 Club John/Anne Fallon Patrick Loftus James Sullivan 32/50 Club David Fontana Rosemary Loughman Brendan Stone 32/50 Club Eileen French Guevara McAuliffe Family Katherine Scanlon* John Bernie John Hallisy Kevin McCarthy Joseph O’Leary/Teresa Moore* Bridget Byrne Kevin Hartnett Peggy Mylett* Mitzi Samson/Margaret Gavney* Mary F./Patricia Crowley Patricia Hegarty John S. O’Keeffe

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The 32/50 Drawings #3 The winning combination was Georgia & Roscommon held by Mary M. O’Leary for $550 Finnuala Campbell Margaret Gavney* Bridget O’Boyle Brendan Ward Brian Cassidy Judith Holm Mary Rose O’Connor Henry Washauer Rebel Cork Ladies Assoc. Paula Knutson Brendan O’Connor Joseph O’Leary.Teresa Moore* Mary Cronin Leng Choi Lau Claire Settles DonnaJean McCarthy Carter Karen Fitzgerald Joan McClain Shawn Singelton Kathleen/Seamus Manning Rosaleen Flynn Teresa McDonagh Dorothy A. Sorenson Patricia Lodge/John O’Keeffe John Gallagher Jim/Cathie Mullan Margaret O’Neill Sean Cunningham/Leonard Wm. Roger Gargano Peggy/Joey Nevin* Steven Shaw Congratulations to all the $100 Winners * Received an additional $50 for being present For more information about the 32/50 Club please leave a message for the 32/50 Committee at (415) 661- 2700, ext. 305. Time to RENEW - SUBSCRIBE 2015 UICC BULLETIN TO RECEIVE THE UICC BULLETIN for 2015 PLEASE FILL OUT AND RETURN THIS FORM ALONG WITH A CHECK IN THE AMOUNT OF $27.00 p NEW p RENEWAL p CHANGE of ADDRESS Your subscription period is January 2015 through December 2015 Thank You For Your Support

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There will be no General Meeting this month.

COME JOIN US AT YOUR CENTER TO CELEBRATE THANKSGIVING!

Call for reservations 415-661-2700

Seatings at 4pm and 6pm