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Ancient Order of Hibernians St Brendan The Navigator Feast Day May 16th Ancient Order of Hibernians St Brendan the Navigator Division Mecklenburg County Division # 2 ISSUE # 2 MONTHLY NEWSLETTER VOLUME# 7 February 2015 Our next business meeting is on Tuesday, February 10th at 7:30 PM St Mark’s Parish Center Rooms 200 & 201 2015 Officers Chaplain Father Paul McNulty President Dick Seymour Vice President Lee Madden Secretary Tom Dowd Treasurer Chris O’Keefe Fin. Secretary Ray FitzGerald Standing Committee Joe Dougherty Marshall Sean Ragan Sentinel Ron Haley Past President Ray FitzGereld www.aohmeck2.org Ní thuigeann an seach an seang. Translation: The well fed person doesn't understand the hungry one. President’s Message Brothers, The cold spells and snow storms have been creating chaos up in the North East. Thank God we are here in North Carolina. This gives new meaning to the phrase, “chill out.” Hopefully, you didn’t have any frozen or fractured pipes and your heating system is functioning. Things will begin to heat up for our Division as we approach St. Patrick’s Day. Our January social was held on January 29, 2015 at Safari Miles. We had approximately twenty five Brothers and wives in attendance and a great time were had by all. Our annual Hibernian Dinner & Show, in honor of St. Patrick will be held on Saturday evening, March 7th, beginning at 6:30pm. The evening will include a traditional Irish dinner, with chicken fingers for wee ones and for those who don’t’ eat corned beef. The entertainment will include Irish step dancers, a get up and dance Ceili, and an Irish sing-a-along, featuring musician-ventriloquist Brian Tiernan. The cost of the tickets will be the same as last year $25 for adults and $15 for children (12 and under). The net proceeds will be used to support Catholic education. Contact Ray FitzGerald (704-992-1702) or myself (704-960-4500), for tickets. With this price structure, we hope to see more of our members and their families at the Dinner & Show this year. If circumstances prevent you from being there, you can still support the event by selling tickets after the Masses and by encouraging family members and friends to purchase tickets. The Division will be selling tickets at St. Mark after the Masses on the weekends of February. 13th/14th and February 28th and March 1st. Contact Ray FitzGerald with the dates and Mass times at which you will be able to provide assistance. Also, on the night of the event, we will need Brothers to help with set up, clean up, manning the admissions and beverage table, selling raffle tickets, etc., even if you can’t make the show. A few other events related to St. Patrick’s Day: Saturday. March 14th is the annual Charlotte St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Irish Festival. As in the past we and our families will be marching with our Brother and Sister Hibernians. On the morning of Tuesday March 17th, we will be celebrating our annual St. Patrick’s Day Mass at Old St. Joseph’s Church in Mt. Holly. More details to follow. Balloting is now open for you to nominate a Division Brother for the “Hibernian of the Year” award. We will present the award at our April Social (April 23th). Voting closes at our March10th meeting. As in the past, the prior year’s winner (Frank Fay) and the current and past president are not eligible to be selected. Send me your nomination. While not Irish related, there is an upcoming event that you may find of interest. On Friday, Feb. 14th the Knights of Columbus at Holy Spirit Parish in Denver will be having a St Valentines dinner dance with live music if interested contact Ray FitzGerald. This will serve as our February social. The 2014 annual dues are now payable. Please bring $35 cash or check to our February meeting or contact our Financial Secretary, Ray FitzGerald, to coordinate the payment. Our next meeting will be Tuesday, Feb. 10th at 7:30pm in Room 200 of the St. Mark Family Life Center. St. Brendan the Navigator, pray for us! Dick Seymour St. Brendan the Navigator AOH Proudly Presents Our 2015 Hibernian Dinner & Show St. Patrick Celebration When: Saturday, March 7, 2015 6:30pm to 10:00pm Where: St. Mark Catholic Church Msgr. Kerin Family Center 14740 Stumptown Road Huntersville, NC 28078 Musician/Ventriloquist BRIAN TIERNAN’s dynamic guitar/banjo playing traditional lively, family-friendly, sing-a- long, songs followed by a set with the RINCE NA H’EIREANN School of Traditional Irish Step Dancers. Tis a grand time you’ll be having when you join us at this year’s St. Patrick’s Day Celebration. Tickets: $25.00 per Adult $15.00 Children 12 and Under For Reservations: e-mail: [email protected] or contact: Ray FitzGerald at (704) 992-1702 Dick Seymour at (704) 960-4500 Ticket Includes: Entertainment, Irish Dinner, Dessert and Coffee Beer/Wine Cash Bar *50/50* Raffle Prizes *PLEASE PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS BY MARCH 2, 2015* *NET PROCEEDS WILL SUPPORT CATHOLIC EDUCATION* February Birthdays Steve Witmer Division Brother February 1st Marguerite Dowd Daughter of Brother Tom February 1st Bev Leahy Wife of Brother Ted February 2nd Jim Mann Son of Brother Gene February 2nd Richard Clancey Division Brother February 5th Becky Rosintoski Wife of Brother Larry February 5th Sam Smith Son of Brother Ray February 11th Shane Connelly Son of Brother Brian February 13th Angeles Murphy Wife of Brother Bob February 14th Mark Brady Division Brother February 17th Catherine Knox Daughter of Brother Tom February 19th Molly Leahy Daughter of Brother Ted February 20th Denny Golden Division Brother February 24th J.Lauren Rosintoski Son of Brother Larry February 26th Ryan Stephan Son of Brother Scott February 29th February Anniversaries Cassie & Ed Albertson February 2nd “Cuimhnigi ar na daoine ar thainig sibh” “Remember the people from whom you came” Division Calendar of Events for February 2015 February 7th, 2015 NC State Board Meeting in Greensboro February 10, 2015 Division Business Meeting St Mark’s 7:30PM On Friday, Feb. 14th the Knights of Columbus at Holy Spirit Parish in Denver will be having a St Valentines dinner dance with live music if interested contact Ray FitzGerald. This will serve as our February social. Mother of seven making fringes for knitted shawls, Two fishermen and a boy, An Spidéal, Galway, Ireland, 31 May 1913 Galway, Ireland, 29 May,1913 Irish America News Applications open for funding of US citizens to study in Ireland Applications are now open for the 2015 Summer Gaeltacht Awards with a deadline of February 27. These awards, now in their fifth year, offer US citizens an immersion experience in Ireland, where successful candidates will spend two to six weeks studying Irish in the Gaeltachtaί (Irish- speaking regions). The courses not only offer language learning, but excursions, traditional Irish music, and storytelling in some of Ireland’s most picturesque locations. Grants include tuition / fees as well as room (based on sharing) and board. Successful applicants must pay their own travel and living costs. Applications are open to United States citizens who are learners and teachers of the Irish language and currently living or working in the US. To be eligible, applicants must be enrolled in an Irish language course in the US, have completed at least one year of Irish language instruction, or have been teaching the Irish language in the US for more than one year. They must also be able to participate in a program in its entirety (2-6 consecutive weeks during summer 2015). Please note that these are not Fulbright Awards, but grants from the Ireland-United States Commission for Education Exchange, supported by the Department of Arts, Heritage, and the Gaeltacht and the National Lottery of Ireland. Visit www.fulbright.ie/gaeltacht-summer-award for full information and application details. News from Ireland Amazing facts about the Irish dance phenomenon "Riverdance" It’s now 21 years since “Riverdance” debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin, in 1994. Now celebrating it’s success with the “Riverdance – The 20th Anniversary World Tour” we decided to take a look at the figures behind the worldwide Irish dance success. - There have been 11,000 performances of “Riverdance” - It has been seen by over 25 million people in over 465 venues worldwide - Its played in 46 countries across six continents - The show has travelled 700,000 miles (or to the moon and back and back again!) - Its played to a global television audience of 3 billion people - The Grammy Award-winning CD has sold over 3 million copies - The DVD has sold over 10 million There have been... - 1,500 Irish dancers - 14,000 dance shoes used - 12,000 costumes worn - 200,000 gallons of water consumed - 60,000 gallons of gatorade consumed - 1,650,000 show programmes sold - 1,500 flight cases used - 12,000 stage lighting bulbs used - 40,000 boxes of tissues used - 16,250 guitar, bass and fiddle strings replaced - 284,000 t-shirts sold - 39 marriages between company members - 20,000 cumulative years of study in step-dancing by Irish dancers - 45,000 rolls of self-grip tape used by company physiotherapists - 15,000 hours of rehearsals on tour - 5,500,000 pounds of dry ice used on stage - 60,000 pounds of chocolate consumed (for energy!) by the cast Some background: The interval show at the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest featured Irish dance champions Jean Butler and Michael Flatley as the leads, along with accompaniment by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and the Celtic choral group Anúna.
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