Irish Seattle News
Dé hAoine, 13 Lúnasa 2021 Friday, August 13
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Irish Community Picnic
Join us Sunday, August 22, 1:30 - 4:30 pm, at the Irish Community Picnic at Crestwoods Park, 1818 6th St, Kirkland.
Special Guest:
Irish Consul General Robert O'Driscoll
Admission is free and all are welcome to enjoy the socializing, with games and fun for the entire family, but do please register at eventbrite.com. Free picnic food will be provided but bring your own beverages and a dessert to be shared. No alcohol and no charcoal BBQs. The games start at 2:30 pm - tug-o-war, sack-races, water balloon toss, etc. If you are not vaccinated, please wear a mask! More details at eventbrite.com.
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Are you coming to the Irish Picnic?
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LOCATION
Crestwoods Park, 1818 6th St, Kirkland
DATE AND TIME
08/22/21 1:30pm
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08/22/21 4:30pm
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Irish Consul General Robert O'Driscoll
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The Consul General of Ireland in San Francisco, Robert O'Driscoll, will be in Seattle for the first time since late 2019 and is eager for opportunities to meet members of Seattle's Irish Community. He will attend the Irish Community Picnic on Sunday, August 22, and also has meetings scheduled in Seattle and Olympia. Before returning to San Francisco, on Tuesday, August 24 he will travel to Coupeville on Whidbey Island to meet members of the Oak Harbor Irish Wildlife Society and members of that area's Irish community, and also to see the Irish language Maylor Headstone in Sunnyside Cemetery.
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Consul General O'Driscoll will be one of the speakers at the National Nordic Museum in Ballard on Saturday, August 21, at 11 am. The occasion is the unveiling of a new Labyrinth, and the form is closely related to those found inscribed in Ireland (e.g., the Hollywood Stone of Glendalough). The Consul General will speak about the connections between Ireland and Scandinavia and the public is invited. Register for free at nordicmuseum.org.
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IRISH NIGHT AT THE MARINERS |
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Irish Night at the Seattle Mariners is Tuesday, September 14, vs. the Boston Red Sox. Pre-game ceremonies include performances by the Seattle Police Pipes and Drums and the Tara Academy Irish Dancers! Reduced price tickets at mariners.com/Irish and include an Irish Night Mariners Cap. Win free tickets to Irish Heritage Night by going to IrelandinSF on Instagram to find out how to enter. Two winners will be chosen on Sept 1, each getting 2 tickets!
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HAVE YOU TAKEN THE IRISH SURVEY? |
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Win two round-trip tickets to Ireland by completing our Irish Survey. To qualify for the tickets draw, 13 questions must be answered and contact information provided. Limited to adult residents of Washington State and to one response per person. Deadline is September 1, 2021.
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CONGRATS – to Joe Martin, the conscience of Irish Seattle who co-founded the homeless rescue Downtown Emergency Service Center and the Pike Market Medical Clinic, and who retired recently "after nearly 45 years of helping downtown’s wandering and wounded.” Born in Boston and related to Brendan Behan, "Martin is a 5-foot Irish dynamo and proud commoner (a favorite quote: 'If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at who he gives it to'). Joe was Honorary Grand Marshal of Seattle's St. Patrick's Day Parade in 2008.
CONGRATS 2 - to Co. Laois native Fr. Bill Treacy on his 102nd Birthday in May. Fr. Bill lives at the former Camp Brotherhood in Mount Vernon. Still hale and hearty, he came to the Seattle area in 1944, traveling on a US Troop ship towards the end of WW-II. Míle Beannachtaí – A Thousand Blessings.
CONGRATS 3 – to Mick McHugh, former proprietor of F X McRory's, the Irish Pub & Restaurant in Pioneer Square, who next month opens the 32 Bar & Grill at Northgate overlooking the Seattle Kraken ice hockey team's new Training Center and its three ice rinks.
CONGRATS 4 - to our own Casey McNerthney and his bride Laird Nelson who married at Snoqualmie Falls on March 5. A former Honorary Grand Marshal of Seattle's St. Patrick's Day Parade, Casey is also the great-grandson of Lily Kempson McAlerney, the last surviving 1916 Easter Rising combatant who died in Seattle in 1996, aged 99.
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BIG IRISH CAMPFIRE - New York's Irish Echo newspaper is hosting the 2nd annual Big Irish Campfire showcase, spotlighting Irish American organizations across the US in an attempt to provide the most comprehensive picture to date of the scale and scope of the Irish-American community. The showcase will be a permanent online celebration of Irish America and will also appear in the print and digital versions of the Irish Echo. Representing the Irish Heritage Club in New York will be IHC Treasurer and Membership Secretary, Caron McMahon - click and scroll down to read Caron’s bio.
FAMINE EXHIBIT - Seattle's own Irish artist Paula Stokes has unveiled her ‘1845: ‘Memento Mori’ installation at Johnstown Castle Estate, Museum & Gardens in Co. Wexford. The Famine Memorial consists of 1845 hand-blown glass potatoes with the number referencing the first year of the Famine, 1845. The installation opened in Seattle in October, 2019.
ANTI-ASIAN AGITATION - The 1886 anti-Chinese riot in Seattle saw Seattle mobs, some of whose leaders were Irish, engage in anti-Chinese violence. Judge Thomas Burke, the son of Irish immigrants, stood between the angry mob and their would-be victims with a shotgun, appealing to them "as a fellow Irishman", telling them that they should respect the law “unlike the hooligans of Tacoma!” The Burke Museum and the Burke Gilman Trail honor his memory.
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In case you missed our online celebration of St. Patrick’s Day in Seattle, our Irish Week 2021 presentations can still be viewed on YouTube at IrishWeek.org. Watch a sampling of Irish culture and traditions with exhibitions and classes on making Irish Soda Bread, Irish music and dance, Irish history, poetry and genealogy, and information on the Irish games of Hurling, Camogie and Gaelic Football.
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COVID VACCINES - Experts say there’s enthusiasm for the coronavirus vaccine in Ireland because the highly educated population puts its trust in institutions, because of transparency from the medical and scientific communities, and the fact that there’s healthy debate at every stage of the rollout. Over 75% of the Irish population over-16 are vaccinated, 88% have received at least one dose, and the Irish government is confident that 90% will be fully vaccinated by September. The vaccine is also now being made available to 12–15-year-olds.
COVID COMPONENT - Pfizer, the pharmaceutical manufacturer, has started using its west Dublin facility as part of its Covid-19 supply chain. The company will manufacture a component of the vaccine, an mRNA substance, at its Grange Castle site by the end of 2021. In a statement, the company said: “Pfizer is now bringing on additional European-based facilities to be a part of the global Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine supply chain network and Grange Castle (Ireland) will contribute to the worldwide supply of the vaccine.” As a result of the move, Pfizer will invest $40 million in its Dublin site and create 75 jobs there.
OXFORD VACCINE - Oxford University's Jenner Institute, which developed the Oxford / AstraZeneca vaccine, is directed by Professor Adrian Hill, a Dubliner who previously taught at Trinity College, Dublin. This year they hope to produce five billion doses of a $3 vaccine that low income countries can afford to buy in large quantities. Hill was inspired to work on finding cures for malaria and other tropical diseases by an uncle who was a Catholic priest in Zimbabwe.
UNICEF DONATIONS - Irish citizens and businesses have so far donated more than one million Covid-19 vaccines to poorer countries through Unicef Ireland’s Get a Vaccine, Give a Vaccine campaign which has raised more than €2.5 million since launched in June. The appeal invites those who have been vaccinated to donate the cost of vaccines to people in poorer nations. A $5.30 donation covers the cost of two doses of vaccine.
GAA & COVID - A Covid outbreak in the Tyrone Gaelic football team forced a postponement of their All-Ireland semi-final against Kerry scheduled for this Sunday. The game has been rescheduled to Saturday, August 21, with the Football All-Ireland final being re-arranged to take place on Saturday September 4.
EMULATE THE IRISH - A report by the UK’s leading foreign policy thinktank says Irish diplomats in Washington DC won the battle on Brexit in the US by being “highly proactive” with politicians and emigrant groups. The report entitled “A Washington Strategy for British Diplomacy” concludes that British diplomats in the US should copy the tactics of the Irish, and says Ireland and Israel have successfully navigated Congress while the UK has underperformed both.
FIRST WOMAN - Galway woman Maureen O’Brien has become the first female appointed to the second highest rank in Ireland’s Defence Forces, being promoted to Major General. She is also being sent to the UN Headquarters in New York to serve as one of two military advisors to the UN secretary general on peacekeeping operations. With her promotion to major general, she is junior only to the chief of staff. She had served most recently as Deputy Force Commander in the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force.
MECHANICAL TREES - Carbon Collect Inc., based in Dublin, aims to combat climate change with carbon-eating mechanical trees. The Mechanical Tree can remove CO2 from the atmosphere without needing to draw air through the system using energy-intensive devices. Instead, the technology efficiently captures carbon as wind blows air through the system from any direction. This makes it a passive, relatively low-cost and scalable solution.
AIRCRAFT LEASING - AerCap, the Irish aircraft leasing company, is purchasing General Electric’s Capital Aviation Services. Already the world's largest aircraft leasing company, once the deal has been approved AerCap will own or manage almost 3,000 aircraft of different sizes, making it easily Boeing's largest customer.
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GROWING ECONOMY - The Irish economy is forecast to grow 7.2% this year and by another 5.1% in 2022, according to a new European Commission report. In its summer 2021 economic forecast, the commission has revised up its Irish GDP growth expectation sharply from 4.6% for this year due to a stronger-than-expected first quarter performance. Last year, the economy grew by 3.4% despite the Covid crisis.
GDP FORECAST - Davy stockbrokers has revised upwards its forecast for Ireland's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth this year to 10%, from a previous forecast of 4.8%. It said a clear rapid bounce-back has taken place in the third quarter as Ireland's Covid-19 vaccination program has allowed business restrictions to be lifted, with further easing expected to come in the second half of the year.
BOOMING HIGH STREET - All the available data suggests that Irish consumers are flooding back to high street with gusto after nearly five months under the highest level of Covid-19 restrictions. The Banking and Payments Federation of Ireland released figures showing the value of contactless payments alone stood at €1 billion in May. Consumers made more than two million contactless payments a day over the course of the month, the highest daily level of activity observed since the Federation began monitoring transactions in 2016. That's good news for businesses in general and for the government's tax receipts.
12.5% TAX - In his role as Eurogroup president, Ireland’s Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe recently met with US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in Brussels amid intense international pressure from the US and Europe to remove Irish objections to the global tax reform proposals agreed at the OECD. The Biden administration is the main driving force behind the reforms, which is trying to get 130 countries — or 139 if Ireland, Estonia, Hungary and six other 'low or no' business tax countries back the deal — adopt a minimum 15% rate of corporation tax.
TAX RATE - Ireland's Finance minister says the OECD agreement as it stands does not have the detail Ireland needs. Ireland's 12.5% tax rate has helped the country attract multinationals including Google and Facebook, which have their European headquarters there, and pharmaceutical firms such as Pfizer. US companies employ 150,000 people in Ireland, but at the same time there are more than 100,000 people employed by Irish companies in the US.
MORE TAX RATE - The Seattle Times: "Multinationals have invested billions in Ireland precisely because successive Irish governments have provided tax certainty. ... But with most of the world now backing a 15% global corporate tax, Ireland is likely to relent at the end of the day, provided it wrests concessions from bigger countries to help keep a competitive edge."
“STRONG” INVESTMENT - The IDA, the agency responsible for attracting foreign companies to Ireland, announced that inward investment is returning to "strong" pre-pandemic patterns. Ireland's "stable and competitive" tax base is one of the main reasons for this, the agency said, helping it to pull in 142 investments in the first half of 2021 with the potential to create in excess of 12,500 jobs.
HOUSING SHORTAGE - Ireland will need to build more than 200,0000 homes over the next three years to meet housing demand. The buildings will be needed to keep up with population growth, as the number of people in Ireland has increased by 240,000. There will be an additional demand for 30,000 new housing units every year as older units become obsolete.
ROVER MICROCHIPS - Some 263 million kilometres distant from Earth, tiny microchips designed and manufactured in Limerick are helping to power the Perseverance Rover as it wanders about Mars, gathering vital information about conditions on the red planet. As the silicon wafers are now fundamental to so many industries, Ireland stands to benefit from what has quietly become its fourth-largest export.
ELECTRIC VEHICLES - New rules in Ireland require electric vehicle charging stations in all new apartment complexes with more than 10 spaces. It is part of the government’s plan to boost the number of electric cars on the road to one million by the end of this decade.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE - "In a major review of Ireland’s environmental performance over the past decade, the OECD found environmental pressures remain too closely linked to strong economic growth." Among the issues highlighted by the report are "high water losses, hot spots of low drinking water quality and inadequate wastewater treatment."
LEPRECHAUN SLUR - Irish Ambassador to the US, Danial Mulhall, has criticized New York Times columnist Paul Krugman for his use of the term “leprechaun” when referring to Ireland, calling it "an unacceptable slur.” He added, “I do not go along with Mr Krugman’s disingenuous excuse that ‘the Irish have a sense of humour’ about his attacks on us.” Krugman's column is also carried in the Seattle Times.
NY’S IRISH GOVERNOR - Kathleen Courtney Hochul, 62, the Irish American Lieutenant Governor of New York, will make history by becoming New York’s first female governor when Andrew Cuomo resigns. Hochul is very proud of her Irish roots which trace to Dingle, Co. Kerry, and claims to be the highest ranked Irish American in New York state government. She grew up in an Irish neighborhood in South Buffalo and her grandparents helped found the Buffalo Irish Center.
KERRY ANTENNAE - Elon Musk, the Tesla chief executive, has selected a remote rural location in Co. Kerry to locate antennae as part of his Starlink internet project. The pilot project will roll out in a valley in the MacGillycuddy’s Reeks near Killarney. Tech billionaire Musk is deploying satellites into space to provide cheap and fast broadband connections for remote rural locations.
FAUCI HONOR - Dr. Anthony FaucI was presented Honorary Fellowship, the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland's highest honor, in recognition of his decades-long contribution to medical science and public health.
IRISH PASSPORTS - The Irish passport is ranked sixth in the world, ahead of the US and the UK, providing visa-free access to 186 foreign countries. To see if you qualify for an Irish passport, visit irishconsulseattle.com.
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GULLIVER’S MOVING STATUE - A programmable 10-story-tall moving statue includes LED pixels so it can transform into different famous figures and even fictional superheroes. Constructed on a base housing a high-tech exhibition, it's the brainchild of an entrepreneur living in Rosemount, Co. Westmeath, and is inspired by the children's novel Gulliver's Travels. The Enterprise Ireland-backed project aims to reach 21 cities around the world in 2021.
CANAL GREENWAY - With the completion of the 80 mile long Royal Canal Greenway, you can now walk or cycle along the canal's footpath, or boat or paddle on the canal itself, from Maynooth, Co. Kildare to Clondra, Co. Longford, while passing through counties Meath and Westmeath. Originally opened in 1817 as a working canal transporting goods on barges pulled by horses walking along the footpath, the greenway has 90 bridges, 33 locks, 17 harbors and four aqueducts.
MITCHELL SCHOLARS – The George J. Mitchell Scholarship Program is a national, competitive scholarship sponsored by the US-Ireland Alliance where twelve Scholars between the ages of 18 and 30 are chosen annually for one academic year of postgraduate study in any discipline offered by an institution of higher learning in Ireland or Northern Ireland. More info at forbes.com.
NEW IRISH AMBASSADOR - Ireland’s current Ambassador to the United Nations, Geraldine Byrne Nason, will remain at the UN for one more year before moving to Washington DC in 2022 to replace Dan Mulhall as Ambassador of Ireland to the US. Nason’s husband, retired ambassador Brian Nason, previously served in the 1990s as Consul General of Ireland in San Francisco and visited Seattle several times in that role.
NEW US AMBASSADOR - Claire Cronin, Majority Leader in the Massachusetts state legislature, is President Biden's nominee to be US Ambassador to Ireland. When confirmed, she will be the third woman to serve as Ambassador in the Dublin Embassy after Margaret Heckler and Jean Kennedy Smith.
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OLYMPIC MEDALS - Ireland won four medals in the recent Olympics, two gold and two bronze. The first ever official Irish gold medal was won in 1928 by Dr Pat O’Callaghan at the Amsterdam Olympics. The podium presentation was particularly emotional as it was the first time the Irish Tricolor was raised and the first time Ireland’s National Anthem, Amhrán na bhFiann, was played at an Olympic Games as previous Irish winners were required to represent Great Britain.
HK GOLD - Siobhan Haughey won a silver medal for Hong Kong in the women’s 200m freestyle swimming final at the Tokyo Olympics, a first ever medal for the Chinese territory in Olympic swimming history. The 23-year-old medalist was born in Hong Kong to a Chinese mother and an Irish father, and is a grand-niece of the late Charlie Haughey, a former Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister).
OLYMPICS PROTEST - The first ever Olympics protest was by an Irishman at the 1906 Olympics in Athens. During the medal ceremony, Peter O’Connor climbed the 20-foot flagpole while his compatriots stood guard below, and he replaced the British flag with a large green one embroidered with a harp & shamrock and the words “Erin Go Bragh.” O’Connor's protest drew attention to British injustices in Ireland and generated huge media coverage in Britain and the US.
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DARK-SKINNED IRISH - Based on a genetic database of ancient Irish genomes from all periods of pre-history, the people who lived in Ireland 10,000 years ago were dark skinned and had blue eyes – a combination rarely seen today. They inhabited the island for 4,000 years before being replaced by settled farmers.
HISTORIC IRELAND - A Historic Environment Viewer is a new free-to-use digital search facility service providing seamless access to the records of the National Monuments Service "Sites and Monuments Record" (SMR) and the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. There are more than 150,800 records in the SMR database and over 138,800 of these relate to archaeological monuments. The architectural heritage records encompass a wide variety of structures and sites as diverse as old postboxes, grand country houses, mill complexes and vernacular farmhouses. The viewer is capable of being accessed on most browsers and platforms, including smartphones.
GALLOWGLASS DISCOVERY - Members of the Offaly Sub Aqua Club, on training exercises in the murky waters of the River Shannon over the past year, found three Bronze Age spears, six medieval swords, five Stone Age log boats, a 1,000-year-old Irish spear, and a 13th century Gallowglass helmet. The word Gallowglass comes from the Irish ‘gall óglaigh’ meaning foreign warriors.
UNKNOWN CAIRN - A previously unknown cairn, a man-made mound of rough stones built in ancient times as a memorial or landmark, was discovered by amateur archeologists examining Google Earth imagery. The cairn was discovered on top of Coolnacarrick Hill in Co. Laois, in an area covered with scrub vegetation. Access to the site involved two to three hours “of cutting through nearly 100m of dense gorse, briars and other scrub”.
33,000 YEARS AGO - Chop marks consistent with butchering of a hind leg reindeer bone establishes human activity in Ireland 33,000 years ago, more than 20,000 years earlier than previously thought. Up to now the earliest evidence of human activity in Ireland was a butchered bear bone dated to be 12,500 years old.
ANCIENT TOMB - An ancient tomb dating to the Bronze Age (2000BC-500BC) or possibly earlier, has been discovered on the Dingle Peninsula in Co Kerry. The tomb appears to be completely untouched, in its original state, and contains human remains. It was reported by the famer who found it when carrying out reclamation work on his farm.
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CHANGING ASTRONOMY - A native of Lurgan, Co. Armagh, Jocelyn Bell Howell, as a Ph.D. student at Cambridge University assisting the astronomer Anthony Hewish, she discovered pulsars, the cosmic sources of peculiar radio pulses that altered our perception of the universe. In 1974, when a Nobel Prize in physics was awarded for the discovery of pulsars, Bell Burnell's adviser was one of the recipients, but Bell Burnell was not even mentioned.
RADIO LISTENING - Radio Garden, a free app, carries tens of thousands of radio stations from around the world including nearly every radio station in Ireland, broadcasting live 24 hours a day. For example, just click to listen live to Galway Bay FM.
HERITAGE FELLOW - Congrats to Joanie Madden, one of the most influential women in Irish music worldwide, who was recently announced as a 2021 NEA National Heritage Fellow. The Fellowships are issued to artists who are considered at the top of their craft and whose contributions are deeply treasured by their community and country. It is the top honor that a folk artist can receive in America with a nice $25,000 stipend to go with it. Joanie Madden | National Endowment for the Arts In 1985, the Bronx native first performed in Seattle as leader of Cherish the Ladies, the first all-female Irish traditional music group of its kind.
FUNICULAR RAILWAY - A funicular, like the cable railway at Diablo Dam in the North Cascades, is among new tourist attractions being built in Ireland. The funicular will bring tourists to Fort Dunree on the top of Dunree Hill on Co. Donegal's Inishowen Peninsula. The fort overlooks Lough Swilly and has one of the best collections of coast artillery guns in the world.
CHRISTMAS IS COMING - GOAL is an Irish-based international humanitarian response agency with over 2,500 staff in 13 countries in Africa, Latin America and the Middle East helping people whose lives and livelihoods have been shattered by conflict, disease and climate change. One of their largest fundraisers each year is the GOAL Mile at Christmas where people pledge to run a mile to raise funds. The concept is simple: promise to run, jog or walk a Mile whenever you can, and contribute whatever you can to GOAL.
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IRISH TRACK COACH - John McDonnell, a native of Co. Mayo who was the track and field coach at the University of Arkansas for 36 years, has died aged 82. Under him, the Razorbacks were a perennial power in cross-country and indoor and outdoor track and field, and his men’s teams won 40 NCAA championships, including six national triple crowns, 12 consecutive NCAA indoor titles from 1984-95 and 83 conference titles. McDonnell was a six-time All-American in cross-country and track and field at Southwestern Louisiana before turning to coaching.
BLOOMSDAY - James Joyce's Ulysses was not published in book form until 1922, but in 1918, a small American literary magazine published the opening episode. Between 1918 and 1920, the Little Review published 13 episodes and part of a 14th, although three times issues were seized and burned by order of the US Post Office! Watch the Bloomsday's staged reading from Ulysses by Seattle's Wilde Geese Players' on June 16.
DEER IMPACT - Visitors feeding the deer at Dublin's Phoenix Park is having a huge negative impact on the wild herd which currently numbers approximately 600 deer. A herd of deer was first introduced in Phoenix Park 350 years ago to be hunted for sport by the gentry of the day.
WHISKEY BARRELS - There are now 38 whiskey distilleries in Ireland, most of which mature the whiskey in some of the 250,000 barrels imported from Tennessee & Kentucky annually. Whiskey must be aged for at least three years in wooden casks in Ireland before it can be called Irish whiskey.
CASTLE GARDEN GENEALOGY - 25 years before the Irish Famine, in 1820, the US Congress passed a law requiring for the first time that the captain of each ship arriving at a US port must file a Passenger List with customs. Before Ellis Island opened in 1892, Castle Garden was the nation's first immigrant processing facility. The Castle Garden database now has a searchable database of eleven million records of immigrants who arrived in from 1820 – 1892, maybe a million or more of whom were Irish immigrants. The database can be searched for free on the Familysearch website.
FAMINE FACTS - Almost 4.5 million Canadians claim Irish descent. During the Irish famine, passage to Canada was less expensive than a passage to the US. In 1847, the Port of Québec became so overwhelmed with ships that vessels carrying over 14,000 Irish were forced to queue for days before landing. Because of the delayed entry, and worsened by disease and deplorable sanitary conditions on board, almost 5,000 Irish died. The cemetery on the island of Grosse-Ile, where the Quarantine Station was located, is the largest Irish burial site outside of Ireland.
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US travelers arriving into Ireland are no longer required to self-quarantine provided they have valid proof of vaccination or that they have recovered from Covid-19. See more details at Travel Information
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Bord Bia, the Irish Food Board, was ranked the most reputable organization operating in Ireland in a study published by the Reputations Agency
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An Post, the Irish Post Office, has increased the price of a postage stamp for a standard letter to €1.10 ($1.29
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For the first time in 429 years, Trinity College Dublin has a female leader with the election of Linda Doyle as provost, which means that women now head up four of Ireland's 10 universities.
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British novelist John le Carré was so disillusioned by Britain's Brexit vote to leave the EU in 2016 that he secured Irish citizenship shortly before he died last year
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Irish Whiskey sales have grown from 5 million cases in 2015 to 12 million cases in 2020 with further growth expected
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Google employs 8,000 people in the Republic of Ireland
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Irish renters pay on average more than 37% of their income on rent, the sixth highest proportion of income spent on rent in the world
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Microsoft Ireland employs more than 2,700 people operating out of the company’s campus in Leopardstown, Dublin and its data center in Dublin
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Irish passports are seen as ‘golden tickets’ by many British citizens, partly because they allow a person to skip the line at customs coming to and from EU countries
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An almost $6 million 16-acre solar energy farm has opened in near Kinsale, Co Cork, to produce 5.6 megawatts of electricity for Lilly, the pharmaceutical manufacturer
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Domino’s Pizzza will create another 350 jobs across Ireland as drivers, management and general team members adding to the company’s current 2,000 employees in 85 Irish stores
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Roscommon-based deDanú has navigated legal hurdles to produce a range of skin products using cannabidiol, a compound found in cannabis that does not produce a high
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A 10-year-old schoolboy from Co Cavan won €1,000 ($1,180) in a Credit Union member drawing which he then invested in six calves that's he's now rearing on the family farm
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Alex Collins, the Seattle Seahawks' third-down running back likes to show off his Irish dance moves in his touchdown celebrations
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A Road Trip through the Boyne Valley of Ireland Ancient’s East
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Tá sé mar a bheadh scadán i dtóin an bharraille
He’s like a salted herring from the bottom of a barrel (He’s sarcastic, hard to take!)
Sláinte! - To your good health!
John Keane
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Irish Heritage Club 2021 Membership |
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Míle buíochas, a thousand thanks to the volunteers who spend countless hours organizing and planning our various events and activities. We hope you will show your support of their efforts by making sure your membership in the Irish Heritage Club is current. Please go to IrishClub.org to renew your membership or to join.
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The Irish Heritage Club and its affiliated programs:
Ceol Cascadia Irish Music Association; Irish Network Seattle; Seattle Gaels Gaelic Football, Hurling & Camogie; Seattle Galway Sister City Association; Seattle Irish Immigrant Support; Irish Repertory Theatre; Tacoma Rangers Hurling & Gaelic Football; and Cascade Youth Gaelic Games.
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The Irish Heritage Club and its affiliated programs gratefully acknowledge the support of the Irish government through grants provided by the Irish Abroad Unit of the Department of Foreign Affairs. |
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The Irish Heritage Club gratefully acknowledges the support of Aer Lingus, Ireland's National Airline. |
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