Tribute to Irish-Americans We Lost on 9/11

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/A-tribute-to-those-Irish-Americans-we-lost-on-911-102612189.html

Thanks Irish Central.....

9/11 Remembrance

http://glassthreequartersfull.blogspot.com/

Bronx Irish

Rest in Peace - Cousin Peter O'Donnell

I met my Cousin Peter O'Donnell @ my family's reunion in Foxford Ireland on St. Patrick's Day 2008. It was his first visit to Ireland and also my first visit. We spent so time together and he told me he wished he had visited ireland before then and that echoed my sentiments. i liked Peter and was blessed to have met him. I just wished him a happy birthday a week ago on FB. So today when i discovered his tragic and untimely death I felt shocked. Peter will be missed dearly by his family and friends.

Rest in Peace Cousin Peter. I am blessed to have met and spent time with you.

How Gaelic influenced New York Slang

http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/the_keane_edge/dirty-irish-gaelic-words-litter-new-york-city-slang----how-a-lot-of-american-words-for-vice-come-from-irish-88839767.html

Courtesy of irish Central

Song For Ireland

St. Patrick's Day Music

Happy St Patrick's Day

Happy Saint Patrick's Day 2010

I have very fond memories of going to the St Patrick's Parade in New York every year with my mother Ann when I was a kid living in the Bronx. Two years ago I spent St Patrick's Day in Foxford Ireland at a very special reunion of my family. It was my first time in Ireland and very magical. A few months before, my cousin Sharon in the UK found us through the Internet and reunited us with our family that we never thought we would ever find. A St Patrick Day miracle. So here's to my newly discovered and large family.
I now have family in Ireland, England, Germany, Australia, Canada, and here in the USA.
So on this St Patrick's Day....Up the "O'Donnell's, Duffy's, Gavin's, Burton's, Cassini's, Quinn's, Prescott's, Foran's and Up the Irish
and Slainte........

A Saint Patrick's Day Message From Ireland: Thank You America

A story from Irish Central.....

Then, I saw a mirage. There, in the middle of downtown Manhattan, was a springtime Irish hillside, complete with a tumbledown stone cottage, bracken and grasses. The purple foxgloves were even in flower, just as at our own Irish farmhouse, which we had left only the day before. Glass skyscrapers towered incongruously on either side. I approached cautiously. Was this surreal hallucination the effect of jet lag, or maybe an after-effect of last night's beers?

My tentative hand met cold stone, confirming that it was real: In the middle of Manhattan, there is a tiny park, the Irish Hunger Memorial. A ruined emigrant's cottage transported from County Mayo stands amid wildflowers and stones from each county of Ireland. Carved in black marble are texts that vividly describe the Great Famine of 1847 and the exodus that followed. As many as one and a half million died, and two million more fled the worst apocalypse of 19th century Europe. Here, on these very quaysides in New York City, many found shelter......


http://www.irishcentral.com/saint_patricks_day/A-Saint-Patricks-Day-message-from-Ireland-Thank-you-America-87722357.html

Big Apple Irish Dance Feis - New York, New York March 12 & 13, 2010

Check out upcoming Irish Dance Feis - New Yorj

http://www.bigapplefeis.com/

Keltic Dancing - A Bronx Dream

Here's a great story....



http://www.irishcentral.com/ent/-Bronx-fairytale-as-Obama-invites-Irish-dancers-Keltic-Dreams-to-White-House-for-St-Patricks-Day-84714332.html

U2, Sinead O'Connor, Chieftains in new PBS documentary

CHIEFTAINS

http://url4t.com/6dR

Thanks Irish Central

Sunday's Irish Music - Pouges

Sunday's Scottish Music - Battlefield Band

Black 47 Best Irish American Album

BLACK 47 TOPS POLL: BEST IRISH AMERICAN ALBUM OF THE DECADE



http://johnleemedia.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/black-47-tops-poll-best-irish-american-album-of-the-decade/

Thanks John Lee

Merry Christmas - Happy New Year

I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and a Wish for Your Best Year Ever........

Christmas Eve Music # 1 - Silent Night - Gaelic

Rest in Peace - Liam Clancy

Irish Music Video

This is great.....

Sunday's Irish Music # 1 - Beat of My Heart

Sunday's Irish Music - Chieftains

Intro by the late Frank McCourt

Sunday's Irish Music # 1 - Salty Dog

Irish Entrepreneurs pitch in to get Celtic Tiger back on it's feet

Good article in Irish Central on efforts to improve business in Ireland

http://url4t.com/p6T -

Keep Striving for Peace in Northern Ireland

Here are a couple of links from Irish Central with information on the ongoing efforts to keep and build on the peace in Northern Ireland.



http://url4t.com/MEO

http://url4t.com/t0h

Rest in Peace - Cousin Pat

Today I attended the funeral services for my cousin Pat Gavin, he was brought back into my life a year and half ago by our cousin Sharon. She is in Germany and couldn't attend the services. These are the words she sent me to share with Pat's wife Judy and the family.

In just one moment our lives can change forever…

Ours did when Auntie Maggie in Ireland ask that we find her Sister’s families that had moved to America in the 1920’s…
In finding our Cousins we found more than just our family; we found a friendship and a kinship that has spanned the many miles between us.

And here we are in another ‘moment’; a bittersweet moment in that we are so very thankful for having known Pat, albeit for such a short time, but also so very sad that we didn’t get to share any more precious memories or indeed make many more…

Our International family in Ireland, England, Germany & Australia, joins you in mourning the passing of Pat.

We also join you in celebrating the life of Pat and would like you all to know that thanks to Pat’s generosity of spirit he will always be remembered as the cousin who held the key to our past! Pat opened up a whole new world to us in sharing precious family photo’s that none of us had previously seen; this will be his legacy to our International family…

Rest in Peace Pat.x

Cousin Sharon Burton

After Glow…

I’d like the memory of me to be a happy one…
I’d like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done…
I’d like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways, of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days…
I’d like the tears of those who grieve to dry before the sun, of happy memories that I leave now that my life is done…



Pat’s Aunt Maggie O’Donnell is having a mass said for Pat in Foxford, County Mayo this week

Pat’s Cousin Marie Quinn is having a mass said for Pat in Attymass, County Mayo in the same church where Pat’s Mother Mary (O'dDonnell) Gavin attended as a child.

Rest in Peace - Cousin Pat Gavin Goodbye My Friend and Cousin

Today I discovered my Cousin Pat Gavin passed away in his sleep after a long battle with cancer. I was seven years old when our families fell out and we lost contact with each other. Over a year ago we found each other and came back into each other's lives. I celebrated his 70th birthday and danced an Irish Jig with him and his brother and my other cousin Jim. We spent time with each other and he and his beautiful wife Judy welcomed my family into their family. The time was too short we spent together but I feel blessed to have been reunited with him. He was a great guy and great cousin. he will be missed and loved by all who knew him, family and friends.
Rest in Peace Cousin Pat and I hope your are in Heaven dancing up a mean Irish Jig.