Luton St. Patrick`s Festival 2015

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Luton
St. Patrick’s
Festival
2015
Luton
Irish
Forum
lutonirishforum.org
LutonIrish
@IrishinLuton
Contents
Luton Irish Forum — St. Patrick’s Festival 2015
Page 03
Welcome from
the Mayor
Mayor’s Welcome
Page 04
Chairman’s Welcome
Pages 06–07
About LIF
Page 08
Luton Irish Festival 2015
The Acorn Players
Page 10–11
The Fureys
Page 14
The Skivers
Page 16
Wraggle Taggle
Pages 22–23
Welfare Page
Page 24
Gaelic Athletic Association
Page 25
Chocolate Guiness Cake
Pages 28-29
Luton St. Patrick’s Festival 2014
Page 30
WB Yeats Presentation
Page 31
Life of Saint Patrick
Pages 40-41
Kids’ Corner
Pages 58-59
Festival route and programme
May you live as long as you want,
and never want as long as you live.
‘It was a great pleasure to
meet Minister Deenihan and
Ambassador Mulhall on their
visit to Luton last October,
to recognise the work of
Luton Irish Forum and the
valuable contribution the Irish
Community have and continue
to make to the Town. Luton
Irish Forum is a valuable asset
not only to the Irish community
but the wider population of
Luton and I am always pleased
to hear about the fantastic work
you are doing for the people
of Luton. I look forward to
the St Patrick’s Day Festival
celebrations and the wonderful
array of entertainment which
Luton Irish Forum has brought
together to share their culture
with our community.’
Mayor of Luton
Cllr Mohammed Farooq
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Welcome
Fáilte
Welcome
A warm welcome to Luton’s 16th
Annual St Patrick’s Day Festival,
a celebration of Irish culture and
heritage, giving all of Luton’s
communities the opportunity to
experience Irish music, song, dance
and drama.
The festival launch will take place on
Friday 13th March with a traditional
Gaelic Sung Mass featuring the Luton Irish
Forum Choir at St Joseph’s Parish Church,
Gardenia Avenue.
This will be followed by entertainment
at St Joseph’s Parish Centre.
On Saturday 14th March we have the Acorn
Players from County Leitrim performing
‘The Two Loves of Gabriel Foley’ at the
Carnival Arts Centre starting at 7.30pm.
This year’s annual parade and main stage
events will take place on Sunday 15th
March, leaving at 11am from Manor Road.
The parade will follow its traditional
route through Luton Town Centre, ending
at Market Hill. The presentation of the
shamrocks will then take place.
We would like to thank The Fureys, the
Acorn Players from Leitrim and the GAA
team from County Armagh, all coming
over from Ireland to celebrate the St Patricks
Day Festival.
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As well as The Fureys on the main stage we
have DJ Jim Carway, Wraggle Taggle and a
local band The Skivers. Entertainment takes
place in The Mall from 11am–3pm on the 15th
and 17th of March.
Luton Irish Forum organise the Festival
with the support of Luton Borough Council,
London Luton Airport, Emigrant Support
Programme, Luton Cultural Services Trust
(Watch This Space Events), Bedfordshire
Police, The Mall, local County Associations,
local Churches and Parish Centres,
Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann and the GAA.
I would like to take this opportunity to
thank all of our sponsors who continue
to support us.
A sincere thanks is also due to the
hardworking volunteers, including the
stewards and the St Patrick’s Festival
Committee which has been planning the
Festival since July 2014! They give their
free time to make this event special for
Luton; without their commitment the
Festival would not be possible.
We hope the community as a whole will
come along and enjoy the different events
taking place throughout the week.
Michael Maguire St Patrick’s Festival Chair The Leagrave (Luton) Branch of Comhaltas wishes
everyone a very Happy St Patrick’s Day.
Beannacht do Lá Fhéile Pádraig
Tar Isteach Sa Chomhaltas
Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann is the largest group involved in the
preservation and promotion of Traditional Irish Music.
We hold music lessons every Tuesday between 4-6pm at St. Joseph's
Parish Centre, Gardenia Avenue, Luton, all beginners welcome!
We also hold adult music lessons on Tuesdays between 8-9pm for
beginners and also advanced learning any instrument. Harp lessons are
also held on a Tuesday from 7-8pm.
The next music session will be on Sunday 26th April at 3pm to 5pm
which follows harp and music workshops being held from 12 to 2pm.
The Leagrave (Luton) Branch is proud to be part of this worldwide organisation and
to have played a role in this work over the last 40 years.
Chairman: John O'Connor - 07798 652460
Vice Chairperson: Mary Fitzparick– 07958 192099
Secretary: Bernie Ballantyne - 07960 377302
Assistant Secretary: Gerardine Welch
P.R.O: Fiona Fayne/Siobhan Ralph
Treasurer: Mick Ryan - 07956 524677
Youth Officers: Patrick Ballantyne and Frances Welch.
LIF
Luton Irish Forum
About Us
Luton Irish Forum (LIF) is a
registered charity and limited
company formed in 1997, with
over 900 members and a fully
accessible centre close to Luton
Town Centre.
Whilst originally set up to safeguard the
needs of the Irish residents in Luton, LIF
is now a truly representative community
organisation serving Luton’s diverse
vulnerable and socially excluded people.
Our activities and events which promote
health and wellbeing, improve quality
of life and increase social inclusion are
accessed 30,000 times annually.
We provide welfare support through
drop-ins, appointments and home visits
relating to welfare benefits, housing, debt
and applications for an Irish Passport, and
also provide practical support to engage
with Ombudsman services, tribunals,
courts and appeals.
We co-ordinate a range of activities,
groups and events which raise cultural
awareness including the St Patrick’s
Festival, The Emerald Pipe Band, Cultural
Seminars and School Workshops. We
promote health and wellbeing and
community learning through Keep Fit,
Irish Language Classes, The Literary
Society, The Calligraphy Group, Art
Classes and a Computer Club. For further
information about events and activities
see our “What’s On”.
We facilitate social opportunities through
our Elders Project, Baby & Toddler
Group and Business LINK. We manage
an information website, This is Luton,
for young Irish and Polish people who
are considering moving to or who have
just arrived in Luton. We also manage
Catching the Boat an online archive
showcasing the working lives of the Irish
who settled in Luton from 1940 to 1960.
We hold the contract for Healthwatch
Luton, an independent consumer
champion for health and social care
services in Luton which brings together
people’s views and experiences to
improve services.
We work with partners to provide further
opportunities for members, namely: yoga,
Slimming World, dance, Desmond (group
for those with or at risk of Diabetes), 50+
Job Club and a Polish advice drop-in and
casework service.
LIF contributes to local and national
policy and has commissioned 2 research
reports: ‘The needs of the local Irish
community in Luton’, 2004 and ‘The
Long-term Sustainability of Luton Irish
Forum: A Minority Group Community
Service Provider’, 2010.
For information on any of our events or activities, please visit the Luton
Irish Forum website www.lutonirishforum.org, find details on Facebook,
follow us on Twitter, call us on 01582 720 447 or drop into Kathleen
Connolly House, 102 Hitchin Road, Luton LU2 0ES.
LutonIrish
@IrishinLuton
We greatly appreciate the active
support of the following who help
Luton Irish Forum put on our Annual
St. Patrick’s Festival:
• All our volunteers
• Arriva
• Bedfordshire Police
• Cardinal Newman High School
• Cavan Association
• Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann
• Department of Foreign Affairs and
Trade; Emigrant Support Programme
• Galway Association
• Kilkenny Association
• Leitrim Association
• London Luton Airport
• Luton Borough Council
• Luton Culture
• The Mall Management
• Mayo Association
• Monaghan Association
• Our Lady Help of Christians Church
• SOS Bus
• St. Joseph’s Parish Church & Centre
• The Bushwood Partnership
• The Gaelic Athletic Association
• Toureen Mangan
lutonirishforum.org
St Patrick’s Festival Committee
• Michael Maguire – Chair
• Frank Horan – Treasurer
• Noelette Hanley – Secretary
• Patrick Wallace – Head Steward
• Heather Roy – Administrative Support
Anne Mead / Billy Griffin
/ John Hutcheson / Noreen Kellett
/ Patrick Crossin / Patrick Leonard
/ Patricia Mullins / Teresa Mitchell
/ Tom Quirke / Tony Murphy
Luton Irish Forum Board of Trustees
• Frank Horan
• Joe Ward
• Lorraine Finnegan
• Marion Curtis
• Mick Maguire
• Noreen Kellett
• Pat Leonard
• Pauline Sylvester
• Siobhan Rooney
• Tom Scanlon
• Tony Murphy
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Performance
Leitrim Drama Group
The Acorn Players
Cross the Water to Luton
Saturday 14th March
7.30pm – 10.00pm
UK Centre for Carnival Arts
Leitrim Drama Group “The Acorn
Players” will arrive in Luton on Friday
13th March 2015 as part of the Luton
Irish Forum St. Patrick’s weekend
festivities.
They will stage their highly acclaimed
production of “The Two Loves of
Gabriel Foley” at the UK Centre for
Carnival Arts, St. Mary’s Road, Luton
on Saturday 14th March at 7.30pm.
The troupe performed at many venues
all over Ireland in 2013 and 2014.
Reaction to this play has been
phenomenal with standing ovations
in packed local halls, including The
Town Hall Theatre Galway, An Grianan
Theatre Letterkenny, The Hawkswell
Theatre in Sligo, Mullingar Arts Centre
and The Dean Crowe Theatre Athlone.
This is only the tip of the iceberg.
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The play is about Gabriel Foley’s love life
(or the lack of it) and is played by Padraig
McLoughlin from the Mohill area.
Anella McGuinness, also from Mohill,
plays Chrissie McCabe, a neighbouring
woman who fancies Gabriel but he fails
to notice. Her rival for his affections is
Hazel Myers, a grandiose uppity maneater played by another Mohill lady Edel
Palmer. There is a tug-of-war between
the two women with many twists and
turns. Phillip Flood expertly plays the
part of the outlandish Liam Gavigan,
and he hails from Ballyconnell in Co.
Cavan. Gabriel’s long suffering mother
Aggie, who thinks she will never get him
married off, is played by Martina HarteWard; she is a Cloone woman living
in Gortletteragh. Mary Farrelly is the
collapsible Aunt Lucy, a true Dub, living
in Mohill. Arlene O’Reilly plays the part
of a posh director Morag De Courcey,
and is all the way from New Zealand,
now residing in Keshcarrigan. Brendan
Keane plays the love-struck Clive Snell
and is also living in Keshcarrigan.
Life is like a cup of tea,
it’s all in how you make it.
No cast is complete without
the backstage crew:
Stage Manager and Make-up:
Maureen Lynch a Longford woman
living in Mohill.
Lighting and Sound:
Maire Canning Keane living
in Keshcarrigan.
Front of House:
Breege Cullen from Frenchpark
in Co. Roscommon.
Construction of Set:
Sean Clarke from Gortletteragh
& Dave Price, an English man
residing in Keshcarrigan.
This side splitting comedy comes from
the pen of the very talented Westmeath
born Jimmy Keary. He has written 5
one-act and 19 three-act plays and his
work has been staged all over Ireland
and parts of America. The Acorns are
now introducing his work to England,
hopefully only starting with Luton.
“Mighty Oaks from little Acorns Grow”.
Check the venue out YouTube for a sneak
preview http://youtu.be/5Co-Wa1h-A0.
Also the Facebook Page.
“A NIGHT TOO GOOD TO MISS”!!!
Tickets for ‘The Two Loves of Gabriel
Foley’ can be bought online:
www.billetto.co.uk/events/70705
or contact Luton Irish Forum on
01582 720 447 or visit the Luton Irish
Forum website www.lutonirishforum.org
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Performance
The Fureys
Sunday 15th March
12.30pm – 2.00pm
Market Hill Stage
Legends of Irish music & song The
FUREYS, renowned for their hit songs
‘I will love you’, ‘When you were sweet
16’, ‘The green fields of France’, ‘The
old man’, ‘Red rose café’, ‘From Clare to
here’, ‘Her father didn’t like me anyway’,
‘Leaving Nancy’, ‘Steal away’, etc will
perform in concert at the Market Hill for
Luton’s St Patrick’s Festival on Sunday
15th March 2015 at 12.30 midday.
The FUREYS have been entertaining
audiences worldwide for 37 years,
audiences that have included former
Australian Prime Minister John Howard,
Former Irish President Mary McAleese
and the late Pope John Paul, while Tony
Blair has publicly stated his favourite
peace song of all time is the FUREYS
“Green Fields of France”. Recently
Ireland’s President Michael D Higgins
attended their concert in Dublin’s
National Concert Hall.
The band was formed in 1978, literally
by accident. George, Paul and Davey
were playing in Denmark with their
own band called the Buskers, and Eddie
and Finbar, while touring in Germany,
were involved in a road accident. When
George and Paul got news of the accident
they immediately travelled to Germany
to be with their brothers. They then
decided that they should all be playing
together and this was the start of the
FUREYS.
Inevitably changes have occurred
over 30 years. Their brother Paul died
suddenly in June 2002 and Finbar left
the band in December 1996. However
George and Eddie have continued to
delight audiences on their tours and have
just released a new CD ‘The times they
are a’changing’.
The oldest of the brothers, Eddie
Furey, left home in 1966 and travelled
to Scotland at the time of the great
folk revival where he met and shared
accommodation in Edinburgh with
the then unknown folk singers Billy
Connolly, Gerry Rafferty and Alex
Campbell, now all famous in their own
right. In 1969 with his brother Finbar,
he was the special guest for the Clancy
Brothers and Tommy Makem throughout
the USA and Canada. In 1971 he moved
to mainland Europe where he toured for
seven years, building up a huge following
particularly in Germany. Dave Stewart
from the Eurythmics has credited Eddie
with teaching him his first chords on
guitar when they met up in the North
East of England while Dave was still
a teenager.
The FUREYS are responsible for some
of the most stirring music ever to
capture the public imagination. Their
folk based music has received standing
ovations in some of the biggest concert
halls of the world and they credit their
musical ability to their parents, Ted and
Nora, who were well-known musicians
themselves. They encouraged their sons
to play music from a very early age and
there was live traditional music in their
house almost nightly.
Their emotive songs stir many
emotions… tears and laughter,
sadness and joy.
A FUREYS concert is always
a night to remember
www.thefureys.com
May the Irish hills caress you,
May her lakes and rivers bless you,
May the luck of the Irish enfold you,
May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.
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Performance
Wraggle Taggle
Sunday 15th March
10.30am – 11.30am
Market Hill Stage
Starring the exceptionally talented
Mick O’Connor (tenor banjo) and Luton
born Eugene Teevan (accordion), both
All-Ireland champion musicians, Wraggle
Taggle perform throughout south east
England and beyond.
Mick O’Connor won the All-Ireland tenor
banjo championship in 1971 and two
all-Ireland ceili band medals in 1986 and
1987. After many years touring and
recording, he was invited to meet Irish
President Mary McAleese at a special
reception for traditional Irish musicians
at her official residence, Áras an
Uachtaráin, in Phoenix Park, Dublin
in 2004. He received a Bardic Award
at the All-Ireland Fleadh music festival
in Derry on Tuesday 13th August 2013
in recognition of his exceptional
contribution to the promotion of
Ireland’s cultural traditions.
Eugene Teevan was steeped in traditional
Irish music and his father, Luton
resident Jim Teevan, was president of
Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann from 2004
to 2009. He was All-Ireland Champion
in 1982 and 1986 and is now a qualified
music teacher with Comhaltas. Over the
years Eugene has been a regular performer
at Irish music festivals, conventions and
sessions as well as playing with several
folk and Irish bands. Eugene has also
performed in America and Canada.
Mick and Eugene are joined by Mick
Bailey (guitar/vocals) who founded the
band in 1998. The band has many years
success including performances for Mick
Jagger, Robert Smith of The Cure and
London Irish RFC. Celebrities they’ve
performed for include: Princess Beatrice,
Princess Eugenie, Frank Skinner, Clive
Anderson, Ian Hislop Stephen Fry, Alan
Davis, Dara O’Briain, Sanjeev Bhaskhar,
Meera Syal, Aimi MacDonald, Bert
Weedon, Jon Snow, and Imelda Staunton.
Wraggle Taggle are regular visitors to
the Return to Camden Town Festival in
London. TV appearences include “Feilte”
on TG4 and the band appeared in the
Film “66” with Helena Bonham Carter
and Catherine Tate. Wraggle Taggle are
Resident Musicians at well known Irish
venue The Crown Moran Hotel, London.
St Patrick's
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Saturday 14th March
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Sunday 15th March
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LIF
Letter to the
advice service
To Luton Irish Forum
I feel compelled to write to
your organisation today
to express my sincere and
heartfelt thanks for all the
help you have given me in my
time of need. I must state I
was in severe chronic pain
and could not think clearly
at the time. One of your
colleagues came to my aid
after the Citizens Advice
Bureau put me in touch with
you as they felt that Luton
Irish Forum could meet my
needs. How right they were...
My synopsis; In early 2013 I suffered an
injury the full side-effects of which were
not fully discovered until the end of that
year. I was pushed from pillar to post with
NHS, GP and specialists to no avail, just
offered lots of different tablets which only
added to the pain I was feeling. Over the
next months I struggled to deal with the
pain and the GP would do nothing, just
prescribe pills which only made me more
unwell, so I walked out of my GP surgery.
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I ended up looking for an osteopath myself
and after my first appointment I found
out that because I had been untreated I
had restricted movement in the muscles
of my neck and back and pushed-out ribs
which explained my pain. I am now well
on the road to recovery and hope to get
back to work soon. This will give you an
idea of the pain I was in, what I had been
up against and due to the amount of pain
medication I had been taking how difficult
it was to deal with financial issues.
This brings me back to your organisation
and your welfare officer who has been
extremely helpful in fighting for my rights,
and in getting me the benefits to which I
was entitled to. The Welfare Officer has
been very patient, calming and informative
with advice. She has seen me at short
notice, when I have been very stressed and
in pain and helped me with form filling
and following up with telephone calls to
various benefit agencies (because of all
the mix ups) and keeping me informed
of the status quo. These benefit agencies
really listened to what the Welfare Officer
had to say on my behalf, and without her
help I would still be without any monies.
The Welfare Officer got my payment
backdated to when I first claimed and had
it reinstated when it was stopped again
in October. She also helped me to get my
housing benefit backdated to June 2014
which was a real help.
I have to say the Welfare Officer is very
good at her job, very polite and a good
listener; she brings the human touch to
very stressful situations with empathy,
very unlike the Benefits Agency. The
welfare officer helped me when I wasn’t
in a position to help myself, I was in agony
and mentally exhausted with very little
sleep due to my situation.
I cannot thank the Irish Forum enough
for their support, they really do help
people like me in the community who
do not know where to turn! They have
got me the financial support I am entitled
to which believe me I would not have been
able to do myself at the time. They have
given me faith in people again and there
is a real need for the Irish Forum in Luton.
Once again thank you from the bottom
of my heart, please tell the Welfare Officer
I am saying a big thank you to her
especially for all her help.
Happy St Patrick’s Festival
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Luton
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Chocolate
Guinness Cake
St Dympnas
For the cake
Method
• 250 ml Guinness
• 250 grams unsalted butter
• 75 grams cocoa powder
• 400 grams caster sugar
• 142 ml sour cream
• 2 large eggs
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 275 grams plain flour
• 2 ½ teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
• For the topping
• 300 grams cream cheese
• 150 grams icing sugar
• 125 ml double cream
(or whipping cream)
ml sour
cream
Pour the Guinness into 142
a large
wide
2 large eggs
saucepan, add the butter
in
spoons
or
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
275butter
grams plain
slices - and heat until the
has flour
melted,
½ teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
at which time you2 should
whisk in the cocoa
For the topping
and sugar. Beat the sour
withcheese
the eggs
300 cream
grams cream
150 grams
icing brown,
sugar
and vanilla and then pour
into the
125 ml double cream (or whipping cream)
buttery, beery pan and finally whisk in the
flour and bicarbonate.
St
St Vincents
Dympnas
A Gaelic Football Club based in South Luton. Training is Wednesday
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Celebrating the 150th
anniversary of the
birth of WB Yeats
Irish Ambassador Daniel
Mulhall will be giving a
presentation on W.B. Yeats at
Luton Irish Forum at 7.30pm
on Monday, 18th May 2015.
William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28
January 1939) was an Irish poet and
one of the foremost figures of 20th
century literature. A pillar of both the
Irish and British literary establishments,
in his later years he served as an Irish
Senator for two terms. Yeats was a
driving force behind the Irish Literary
Revival and, along with Lady Gregory,
Edward Martyn, and others, founded
the Abbey Theatre, where he served
as its chief during its early years. In
1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize
for Literature as the first Irishman so
honoured for what the Nobel Committee
described as “inspired poetry, which in
a highly artistic form gives expression
to the spirit of a whole nation.” Yeats
is generally considered one of the few
writers who completed their greatest
works after being awarded the Nobel
Prize; such works include The Tower
(1928) and The Winding Stair and
Other Poems (1929). Yeats was a very
good friend of American expatriate
poet and Bollingen Prize laureate Ezra
Pound. Yeats wrote the introduction for
Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali, which
was published by the India Society.
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He was born in Dublin and educated
there and in London; he spent his
childhood holidays in County Sligo.
He studied poetry in his youth and
from an early age was fascinated by
both Irish legends and the occult. Those
topics feature in the first phase of his
work, which lasted roughly until the turn
of the 20th century. His earliest volume
of verse was published in 1889, and its
slow-paced and lyrical poems display
Yeats’s debts to Edmund Spenser,
Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the poets of
the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. From
1900, Yeats’s poetry grew more physical
and realistic. He largely renounced the
transcendental beliefs of his youth,
though he remained preoccupied with
physical and spiritual masks, as well
as with cyclical theories of life.
‘Yeats seems to me to be an ideal Irish
writer for us to pay tribute to... He
spent his life travelling back and forth
between Ireland and Britain, spending
considerable time in Dublin, London
and the west of Ireland, especially Sligo
and Galway. Yeats is also the Irish writer
with the broadest fan base in Britain, at
least if this can be judged by the number
of his works that feature on lists of this
country’s favourite poems... No other
major Irish writer had such a prolonged,
intensive engagement with the Ireland
of his time... As I see him, Yeats is a
great interrogator and interpreter of
the Ireland in which he lived.’ Irish
Ambassador Daniel Mulhall
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Life of Saint Patrick
In 445, Patrick established the
Saint Patrick was born in
Seat of Armagh as the centre of
Scotland around 387. He was the
Christian learning in Ireland. A
Life of Saint
Patrick
son of a wealthy tax collector.
monastery church and an archbishop’s
were
built
there.
Saint Patrick was born in Scotland house
around
387.
He
was the son of a
When he was sixteen, Patrick was
wealthy tax collector.
captured and brought to Ireland as a
Legend has it that St Patrick banished
slave. Legend has it that he tended sheep all the snakes in Ireland by chasing them
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Antrim for six years.
St Patrick’s Day marks the day of his
Mountain in County Antrim for six years.
death, in Ireland on March 17, 461.
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Paschal fire.
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Seat of Armagh as the centre of
Christian learning in Ireland. A
monastery church and an
archbishop's house were built
there.
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The Mayo Association Luton is pleased to be involved in the
St. Patrick’s Day celebrations.
The Association meets on the last Monday of the month at St. Joseph's
Parish Centre, Gardenia Avenue at 8.30pm.
New members welcome.
May we take this opportunity to thank all our supporters and hope to
see you all during the year supporting Irish Culture and Irish Identity.
Dates for your Diary 2015
Annual Dinner Dance
Saturday, 10th October 2015
Music by Mustang
Enquiries to 01582 579884 / 487815
Chairman: Eamon Dixon
Secretary: Carmel McAvock
Vice Chairman: Joe Cruise
Treasurer: Martin Gaughan
Asst. Treasurer: Maureen McAree
Entertainment: Ellen Dixon
President: Frank Horan
Vice President: Farrell Gallagher
Public Relations: Brian McHale
Promoter: Eileen McHale
Membership: Betty Ryan
Buffet Dance
Saturday 28th March 2015
Music by E. Doonan
Fundraising Dance
Saturday, 28th November 2015
Music by Gerry McGuiness
Also in September we have a
sponsored walk for charities. The Mayo
Association utilises the St Patrick’s
Festival to promote its work in aid of
local charities.
Raffle promoter: Ellen Dixon
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Well how do you do, Private William McBride
Do you mind if I sit here down by your grave side?
A rest for awhile in the warm summer sun,
I've been walking all day and I'm nearly done.
And I see by your gravestone that you were only 19
When you joined the glorious fallen in 1916.
Well, I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean
Or, William McBride, was it slow and obscene?
Did they beat the drum slowly?
Did they sound the pipes lowly?
Did the rifles fire o'er ye as they lowered you down?
Did the bugle sing 'The Last Post' in chorus?
Did the pipes play 'The Flowers o' the Forest'?
Happy St Patrick’s Day to all the Irish Community in Luton from all
of us here at St Joseph’s. On St Patrick’s Day we’ll be
celebrating too with all ages welcome.
St Joseph's can also host your special occasion including birthdays,
wedding receptions, christenings or business events. We can
accommodate 250 guests in our main space and 50-100 guests in our
smaller music and sports bars.
BOOK NOW for 2016 and beyond, for your desired dates. and you
can become a member from just £5 per year.
As a member of the club you can also watch your favourite GAA,
Premiership or Rugby team live on our big screens, have access to
promotional offers, and bar games such as pool or darts. Find us
online for more info on Facebook, or just call or email with any
enquiries.
Drop by on St Patrick’s Day or anytime’ we look forward to your
visit and/or hosting your special event here at St Joseph's.
St Joseph's Parish Centre-ROAR, membership terms, conditions and
booking availability apply.
And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind?
In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined
And though you died back in 1916
To that loyal heart are you always 19.
Or are you just a stranger without even a name
Forever enclosed behind some glass-pane
In an old photograph torn and tattered and stained
And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame?
Well, the sun it shines down on these green fields of France,
The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance.
The trenches are vanished now under the plough
No gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now.
But here in this graveyard it is still No Man's Land
And the countless white crosses in mute witness stand.
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
And a whole generation that was butchered and downed.
And I can't help but wonder now Willie McBride
Do all those who lie here know why they died?
Did you really believe them when they told you the cause?
Did you really believe them that this war would end war?
The suffering, the sorrow, some the glory, the shame The killing and dying - it was all done in vain.
For Willie McBride, it's all happened again
And again, and again, and again, and again.
Did they beat the drum slowly?
Did they sound the pipe lowly?
Did the rifles fire o'er ye as they lowered you down?
Did the bugle sing 'The Last Post' in chorus?
Did the pipes play 'The Flowers o' the Forest'?
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Sunday 15th
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Sean O’Riada Mass
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Jim O’Leary
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DJ Jim Carway
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Barbara Cullinane,
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Conway Lally School
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Gor Jus Wrex
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Clara Byrne
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