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Next Monthly Meeting : Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 8 PM
UPCOMING EVENTS at IAANWJ Clubhouse
Session - Saturday April 16th 8 PM Ceili - Sunday, April 24th 3 PM
IAANWJ Election
The Election for the 2016 - 2017 Executive Board will take place at the April
meeting, Thursday April 21, 2016. This is your opportunity to have a say in how the Association should be
administered over the upcoming year.
Nominations President: Theresa Davis
1st Vice President: Maureen Quinn 2nd Vice President: Robyn Quinn Treasurer: Gary Boegershausen
Recording Secretary: Pat Flanagan Corresponding Secretary: Iris Nevins
Sergeant-at-arms: Jack Regan Trustee: Ed Hansberry
Requirement for voting:
You need to be an IAANWJ member in the current year (2016). You need to have been an IAANWJ member last year (2015). You must be present at the IAANWJ April meeting. New IAANWJ members signing up after June 30, 2015 will not be
eligible to vote.
Issue: April 2016
In This Issue
UPCOMING EVENTS IAANWJ Election
Session Ceili
Thank You James Connolly
For your information 1916
Leslie's Recipe & Recommendations
Celtic Thunder Concert
Pearse in Pictures Facebook
IAANWJ Classes
Ceili & Set Dance Class
Every Wednesday at 6:45 PM
Contact: Jack Regan
973-853-7047 [email protected]
Set Dance Lessons
for High Functioning People with Parkinson's
3rd Monday of the month
7:00 pm to 8:00 pm Contact: Rick 973-627-1749
Irish Language
Every Monday at 7 PM
Contact: Matt Tully 973-579-1510
Session DATE: April 16, 2016
TIME: 8 pm
Guest host Charlie Sporn on Fiddle.
We will have a great spread of refreshments, tea and coffee. You may BYOB and snacks for the table if you wish! All level players welcome plus dancers, card players, knitters, game players. Come hang out and hear great music! It's fun, free and a wonderful party for all ages. Anyone wanting a slow session may do so 7:00-8:00.
Our Irish Dance Class - Wednesdays 6:45pm
Beginners and Improvers are welcome to the steps at our weekly
lessons every Wednesday.
Ceili Sunday, April 24th, 3 pm
Set & Ceili dancing has spread around the world, and you can attend classes, a ceili and workshops in Ireland, France, England, Germany, Canada, Australia, Japan and,
of course, here in the USA. It is open to all and you're sure to get a great welcome wherever you go. Why not experience the joy of set dancing for yourself.
Info: 973 853-7047 [email protected]
Thank you from The Mongey Family
Collette Mongey would like to pass along a big 'Thank You' to everyone at the IAANWJ for all of the good wishes and prayers for the continued recovery of Jimmy.
Celtic Art Workshop
Contact: Pat Gallagher
862-251-0020 pgallagher45@opto
nline.net
Celtic Knitting Class
Contact: Peggy O'Mahoney
201-615-8122 [email protected]
m
Tin Whistle Classes Thursday
for children. Contact: Siobhan
Kelly 973-727-7587
Irish Concertina
Contact: Doug Barr 718-273-0404
Irish Harp Lessons are
available for Irish Harp.
Contact: Iris Nevins 908-813-8617
Irish Fiddle Classes
Contact: Willie Kelly 973-727-7587
Flute - Adults Saturdays
Contact: Linda Hickman
347-351-4279 hickmanflute@gmail
.com
James Connolly in Newark: 100 Years to the Easter Rising
Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 6:00 p.m.
NJ Historical Society 52 Park Place, Newark, NJ 07102
They would like RSVPs so as to have some sort of count for the reception afterwards. RSVP to [email protected].
We were also able to secure an exhibition on James Connolly from the Irish Consulate which is on display.
Parking is available directly across the street from the NJ Historical Society underneath Military Park.
James Connolly, one of Ireland's national icons, spent considerable time abroad, particularly in the United States, where he witnessed the successes and failures of labor radicalism and unionization, and of working class conditions resulting from unregulated corporate expansion. Those experiences influenced his actions during the Dublin Lockout of 1913, which was part of a larger transatlantic effort to secure the rights of the working class in the years before World War I. Despite major advances made by Irish labor activists in the 19th century, Connolly found that employers still had the advantage when he arrived in 1902. Over the next eight years, he was among an influential second generation of Irish American leaders in the United States who rallied immigrants from all over Europe to press for the dignity of labor. Turning homeward, he insisted that the fight for Irish nationalism was inseparable from the battle for the rights of all workers, in factories as well as on farms. "Labor & Dignity - James Connolly in America" is on display at the NJ Historical Society at 52 Park Place, Newark NJ until April 16th.The exhibition was curated by Professor Marion R. Casey, a faculty member at Glucksman Ireland House, and Daphne Dyer Wolf, a PhD candidate in History and Culture at Drew University and was designed by Hilary J. Sweeney, and sponsored by Glucksman Ireland House at New York University.
For your information 1916 From: Maureen Flannery
I just got this from a friend; it's so very interesting. Maybe you would want to send it out to the membership, if you like it. So many little things I didn't know.
Click here to access Youtube ---> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6diBvajpmk
Irish Step Dancing Lessons are offered
by Heritage Irish Dance Company
Every Monday Contact: Meghan
Epperly 973-768-4273
IAANWJ OFFICERS
President
Robyn Quinn 973-398-1228
1st Vice
President Maureen
Murphy Quinn 973-252-9927
2ndVice
President Gary
Boegershausen 973-428-8274
Recording Secretary
Patricia Flanagan 631-943-6995
Treasurer
Theresa Davis 973-343-9015
Corresponding Secretary
Iris Nevins 908-813-8617
Sergeant at
Arms Jack Regan
973-853-7047 [email protected]
Leslie's Recipe & Recommendations
By Leslie McGlynn
DUBLIN LAWYER (serves 2) Ingredients 1 lobster, about 2-1/4 lb 4 Tbsp butter 4 Tbsp Irish Whiskey 2/3 cup heavy cream 1 teaspoon mustard 1 teaspoon lemon juice Sat and pepper Source: In an Irish Country Kitchen By Clare Connery
Directions Plunge the lobster, head first, into fast boiling water for 2 minutes. Remove and refresh under cold water to stop the cooking. Cut lobster lengthwise through the center, dividing it in two. Remove the soft greyish-green liver and coral and reserve for the sauce. Remove meat from shells and cut into chunks. Reserve shells for serving. Break claws and remove meat. Heat butter in large frying pan and quickly fry pieces of lobster flesh until just cooked, but not colored. Add the coral. Warm whiskey, pour over the lobster and flame it. When flames have died down, add the cream, mustard, lemon juice and seasoning. Mix with pan juices and bring to a boil. Remove lobster meat from pan and transfer to warm shells. Boil the cream to reduce slightly and concentrate the flavors. Pour over the lobster meat in the half shells and serve immediately.
THE PRODIGALS
I went to see the Prodigals perform at Centenary College on March 12. The
Prodigals are a New York Irish band that started in 1997. Calling their genre of music "jig punk", the Prodigals merge with traditional Irish melodic roots with rock rhythms. The band has its own distinctive sound, particularly distinguished by the
lead melodic roles being filled by button-key accordion and bass along with the vocals. They have a very high-energy performance. There is a lot of stomping and audience participation with knee-slapping and clapping to almost every song they
performed. The only song that was familiar to me was "The Wild Rover" which is well known to all irish men and women. Towards the end of the performance, Dave Fahy,
the guitarist, sang two country and western songs, which is truly his forte. He was excellent. To listen:
https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylc=X3oDMTFiaHBhMnJmBF9TAzIwMjM1MzgwNzUEaXRjAzEEc2VjA3NyY2hfcWEEc2xrA3NyY2hhc3Q-
?p=the+prodigals+music&fr=yfp-t-201-s&fp=1&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8 or www.Pandora.com
Trustees
2015 - 2018 Rosemary Harrington
973-625-0409 rosenbill123@ao
l.com
2014 - 2017 Peter Ecklund 973-770-0692
2013 - 2016
Ed Hansberry 973-663-3208
Rental of Hall Contact any
IAANWJ Officer
Club Calendar Maureen
Murphy Quinn 973-252-9927
IAANWJ Committee Contacts
Membership
Kathy Hansberry 973-663-3208
Building
Gary Boegershausen 973-428-8274
Good & Welfare Patricia Jones 973-729-3236
Celtic Thunder Concert From: Peter Ecklund
Saturday Aug 20, 2016 at 7:30 PM Community Theatre at Mayo Performing Arts Center - Morristown, NJ
Tickets - Public sale April 4th
Pearse in Pictures The Irish theater company Fíbín will be performing "Pearse in Pictures / Mac Piarais i bPictiúir" in the WPUNJ Library Auditorium at 8pm on Wednesday April 13th. The performance is a mixture of speech, music, and art and will be performed bilingually in Irish (Gaelic) and English. The subject of the performance is Patrick Pearse (Pádraig Mac Piarais) the leader of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland, an event which led to the foundation of an independent Irish state. Pearse is considered by most Irish people the Irish equivalent of America's George Washington. 2016 is the one hundredth anniversary of the Easter Rising, and as part of the commemoration Fíbín are touring the United States and Canada with this show. WPUNJ is very lucky to have succeeded in attracting the show to New Jersey, and we hope to see as many people as possible at it. The show will be followed by a Question and Answer session with the members of the company.
Tickets (at the door): $5 for students and youth; $8 for all others Information: Prof. Brian Ó Broin - [email protected] - 973 720 2641; www.fibin.com
More information and directions to WPUNJ here. Brian Ó Broin, Ph.D. Dept. of English, William Paterson University, New Jersey, USA President of ASIMS 9/2015-2017: www.asims.org Linguistics - Medieval Studies - Irish Studies Teangeolaíocht-Léann na Meánaoise-Léann na hÉireann Níos Mó / More Information: http://sites.google.com/site/professorbrianobroin/
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Session Iris Nevins
908-813-8617 irisnevins@verizo
n.net
Cultural Jack Regan
973-853-7047 [email protected]
Newsletter
TBA
Web Site Maureen Murphy
Quinn 973-252-9927
Library Jay Long
973-366-5129 gnolgm@optonlin
e.net
Parade Theresa Davis 973-343-9015
FEIS Tim Grealy
973-663-0835 timgrealy@hotma
il.com
Editors Note Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the Newsletter over the past 2 years. I hope you have enjoyed reading the Newsletter as much as I have enjoyed working on it. Slán go fóill - goodbye for now, Willie Quinn
