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Milford Saint Patrick’s Day Parade - March 10th @ 1pm - Sunny and mid-40’s! March at the most family friendly parade in the area with the ICSA. We’ll have tons of candy to throw to the kids! The parade kicks off at 1pm sharp. We will muster at the rear of Parsons Complex at 70 River Street. We will march up River Street and down Broad Street on the green. Parking is available in the same lot if you are there early enough. All members and friends are welcome to join us. We hope you can make it. New Haven Saint Patrick’s Day Parade - March 11th 1:30pm - Sunny and mid-40’s! We hope you can join the club to proudly show your Irish Heritage and march down Chapel Street and Church Street. We will march behind our club banner along with our National and Provincial flags. Muster on Winthrop Avenue. Parking for participants is available at the Granite Square Parking Garage, 690 State Street. Single occupant vehicles are will not be allowed into Granite Square. Single occupant vehicle parking is available at Yale Lot 16 between Whitney and Humphrey. Shuttle busses will take you to the head of the Parade from 11am to 1pm. Last year we won the Grand Marshall’s Award. Let’s do something special again this year. As always, all club members, family and friends are welcome. It’s a great time to see old friends again and enjoy the approaching Spring with a good stretch of the legs. Following the Parade, we will make our way to The Playwright for Ceol agus Craic and a wee drink to warm your Irish heart. Saint Patrick’s Day! - March 17th! Remember to tune into Pat & Joan Kennedy on WNHU 88.7FM all day long on St. Patrick’s Day!! Listen for some great information about the Connecticut Irish Theater Troupe’s up coming production of “Lay Me Down Softly” by Billy Roche. Membership Meeting – Monday 19th March 8 pm at the Playwright At 8pm we will begin the Members’ Meeting. We will discuss the upcoming events and all club business. All members are encouraged to attend and you can bring along a friend that may be interested in our club. If you have not paid your dues for 2018 yet, you can pay them at the meeting and make sure you get the members’ price for tickets for the up coming drama production. Social Committee Meeting – Monday 19th March 7.15 pm at the Playwright Please join us for a social committee meeting on Monday evening before the 8 pm Annual Membership Meeting. We need to plan events and activities for the spring and summer and we would love to have your input and your help. Come on down and visit with friends and help make our Club a success! Please contact Margaret if you have any questions: Margaret [email protected] or 203-675-6683.

Brewery Tour - March 24th We will be running a bus to four breweries leaving the lot by The Playwright at 11:30am. We will be visiting Kinsmen, Witchdoctor, Relic and Firefly Hollow. There are only 12 seats for this event. Please contact Shaun at [email protected] if you would like to get a seat. Tickets for your seat are $25. Buy your own beer and food.

Cumann Cultúr agus Spóirt na hÉireann

Naoú Lá Déag de Márta

(The Pulse - 9th of March)

An Ċuisle - March 2018

Lá Fhéile Pádraig Shona

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Irish Flag Raising on New Haven Green and Breakfast - April 22nd @ 9am On Sunday, April 22nd at 9 am, on the New Haven Green, there will be a Mass for Peace and a Flag Raising ceremony to commemorate the 102nd anniversary of the 1916 Easter Uprising. Ceremonies will start at 9am and conclude at 10:30am. Following Mass there will be a ceremony to honor the patriots of 1916. This annual public ceremony serves as a reminder to all ethnic groups that freedom and liberty carry a high price. Local honorees are remembered in a roll call and the original "Proclamation of Freedom" will be read. For information about the mass or ceremony, please contact Margaret Prendergast at [email protected]. This event will take place rain or shine. Immediately following the event, the New Haven Saint Patrick’s Day Parade Committee will be holding there annual breakfast at The Playwright, Hamden. Cost is $15. CT Irish Theatre Troupe Production of Billy Roche's "Lay Me Down Softly" April 27th, 28th, 29th The cast has been set for the Connecticut Irish Theater Troupe production of “Lay Me Down Softly” written by Billy Roche, directed by Karl Ryan and starring Packy Lillis, Doreen Busca, Jason Santacroce, Paul Tynan, Katie Santacroce and Seamus Lonergan. “For the lads in the boxing tent of Delaney's Traveling Road Show, the world is leather, sweat and hard punches. But when a mysterious beauty arrives with ties to their past, the gloves come off and the boys come out swinging.” The April 27th and 28th shows will be at 7:30pm. The April 29th show will be at 3pm. The venue is the Whitneyville Cultural Commons. Ticket are $20. A special Brunch & Show ticket is available on Sunday for $40, with seating from 10:30am to 1pm. ICSA Members get a $5 discount on their ticket purchase. Please contact Margaret for tickets: Margaret [email protected] or 203-675-6683 or purchase them online at https://ctirishtheatertroupe.brownpapertickets.com/ . Volunteers are always needed to help make this production great. Please consider helping - contact Geoff Herpok ([email protected]). Whiskey Tasting - May 19th We will be bringing back the Whiskey Tasting event that we have had so much fun with in the past. This is always a great time and very informative with regard to what a good whiskey is. Details are not nailed down yet but if you are interested please contact Geoff at [email protected]. Annual Golf Tournament, Saturday 21st July, Noon, Alling Memorial G.C. Golf, lunch, dinner, raffle, lots of prizes, great craic!. Tee signs are available for only $50. If you are interested in joining the committee, buying a tee sign or playing, contact Tom Prendergast at [email protected]. Hit ‘em straight! Irish Language Classes Irish Classes have just started up after the winter break. If you are a beginner, now is a good time to come to a class and see if you like it. Classes are available to all ICSA members for no charge. Classes are also open to non-members for a nominal fee, so you can try it out and see how you like it. Classes take place every Wednesday night in North Haven with the beginners class at 7pm and the Advanced Beginners class is at 8pm. Sign up details are available on the club website (www.icsa-home.org) or contact Cultural Director, Rich Regan at ([email protected]).

Sheep Flock Fundraiser The sheep are back in the spring after their winter hibernation. Do you want to trick your friends! The club has a flock of sheep that you can borrow for 24 hours to graze on your friends lawn. The flock is completely harmless and has been trained to stay where they are told to. There is no danger of them wandering off and annoying anyone else. They are also branded with the club logo in the unlikely case they do go for a stroll. Your donation for a flock of 10 sheep is only $10, a flock of 25 sheep is $20 and a flock of 50 sheep is $40. Please contact Siobhan Dacey to order your flock at [email protected] and give our little friends a home for the day!

Memberships Dues: It’s time again. Membership dues should be paid before March 1st. Cost has remained the same as last year with a family membership at $40 and an individual membership at $25. Send your annual dues to ICSA, P.O. Box 6562, Hamden, CT 06517. If you are not a member and would like to join up, you can find information on our website icsa-home.org or contact Siobhan Dacey at [email protected] . Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum - Trip to Ireland September 16-23, 2018 Highlights Include: Private after-hours tour to see the Book of Kells at Trinity College, Five Course West Cork food and beer tasting with local music seisiun, Director-led tour of IGHM's exhibition "Coming Home: Art and the Great Hunger" at Skibbereen's West Cork Arts Centre, Full Day tour of Slea Head and Dingle. For more info please email [email protected]

March 11th - Milford Saint Patrick’s Day Parade March 12th - New Haven Saint Patrick’s Day Parade March 17th - Saint Patrick’s Day March 24th - Brewery Bus Tour April 22nd - Irish Flag Raising and Breakfast April 27th, 28th, 29th - CT Irish Theatre Troupe Production of Billy Roche's "Lay Me Down Softly" May 19th - Whiskey Tasting July 21st - Golf Tournament

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25 fearless Irish women who helped shape today’s Ireland

From The Irish Times

In honor of International Women’s Day on March 8th, we celebrate some less well-known stories: some of the fearless women who helped shape the course of Irish society or history, or who contributed to our understanding of the world. From saints to stargazers, pioneers to revolutionaries, and medieval queens to medical doctors, they may not have statues in their honor but they are not forgotten. 1. Brigid of Kildare As a figure of legend and Ireland’s only female patron saint, as well as the goddess of poetry, healing and smith work in Celtic myth, Brigid (c 451-523) is hardly unrecognized. But we’d argue she hasn’t always been celebrated for the right things. During the 19th century, she was held up as a symbol of divine femininity, while generations of Irish schoolchildren still associate her with reed crosses. But she was much more than that: a powerful Abbess who offered an alternative to the confines of domestic life to up to 14,000 women, a peace weaver, a fearless negotiator who secured women’s property rights, and freed trafficked women. And she was also reputed to be an expert dairywoman and brewer. 2. Margaret O’Carroll Margaret O’Carroll of Éile, Co Offaly (d. 1451) was a medieval queen, patron of the arts, road and bridge builder. She organized the 1440s epic festivals of literature attended by 2,700 people, and described by scholars as “national events of high and singular importance”, earning her the title Margaret the Hospitable. A contemporary scholar noted that she “was the only woman that has made most of preparing highways, and erecting bridges, churches, and mass-books.” 3. Grace O’Malley

The pirate queen Grace O’Malley (c. 1577-1597), known also as Gráinne Mhaol, is a mostly romantic figure in Irish folklore, but in reality she was a fearless leader, canny diplomat, and long-time thorn in the side of the British ruling class. Lord president of Connacht Richard Bingham described her as “nurse to all rebellions in the province for this forty years”. Her influence was such that she was granted a meeting with Elizabeth I in 1593 (left )during which, speaking in Latin, she secured the release of her son. “She is remarkable as

being the nly woman from 16th-century Gaelic Ireland who is recorded as taking a leadership role within her sept,” the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes. 4. Peg Plunkett Peg Plunkett (c. 1727–1797) was the Ashley Madison of her day, an Irish brothel-keeper in Dublin who, when she retired and found her former clients were slow to settle their debts, responded – to their horror – by publishing three volumes of memoirs. Plunkett was brutally attacked during a raid of her brothel by a gang of upper class thugs known as the Pinking Dandies, and successfully took the gang leader, Robert Crosbie, to court. One of the best stories about her concerns the time she was instructed to make way for the monarch while in London. She replied, “I think part of the road was for my use, as well as for that of the King, and if you English are servile and timid, we Irish are not.”

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5. Maria Edgeworth Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849) is often overlooked among the greats of the Irish literary canon, despite being one of the most successful novelists of her generation, with a gift for social observation and dialogue that earned the admiration of Sir Walter Scott and Jane Austen. She was one of the first writers to portray the Irish peasant class as real people, with real stories. During the Famine, by then a tiny creature of almost 80, she went door-to-door in Edgeworthstown, Co Longford, distributing food. 6. Dr James Barry

If ever there was a story to offer a tantalizing glimpse into what women might have achieved throughout history had they been freed from expectations about gender, it’s the life of Margaret Ann Bulkley, a young Cork woman, who grew up to hold the second highest medical office in the British Army. But she first had to reinvent herself as Dr James Barry (1789-1865). Bulkley became Barry at 20 at first as a route into university in Edinburgh, and possibly to escape the confines of life as a

woman. It worked: Barry’s subsequent progress through the British Army was impressive. Everywhere she worked across the British empire, she brought about improvements to public health, sanitation and nutrition, and performed one of the first C-sections survived by both mother and child. Barry’s secret was revealed after her death, when her instructions that she be buried without an inspection of her body were ignored. 7. Lady Jane Wilde ‘Speranza’, aka Lady Ann Wilde, Oscar Wilde’s mother Though much less famous in subsequent years than her middle son Oscar, Wexford woman Lady Jane Wilde (1821-1896) was a significant figure in 19th-century Ireland: a gifted linguist and poet who published under the name Speranza, a documenter of the Famine, a women’s rights activist, and a nationalist who used her writing to call for insurrection. In 1864, she and her husband Sir William were at the center of a sensational court case, after they were sued for libel by Mary Travers, who claimed he had seduced her and was awarded £2,000. Within a few years, Wilde would lose her daughter Isola, her husband, her home, their fortune, and see her son Oscar imprisoned. 8. Agnes Clerke Skibbereen-born Agnes Clerke (1842-1907) fell in love with the stars when she first saw them as a child through her father’s telescope. Her book, A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century, is still regarded as one of the seminal texts. She won a host of plaudits normally reserved for men and, in 1981, NASA named a crater on the moon, close to where Apollo 12 landed, in her honor. 9. Anna Parnell She may be less well remembered than her brother Charles Stewart, but Anna Parnell (1852-1911) and her sister Fanny were nonetheless inspirational figures in the Ladies’ Land League of the 1880s – fundraising, opening 500 branches countrywide, fighting for tenant farmers’ rights and distributing 60,000 pounds in relief funds. Anna – who was seen as a symbolic figure – became estranged from her brother, who mistrusted her understanding of politics, and, after his death, moved to England, where she changed her name to Cerisa Palmer.

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10. Jenni Wyse Power Jenni Wyse Power (1858-1941) is one of the better-known female figures in the Rising and politics of the 20th century. She was an activist, feminist, politician and businesswoman, a founder-member of Sinn Féin, founder of Inghinidhe na hÉireann and founder and president of Cumann na mBan. The signing of the Proclamation took place at her shop, restaurant and home at 21 Henry Street, which later served as the headquarters of the Irish Volunteers in 1919. She was one of the few nationalist women to support the Treaty, and set up Cumann na Saoirse in March 1922. She was appointed to the first Seanad, and used her position to campaign for rights for women. 11. Annie Russell Maunder Annie Russell Maunder (1868-1947) is the other Irish woman with a crater on the moon named after her. The Tyrone-born woman studied at Cambridge and, though she graduated as the top mathematician of her year, restrictions on women meant she was not awarded a BA. She got a job as a “lady computer” at the Greenwich Royal Observatory, where her job was to photograph the sun, until her forced retirement after her marriage to her colleague, Walter Maunder, in 1895. Her work was widely studied and published – often under her husband’s name. The crater Maunder on the moon is named after her and her husband, as is the Maunder Minimum, the period between 1645 and 1715 when sunspots were rare. 12. Dr Kathleen Lynn The inventory of Dr Kathleen Lynn’s contributions is long: a medical doctor specializing in ophthalmology; a volunteer in the soup kitchens during the 1913 Lockout; medical officer to the Irish Citizen Army (ICA) during the Rising, for which she was imprisoned; a campaigner for equal rights for women; and the co-founder with her lifelong partner, the equally fearless Madeleine French-Mullen (and a budget of €70) of St Ultan’s Hospital for Infants. Not only did Lynn (1874-1955) not get a thank-you from the founding fathers, “by the time of the Civil War, women such as Lynn, who opposed the Treaty, were being castigated as irrational, extremist and almost deranged,” noted Diarmuid Ferriter, written off as “hysterical young women” who should be at home polishing the brasses. She was elected to the Dáil in the 1923 elections, but did not take her seat. 13. Eva O’Flaherty Not nearly enough is known about Achill Island’s intriguing Eva O’Flaherty (1874-1963), a fashionista, entrepreneur and activist. She was milliner on London’s Sloane Street, an artist’s muse, and later a businesswoman who founded a textile business. She was also the founder of Ireland’s oldest summer school, Scoil Acla, and – for a time – an active nationalist, thought to have been one of the “basket women” couriers during the Rising. Regular visitors to her home included WB Yeats, Paul Henry and Graham Greene. 14. Hanna Sheehy Skeffington Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington: Jailed in June 1912, Sheehy Skeffington for smashing the glass windows at Dublin Castle in protest at women being excluded from the franchise of the third Home Rule Bill On the 100th anniversary of the vote for Irish women, there has been a resurgent interest in the life of Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946) – unrelenting campaigner for the equal rights of men and women, active nationalist, founding member of the Irish Women Workers’ Union, and co-founder of the Irish Women’s Franchise League (IWFL). In June 1912, Sheehy Skeffington was one of eight women jailed for smashing the glass windows at

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Dublin Castle after women were excluded from the franchise of the third Home Rule Bill. She was back in Mountjoy the following year, after assaulting a police officer. She was also active in the Rising, delivering food and messages to the GPO – unaware until two days afterwards that her husband, Francis Skeffington, had been shot and killed. She remained a campaigner for women’s rights and an active nationalist throughout her life. 15. Lilian Bland The gutsy “flying feminist” Lilian Bland (1878 –1971) was the first woman in Ireland to build and fly an aircraft, and the world’s first female aviation engineer. Born in England, she grew up in Antrim, where she engaged in such unladylike pursuits as smoking, wearing

britches, shooting and, well, building planes. In August 1910, Bland took her biplane, the Mayfly, some 30 feet off the ground, at which point her father promised to buy her a car if she’d stay on terra firma. Not being a woman to do things by halves, she ended up running Belfast’s first Ford car dealership. After an unsuccessful attempt to ride in the Grand National, she married a cousin, Charles Loftus Bland, and moved to Vancouver with him. She died at the age of 92, reportedly still making waves.

16. Margaret Elizabeth Cousins Born in Boyle, Co Roscommon, Margaret Elizabeth Cousins (1878-1954) refused to be hemmed in by boring stereotypes. She was a unionist, Methodist, nationalist, suffragist, medium, campaigning vegetarian and music teacher who refused to give up her job after she got married. She was jailed in both London and Dublin for smashing windows at 10 Downing Street and Dublin Castle in protest at the exclusion of women’s suffrage from the Home Rule Bill. In 1915, she and her husband moved to India where she continued to campaign for women’s rights, and organized the first all-India and all-Asia women’s conferences. 17. Mary Spring Rice Mary Spring Rice (1880-1924) was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and a more hands-on Irish nationalist activist than many of her better-known male contemporaries. She helped raise the funds to buy the weapons needed for the 1916 Rising, and then sailed out on the Asgard during the Howth gun-running of July 1914 to pick them up. This remarkable photograph shows her sitting alongside Molly Childers on board, a Mauser rifle lying casually on top of a box marked ‘Hamburg’ between them. 18. Helena Molony Helena Molony (1883-1967) is a fascinating, complex and, like many of the women on this list, a bewilderingly underappreciated figure in Irish history. She was an actor; a magazine editor; a campaigner for school meals for children; one of the founders of Na Fianna; an active combatant in the 1916 Rising; a courier for Michael Collins; the second female president of the Irish Trade Union Congress; a lifelong feminist. In 1911, she became the first Irish female political prisoner of her generation, after she smashed a portrait of George V during the monarch’s visit to Ireland. In the run-up to the Rising, she took delivery of parcels which contained the printed copies of the Proclamation, and kept them under her pillow – along with a revolver. When the fighting broke out, she was part of the attack on Dublin Castle, and was captured and imprisoned again for seven months. After the Civil War, she remained active in the republican cause in the 1930s, and continued to work for women’s labor rights, even after her retirement from public life in 1946.

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19. Dorothy Stopford Price The “rebel doctor” Dorothy Stopford Price (1890-1954) – the niece of another fearless Irishwoman, Alice Stopford Green – was responsible for introducing the BCG vaccination to Ireland. In the early 1920s, she was a dispensary doctor in West Cork, where she offered first-aid classes to the IRA, and treatment for those hurt during the War of Independence and the Civil War. In 1923, she joined Dr Kathleen Lynn as house surgeon at St Ultan’s. In the 1930s, as TB swept the country, she began importing and testing the BCG vaccine, campaigning for a nationwide program. She was appointed head of the national vaccination program in 1949. Sadly, she suffered a stroke in 1950. 20. Rosie Hackett Rosie Hackett (1892 – 1976) was just 18 when she organized a strike of 3,000 workers at Jacobs Biscuits, and co-founded the Irish Women Workers’ Union (IWWU) with Delia Larkin. During the Lockout, she was one of those who set up a soup kitchen. She was later active in the Rising, occupying Stephen’s Green alongside Constance Markievicz and others, and was one of the group responsible for printing off the 1916 Proclamation. She would later recall handing it to James Connolly, still dripping wet. She eventually gave 60 years to the trade union movement, and was one of the people responsible for carving out modern working conditions. Rosie Hackett had a bridge named in her honor in 2014. 21. Margaret Skinnider Schoolteacher-turned-marksman Margaret Skinnider (1893 - 1971) has the dubious honor of being the only woman wounded in action during the Rising. When the Scottish-born child of Irish parents got wind of imminent republican action in Dublin, she promptly resigned her job in Glasgow and travelled to Ireland over Christmas 1915, carrying detonators for bombs in her hat and wires wrapped around her body. She took on the role of scout and sniper during the Rising, and was mentioned three times for bravery in dispatches sent to the Dublin GPO. Unfortunately, she was shot three times as she attempted to set fire to houses on Harcourt St to cut off the retreat of the British army, and lay in agony for three days while the fighting continued. ”We had the same right to risk our lives as the men . . . in the constitution of the Irish Republic, women were on an equality with men,” she would later write. After the War of Independence, she returned to teaching in Dublin, and became an active trade unionist and proponent of women’s rights. 22. Teresa Deevy Waterford-born dramatist, nationalist and women’s rights activist Teresa Deevy (1894-1963) became deaf through illness at the age of 19 but, if anything, that only made her more determined to be heard. In her mid-20s, she began writing and, by 1930, she was staging the first of a series of productions at the Abbey, and was one of the most prolific and acclaimed female playwrights in the world at that time. She was a critic of Catholicism’s repressive attitude to women and of censorship. When her relationship with the Abbey soured abruptly in 1937, she turned to writing for RTÉ and the BBC – all the more remarkable considering she had lost her hearing before radio arrived in Ireland. 23. Mainie Jellett Her name may not be as well known or well loved as those of Jack B Yeats or Paul Henry, or even Eileen Grey, but Mainie Jellett (1897-1944) remains one of the most significant Irish artists of the 20th century, credited with introducing modernism to Ireland. One of her paintings was displayed, alongside one of a misshapen onion, in The

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Irish Times under the headline “Two freak pictures”, while other publications denounced her as a dangerous source of foreign notions. But she persevered and, by the 1930s, had developed a hybrid style, her paintings com-bining cubism, religious art and Celtic design – and they went down better with the public. 24. Sybil Connolly Sybil Connolly (1921-1998) changed the face of Irish fashion, dressing Jackie Kennedy, Julie Andrews and Elizabeth Taylor in the 1950s and ’60s. After starting her career with Richard Alan, the Swansea-born Waterford woman was appointed design director at the fashion house Gaston Mallet at just 31. She began introducing Irish fabrics such as linen, tweed, lace and crochet, attracting the attentions of Harper’s Bazaar and Life magazine. She never married, telling the Daily Mail in 1957 that she preferred to buy her own mink and diamonds. 25. Kay McNulty Who knew one of the world’s first computer programmers was an Irish woman? Donegal-born Kay McNulty Mauchly Antonelli (1921-2006), who was brought up in Pennsylvania, was one of six women selected in 1940s by the US Army to work on the ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer. Their task was to calculate trajectories for shells and bullets for soldiers using artillery guns – essentially, these women taught themselves to program. McNulty was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame in 1997. Source: The Irish Times

Gaeilge - Irish Language

And that is, my son, how children are made.

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President's Message: A Chairde! to take a lyric from the Dropkick Murphy’s and give it a twist -

The season's upon us, it's that time of year, Guinness & Whiskey, there's plenty of cheer

There's pipes in the streets and the shamrocks are hung, There's mischief and mayhem and songs to be sung….

It’s parade season!! Come on out and march with your club! We are at the Milford’s St. Patrick’s Day parade on March 10th stepping off at 1:00p. The ICSA is meeting behind the Parson’s Center Gov’t. Complex at 11am. New Haven’s Parade on March 11th stepping off at 1:30p. The ICSA is in the 3rd Division for lineup!

The ICSA is again sponsoring the Irish Flag Raising on the New Haven Green in commemoration of the Easter

Rising. This years flag raising will be on Sunday April 22nd and commence at 9 am.

The Connecticut Irish Theater Troupe is hard at work on the spring theater production, Billy Roach's "Lay Me Down Softly". Show dates are April 27th 28th and 29th. Tickets are being finalized and include a brunch option for the Sunday show! We will have more information on that soon.

Irish Cultural & Sports Association’s annual golf outing is on track for July 21st at Alling Memorial in New Haven. Its a fun time followed by dinner and prizes at the Playwright. Start getting your foursomes organized!

8 days till St. Patrick’s Day!!

Go Raibh Maith Agaibbh,

Tim

● Almost there! The Cook Book is being edited as we speak! If you have a favorite Recipe or two, you can still send it along. Ship them off to [email protected] with the subject line "Cook Book". When the book has been completed we will make it available to members and friends for a nominal fee. Thanks in advance for your support. We’re almost there! House Keeping: 2018 dues are now being accepted. Your dues should been paid by March 1st to maintain your good standing. If you have already submitted your dues for 2018, thank you and welcome back! If you have questions, please contact our Financial Secretary, Siobhan Dacey at [email protected].

A Club Fundraising Opportunity! Don’t forget to use the Amazon Smile portal and then list the Irish Cultural & Sports Association your non-profit of choice, when shopping on-line. A link to Amazon Smile is on our web page at www.icsa-home.org. * Irish Language Classes * Wednesdays @ 7pm and 8pm - Classes are free to ICSA members and are also open to non-members for a nominal fee so you can try it out and see how you like it. Classes take place every Wednesday night in North Haven with beginners class at 7pm and the Advanced Beginners class is at 8pm. Sign up details are available on the club website or contact Cultural Director, Rich Regan at [email protected]. Irish Radio Show: Echoes of Erin. We encourage you to listen to our friends and club supporters at Echoes of Erin Radio show (88.7FM), broadcasting live every Sunday from 12 to 2 p.m. and Monday from 6 to 8 p.m. from the University of New Haven in West Haven CT and over the internet at http://www.wnhu.net/ This is your source for Irish music, news, sports and community events. Hosted by Pat and Joan Kennedy, Mike McGrath, Pat Hosey and Siobhan Dacey. Irish Radio Show: Ceol na nGael. Club member Molly Monahan used to host this show on Fordham Radio (90. 7FM). Now she is part of the production team. Listen in on Sundays from noon to 4pm. You can also listen to archive shows at WFUV.org.

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