THE PILOT JOHN BOYLE O’REILLY CLUB VâÄàâÜx? YtÅ|Äç? tÇw gÜtw|à|ÉÇ XáàA DKKC Irish Music festival Black 47 ON SATURDAY, AUGUST 8TH, 2009 THE IRISH MUSIC FESTIVAL COMMITTEE WILL BE PRESENTING ITS’ 11th ANNUAL IRISH MUSIC FESTIVAL. Black 47 espouses an unblinkingly political and thoroughly Irish form of rock 'n' roll, with songs covering topics from the Northern Ireland conflict to civil rights and urban unrest in contemporary New York. Black 47 earned their chops playing the pub scene in Manhattan and self-producing their first indie record Black 47, before converting The Cars' Ric Ocasek to the cause and gaining mainstream attention with their second album. The band is made up of: Geoffrey Blythe on tenor and soprano saxophone; Joe Burcas on bass. Thomas Hamlin on drums and percussion; Larry Kirwan does lead vocals and Stratocaster; Joseph Mulvanerty on uilleann pipes and flute; Fred Parcells on trombone and pennywhistle In addition to publishing online over 1700 transcriptions of Irish music performances, Fred also maintains the Black 47 Archive featuring photographs and press from the early days of the band. Check out The Reel Book and the Black 47 Archive. ♣ ♣ ♣ TIME: 3:00 PM TO 1:00 AM BANDS WILL BE PLAYING IN BOTH THE UPSTAIRS HALL AND THE DOWNSTAIRS LOUNGE SIMULTANEOUSLY. MUSIC WILL ALSO BE PLAYING IN OUR OUTDOOR TENT. THIS EVENT IS RAIN OR SHINE AND OPEN TO MEMBERS AND NONMEMBERS • • HAMBURGS, HOTDOGS AND OTHER FOOD WILL BE AVAILABLE. • VARIOUS IRISH CRAFTS WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM CRAFTERS FROM THROUGHOUT THE WESTERN MASS AREA. • ADMISSION IS ONLY $10.00 FOR ADULTS, WITH CHILDREN UNDER 12 ADMITTED FREE. • ANYONE WISHING TO VOLUNTEER AND HELP THE COMMITTEE MAKE THIS A GREAT DAY IS ASKED TO ATTEND A VOLUNTEER MEETING ON AUGUST 6TH AT 7:00PM IN THE DOWNSTAIRS LOUNGE. • THIS IS A DAY FOR ALL THE MEMBERS, THEIR FAMILIES, FRIENDS AND THE PUBLIC TO COME TO THE JOHN BOYLE AND SHOW THEIR SUPPORT WHILE ENJOYING THE BEST IN IRISH MUSIC THAT NEW ENGLAND HAS TO OFFER. • TICKETS MAY BE PURCHASED AT THE DOOR ON THE DAY OF THE FESTIVAL. Continued on page 2, Col. 1 Gaelic Games One of the most expensive projects that the Club produces each year is receiving the Gaelic football and hurling games directly from Ireland. Normally the games are received on Sunday mornings, and sometimes they are played on Saturday as well. You can check with the Irish Hours on Saturday morning to get the schedule as to which game has been scheduled. MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS Next monthly meeting is scheduled for September 20 MONTHLY BREAKFAST Sunday October 4. BACHELOR SUPPER Friday September 18, October 16 LADIES AUXILIARY MEETING Next monthly meeting is scheduled for September 20 July / August 2009 Newsletter (www.jbo-club.com) 1 . MUSIC LINE-UP 3:00PM – 6:00PM UPSTAIRS HALL LEO DOHERTY & CHARLIE BONGOVI DOWNSTAIRS LOUNGE THE BARDS 6:00PM – 9:00PM UPSTAIRS HALL THE GREEN ROVERS DOWNSTAIRS LOUNGE FERGUS 9:00PM – 12:00AM DOWNSTAIRS LOUNGE THE HEALYS OUTDOOR MUSIC TENT 3:00PM-5:30PM OPEN IRISH SESSION 6:00PM – 9:00PM THE RISING 9PM OUR FEATURED PERFORMERS BLACK 47 PERFORMANCES BY THE McDERMOTT ACADEMY OF IRISH DANCE & THE SPRINGFIELD KILTIE BAND ♣ ♣ ♣ Coming Events. The following activities are scheduled as follows: Sunday October 4, 2009 Monthly Breakfast Returns. Saturday October 10, 2009 Holiday Craft Fair – contact Gloria at 519-5126 for more information. New Britain Rock Cats Still time to attend the trip to the New Britain Rock Cats trip! On Saturday July 11, 2009 the JBO will be heading back to New Britain, CT for Irish Night at the Rock Cats. The Rock Cats will be playing the Binghamton Mets and our own Bill Eagan will be providing the entertainment. Cost for a ticket to the game, including the bus is $25.00. Please contact Timmy O’Sullivan if you are interested in going. Those who attended last year enjoyed two baseball games, Irish entertainment, Guinness beer, great food and watched Eric Devine throw out the first pitch. While we will only be seeing one game this year, it looks like this year’s festivities will be even better than last year! ♣ ♣ ♣ Saratoga Bus Trips As usual, there will be two trips to Saratoga. On Wednesday, August 12, Bill Jones will be in charge of the first trip that will be leaving promptly at 9:30 AM and no waiting for the tardy. The cost has gone up, by five dollars, due to changes in packages offered by the New York Racing Association. The cost is $50.00 per person and includes round trip transportation; admission to the track and grandstand seating. Also included, at the track, this year is a program and hot dog with soft drink. As usual the trip includes refreshments on the bus, to and from the track. To make reservations, call Bill at the Club 788-8603 or at his home 788-7898, starting July 1. He is normally at the Club Monday through Friday from 12:00 noon until 2:30 PM. Remember tickets for this trip go fast and no ticket will be held without payment, in full. Saturday November 7, 2009 Comedy night at the JBO Gloria and Eric are running the second trip on Saturday August 22. There will be two buses leaving the JBO for a fun filled day at 9:00 AM. The cost is $35.00 per person and includes refreshments on the way to and from the track.. This is always a popular trip so if you are interested in going, please contact Gloria at 519-5126, or Eric at 222-0676 to reserve your seat. Watch for the September/October newsletter with further information. As usual, payment in full, for the ticket, guarantees a seat on the bus. Saturday October 10, 2009 Gaelic Garlic Night II – dinner with Pat Tobin – contact James or Thomas Feeley for more information. July / August 2009 Newsletter (www.jbo-club.com) 2 Calendar of Events: Sunday Monday July 2009 Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 1 Friday Saturday 2 3 4 Holiday Hours Check with bar open times 5 6 7 Bagpipe and Drum Lessons 12 Irish Session 13 14 Bagpipe and Drum Lessons 19 Irish Session 20 26 Irish Session 27 Sunday Irish Session Monday 10 Boyle Boys 8 PM 15 16 22 23 Pitch League 28 Bagpipe and Drum Lessons 9 11 New Britain Rock Cats “Irish Night” 17 8 24 25 Pitch League 21 Bagpipe and Drum Lessons 8 Pitch League Jim McArdle 8PM 29 30 Pitch League Tuesday 31 Rick Guzzo 8PM Wednesday August 2009 Friday Saturday Thursday 1 2 3 Bagpipe and Drum Lessons 9 4 Irish Session 10 Bagpipe and Drum Lessons 5 11 Irish Session 6 7 Pitch League 12 8 Music Festival 13 14 15 Saratoga Pitch League 16 17 Bagpipe and Drum Lessons 23 30 18 Irish Session 24 Bagpipe and Drum Lessons 25 19 20 Pitch League 26 21 Dan Ringrose 8 PM 27 28 22 Saratoga G&E 29 31 Bagpipe and Drum Lessons Every Monday: Bagpipe and Drum LesEvery Tuesday: Open Irish Sessions, Every Wednesday: Pitch League, sons, Upstairs Hall 7:00 P.M. Members’ Lounge 7:30 P. M. Members’ Lounge 7:30 P. M. The lessons are free. Come join the Kilties! Come and enjoy Irish music! Come and play! Everyone welcome. July / August 2009 Newsletter (www.jbo-club.com) 3 Brick Sales Are Brisk Just a little information on the bricks. Brick sales are doing great with the next order of “14” arriving at the end of the month. Five more are on order for a total of seventy six. We have to wait until we get at least ten, before submitting the order to the supplier. It takes about six weeks from the time the order goes in before they are delivered to us. So, spread the news and let us see if we can hit a hundred before the winter season. Special Thanks to Billy Jones, Pat Martin, Sean Baker, Mike George, Tom Ryan, Johnny Goonan& Bobby Desormir for all their help!! It looks great! THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT DUBLIN by David Carey Dublin's O'Connell Bridge was originally made of rope and could only carry one man and a donkey at a time. It was replaced with a wooden structure in 1801. The current concrete bridge was built in 1863 and was first called 'Carlisle Bridge'. O'Connell Bridge is the only traffic bridge in Europe which is wider than it is long and Dublin's second O'Connell Bridge is across the pond in St. Stephen's Green. Dublin Corporation planted 43,765 deciduous trees in the Greater Dublin area in 1998. Dublin's oldest workhouse closed its doors for the last time in July 1969. Based in Smithfield, the premises housed 10,037 orphan children during the one hundred and seventy years it operated. Dublin was originally called 'Dubh Linn' meaning 'Black Pool'. The pool to which the name referred is the oldest known natural treacle lake in Northern Europe and currently forms the centerpiece of the penguin enclosure in Dublin Zoo. None of the so-called Dublin Mountains are high enough to meet the criteria required to claim mountain status. The Sugarloaf is the tallest 'Dublin Mountain' yet measures a mere 1389 feet above sea level. Dublin's oldest traffic lights are situated beside the Renault garage in Clontarf. The lights, which are still in full working order, were installed in 1893 outside the home of Fergus Mitchell who was the owner of the first car in Ireland. The Temple Bar area is so called because it housed the first Jewish temple built in Ireland. The word 'bar' refers to the refusal of Catholics to allow the Jewish community to enter any of the adjoining commercial premises. Tiny Coliemore Harbor beside the Dalkey Island Hotel was the main harbor for Dublin from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. Dubliners drink a total of 9,800 pints an hour between the hours of 5.30pm on a Friday and 3.00am the following Monday. Dublin is Europe's most popular destination with traveling stag and hen parties. The average 25-year-old Dubliner still lives with his/ her parents. There are twelve places called Dublin in the United States and six in Australia. Buck Whaley was an extremely wealthy gambler who lived in Dublin in the seventeen hundreds. Due to inheritances, he had an income of seven thousand pounds per year (not far off seven million a year at today's prices). He lived in a huge house near Step which is now the Catholic University of Ireland. He went broke and he had to leave Ireland due to gambling debts. He swore he'd be buried in Irish soil but is in fact buried in the Isle of Man in a shipload of Irish soil which he imported for the purpose. The converted Ford Transit used for the Pope's visit in 1976 was upholstered using the most expensive carpet ever made in Dublin. The carpet was a silk and Teflon weave and rumored to have cost over 950.00 Irish pounds per square meter. The largest cake ever baked in Dublin weighed a whopping 190 lbs and was made to celebrate the 1988 city millennium. The cake stood untouched in the Mansion House until 1991 when it was thrown out. Strangers are more likely to receive a drink from Dubliners than from a native of any other County. Saint Valentine was martyred in Rome on February 28th, eighteen centuries ago. He was the Bishop of Terni. His remains are in a Cask in White Friar Street Church, Dublin. He is no longer recognized as a Saint by the Vatican. The short lived millennium clock that was placed in the River Liffey in 1999 was known as ‘the chime in the slime’. Nelson's Pillar was blown up in 1966 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the 1916 rising. It now lies in a heap in a valley in County Wicklow. The original name of Trinity College was ‘Trinity College Near Dublin’. The capital was a lot smaller then. July / August 2009 Newsletter (www.jbo-club.com) 4 Newsletter The Pilot is a newsletter that belongs to each and every member of the Club. 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