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132 Commerce St PO Box 620 Glastonbury, CT 06033 Ph. (860) 633-9691
President’s Message
Dear Fellow Members, We surely have been busy around here! On September 6th, we held our Pig Roast Luau and it was a great suc-cess despite the weather forecast. On Sunday, September 7th, the pub was packed to the rafters with fans cheer-ing on Kilkenny and Tipperary as they played for the All Ireland Senior Championship Final in hurling which ended in a draw. Our club’s golf league held their 32nd Annual Irish Golf Classic on September 12th which raises money for the Scholarship Fund. We had our first Tag Sale and Flea Market on September 13th and while we didn’t have the attendance we had hoped for, we made a few dollars and had a great time. We’re closing out the month with the All Ireland Football Finals and the replay of the hurling finals…and sliding into October without missing a beat! Take a look through this newsletter to see all that is planned for October and beyond! If you haven’t been by in a while, stop in and see the beautiful restrooms that were recently renovated. Board Member Stephen Miskell spearheaded this project and the results are amazing! We hope you make time to come down and cast your vote during our Elections. We have candidates running for two positions. Now is the time to make your voice heard! So stop by…enjoy a cup of tea or a cold pint. Chat with friends old and new. We would love to see you! All the best, Maureen A. Kennedy
President
Irish American Home Society Inc.
OCTOBER NEWSLETTER
OCTOBER ENTERTAINMENT OCTOBER 3RD - BILLY EAGAN AND THE RISING OCTOBER 10TH - THE BAND IRELAND OCTOBER 17TH - THE BRENNAN BROTHERS OCTOBER 24TH - JEFF CONLON OCTOBER 31ST - THE AMERICAN STANDARD BAND (HALLOWEEN)
OCTOBER 4th DANCE
T.R. DALLAS RETURNING FOR ANOTHER GREAT SHOW!! Please join us for a wonderful evening of great Irish and Country hits by the legendary T.R. DALLAS direct from Ireland.
Come and cut a rug or sit back relax and enjoy one of Ireland's most successful entertainers!!! TR Dallas has toured and
performed with some of the biggest names in Country Music such as Johnny Cash, Boxcar Willie, Don Williams and Fos-
ter & Allen. He has graced the stage at the Grand Old Opry in Nashville, Tennessee and has represented Ireland at the
European Gold Star Awards in Holland where he came joint third with the world-famous group The New Seekers.
Tickets are $20 and the doors open at 6pm in the upstairs hall, show starts at 7pm. Tickets will be sold at the bar down-stairs or you can contact Erin Mulcahy by Phone: call or text (860) 250-9403 or Email:[email protected]
Screening for new members will be held on Tuesday, October 7th
at 7:00 p.m.
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Comedy Night
Saturday October 11th
Looking for something fun to do on a Satur-
day night? We’ve got just the thing.
Saturday Oct. 11th we will be having a
comedy night in the upstairs hall. The outra-
geously funny and wildly hypnotic Dan
LaRosa will be returning to the Irish Ameri-
can Home Society to mesmerize and amuse
his audience with his hysterical comedy
hypnosis show. You have to see it to believe
it! As an added bonus, the night will also
feature the irreverently funny Coconuts band
performing songs you know in a way you’ve
probably never heard them before.
If you haven't seen Dan or Coconuts per-
form before you don't know what you're
missing! You'll laugh so hard your ribs will
hurt.
This is always a full house event so get your
tickets early!
Doors open at 6:30 and the show begins at
7:30.
$20.00 Advance tickets will be available for
purchase online at Brownpapertickets.com
or at the bar until Friday Oct. 10th.
Tickets the at the door the night of the show
$25.00
Cash Bar will be available.
Feel free to bring something to snack on
during the show!
Pub Quiz is Back!! The next Pub Quiz will be held On Satur-day, November 29th at 7:00 pm in the UP-STAIRS HALL. Gather your friends and family and get your team together. We will have an evening of trivia competition hosted by Quizmaster Theresa Doyle. She will be putting your brains to the test with several rounds of triv-ia covering all manner of useless knowledge. Players pay $5 to get into the game and then form teams of up to 6 people (No more than 6 people allowed at a table - playing or not). Prizes are awarded to the team with the highest score at the end of the evening. If you don’t have a full team of 6, that’s ok. It is highly recommended that you reserve a table in advance. Tables book up fast!! Please contact Theresa at 860-568-7685 and leave a message with your name and phone number to let her know how many tables you will need. Feel free to bring your own snacks and munchies.
GAA ANNUAL SPORTS NIGHT DINNER
Hartford GAA Sports Night Dinner
November 1st.
Honoring Jimmy Staunton as our Person of
the Year.
Full dinner catered by Brennan’s.
Music by Billy Egan and the Rising.
Doors open at 6pm tickets $30
Contact Dan Ustach @ 860-707-0537 or
email [email protected]
GAME NIGHT
Saturday, October 18th from 7:00 p.m to ???. Come down to the club to play or learn to play Left, Right, Center, a very easy to follow dice game and a lot of fun! Adults only! If you have the game, please bring it with you. Each game is $3…so bring your singles! Bring a friend and snacks, if you like! Drink specials to be an-nounced!
SHOPPING ANYONE!!!!
Love the product…not the parties????? Come
on down for our Catalogue Party…Saturday,
November 15, 2014 from 4- 8 pm downstairs
lounge…shop all your favorites, Lia Sophia,
Tupperware, Pampered Chef and many, many
more! Admission is $5.00 and you will receive a
complimentary glass of wine to start your shop-
ping out right, all while listening to your favorite
tunes from the 70’s & 80’s! Not just for girls…
bring the boys…free popcorn at the bar and all
the tv’s tuned to their favorite sporting match
ups!!!!
CHILDREN’S HALLOWEEN COSTUME PARTY!
Please join us on Sunday, October 26th in the
Upstairs Hall from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. for
our annual Children’s Halloween Party. The
cost is $5 per child and includes a hay ride,
pumpkin, a hot dog and cupcake for lunch, and
many fun activities! RSVP is required by email-
ing Sarah Moran ([email protected] or
by calling the club (860)633-9691. It will be a
hauntingly good time!
FALL HURLING LEAGUE The Hartford GAA’s Hurling Team will be partici-pating in a Fall Pub League. Matches will be played on our field, Saturdays at 4:00 p.m. on the following dates: October 4th, October 18th, October 25th, November 1st and November 8th. Come down and cheer our team on! For more information contact Dick Edmonds at [email protected].
SUNDAY FUNDAY!
Join your friends at the IAHS for Sun-day football with the NFL TICKET! That’s right…we have THE TICKET and will be offering a weekly lunch special served from 1 to 4 p.m. every Sunday afternoon! So stop by for some great football, great food and great craic! Watch the website and Facebook for notice of the spe-cials and we’ll be posting them inside .
RESERVE YOUR HOLIDAY WREATHS
Karen Breen will be taking orders for holiday wreaths, swags and cemetery boxes in addition to centerpieces and ice skate hangings. These gorgeous handcrafted pieces will be ready for our Annual Christmas Shopping Day (December 7, 2014). You can pre-order from Karen to be assured that you will get one of her beautiful creations. All orders must be paid in advance. All proceeds go to our club! Call Karen at (860)633-4796 or see her at the club.
This and that… Our Pig Roast Luau held on September 6th was a great success with over 100 members enjoying the perfectly roasted pig, great music and fun tropical drinks. Thanks to all of our members who attended and supported this event! Special thanks to the roasting team who arrived at 5:00 a.m. to get porky on the spit: Todd Barry, Jack Barry, Jim McElroy, Jeffrey Reynolds, Julie Saimininkas and Der-rick Tomlinson. Thanks also to Peter Hart for manning the grills, and to Joann Murray and her son for helping with the serving. Thanks to the Events Committee for all their careful plan-ning and hard work: Cathy Barry, Caitlyn Bar-ry, Barbara Hedges, Jenn Hedges, Eileen Moore, Erin Mulcahy, Elizabeth O’Leary, Ann Purcell-Murray and Kathy Saimininkas. We’re already planning for next year’s roast! This event is not to be missed! Thanks to Theresa Doyle for planning the Tag Sale and Flea Market held on Saturday, Sep-tember 13th in the club’s parking lot. While the turnout was a bit lower than anticipated (possibly because rain was in the forecast), our vendors and bargain hunters enjoyed the event and those of us who helped Theresa had a ball! Thanks to Rick Breen for arriving at the ungodly hour of 5:30 a.m. to help organ-ize the vendors; Eileen Moore for coordinating the sales of coffee, donuts, burgers and hot dogs and for overseeing the grilling team of Kevin Benner and Stephen Miskell (who also provided a lot of laughs for the rest of us)! We are planning to hold this event again so start saving your unwanted treasures! If you’ve been down to the club recently, you most likely have seen the recent renovations of the restrooms off the pub. These renova-tions are the result of the vision of Director Stephen Miskell (owner of Galway Tiling LLC) and his willingness to share his talents with our club…Stephen did all the labor him-self at no charge! He even convinced his brother, Dave, to come from New York and plaster over the cinderblock walls…again at no charge to our club! Special thanks to Martin Geoghan, Terry Devanney, Dan O’Connell, Cathy Barry, Dave Miskell and Rich Christ who volunteered their time and talents to the project and to Sean Preston (Preston Pumb-ing, LLC) who gave us a great deal on the plumbing required to complete the project. In addition to all new tile walls and floors, we have installed beautiful granite counter tops, new stalls and new lighting in the ladies room. It’s absolutely gorgeous…all thanks to Ste-phen! I hope you all enjoy reading about the efforts of your fellow members in support of our club and the many projects and events that occur. I try to ensure that I don’t miss anyone but occasionally it happens. So here’s a big SHOUT OUT to Jenn Hedges, who volun-teered to be Chair of Club Entrances for the Greater Hartford Irish Music Festival! Please accept my apologies for the oversight!
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2012 - 2013
IAHS Officers & Board of Directors President
Maureen Kennedy 860-550-3126
[email protected] Vice President
Sheila Dupuis Green 860-633-1883
[email protected] Recording Secretary
Eileen K. Moore 860-977-9700
[email protected] Treasurer
Colleen Kissane 860-614-6440
[email protected] Financial Secretary
Liz Saunders 860-951-5269
[email protected] Membership Secretary
Kathy Saimininkas 860-895-8711
[email protected] Assistant Membership Secretary
Cynthia Prior 860-995-4794
[email protected] Corresponding Secretary
Maura O’Donnell 860-657-9950
Sergeant at Arms Ray McKinstry Jr.
860-798-9591 Board of Directors
Peter Hart 860-568-0628
[email protected] Mary Lynch
860-462-2881 [email protected]
Eileen McGee 860-550-3732
[email protected] Pat Whelan
860-573-3884 Stephen Miskell 860-478-2052
[email protected] Permitee
Dan O’Connell 860-633-9691
GOOD & WELFARE If you know of any member who
is ill, in the hospital, or has
passed away, give Margaret
Moriarty a call (860-563-0804)
or email at [email protected] so
that an appropriate remem-
brance may be sent on behalf of
the membership. If you have
good news to share with the
membership, i.e. birth, gradua-
tion, promotion, etc., please
send the information, to be pub-
lished in a future newsletter, to
newslet-
HALL RENTALS The Upstairs Hall and Lower
Hall are available to rent for
parties and gatherings.
Please call Dan O’Connell for
availability and pricing. 860-633-
9691
SEISIUN Every 1st and 3rd Sundays
Live traditional Irish music continues on the first and third Sundays of each month at the Irish American Home Society, from 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Come join the singers and musicians at this open seisiun. Listen or play along with the lively jigs and reels…sing a song if you’re so inclined…or simply relax and enjoy the music of Ireland. A slow music seisiun is held on the third Sunday between 3 and 4 p.m. This is an oppor-tunity for new or aspiring musicians to kearn Irish mu-sic. For more information, contact Liz Raymond (860)346-3235. RETIREES GROUP
The next Retirees Group Meeting and Dinner will be held on Sunday, October 19, 2014, at 2:00 p.m. at the Irish American Home Society. All retirees are invited to attend. If you are a retiree and you haven’t joined us yet, please come down, bring a friend…meet old friends and enjoy a great meal. Desserts would be greatly appreciated. No raffle prizes but please bring a food item to donate to a soup kitchen. RESERVA-TIONS ARE A MUST! For reservations call Betty Mohan (860)742-8548.
ELECTIONS
Elections will be held on Sunday, September 28th from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. and on Friday, Octo-ber 3rd from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. with the results an-nounced as soon as the ballots are tallied. This year we have 2 positions to be decided. For Assistant Fi-nancial Secretary we have running Kelley McElroy and Cynthia Prior. For the 2 Year Board of Directors posi-tion we have running Mary Lynch and Dan Ustach. Please come and cast your vote! In order to be eligi-ble you must be a member in good standing and paid your annual dues on or before March 31, 2014.Voting will occur in the Upstairs Hall. You must present your Membership Card to obtain a ballot.
INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS Installation of Officers will be held on Sunday,
October 26, 2014 in the downstairs lounge. The cere-mony will begin promptly at 4:00 p.m. Following the ceremony, light fare will be served. For more infor-mation, please contact Maureen Kennedy.
PUB GRUB SPECIALS Pub Grub is served every Friday evening (except First Friday aka Food Truck Friday) from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. In addition to our regular menu, we also offer a weekly special. The specials for October are: October 3: Food Truck Friday w/The Rolling Tomato (wood fired oven pizza) October 10: Swiss Patty Melts October 17: Shepard’s Pie October 31: Regular Menu
SYMPATHY IS EXTENDED TO THE FAMILY & FRIENDS OF :
Mary Ellen Barry
(Wife of Member John Barry ) &
John Foley
HONOR GUARD
It is this Society’s tradition to honor our de-ceased members by the presence of an Hon-or Guard at the funeral service and interment. While we have several dedicated members who faithfully participate in this tradition, we
would like to ensure a full complement at each service. If you are interested in partici-pating when the need arises, please contact
Anne Marie McKinstry at (860)875-8278 to be included in the contact list.
WEEKLY CARD GAME Enjoy playing cards? Every Thursday even-ing at 7 p.m. in the downstairs lounge, mem-
bers and guests are invited to join in a friendly game of Setback.
The Ancient Order of Hibernians Division #2 and Ladies AOH meets on the first Friday of each month at 7:30 p.m. in the Downstairs Lounge. The AOH is an Irish Catholic organi-zation that promotes and encourages partici-pation in our religion, charity and Irish culture, following the motto, “In Friendship, Unity and Christian Charity”. For more information con-tact Jamie Forzono at (860)604-3021.
IRISH SET DANCE CLASSES Traditional Irish country set dancing classes are held in the upstairs hall on Wednesday evenings (except the fourth Wednesday of each month). This is a cultural function of the Irish American Home Society and there is no charge. The only requirements are hard-soled shoes and a little stamina! Classes begin at 7:00 p.m. For more information, please call John Droney (860)521-2696. Newsletter deadline is the 15th of the month for inclusion in the next month’s edition. Send contributions, in WORD FORMAT, to [email protected].
IRISH NORTHERN AID The Hartford Unit of Irish Northern Aid meets the 3rd Friday of every month at 8:00 p.m. in the downstairs hall of the Irish American Home. Since 1970, the Irish Northern Aid Committee has been at the forefront in sup-port of the struggle for freedom, justice, and self-determination for all the people of Ireland. For more information, please contact Tom McBride (860)983-0846.
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IRISH AMERICAN HOME SOCIETY INC. 132 Commerce Street / P.O. Box 620
Glastonbury, Connecticut 06033
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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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Set Dancing
Upstairs
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AOH MEETING
7:30
PUB GRUB
6-8:30 P.M
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SEISUIN
4-6 P.M
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Pipe Band
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New Member
Screening
7:00P.M.
Board of Directors
Meeting
8:00P.M
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Set Dancing
Upstairs
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Setback Downstairs
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MONTHLY
MEETING
8;00 P.M
PUB GRUB
6-8:30 P.M
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Pipe Band
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Set Dancing
Upstairs
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Setback Downstairs
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PUB GRUB
6-8:30 P.M
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SEISUIN
3-6 P.M
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Pipe Band
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Setback Downstairs
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PUB GRUB
6-8:30 P.M
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Pipe Band
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Set Dancing
Upstairs
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OCTOBER
