NEWS ARCHIVE

San José / Dublin Sister City Spirit of Ireland Golf Tournament
Event: Monday, June 11, 2007

Join us for a fun day at the San Jose Country Club on Monday, June 11, 2007. The Country Club (soft spikes only) is at 15571 Alum Rock Ave., San Jose, 2.6 miles east of Hwy. 680.

Registration begins at 11:30, lunch is at 12:00 and a shotgun start is at 1:00 sharp. The entry fee is $175 per player and it includes green fees, driving range, cart, souvenir, refreshments, lunch and dinner. Additional dinners for non-players are $40.

RESERVATION:
Step 1: Download and complete invitation coupon by clicking here
Step 2: Send it with your check made payable to “San José/Dublin Sister City Program” or your credit card details, and mail it to:

Tom Browne
6774 Mt. Pakron Drive
San José, CA 95120-2038

For further information, contact Tom:
Phone: (408) 997-9338
Fax: (408) 997-1116
Email: tbrowne@netgate.net

Please contact Tom for Tournament Sponsorship information.
Tee sponsorships are $125 each.

BREAKING NEWS: Irish Actor Colm Meaney to Be Honored at the 2007 Spirit of Ireland Award Dinner
Event: Saturday, March 10, 2007, 6:30PM

San Jose Dublin Sister City Program is proud to announce that noted Irish Actor Colm Meaney will be honored as the recipient of the 2007 Spirit of Ireland Award. The award gala and dinner will be held on Saturday, March 10th, 2007 at 6:30PM, with location to be announced.

A native of Dublin, Ireland, Actor Colm Meaney, 53, has an international career that has spanned over three decades. He is known for his role in two Star Trek series. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his starring role in a television film "The Snapper."

Tickets will be $150/person or $1500 per table.

TUXEDO SPECIAL: If you mention "The Spirit of Ireland Awards Dinner" at Tuxedo Fashions, you can obtain a special rate of $65 for any style tuxedo rental for the dinner. Tuxedo Fashions is located at 363 Meridian Avenue, San Jose, CA 95126. Contact Bart Willner at (408) 294 - 3311 or visit their website at www.tuxedofashions.com

Colm Meaney (right) is face to face with Daniel Craig (left) in the film "Layer Cake." (click on photo to enlarge)*	Colm Meaney as Miles O'Brien in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. (click on photo to enlarge)*

*All Photographs Courtesy of Colm Meaney
- News Updated on Thursday, November 9, 2006

Irish Breakfast to Welcome Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ireland and Delegation, Followed by Flag Raising Ceremony
Event: Friday, March 9, 2007, 8:00AM; Flag Raising 10:00AM

On Friday, March 9th, 2007, an Irish Breakfast will be held to welcome the Lord Mayor, Lady Mayoress, City Manager, and the Delegation from Dublin, Ireland. This event will be held at Capital Club, atop the Knight Ridder Building - 50 W San Fernando St # 1700, San Jose, 95113 - Breakfast to be served at 8:00 A.M., doors open and registration will begin at 7:00 A.M.

Tickets are $30.00 each.
Or contact Stan Mason at smason4@aol.com

Immediately following the Irish Breakfast will be the Official Flag Raising Ceremony at San Jose City Hall Plaza at approximately 10:00 A.M. with the childrens' choir of St. John Vianney School, and featuring the San Jose Police and Fire Color Guard.

- News Updated on Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Annual St. Patrick’s Mass Celebrated in Irish in Mountain View
Aifreann as Gaeilge
Event: Sunday, March 11, 2007, 11:30AM

Each year the Irish community celebrates St. Patrick’s Day with a traditional Catholic Mass in Gaelic at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Mountain View. The celebration includes a Gaelic choir, Irish dancers, Irish music and a reception after the Mass with Irish refreshments. This year’s celebration will be held on Sunday, March 11 at 11:30 A.M. at St. Joseph Church, 582 Hope Street (on the corner of Hope and Church) in downtown Mountain View. Everyone welcome.

- News Updated on Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Irish Social Club's 48th Annual St. Patrick's Dinner Dance
Event: Saturday, March 17, 2007, 7:30PM

On Saturday March 17 - The Irish Social Club of Santa Clara County will host its 48th Annual St. Patrick's Dinner Dance at the Hilton San Jose, 300 Almaden Blvd. Cocktails 6:30pm, Dinner 7:30 P.M. $75 per person. Call 408-896-4753 for more information.

- News Updated on Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Golden Year
As Published in Mercury News, Monday, December 4, 2006

For its 20th annual tree-lighting celebration Saturday morning, the Fairmont Hotel paid tribute to San Jose's sister-city program, which turns 50 in 2007.

The 90-minute show, held in the hotel's standing-room-only lobby lounge, featured dozens of young people performing dances and songs to honor San Jose's seven sister cities: Okayama, Japan (1957); San Jose, Costa Rica (1961); Veracruz, Mexico (1975); Tainan, Taiwan (1977); Dublin, Ireland (1986); Pune, India (1992); and Ekaterinburg, Russia (1992).

Every dance was amazing, but the audience of parents and other guests seemed most captivated by the Irish dances put on by the San Jose Dublin Sister City Program, a trio of dances by Aztlan Academy and holiday medleys performed by students from Moreland pre-school and extended-day program.

- News Updated on Sunday, December 17, 2006

YuleDance - Molly's Celtic Christmas Celebration Tour Comes to San Jose!
Event's Date: Friday December 15th, 2006, 7:30PM
Event's Venue: Le Petit Trianon, 72 North 5th Street, San Jose, 408-995-5400

Performance:
YuleDance, A Celtic Christmas Celebration with Molly's Revenge, Jesse Autumn, Turco School of Irish Dance and special guests the Prince Charles World Champion Bagpipe Band

Reservations/Tickets:
Tickets are $20 or $18 for members of the Celtic Society of the Monterey Bay. Reservations can be made by calling 408-847-6982.

Tickets can be purchased at O'Flaherty's Irish Pub, 25 San Pedro Square, San Jose and online at www.mollysrevenge.com

Details:
An evening of music, song, story and dance associated with the festive season. The performance will include Christmas songs both old and new, and all are given a Celtic twist. You'll have an opportunity to join in and sing some of your favourite carols. Folk tales set in the winter season will hold you spellbound. And our dancing guests will surely set your toes tapping.

International touring Celtic band Molly's Revenge will provide their usual high energy, toe tapping renditions of traditional Irish and Scottish tunes, but this time with some surprising arrangements of well known Christmas melodies. Jesse Autumn will bring some quieter moments to the show, with her haunting voice and dynamic playing of the double-strung harp, an instrument with two parallel sets of strings. Irish step dancing will be provided by our regular dancer, Bethany Duff, and the Rosemary Turco Irish Dancers. The Prince Charles Pipe Band, Grade II World Champions, will provide stirring pipe and drum melodies.

Music from the show will be available on the band's new CD, Yuledance. A portion of the proceeds from the sales of the CD will be donated to two worthy charities. The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society is the world's largest voluntary health organisation dedicated to funding blood cancer research, education, and patient services, and the Aplastic Anemia & MDS International Foundation is the oldest and largest patient advocate and support organisation for bone marrow diseases.

For more information, please contact us by phone at 831-464-9778 or by email to theband@mollysrevenge.com

*Logo Courtesy of www.mollysrevenge.com
- News Updated on Sunday, November 26, 2006

Holiday Celebration and Tree Lighting, Saluting Sister Cities at The Fairmont, San Jose
Event's Date: Saturday, December 2, 2006

The Fairmont San Jose's annual holiday celebration and tree lighting featuring a Salute to Sister Cities will be held at 10AM in the hotel lobby. This is a great event for children and adults. All are welcome at this free event in Downtown San Jose which will feature entertainment from each of San Jose's Sister Cities including an Irish dance presentation sponsored by the San Jose-Dublin Sister City Program. Free refreshment!

- News Updated on Thursday, November 9, 2006

Liz Carroll and John Doyle Concert, with Special Guest Michael Black
Tuesday, November 14, 2006 at 7:30PM

The Celtic Society of the Monterey Bay proudly presents the dazzling fiddle & guitar/vocal duo, Liz Carroll & John Doyle, with special guest, Irish singer Michael Black, at Le Petit Trianon, 72 N. 5th St. in Downtown San Jose at 7:30pm. Tickets are on sale at O'Flaherty's Irish Pub, 25 San Pedro Square in downtown San Jose. For reservations, contact Bob at (408) 847-6982 or celtsoc@aol.com. $20, or $18 for Celtic Society members.

*Photograph: Anne Hamersky, Courtesy of LizCarroll.com

USA leg of Churchill Cup to be played in San Jose
December 13, 2005

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San Jose, CA - In a move intended to boost rugby's U.S. profile, three games of an international tournament known as the Churchill Cup have been scheduled at Buck Shaw Stadium in June.

The games could be the first move to turn the South Bay into the nation's rugby center.

"The Bay Area is steeped in rugby history more than anywhere in the country,'' said Doug Arnot, chief executive officer of USA Rugby, the sport's national governing body.

Arnot said Monday the South Bay is a leading candidate to house the group's new training center. If the area lands the center, the U.S. national team will make the Bay Area its home. The group will announce a decision on the site within two weeks, Arnot said.

The goal of the Churchill Cup, which began in 2003, is to promote North America rugby. It is a collaboration between the United States, Canada and England.

The 2006 finals will be held in Edmonton, Canada. Three pool-play games involving Ireland A, the New Zealand Maori and the United States are scheduled for Buck Shaw Stadium on June 3, 10 and 17. The Ireland and New Zealand squads are not the national teams that compete in the World Cup, an event that has fevered interest in rugby-playing nations.

Arnot said Santa Clara will play host to the 2007 Churchill Cup finals with six games, including pool play, being held at Buck Shaw.

"We're looking far enough into the future where we would some day host a rugby World Cup,'' he added.

Coutesy Elliott Almond

Stanford Irish Society / Cumann Gaeleach Stanford
Reception / Meeting on March 14, 2006, 4-6pm,
100 Cordura Hall, Stanford University

As links between Stanford and Ireland multiply, we wish to provide a focus to bring together Irish people at Stanford, as well as staff and students who have an interest in the country. We plan a reception at 4pm, in which the relative merits of Guinness and Boont stout will finally be decided on, to be followed by a short introduction to contemporary Ireland, and two short papers:

1. With the advent of free education, and the declining influence of the Church, women in Ireland have become free to pursue careers and make reproductive choices. Katie Gillum has done fieldwork in the past few years in Ireland, and will talk about some of the paradoxical trends that have emerged.

2. In 1183, Gerald de Barri was commissioned to write a victors¡¯ survey of Ireland by his fellow-Normans. That he did with enthusiasm; his only cavil was that the music was of a polyphonic nature a great deal more sophisticated than anywhere else in the world. Now, more than 800 years later, few Irish traditional musicians know even the elements of harmony.

This paper explains what happened, and suggests alternative paths that Irish music might have taken, had it been allowed to interact with the European mainstream. Musical examples will be given.

(updated March 9, 2006)

Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minster) plans to attend Spirit of Ireland Dinner on March 14th!

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PAST EVENTS

Irish Week 2007

March 9, 2007
Irish Breakfast, Welcoming Delegation and Flag Raising Ceremony
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March 9, 2007
The NHL San Jose Sharks Irish Night at the Shark Tank
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March 10, 2007
Spirit of Ireland Award Dinner, Featuring Recipient Colm Meaney, Actor
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March 11, 2007
Annual St. Patrick’s Mass Celebrated in Irish
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March 17, 2007
Irish Social Club 48th Annual St. Patrick Dinner Dance
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January 13, 2006
Website Launch & Reception to Announce 20th Year Anniversary Program

Irish Week 2006

March 11, 2006
San Jose Youth Symphony
Concert by Dublin Youth Symphony at Civic Auditorium

March 12, 2006
Dublin Boxing Exhibition at Civic Auditorium

March 13, 2006 - 8:30AM
Irish Breakfast at Capital Club & City, followed by flag raising

March 14, 2006 - 6:30PM
Spirit of Ireland Dinner with Special Guest Bertie Ahern, Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister)

Saturday, June 3 , 2006
2:00PM
Churchill Cup
USA vs. Ireland

Saturday, June 10 , 2006
2:00PM
Churchill Cup
New Zealand Maori vs. Ireland

Monday, June 12 , 2006
11:30AM
San José Dublin Sister City Spirit of Ireland 20th Anniversary Golf Tournament
at San Jose Country Club

July 2006
Lunchtime Irish Music Concert

September 2006
Reciprocal Visit to Dublin of San Jose Delegation

November 14, 2006
Liz Carroll and John Doyle Fiddle and Guitar/Vocal Concert, with Special Guest Michael Black

December 2 , 2006
Annual Holiday Celebration and Tree Lighting, a Salute to Sister Cities at The Fairmont, San Jose

December 15, 2006
Molly's Revenge Celtic Christmas Concert
Tickets Available at O'Flaherty's Irish Pub