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FEILE
MEETING DATE
In
order to make more timely reports to the GAC membership at the
monthly meetings, Feile voted to change its meeting date to the
last
Monday of the month. Meetings are open to all who wish to
attend
and begin at 7:45.
Irish Immersion Day
Have you ever wanted to read, understand and correctly
pronounce such Irish words or phrases like, Scéala or
Céad Míle Fáilte? Well then the Irish Language Group
wants you to come to the Irish Immersion Day on
October 17th, 2009 at the GAC, sponsored by Feile.
Click on the above
link for further information.
Irish
Emigrant Video Project
The committee
is pleased to report that they have collected over 40 interviews
with Irish Emigrants of various ages have been collected since
February of 2005. We are grateful to all the people
who have come forward and shared their unique stories with us
and allowed us to film them for future generations. Each person's
story is immersed with first person reminiscences, feelings, thoughts
and insights. Each is a treasured gifts we are
grateful to have in our collection. The
recordings, pieces of living history, are being archived
at the Gaelic American Club in the form of video tapes and/or
DVD’s The
volunteer staff of the project, includes 5 interviewers,
7 note takers and one camera man, Kevin Collins, who finds time
in his busy professional filming schedule to be a part of our
ongoing project. Our
list of prospective subjects is growing. We see no end in sight!
If
you are willing to share your story or would like information
on the project please contact Peg O'Leary at 261-4944 opeggyo@sbcglobal.net or
Hilary Koreeda at videoproject@feileinc.org
IRISH
SPORTS COMMITTEE
President,
Richard MacLean has appointed Tommy Moran and Paddy Coyle as co-chairs
of the newly created Irish Sports Committee, who will advise the
board on the issues and needs of the sport community. Contact
Paddy Coyle at: <coyles135@msn.com>
with your requests and/or ideas.
For more information check the
GAC Newsletter, the bulletin board or better yet come back to
www.feileinc.org for more details. If you still have questions
on FEILE, it's history and it's goals for the future, email us
at:
info@feileinc.org
Feile,
Inc., is a charity devoted to the promotion of Irish Culture
located at 74 Beach Road, Fairfield, CT 06824.
Feile, Inc. All rights reserved.
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