Dateline Irish - July 10

Diane V. Byrnes DATELINE IRISH
78 GRANT AVE. July 10, 2011
PITTSBURGH, PA. 15223 PROGRAM # 1216
412.781.6368

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Sunday, July 10
• Echoes of Erin on WEDO 810AM; The Ireland Report with Brian Nolan, Barna, Co. Galway. Live stream – http://www.wedo810.com/, click on ‘Listen Live’. Information Diane Byrnes 412.781.6368. Change in schedule Telephone interview with Orla Fallon, singer / harpist and formerly with Celtic Woman, she is performing in Pittsburgh on August 6th.

• The West Virginia Irish Road Bowling Association will sponsor a pilot program from May 1 to October 8, 2011. Matches taking place in Ireland, WV; Buckhannon, Blackwater Falls State Park, Canaan Valley Resort State Park, Cacapon Resort State Park, Smithburg (near West Union), Philippi, Shepherdstown, Elkins, Kingwood, Holly River State Park, and Stonewall Jackson Resort State Park. Information http://www.wvirishbroadbowling.com/. David Powell, 202.387.1680.

Now through July 22
• The Ireland Institute of Pittsburgh welcomes a new group of 21 young persons for the Wider Horizons Program. This group is from the Tyrone-Donegal Partnership based in Omagh, Co. Tyrone. If you can host a one of these young folks at home or at work contact Rob Tierney at the Ireland Institute at 412.394.3900 or rtierney@iiofpitt.org.

Tuesday, July 12
• Paddy’s Pour House, 215 East Main Street, Carnegie, 412.279.0770, features Irish Night with Harp, Guinness, & Smithwick’s Specials from 8:00 PM. Happy Hour is every Tuesday through Friday from 5pm to 7pm. Paddys' opens at 3:00 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Dinner Hours: Tues-Thurs 5-10 p.m., Fri & Sat 5-11 p.m.

• Mullaney’s Harp & Fiddle 2329 Penn Ave., in The Strip, 412.642.6622, features Ceili Dancing from 7:00 pm.



July 10 to 15
• Balmoral School of Piping & Drumming at Shady Side Academy, Fox Chapel. Information George Balderose 412.323.2707.

Monday, July 11 to Sunday, July 24
• The Galway Arts Festival in Galway, Ireland. If you need anymore information you can email us on info@galwayartsfestival.com or call 091 509700.

Wednesday, July 13
• In IRELAND – Óglach Martin Hurson Anniversary, Vigil at Hunger Strike Monument Rossville St. 1pm.
• Mullaney’s Harp & Fiddle 2329 Penn Ave., in The Strip, 412.642.6622, features Open Stage with Bob Banjeree at 7:30pm.

Thursday, July 14
• The Balmoral Piping and Drumming School Instructors' concert 8pm at Shady Side Academy’s Hillman Center for the Performing Arts, 423 Fox Chapel Road, Fox Chapel, PA. 15238. Featured Pipers Willie McCallum of Bearsden, Scotland; and former Scots Guards Pipe Major Brian Donaldson from Fife. Also featured is Gordon Bell, US Champion Scottish snare drummer; Balmoral students; and George Balderose with Richard Hughes and Oliver Browne, musicians featured on Garden of Daisies, the ensemble Road to the Isles' latest CD. Free admission. Information: 412-323-2707 or www.bagpiping.org.

Friday, July 15
• Mullaney’s Harp & Fiddle 2329 Penn Ave., in The Strip, 412.642.6622, features Rick Manning on vocals & guitar at 9:00pm.

• Paddy’s Pour House, 215 East Main Street, Carnegie, 412.279.0770, Opens at 3:00 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Dinner Hours: Tues-Thurs 5-10 p.m., Fri & Sat 5-11 p.m. features Ballad singer Mike Gallagher at 900pm.

Saturday, July 16
• In IRELAND – Ógra Shinn Féin organizing one day tour of the 10 Hunger Strikers graves. (details to follow ).

• Paddy’s Pour House, 215 East Main Street, Carnegie, 412.279.0770, features Entertainment at 900pm. Opens at 3:00 p.m. Dinner Hours: Fri & Sat 5-11 p.m

• Mullaney’s Harp & Fiddle 2329 Penn Ave., in The Strip, 412.642.6622, features Celtic Rock with Red Hand Paddy at 9:00pm.

Sunday, July 17
• Echoes of Erin on WEDO 810am beginning at 12:30pm. The Ireland Report from Dublin with Davy Kettyles. http://www.wedo810.com/ ‘Listen Live’. Information Diane Byrnes 412.781.6368.

Wednesday, July 20
• Mullaney’s Harp & Fiddle 2329 Penn Ave., in The Strip, 412.642.6622, features Back Deck Acoustic Music with Mike Filosemi (8th Street Rox) from 7pm to 11pm.

Thursday, July 21
• Mullaney’s Harp & Fiddle 2329 Penn Ave., in The Strip, 412.642.6622, features Trivia with Johnny Connolly followed by Aaron Short at 8:00pm.

Friday, Saturday, & Sunday July 22, 23, & 24
• The 29th Annual Cleveland Cultural Festival at Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds, www.clevelandirish.org – Entertainment with The High Kings, Eileen Ivers & Immigrant Soul, Scythian, Cherish the Ladies, Tommy Fleming, The New Barleycorn, Dermot Henry, Dennis Doyle, Brigid’s Cross, , Patrick O’Sullivan, Girsa, Seven Nations, Screaming Orphans, Slide, Guaranteed Irish, Dublin City Ramblers, Glengarry Bhoys, Boston Comhaltas, Mickey Finns, Four Courts, The Kreelers, The Kilroys, Michael Crawley, and more. Details. 1.800.485.8013 Email: info@clevelandirish.org. Admission $10, Free Parking, Food, Irish Vendors, Children’s Activities, Theatre, and over 200 Exhibits. A FESTIVAL NOT TO BE MISSED!! www.clevelandirish.org

Friday, July 22
• Mullaney’s Harp & Fiddle 2329 Penn Ave., in The Strip, 412.642.6622, features Adam & the Blackwater River Band at 9:00pm.

• Paddy’s Pour House, 215 East Main Street, Carnegie, 412.279.0770, features Entertainment at 900pm. Opens at 3:00 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Dinner Hours: Fri & Sat 5-11 p.m

Saturday, July 23
• Paddy’s Pour House, 215 East Main Street, Carnegie, 412.279.0770, features Ballad singer Mike Gallagher at 900pm. Opens at 3:00 p.m. Dinner Hours: Fri & Sat 5-11 p.m

• Mullaney’s Harp & Fiddle 2329 Penn Ave., in The Strip, 412.642.6622, features Ballad Singer Mike Gallagher at 9:00pm.

Sunday, July 24
• Echoes of Erin on WEDO 810AM at 12:30pm, Live News – The Ireland Report from Belfast with Mairtin O’Muilleoir or www.newbelfast.com and www.irishecho.com. Live Stream www.wedo810.com click on “Listen Live”.. Information Diane Byrnes 412.781.6368. Guest Host is Jim Caldwell with AOH Division 1, KOE, IAUC, Conway Mill Trust and ‘Friend of Echoes of Erin.

Wednesday, July 27
• Mullaney’s Harp & Fiddle 2329 Penn Ave., in The Strip, 412.642.6622, features Maddie Arnold at 7:30pm.

Friday, July 29
• Mullaney’s Harp & Fiddle 2329 Penn Ave., in The Strip, 412.642.6622, Ballad Singer Terry Griffith on vocals & guitar at 9:00pm.

• Paddy’s Pour House, 215 East Main Street, Carnegie, 412.279.0770, features Entertainment at 900pm. Opens at 3:00 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Dinner Hours: Tues-Thurs 5-10 p.m., Fri & Sat 5-11 p.m

Saturday, July 30
• Mullaney’s Harp & Fiddle 2329 Penn Ave., in The Strip, 412.642.6622, features Entertainment at 9:00pm.

• Paddy’s Pour House, 215 East Main Street, Carnegie, 412.279.0770, features Entertainment at 900pm. Opens at 3:00 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Dinner Hours: Tues-Thurs 5-10 p.m., Fri & Sat 5-11 p.m





Sunday, July 31
• Echoes of Erin on WEDO 810AM at 12:30pm, Live News – The Ireland Report with Diane Byrnes. Live Stream www.wedo810.com click on “Listen Live”.. Information Diane Byrnes 412.781.6368.

Monday, August 1
• In IRELAND – Óglach Kevin Lynch Anniversary, Vigil at Hunger Strike Monument Rossville St. 1pm. (Derry to mobilize for area commemoration details to follow)

Tuesday, August 2
• In IRELAND – Óglach Kieran Doherty Anniversary, Vigil at Hunger Strike Monument Rossville St. 1pm.

Friday, August 5
• Paddy’s Pour House, 215 East Main Street, Carnegie, 412.279.0770, Opens at 3:00 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Dinner Hours: Tues-Thurs 5-10 p.m., Fri & Sat 5-11 p.m features Ballad Singer Mike Gallagher at 900pm.

Saturday, August 6
• Produce to the People at Braddock Distribution Center, 8th Ave and Talbot St, Braddock, PA 15104, 10am to 12 Noon. Help out the Ancient Order of Hibernians. Any questions contact Kevin O’Donnell at 412) 613-3500.

• Orla Fallon, singer / harpist, formerly with Celtic Woman is performing in Concert at Carnegie Music Hall of Homestead in Munhall, 510 East 10th Avenue, Munhall, 15120. Show time 7:30pm. Presented by WQED. Tickets $25. http://www.carnegieconcerts.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=66 or 412-368-5225.

Sunday, August 7
• Echoes of Erin on WEDO 810am, The Ireland Report with Patricia Sharkey, Donegal; Editor of the Donegal Newsletter at www.dun-na-ngall.com. Live Stream – www.wedo810.com click on “Listen Live’

Monday, August 8
• In IRELAND – Óglach Tom McElwee Anniversary, Vigil at Hunger Strike Monument 1pm. (Derry to mobilize for area commemoration details to follow)
• In IRELAND – Gasyard Feilé event to be confirmed (snatching victory from the jaws of defeat)

Friday, August 12
• AOH 32 Sean MacBride ‘Greater Pittsburgh Irish Open’, Fort Cherry Golf Course, 8:00 AM. Information Bill Delaney, delaney319@comcast.net
• Paddy’s Pour House, 215 East Main Street, Carnegie, 412.279.0770, features Ballad Singer Mike Gallagher at 900pm.

Sunday, August 14
• In IRELAND – National Hunger Strike Commemoration March, Camlough South Armagh, (national mobilization details to follow).
• Echoes of Erin on WEDO 810AM at 12:30pm, Live News – The Ireland Report from Galway with Brian Nolan. Live Stream www.wedo810.com click on “Listen Live”.. Information Diane Byrnes 412.781.6368. Interview from Ireland with Larry Brophy on the ‘National Hunger Strike Commemoration’.

Wednesday, August 17
• Mullaney’s Harp & Fiddle 2329 Penn Ave., in The Strip, 412.642.6622, features Back Deck Acoustic Music from 7pm to 11pm.

Saturday, August 20
• In IRELAND – Óglach Mickey Devine Anniversary, Vigil at Hunger Strike Monument Rossville St. 1pm.

• National Hunger Strike Exhibition venue The Guildhall, Pat Sheehan ( former 1981 Hunger Striker ) / Bik Mc Farlane ( former O.C. H Blocks 1981 ) in attendance, opening times between 12pm - 5pm

• Neal Delaney Memorial Golf Outing at Rolling Fields Golf Course, 4138 Hankey Church Road, Murrysville 724.335.7522. Information Jim Delaney 412.213.0299.

Sunday, August 21
• Allegheny County LAOH is sponsoring Our Lady of Knock Mass at St. Patrick’s Church, 17th Street & Liberty Ave. at 11am. All are welcome.

• Echoes of Erin on WEDO 810am beginning at 12:30pm. The Ireland Report from Dublin with Davy Kettyles. www.wedo810.com ‘Listen Live’. Information Diane Byrnes 412.781.6368. Guest in studio, Bill Lee, President AOH Division 1, Washington County – on the program “Irish Honor America”.


Friday, September 2 through Sunday, September 4
• 73rd National Folk Festival in Downtown Nashville TN, Performances with: Green Fields of America, Irish-American music and dance; Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano ¬– Mexican mariachi; The Holmes Brothers –blues, gospel, R&B; Dale Ann Bradley – bluegrass; BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet – Cajun; La Excelencia – salsa dura; Roan Mountain Hilltoppers – Appalachian old-time string band; Samba Mapangala & Orchestre Virgunga – East African rumba and soukous. Plus more will perform!!
For additional performer information and photos, visit www.nationalfolkfestival.com. The National Folk Festival is a celebration of traditional music and cultures from all over the United States over this Labor Day weekend. 615. 891.4944.

September 9 to 11
• Pittsburgh Irish Festival at The Riverplex at Sandcastle. Entertainment: Gaelic Storm, Makem & Spain Brothers, Screaming Orphans, Carbon Leaf, Goitse, Tom Sweeney, David Kincaid, Searson, Colin Grant Band, Dennis Doyle, Cahal Dunne, and more. 412.422.1113, http://www.pghirishfest.org/

Saturday, September 17
• Washington County, AOH Division 1 will sponsor “Irish Honor America”, with the Singing AOH, at Rostrevor Ice Garden, Route 51 South. Information contact Bill Lee, 724.483.5938 or Email wlee@leesupply.com. Further details TBA.

Friday, September 23
• AOH Division 4’s Irish Heritage Golf Classic benefits Tuition Assistance Fund for Diocese of Pittsburgh elementary schools, at Highland Country Club in West View. Shotgun start at 9 a.m. $ 100 per player. Tee and Corporate sponsors welcomed. Contact Bob Parry 724.933.0427 or parryr@consolidated.net.

Monday, October 3
• In IRELAND – Candlelight Vigil to mark ending of Hunger Strike, assemble 6.30pm. Mickey Devine’s house ( Rathkeele Way ) and linking up to Patsy O Hara’s house (Ardfoyle, Bishop St.) then preceding to Hunger Strike Monument Rossville St.

Tuesday, October 4
• Celtic Thunder in Concert at The Benendum downtown Pittsburgh.

Sunday, October 30 through December 11
• The Ireland Institute of Pittsburgh welcomes a new group of 21 young persons for the Wider Horizons Program. This group is from the Tyrone-Donegal Partnership based in Omagh, Co. Tyrone. If you can host a one of these young folks at home or at work please contact Rob Tierney at the Ireland Institute at 412.394.3900 or rtierney@iiofpitt.org. http://www.iiofpitt.org/

November 11 & 12
• The Balmoral Classic featuring the US Junior Solo Bagpiping and Snare Drumming Championships plus a concert with Breabach direct from Scotland. Information 412.323.2707 or Email info@bagpiping.org.

Saturday, November 26
• In IRELAND – Annual Pól Kinsella Function in conjunction with ’81 Hunger Strike Committee, remembering all those who played their roll during the 1981 Hunger Strike period both inside Blanketmen / Women Armagh and outside Relatives Action Committee / Youth Against Oppression.