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January-February2020
The Irish Culture Club
of Delaware
302irish@gmail.com https://irishde.org P.O. Box 3375, Wilmington DE 19804
President’s Message
Hello Everyone,
Happy New Year to all! We hope your holidays were great! As a club we look forward to 2020
and wish our members, family and friends a healthy and prosperous year.
As you are all aware, the clock is ticking down to our favorite time of the year! We have been
preparing for our many upcoming events this year. We have our annual St. Patrick’s Day
Parade and Hooley coming up on Saturday, March 14. We hope to see everyone in attendance!
Please make arrangements to get there early to get a good seat at the parade—or better yet,
plan on marching with the Club!
The Club is also planning to march in the Philadelphia and New York City parades. Details on
the New York parade are still being planned. However, we have our plans set for the Philly
parade. Join us!
The officers, board members and committee chairs of ICCD are always looking for ways to
improve our annual events and create new ones. We can only do this through the strength and
commitment of our members. Please plan on attending our general meetings held monthly on
the third Tuesday of every month and bring a friend or two for a nice night out!
Membership dues are due now for 2020. You can renew (or join) through our website
irishde.org or by mailing a check to our P.O. box.
On behalf of the Club, I would like to thank the ICCD Parade Committee for all their planning
and hard work for this year’s upcoming parade. This takes many hours of dedication to create
such a great parade for the community.
I also want to thank all the volunteers and those who made our Children’s Christmas party and
our annual Christmas dinner such a great success.
I also want to apologize for the lack of a newsletter last month. We will try harder in the future to
make sure our bimonthly newsletter is created in a timely way.
It’s going to be a great year, and we are looking forward to seeing everyone at the parade and
other events throughout the year, as well as seeing you at our monthly meetings. Current and
future members are always welcome and encouraged to attend our meetings. Hope to see
you all soon! Slainte, Jimmy Mallon
Club Fundraiser – February 27th event by volunteering and raising money for
this worthy cause. They are listed below.
We’re preparing for our Second Annual
Guest Bartender Event at the BBC Tavern Loria Bafundo-Bertollo
and Grill on February 27 from 6 to 9 pm. Ryan Quinn Brown
Ryan Dill
Not only did we have a great time last year, JY Dougherty
we raised a lot of money for our Scholarship Michele Giofre-Pyle
Fund and Parade Fund. Please join us at Dave Ireland
BBC Tavern, 4019 Kennett Pike, Greenville, Linda and Chip Mallon
Delaware. Robyn & Mike Mooney
Eileen Walsh Paulson (with a surprise)
Nick Paulson
Brian Ratasiewicz
Brian Raughley
Robert Strong
Stan Stumbers
YOUR DUES ARE DUE!
Yes, it is that time of year! Your ICCD
membership dues are due. You can renew
(or join) in one of two ways: visit
https://irishde.org and renew through your
profile or the JOIN button for new members.
Last year, we were able to offer three
You can also send your dues check to
scholarships to graduating high school
ICCD, P. O. Box 3374, Wilmington DE
seniors headed to their first year of college
19804. Be sure to write MEMBERSHIP on
as a result of your generosity! Let’s keep up
the memo line of your check.
the good work!!
Join us for a drink. Come with your appetite Are You Ready for March 14?
and eat from the special Irish menu between The 45th St. Patrick’s Day Parade
6 and 9. The Club will receive 10% of your sponsored by the ICCD is coming to King
bill as a donation for the night if you tell your Street on Saturday, March 14! This year’s
server you’re here for the GB Event. theme is “Saluting Role Models” and what
Do you like a good raffle? We’ve got you better Grand Marshall for our parade than
covered! Bring your checkbook or cash with Veronica McAleer McCrea.
you to buy tickets and to donate. Tax
deductible forms will be available. For 50 years, Veronica has been dedicating
her time to mentoring young people and
Can’t make it on the 27th? That’s okay—you teaching them about Irish culture through
can still participate. Visit our website at dance. Please join us in honoring her
https://irishde.org/donate . Pick a Guest commitment and love of community by
Bartender and donate under his or her cheering for her this year as she leads up
name. our parade.
Thank you to all of our volunteer Guest
Bartenders who will be helping us with this
$600 to the Andrew McDonough B+
Foundation
$600 to the News Journal Needy Fund
$600 to the Salvation Army Tree Angels.
Please feel free to let us know about other
worthy groups.
Painting the Line for Our Parade
Please join us on Friday March 13 at Noon
for the Annual Painting of the Line. We’ll be
the ones with the green paint on King Street
at Rodney Square!
We have a few surprises in store for you too,
but if we told you now, we’d ruin the
surprise!
We can tell you, though, that the McAleer-
Paulson Irish Dance Academy will be
stepping up the parade route!
We’ve also got the Delaware State Police
Pipe and Drum Band. They’re always
fantastic, along with our annual participants
and groups like Rocky Blu Winkle and the
Mummers!
The Hooley will be held in its traditional spot
at 14th and King at the end of the parade
route. Refillable beer mugs will be $20. The
beer runs from Noon to 4 pm—or whenever
the kegs run dry—which doesn’t happen
often. We’ll have a DJ there, as well as a
performance by the McAleer-Paulson
dancers. The Parade and Hooley is a great
event which you don’t want to miss! So,
don’t miss it!
UPCOMING EVENTS
We’re Irish! We Give to Others!
We’ve got A LOT happening—as usual!
During the month of December, we donate
to as many groups as we can. You’re a part On March 15, all Club members are invited
of that too! Club members voted to change to march with us at this year’s Philadelphia
our bylaws so we could donate 2% of total St. Patrick’s Day Parade. YOU WILL BE
assets annually. Here are our year-end ON TV! Guaranteed; so tell your friends and
donations: family to watch the parade and maybe even
record our segment!
$1000 to the Ulster Project of Delaware
$1000 to Sojourners Meet us in the Price’s Corner parking lot
$600 to Little Sisters of the Poor in Newark around back at 8:15 am for the bus ride up
to Philly. In the meantime, let us know
you’re interested. Members are wearing Can’t volunteer? You can participate in the
tan/khaki pants and a green top. Call us at success or our parade by becoming a
302-45-IRISH or email us at sponsor! Contact us at 302irish@gmail.com
302irish@gmail.com. 302-45-IRISHf or more information. Thanks
in advance for your support!
March 16 is Irish Night at the 76ers
Fieldhouse in Wilmington. Join us to watch
the NBA 76ers G League Team, the Our Business Partners
Delaware Blue Coats dribble and score
against the West Chester Knicks at 7 pm. Please support these ICCD member
We’ve donated tickets to the Irish dance businesses:
schools, and you can come too! We BBC Tavern & Grill 4019 Kennett
welcome your donation. Tickets are Pike, Greenville; website:
firstcome, first-served. Contact us at bbctavernandgrill.com LIKE them
302irish@gmail.com for tickets!
at www.facebook.com/bbctavern/
We are planning to march in the NYC St. Discount: 10%
Patrick’s Day Parade on Wednesday,
March 17. Please contact us at Catherine Rooney’s 1616 Delaware Ave.,
302irish@gmail.com to secure your spot! Wilmington
Paul Dolan is organizing a day trip to the http://catherinerooneys.com/home/ for a
Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Did your 10% discount on food and drink
family come to the U.S. via Ellis Island? This Dead Presidents 618 No. Union St.,
trip would be a good chance to find their Wilmington 302-375-5627 Website:
info! More details will follow, and you can www.deadpresidentspub.com; LIKE them at
also contact Paul at 302-592-0375. www.facebook.com/DeadPresidents-
PubRestaurant335193000460/.
Meeting Updates
Discount: 15%
February 18 is the date for our next
meeting. Join us at Catherine Rooney’s at
1616 Delaware Avenue, Wilmington. Social
hour starts at 6 pm and the General Meeting
starts a 7 pm. We’d love to see you!! Come to Ireland With Your Club
PLEASE NOTE: The March meeting will be Join us this August as we tour County
held on March 24 at Catherine Rooney’s Donegal and visit Northern Ireland, ending
due to St. Patrick’s Day. Whether you’re a up in Dublin for the Navy-Notre Dame game.
new or current member—or just wanting to We fly into Dublin and to on to County
know what we’re all about—we would love Donegal by motor coach. Never been to
for you to join us at our General Meeting! Slieve League or Giants Causeway. These
are beautiful sights to see and part of our
trip from August 24 to August 31. We’re also
Volunteers and Sponsors traveling to Belfast and Armagh then on to
We need YOU for our St. Patrick’s Day the acclaimed EPIC Museum in Dublin as
Parade. Would you like to volunteer? well as other sights.
Contact Parade Committee chairs Donna The price is $1966/person for land. Contact
and Patrick Kelly at pjdnkelly@comcast.net. Anita O’Donnell at 302-607-8216 for all the
details. Time’s running out to sign up. Don’t miss it! New Website We thought we’d tell you first…our website is getting a new look! Be on the lookout for the big reveal! https://irishde.org. Our Christmas Events Were A Big Hit! A special thanks to Nora Smith and Eileen McKeown for giving us another great Children’s Christmas Party in 2019! Every year, they put together such a wonderful event for our kids! The kids loved the party, which featured face painting and a balloon maker and music. Santa Claus was there too, and all children in attendance received gifts from Santa! A big THANK YOU to Catherine Rooney’s for all their support of ICCD, not just at Christmas, but throughout the year! Then, there was the annual Christmas Dinner for our adult members. We’d like to thank Seven Rings for performing at our annual Christmas Dinner in December. They helped make the night a big success! We’d also like to thank the Paul Mahoney’s—Jr. and Sr.—for their help. Of course, without the great staff of Catherine Rooney’s—in particular Gerry McCoy—we couldn’t have had Christmas Dinner! Kara Briggs won the Phillies Opening Day tickets. In fact, everyone left with a gift! Now that’s a Christmas Dinner! And now, for a few photos…
Navy vs. Notre Dame in Ireland Presented by the:
ICCD
Don’t Miss the Chance to See the
Midshipmen and Fighting Irish in Ireland!
Land only $1,966 Per Person Sharing
(Based on a minimum of 20 passengers)
Single rooms available for $2835
Itinerary:
Day 01, Monday, Aug 24, 2020– Overnight flight to Dublin. Dinner served shortly after take-off. Inclusions:
Group airfare will be offered in October 2019 when flights are available for sale. • Accommodations 6 nights
Day 02, Tuesday, Aug 25, 2020-Morning arrival at Dublin Airport where you will meet your Driver/ • Full Irish Breakfast Daily,
Guide and be taken to your motorcoach. You will depart Dublin for the Northwest coast of Ireland. except day of arrival
Along the way, you will visit the Marble Arch Caves UNESCO Global Geopark. Visitors are guided • Visit/Admissions: Slieve
through a fascinating natural underworld of rivers, waterfalls, winding passages and lofty chambers League Cliffs, Titanic Bel-
while stunningly beautiful cave formations glisten all around. Then onto visit Drumcliffe churchyard
to visit the grave of W.B.Yeats. Continue north to Ballybofey for overnight.
fast, Giants Causeway
with shuttle, Marble Arch
Day 03, Wednesday, Aug 26, 2020-After a full Irish breakfast this morning, you will depart for the
Slieve League cliffs. These are reputed to be the highest and one of the finest marine cliffs in Europe
Caves, Guinness Store-
with a three hundred metre drop straight down into the wild, Atlantic waves below. Return to Bally- house and EPIC Ireland.
bofey for some free time to explore. • Belfast Step-On Guide
Day 04, Thursday, Aug 27, 2020-Enjoy your full Irish breakfast before crossing the border into • All transportation and
Northern Ireland. Travel along the Antrim coast to the Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland’s only sightseeing via deluxe mo-
UNESCO World Heritage Site-40,000 large, regularly-shaped polygonal columns of basalt in perfect torcoach with the services
horizontal sections, forming a pavement which were formed 60 million years ago. It is a site to be- of a professional driver/
hold; then onto Armagh for overnight. guide throughout
Day 05, Friday, Aug 28, 2020-After breakfast, we will depart with our Step-On guide for a tour of • Tips & Taxes on items inc.
Belfast to learn of its historical locations and turbulent times. Then onto the Titanic Experience. Ti- Note-Driver/guide tip additional
tanic Belfast extends over nine interactive galleries, with multiple dimensions to the exhibition and • Porterage of 1 suitcase pp
uncover the true legend of Titanic, in the city where it all began. Overnight in Armagh tonight.
• Celtic Tours flight bag and
Day 06, Saturday, Aug 29, 2020-GAME DAY-This morning following breakfast, we will depart for portfolio of Documents.
Dublin to see the Navy vs. Notre Dame Football Game. Following the game you will be escorted to NOTE: Game tickets will be add-
your local hotel with the rest of the day free to enjoy the Capital of Ireland.
ed in June 2019, when pricing
Day 07, Sunday, Aug 30, 2020-Morning sightseeing in Dublin includes a visit to EPIC, the Irish Emi- becomes available.
gration Museum-a fantastic interactive experience, which uncovers the dramatic and inspiring stories HOTELS:
of the Irish who traveled the world, from early times to the modern day. Next, we make our way to
the Guinness Storehouse, where you learn the history of this dark brew and enjoy a sample pint with
Jackson’s Hotel, Ballybofey
panoramic views of the city from the Gravity Bar. Then enjoy the evening on your own. Armagh City Hotel, Armagh
Dublin Hotel, Name TBA
Day 08, Monday, Aug 31, 2020-Early morning transfer to Dublin Airport for your return flight home.
Arrive home the same day.
FURTHER INQUIRIES PLEASE CONTACT: Anita O’Donnell / Cruise Planners
302-607-8216, Anita.odonnell@cruiseplanners.com
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