Click on this link to see the most recent Irish Cultural Committee Newsletter!
Note: The Irish Cultural Newsletter is updated by the IHSM Cultural Committee. If you know of additional Irish Cultural events that should be added, please reach out to ihsmculturalcommittee@gmail.com. We would be happy to include pertinent events.

To view the IHSM Calendar Page, click on the “Calendar” tab above for all weekly entertainment, meetings, activities, etc.

Don’t forget to visit Non-IHSM Events for activities not sponsored by IHSM but available locally.

All Committee Meetings are posted on the Calendar page of the website
Monday, August 2nd @ 7 pm – Cultural Committee Meeting
Tuesday, August 3rd @ 7 pm – Membership
Monday, August 9th 6-8pm – TiPs Training
Tuesday, August 10th @ 7 pm – Executive Board Meeting
Monday, August 16th @ 7 pm – Slainte Meeting
Wednesday, August 18th 6-8pm – TiPs Training
Monday, August 26th @ 7:30 pm – Activities Committee Meeting
Tuesday, August 31st @6:30 – social; 7:30 pm – General Membership Meeting

For a full, updated list of monthly meetings and activities, check the “Calendar” tab above. Any on-going events can be found by clicking on the “More Fun” tab.

Mets Vs Dodgers – Friday, August 13th Game time 7:10pm
Members Only event. No guests.
Link to Mets homepage: https://www.mlb.com/mets/tickets/group-tickets/irish-night

Limited Edition Irish Night Scarf when purchasing through this offer*
Mets Plaza performance featuring Shilelagh Law beginning at 5:40 p.m.
On-field Irish Step Dancing performances beginning at (approximately) 6:30 p.m.

$60 per ticket which includes ticket to Mets game & round trip bus service from Milford

Contact Tom Neely for questions and reservations: tmneeleyjr@gmail.com

Tickets – Section 302 – Coca Cola Corner

Bus service details: Bus will be meeting us in the Kmart/Job Lot/Taco Bell parking lot to accompany enough room for everyone to park.
Departs Milford at 3:30pm arrive at Citi Field at 5:15pm
Leaves Citi Field at 10:30pm arrives at Milford 11:45pm

MLB Ballpark App required for ticket access into game

Our favorite “Happy Man” Cahal Dunne will be performing at the clubhouse on August 20th at 7pm. This is a Slainte event and all proceeds will be allocated to our scholarship fund and our various charities.
Tickets are $20 and will be available at the General Membership meeting on June 29th.
For tickets please contact Brian Reynolds at: (203) 214-2921 or Noeleen Nelson at: drumfin@mail.com

Cathal Dunne (born 1951) is an Irish singer. He is most famous for representing Ireland in the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Happy Man”. He has since gained a following as Cahal Dunne, performing traditional Irish songs in the United States, where he now lives.

OysterFest – IHSM Bartenders needed!
When: Saturday, Aug 21, 2021

Bobby Morrill -
Sat, August 28, 7:30pm – 10:30pm
Members and up to four guests are welcome.

All Committee Meetings are posted on the Calendar page of the website
Tuesday, September 7th @ 7 pm – Membership
Monday, September 13th @ 7 pm – Cultural Committee Meeting
Tuesday, September 14th @ 7 pm – Executive Board Meeting
Monday, September 20th @ 7 pm – Slainte Meeting
Tuesday, September 21st @ 7 pm – Book Club
Tuesday, September 28th @ 7 pm – General Membership Meeting
Thursday, September 30th @ 6:00 pm – Activities Committee Meeting

For a full, updated list of monthly meetings and activities, check the “Calendar” tab above. Additional details can be found by clicking on the “More Fun” tab, too.

Band – Ringrose and Freeman Music
Fri, September 10, 6pm – 9pm
Members and up to 4 guests welcome!

Friday, September 17 from 6 to 11 p.m.
Admission: $5 per person
Saturday, September 18 from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. with special Half Way to St. Patty’s Celebrations all day!
Admission: $7 on Saturday ****Children 12 and under are free!*

15th annual Irish Festival – September 17 and 18th
Friday Main Stage
Bobby Morrill
Highland Rovers
Mighty Plowboys
Saturday Main Stage
Kerry Boys
Camac
Jolly Beggars
Keltic Kick

Tuesday, September 21, 2021: The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue (born in Dublin), ©2020, 305 pages. Set in war-ravaged Dublin in the midst of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, it focuses on Julia Power, a nurse in charge of a small ward (three at a time) whose patients are pregnant women who are showing symptoms of the flu. It takes place over only a few days and barely moves out of the room where nurse Julia Power cares for those who are pregnant and in quarantine. A timely book for our club!
Contact Kathleen McGuire at kathleen.mcguire06460@gmail.com with any questions.
Only 2 requirements to join Book Club:
1) read the book; 2) bring snacks to share!

Liz McNicoll Music
Sat, September 25, 7pm – 10pm

All Committee Meetings are posted on the Calendar page of the website
Monday, October 4th @ 7 pm – Cultural Committee Meeting
Tuesday, October 5th @ 7 pm – Membership
Tuesday, October 12th @ 7 pm – Executive Board Meeting
Monday, October 18th @ 7 pm – Slainte Meeting
Tuesday, October 26th @ 6:30 – Social; 7:30 pm – General Membership Meeting
Thursday, October 28th @ 7:30 pm – Activities Committee Meeting

For a full, updated list of monthly meetings and activities, check the “Calendar” tab above. Additional details can be found by clicking on the “More Fun” tab, too.

James Silberstein Quartet
Sat, October 2, 7pm – 10pm

Gemsong Acoustic Duo
Sat, October 16, 7pm – 10pm

All Committee Meetings are posted on the Calendar page of the website
Monday, November 1st @ 6 pm – Cultural Committee Meeting
Tuesday, November 2nd @ 7 pm – Membership
Tuesday, November 9th @ 7 pm – Executive Board Meeting
Monday, November 15th @ 7 pm – Slainte Meeting
Tuesday, November 16th @ 7pm – Book Club
Tuesday, November 30th @ 6:30 – social, 7:30 pm – General Membership Meeting
Thursday, November 26th @ 7:30 pm – Activities Committee Meeting

For a full, updated list of monthly meetings and activities, check the “Calendar” tab above. Additional details can be found by clicking on the “More Fun” tab, too.

Band of Brothers
Sat, November 6, 7pm – 10pm

Athenry: An Odyssey of Sacrifice, Survival and Love by Cahal Dunne ©2020, 172 pages. Dunne, who will be performing at our club on Aug. 20th, puts a human face on the “Irish famine” with his historical, romantic novel where the love of Liam and Maire is the central focus of a story that begins in the medieval town of Athenry in County Galway. The story depicts the struggles of the O’Donoghue and Donnelly families in a superbly researched book about life in Ireland and Australia during the years of “An Gorta More” – The Great Hunger.

All Committee Meetings are posted on the Calendar page of the website
Monday, December 6th @ 6 pm – Cultural Committee Meeting
Tuesday, December 7th @ 7 pm – Membership
Tuesday, December 14th @ 7 pm – Executive Board Meeting
Monday, December 20th @ 7 pm – Slainte Meeting
Tuesday, December 28th @ 6:30 – social, 7:30 pm – General Membership Meeting
Thursday, December 30th @ 7:30 pm – Activities Committee Meeting

For a full, updated list of monthly meetings and activities, check the “Calendar” tab above. Additional details can be found by clicking on the “More Fun” tab, too.