ISSUE 18 VOLUME 5
Proudly Serving Celts in North America Since 1991
JUNE 2009
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IRELAND loses three of its brightest young women in the Air France tragedy. Jane Deasy: (left) came from a strong medical background. Eithne Walls: (centre) talented dancer and promising doctor. Aisling Butler: (right) 'very talented and a high achiever'.
[For more about the air disaster see page 6.]
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DESPERATE DAYS: Gordon Brown cuts a desolate figure alongside Prince Charles and Barack Obama at the D-Day commemorations in Normandy on June 6.
[For more on the British parliamentary crisis, see pages 10 & 11.]
WIN FREE TICKETS
Win a BC Highland Gamest-shirtora pairofticketsortothe B.C. Highland Games & Scottish Festival at Percy Perry Stadium, Coquitlam on June 27. (See page 17 for details). Entry by June 19. Mark your entry B.C. Highland Games.
Win your choice of two free tickets to either CeltFest 2009 Sunset & Stars Gala concert at the Port Theatre, Nanaimo on July 9, or to Old Blind Dogs from Scotland, at Vancouver Island University on July 7. (For more info www.celtfest.ca). Entry by June 19. Mark your entry CeltFest and either Sunset & Stars or Old Blind Dogs.
THE COTTARS will perform on the mainstage at the BC Highand Games in Coquitlam on June 27.
Wn a pair of tickets for July 18 to the Vancouver Folk Music Festival at
Jericho Beach Park, Vancouver. (See page 3 for details). Entry by July 3. Mark your entry Vancouver Folk Festival.
Wn a week-end pass for two to the Mission Folk Festival at Fraser River Heritage Park, Mission on July 24-26. (See page 3 for details). Entry by July 17. Mark your entry Mission Folk Festival.
Entries by e-mail orfax only. Mark the name of the event on your entry, including your name and daytime telephone number. (Only one entry per person.) Send to: cbutler@telus.net or fax (604)438-8419.
ANGRY SCENES: Kevin Flanagan protests not being allowed into the launch of the long-awaited Child Abuse Commission report in Dublin. His brother Mickey who died 11 years ago suffered years of abuse atArtane Industrial School. [See page 18]
PHOTO: Parks Canada/J.Beaulieu, photographe, Montmagny EAMON 6 CUIV, Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (left), the Honourable Jim Prentice, Canada's Environment Minister responsible for Parks Canada {centre), and Declan Kelly, Ambassador of Ireland (right) atGrosselle, Quebec forthe National Irish Famine Commemoration. [More details on pages 24 & 25]
REMEMBERING the Molly
Maguires with the 'Day of the Rope' memorial. Each year, the Ancient Order of Hibernians organizes a celebration of the Mass to remember the 10 men who were hanged at Mauch Chunk and Pottsville, Pennsylvania on June 21, 1877. The men were a group of the ultra-secret organization of Irish Pennsylvania coal-miners known as the Molly Maguires.
Photo: Friar Phil Kelly [For more, see page 20]
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