The Boston Beara Society The Society was established in 1995 to promote and celebrate the history, art and music of the Beara Peninsula and the achievements of its people in Ireland and the USA. The Boston Beara Society has adapted as it's logo an image of the Cailleach Bheara, the mythological figure who's petrified remains may still be seen in Kilcatherine in the Parish of Eyeries The 2009 Boston Beara Society Social Friends Of The Boston Beara Society, on Sunday April 19th. 2009, we will meet from 2:00 to 7:00pm. at Florian Hall, 55 Hallet St., Dorchester, MA to celebrate all that we have in common. Buffet Dinner, door prizes and dance music provided by the Andy Healy Band. Tickets: $50 For Tickets Call... Pat Dwyer 617 328 6690, Mary Sullivan Kelly 781 322 5291 or Mike Dwyer 781 326 1977. Click For Information On The Upcoming Boston/Beara Society Trip to Montana, August 2 - August 10, 2009 Click here for The 2008 Social Details - Mike Reynolds Ceili Band & Murray Forbes Click here for The 2007 Social Details - The Montana Connection Click here for The 2006 Social Details - Dr. Aidan Breen Lecture Other websites of Beara interest. Please Visit our Guestbook below The Boston Beara Guestbook ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sally Bair" <sbair@tds.net> To: <beara@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 11:44 AM Subject: Re: [BEARA] Boston-Beara Society annual dinner, and trip to Montana. > Does anyone have an email for Mike Dwyer or anyone on the committee? > I have moved & changed my snail mail address. I need to update my > address with Boston Beara Society. Prefer email to snail mail. > > > Sally O'Sullivan Bair > Mushing USA Board of Directors, > 8554 Gateway Circle > Monticello, MN 55362 USA > Tel: 763 295 5465 > Email: sbair@tds.net > > > > > On Feb 2, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Riobard O'Dwyer wrote: > >> The Boston-Beara Society annual dinner and reunion >> takes place this year in the Florian Hall, 55 Hallet St., >> Dorchester, Massachusetts, on Sunday April 19th from 2 to 7p.m. >> Buffet dinner, door prizes, and dance music by the Andy Healy Band. >> Tickets $50. This is a mighty occasion. I spoke there twice and I >> will always have very happy memories of it. >> For tickets call:- >> Pat Dwyer 617-328-6690; >> Mary Sullivan-Kelly 781-322-5291; >> Mike Dwyer 781-326-1977. >> >> Committee:- Chairman, Mike Dwyer; Secretary, Mary Sullivan-Kelly; >> Treasurer, Pat Dwyer; Roger Egan, John Harrington, Kathy Sullivan >> and Brian McCarthy. >> >> www.bostonbearasociety.com >> >> Directions to Florian Hall:- >>> From the South Shore:- Take Southeast Expressway North to Exit 11, >>> Granite Ave. Then ____ >>> From the North Shore:- Take Southeast Expressway South to exit >>> 11B, Granite Ave. Then ___ >> at the bottom of the ramp, bear right. After the drawbridge, take >> first right (at lights). This is Hilltop Street. Go up hill and >> down. At bottom, the street becomes Hallet. Go straight. Florian >> Hall is on your left. Park either beside the building or across >> the street. Enter through the front of the building on the right- >> hand side. >> >> Now for the Boston-Beara Society fabulous trip to Montana, August >> 2nd -August 10th 2009. This is an opportunity to reconnect with >> those of Beara heritage living in Butte, Montana, and to learn of >> the history of the Irish miners from West Cork who came in their >> thousands to extract copper ore from the harsh and unforgiving >> Northern Rockies. The trip will include the following highlights:- >> 1) Accomodation in the famous and historic Red Lion/War Bonnet Inn. >> 2) Visit to the Butte Archives where copious records recount the >> lives of the Irish community. >> 3) Visit to the Granite Mountain Mining disaster and the Berkeley Pit. >> 4) Visit to the Mining Museum. >> 5) Visit to St. Patrick's and Holy Cross Cemeteries where the >> remains of those killed in mining accidents, illnesses relating to >> mining, and those swept away by the Spanish 'flu of 1918 are buried. >> 6) Walking tours of Historic Uptown Butte, the largest historic >> site in the west. >> 7) Talks by the last surviving underground miners of life on "The >> Richest Hill on Earth". >> 8) Day trip to Helena, Marysville, and Canyon Ferry. >> 9) Trip to Missoula including a visit to the University of Montana >> where the Irish Studies program is located, and to the Bitterroot >> Valley, site of the original Jesuit mission to Montana, and >> location of the Daly Mansion. >> 10) Weekend of August 7-9 at An Ri Ra, a family-oriented Irish >> Festival in Butte, culminating in outdoot Mass in Irish. >> 11) Final dinner and dance at the Finlen Hotel prior to departure >> on Monday August 10th. >> >> Cost, including airfare, hotel, and coach = $1300 per person. >> Meals not included. >> Tour will be limited to the first forty registrations. >> For the registration form, the name/names, address, telephone no., >> email address. >> Deposit of $350 per person required by March 1st 2009. No credit >> cards. Balance due by June 1st 2009. Please make checks payable to:- >> Boston Beara Society, and mail with form to:- >> Maureen Dwyer-Bennett, >> 114 Braeside Road, >> Falmouth, >> Ma. 02540, >> U.S.A. >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEARA- >> request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.233 / Virus Database: 270.10.18/1937 - Release Date: 02/06/09 11:31:00