We would be delighted to have you join us at the An Rí Rá Montana Irish Festival. I thought I'd let all of you know that we will continually updating information on our website -- _www.mtgaelic.org_ (http://www.mtgaelic.org) -- as we get closer to the festival. Tickets purchased prior to July are at a discount! Please keep me posted on your plans, and let us know if we can be of assistance! Lorretta Lynde President Montana Gaelic Cultural Society In a message dated 2/2/2009 9:53:54 A.M. Mountain Standard Time, beararesearchodwyer@eircom.net writes: 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 **************Great Deals on Dell Laptops. Starting at $499. (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1217883258x1201191827/aol?redir=http://www.dell.com/co ntent/products/features.aspx/laptops_great_deals?c=us%26cs=19%26l=en%26s=d hs%26~ck=anavml)