Won't be able to make that, but I do hope it goes well, and hope you will repeat. John Shepperd > From: irl-carlow-request@rootsweb.com > Subject: IRL-CARLOW Digest, Vol 8, Issue 240 > To: irl-carlow@rootsweb.com > Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 01:00:45 -0600 > > > > Before you send an email to this List you must first of all subscribe to the List. > > Today's Topics: > > 1. St. Mullins Parish Gathering (Bridie Lawlor) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 12:45:21 +0100 > From: Bridie Lawlor <stmullinsgathering@gmail.com> > Subject: [IRL-CARLOW] St. Mullins Parish Gathering > To: irl-carlow@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <CAPDRm-qf8kQB_wcYMYubLvjYBYAahqE4Xq5T0wOHzdtZZgmFvQ@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > *Contact: *Bridie Lawlor Tel:+353 *(0)87 6812839 E: * > stmullinsgathering@gmail.com > > A week of events from the 19th - 26th July, St. Mullins Parish Gathering,* * > *an experience not to be missed! OPEN TO EVERYONE**, please attend as many > events as possible.* > > * * > > Fri 19. *Launch, **Welcome and Registration **in **Blanchfield?s Pub **at > 8pm**, refreshments.** * > > Appointments made to locate original family homestead and burial plot for > overseas visitors. > > > > Sat 20. *Walking tour of historic monastic site*, ancestral burial plots, > Blessed Well, River Barrow navigation system, snap-net fishing, corn & > woollen milling. *Annual Pattern customs explained. *Get to know the > heritage on your doorstep. *Meet at Graveyard **at 3pm.* > > > > Sun 21. *Annual Pattern Sunday*, traditional meeting day for anyone with > connections to St. Mullins. *Graignamanagh Brass Band Recital 2pm. *(Oldest > Brass Band in Ireland, formed 1760).** > > * Attend a special Cemetery Mass (2.45pm) and feel the connection that goes > back to Celtic monastic times.* Afterwards, enjoy the *hooley, music and > dance* till late. > > *Be at ancestral burial place in the Graveyard at 2.30pm**.* > > * * > > Mon 22. *Graignamanagh Tour* given by Graignamanagh Historical > Society.*See the legacy of the Cistercian monks and industrial > heritage. > **Meet at Duiske Abbey Graignamanagh at 2.15pm.* > > * * > > *Talk on Life in St. Mullins in the 1830?s *by* Frank Clarke*, (Local > Historian). Life in a rural village pre-Famine and mass emigration. *Meet > at Mullich?in Cafe at 7.45pm, refreshments.* > > * * > > Tues 23. *Display of hurling *at G.A.A. grounds, *try your skills at the > world?s oldest and fastest field game*. Learn a few* words of Irish * > (Gaelic). > > *Meet at P?irc Naomh Moling (GAA Grounds, Bahana, St. Mullins) at 6.30pm, > refreshments.* > > * * > > Wed 24. *Visit Dunbrody Famine Ship, New Ross Tapestry Project *and *JFK > Homestead (*?20 fee). *Meeting time & place to be arranged.* > > > Thurs. 25.* **Feast of St. James, Little Pattern*. On this day, St. Moling > promised *healing of mind and body *to all, ensuring* St. Mullins became a > place of pilgrimage*. Visit family graves and Blessed Well. Join in a > traditional *Rambling House session, music, song and story.*. > > *Meet at Graveyard at 6.45pm. Rambling House in Blanchfield?s Pub, 8pm, > refreshments.* > > * * > > Fri 26. *Medieval Picnic *with roast pig on a spit and traditional Irish > fare,* medieval fancy dress* (optional). *Display of Norman weapons and > crafts*. *Vaeiety Concert *showcasing the best* *of *local > talent.*Conclusion of Gathering with > presentation of *Commemorative Scrolls. * > > *Meet outside Blanchfield?s Pub 6.30pm.* > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the IRL-CARLOW list administrator, send an email to > IRL-CARLOW-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the IRL-CARLOW mailing list, send an email to IRL-CARLOW@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CARLOW-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of IRL-CARLOW Digest, Vol 8, Issue 240 > ******************************************