6 4 21 iIrish: Songs, Stories & Shenanigans, Podcast31: w Guest Carbon Leaf Appearing at Robins Theatre, June 10th!

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After listening, I hope you will feel we have a great show for you today.

So, let’s get to it ~What’s the news today?

Tonight, I am looking forward to seeing Cats on Holiday Duo @Hooley House Westlake, or maybe Barleycorn at the West Side IA Club. Tomorrow is the Cleveland St Pat’s Gaelic Football Men’s team taking on The Buffalo Fenians at the West Side Irish America Club. A woman’s team scrimmage is at 11 and the youth team plays at 2:30. Find out more, and new players are always welcome.

Sunday is D-Day: Thursday the 10th Carbon Leaf plays at the Robins Theatre in Warren, Ohio. This is a location change from Kent Stage. Friday through Sunday are the Motor City and the Riverfront Irish Fests; and Cleveland St Pats Hurling Club takes on The Akron Celtic Guards Hurling Club Saturday the 12th at the West Side Irish America Club. On the 14th our next eBulletin goes out to the more than 12,000 fun loving, opted-in subscribers and Gormley’s Irish Pub has their monthly Monday Whiskey & Cigar Tasting event, this time w special guest Whiskey Ambassador Barry Chandler; & on the 16th, the annual Bloomsday celebrations take place all over the world, rounding out the events we know about until our next podcast, 2 weeks from today, on June 18th.

Sounds like a great coupla of weeks. There is a varied mix of celebratory and solemn events coming up, for sure, each deserving of our attention. So, make plan, if you can. AND remember: Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened! No Regerts!

Have you picked up or read online the June issue yet? It is a great, varied and informational issue.

Of course, it is free at 367 locations across Ohio and in NY., PA., KY., IN., MI. and our OhioIANews.com website.

So, what happened, On This Day in Irish History?

On the 7 June, 1899 - Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin. She was a novelist and short-story writer, best known for her novel, The Last September.

On the 8 June 1917 - The Butte, Montana, mine disaster fell: there were 168 dead, including many Irish, when fire broke out in a mineshaft. Butte was the US’s foremost mining town at the time, with a population of 50,000, a quarter of whom were Irish, mostly from County Cork.

On the 10 June, 1944 – was the death of Frank Ryan, prominent leader of the Irish Republican Army, who led 200 Irishmen to Spain to fight against Franco. It is said that the character “Liam Devlin” in the Jack Higgins thriller The Eagle Has Landed, is based on Frank Ryan.

On the 15 June 1919 - Captain Jack Alcock and Lt. Arthur Brown completed the first transatlantic flight, when their Vickers Vimy biplane landed near Clifden, Co. Galway, after a 2,500km (1,500 miles) flight from St. John’s Newfoundland.

On the 16 June, 1904 - James Joyce first went walking with Nora Barnacle; it became the date on which everything takes place in Ulysses and is known as Bloomsday.

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