Edmonton Irish Sports & Social Society

It’s that time of year again!

We are looking for volunteers to work the Irish tent at the Heritage Day Festival this year (August 2-4).

Volunteering at the highly popular Irish Pavilion involves selling food/beverages, preparing food and other light duties.

We require 8-10 workers for each shift meaning a number of volunteers are required to ensure the 3 day festival runs smoothly. We also need volunteers to help set up the stage the evening of Thursday July 31st and to take it down the evening of Monday August 4th.
The shifts at the tent are:

The Irish Sports & Social is pleased to present a Tribute to Merle Haggard by his son Marty Haggard this Sunday, July 20th at the Irish Club.

Tickets are $25.00.  Doors open at 5:00pm and the show starts at 7:30pm.

Tickets can be purchased at the Irish Club or you can reserve tickets by calling the Irish Club at 780-453-2249.

NOTE: The Irish Club will close after the GAA matches on Sunday morning and will open at 5:00pm for this ticket-only event.

http://merlehaggard.com/

Do you want to see more of the old sports trophies displayed in the Club??

We are looking for members willing to volunteer to take on this task.  This would include retrieving the trophies from the trailer (where they are currently stored); clean them up and find a place to display them.  With the limited space, the suggestion would be to display a few for a period of time and to then replace them with others and just continue to recycle them over and over.

Anyone interested please contact Paul Hawthorn at (780) 819-6343 or by email at ten.suletnull@nrohluap.

Yes, it’s summer and there’s a million things to do around the house or garden, but look, there’s some really great matches being shown at the Irish Club this weekend.  We’ll see you there, right??

Saturday, July 5

8:30 AM Clare vs. Wexford in Hurling

12:00 Noon Galway vs. Tipperary in Hurling

Sunday, July 6

7:00 AM Kerry vs. Cork in Gaelic Football

9:00 AM Dublin vs. Kilkenny in Hurling

Cathy Murphy from the Irish Canadian Immigration Centre will be visiting Edmonton on Tuesday, June 24 and will be stopping by the Irish Centre to hold informal one-on-one discussions.

Anyone interested in taking advantage of this visit is welcome to do so by coming down to the Irish Centre between 5:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

The bar will be open on this night in case you are thirsty.

Great news from Portlaoise!  Our Western Canadian Rose Catharine Joyce is going through to Tralee!

We’ve updated our photo gallery with some of her pics from regionals.

If you’ve ever been to Edmonton’s Heritage Day Festival, you know that Irish Pavilion is the place to be for food and entertainment.

Just a sample of some of the delicious potato bread for Heritage Days made by volunteers last year!

To make the delicious food we sell at the pavilion — a major fundraiser for the Irish Club — we start making the potato bread in early June, before it gets too hot.

We need people, starting Sunday, June 1 to help with peeling potatoes and making the tasty bread that our pavilion has become famous for.

If that’s a-peelin’ to you, bring your potato peeler and come down on Sunday afternoon at around 1 PM for the first batch of peeling/boiling/mashing.  We will also need volunteers next week starting at 5 PM on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

We will start on the next round on Sunday, June 8 at 1PM.

If you can make it, please contact Susan McKenna at 780-468-1390 or Ann Jones at 780-454-4954.  Everything you will ever need to know about making potato bread can be learned from these two experts!