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Imeachtaí MULTIMEDIA EXHIBITION: Shall his Epitaph be Written? Exploring the legacy of Robert Emmet. Open 20 September and closes 20 October, Sceig Gallery, FINTOWN, County Donegal SF FUNCTION: Featuring Celtic Harmony. 9pm Saturday 4 October, Bulgaden Castle Lounge, KILMALOCK, County Limerick. Táille €8. Guest speaker SF DINNER DANCE: 8pm Friday 10 October, Kilmore Hotel;, CAVAN TOWN, County Cavan. Music by Back Beat. Guest speaker: Gerry Adams. Táille €50 SF TABLE QUIZ: Ceoil agus craic. 8.30pm Friday 10 October, Manhattan Lounge, Ballyphenane, CORK CITY. €20 a table. Organised Traolach Mac Suibhne Cumann WELCOME-HOME FUNCTION: For recently released POW Ken Fitzgerald. 8pm 11 October, Ring Side Club, National Stadium, South Circular road, DUBLIN. Music and disco. Info from Gerry Dempsey on 087-2365830 FUNCTION: Republican Ballad Session. Saturday 11 October, Distillery Bar, BISHOPSWATER, Wexford town. Music by the Ferns Brigade. Táille €3 SF APPRECIATION: For the late Noel Ryan. 8.30pm Saturday 11 October, Molloy's pub, Tallaght, DUBLIN. Music by Sean Nos + DJ SF FUNCTION: Featuring the Irish Brigade. 8pm Friday 17 October, the Lanterns, Harold's X, DUBLIN. Táille €7. Info from Dave: 086-2572249 ROGER CASEMENT SYMPOSIUM: Seventh Annual Symposium - The World and Words of Roger Casement The Roger Casement Foundation. 11am-5pm Saturday, 18 October, Buswells Hotel, Molesworth Street, DUBLIN. All day event. Adm free FUNDRAISING FUNCTION: Featuring Shebeen and special guests, including world championship Irish dancers. 8.30pm til late Saturday 18 October, Erdington, BIRMINGHAM, England. Tickets £10. Call: 0121 354 4511 OR 07930 118 328. www.unitedirishassociation.com <http://www.unitedirishassociation.com SF FUNCTION: Featuring The Spirit of Freedom. 9pm Friday 24 October, Finches pub, Quarryvale, Clondalkin, DUBLIN. Táille €7. Info from 087-2270807 MONUMENT ERECTION: 90th Anns. For 1913 Lockout Martyr James Byrne. Assemble 2pm Saturday 1 November, Main Entrance, Deans Grange Cemetery, DUBLIN. Unveiling by Des Geraghty (SIPTU) NEW MEMBERS wanted for Republican Flute Band in Camlough, South Armagh. Free Tuition and Instruments supplied. Flutes and Drums Required also. Contact: 028 30839 423 SF SHOPS: ARMAGH: Crossmaglen Sinn Féin Shop & Advice Centre. 10A Newry Street, Crossmaglen, County Armagh. Large Selection of Stock Available. Tel: 02830 861948, e-mail :. SIOPA NA HÉALAINNE BELFAST: The Green Cross Art Shop, 53 Falls Road for Arts, Crafts and books, now stocking a wide range of children's books; DERRY: SF Centre, Main St, Dungiven. Tel 028-77742488, sinnfeindungiven@eircom.net; DUBLIN: Sinn Féin Shop in 44 Parnell Square. Open six days a week 11am-5pm, Monday-Friday, and 11am-5pm on Saturdays. Website: www.sinnfeinbookshop.com. Tirghra book is also available. GALWAY: Galway Sinn Féin Office at 19 Upper Abbeygate St. open from 9.30am until 1pm Monday to Friday.Memorabilia to sell and advice to give. Telephone: 532825, galwaysinnfein@hotmail.com. Also cds videos, t-shirts the usual craic; MONAGHAN: Sinn Féin Siopa Monaghan Town, tel 82917/Fax 71849. 21 Dublin Street, open 10am-6pm, Mon-Sat. Large range of woodcraft , bodhráns, cds, books and leathercraft; KERRY: Kerry Sinn Fein's new premises, including shop and constituency office, are now open. Republican arts and crafts, t-shirts, books, badges, etc. Visitors welcome. Contact Kerry Sinn Féin, 2, Moyderwell, Tralee. Tel/Fax :066-7129545. E-Mail: kerrysinnfein@hotmail.com; New SF shop and constituency office, Market Street, Listowel. opening times, Tues -Sat, 11am-4pm, tel 068-24949; CORK: 136 Barrack Street, tel (021)4311 389, www.corksf.20m.com and our new e mail address is sinnfeincorcaigh@eircom.net. Prices available on badges to cumainn. Open Monday-Saturday 11-5pm; LOUTH: SF Dundalk shop open from Mon-Fri 10am-4pm, tel 042-9328859; SF Drogheda: Tues, 2-5pm, Thurs, 7-9pm, Sat, 10am-1pm. Tel 041-9873823; NEWRY: 1 Kilmorey Terrace, Patrick Street. Open 10am - 4pm Mon-Fri, 10am - 12pm Sat. Tel (028) 302 68538. e-mail newrysinnfein@ireland.com. Website http://website.lineone.net/~newrysinnfein; WICKLOW: SF Shop, Wicklow Town, 086-8576409; TIPPERARY: Gladstone Street, Clonmel. Tel 052-70569, fax 052-80998. E post: sinnfeinsouthtipp@eircom.net. Opening hours: Wed - Fri 11.00am - 4.30pm, Sat 10.30am - 5.30pm. SCOTLAND: Connolly Bookshop, 101 St Leonard Street, Edinburgh EH 8 9QY Blanchardstown SF Lotto. Winning nos for Thursday 25 Sept. Nos 11,22,23. 5 x €15 winners: Trisha Keegan; Morris Call; Tony Boothman; A Fagan; Dean Rock. . Next week's €880 County Louth Lotto Results 14 Sept. Numbers drawn 11,16,22,23. No Jackpot winner. 4 x £25 winners. Amanda McArdle, Paddy Mac, Kieran Cowan, Joe. Next jackpot €2,300 NEWRY SF LOTTO NOS, 23 Sept: Nos: 3,8,14,17. No jackpot winner. One match 1 x 3. E Rafferty. €10. Next week's jackpot £2,000. South Derry SF Lotto draw. Draw date 29/9/03. Winning numbers 2,8,16,19. No Jackpot Winners. 1 x £10 winners. F McPeake, c/o Maghera. Jackpot £1,000. South Down Memorial Committee Lotto Draw. Date 29/9/03. Winning numbers 6,9,14,22. Two winners Liam Sharvin, Ardglass. Nigel Trainor, Castlewellan. PHOENIX LOTTO: 9 Sept. Winning letters, so, w, te, lh. 4 x €20 winners. S Brady, P Reilly, Paddy Maguire, D Cullen. Next jackpot €1,500 Dubbeljoint tackles Peadar O'Donnell
In Belfast-based theatre group Dubbeljoint's latest production, Derry bard Joe Mulheron delivers with words, song and music his story of Peadar O'Donnell, undoubtly one of the most fascinating characters of Irish history. Book now, Tel 90 202222. Peadar O'Donnell is probably one of the most interesting Irish people to study throughout the 2th century. He was central to many of the huge changes that took place in Ireland. Born near Dungloe in County Donegal, his father was a fiddle-maker and player but earned his money hoking taties in Scotland for six months of the year. Uncommon at that time, his mother could read and write and the O'Donnell household was known as a 'reading house'. She was a socialist and a republican herself and passed her politics on to all of her children, including Peadar. He worked as a teacher and trade union organiser before joining the IRA in 1918. As a renowned fighter in the war of Independence, he joined the Anti-Treaty side in the Civil War. In an interview he gave to RTE shortly before his death, O'Donnell blamed the Labour Party for many of the failures of Irish politics; he said that the history of the 20th century would have been very different had the Labour Party supported the Republicans in 1922. He spent a long a period in various jails and there he wrote 'The Gates Flew Open'. Once the Civil war was lost, Peadar spent the next period of his life trying to persuade the IRA that a commitment to radical social change was necessary. He also edited An Phoblacht for a number of years, however the most important action he took during that time was to organise and lead the movement against the land annuities (in effect, swapping an English landlord for an Irish one). That campaign alone was possibly the most successful piece of direct action in Ireland during the last century. Coupled with his political activism, Peadar continued to write both fiction and non-fiction in those years. Whilst many left Ireland to join the fascists in Spain, Peadar stood with the democratically elected government. He became involved in the Spanish Civil War and was surprised by his own reaction to the politics there. He discovered that he preferred the Anarchists in Barcelona to the Communist Party in Madrid. One of his best books, Salud, was written about the Spanish Civil War. In the 1940s he began a new legendry magazine 'The Bell', which was as visionary as the man himself. He was the first to publish Brendan Behan, Paddy Kavanagh and Sam Hanna Bell. As an angry old man, he fostered many of the political movements in the '60s and '70s; The Co-Op movement in rural Ireland; CND, and the Anti-Apartheid Movement. When Peadar O'Donnell died, he left instructions that there was to be "no Pomp, no politicians and no priests" at his funeral. Tour Dates
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