Whiskey Tasting Event
The Abu Dhabi Irish Society held a "Jameson" whiskey tasting evening on February 21st. This was a great night where many a fine whiskey was tasted and discussed in detail........
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Scottish Gaelic Film:'Seachd - The Inaccessible Pinnacle' an acclaimed film by Simon Miller, subtitled in English, and set in the Isle of Skye. Read more about it on Wikipedia or viist the film's website.
Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation, Tues Feb 19. Welcome and refreshments
18:30, Film 19:30.
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Allied Irish Offer
Allied Irish Offshore have put together a special package for members of Abu Dhabi Irish Society. Click for more! |
Happy New Year!
The Abu Dhabi Irish society wish all members, families and friends a happy and peaceful 2008. Please check back with us for further events and activities. Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh go léir!
For some New Year's readings with an Irish flavour, try these:
- New Years to Epiphany, from Irish Culture and Customs.com
- Watch the Winter Solstice from Newgrange televised live for the first time ever.
- Next year, how about New Year's Eve on Achill Island, for the last sundown in Europe?
Welcome Back Party - September 2007
The Abu Dhabi Irish Society and the Abu Dhabi Na Fianna had a Welcome Back Party on Thursday September 6th at the Crowne Plaza for members, new members, non-members and friends. It was a great start to the year!
Tadhg Flahive and Ben Kehoe from the Abu Dhabi Na Fianna promised us a year of activity as the two organizations moved towards closer integration.
Mercifully, the speeches were short, and the main business of the night got going - see the results here! Click for pics!
EGM, October 7
We are pleased to announce that our Extraordinary General Meeting on October 7 went very well. A good crowd (for mid-week and for the somewhat bureaucratic exercise of an EGM) voted on a proposal to merge the activities of the Irish Society and the Abu Dhabi Na Fianna. The result was clear - a mandate to join the two! Click here for details of the changes and the new constitution.
Tadhg Flahive,
the
newly-elected president of the Abu Dhabi Irish Society, hopes that this EGM will
build on the relationships between the Abu Dhabi Irish Society and the
very active Abu Dhabi Na Fianna Gaelic Athletic Games
over the years..
For more, click here.
If you have ideas on how we can build a stronger Irish community here, let us know!
Other dates for your calendar:
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Monday October 1:
Bowling Night, Al Mariah
- Friday October 5: Golf Outing
- November 1-3: GAA Bahrain Tournament
- Thursday November 1: "Year of the Hiker" (Drama), The Club
- October 31: Halloween Party.
- Catch up on the Rugby World Cup events and headlines here.
- Check out "Events" at the top of the page for updates on, well, events.
Want to Get Involved?
At the Welcome Back party, our twin websites were proudly shown - this Abu Dhabi Irish Society website and the Abu Dhabi Na Fianna website. To know more, get involved, contact us here or here.
Ciarrai Abu!
Click for Edith's latest oeuvre celebrating the rout of the Rebel. Parental Advisory: May offend Corkonians!
Deeply Missed
It was with deep regret we heard of the death of Michael Daly, one of the first and most prominent members of the Irish community in Abu Dhabi, on August 22, 2007. Michael the founder of local business Bin Moosa and Daly, arrived in the Gulf over 40 years ago, and was an active member of the community and the Irish society for very many years. Ar Dheis Dé go rabh a anam. (See full story...)
E
xtraordinary
General Meeting: Oct 1st, 2007
Our new committee, elected in May, would like to look at ways to combine the work of the Irish Society and the Abu Dhabi Na Fianna Gaelic games club under the banner of the Abu Dhabi Irish Society. This will help to remove the confusion that exists by having two Irish related organizations in the same city.
To give the members of both societies the opportunity to voice their opinions on the proposed changes and to vote on the merger it has been decided to call an EGM on Sunday 7th of October at 20.00. in the Crowne Plaza.
Read our constitution here, meet the outgoing committee, put yourself forward.
Abu Dhabi Rose of Tralee:
May 3
Congratulations to Laura O'Sullivan, winner of our Abu Dhabi Rose Selection Dinner. From West Cork, Laura teaches in Giggles English school in Abu Dhabi, and went forward to the official Rose of Tralee selection event in Dubai.
We had a very enjoyable night, meeting the seven wonderful contestants, Aoife, Vicki, Ciara, Lisa, Francesca, Clare, and of course Laura. We had arias, hornpipes, traditional tunes and songs, poems, great food, Irish dancing from the Irish dancing group here in Abu Dhabi, and beautiful singing from Fiona Marsh. All in all, a wonderful evening..
The girls did us proud, and all should be proud of themselves.
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See some pictures from the night here
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Meet our lovely contestants.
St Patrick's Day 2007
We had a great night at the Crowne Plaza on March 15 at the Abu Dhabi Irish Society Ball. Click here for pictures! 2008 poster 3mb
Register!
Please register with the Irish Embassy. Go on. Do it. Click for more details.
Upcoming Events
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The big one is the Rose of Tralee on May 3rd. Learn more about the Rose festival
Recent Events
- We enjoyed the St Pat's Ball. We hope you did too. See
some pictures here...
- We never did have our Ballroom of
Romance on February 15. Still. it could have been a great night...
- Brian Kennedy was
in Dubai on Feb 4th
- In January, An Taoiseach Bertie Ahern led a 5-day trade
mission to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. He
visited Abu Dhabi for a few minutes...
- There was a massive tournament in Dubai at the end of January. Read
about it in our sister website
www.irishindubai.com
- Click for pics from our children's Christmas party on
Thursday Dec 14 (click for pics)..
- We had an EGM to change the constitution. Yes, we had a quorum!
Read the new constitution.
- We had a Halloween party on Oct 31 at the Crowne Plaza.
See the pics!
- The first event after the summer of 2006 was our "Welcome Back!" evening
in the Majlis, Crowne Plaza Abu Dhabi on September 14. Part of the evening
proceeds helped to sponsor
our own Irish adventurer Oliver Sullivan who in a trip to Mongolia for
Gulf for Good later this month. Read more about the
Gulf for Good project
here, and read Oliver Sullivan's description of his Mongolia trip in Oct 2006.
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Our Annual General Meeting was on Monday June 5 in the Crowne Plaza at 7:30.
Click
for more...
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GAA End of Year Awards and Farewell Dance and Dinner, June 1. Click for more.... and watch a short review of the year in pictures
- The Tribal Bash: the four tribes (The Abu Dhabi Irish Society, St
Andrew's, St David's and St George's societies) annual get-together at the
end of the year for charity. June 22, 2006.
Click for more....
- GAA Ball, June 1. Watch
a video highlight of the
year here...
- The Dubai Irish
Society Rose of Tralee Ball, May 11, 2006. Our Caitriona did herself
and us proud!
- Johnny Rea's Almost-Penultimate Final Farewell Tour, May 18. Click
here for more info, or
download a printable flier in
Acrobat (200kb).
- A night of glamour and glitter at the Crowne Plaza
as we chose our Abu Dhabi entry for the Rose of Tralee
night in Dubai...
- St Pat's Ball March 2006- a great success.
Read about it and see the pics...
- Mary Hanafin, Ireland's
Minister for Education, visits Abu Dhabi.
More...
- Mary Robinson, former
President of Ireland and United Nations Human Rights Commissioner,
visits Abu Dhabi. More...
- PJ Kirwan, GAA commentator and Abu Dhabi bon vivant, appeared live and unplugged on RTE radio recently describing his new life on Zirku island. Click to listen......
Newly Added
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Google Map of Abu Dhabi
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Schools page: info with links to schools and colleges in Abu
Dhabi
New
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Financial page.
Yes, we
don't spend it all on beer...
- GAA Juveniles Party,
April 2006. Pictures - Abu Dhabi Na Fianna thank our rising stars!
- Pictures - Irish Dancers at the
Carnival in the Club, April 2006.
- Pictures - The St Patrick's Day Lunch
- a relaxed family event, March 17, 2006.
- More photos of the Irish
Dancers, from St Pat's Ball, March 2006
- The National Anthem - Amhrán na bhFiann -
words and music here....
Something on an older page? April 06, May 06, or back to the Home Page
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