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PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS
A Message From Attracta Lyndon,
IBO President, 2006
 A Cara,
So much is going on that I am delighted to share with you. It gives me such great pride and pleasure to see how we as an organization are banding together to support each other and other Irish businesses. What an honor it is to work with you.
At our April meeting, Niall O’Dowd spoke to us about the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform. I was pleased to present two checks to Niall for the ILIR program generously donated by the IBO and Dooley Car Rentals. Chris Reardon presented his member profile and we were delighted to have Chris come in from New Jersey to talk to us.
Our May 10th meeting is going to be of great interest. Professor Joe Lee of Glucksman Ireland House will speak to the group on one of his favorite topics – the 1916 Rising. Seamus Kelleher of Blackthorn will be our Member Profile and will talk to us about his career and exciting new CD, which has received great reviews.
On Friday, June 2nd, to my great delight, we will host our Annual Golf Outing at the Irish Links at Union Vale. As you know the mission of the IBO is to promote, foster and advance the business needs of the Irish and Irish Americans in our Tri-State area. The Irish Links is the only Irish owned golf course in the United States. In addition, it is a Links-style course, a popular style of golf at home in Ireland and will meet the needs of the more novice golfer as well as challenge the more experienced golfer.
My personal plea to all of you out there is to support this outing in whatever way you can – playing on the day, pulling together a foursome, attending the dinner, sponsoring a hole or taking advantage of our other sponsorship opportunities, donating a prize or items for our giveaway bags, raffle, etc. On behalf of the IBO Executive Committee, Golf Committee and Membership I’d like to thank those companies who have taken sponsorships to date. Liffey Van Lines is sponsoring the Hole-in-One and Luncheon, and our hole sponsors so far are: Dooley Car Rentals, Lismore Travel, Tully Travel, Aaries Pyramid, and Irish Links.
In addition to the golf, IBO Vice President, Garret Corcoran, has arranged some generous accommodation rates at his luxury hotel, TROUTBECK, and the Poughkeepsie Grand for the night before and/or the night of the golf outing. I know some of you will want to take advantage of these great rates for an overnight or extended stay. Details on all of these activities will be forthcoming shortly and available on our web site.
The breakfast meetings are a big hit and continue to grow each month. Niall O’Leary has organized a good selection of speakers that have been well received and continues to search for future speakers.
I paid a visit to our New Jersey contingent at their last meeting and received a warm welcome. Remember ladies and gentlemen, you don’t need a VISA to enter New York from New Jersey, so we’d love to see you at the New York meetings and events and invite you to present a member profile – so many of us that attend the New York meetings live in New Jersey and would love to hear of your businesses.
In closing, I’d like to recognize two long-time members who passed away recently. We lost Allan Cullen in February and, just this week, Bill Buckley lost his battle with cancer. Allan and Bill will be sorely missed by all of us. Their dedication and hard work contributed greatly to the success of the IBO. They were both true gentlemen at all times even in the face of adversity and their loyalty and support exemplify the greatness of this organization. May they Rest in Peace.
Slán agus beannacht leat
Attracta Lyndon
President
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IBO CALENDAR
OF EVENTS
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May 2006
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May 10, 2006 (Wednesday, 6:30 pm)
IBO NY Networking Meeting.
(Location: Midtown Executive Club, 40 West 45th Street)
This month, our featured speaker will be Professor J.J. Lee, Director of Glucksman Ireland House, Glucksman Professor of Irish Studies, and Professor of History at New York University. He is the author of the award-winning Ireland 1912-1985: Politics and Society. Networking Starts at 6:30 pm sharp. Don't be late! Free for IBO Members and 1st-time guests. $20 for all others. For information, please contact Clare Bennett: 212-750-8118 (clareb@ibo-ny.com).
May 2006 Featured Speaker:
Professor J. J. Lee
 Director, Glucksman Ireland House
Glucksman Chair of Irish Studies & Professor of History, New York University
Professor of History, University College Cork
Professor Joe Lee came to New York University in 2002 as Director of Glucksman Ireland House from University College Cork, where he chaired the History Department and served for periods as Dean of Arts and as Vice President. Educated at University College, Dublin, where he graduated in History and Economics, and the Institute for European History in Mainz, Germany, he has also been a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge; Senior Parnell Research Fellow in Irish Studies at Magdalene, Cambridge; Visiting Fellow at the Austrian Academy, Vienna; the University of Edinburgh, and the European University, Florence. In the USA he has been Visiting Mellon Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, Visiting Professor of Government at Colby College, and Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Peace at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also an Eisenhower Fellow.
Beginning as a business and economic historian, he has published numerous articles especially on Irish, German, and Irish-American history, and on international affairs. His books include The Modernization of Irish Society, 1848-1918 (Dublin, 1973), the prize-winning Ireland, 1912-1985: Politics and Society.(Cambridge, 1989). and The Shifting Balance of Power: Exploring the 20th Century, a collection of his op-ed columns in the Sunday Tribune, Dublin ( 2000). His interest in Irish America is reflected in his Introduction to Donal O'Donovan, Dreamers of Dreams: Portraits of the Irish in America (1984) and in the massive volume he has just edited, with Marion R. Casey, Making the Irish American: The History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States (New York University Press, 2006).
Elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 1986, he is being conferred with an honorary D.Litt by the National University of Ireland this year.
His public service, apart from representing Ireland on several European Union committees, included the Chair of the Irish Fulbright Commission from 1980 to 1995, and election as an Independent member of the Irish Senate 1993-7, during which he also served on the British-Irish Parliamentary Committee.
Glucksman Ireland House welcomed Professor Lee as its new Director at the beginning of Fall 2002, where he is deeply involved in a research project, jointly with researchers in Dublin, on the prospects of the Irish economy.
Member Profile (May 2006):
Seamus Kelleher
Musician (long-time member of the well-known band "Blackthorn"), Writer, and Business Consultant.
 Seamus Kelleher left his hometown of Galway over thirty years ago to pursue a career in music. The youngest of five, Seamus started playing music when he was nine years old and began his professional career when he was just fourteen.
Upon his arrival in New York, he played with various bands around the New York area and studied classical guitar at the prestigious Mannes Conservatory Of Music. He went on to complete a degree in music education at Montclair State University. After teaching elementary school for a few years, Seamus decided to shift gears and study communications at New York University. He got his Master degree in 1989 and went on to work in the corporate world with companies such as EDS and Sapient. After 9/11 he took a break from the corporate world to spend some time with his young family while pursuing his passion for teaching. For the past five years he has been an adjunct professor in the journalism department of NYU and the communication Department of Fordham University.
The music business has taken Seamus from Carnegie Hall in New York to the streets of Prague in the Czech Republic. Seamus continues to play 80 shows a year with his band Blackthorn. In 2002, Seamus produced a show at New York’s Bottom Line to celebrate the life and music of legendary Irish guitar player, Rory Gallagher. He had the show filmed and made a documentary with Stephanie Silber and Victor Zimmet of Home Team Productions. The documentary was broadcast on Irish Television and released as a DVD in 2005.
The band just released Push & Pull, their fifth CD. He also writes a weekly column for The Irish Examiner and just to round things out works with Kinesis Marketing, an integrated marketing company based in Morristown, New Jersey.
In 1992 Seamus was named Community Person of the Year by Aer Lingus and The Irish Voice for his work on behalf of the New York Homeless. He formed Celtic Care twenty years ago with Ronan Downs with a mission of helping those in need. Over the years, Celtic Care has raised over close to $500,000 for the New York homeless.
Seamus and his wife, Mary Pat, have four children. They live in Cranford, New Jersey.
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May 16, 2006 (Tuesday, at 8:00 am)
IBO Breakfast Meeting (Traditional Irish Breakfast).
(Location: Fitzpatrick Grand Central Hotel, 141 East 44th Street).
The IBO Breakfast meeting is hosted by Niall O'Leary. A delicious Traditional Irish Breakfast will be served at a cost of only $15 per person. The IBO is looking to enhance the breakfast meetings for the benefit of the membership, so please attend this special breakfast event and give us your feedback. Please RSVP to Clare at clareb@ibo-ny.com.
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May 16, 2006 (Tuesday, 6:30 pm)
IBO NJ Monthly Meeting:
Location: Molly McGuire's in Clark, NJ.
The NJ meeting is growing ! Please don't miss this great opportunity to network and meet new people with a shared heritgage. For information, please contact: Kate Conroy: kateconroy@gatewaychamber.com
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IBO MEMBERSHIP DUES
If you have not already done so, please pay your 2006 IBO Membership dues. You can renew on line at www.ibo-ny.com, under Join or Renew Now.
IBO Members can avail of the following benefits:
Free admittance to monthly meetings. Monthly meetings give our members the opportunity to network, avail of our guest speaker program, introduce themselves and their business at our meetings. The IBO meets the 2nd Wednesday of every month at the Midtown Executive Club, 40 West 45th Street.
Reduced Member pricing at our social events. Some of social events include: special speaker luncheons, St. Patrick's, Summer, and Christmas Parties, Taste of Ireland Evening, Golf Outing, Gala Ball.
Receive discounts or special offers at a selection of locations. Some of these include Joseph A. Banks, Celtic Crossroads Irish Gift Store, Irish Connections.
First option on sell-out events.
IBO MENTOR PROGRAM
If you have a career that you would like to develop further, run an enterprise that you would like guidance on, or simply would like a wise and unbiased head to turn to - the IBO Mentoring Program could be the answer. We have access to experienced individuals both within and outside the IBO who have offered to act as Mentors to our members.
The Program is free to IBO members and is totally confidential.
If you would like to learn more, email Simon Pereira Shorey at simonps@ibo-ny.com or call Simon at (212) 208 2526.
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NOTICEBOARD
- IBO Website Members Forum
Just a reminder that once you have logged into the Members Forum (left hand side of the IBO Home Page at (www.ibo-ny.com) if you click on to ‘Members Forum’ you will have access to pages for:
- Job Opportunities
- Members seeking positions
- For Sale/For Rent
- Misc. Event Announcements
- IBO Suggestion Box
You can post your own items and read those posted by other members. This is a new area so initially there will be only a few items there. However, the more you use it, the more useful it will become! So please post about any non-IBO events that you wish to publicize, post job opportunities that you hear about, and indeed anything else pertinent. This is YOUR area. Please use it and read it every time you come to the website.
- Success Stories
One hears of many success stories of how membership of the IBO has led to new business, a new job, etc. We are seeking to collect these so that they can be used as ‘sales points’ to attract and retain members. If you have one (or many) of these stories to tell, please email us now at success@ibo-ny.com and let us know.
- Membership Renewal
If you have not already done so, please take the opportunity to contact Clare Bennett, our IBO Administrator, to renew your IBO Membership. Your financial support of the organization is vital to its existence and growth. Clare is streamlining the database, printing new badges for IBO members, and will be updating the on-line directory shortly, and removing inactive members. Clare can be contacted at 212-750-8118 or email at clareb@ibo-ny.com and she is available to answer any questions, concerns, comments or suggestions you may have. She welcomes your calls and shares all feedback she receives with the Executive Committee.
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About The IBO:
The Irish Business Organization of New York, Inc. is an non-profit,
non-denominational organization, which seeks to promote, foster, and
advance the business interests of Irish and Irish American business
people in the tri-state area.
Contact Information:
For More Information About the IBO,
Please Contact:
Clare Bennett, Administrator
The Irish Business Organization of New York, Inc.
FDR Station,
P.O. Box 6425
New York, NY 10150-1901
Tel: 212-750-8118
Fax: 570.828.6907
Email: info@ibo-ny.com
Web Site:
email: info@ibo-ny.com
www.ibo-ny.com
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