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WELCOME. Email irelandeamon@yahoo.ie

Éamon Ireland. Composer of over one hundred and sixty songs, including Island Girl and UKSC Winner folk/country Katie Riordan. Author of half a dozen books, including Island Stories and Under The Copper Tree, a seventy thousand word insight into the tribulations of everyday life. The name is becoming synonymous with the Islands Of Ireland.

You can often find me out there writing about things people have left behind or forgotten about completely.

Artist and producer of the compilation album for Alzheimer's Ireland, Forget Me Not.

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/forgetmenot

Forget Me Not, Alzheimers Ireland.
Current mood: accomplished
Category: Life

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Forget Me Not - International Singers & Songwriters Support Alzheimer's Ireland - UPDATE
Current mood: accomplished.

The International Singers And Songwriters Support Alzheimer's Ireland
Charity CD lineup is now completed - Launch Date 6 May 2009.

The Double CD will also be known under the pseudo name of

Forget Me Not

We would like to give a special Thank You to Terry Ferdinand. Terry
read Eamon's email on his Monday Night Folk Show which lead to people
from countries near and far donating their songs in support of Alzheimer's Ireland. The Monday Night Folk Show can be heard on Bishop FM Monday's 9:00pm to 11:00pm UK time.

Below
is a list of those involved and the songs they have donated.

Kari Lynn - Strange World
Edward 'Teddy' Mikalski - Campari Girl
Mary Kathleen Burke - My Scotsman And Thee
Lynne Butler and Peter Fallowell- Thinking Bout Love
Julian 'Jules' Wilson and Hoeve - These Blues
Eamon O Maonaigh - Island Girl
Penni McLaren Walker - The Traveling Man
Charlotte Ryerson- Slipping Sideways
Shiregreen - Freedomfighter
Graham Hendry - You Set The Night On Fire
Sheedyfrost - Refugee
Leprechaun Water - Gravel Walk
Nick Barnes - Throwin' Stones
jiva - Some Way Home
Paul Thomas and Guitavio - Will Ye Nay Come Back Billy Boy
Mark Whitmore - Forget And Forgotten
Few Broth - The Aad Days
John Scullion - Belfast
Whipstaff - Beggars Litany
Mick Dunne - You Don't Know My Name
John Twist - Carousel
George Papavgeris - Memory
Landermason - All Roads
Paul Dunn and Marie-Claire Calvet - If You Could Hear Me Now
Penny Priest - What Dreams May Come
Terry Mostyn - Way Of The World

This project would have been impossible without the help of Timi Walk and Terry Ferdinand, Bishop FM, to them we thank for their dedicated and continuous support

Launch Date, The Fourth Of May 2009.
Price, 9.99

Talk soon,
Eamon.
http://www.alzheimer.ie

Where does Your Money Go

Funds donated to the Society are used to provide information and
support to people with dementia and their families and carers. There
are currently over 40,000 people living in Ireland with dementia, they
and their families need support and the Society works in the heart of
local communities to try to provide support, maximise quality of life
and to build awareness and understanding about dementia.

The Society provides the following support services around Ireland:

* The Alzheimer National Helpline
* Day Care Centres
* Home Care Programmes
* Carer Support Groups
* Overnight Respite Centre
* Weekly Social Clubs
* The Dementia Rights Advocacy Service

The Society also publish and distribute resources such as our
Information Pack for which we rely solely on your generosity to produce.

Capital Development Projects
The current programme for
capital development includes a number of projects around the country
presently under construction or in the planning phase. In recent years
a number of purpose built day care centres have opened in Cork City,
Waterford City, Navan etc enhancing the quality of service through the
use of latest thinking in dementia-friendly design and environment. The
2 major projects in construction phase are:

Blackrock Project (€5.6m): Purpose built facility
comprising of a day care centre and an 11 bedded 24/7 respite centre
within the walled gardens of The Orchard. The new national offices of
the Society will also be located in Blackrock.

Waterman’s Lodge (€4m): in Killaloe/Ballina was a
country house hotel that the Society is converting into a respite
centre to serve the mid west region. This will be the first specialist
respite service located outside Dublin.

If you would like to make a donation to one of these projects please
contact Niamh Sheeran or Emily Brew in our fundraising department at 01
2073800.

Social Research Projects
The Society also embarks on cutting
edge research to explore and highlight the needs of people living with
dementia in Ireland as well as those of their families and carers. The
Society has commissioned research on areas such as Stigma and dementia
and the needs of younger people and dementia, copies of these reports
are available in our resource centre.
(pronounced /ˈaɪɚlənd/ (help·info), locally [ˈaɾlənd] – Irish: Éire, Ulster Scots: Airlann, Latin: Hibernia) is the third-largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islets. To the east of Ireland, separated by the Irish Sea, is the island of Great Britain. Politically, the sovereign country of Ireland (described as the Republic of Ireland)[2] covers five-sixths of the island, with Northern Ireland (part of the United Kingdom) covering the remainder in the north-east.

The first settlements in Ireland date from 8000 BC. By 200 BC Celtic migration and influence had come to dominate the island. Relatively small scale settlements of both the Vikings and Normans in the Middle Ages gave way to complete English domination by the 1600s. Protestant English rule resulted in the marginalisation of the Catholic majority, although in the north-east, Protestants were in the majority due to the Plantation of Ulster. Ireland became part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801. A famine in the mid-1800s caused deaths and emigration. The Anglo-Irish War ended in 1921 with a stalemate and the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, creating the Irish Free State, a Dominion within the British Empire, with effective internal independence but still constitutionally linked with the British Crown.[3] Northern Ireland, consisting of six of the 32 Irish counties which had been established as a devolved region under the 1920 Government of Ireland Act, immediately exercised its option under the treaty to retain its existing status within the United Kingdom.[4]The Free State left the Commonwealth to become a republic in 1949. In 1973 both parts of Ireland joined the European Community. Conflict in Northern Ireland led to much unrest from the late 1960s until the 1990s, which subsided following a peace deal in 1998.

The population of the island is slightly under 6 million (2006), with 4.2 million in the Republic[5] and an estimated almost 1.75 million in Northern Ireland.[6] This is a significant increase from a modern historical low in the 1960s, but still much lower than the peak population of over 8 million in the early 19th century, prior to the Great Famine.[7]

The name Ireland derives from the name of the Celtic goddess Ériu (in modern Irish, Éire) with the addition of the Germanic word land. Most other western European names for Ireland, such as French Irlande, derive from the same source.[8]