Heres to Arthurs Day - Ariel House joins in the celebrations

Arthurs Day, 24th September 2009

The celebrations begin in Dublin at 17:59 local time with a global toast to Arthur Guinness to mark the 250 years since he signed the 9,000 year lease on the St. James's Gate brewery and kick off the beginning of the Arthur’s Day global events. In Dublin thousands of people will be coming together to experience the live music events in over 30 venues across Dublin from intimate gigs in pubs to music venues and even a concert at the St. James’s Gate brewery itself. One of the most historic buildings in the brewery, Hop Store 13, will become a live music studio for Arthur’s Day where more than 2,000 guests from around the world will enjoy performances from global artists in honour of this remarkable milestone and the legacy that is Arthur Guinness. At 17:59 in and around the world, consumers will be joined by Artists and celebrities including Sir Bob Geldof, Guy Ritchie, Carson Daly, Jerry Hall and Sophie Dahl as they take part in this once in a lifetime moment and raise a GUINNESS to Arthur and toast the Arthur Guinness Fund. Arthur Guinness and his family were responsible for some of the most well known acts of philanthropy in Ireland and to honour and continue this legacy we are establishing the Arthur Guinness Fund. The aim of the Fund is to enable and empower individuals with skills and opportunities to deliver a measured benefit to their communities. The Guinness & Co. will donate €6 million to the Arthur Guinness Fund which will be active from September 2009. New artists joining the Arthur’s Day lineup today are: Sir Tom Jones, Calvin Harris, Razorlight, Richard Hawley, Black Swan Effect, Republic of Loose, Imelda May, David Gray, The Hot Rats, Jamie Cullum, Sugababes, The Kooks, The Blizzards, Golden Silvers, Jay Jay Pistolet, Mick Flannery, Dirty Epics, The Chakras, Cherbourg, Eoghan Colgan, Hoarsebox, Nat Jenkins, Noise Control and The Chapters.

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Profile of a Regular Guest at Ariel House - A Biography of Patrick Taylor

At Ariel House we are proud to be the Dublin Home from Home of Author Patrick Taylor. Born in 1941 and brought up in Bangor, Co. Down, Patrick Taylor managed to hoodwink the examiners in Belfast in 1964 and London in 1969 to become a physician and then a specialist Ob/Gyn. He spent 37 years in Canada, 31 working in the field of human infertility, teaching at a series of universities and churning out a string of research papers, more remarkable for their quantity than quality. These led to a misapprehension that his chosen genre was science fiction…at least according to scientific peer reviewers. Because so many people laughed at his research (take Infertility Treatment in the Lowland Gorilla, [Gorilla G. Gorilla] as an example) in 1989 he turned his hand to writing humour columns for medical and sailing magazines, a pastime he follows to this day.
A book of short stories Only Wounded: Ulster Stories was published by Key Porter Books of Toronto in 1997, four years before he retired a Professor Emeritus to write full-time. Two techno-thrillers, Pray for Us Sinners, and the sequel Now and in the Hour of Our Death (Insomniac Press. Toronto. 2000 and 2005) were followed by the first three novels in the Irish Country series, An Irish Country Doctor (2007 Hard Back. 2008 Trade paper) and An Irish Country Village (2008 Hard Back 2009 Trade paper) and, An Irish Country Christmas (2008 Hard Back). The fourth An Irish Country Girl will be published by Tom Doherty and Associates. NY., NY., in spring 2010.
Irish Country Doctor a Book of the Month Club novel of the month has also been published in German, Dutch, Spanish, and will be released in Czech. It is in 11 languages as a Readers Digest select edition and Village has been condensed in 5.
Both Doctor and Village have been and will be released by Brandon Press here in Ireland.
When Country Doctor made NY Times best-seller in both editions teams of mental health workers were needed to help him deal with post-traumatic shock, a symptom of which is that in 2008 he returned to Ireland and, now lives in Cootehall, Co Roscommon, with his partner, award winning oil painter Dorothy Tinman.
He is presently working on the fifth book in the series in those moments when he is not staying in the Ariel or in one of the four local pubs enjoying the craic and giving truth to the old adage, “a bird cannot fly on one wing.”

For Further information see http://www.patricktaylor.ca/