Join Us For Our Annual Irish NYE Party!
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The Annual New Years Eve Party!
Each New Year’s Eve, we host a unique and wonderful party and our annual fundraiser at The Celtic on Market Irish Pub in Downtown Denver to kick off the new year “Irish style.” We have an Irish band and session players, Irish step dancers, and the famous Michael Collins bagpipe band. We toast the new year at 5:00 pm MST (7:00 pm EST) because that is when it turns New Year’s Day in Dublin, Ireland.
For this year’s Irish New Year’s Eve celebration at The Celtic on Market, we are offering three levels of sponsorship. They are listed below. If you are interested in being a sponsor, please email us at carriganaohcolorado@gmail.com.
The Carrigan Division’s NYE Event Beneficiary Levels
All of our sponsors will be mentioned on social media and in our program at the event.
Msgr. Henry Robinson Steeple Club
$500 Donation
-for Carrigan Members, this includes your 2022 Member Dues payment.
Your donation as a Steeple Club supporter in Fr. Robinson’s honor gets you:
- 2 General Admissions to the event
- 2 reserved seats in front by the band at the event
- free beer and wine for 2 for the entire event
Fr. Robinson was an Irishman and was a contemporary of our beloved namesake, Fr. Carrigan. He built current rendition of Annunciation Church in Leadville. As a matter of fact he built three churches in Leadville. He was the one who ministered to many of those families with members buried in the cemetery in Leadville. The current version of the parish that he built in Leadville boasts to have the tallest steeple in the world. Then he came back to Denver and built Annunciation Catholic Church in Five Points. Annunciation is one of our biggest beneficiaries. His name graces one of the world famous F.X. Zettler stained glass windows at the Denver Annunciation Church. He just came on our radar, and we are just making a detailed study of him.
The Very Rev. Joseph P. Carrigan Society
$250 Donation
-for Carrigan Members, this includes your 2022 Member Dues payment.
The donation to The Carrigan Society gets you:
- 2 General Admissions to the event
- 6 free beers or house wines
Fr. Carrigan is our patron. He was the second priest assigned to the Colorado territory to assist “The Apostle of Colorado”- Bishop Joseph Machebeuf. Fr. Carrigan, who was called “The Boy Priest ”- was brought to Colorado to serve in part in the mountains and spent most of his lifetime up in Breckenridge, Minturn, Fairplay, Glenwood Springs & Leadville ministering to all of those Irish miners. He was named “Dean” of that region. He also spent time in Denver and was responsible for building the iconic St. Patrick’s Parish in Denver’s Highlands. Legend has it that Fr. Carrigan always took up his own collection just before the Mass began. If you did not give what he thought that you should give, he shook the basket below your nose until you came through. That is why you need to really consider this $250 donation. He is probably watching.
The St. Patrick’s Club
$100 Donation
-for Carrigan Members, this includes your 2022 Member Dues payment.
The donation to The St Patrick’s Club gets you:
- 1 General Admission to the NYE event
- 3 free drinks at the event
Here are some of the Carrigan Division’s Beneficiaries:
* Annunciation Catholic School, Denver, Colorado.
We support athletics, provide coaches and volunteers, and support religious education.
* Samaritan House Homeless Shelter, Catholic Charities.
* Irish Miners’ Memorial, Evergreen Cemetery, Leadville, Colorado.
Records show that 1,339 immigrants are buried in the cemetery in mostly unmarked graves, 70-80% of which are Irish. The average age of those buried is 23. We support the ongoing efforts to honor the memory of those who met their deaths there trying to find a better life. We are in the process of offering financial and volunteer help. The Carrigans are going to donate the permanent benches on the trail surrounding the memorial.
*Survivors of Gun Violence, Colorado.
Provide funding and volunteer work to help support and stabilize survivors of gun violence in our communities.
Denver Catholic Worker House, Denver Colorado.
*In 2022, we will be considering becoming involved as volunteers and sponsors at The Denver Catholic Worker House founded by Servant of God Dorothy Day that serves the poor and homeless.
Additional Beneficiaries
*We will also consider additional beneficiaries as they are proposed to us throughout the year.
The donation to The Carrigan Society gets you Free admission for two to the event and six free beers or house wines at the event.
Check out highlights from our 2020 Virtual New Year’s Eve Party!
Press play below to watch a one minute clip from the party.
2020’s NYE Party included the following festivities:
- Live Irish music, bagpipes & Irish step dancers
- Many virtual speakers, including Cardinal Sean Patrick O’Malley OFM, Cap.
- Shoutout Videos from AOH divisions across the nation
- Virtual silent auction to benefit our charities on our website
- A count down to the famous “lampshade drop” and officially ring in the new year at 5 pm MST to honor the time at which the New Year begins in Dublin.
Irish New Year’s Eve Party 2019
Watch the featured 9 News story below.
2019’s New Year’s Eve Party was held at the Celtic on Market Street in Denver, Colorado.
To read the full story on 9 News, click the link below:
https://www.9news.com/amp/article/life/music-whiskey-and-a-lampshade-drop-celebrating-the-irish-new-year-in-denver/73-1662c750-0b8f-4179-addc-6029810f8622
The Very Reverend Joseph P. Carrigan Division 