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size=3>Rare Vintage Fight Footage Illustrates Kilbane’s Career as a
boxer<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"'><FONT size=3>Johnny Kilbane: World
Featherweight Champion 1912-1923</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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size=3>Presented in collaboration with the Cleveland Public
Library<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>Boxing historian Jerry Fitch (</FONT><I><FONT size=3>Cleveland's Greatest
Fighters of All Time</FONT></I><FONT size=3>) and Johnny Kilbane's
great-grandson Kevin O'Toole team up to present an overview of the fighting
career of Cleveland boxer Johnny Kilbane, world featherweight champion from
1912-1923. Their presentation will feature vintage film footage from
Kilbane's first title fight in 1912 and his 1921 League Park victory over Danny
Frush, including footage from the Kilbane family collection that has just been
restored and never been shown publicly before!</FONT><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT size=3> </FONT></SPAN><FONT size=3>The
program will be repeated twice, first at the Main Branch of the Cleveland Public
Library and again in Bridgie Neds Room in the basement of P.J. McIntyre’s Irish
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</FONT></SPAN><FONT size=3>Both events are free and open to the
public.</FONT><FONT size=3><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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size=3>Thursday, September 4, 2014, Noon<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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size=3>Cleveland Public Library Main Branch, Louis Stokes Wing,
5</FONT><SUP><FONT size=3>th</FONT></SUP><FONT size=3>
Floor<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>25 Superior Ave E, Cleveland, OH 44114<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>Saturday, September 6, 2014, 4 pm<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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size=3>P.J. McIntyre’s “Bridgie Neds Room”
downstairs<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>17119 Lorain Ave, Cleveland, OH 44111</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin'>These
lectures are sponsored by the Irish American Archives Society, a
non-profit organization that seeks to preserve and present information about the
history of the Irish in Cleveland. The Irish American Archives Society is
spearheading the Johnny Kilbane Sculpture Project; a sculpture commemorating
Johnny Kilbane, by internationally known, Dublin-based artist Rowan Gillespie,
will be dedicated on Sunday, September 28, 2014, at noon in Battery Park in
Cleveland's West Side (West 74th and Fr. Frascati Blvd.). Programming
illuminating "Johnny Kilbane's Cleveland" is funded in part by the citizens
of Cuyahoga County through a grant from Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. Other
upcoming events include the screening of a documentary about Johnny Kilbane at
the West Side Irish American Club (8559 Jennings Road, Olmsted Falls OH 44139)
on September 11, 7 pm. For further information see <A
href="http://www.irisharchives.org">www.irisharchives.org</A>.
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