Meet the committee
Julie Cassidy Gosling
Julie is chairperson of Nottingham Irish Centre. She has been involved in community development work for many years and is an international trainer in community development and empowerment. She is the Founder of Friendly Irish Advice Nottingham and Notts (FIANN) which has helped over 500 Irish people in the last few years with benefit, disability and housing problems. She was also one of the organisers of the Long Trip Home, which enabled Irish people to return home for the first time in many years. She is a keen musician and had her own all-woman band The Mad Cows, sadly now disbanded but may, hopefully, be reformed one day!
Pat English
Pat was born in Edinburgh but her family moved back to Achill Island when she was aged two. She moved to England in 1967 and she and her husband have worked in the licensed trade for over 30 years. She has managed well known Irish pubs in Nottingham such as O’Rourke’s, The Hole in the Wall and The Bellevue. She was also the first Irish community development worker employed by FIANN.
Tom Ryan
Tom Ryan, and his wife Peggy are founder members and organisers of the Golden Shamrocks. Tom is a Dublin man who grew up, like Biddy Mulligan, in The Coombe. He has spent most of his working life in the printing trade starting with the Dublin Evening Mail, until he was made redundant in 1958 when he and Peggy came to England.
