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Dublin Irish Festival

Here's our first story previewing the Irish Festival. I'll be adding more over the next few weeks.

Volunteers to top 1,000 for Irish festival

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Andy Resnik Comment by Andy Resnik on August 17, 2009 at 8:52am
The city of Dublin has announced attendance figures for the 2009 Irish Festival: for the first time more than 100,000 people attended the three-day event. A record 102,400 people attended the festival, topping the previous record of more than 93,000 people in 2007. About 92,000 people attended the event last year. We don't know yet if the city ended up making a larger profit than the $200,000 it made last year ($1.5 million in revenues and expenditures of $1.3 million).

The city was anticipating a crowd of more than 100,000 and the projection was correct. It seems like the economy is keeping people closer to home these days, plus the city and CVB promote this event like gangbusters. We wrote more preview stories than ever before in the Villager, but there also were a lot of good stories to tell. I'm betting attendance will be up again next year because the city also will be celebrating its bicentennial.
Andy Resnik Comment by Andy Resnik on August 7, 2009 at 10:17pm
Sorry for the lack of activity here this week, but it's been pretty hectic: a lot to do, but not enough time in the day to do it. Anyway, here are links to our Irish Festival audio slideshow and video. To watch the video, click on the link, which takes you to ThisWeek's video player, then click on TWN News.

Dublin Irish Festival audio slideshow

Dublin Irish Festival video
Andy Resnik Comment by Andy Resnik on July 30, 2009 at 10:52pm
ThisWeek web producer Stefanie Hauck has packaged our Dublin Irish Festival coverage on ThisWeekNews.com. It's pretty cool. Here's the link:

2009 Dublin Irish Festival
Andy Resnik Comment by Andy Resnik on July 30, 2009 at 11:21am
Here are links to all of the stories that Jennifer wrote in this week's Villager to help get you ready for the Dublin Irish Festival:

Irish offerings aplenty this weekend in Dublin

Event's signature beer growing in popularity

Post Road project to begin after Irish festival

Three couples will exchange vows at Coffman Park over the weekend

VanVliet twins awarded festival scholarship

Dublin Irish Festival: Event is 'like Ireland, only smaller'

Teens not overlooked at Irish festival
Andy Resnik Comment by Andy Resnik on July 23, 2009 at 12:41am
Irish fest spreads wealth around Dublin

Despite economy, organizers anticipating robust event

Irish festival wants patrons to go green

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    Peter and Benjamin Sells came to the area around 1801 from Huntington County, Pa., to buy land. Old Dublin was first platted in 1810 by their brother, John. Surveyor John Shields named the town after his birthplace in Ireland. The town developed the usual assortment of mills, shops and churches, with settlers coexisting peacefully with Wyandot Indians, who camped on Indian Run. The town gained notoriety in the mid-19th century, when a surplus of taverns and rowdy Civil War veterans gave the village a tough reputation. Columbus' growth and the construction of I-270 made expansion inevitable. Dublin achieved city status in 1987.
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