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GAIF Photo Contest Winners Announced

August 12, 2008

The Great American Irish Festival Committee announced the winner of its first annual photo contest. Stanley Sosnowski of Mystic, CT submitted the winning photo which featured his wife, Sheila, viewing the mountainous landscape at the Gap of Dunloe, a popular tourist destination south of Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland.

The winning photo was chosen by the popular vote of this year's Festival goers from more than twenty photos submitted for the contest. To be eligible, each photo was required to have an Irish-American theme and to include a person as the subject or a component of the photograph.

"Based on the strong positive interest shown this year, we expect the photo contest to be a feature for next year's festival," Festival Director Matt Sullivan said.

Photographs may be submitted the Great American Irish Festival Photo Contest, P.O. Box 584, Marcy, NY 13403, no later than July 10, 2009. Each photo must be at least 8 inches by 10 inches and no larger than 10 inches by 14 inches and must be mounted or matted. The pictures must show an Irish or Irish-American event, activity or location, and have a person or people as the subject or a component of the photograph. The Festival Committee will choose ten semi-finalists, with the overall winning photograph to be chosen by popular vote during the Great American Irish Festival on the last weekend in July 2009. Each semi-finalist will receive five weekend tickets for the festival, and the winning photographer will win $100. All photographs submitted for the contest will become the property of the Great American Irish Festival and will become part of the photograph archive at the future Irish-American Cultural Center.