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Worldwide at bostonirish.com All contents copyright © 2010 Boston Neighborhood News, Inc. BIR Observes Its 20th with Gala Event Introducing Irish Family Honors The Boston Irish Reporter will observe its 20th an- niversary on October 7 with a gala celebratory luncheon at the Seaport Hotel/World Trade Center in Boston. The newspaper was founded in October, 1990 by publisher Ed Forry and his late wife, Mary Casey Forry, who announced that the publication’s mission would be to “Tell the Stories of Boston’s Irish.” The first issues of the BIR were contained as small supplements to the Dorchester Reporter, a weekly newspaper cov- ering the Dorchester and Mattapan communities. “In those years, de- spite Boston’s status as ‘the most Irish city in America,’ there was no Boston-based journal of news and information to report on the burgeoning local Irish diaspora,” said Forry. “Mary and I saw an opportunity to celebrate our own heritage, and we began a journey of great Joe Derrane recorded his new album in the house where he’s been living for more than 50 years. discovery telling the stories of our neighbors and our Sean Smith photo family. The story of the many Irish-born people who braved the trans-Atlantic journey to find freedom and prosperity for themselves and their children in America The Music Master of Grove Lane is always inspiring, and in fact, never gets old.” The birthday luncheon is serving a second function. It will feature the debut of a new annual event for the Joe Derrane Delivers BIR, the awarding of the Boston Irish Family Honors. “The Boston Irish Reporter is one of the region’s few remaining family-owned and-operated publica- from Heart and Hearth tions,” Forry said. “In saluting our own heritage, the newspaper will make presentations to two Boston By Sean Smith “It was not unusual for me to play a ballroom gig on Irish individuals for their special achievements in Special to the BIR a Thursday, a wedding on Friday night, two weddings public service and business, and to three exemplary “Grove Lane” is to Joe Derrane what “Abbey Road” on Saturday, a ballroom gig on Sunday — and then Irish families who share our common roots in Boston was to The Beatles. I’d get up Monday and go to work [at the MBTA]. She and Ireland.” No, you won’t hear Boston’s legendary accordion never complained.” The initial honorees are Congressman Edward Mar- player doing covers of “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” or Derrane unhesitatingly credits Anne’s presence key, Arbella Insurance CEO John Donohue (Profile, “Here Comes the Sun” on his new CD, which will be and support for his re-emergence in the Irish music Page 8), and the family honorees are the Bretts, the out this month. But as the Fab Four memorialized the scene, a story that has been widely told but remains Geraghtys, and the Hyneses. London recording studio’s influence on their music, so as fresh as ever: Son of Irish immigrants becomes a Derrane has likewise paid tribute to the place that has mainstay of Boston’s famous Irish dance halls in the Page 24 October 2010 BOSTON IRISH REPORTER Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com had a significant impact on his vocation — and his life. 1940s and 50s, but after the scene begins to dry up is Located in Randolph, south of Boston, Grove Lane forced to forsake Irish music for pop music. Then in 1994, a record company releases new versions of 78s 20th Anniversary is the street the 80-year-old Derrane has called home Luncheon for 51 years now, where he and his beloved, steadfast he’d recorded back in the day, rumors of his death or Thursday, October 7, 2010 Seaport Hotel, wife Anne, who died in 2008, raised their family. The incapacitation prove exaggerated, and he’s back doing One Seaport Lane, Boston, MA Boston Irish Family Honors Luncheon gigs and introducing himself to new generations of Registration 11:30 a.m.. Celebrating 20 years house on Grove Lane also has borne witness to the Luncheon 12:15 p.m. Sponsorship Opportunities $125 per guest, Irish music lovers. Table of 10, $1250 The Boston“Telling Irish Reporter, the region’sthe leading stories chronicler of all thingsof Irish-American,Boston’s will Irish” ebb and flow of Derrane’s musical career, including celebrate its 20th anniversary with a Celebratory Luncheon on Thursday, October 7, 2010 Host Committee at Boston’s Seaport Hotel/World Trade Center. With an attendance of more than 300 top its remarkable rebirth in the 1990s and continuation While “Grove Lane” does have its fond reminiscences Robert K. Sheridan, Boston business,You civic and political are leaders, Cordiallythe luncheon event will launch aInvited new annual to Attend a Event Chair awards ceremony, the Boston Irish Family Honors. The Boston Irish Reporter is one of the — with tributes to Anne, late Cape Breton fiddling Hon. Michael Lonergan, region’s few remaining family-owned and-operated publications and, in honoring our own to the present day. Consul General of Ireland heritage, the newspaper will make presentations to two Boston Irish individuals for their Edward W. Forry master Jerry Holland, and Derrane’s mentor Tommy Publisher special achievements in public service and business, and to three exemplary Irish families So, appropriately enough, during the summer of who share our common roots in Boston and Ireland. Patrick J. Bench 20th Anniversary Luncheon Boston Irish Honors for 2010 Sullivan among the compositions included — there Hon. William M. Bulger 2009 Grove Lane served as a recording studio for Der- Jim Carmody John T. Carroll ForIntroducing Leadership in Public Service the First Annual also is a definitive move forward, something that has Joseph E. Corcoran Hon. Edward J. Markey, rane and his friend and accompanist, guitarist John Della Costello U.S. Congress 7th Dist MA John Cullinane characterized Derrane’s work for several years now. Lena Deevey LSA McGann. The two put together 12 tracks, showcasing Dick Flavin For Excellence in Business John Philip Foley, Esq BOSTONJohn Donohue, IRISH HONORS “What I’ve been trying to do is to elevate the status Maureen Forry Derrane’s distinctive accordion style — marked by a William Forry CEO, Arbella Insurance David Greaney penchant for expertly employed triplets and masterful of the accordion,” he explains. “It’s capable of a lot Phil Haughey Exemplary Boston Irish Families Kieran Jordan The Brett family Jim Keefe chord progressions and substitutions — through an more than some might think — even the trad-heads. Edris Kelley The Hynes family William F. Kennedy, Esq The Geraghty family Rev. Thomas B. Kennedy assortment of jigs, reels, hornpipes and other tunes, I’m a great believer in stretching yourself beyond the Mimi LaCamera Sponsorship opportunities are available for this first annual event, and you are invited to Barbara M. Langis show your support at one of the following “sponsorship” levels: Kevin W. Leary seven of them composed by Derrane. limits of the instrument. So I think I’ve learned more Joseph F. Leary Jr Platinum Sponsor: $15,000 Mary Joyce Morris •Two tables of ten at luncheon • Full page ad in program publication Seamus Mulligan • 12 monthly Full Page ads in Boston Irish Reporter The result is, quite literally, a homespun affair — since I started back up again in 1994 than in all the James S. O’Brien Mary Ann Brett GoldMayor Sponsor John B. $10,000Hynes Margaret Geraghty Congressman Edward Markey John Donohue Jean McKenna O’Donnell William O’Donnell • Table for ten at luncheon • Full page ad in program publication music that feels straight from heart and hearth, because previous years.” Hon. Robert H. Quinn • 12 monthly half page ads in Boston Irish Reporter William J Reilly Jr ExemplaryBronze sponsor $7500 Boston Irish Families Derrane puts his belief into action on the album’s Larry Reynolds • Table for ten at luncheon • 1/2 page ad in program publication it is, and has been for so long. That’s why “Grove Lane” John Shaughnessy, Sr Gil Sullivan The Brett• 12 monthlyfamily 1/4 page ads in BostonThe Irish Hynes Reporter Family The Geraghty Family third track, a strikingly intricate tango he composed. John Stenson Emerald sponsor $2500 has an obvious, and deeply felt, dedication. Hon. Martin Walsh • Table for ten at luncheon • 1/4 page ad in program publication Robert White For more information,For Leadership please contact Ed Forry,in Public President & Service Publisher at 617-436-1222, orFor Excellence in Business “I wanted the use of full-bodied, right-hand chords and Hon. W. Paul White “This one was for Anne,” said Derrane, interviewed Larry Zabar email to [email protected] Boston Irish Reporter, 150 Hon. Mt Vernon Edward Street, Ste J. 120, Markey Dorchester MA 02125 John Donohue during one recent early autumn afternoon, of the the more extensive use of the accordion’s left-hand bass U.S. Congress Chairman, President and buttons,” he says of “Tango Derrane.” “But with the Massachusetts 7th District CEO, Arbella Insurance Longford-born woman to whom he was married for 53 years. “She was always there for me, she was the Irish button-accordion it’s all push-pull, which has its Please reserve ______seats @ $125 each, total ______one who kept encouraging me to practice and play, she limitations. So I just decided to write a tango that fo- Table(s) of ten @ $1250 each, total ______I am unable to attend the luncheon event______told me I could do it, even when I wasn’t sure I could. (Continued on page 15) Celebrating 20 years Send more information about Sponsorship Opportunities______“Telling the stories of Boston’s Irish” Business Name ...... Boston Irish Honors Contact Name ...... Address ...... Family Goes ‘Home’ Poetry and Grief: Anniversary Luncheon ...... inside Phone ...... Boston Seaport Hotel E-mail...... to the Isle of Myths James Joyce’s ‘Tilly’ Please complete and mail by September 27, 2010 to: Thursday, October 7, 2010 Boston Irish Honors Anniversary Luncheon c/o Boston Irish Reporter Registration 11:30 a.m. 150 Mt. Vernon Street, Suite 120 Luncheon 12:15 p.m. Dorchester, MA 02125 the bir Page 6 Page 18 Sponsorship opportunities are now available for this first annual event. For more information please contact Ed Forry, President & Publisher Boston Irish Reporter: 617-436-1222 • [email protected] Page 2 October 2010 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com

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Both girls The Dorchester Youth Lacrosse pro- “We start holding practices at places will be returning to the program.” gram is in its twelfth year and is going like the Leahy-Holloran Community Joanne Sweeney has three children in stronger than ever thanks to founder Center, just to give the returning players the program, Andrew, age 9, Anna age Mike Devlin. After graduating from a chance to get the rust off and the new 13 and 15 year-old Kevin, who was one of Salem State College, the Savin Hill na- players a chance to see if they like the the first players in the league. She has tive went to work for the City of Boston’s sport. In mid-April we take the practices nothing but accolades for the program Parks and Recreation Department. He outside and start playing games.” and Devlin. saw a fledgling lacrosse program in Devlin continues, “The kids are awe- “He does so much for the kids and he Charlestown and thought it would be some. They have a blast on the field. doesn’t even have children of his own. something that would interest kids in There is no pressure. Score-boards are Kevin started when he was only five and his own neighborhood. optional. Our league has no standings, he is still playing.” “I saw it starting in other parts of the but the kids stay competitive. They have This summer Devlin started a Wednes- city and wanted to start a program here. fun, but they don’t like to lose!” day and Friday night Lacrosse program At first we did not have that many kids, The program is valued by the play- at Neponset’s Garvey Park for high but now we are up to 100 boys and 50 ers’ parents, as well. Tom Leahy’s two school age players. Sweeney says of this girls in the program.” daughters, Kaylen, age 10 and Erin, summertime endeavor, “Mike really Devlin was not surprised that lacrosse age 8 both play for Dorchester Youth got it right when he started the night appealed to the kids in Dorchester. Lacrosse. program. It keeps the teenagers active “It is a very fast-paced sport,” Devlin “Kaylen has been playing since she and it keeps them off the street corners. Conor Boyle, a standout lacrosse notes. “It is a lot like hockey, which is was in K-2. The kids don’t usually start There are a plenty of organized activities player for Catholic Memorial, got his very popular here. It is a very physical until third grade, but they didn’t have for the younger kids, but not a lot for start at Dorchester Lacrosse. game; it takes a lot of hand-eye coordi- many girls back then so they let her the high school kids. I always thought has done so much with the lacrosse nation.” start,” Leahy says. “Kaylen, who will be Dorchester Youth Hockey should do the program. I don’t think many kids from Devlin adds that lacrosse is the fastest in the fifth grade in the fall, has contin- same thing. Instead of having the older around here would be into lacrosse if it growing sport in the United Sates and ued to play and she loves it and she has kids play early in the mornings on the wasn’t for him. And now, there are so that there is an increasing amount of become quite good. Erin plays too and weekends, they should play on Friday many kids who play.” Boyle states that scholarship opportunities, especially for she really enjoys it, as well.” and Saturday nights to help keep them some of the added benefits of the program girls who play the sport. Leahy is very grateful for the experi- out of trouble.” have been the friendships that he has Dorchester Lacrosse, which is geared ences that the program has given his Conor Boyle, 18, says it’s been a great made learning to be a leader. towards players in third grade through daughters. summer to play. “I really like the program. The kids “There are 4 teams with 10-15 kids Devlin says that the program he estab- on each team. So every Wednesday and lished is only as good as its volunteers. Friday night this summer there has “We have great people who coach and “Irish Network Boston’ been at least 40 kids playing lacrosse at volunteer their time. We are always Garvey Park. The more practice you get looking for more hands. You don’t need Schedules Launch in City Nov. 3 the better,” Boyle says. to have played before to help.” Conor started with Dorchester Youth The programs currents sponsors in- ‘Irish Net- membership across the city. Lacrosse when he was seven years old clude Baby Cakes Bakery in Quincy, work Boston’ “IN-Boston will hold events through- and went on to play the sport for Catho- the Boston Police Athletic League and (IN-Boston), a out the year and it will use its website lic Memorial in the Division II Catholic Thomas M. Finneran Charities and new new network- to promote other events taking place Conference League. In the fall he will sponsors are always welcome. ing organization in the city which have an Irish flavor,” be attending South Carolina’s Coastal Registration for next year will begin that will be open Greaney said. “We will invite and urge Carolina University where he plans to this month and online registration will to anyone in the other Irish groups to let us know of their continue playing lacrosse. be available. The fee for players is about Boston area who events which we will publicize on our “Having played in Dorchester defi- $125. More information can be found by is interested in website, irishnetworkboston.org.” nitely gave me a leg up when I went to visiting dorchesteryouthlacrosse.org or participating The venture has the full support and play at CM,” Boyle says. “Mike Devlin calling 857-221-1646 more actively in backing from Irish Government repre- the Irish/Irish sentatives in Boston, Greaney noted. David Greaney American com- In particular, the Irish Consul General munity, in in connecting professionally, to New England, Michael Lonergan, or just looking to expand their social believes this is an exciting new oppor- BLACKTHORNE RESORT scene is scheduled for a formal launch- tunity in Boston. ing next month at the city’s historic “The Irish Government is very mind- Located in the Irish Catskills Faneuil Hall. ful that our most important bilateral On Saturday, September 18th, 2010 the Blackthorne Heading the new organization as chair- relationship is with the United States,” Resort had a fire which destroyed our main lodge and person will be David Greaney, founder said Lonergan. “Now more than ever we office. As a result, we do not have any reservation and president of Synergy Investment are conscious of the importance of our information. We apologize for the inconvience. and Development, which is based in Diaspora and our friends here in the Boston. Greaney is active in the Irish- U.S. and we are hoping that endeavors Despite the fire, The Blackthorne is already American business community and has like this will create a bond between Irish back and fully functioning! Our pavilion has being received the Entrepreneurial Award people living here, with people of Irish enclosed and heated. It is servinging as both a dining from the Irish Chamber of Commerce. descent, and with those who are simply room and a bar. All concerts and activities are going Additionally, he has been recognized in interested in things Irish. Similar organi- on as planned! Irish America Magazine’s “Business 100” zations have been successfully launched If you made a reservation at the Blackthorne Resort, and named one of Business & Finance in other cities and I am confident that please contact us at [email protected] or Magazine’s “Most Influential US-Irish the capital of Irish America will take a (518) 634-2541 with your reservation information, Business Leaders”. leading role in this initiative. email address and phone number. In talking with the Boston Irish Re- “IN-Boston’s board members have porter, he explained how this initiative been chosen from across a wide spectrum came about: “As one of the actions to with backgrounds in law, academia, busi- come out of the Global Economic Confer- ness, community activity and culture,” There’s Something for Everyone ence held last year in Dublin, the Irish said the consul general. The aim is to government was determined to create have as inclusive and wide ranging an at Blackthorne Resort a network of people with common in- organization as possible. My colleagues The Blackthorne Resort is a perfect spot for Family Reunions Organizations and Se- terests — business, cultural, and social here in the IDA and Enterprise Ireland nior Citizen Get-A-Ways- no matter what your age, you’ll feel like a kid again after — in major cities with Irish populations are working closely with me and IN- either by birth or descent. Boston, the Boston to ensure the success of this new you stay at The Blackthorne Resort. most Irish city in America, should be in and exciting development.” the forefront of this development. The formal launch will take place on Nestled amidst the breathtaking beauty of the Northern Catskills Mountains. The “We are hoping,” said Greaney, “that Wed., Nov. 3, in Faneuil Hall with a Blackthorne Resort offers all the comfort and luxury you desire. Terrace views to the IN-Boston will become a networking hub number of famous faces expected and majestic mountains, air conditioning, heat, television, and private baths. Ultra De- for friends of Ireland, both Irish-born a guaranteed night of fun, hospitality luxe rooms with queen size beds, refrigerator, and Jacuzzis. We even offer Beautiful and Irish-American. IN-Boston will and entertainment being laid on, said campgrounds and RV hookups for the outdoor enthusiast. become part of a national network, IN- Greaney. The board encourages people USA, which has branches in New York, to log on to the website at irishnetwork- Philadelphia, Washington DC, Chicago, boston.org and join IN-Boston for a very Upcoming Events San Diego, Denver, and San Francisco, special evening. October 1 & 2 - Mustang Fall Round-Up the ashes and have the time of your life with more expected to launch over the The membership fee will be $50 a Fri- Rico Suave’s Chimps In Tuxedos doing it! coming months. IN-Boston connects year with members getting invitations Sat- Midnight Image October 29 & 30- Halloween Bash its membership with existing branches, to IN-Boston events beginning with the October 8, 9 & 10- Oktober Fest Pig Roast Fri- Rico Suave’s Chimps In Tuxedos and through them with Irish people launch party. Members are also auto- Fri + Sat- Willie Lynch Showband Sat- Peter McKiernan and people of Irish heritage all over the matically linked into IN-USA and can Sun- Peter McKiernan United States and in Ireland. access members information and events October 15 & 16 Don’t forget The Blackthorne Resort’s “There are many successful Irish orga- from the other branches of IN-USA lo- Fri + Sat- Kitty Kelly Band Haunted House, Massacre Mansion! nizations here in Boston,” said Greaney, cated throughout the country. October 22 - 24- The Phoenix From The Open every Friday, Saturday and “ but this is about creating something “Greaney is pleased with the planning Flames Festival And Fundraiser Sunday through the end of October. that will be both new and complemen- for the launch and has great expectations with Black 47, The Gobshites, Kilrush Hours: Fri and Sat - 7pm-11pm, tary. IN-Boston will not be focused on for the organization. “I can honestly say and more! Sun - 7pm-9pm. Admission is $15. any one area, like business or culture that our launch event on Nov. 3 will be Help The Blackthorne Resort rise from www.massacremansion.com or sport, but rather will seek to include a major event of itself and I urge BIR everyone in this city and beyond who is readers to check out the website, join interested in matters Irish. I am hoping up, and come along to partake in an Check our website - www.BlackthorneResort.com for up to date information that this new organization will bring enjoyable night but one that will link unside oad ast urham all the different strands together, and, you further into all that is best within 348 S R – E D , NY 12423 with its connection into similar networks our community here in Boston.” across the U.S., will succeed in attracting — BIR STAFF 518.634.2541 Page 4 October 2010 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Publisher’s Notebook Commentary Celebrating Should Britain Sell the North Our Heritage, to the Republic of Ireland? By Joseph F. Leary years. The rights of all the people of Northern Ireland Staying With One of Britain’s most respected commentators, Chief would have to be protected and iron clad assurances Editorial Writer and columnist Mary Dejevsky of The would have to be given by Britain and the Republic London Independent, has written a provocative article that everyone would be respected. Our Mission on Northern Ireland and the prospect of a United The Northern Ireland Assembly form of local govern- Ireland. In a column published in the Independent in ment in place today is so constricted by checks and By Ed Forry August and two days later in the Belfast Telegraph, balances of power that little is being accomplished. A In the fall of 1990, when my late dear wife Mary Casey visiting Northern Ireland Secretary of State acknowl- Forry and I discussed the idea of publishing a newspaper Dejevsky suggests – perhaps tongue in cheek - that Britain sell Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland edged this during a visit to Boston a year ago when he about Irish Boston, we were not well informed about said that the system in place at present would have the land of our ancestors. as part of their solution to their budget problems. Of course this would need the approval of Northern to change in time. So change is coming and the pos- Mary’s mom and dad had come over sibility of a move towards a United Ireland is worthy in the1930s – Mary Kate Kane from Ireland voters but the reporter was speculating on the benefits of such of consideration. Mohill in Leitrim, Martin Casey from The finances of the Republic of Ireland today would Carracastle in Mayo – and she had a move. Dejevsky said, “More and more, discourage taking on the responsibility for Northern grown up hearing stories of the hard Ireland, but if the possibility were real what leader of life that had caused her grandparents Northern Ireland is another coun- try. So perhaps it is time for West- Ireland would not jump at the chance to make Ireland to send their children to America. whole. He or she would have a permanent place in As for me, the only one of my four minster (Britain’s government) to accept this, and even gain some history. Funds might magically appear from many grandparents whom I knew was quarters, including the United States if a new Ireland Ed Forry benefit from it.” Dejevsky claims Hannah Crotty Forry, and that was were to appear on the horizon. when I was a young child. public opinion in Britain is increas- ingly “unmoved” by happenings in It should remembered that all major political par- Mary had active ties by mail and the occasional phone ties in the Republic of Ireland are pledged to work for call from some aunts, uncles, and first cousins, while I Northern Ireland. This may make Joe Leary a United Ireland and both Nationalist parties in the knew only that there were some distant relatives over some sense when comparing the population of Britain, 61 million, to North, representing approximately 45 percent of the there – somewhere. electorate there, are in favor of a United Ireland. In In those years, despite Boston’s status as “the most Northern Ireland’s 1.8 million (Scotland is 5.2 million and Wales 3.0 million). fact it is estimated that over 80 percent of the people Irish city in America,” there was no Boston-based jour- in all of Ireland would vote for a reuniting of the two nal of news and information to report on the growing Britain’s new conservative government coalition has huge economic concerns and is becoming weary of the parts of Ireland. local Irish diaspora. Mary and I saw an opportunity to The dissidents in Northern Ireland would lose their celebrate our own heritage while beginning a journey attention Northern Ireland requires. Northern Ireland is financed almost entirely by London each year. All cause and might even become law-abiding citizens. of great discovery about Ireland and Irish America, Certainly violence in the name of a united Ireland with a special focus on the people we both knew best: Northern Ireland tax revenue is collected by Britain but Northern Ireland requires an additional $15 bil- would stop. Irish Bostonians. Mary Dejevsky’s column suggesting a United Ireland And so it was in October 1990 that we formed the lion dollars from the British people for its operating budget each year – more per capita than any other makes the argument, “With the Protestant majority Boston Irish Reporter, with a mission to “Tell the Sto- in the North smaller than it has ever been, and fast- ries of Boston’s Irish” … the lives of our neighbors, our part of Great Britain. In late September British authorities once again vanishing, assent to unification may anyway be just a friends, our families. Collectively, they are the stories of matter of time. Would it not be in everyone’s interest the many Irish-born people who braved the transAtlantic raised the possibility of dissident IRA bombings in London creating even more distaste and discomfort to hasten it along, and allow Britain to bask in a rare journey to find freedom and prosperity for themselves moment of magnanimity?” and their children in America. The tales are always with Northern Ireland. Such a transition to a United Ireland would require It seems a United Ireland is coming. When and how inspiring, and in fact, never get old. And they are our is the question. stories – they tell who we are. careful planning and only take place over several After twenty years, the BIR remains one of the region’s few remaining family-owned and-operated publica- tions in Boston and the New England region. With a Off the Bench pledge to continue our tradition as the region’s leading chronicler of all things Irish-American, we will observe this important milestone with a noontime celebratory luncheon on Thurs., Oct. 7, at Boston’s Seaport Hotel/ Qualities we need in crises World Trade Center. The event will feature the debut of a new awards ceremony, the “Boston Irish Honors.” Consistent with are sadly in short supply our own heritage, the newspaper will make presenta- tions to two Boston Irish individuals for their special By James W. Dolan to think we can avoid the same fate. On the contrary, achievements in public service and business, and to Special to the Reporter discontent is rampant and the “balance” is missing in three Irish families who share our common roots in These days, it’s hard to be an optimist. Century USA our system of checks and balances. Boston and Ireland. is almost over. The years ahead call for restraint, dis- Having financed our wars on borrowed money, we The honorees are Congressman Edward Markey, cipline, and moderation, qualities now in short supply. cannot balance our books, and our financial security is Arbella Insurance CEO John Donohue, and three “exem- Mutual respect, understanding, and cooperation have in the hands of China, to whom we owe an estimated plary” Boston Irish families, the Bretts, the Geraghtys, gone missing and been replaced by bickering, distrust, $1 trillion. This profligacy cannot continue, but do we and the family of the late Boston Mayor John B. Hynes. distortion, and opportunism, the “four horsemen” of a have the leadership and the will to make the difficult In planning our anniversary, we reached out to new apocalypse. choices necessary to confront such problems? many friends and business leaders in Boston, and I When the out-of-power party’s principal goal is the The public does not want to hear bad news, and am delighted to say they unanimously agreed to help. failure of the party in power, the destructive effect on politicians are unwilling to confront the truth and ac- We formed a 40-member event committee, and we con- both governance and civility is devastating, and likely knowledge the need for sacrifice, restraint, and limits. tacted every leading Irish social and business group in more damaging to our national security than threats If wisdom is the sound application of knowledge to greater Boston. from abroad. reality, the problem is not so much lack of knowledge As I write, the luncheon is almost fully subscribed, More attention need be paid to the damage we do to or even understanding of reality, but the more difficult with 300 or more planning to join us at the beautiful ourselves than external threats that frequently divert challenge of soundly applying the former to the latter. Cityview room at the Seaport Hotel/World Trade Center. our attention from the real enemy at home – our in- The translation of knowledge into prudent policy Their support will help sustain a strong, vibrant, ability to develop coherent, bipartisan policies that will is what addresses real problems that we are failing and independent journal of Irish-American culture for address the many fiscal and policy IEDs that litter the to resolve; yet another example of our fundamentally Boston and New England in the coming years. landscape. flawed human nature. The greatest threat to the United States is not an- Ireland’s UN Envoy Will Speak in Hub other terrorist attack but our reaction to it. When you James W. Dolan is a former Dorchester District consider the devastating consequences of 9/11, you have Court judge who now practices law. e-mail: jdolan@ A senior member of Ireland’s Department of Foreign dolanconnly.com. Affairs will visit Boston this month to deliver a speech got to look beyond the destruction of the twin towers at a UN Day Luncheon. and the loss of life on that tragic day. Ambassador Anne Anderson, Ireland’s That attack prompted this country to spend trillions Permanent Representative to the United to improve security at home and initiate two wars Boston Irish Nations will be the keynote speaker at in far distant countries that have taken the lives of an October 26 luncheon at the Boston thousands of young Americans and tens of thousands Harbor Hotel sponsored by the United of Iraqis and Afghans. REPORTER Nations Association, a Boston-based The enormous consequences of those conflicts will The Boston Irish Reporter is published monthly by: non-profit. extend far into the future. In his wildest dreams, Osama Anne Bin Laden could never have imagined that the ongoing Boston Neighborhood News, Inc., Anderson “The United Nations Association is best known for the Model UN effects of that attack would have extended so far beyond 150 Mt. Vernon St., Suite 120, Dorchester, MA 02125 program which supports international education its immediate consequences. [email protected] www.bostonirish.com in local schools,” said UNA spokesperson Lin- The attack caused us to turn our attention from seri- ous problems at home and instead to invest blood and Mary C. Forry, President (1983-2004) nea Löf. “We also organize many globally focused Edward W. Forry, Publisher events that engage the Greater Boston commu- treasure in foreign lands while an exploding deficit here nity in business, culture, and humanitarian affairs. at home sapped our strength. Thomas F. 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By Peter F. Stevens Mexican migrant workers.” Another church historian, BIR Staff John Tracy Ellis, lauds Medeiros’s courage in taking on entrenched ethnic and social injustice in Texas and Third in a Series about the Catholic Church and writes that he proved his mettle as a man of “deep Boston politics. faith, seriousness of purpose, unflagging industry, and a concern for others that was conspicuous.” In many ways, no one could replace Cardinal Richard Tracy adds, “In a word, the Brownsville appoint- J. Cushing of Boston. His death in November 1970 ment seemed a striking example of the right man in marked the end of an era in more ways than one for the the right place.” Boston Archdiocese. Under Cushing and his predeces- When Medeiros was sent to Boston, many Irish- sor, Cardinal William O’Connell, the Catholic Church American parishioners questioned whether he was had become a potent political, cultural, and religious the right man for the job. The doubts flowered in 1974 force. The church ministered to a wide range of ethnici- when the city erupted in the fight over the court-ordered ties, but the Church’s rise in the late 19th century and desegregation of the city’s public schools, pitting parish- all of the 20th was inextricably intertwined with the ioners and neighborhoods against each other, against contemporaneous hard-won rise of the Boston Irish. the courts, and against the fairness of the edict. Reflecting just how connected the archdiocese was to But even before busing, Medeiros, made a cardinal its generations of Irish immigrants and the Irish Ameri- in 1973, faced problems in tis own house. O’Connor, in can families was the fact that all of Boston’s bishops The Boston Irish, notes that Medeiros “was saddled with and cardinals for over a century traced bloodlines to the enormous financial burdens of Cushing’s building the “ould sod.” With Cushing’s health failing rapidly in programs [and] hampered by the passive resistance of the last 1960, the region’s Catholics expected that their resentful Irish pastors.” new clerical leader would hail from the same “green” Medeiros’s natural pragmatism led him to strain heritage, but they were stunned by the Vatican’s choice for conciliation among parishioners understandably to succeed the dying cardinal: Bishop Humberto Sousa irate at the idea of their kids being bused to other Medeiros, a Massachuetts native then presdiening over parts of the city when no such measure was directed he diocese of Brownsville, Texas. at busing supporters in affluent suburbs; among some To a wide swath of Boston’s Irish community and its community leaders whose racial animus superseded political potentates, Medeiros was seen as the ultimate the legitimate issues of fairness; and among parents outsider. Boston College Professor Thomas H. O’Connor on all sides simply worried about their kids. In short, has written, “Although his formal reception was courte- there was no pleasing everyone and the cardinal ous, there was no great love in the city’s hierarchy for alienated many in the archdiocese by siding with the Humberto Cardinal Medeiros: desegregation proponents. him.” He was a man whom J. Anthony Lukas [author of Cardinal Archbishop of Boston 1770-1983 the busing era book “Common Ground”] described as an The crisis took its toll on the prelate. In Septem- ‘alien graft’ on the form of Boston’s Irish Catholicism.” and went on to graduate from the Catholic University ber 1983, physically and emotionally by his position, Medeiros not only faced the “not-one-of-us” issue, of America. He was ordained in June 1946, and in 1953 passed away. The wrestling match that is Boston’s but also stepped squarely into one of Boston’s most was appointed chancellor of the Fall River Diocese and curious blend of politics, religion, and community had explosive and divisive events –school desegregation made a monsignor in 1958. overwhelmed his best efforts. The consensus is that he and busing. It was a controversy that would have Though a gentle, humble, and studious cleric, he had never been a good fit despite his good intentions. sorely tested even Cushing’s bone-and-sinew Boston was a rising star in the church because of his kind To this day, the desegregation chapter remains a thinly Irish understanding of his parishioners, Massachusetts and effective parish skills. He was appointed to the covered scar on the Boston landscape, and many will politicians of all backgrounds, and the region’s ethnic, Brownsville post in June 1966 and walked straight always believe that their cardinal never fully grasped cultural, and racial entities. For Medeiros, who arrived into the struggle between impoverished Mexican- his Boston Irish parishioners’ lives and concerns, as with little or no understanding of the archdiocese’s American farm workers and Southwest farm owners. well as the historically complex confluence of church inner and outer workings, success in the post proved At first, he tried to remain above the fray, but with and politics in Massachusetts imposing at best, impossible at worst. so many of his 234,000 parishioners among the poor The man who succeeded the ill-fated Medeiros would Medeiros did grasp what it was to be the child of laborers seeking a fair wage and a chance to support not only be branded in some corners as the most politi- immigrants to America, but some of his parishioners their families, the Portuguese-American bishop took cal of priests, but he would also be front and center in and around Boston still viewed his immigrant story up their cause. Wrote the historian Michael Lescault: in a crisis that eclipsed busing and damaged the very as “foreign.” Born in 1915 in the Portuguese Azores, “Medeiros...himself was quite free of racial prejudice; foundations of the church that bishops and cardinals he was the oldest of four children and came to America any form of racial discrimination was unthinkable,” from Fenwick to Cushing had built for the Irish and with his family in 1931. They settled in Fall River, and he insisted that his priests in Brownsville avoid the immigrants who followed. where he graduated first in his class at Durfee High and decry the “old worn-out and unjust cliches” flung at NEXT: The arrival of Bernard Law. Ireland and India: Making Connections, Making History By Ita Marguet College are very old, reaching back to the Chair of From the Irish Emigrant Oriental Languages in 1762. DUBLIN — Connections between Ireland and India Chester Beatty Library — This library at Dublin are the focus this year of temporary exhibitions in Dub- Castle was named Irish Museum of the Year in 2000 lin’s Trinity College Old Library and Chester Beatty and awarded the title European Museum of the Year Library. The July/August special issue of Ireland’s his- in 2002. It houses a great collection of manuscripts, tory magazine is dedicated to Ireland and India with miniature paintings, prints, drawings, rare books and a number of articles and archival images dovetailing some decorative arts assembled by the American-born the current exhibitions. mining tycoon Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968). The issue contains stories of prominent people who Of Irish ancestry, most of his donated collection was came from India to visit or settle in Ireland and those devoted to sacred texts, although a significant part of who became established and well respected who settled it came from the Indian Mughal court of which the in India. Articles explore nationalist parallels and miniatures are considered among the finest in the world. the strategic political relations between Ireland and The Library collection opens a window on the artis- India. Book reviews cover political, social, religious, tic treasures of the great cultures and religions of the and cultural aspects of a shared identity in the com- world. Its rich collection from countries across Asia, the mon struggle for independence from a colonial Brit- Middle East, North Africa, and Europe offers visitors ish Empire. WB Yeats’s enthusiasm for the poetry of a visual feast. Egyptian papyrus texts, beautifully Rabindranath Tagore makes a literary connection. illuminated copies of the Qur’an, the Bible, European Long Room, Trinity College — The exhibition medieval and renaissance manuscripts are among “Nabobs, Soldiers and Imperial Service The Irish in highlights of the collection. In its diversity the collec- India” (through October) was officially opened in May tion captures much of the richness of human creative by the ambassador of India to Ireland. There has been expression from about 2700BC to the present day. a longstanding connection with India as part of the A Sikh Face in Ireland — A photographic and Life British presence there, living and working in the sub- History Project is also on display. The key themes of continent as soldiers, administrators, and missionaries. the exhibition include issues of culture, experience, Most supported the British regime while a few strove and identity. It is the first systematic exploration of to undermine it. the Sikh presence on the island of Ireland, providing The exhibition explains the links by looking at vari- both a profile of the present and social cultural history ous aspects of the Irish presence in India up to 1947. It of Sikh immigrants and their descendants. showcases some of the historical connections and details Through its Intercultural Education Services the the links between Trinity College, Ireland, Britain, and Library offers a wide variety of program designed to Europe and the extraordinary links between Ireland foster better understanding of its European, Middle Eastern, Asian and East Asian collections. It hosts and India developed over the centuries. It concentrates The Long Room at Trinity College in Dublin. on the wealth of printed books and other related ma- a number of events ranging from workshops, music terial from the 19th to the early 20th century that is performances, art and cookery demonstrations and held in the Library. The work of missionaries became a more prominent family days. Through World Cultural Days, the Li- Themes include the influential East India Company, feature of the Irish presence after 1840, with Roman brary celebrates important dates in the calendars of trade and territorial expansion, the Indian mutiny, Catholic priests and nuns setting up schools in Madras different cultures. It has recently participated in a Christian missionaries, civil service, big game hunting and other cities. Anglican graduates of Trinity College two-year project (2007-2009) working with European of tigers, sport of capturing wild boars known as pig- established the Dublin University Mission to Chota museums. There is a publication, Museums as places sticking, and the road to independence. Featuring the Nagpur at the end of the 19th century. for intercultural dialogue selected practices from Eu- lighter side of life in India, the exhibition has illustra- A stated aim of the exhibition is to entertain and rope (available on-line). tions of tiger-shooting and pig-sticking. According to stimulate Ireland’s links with India. Trinity College Editor’s note: Acknowledgement is given to Exhibition Robert Baden-Powell, who later founded the scouting is rapidly expanding its South Asia Studies program sources and July/August History of Ireland, Vol.18, movement, pig-sticking was a “sport second to none and aimed at developing research in Ireland into the his- No. 4, to prepare this text. It follows a visit to Dublin, invaluable to our prestige and supremacy in India.” tory, literature, and culture of India, Pakistan, and August 2010 Bangladesh. The links with South Asia and Trinity Page 6 October 2010 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com

Pardon the interruption. There is no cow shortage across the Irish landscape. This crew helps frame the scene along the Ring of Kerry on the way to Wa- terville Golf Links. All photos by Brendan O’Brien Going Back Home: A Visit to the Isle of Mists By Greg O’Brien from the visitors’ perch at O’Brien’s Tower (a photo a visit to Galway in 1477. In spite of all the history, Special to the BIR opportunity and suitable salutation), the Twelve Bens life moves quickly in Clifden. On the way home, the “Ireland sober is Ireland stiff,” wrote James Joyce. in Connemara (also known as the Twelve Pins) can be bus almost hits a wayward sheep. Yikes! I’ll have the And so we toast the Isle of Mists in throaty zest after seen, and the Aran Islands sit off to the west. haddock for dinner tonight in Galway. the Shannon-bound Aer Lingus flight finally lifts off We had lunch nearby at Gus O’Connor’s in Doolin by Wednesday, Aug. 24 a rain-soaked JFK runway at 10:30 p.m. on Sun., the sea (a few cold pints of wicked good Smithwicks for We headed out early to Killarney, stopping off at Aug. 22 after a four-hour weather delay that featured hydration), then a good family birthday dinner bash pastoral Adare Village in County Limerick, widely boisterous thunder and angry bolts of lightening. It back in Galway on the River Corrib, across O’Brien’s regarded as being one of Ireland’s prettiest and most was an ill-omened beginning to a family pilgrimage Bridge. We stayed the night at the four-star Park picturesque villages. Situated on the River Maigue, a to plumb the depths of our Irish ancestry and in the House Hotel; before retiring, a few more pints for the tributary of the Shannon River, Adare dates back to process rediscover one another. family over traditional Irish music and step dancing, the early 13th century—a strategic location for many Among the anxious passengers were my wife of but who’s counting? conquests, wars, and rebellions. It is the site of the 33 years, Mary Catherine of Dublin roots, and our Tuesday, Aug. 23 ancient Anglo Norman fortress Desmond Castle, ran- children: Brendan, 27, named after the Irish abbot Slept in. An apparent epidemic of Irish flu. We headed sacked by the Parliamentary forces of Oliver Cromwell. who, legend says, led a ragtag ban of Irish monks in a north by bus an hour and a half to Clifden in Connemara, Off to Killarney late in the afternoon for a two-night leather-hulled currrach across the Atlantic to present- a place that attracts writers, artists, film-makers, and stay at the restful Killarney Royal Hotel on College day Newfoundland in search of land promised to the naturalists. Clifden is a snug city on the harbor with Street and fine dining Wednesday night at the land- saints; Colleen, 25, a diminutive of the Gaelic cailín, more than 5,000 years of living history and enough mark High Street restaurant Bricin (Gaelic for small “girl from Old Irish,” in this case one of remarkable shops, restaurants and pubs to delight the tastes of trout). The conversation turned to golf. Tomorrow, beauty; and Conor, 22, named after Conor Larkin, the anyone. Before shopping and lunch at rustic E.J. Kings my sons and I play at the magnificent Waterville Golf chief protagonist from County Donegal in the classic on Main Street, Brendan, Conor and I walked to the Links on the Ring of Kerry, considered among the best Leon Uris novel Trinity—an organizer in the late 1800s nearby harbor to take in the fishing fleet and watch an in the world. I’m bit uneasy about it; my golf score is of the then fledging Irish Republican Brotherhood in ancient mariner meticulously untangle his nets, while an impressive IQ. the struggle for an independent democratic republic. Mary Catherine and Colleen visited the stoic stone Thursday, Aug. 25 Conor is also the namesake of the present head of Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas. Built in 1323, it is Up at first light, Brendan, Conor and I grabbed coffee the O’Brien clan, Sir Conor O’Brien, the Prince of the largest medieval church in Ireland, a place where and head to the Ring of Kerry under a brilliant sunrise. Thormond, the 18th Baron of Inchiquin, and a direct Christopher Columbus is said to have prayed during Mary Catherine and Colleen, a communications analyst descendant of Brian Boru, the first and last king of in D.C. with a Homeland Security consultant, were Ireland. As for me, I’m a third generation man pater- delighted with a break from the men, shopping, hiking, nally and maternally with roots in Dublin, Wexford, and touring the day. We fared far better. The Ring of Louth, and Clare. We’re all over the place. Kerry is a sculpted paradise of sea green hills, valleys, Monday, Aug. 23 and some of the earth’s finest shoreline. The 6,320-yard The skies are clearing as we land in Shannon, cross- Waterville Links is exquisite and as intimidating as it ing a cerulean blue River Shannon. The tarmac is wet, looks to the duffer. Brendan, a production assistant at but the heavens have opened. Inside the terminal, Cramer in Norwood and an excellent golfer, had a great Conor looks up and points to a rainbow, a wondrous game, thanks to coaching from young caddie, Stephen spectrum of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, Donnelly, who good-naturedly directed his charge after and violet. “This trip is meant to be,” he declares. an errant shot with such encouragements as, “Lose that Today is my wife’s 58th birthday, and I didn’t bring a one in your skirt?” Conor, sports management major present. Luck of the Irish. The next week would bring at Johnson & Wales in Providence, played well for a the best swath of weather all season, as we plied the beginner, steady on his short game. My misdirected West Coast from Galway to the Ring of Kerry. Driving drives often took a Kerry bounce, but later Brendan would be problematic; we’re a right brain family, so confided that Donnelly, walking ahead, was kicking my maneuvering on the left side was vexing—given the ball back into the fairway. “I want your dad to have a distracting lush green countryside, the ancient stone good game,” he told my son. walls that define centuries, the serpentine narrow roads The ride home, completing the Ring of Kerry, was and wacky local driving habits. Evan McHugh was cor- equally stunning until a rambling farm tractor forced rect when he wrote in Pint-Sized Ireland, “When the us off the country road and into a bed of sharp rocks Irish want to tempt fate, they play Irish roulette. No that pierced the front tire on the driver’s side. A life les- firearms involved—they just go for a drive.” We drew son: You fix a flat tire in Ireland with the same muscle straws for the driver’s seat, and Brendan lost. and surfeit of expletives that you employ in the states. Immediately, we headed to the windy Cliffs of Moher Plenty to talk about over dinner at the eclectic Gaby’s in County Clare that rise 394 feet above the Atlantic Seafood Restaurant on High Street back in Killarney. Ocean at Hag’s Head and reach a peak of 702 feet, just Friday, Aug. 26 north of O’Brien’s Tower, built on the cliffs in 1835 Up early for a trip to the Dingle Peninsula (Corca by then landlord Sir Cornelius O’Brien, a descendant Dhuibhne, a Gaelic reference to its Middle Ages occu- of the king himself. On a clear day, the view extends pants, the tribe of Dhuibhne). It is considered among as far as Loop Head at the southern tip of Clare and A West Coast fisherman patiently works his ropes the planet’s most spectacular places. We stopped in beyond to the mountains of Kerry. Looking north and pots in Clifden Harbor. (Continued on page 6) Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com October 2010 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 7 Going Back Home to the Isle of Mists (Continued from page 5) Dingle Harbor, a sheltered town bedecked in quintes- sential Gaelic shades, then drove the dangerous Con- nor’s Pass, a Come-to-Jesus moment, on our way to Tralee Bay and Newmarket-on-Fergus. Today is a homecoming of sorts. We’re heading to Dromoland Castle in Clare just outside Shannon for our last night. The castle grounds—the ancestral home of the O’Brien clan for 900 years – is now a luxury 375- acre estate. The Renaissance castle retains its old world charm with splendid woodcarvings, stone statuaries, hand-carved paneling, brilliant oil paintings, antique furnishings, a championship golf course, and gardens that look like Alice in Wonderland. The reception was majestic; the front desk took note of the name. The rooms were noble, with sufficient space for a king’s guard. Typically clumsy as an ox and not ready for regal prime time, I spilled a glass of good red wine in the gardens observing a turret outside the dining area. Upon asking for a refill, I was told, “This one is on your ancestors!” Later over dinner, the family was observing the stoic floor-to-ceiling oil portraits. “All O’Briens,” our waiter told us. “An ugly lot!” He apparently didn’t get the front desk memo. Our final family fling was a night at Durty Nelly’s in the shadows of nearby Bunratty Castle. There we made good friends with the locals, likely for the draw Above, The quintessen- of Colleen. I made sure to stand closely guard by her. tial Irish scene: Head- In the meantime, Mary Catherine was having trouble ing to Gus O’Connor’s finding the handle on her glass, dropping two of them Tavern in Doolin not far on the stone floor to a raucous applause that echoed from the Cliffs of Moher. throughout. “My Gawd,” one of the older locals ex- claimed, “she’s goin’ for a [expletive] hat trick!” At right, an O’Brien Saturday, Aug. 27 family gathering: From We made our plane in Shannon in plenty of time—sad left, Mary Catherine, the to depart, but brimming with Irish joy. As the Aer Lingus diarist, Conor, Colleen, craft climbed out over the Atlantic, I kept looking back, and Brendan in Tralee. feeling as though I had left something behind. I must return to reclaim it. Maybe it’s on O’Grady’s Beach, or the 18th hole at Waterville, in Murphy’s Pub in Dingle, or blowing through the hills of Kenmare. But I’m certain it’s there, and that Mary Catherine, Brendan, Colleen and Conor are sure to follow.

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Today Dono- hold businesses more ac- ment options, and direct Special to the BIR hue—in addition to his countable for telling the access to our independent Brahmins need not ap- duties overseeing one of truth and communicating insurance agents is at the ply: “Hard work will beat the largest property casu- more clearly about what heart of the company. “We brains nine times out of alty insurance companies their products could or are doing well in a chal- ten!” That’s what John F. based in New England couldn’t do.” lenging economy, he adds. Donohue’s father and the with 900 employees in four Donohue also was ac- “Arbella always has taken son’s longtime mentor, states, writing more than tively involved in the anti- a conservative approach to former Massachusetts $650 million annually in Vietnam War movement. investments. Most impor- Attorney General Francis business and personal “I was strongly opposed tantly, we want to have X. Bellotti, taught him insurance—is CEO of the to Vietnam,” he says. “It the necessary resources early on. Arbella Insurance Group was not our war. We were available when customers The lesson took, though Charitable Foundation, supporting a propped up, need claims paid.” it’s a bonus when you which donates gener- corrupt Vietnam govern- For a man clearly con- have both, as Donohue, ously to organizations and ment, and we should not sumed with work, Dono- chairman of the board and causes in communities have been sending our hue has his priorities in CEO of Arbella Insurance it serves, among them men and women there check: family, community Group, demonstrates. Project Bread’s Walk for to die.” involvement, and work in “My father, John, al- Hunger and the Jimmy Such passion became the that order, and he excels ways told me to put my Fund. cornerstone of Donohue’s at all. The father of the head down, work hard, In his community work personal and professional three sons—Mathew, 30, and that will generate a lot at the Irish Immigration life. After graduating who works in marketing of success; you don’t have Center, Donohue advises from college, he attended at TomTom GPS naviga- to be the smartest guy the organization’s legend- the George Washington tion systems; Kevin, 18, out there,” says Donohue, ary executive director, Law School, then worked a senior at BC High; and also chairman of the Irish Sister Lena Deevy, in as a poverty lawyer in a Jack, 13, a seventh grader Immigration Center’s Ad- her work of applying the Pittsburgh legal service at the Jesuit school, Dono- visory Board and a recipi- social gospel at the non- agency. He moved to hue met his wife, Frances ent of the inaugural Bos- profit agency that serves Boston to join the Bellotti (Robinson) when she was a ton Irish Honors Award the varied interests of the John Donohue: Follows the social gospel. AG Office, working first criminal prosecutor in the for distinguished public immigrant community in consumer protection attorney general’s office. service to be presented from Ireland and at large. ing. A former assistant AG mother, Doris (LaBalle), on arson and auto fraud No crossing her at the din- October 7 at the Boston The IIC also operates an in the Consumer Protec- was a career woman in cases, then as head of the ner table, Donohue says. Irish Reporter’s 20th innovative program in tion Division and former the 1960s, unusual for the Insurance Division. From In addition to many Anniversary luncheon at Northern Ireland to help chief of the Insurance day, breaking new ground 1985 to 1987, he was lead other affiliations, Dono- Boston’s Seaport Hotel/ bridge the gap between Division before entering in sales in the insurance counsel at various auto hue is active as a member World Trade Center. Protestants and Catho- private law practice and business with various insurance rate hearings of the Board of Greater And Bellotti, Donohue’s lics. then the insurance indus- Hartford agencies. and administrative trials Boston Legal Services, is former boss at the AG’s When there is time, and try, Donohue has fought “Growing up I swore involving health and li- a member of the Board of office, an Arbella founder, Donohue always makes vociferously in the field for that I would never get into ability insurance. Overseers for the YMCA and now Arbella board time for this endeavor, consumer advocacy. “My insurance,” he stresses. “I After Bellotti left the of Greater Boston, and vice chairman and regula- he mentors young men dad continually pressed was adamant about not AG’s office, Donohue serves as a member of tory legal counsel, advised and women entering an me to do what’s right and following in my parents’ joined him at the Boston the National Council for him years ago, “If you uncertain business world. not care what other people footsteps. I was going to law firm of Mintz, Levin, the Arts and Sciences work hard, you can beat “I think it’s critical these think,” he says. go off and do other things. Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and for George Washington anyone.” days to help kids make But he didn’t always Insurance, I thought, was Popeo, PC., becoming a University. He also has Looking back, Donohue good choices in all areas of listen to his father, a boring.” partner in the firm and retained his legal stand- calls Bellotti “one of the their lives,” he says. “I’m second-generation Irish Well, we’ve all come full working with his mentor ing as a member of the smartest, most compas- just returning a favor.” American with family circle with many of our to secure special legisla- bar in Pennsylvania, the sionate, most humble The mosaic of 58-year- roots in Tipperary who youthful opinions, and tion to create the Arbella Federal District Court, individuals that I’ve ever old John F. Donohue’s worked as an Aetna In- Donohue has circumnavi- Insurance Group, filling and the US Court of Ap- met.” life comes stitched with surance Company ex- gated his earlier take on a void when the Kemper peals (First Circuit). Those virtues clearly resolve and critical think- ecutive in Hartford. 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Charge to Visa______establish DCPIRG (Public sentence for alleged high Greg O’Brien is pres- Interest Research Group) crimes against a foreign ident of Stony Brook at area college campus- Mastercard______government was to spend Group, a publishing and es—modeled after orga- time in the “sweat pit” political/communications nizations like MASSPIRG with an insurance agent. strategy company based in Card # ______that advocate on behalf “Insurance doesn’t have Brewster, and the author/ of consumer protection, to be overly dense,” says editor of several books. He Exp______health, and environmen- Donohue. “Customer ser- is a regular contributor to tal causes. “We tried to vice, easy premium pay- the Boston Irish Reporter. Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com October 2010 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 9 BRETT’S BOSTON By Margaret Brett Hastings Exclusive photos of Boston Irish people & events Happy Day at ICCNE Fest Faces in the crowd suggest a good time was had by all who attended the Irish 1. 2. Festival at the Irish Cultural Centre’s campus in Canton last month.

1.) Abby Poulos, Easton; Kelsey Mazzocca, Walpole; 2.) Patrick O’Donnell, Quincy; The- resa DiCiocco, Watertown; 3.) Bob and Kristin Browne, Taunton; 4.) Kara Poulos, Easton; Beth Mazzocca, Walpole; 5.) Maura O’Brien, Scituate; Siobhan O’Brien, Rhode Island; 6.) Jim and Cathy Donnelly, Mansfield; 7.) Ka- leigh St. Ives and grandmother Susan Lowry, Lynn; 8.) Richard and Mary Anne Pugsley, Dorchester; 9.) Frank Greenberg, Rockland; Marge Searson, Rockland; 10.) Jahanaa and 3. 4. Tom Scully with 6 month old Oliver; 11.) Katie Journeay, Stratham, N.H.; Danny Chamber- lain, Framingham; 12.) Megan Hennessy, Quincy; Kate Marecki, Whitman; 13.) Bob Harkins, Sharon; Debby Rosenthal, Sharon; 14.) Tara Casey, Justine Casey (mom) and Erin Casey, Easton; 15.) Bob Porter, Forrest Hodgkins and Tim Turnbull, Harvard, MA; 16.) Pete and Norine Fetter with children Maeve, 3 and Liam, 2; 17.) Mary McGonagle, Quincy; Agnes O’Connor, Weymouth; Eliza- beth Beaton, Quincy.

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By Bill O’Donnell What goes around comes around, they the Aquarium T stop in Boston. and the Free Derry Museum. … Tony Bad Day At Galway – And sure don’t say, and now it is time to say thank Kennedy Senate Institute A Win- Blair, former British PM, needed a we all have the bad day every once in you to Barry McGuigan and the hope ner – It’s inevitable that there is grum- 60-member garda team to ensure his a while. Not so long that he dealt in during parlous times. bling and finger-pointing when public security during his Dublin book tour. ago Queen Eliza- The retired world champion has been places are named for and dedicated to … Ireland’s cities and towns are trying beth had an entire nominated by the Belfast’s Springboard elected public officials and others. It to overcome the economic downturn bad year that she Opportunities to receive the UN’s Inspi- seems to chafe our anti-royalty DNA. by letting loose the car park wardens. resorted to Latin ration Award for Peace. Well done to a But in looking at Ted Kennedy’s legacy Parking fees account for $70 million an- to describe. But genuine champion. and his litany of accomplishments in the nually to cash-strapped towns. … Travel the Irish Taoiseach, Phoebe Prince Scholarship Hon- United States Senate, it is important, agents from across the Irish Republic Brian Cowen, had ors Her Memory – While the trial of critically so, that we leave something will gather in Belfast for their annual a couple of days in several defendants in the tragic bullying meaningful and enduring in our midst general meeting. A generous gesture Galway in mid-Sep- death in South Hadley, Massachusetts that reminds us never to forget that and long overdue. tember that have of Clare native Phoebe Prince soldiers the youngest of the Kennedy family Hard times in Ireland has many left his Dail allies on, there is warming news from Califor- was a special joyous gift to this corner property owners unloading overseas property and this has intensified moni- Bill O’Donnell and his handlers nia, as the Irish Emigrant notes. Philan- of America and its people. scrambling for eu- thropist J. M. Mahoney has established We have three iconic highway land- toring of sales by the Revenue folks. … phemisms in attempts to extricate the and funded an ongoing scholarship at marks in Boston that honor three men Towns are looking anew at public toilets. Irish leader from a continuing series of the University of California in Phoebe’s who each contributed his individual The so-called superloos cost a thousand highly critical public and press thun- name. The scholarship endowment fund talent, style, and persona to help define euros to run each week and take in derbolts. Some even posed the very real at the university will be directed toward Boston as the unique entity it is. The only a fraction of that. … Trinity and possibility that Cowen’s leadership could students entering the School of Public three could not be more different in back- University College Dublin have both be hanging on public opinion polls due Health. Anyone interested in donating to ground and interests. Ted Williams was slipped in the world university rankings, out in late September. Phoebe’s scholarship fund can visit the a baseball player of extraordinary gifts, now out of the first 100. …Pat Kenny, It all began at the Ardilaun Hotel cal.berkeley.edu site and enter Phoebe a Marine combat aviator, and the son the RTE broadcaster who takes home where the Fianna Fail boyos and a token Prince in the subject box. of a Salvation Army volunteer; Lenny annually between $800,000 and $1.2 presence of female party members were Irish Presidential Election Next Zakim, a Jew, was a man of memorable million, describes his salary as “trivial” discussing over pints how to resuscitate Year -- It’s more than a full year before heart who fought injustice and reached compared to footballers. He said RTE the coalition government now deep into Mary McAleese will finish her second beyond that to elevate charity and giving had to “incentivise” stars like him. What the economic morass that is Ireland to- term and vacate Aras an Uachtarain, to a humanitarian art form; Thomas P. planet, Pat, are you calling from? … day. The FF think-session broke about but already the jockeying for position to “Tip” O’Neill, out of Barry’s Corner in Despite the economic situation, some 20 2 a.m. and the Taoiseach had a few brief succeed her as Irish President is begin- Cambridge, a Catholic social reformer multinational companies have relocated hours before his RTE radio interview ning in earnest. Several names that have in Old Pol costume who re-fashioned their corporate headquarters to Ireland on Morning Ireland. Well, to cut to the surfaced in recent weeks include the boot-strap politics into a relentless force in the past year. chase, let me note that the interview, veteran Labour politician Michael D. for good that we may never see again. Michael O’Leary, Ryanair CEO, is when it lapsed into incoherence, was Higgins, who represents Galway West In looking over the names of some testing “stand-up seats” for his planes a nightmare for Cowen. He mumbled, in the Irish parliament. Also mentioned of the current and past members of and has called for one pilot per plane, mistook one agreement for another, and is businessman Fergus Finlay, Senator Congress that have had institutes and suggesting that hostesses could be rambled into linguistic corners that of- David Norris, Fianna Fail MEP Brian university centers named after them, trained to land in an emergency. … The fered little or no escape. One Dail Deputy Crowley, Mary (Lenihan) O’Rourke, the list includes some rogues and some US and Australia are issuing travel called the Cowen performance “halfway Dail member and former minister, and legislators of substance and impact. warnings for Irish-bound tourists be- between drunk and hung over.” To the last but never least, the former Taoise- They include Everett Dirksen, John cause of the breakaway-dissidents. A rescue came Mary Hanafin, Minister ach Bertie Ahern. All will be looking Glenn, Richard Lugar, John Sten- bit hyper, say what. … The Irish, as for Tourism and a member of the Cowen for party sponsorship and votes come nis, Charles Rangel, Hawaii’s Senator noted earlier in the column, are gener- cabinet, who said of him on radio, “He October 2011. Daniel Inouye, Mitch McConnell ous but favor more restrictive laws about was hoarse and groggy and congested However, early polling following his of Kentucky, James Cliburn, former begging, especially near residential ar- early in the morning, which does happen deadly appearances before the Mahon Speaker Dennis Hastert, Thad Co- eas, ATMs and businesses. … Ireland is to an awful lot of people.” Indeed. She Tribunal, indicates a sharp falling off of chran, Trent Lott, and many others. one of the top spots for nudist beaches, later recanted. support for Ahern. A recent poll show- The reality is that Edward M. Kennedy says a UK study. Recommended are Bad ice cube or whatever, Mr. Cowen’s ing an 80 percent to 15 percent NO vote was the most productive, progressive Silver Strand Beach in Barna, Co. Gal- difficulties in the county of Galway were for president for the former Fianna Fail senator in length and accomplishment in way, Corballis in north Co. Dublin, and not finished. The radio station ran a leader should make Ahern a non-starter the history of the United States Senate. Brittas Bay in Wicklow. … Australia’s flash poll and 77 percent of its listeners next year. But with Bertie, one never Bar none. It is fitting that we honor him narrowly reelected Prime Minister, declared they had no confidence in Brian knows. with a “dynamic center of learning,” as Julia Gillard, is on record as saying Cowen. Later that day, prominent Irish Higgins, whose rich resume includes his widow defined it, that will stand as a that her country should cut its ties with golfer and onetime European Ryder Cup stints as Minister for Arts, as senator, source of research and learning to help us Britain and become a republic when team member Phil Walton said he was and Dail membership of 30 years, is a and generations to come to understand Queen Elizabeth abdicates or dies. angry and upset at a comical imperson- colorful character who was a regular what the Senate is and what and how Update on the Marathon man and ation of him by Cowen that mocked the visitor to Boston for the Irish trade Ted Kennedy, the giant of the senate, his mate, who ran an astonishing 32 golfer’s high-pitched voice. And the next festivals of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s accomplished in his five decades there. marathons across 32 counties in 32 days. day the Irish newspapers, who revel in sponsored by Boston Ireland Ventures. Ireland, A Tiny Country That The total raised by the marathons for bringing down the powerful, had much Higgins has asked his Labour Party to Gives Big – A study recently completed Irish Autism Action was $625,000. God to say about the on-air disaster. name him their official candidate and by the Charities Aid Foundation clearly bless the Mark. … Coming soon: Long As a final indignity, on the way home has been publicly touting his candidacy. reaffirms Ireland’s history and reputa- Kesh/H-Blocks the Museum. The prison to Dublin out of Galway, the Taoiseach One problem in Irish real politik terms tion as one of the world’s most generous site is 8 miles from Lisburn and will got stuck in a massive, hours-long traf- is that Labour and its leadership is cur- countries. Ireland tied with Canada for become a peace and conflict resolution fic jam that conceivably provided ample rently popular but poor in Dail seats and third in the global rankings, trailing only facility. … Emigration of the Irish out of opportunity for him and his driver to if Higgins vacates his seat to run for Australia and New Zealand in charitable Ireland is at a 20-year high, approaching reflect in depth on the perils of leader- president there is a distinct possibility giving. One of the impressive sub texts 30,000 annually. The Irish are heading ship in modern Ireland. the party would not hold the seat in the of the study is that despite the economic for Britain, Canada, Australia, and the N.I. Leaders Skip The Pope In next national election. downturn in Ireland its people still rec- United States. A sad result of the greed Scotland – While secular elements Check Out Those Passports – If ognize that there is a moral obligation and recklessness of banks in the US, Ire- in the United Kingdom and a couple you are going to Ireland or Britain all to implement their giving as they have land, and other EU countries. … Howie of chancers looking to make a citizen’s you really need in your functional and done regularly over the years. The study Carr, of WRKO and the Boston Herald, arrest of the pope were trouble enough, secure US passport is that you should also noted that happier people are more is now making personal appearances it was left to the North’s First Minister, be back home before it expires. Simple likely to give money to charity than those as host and crowd-draw at Republican Peter Robinson, and deputy first and direct and you’re all set. But unfor- who are well-off. Is there a difference? events in Mass. and New Hampshire. minister Martin McGuinness to do tunately that’s not the case with many The Green Isle and Gay Mar- It’s about time that Carr got that public the politically correct thing —for them- other EU countries that US citizens visit riage – An Irish Times poll found that Big R after his name, and the same for selves. As the politicians lined up to greet before or after touring Ireland. 67 percent of the Irish people believe Rupert Murdoch, both of whom have Pope Benedict, it was a lineup that Many countries have rules (often same-sex couples should be allowed long ago stopped pretending to be bal- did not include the Stormont leaders. hard to find or know) mandating that to marry. The mid-September survey anced. … Martin McGuinness, maybe Robinson, the successor to Ian Paisley, American tourist passports should be shows a surprisingly new, broad-based trying to distract the faithful from his was hiding out so as not to conflict with valid three months beyond the period liberalism towards gays, where being absence at the pope’s arrival, is saying his old boss, who was once again making of stay; not a week or a month, but gay or lesbian “isn’t such a big taboo” and that Pope Benedict could visit Ireland an anti-papist fool of himself. McGuin- three full months. And the airlines do neither is the subject of gay and lesbian in 2012. … Sorry to see the venerable ness, meanwhile, an unpledged delegate not check your country of destination couples getting married. The director of Copley Plaza Hotel sold (almost $100 to Elizabeth’s court and well-known to ensure that you are observing that Marriage Equality said that the findings million) but good to see the Fairmont abstentionist, was not going to be seen country’s passport restrictions. You are show the Irish are “keenly aware that group will continue to manage it. … The with the queen. on your own. the current exclusion of gay and lesbian so-called dissident republicans deserve Barry McGuigan, A Hero When What follows is an incomplete listing couples from civil marriage is deeply a smash in the face and more, but given Needed -- It was 1985 and McGuigan, a of countries that can deny you entry unfair and doesn’t make any sense in the dire Afghan situation I was stunned Catholic married to a Protestant girl and if you do not observe the three-month today’s Ireland.” It is expected that if by the news that a senior British coun- hailing from border county Monaghan, rule: Germany, Greece, France, Italy, public opinion continues as it has been ter-explosive officer who was a top IED had just won the World Featherweight Malta, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Hun- trending in recent times, there will be man has been sent from Afghanistan to boxing title. He was the toast of Ireland gary, Switzerland, and the Scandinavian a concerted push to legislate for same- Northern Ireland to counter the bomb- north and south, but especially to the countries. To be sure, check with your sex marriage. ing campaign there. … Did the Mass. people of the six counties. He had, as travel agent or foreign consular officials. RANDOM CLIPPINGS House Speaker or his allies see the tiny one paper announced, “character and It’s better than being turned away at It was bound to happen. Publicans item in the Globe noting the layoff last charisma” and he was a gentleman, the point of entry. who are hurting have begun pointing month of 355 workers at Mohegan Sun? who never spoke ill of his opponents Save The Date – Gail O’Docherty to the ban on smoking as a chief cause Make you stop and think? and who carried his WBA crown with has reached out to answer many queries of reduced revenue in the pubs. … With Finally, an interesting observation dignity and calm assurance. And best from friends about a Memorial Celebra- much less controversy, Galway will soon by a top Irish financial regulator who of all for the beleaguered North and the tion for her late husband, the popular have its first purpose-built mosque to noted that when the Irish economy was freshly minted Anglo-Irish agreement, painter and traditional musician David provide for the city’s 3,000 Muslims. growing at 10 percent, three top Irish he fought under the United Nations O’Docherty. The memorial will take … Bloody Sunday, the massacre of 13 banks (including Anglo-Irish and AIB) peace flag and encouraged a sense of place on Sun., Nov. 14, from 2 p.m. to unarmed civilians by British paras, were growing their lending by 45, 40, goodwill and unity in what were dark, 6 p.m. in the upstairs function room of will soon have minted coins as a col- and 30 percent, respectively. Says a contentious days in the North. the Black Rose, at 160 State Street, near lector’s item to benefit victims’ families lot, sadly. Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com October 2010 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 11 Notes from the Irish Immigration Center Immigration Q & A An agency accredited by US Department of Justice Some Advice 100 Franklin Street, Boston, MA 02110 on Diversity Telephone (617) 542-7654 Fax (617) 542-7655 Website:iicenter.org Email: [email protected] Visa Lottery

The Irish Immigration National Immigration rector Danielle Owen, a Tues., Oct. 19, 6 p.m. at Q. I plan to apply for the Diversity Visa Lottery this Center collaborates with Law Center: “This battle licensed substance abuse the IIC Office. Knowing year. I heard that the application is very complicated partners to secure com- may be over for this week, counselor, can assist you when and how to per- and that there are services available on-line to help prehensive immigration but we cannot walk away if you are experiencing form CPR can save a life. people with the paperwork. Can you recommend reform and to advocate for from the fight. Congress issues such as substance Receiving CPR is an es- these services? the rights and opportuni- must not let the small abuse, domestic violence, sential link in the chain A. No, there is no need for you to pay for any service ties of immigrants and but vocal minority thwart anxiety, depression, lack of survival for someone in to file your application. While some of these services refugees. We want Mas- the will of 70 percent of of access to healthcare, cardiac arrest. Learn this may not be scams, they do charge you a fee for filing sachusetts to continue to Americans who believe or homelessness. For as- simple and valuable skill your application through them. This is unnecessary. be a welcoming place for in the DREAM Act. We sistance, contact Danielle, to protect your friends Applying for the lottery is free and needs to be done workers, students, and applaud Senators Harry in confidence and without and family and if you are on-line directly with the US State Department. refugees from around Reid and Dick Durbin judgment, at the IIC at seeking employment in The current application period runs from noon EDT the world – all residents for their leadership. As 617-542-7654, Ext. 14 or the public-safety, child- deserve justice, equality, Sen. Reid stated on the at [email protected]. care, homecare, or medical on Tues., Oct. 5, 2010, to noon EDT on Wed., Nov. and dignity. floor today, ‘We will vote Free Seasonal Flu fields. 3, 2010. Note that this is a considerably shorter ap- Will DREAM be Real- on the DREAM Act -- the Clinics with Cathedral Free Health Screen- plication window than in past years. ity? – Tues., Sept. 21 – The only question is when.’ Cares – While many ing – Mon., Oct. 25 from The State Department’s detailed instructions for Senate did not bring the We hope Sen. Reid doesn’t stores charge for flu shots, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the IIC the electronic filing process are available at dvlot- DREAM Act to a vote as we delay. Students can’t wait Cathedral Cares does Office. (Brought to you in tery.state.gov. Another change for this year’s lottery had hoped they would, at any longer.” not! The ministry of the partnership with Cathe- process is that winners will no longer be notified by last. Two weeks ago, Sen- For more information, Cathedral of the Holy dral Cares Ministries & mail. Instead, applicants must check the status of ate Majority Leader Harry please visit miracoali- Cross will offer three free CARE.) A free screening their entries on-line at that website. In the past Reid (D-NV) announced tion.org. walk-in clinics in the com- can help identify health there have been scams involving false notifications of that he would include One Nation March in ing weeks: problems before emer- winning entries by post, email, or telephone. These the Development, Relief, Washington, D.C. – Oct. Sun., Sept. 26, Oct. 3, gency care is required. scams seek a payment or financial information from and Education for Alien 2, 2010 – Organized by and Oct. 31 from 9 a.m. It’s also a chance to find the supposed winners. Remember that there will be Minors Act, commonly SEIU 1199 with partners to -1 p.m., Union Park out the best way to access no such communications from the US government. known as the DREAM such as the AFL-CIO, Street, between Wash- health care and health Their lottery website will be the sole source of accurate Act, as an amendment to the Human Rights Cam- ington Street and Har- insurance, thanks to our information on winning entries. a defense policy bill. The paign, and the NAACP, rison Avenue, South End partnership with Health- Some diversity visa lottery websites may be outright legislation would create a hundreds of thousands Accessible on Silver Line Care for All. Dental and scams, either promising to increase your odds of win- pathway to citizenship for of Americans will join via the Cathedral stop. dermatological screenings ning or just taking your money and providing no service many young people if they in a historic march at Enter to Lower Church via as well as blood pres- in return. A Google search for “visa lottery” results chose either to enlist in the the Lincoln Memorial in Handicapped Entrance. sure, blood sugar, and in some 148,000 hits – some perhaps legitimate and military or to go to college. Washington, D.C. The No appointment needed, cholesterol screenings are others fraudulent. It can be difficult to tell which is If it passes in its cur- One Nation March will all are welcome. 18 years on offer. As always, our which. For example, one site that comes up on Google rent form, the DREAM feature human and civil and older, please. health screenings are free, search displays images of the American eagle and flag, Act would provide that rights leaders, labor lead- 2010 Fall Schedule. confidential, and open to those who entered the U.S. ers, environmental and Q.P.R: Suicide Pre- all, so do your health a the Statue of Liberty, the US Capitol, and President before the age of 16 and peace activists, faith lead- vention Workshop – favor and drop by. Call Obama. Only in the fine print at the bottom of the who are/were between ers, celebrities, and sports Tues., Sept. 28, from 4 Danielle at 617-542-7653, page is there a disclaimer that the organization is the ages of 12 and 35 at figures. For more informa- p.m. to 6 p.m. at the IIC Ext. 14, to sign up or for not a US government agency – which should be clear the time of application, tion, please visit onena- Office, 100 Franklin St. in further information about in any event because the website’s address does not have lived in the U.S. for tionworkingtogether.org. downtown Boston (Enter any of our programs. end in “.gov.” Fraudulent or not? It is difficult to at least five consecutive For more information from the side entrance at Immigration and Cit- say. The website offers assistance in filing the visa years and have obtained on our advocacy activities, 60 Arch Street or 201 Dev- izenship Update – The application (for a fee, of course – the amount of which a high school diploma or please contact Erin Fried onshire Street). (Brought Irish Immigration Center is not disclosed until the applicant provides personal GED, would be eligible at 617-542-7654, Ext. 43 to you in partnership provides comprehensive, financial information), which may be lawful though to apply for Conditional or at [email protected]. with the South Boston professional, and confi- a waste of money. But the site also strongly implies Permanent Residency. Community Counsel- Youth Assets Campaign dential legal assistance on without an overt statement that using the service If granted, the applicant ing & Education Servic- & the Department of visa options, immigration increases the odds of winning – which is impossible. would then need either es Update – The Irish Im- Public Health.) Suicide and citizenship issues. IIC So the prudent course is to avoid all websites that to enroll in an institution migration Center’s Com- is preventable, so come operations include a mix sell lottery visa application services. of higher education or to munity Counseling and and learn how you can of outreach and education There is another issue: Some websites may not enlist in a branch of the Education Services offers offer hope to those to the immigrant commu- just take your money; they also may commit identity military. counseling, free health who might be at risk nity, as well as specialized, theft and use your banking information and credit Following is a statement clinics, job skill work- and learn how best to individual consultation card number, etc. to steal from you. This is one more from Marielena Hincapié, shops, and other resources respond to them. and immigration case as- reason to stay away from commercial on-line visa Executive Director of the to Irish immigrants. Di- CPR Workshop – sistance. services. The only website you need to consult is the official one – dvlottery.state.gov. The IIC will be assisting people with the process of submitting diversity visa lottery applications in the Matters Of Substance upcoming weeks. Contact Neil Hurley at 617-542-8764 or by e-mail at [email protected]. A Parent’s Halloween Nightmare For a free, confidential consultation about any aspect of immigration law, visit one of our legal clinics as By Danielle Owen might happen to her when for Substance Abuse Re- and Recovery’s Youth listed monthly in the Irish Reporter’s Irish Immigra- Special to the BIR she is drunk or high. We search at the University Central Intake & Care tion Center’s Notebook. “My wife and I have found an empty prescrip- of Maryland, “Parental Coordination Project at worked hard to create a tion bottle, with no label, monitoring can reduce healthrecovery.org. Disclaimer: These articles are published to inform, good life here in MA since in her room. How would high-school drinking and, Change is always pos- not to advise. Areas of law are rapidly changing. US we moved from Ireland 25 we know if she was using as a result, have a protec- sible but parents need Citizenship and Immigration Services and US Depart- years ago. We’ve always drugs? Is it too late to help tive effect on students’ support and a place to ment of State regularly amend regulations and alter been able to solve any her? What happens when drinking at college.” talk. Call Danielle, in processing and filing procedures. For legal advice problems we’ve had … she gets to college? We feel There are many tools confidence and without seek the assistance of an IIC immigration specialist until now. My daughter like we can’t do anything? available for parents: judgment, at the Irish or an immigration attorney. seems to have an alcohol How did this happen to us? 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So there we were, in our full “Wicked” at The Opera House a true homecoming. glory. They saw everything. It happens. The phenomenally successful “Wicked” tells the musi- BIR: I know that actors often have a special moment in cal story of the two witches of Oz, good and evil, long a show that personally means a lot to them. It may not before Dorothy toppled from the sky. McMahon plays be the biggest laugh or the biggest musical number, but the father of the Wicked Witch as well as a multitude it’s a moment that just grabs them. Is there something of smaller roles throughout the show, including the like that for you in “Wicked?” Emerald City Guard who bellows the iconic line, “The KM: There’s a moment at the end of the first act where Wizard will see you now!” As if that isn’t enough, he Elphaba is flying on her broom – the climax of the first also understudies the roles of Professor Dillamond and act – and I’m the guard that comes in and grabs Glinda. The Wizard himself. She escapes from us and we charge the Witch. Then we Now living on the West Coast, and with a multi- fly backwards and fall on the floor. And we get to see faceted career as an actor, singer and writer, he has the actress playing Elphaba (Jackie Burns) rise above performed everywhere from off-Broadway to Ireland. us every night. It’s such a spellbinding moment. And His theatrical credits include roles in such shows as I get to witness that every night, front and center, on “City of Angels,” “Sweeney Todd” and “A Little Night the floor. It’s the best seat in the house.” Music” along with a two year run as Jinx in the San “Wicked,” through October 17 at The Boston Opera Diego production of “Forever Plaid.” As well, the L.A. House, 539 Washington Street. Tickets: 1-800-982-2787 Kevin McMahon: actor, singer, writer. Times called his performance in “Roar Of The Grease- or BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com/Boston. paint” “heart-stopping.” We had a chance to speak the morning after the show’s official opening night last month. While “Wicked” is currently in its third visit to town, this is McMahon’s first time playing the show in Boston. He joined the company a year ago November, shortly after it’s last stop at The Opera House. Here’s a condensed look at our conversation. BIR: The opening night crowd was very enthusiastic. It must be gratifying to be performing in a show that’s so warmly embraced by audiences. KM: It’s a phenomenon. I’ve only been in one other show in my lifetime that’s been anywhere near this, and it was on a much smaller scale. “Wicked” is such a privilege to be a part of. BIR: So, you were born in Brighton. KM: Born in Brighton at St. Elizabeth’s. My mother was a nurse there. BIR: And you went to school at Marian High. What shows were you in there? KM: I was in “The Pajama Game” and I remember the nuns editing the show. Scenes for sexual content (were) all taken out. We didn’t know that until I saw the show (much) later and I said ‘Wait a minute, we & didn’t do that scene.” And I realized that the nuns had edited it all. Annual Banquet Celebration BIR: Part and parcel of going to Catholic school? nd KM: (Laughing) Exactly. Florian Hall BIR: How did you come to study at Boston Conser- vatory. Saturday, October 2 , 2010 55 Hallett St., Dorchester, MA KM: I had a teacher in high school – Rosemary Costa – was who a graduate of the Conservatory, and she introduced us to the school. Little did I know it was one of the best schools in the country. I got in and was happy to go there. BIR: What do you remember from those days. 2010 Banquet Honorees Guest KM: You know, I think in any kind of school for the performing arts, or in any college for that matter, you Speaker: find two or three good professors who influence you. That can make or break your college experience. I had Boston / Mayor of two that were amazing. A voice teacher named Mary Boston, Saunders, still teaching there, I just spoke with her Northeast yesterday actually, and an acting teacher named Robert Lieberker. I think he’s retired now, but he was one Thomas M. of those people who was really inspiring. You wanted GAA Menino to please him and do everything right for him and get the lead role in his shows. Minor BIR: I hear you have dual citizenship, American and Irish. Tell me about that. KM: Well my grandparents were all born in Ireland Board and came over in the 1920s . . . My mother was a proud Irish American, as my Dad was. My mother passed Music by: away when she was very young . . . and never got to go back to Ireland. I wanted to tie in with the roots, so I applied for citizenship in Ireland. . . I was over in Ireland with a show, and I went to the consulate and DEVRI I went to the registry and got all the birth certificates that are necessary and registered everything. And so I keep my Irish passport and have my Irish citizenship because I’m very proud of that. I don’t know if I’d ever Special want to live there full time, but I’m keeping that option open. It’s a beautiful place. I’ve been there three or four Performance times and I’d love to spend more time over in Ireland. by: BIR: What show were you doing there? KM: It was a show I did in Los Angeles, “Love Of A Pig,” and an Irish actress named Fionnula Flanagan, pretty well known, was one of the producers. She was involved with the Irish Life Festival and she ar- ranged for us to go over and do the show as part of the Cocktail Hour: 7 pm - 8 pm For ticket sales or festival. We spent a couple of weeks in Dublin and it Tickets: was amazing. My dad came over to see the show. It Four Course Dinner Banquet Journal advertising was pretty great. $100* BIR: I see from your bio that you’ve also done “The & Dancing to follow *Tax Deductible Full Monty.” You must be sick of being asked, but isn’t Call: 617-479-7404 it a little daunting the first time you’re naked on stage. KM: It certainly is. It’s done in a way that the lights Page 14 October 2010 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com “inSession” The Druid’s the Lure in Inman Square Another in an occasional series, “inSession,” which happens you just have a great time.” Lisdoonvarna Festival, among other trappings. profiles the wealth and diversity of regularly occurring If you go to The Druid, it might be a good idea to come “Sometimes, a pub hires a session simply because they Irish and Celtic music sessions in, or reasonably near, as equally prepared to listen as participate. The session want crowds,” says Lech. “But here, they are definitely the Greater Boston area. space — located around the table at the right-hand side into it. They appreciate the music for itself. So there’s The Druid front window – is quite limited, and there’s a steady not this tension as in some situations where the pub Where: 1357 Cambridge St., Cambridge crowd of musicians who tend to frequent the place from makes you feel like somehow you’re ‘not doing your job’ When: Tuesdays, 9 p.m. (also Fridays at 7 p.m.) week to week. Fortunately, say Lech and Davis, people because you’re not bringing more people in.” Began: 2008, but there have been previous sessions are considerate enough to give up their spot for a while Adds Davis, “This is pretty much a local crowd, and There aren’t many Irish music sessions in Boston – or and let someone else have a go. they want to come here when there’s music. They really anywhere else, for that matter – which take place under- On one recent Tuesday night, as Davis positioned a want it to be part of their experience.” neath a larger-than-life decorative fright mask, one con- small microphone hanging from a string to help amplify Best Druid moment? siderably more daunting than the iconic “Scream” visage. the music slightly, space in The Druid was not as much Says Lech, “It’s particularly enjoyable when you get But that’s about the only forbidding aspect of this In- at a premium as usual. But within a half-hour, about a someone from out of town who’s passing through Boston, man Square-based session, which according to regulars half-dozen other musicians had arrived, and a combina- and the bar is literally littered with musicians – some is expansive in spirit — if a bit tight in quarters. tion of two fiddles, three flutes and a bouzouki took on of them waiting to rotate in and play, of course, and Fiddler Tina Lech, who co-leads the Tuesday night ses- a set of reels at a solid, steady tempo. some just hanging out. sion with her husband, flutist-guitarist Ted Davis, says “The music here has got a heartbeat to it,” said John “Once the Kane sisters [Liz and Yvonne Kane, highly there’s no mystery about The Druid session’s good vibes. Coyne, who along with his wife Lisa is a regular at the regarded fiddlers from Connemara] came in and were “One of the best things about playing here is the bar music table. “Most everyone here knows one another and sitting at the bar socializing. Everyone knew they were staff,” says Lech, who cut her teeth in the Providence have been playing together so long, the music doesn’t there, and left spaces for them to sit at the session table, area but has been a mainstay in the Boston session feel rushed; there’s a lovely feel to it.” but Liz and Yvonne just stayed at the bar for the longest scene for the better part of a decade. “They clap after It certainly helps that the bar, and its patrons, display time until they came over to play. I think if they hadn’t just about every set, and that helps set the mood. If the a genuine appreciation for Irish music – an impression come down, the seats would’ve stayed empty all night, bar staff is into it, the crowd is into it, and when that reinforced by the presence of posters from the legendary which would have been unprecedented.” usic dynamic) between the older and modern-day versions? the album is produced by none BIR M If it’s Bloom neophytes, will they be able to get a true other than Rusby’s ex-husband feeling for his musical/artistic evolution than via a more and long-time collaborator John conventional retrospective? McCusker (now Talbot’s part- CD Review Still, to return to the original point, this is Luka Bloom ner), and includes musicians like we’re talking about here. And the fact is, there are guitarist Ian Carr and accordion By Sean Smith rewards for both aficionado and neophyte on “Dreams player Andy Cutting, who have Luka Bloom, “Dreams In In America.” The new versions of “Dreams” and “Cold figured prominently in Rusby’s America” – This is the kind Comfort,” for instance, were recorded with significantly recordings. of album that, frankly, inspires less echo, and Bloom comes across as perhaps more ac- But while there may be hints of, say, “Little Lights” some ambivalence. On the one cessible, more immediate. The raw emotional narrative or “The Girl Who Couldn’t Fly” here and there, it’s in- hand, this is a new release by in “Bridge of Sorrow,” especially in the shift from verse accurate to cast Talbot as a Kildare version of Rusby. Luka Bloom we’re talking about to chorus, is far more apparent here with Bloom perform- The fact is, on this, her third album, the former Cherish here – easily one of Ireland’s ing it solo. The earlier, band version of “The Acoustic the Ladies lead singer has hit her stride; her singing is most compelling singer-songwriters and performers of Motorbike,” which included a didgeridoo, complemented unabashedly confident and self-assured, the choice of the past few decades. On the other, though, “Dreams the heady mix of poetry and rap elements, but it doesn’t material (including traditional and contemporary songs In America” is not really a “new” album, as most all of lose much in this incarnation. (Makes one wish for more plus a few Talbot/McCusker compositions) is stellar, and the songs on it have appeared on his previous releases. of the “fun“ side of Bloom; maybe reworkings of “You the arrangements – Rusby references notwithstanding Yet it’s not exactly a “greatest hits” album either, per Couldn‘t Have Come at a Better Time” or “An Irishman – and musicianship supporting her are both outstanding se: All are recent re-recordings, 11 of them solo studio in Chinatown”?) “Black Is The Colour” and the afore- and well-conceived. efforts and three concert performances. There’s also his mentioned “Lord Franklin,” meanwhile, show a fuller All of this is evident on the highly entertaining, bois- never-recorded version of the traditional song “Lord extent of Bloom’s guitar-playing skills – he’s not just a terous “Sally Brown,” an Anglo-American sea chantey Franklin.” strummer, folks. that here is transformed into something resembling According to the publicity material, the reinterpreta- Two of the live tracks, “I Hear Her, Like Lorelei” a Salvation Army hymn channeled through a Cajun tions “suit the modern-day Luka Bloom and the way he and “Love Is a Monsoon,” feature Bloom accompanied festival, complete with horn section. Talbot, along with now hears [the songs].” So this would seem to raise the by a string section, which if nothing else is at least guest vocalist Eddi Reader, brings the right amount of question: For whom is this album intended? If it’s Bloom unobtrusive. Bloom’s enduringly popular rendition of verve and salt to a song, which almost certainly did not aficionados, will they really discern or appreciate the Mike Scott’s “Sunny Sailor Boy” sounds even lovelier originate as something young ladies would sing. distinctions (other than the obvious solo-versus-band with the audience joining in the chorus – underscoring Talbot goes to a completely different place on the the bond he forms with his emotional spectrum on the very next track, “Bantry fans at concerts – but to my Girls,” a lament for the Irishmen gone to fight abroad. mind would have been even The song has been covered by numerous male and better if it were just him female singers, but Talbot nonetheless brings forth its and them, and without the tenderness and tragedy; and her vulnerability and vi- three musicians appearing brato are eloquently enhanced by Carr, McCusker and on the track. double-bassist Ewen Vernal. Saturday, October 2nd at 8pm. If the artistic statement in Other tracks of note include “Willie Taylor,” a cau- “Dreams In America” may tionary ballad of love, devotion, and betrayal (with be difficult to grasp, Bloom fearsome consequences) featuring cameos by Michael goes a long way in making McGoldrick and Phil Cunningham; “Bleecker Street,” up for any shortfall by doing a Greenwich Village variant of “Patrick Street” – about what he does best: singing a one-night stand in which it’s the sailor who gets with the soul and passion victimized – that incorporates a riff from “Johnny’s that‘s been with him on all Jig,” which McCusker devotees will recognize from his his journeys, whether geo- “Goodnight Ginger” album; and a cover of “At the End graphical or spiritual. of the Day,” an overlooked Sandy Denny masterpiece Heidi Talbot, “The that still tugs at the heartstrings. Speaking of covers, Last Star” – Listening to Talbot does herself proud by bringing in the authors of “The Last Star,” it’s hard “Hang Me” (Kris Drever) and “Start It All Over Again” not to occasionally think of (Karine Polwart) to add harmony vocals to her rendi- Kate Rusby. Not because tions of their respective works. Heidi Talbot sounds like Talbot, by the way, is to be the featured vocalist in Yorkshire’s much-beloved this year’s “Christmas Celtic Sojourn” production –one curly-haired songbird – of many future appearances in the US, one would hope she doesn’t – but because and trust. at the

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If cord it, but I wanted to do button accordion can do.” you take the music away something in classic ball- On another track, Der- from Joe, you’ll kill him.’ room style to celebrate rane offers up a medley of Of course, Anne knew those memories.” two other originals, “Fan- that.” The Derranes lived in cy Free,” a schottische, Derrane’s renditions of Dorchester early on, but and a barn dance that also traditional tunes, includ- with the arrival of chil- carries the “Grove Lane” ing “Mac’s Fancy,” “The dren, Sheila and Joe Jr., title. Although separate Monaghan,” “Return to they decided it was time to dance forms — and in the Milltown” and “Toss the head for the metaphorical case of the schottische, a Feathers,” sound no less greener pastures. Much seldom-heard one — in robust and lively through to their delight, they Derrane’s hands they his Gaillard button accor- found that and more at form an irresistible blend. dion. The full, rich sound the end of a dirt road a It’s not axiomatic that makes it seem as if Der- little north of downtown every great composition rane is playing two, if not Randolph. has to have a great story more, accordions at once. “Back then, it was all behind it, but that seems “He’s just a stellar farmland,” recalls Der- to be the case with most musician, with an impec- rane. “In the evening, of Derrane’s tunes. “The cable groove and sense of there would be cows out Prayer Reel” — the middle timing,” says John Mc- at the fence, and your man tune in the first track — Gann, who’s played with would come with a hay for instance, has a very Derrane for more than a rake and a team of horses. personal and spiritual ori- decade. “But there’s some- We loved the privacy, the gin: “Anne was at death’s thing else about Joe: One feeling of being out in the door several years ago, of the most difficult things country, and yet we were and I was in the hospital for a traditional musician only a little more than 10 chapel twice a day, seven to do is stay true to the miles outside of Boston.” days a week. Somehow, tradition but also to find G r o v e L a n e h a s she pulled through, and your own voice. He’s in- changed, of course: There I always believed it was jected a lot into the music are several neighbors the Blessed Mother who but without changing its now on the street, which interceded. This was my essence.” is paved, and the sur- way to say ‘Thank you.’” Considering how full of rounding farmland has “Breakfast with Jerry” music Derrane’s life has been replaced by subur- recalls a week-long series been, one might expect “I’m a great believer in stretching yourself beyond the limits of the instrument,” ban housing. But it still of morning repasts with him to have grown up in says Derrane. “So I think I’ve learned more since I started back up again in feels like home for Joe Jerry Holland: “We were the paradigmatic musical 1994 than in all the previous years.” Sean Smith photo Derrane, and always will. both playing at a festival, household. But while his “There has been a lot of and the food just wasn’t parents — Helen (Galvin) on Boston Irish music Anne Connaughton. A like that memorable night music here these 51 years, really to our liking, so we’d from Roscommon and history. Yet it’s worth year and a half later, at the Tuxedo — when even during the period go into town and get mak- Patrick from Inishmore noting that one of the she followed him back to the Derranes were able when I was away from ings for breakfast. Jerry — were both musicians, most important events in Boston, and in 1955 they to dance together. “She Irish music,” he says. would come over every their talents didn’t di- his life took place not in were married. loved to dance, but I was “Everything was always day and make omelets; I rectly figure in Derrane’s Boston, but in New York “Waltzing with Anne,” usually busy perform- here in Grove Lane for me, was in charge of the toast, musical development. City, where he lived for one of the more mani- ing on the bandstand. I and for Anne, so I’m glad coffee, and dishwashing. “When I was very little, part of the 1950s. festly emotional tracks on couldn’t dance that well, to be able to give it this We had a wonderful time, my mom used to play me “I’d been doing gigs at “Grove Lane,” evokes the anyway, but it was always connection to my music.” and I thoroughly enjoyed asleep with the violin, the Tuxedo Ballroom, but all-too-rare occasions — such a pleasure when getting to know Jerry — I though I never heard her. I hurt my shoulder and miss him a lot.” The story goes that one couldn’t play for a week Derrane wrote “The day, she put the violin or so, and I offered to help Lost Jig” — which pre- down and I either rolled out in other ways, like cedes “Breakfast with over on it or picked it up working the cloakroom,” Jerry” on the second track — but that was the end he says. “One night, I was — back in 1956 for ac- of it. My father played talking to the ballroom cordionist and inspiration the accordion, but I never owner, and I noticed this Tommy Sullivan, then knew that until I came pretty little girl kind of forgot about it until more home from school one day walking around us in a than 50 years later, when and heard him playing it. circle. Then I felt a tap on Sullivan’s son enclosed a “Where I got inspired my shoulder and turned copy of it in a Christmas to play was through radio around, and there she card. shows: I was five years old, was; and she said, ‘It’s “Tommy was a big in- and I’d hear an accordion “Ladies Choice” time.’ I fluence. His music had a and come running to lis- was smitten right then lot of drive and energy, ten to it.” and there.” and I was fascinated by Derrane, of course, He didn’t see her again what he did. But he was tapped that childhood for two months, but then a dear friend, too. When enthusiasm and went on Derrane began to keep Anne and I had become to leave his indelible mark regular company with Paul Brady Fri., October 22, 8pm County Donegal Association Somerville Theatre of Greater Boston Honoring the 2010 Boston GAA Senior Football Champs Donegal Football Club November 6, 2010 Florian Hall Hallet Street, Dorchester, MA Mary Black Dinner 7:15 p.m. Sat., November 13, 8pm Music by Erin’s Melody Berklee Performance Center Tickets: JP Doherty, dinner chairman Phone 617-825-8769 For Tickets and Information: Kathleen Callahan, president 617-623-3566 Or any officer www.WorldMusic.org • 617.876.4275 Tickets $40.00 Presented by World Music/CRASHarts Page 16 October 2010 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com

Greater Boston’s most splendid songsters: •Fiddler/singer Lissa Schneckenburger, ac- companied by guitarist Bethany Waickman, has become a veritable fount of New England folk music, both vocal and instrumental, combining traditional and contemporary styles. •The duo of Hannah Sanders and Liz Simmons blend guitars and timeless-sounding, yet quite mod- ern, vocals in their renditions of ancient ballads from Celtic traditions as well as latter-day and original compositions. A column of news and updates of the Boston Celtic •Laura Cortese (fiddle) and Jefferson Hamer Music Fest (BCMFest), which celebrates the Boston (guitar) bring intensity and verve to their song area’s rich heritage of Irish, Scottish, Cape Breton and instrumental performances, weaving complex music and dance with a grassroots, musician-run rhythms from riffs and melodies. winter music festival and other events during the year. Schneckenburger, the concert’s musical organizer, – Sean Smith says songs like “The Cruel Mother,” “Polly Vaughn” and “Two Sisters” can still capture people’s imagina- Coming closer to January – The BCMFest Board tions, even in an era of over-the-top entertainment. is currently confirming its performer selections for “There’s no substitute for the power of a really the 2011 festival, which takes place Jan. 7 and 8, and good story, no matter how it’s told,” says Schneck- will announce the line-up shortly. Once again, there enburger. “You don’t need a big-budget production were many outstanding submissions this year, and with incredible special effects; a song — even one the board wants to thank all who applied. that’s hundreds of years old — with riveting imagery Chilling out – Ordinarily, you might have to wait and strong emotion can put you under quite a spell. until the end of October for Halloween-related activi- “I often read through old song books looking for cool ties, but BCMFest is getting an early jump on the stories. I feel like I’m reading a novel, or a collection spooky season with its Oct. 11 Celtic Music Monday of short stories, as I piece together the narrative of concert at Club Passim in Harvard Square. each song. And it can be just as gripping as a modern “Whistling By the Graveyard: Ghost Songs and murder mystery, as I read each stanza and realize Murder Ballads” will feature the scary, supernatural what’s happening to the characters.” side of the folk song tradition, presented by some of To really get into the mood for “Whistling in the

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Riverfield House in Doolin, Co. Clare, is an easy Cahergal Farm in Newmarket-on-Fergus, Co. Clare, walk from colorful pubs where some of the best trad is a comfortable B&B close to Shannon Airport and music in Ireland is played. Glasha Farmhouse is Glasha Farmhouse is a jewel of a B&B near Ballymacarbry, Co. Waterford. a great place to spend the night when you arrive in Ireland or the night before you leave. By Judy Enright If you can’t find some- Special to the BIR thing to quench your euro, year-long develop- was dubbed “Honey Fitz” Last month, we wrote thirst at The Heron’s Cove ment was set to begin last for his singing voice. In about Irish bed and break- (which would be hard to month and will ultimately its first life - from 1854 to fasts and how many of believe because they have be home to five gorillas. 1966 - the theatre building the owners have elevated all sorts of beverages), The Dublin zoo has been was a national school. B&B accommodation in there are four pubs in home to western lowland The Great Pumpkin Ireland to an art form. town and it is just a short gorillas for many years Festival is planned for Oct. Our favorites, as out- walk away. and the current gorillas 22 - 25 on Main Street in lined then, include: Ca- Bedrooms are spacious there are regarded as a Virginia, Co. Cavan. The hergal Farm in Newmar- and en suite bathrooms functioning group and part lakeside town is lit up ket-on-Fergus and Riv- are as clean as can be. of a breeding population of with carved and lighted erfield House in Doolin, My bedroom overlooked 400 in European zoos. pumpkins, there’s a street both Co. Clare; Glasha the cove and I enjoyed The Dublin Zoo is a lot carnival, arts and crafts, Farmhouse in Ballyma- watching the changing of fun and a great place to top international music carbry, Co. Waterford; light on the water. spend a day. acts and a fireworks dis- Gearhadiveen in Ken- We found Heron’s Cove OCTOBER EVENTS play over Lough Ramor. mare, Co. Kerry; and The to be a great place for a Even though summer is Visit pumpkinfestival.ie Heron’s Cove in Goleen, base as we toured West over, the fall is a busy time for more details. West Cork. We also added Cork’s lovely coastline. in Ireland with all sorts of Traditional music, song Heaton’s in Dingle to the Be sure to book rooms and activities planned around and dance will be heard list even though the own- dinner ahead, though, as the country. in the Co. Clare village ers actually list it as a the B&B is extremely pop- There’s a national race- of Doonbeg from Oct. guesthouse. We think it’s ular, has received numer- day and ladies day in 22-25 during a festival nearly a B&B because of ous prestigious awards, Limerick Oct. 10 (limer- that honors the late set the warmth and personal and is recommended by ickraces.ie) and an inter- dancer Willie Keane. For attention from the owners many guidebooks. See national poetry festival more details, visit the that you experience in more about this charm- from Oct. 13-16, also in website williekeanememo- many B&Bs. ing B&B at the website Limerick, celebrating con- rialweekend.com True, some travelers heroncove.ie. temporary poetry. Halloween is well cel- prefer the anonymity of And, believe it or not, Hungry? Then, don’t ebrated by the Irish with a large hotel where you there was actually one miss the 34th Bollinger a series of events all over are just a name on the lone heron in the cove Kinsale International the country including Hal- the entire time we stayed Beautiful Heron’s Cove B&B in Goleen, West Cork, loween Fun and Games books. I have a friend who at sunset. (Judy Enright photos) Gourmet Festival 2010, teaches photography all there. He – or she – from Oct. 8-10 at eleven on Oct. 25 at Bunratty changed locations and over Ireland and, when cially memorable because at Heaton’s with every Good Food Circle member Folk Park in Co. Clare; a he’s working, he prefers would be on one side of restaurants in this bucolic Halloween-themed chil- the cove or the other, de- it was election night in the modern convenience in- hotels so he can focus on States and we woke the cluding powerful showers, seaside town in Co. Cork. dren’s arts festival, Oct. his lesson plans and his pending on tide, but it was For more information, visit 25-29 and Halloween in always there. I jokingly next morning to learn that TV, telephone, coffee/tea- thoughts and he doesn’t Barack Obama, who has maker and we were able to kinsalerestaurants.com the Haunted Gardens at feel obliged to chat with asked if the heron was a From Oct. 10-16, there Birr Castle Demesne on pet and trained to stay Irish roots in Co. Offaly get on the internet, which anyone. through his mother’s side is not always the case in will be tall tales, lies, leg- Oct. 31, both in Birr, Co. Myself, I like chatting within sight of the dining ends and myths exchanged Offaly; and a mystery Hal- room windows. The owner of the family, was the new every hotel or B&B. because the local folks of- president. We highly recommend in the Slieve Bloom Moun- loween party at the Cliffs ten share so much history gave me kind of a funny tains (slievebloom.ie), of Moher Visitor Center in look. Guess they’re not Glasha is set in a lovely Heaton’s and if you’d like and information about area with lush farming more information, please which rise from the central Co. Clare on Oct. 31. interesting and perhaps accustomed to American plains of Ireland, form TRAVEL humor. land around it, but it is visit the website heaton- lesser-known attractions probably far enough off sdingle.com a natural link between Be sure to visit your that you could miss if you GLASHA Counties Laois and Offaly, favorite travel agent or FARMHOUSE the beaten track so that DUBLIN ZOO were in a big hotel. Many few travelers visit, which We were delighted to and are halfway between the Aer Lingus website of the larger hotels these We met a young couple Galway and Dublin, Bel- (aerlingus.com) for the at a B&B in Co. Clare is a pity. Glasha Farm- read in The Irish Times days are not even staffed house is a great place to that the Dublin Zoo plans fast and Cork, Donegal latest direct flights and by native Irish but by some years ago, who had and Rosslare. ground deals. Flights and just visited Co. Waterford spend some time. a major revamp of one of its foreigners who come to HEATON’S oldest enclosures to create There will also be sto- deals are also offered by Ireland to work or learn and highly recommended rytelling in Lough Gur, US Airways (usairways. Glasha Farmhouse (gla- If the Dingle peninsula a gorilla rainforest. English and they seldom is a must for every tourist The Times reported an archaeological and com) and other airlines, make great guides for the shafarmhouse.com) in historical town southeast but usually involve lay- Ballymacarbry. Honestly, traveling around Ireland, that “the new landscape area because they don’t then we think staying at will have streams, dense of Limerick city. When in overs in Chicago, Newark, know anything about it. we were so glad they did Lough Gur, you can visit New York, Philadelphia, or because we made a point Heaton’s, on the edge of vegetation, small hills THE HERON’S COVE Dingle Bay and the harbor and rocky outcrops mim- the Honey Fitz Theatre, elsewhere, adding several We stayed for two of staying there and found which is home to the Lough hours to the trip but also it to be a wonderful place and just a short walk from icking the animals’ wild nights last spring at the town, is a must, too. environment. The zoo is Gur Dramatic society reducing the cost. most wonderful B&B in to spend time and to dine. and gets its name from Also check out autum- We loved every minute in We’ve stayed at Hea- also planning forest paths Goleen, West Cork, called ton’s twice now and had with special hidden view- John Francis Fitzgerald nal and more Halloween The Heron’s Cove. that elegant farmhouse. (1863-1950) former Bos- happenings at Tourism Olive Gorman is at- a wonderful experience ing points for visitors to If you have never vis- both times. The breakfast see the western lowland ton mayor and JFK’s Ireland’s website (discov- ited West Cork, you have tentive, welcoming, and grandfather. Fitzgerald erireland.com). entertaining as well as an there is hard to beat. gorillas.” The two-million missed one of the most Every morsel is fresh, beautiful parts of Ireland. inspired cook. Her meals are truly edible works delicious, and beautifully There are many nice ac- prepared! I ordered fresh commodations all around of art. We stayed at Glasha on fish, which I love to have Phillips Candy House that area and many great for breakfast, and then restaurants too – includ- a chilly November night fine chocolates since 1925 and welcomed a glass helped myself to some of ing The Heron’s Cove, the offerings on the huge where the food is locally of wine and the warmth of a blazing turf fire buffet – especially the sourced and exceptionally bread and butter pudding. fresh, very well prepared in the living room fire- place before dinner. We Utterly divine! and absolutely delicious. Meals are served in the Both breakfast and din- ordered an appetizer of mushrooms stuffed with bright and sunny Shore ner offered an extensive View Restaurant, which menu. bacon and goat cheese and had poached monkfish in overlooks the water. The Sue Hill owns The head chef is proprietors Heron’s Cove, which is creamy red pepper sauce for an entrée. The food was Cameron and Nuala Hea- near Mizen Head, Ire- ton’s son, David, who land’s most southwesterly perfectly prepared and the dining room, in a large creates masterpieces from point. While you’re there, fresh, local ingredients be sure to visit Fastnet glass solarium, offers a grand view of Glasha’s and changes the menu Rock Lighthouse and the daily. Mizen Head Signal Sta- magnificent gardens. The evening was espe- There are 16 clean, well- tion Visitor Centre. appointed guest rooms Page 18 October 2010 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Poetry and Grief: James Joyce’s ‘Tilly’

By Thomas O’Grady by way of the familiar figure cut by these men. Special to the BIR For Joyce, the objective correlative resides in a dif- For the past few weeks, for one reason or another, ferent sort of universal—in the cycle of generational I have been thinking about poetry and grief—or more death and birth illuminated for him by the birth of specifically, about poems which register and express his grandson Stephen shortly after the death of John grief over the loss of a loved one. I have been especially Joyce, the author’s father. In a letter written in Paris attuned to lyric poems—concise and precise articula- on January 1st, 1932 (coincidentally, to T. S. Eliot), tions of the emotions involving loss that provide what Joyce explained how his sorrow over his father’s death Robert Frost once called “a momentary stay against two days earlier was compounded by guilt over his rigid confusion.” (Incidentally, Frost also once observed: adherence to self-imposed exile from Ireland: “He had “Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the griev- an intense love for me and it adds anew to my grief and ance.”) The Irish may not have the market cornered remorse that I did not go to Dublin to see him for so on this sort of poem, but Irish writers have certainly many years. I kept him constantly under the illusion turned out their fair share. that I would come and was always in correspondence One obvious example, frequently anthologized, is with him but an instinct which I believed in held me Seamus Heaney’s “Mid-Term Break,” an early poem in back from going, much as I longed to.” Six weeks later, which Heaney recalls the death of a younger brother on the day his grandson was born, February 15th, Joyce struck and killed by a car while the future poet, still just captured in the concluding quatrain of his succinct a boy himself, is away at boarding school. The poem four-stanza poem “Ecce Puer” (Latin for “behold the leads the reader through the whole experience—from boy-child”) the essence of filial grief: the news reaching young Seamus at school, through his being driven home by neighbors, then seeing his A child is sleeping: father in tears and being embarrassed by “old men An old man gone. standing up to shake my hand // And tell me they O, father forsaken, were ‘sorry for my trouble.’” What stays with the Forgive your son! reader, however, is neither the glimpse of the poet’s distraught mother coughing out “angry tearless sighs” But the poem of Joyce’s that I keep returning to with nor even the arresting image of his little brother in the regard to the expression of grief is one that he wrote first two lines of the final tercet—“Wearing a poppy in 1904, in response to the death of his mother, Mary bruise on his left temple, / He lay in the four foot box Jane (“May”) Murray Joyce, in August of 1903. Joyce as in his cot.” Rather, reinforced by full rhyme with originally titled the poem “Cabra,” after the northside the penultimate line of the poem (“No gaudy scars, the Dublin community where the family was living (at 7 bumper knocked him clear”), the recognition etched St. Peter’s Terrace) at the time of Mrs. Joyce’s pass- in the standalone final line is also etched indelibly in ing, and originally intended to include it in his volume the reader’s memory: “A four foot box, a foot for every Chamber Music, published in 1907. But feeling that year.” In his essay “Hamlet and His Problems,” poet its sober tone did not fit with the rest of that gathering, T. S. Eliot describes the challenge faced by the artist he withdrew it and withheld it from publication until attempting to convey a complex and subtle emotion: 1927, when he placed it, re-titled “Tilly,” at the opening “The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art James Joyce circa 1904. of his 13-poem chapbook Pomes Penyeach. (The word is by finding an ‘objective correlative’; in other words, “tilly” means “a little bit extra”—which seems to be a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which as in the European tradition.” Translated as “Frozen” how Joyce thought of this poem relative to the others shall be the formula of that particular emotion; such by Valentine Iremonger, in its matter-of-factness “Reo” in the volume, which were all written between 1912 that when the external facts, which must terminate in requires no paraphrase: and 1924 in Trieste, Zurich, and Paris.) sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immedi- Comprising three free-verse quatrains, “Tilly” begins ately evoked.” Acknowledging the almost unspeakable On a frosty morning I went out with a two-stanza depiction of a cattle drover written sadness of a child’s death, the equation that Heaney And a frozen handkerchief faced me on a bush. from the perspective that Joyce has his character draws between his brother’s life cut short and the I reached to put it in my pocket Stephen Dedalus describe in A Portrait of the Artist miniature coffin he lies in reads as a classic example But it slid from me for it was frozen. as Young Man as the “dramatic form”—the literary of Eliot’s idea. No living cloth jumped from my grasp point of view in which “The personality of the artist . The objective correlative may not be the only way to But a thing that died last night on a bush, . . refines itself out of existence, impersonalizes itself, express publicly an emotion as private as grief, but it And I went searching in my mind so to speak”: certainly works in “Reo” by Seán Ó Ríordáin, considered Till I found its real equivalent: by many readers and scholars the preeminent Irish- The day I kissed a woman of my kindred He travels after a winter sun, language poet of the twentieth century. In an essay on And she in the coffin, frozen, stretched. Urging the cattle along a cold red road, Ó Ríordáin in his book Repossessions: Selected Essays Calling to them, a voice they know, on the Irish Literary Heritage, Professor Seán Ó Tuama Interestingly, in his recent translation of “Reo,” He drives his beasts above Cabra. observes that in this poem “Ó Ríordáin consciously Greg Delanty substitutes for “equivalent” the word or unconsciously reverses and transforms one of the “correlative”—a telling nod toward T. S. Eliot in this The voice tells them home is warm. oldest European love-formulas, that of the poet walk- poem in which the disconcerting frozenness of the They moo and make brute music with their hoofs. ing out one leafy summer morning and meeting a fair handkerchief transmits to the reader the disconcerting He drives them with a flowering branch before him, lady. Here it is a winter morning, frost in the air, the personal loss that is the poem’s true subject. Smoke pluming their foreheads. boughs bare and he encounters not love but death. . . For both Patrick Kavanagh and James Joyce, the loss . This is quite probably . . . [a] lament for his mother, of a beloved father likewise demands an expression of Crucially, though, the third stanza represents a beautiful, unique, and absolutely in the Irish as well grief more crystallized than discursive. In “Memory shift in perspective to what Stephen Dedalus calls “the of My Father,” Kavanagh invites the reader to see lyrical form”—“the form wherein the artist presents the personal in the same way that he does—relative his image in immediate relation to himself”—as the to the universal: introduction of the first-person point of view (the “I” in the third line) reflects Joyce’s acknowledgement of Every old man I see a profound personal investment in the poem’s subject Reminds me of my father matter: When he had fallen in love with death One time when sheaves were gathered. Boor, bond of the herd, Tonight stretch full by the fire! For Kavanagh, the absence of his father (who died I bleed by the black stream in 1929, ten years before this poem was written) is For my torn bough! accentuated poignantly by various paternal avatars whom the poet encounters randomly: “That man I saw In effect, the broken-off branch used by the drover as in Gardiner Street / Stumble on the kerb,” “the musi- a switch to steer the cattle homeward becomes for the cian / Faltering over his fiddle / In Bayswater, London.” speaker in the poem (ostensibly Joyce himself) what Paradoxically, his father becomes an enduring presence Stephen Dedalus calls “the simplest verbal vesture of an instant of emotion”— the emblem of what has been irreparably broken in the life of the speaker: it becomes what the alert reader might recognize in other words as an objective correlative for irreversible loss. Read Every Sunday - Traditional session w/ Saturday, October 16th this way, this “tilly” of Skip Toomey 10-2 Dublin Free Press a poem written in 1904 Billy Downes 4-8 Thursday, October 21s Rock the Son w/Sean Gilmartin 8 Acoustic Phase CD release party stands not only as a subtle Every Tuesday Friday, October 22nd - Chamber’s Tobias lyric poem in its own right Open mic night w/ Jackson Wetherbee Saturday, October 23rd – Greatfuls but also an intriguing Every Wednesday - The Session companion piece to the Friday, October 1st - Brightest Lights The Tinker’s Son will celebrate It’s One “Telemachus” episode Saturday, October 2nd - The Dons Year Anniversary the week of October 24 of Joyce’s masterwork Thursday, October 7th 2010. The will be Specials and give-a-ways Ulysses, set on the morn- Jimmy Richards all week long Friday, October 8th - Shey’s rebellion Monday October 25th - Battle of the Sexes ing of June 16th, 1904, Saturday, October 9th – Elbowroom Thursday, October 28th - Angry Pete which focuses in large Billy Higgins 617-201-6077 Thursday, October 14th - Matt Chase Friday, October 29th part on Stephen Dedalus’ Friday, October 15th Tinker’s Birthday Party unresolved feelings of Colm O’Brian Duo Saturday, October 30th grief—like Joyce’s own— Section 8 Halloween Costume Party regarding the death of The Tinker’s Son his mother almost a year 707 Main Street, Norwell, MA earlier. (781) 561-7361 • www.thetinkersson.com Thomas O’Grady is All donations lovingly accepted Director of Irish Studies at the University of Mas- southillchildrensfund.com sachusetts Boston. 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In past months you have looked at “Wh- words” orSee if you can read this little conversation in Cross Irish. Patrick enters a little café in Galway.

1. Nóra: Tráthnóna maith, a Phádraig. Words Conas atá tú? 2. Pádraig: Tá mé go maith, buíochas le Dia, The Irish ach tá mé an-fhuar. crosswords are 3. Nóra: Fuar? Conas atá an aimsir amuigh? 4. Pádraig: Tá sé go dona, fuar ‘s fluich. a service of an 5. Nóra: An gabh tú cupán caife? Ireland-based 6. Pádraig: Gabhfaidh, go raibh maith agat. Agus ceapaire. website which 7. Nóra: Bainne agus siúcra? provides Irish 8. Pádraig: Níor mhaith, go raibh maith agat. ‘S fear liom caife dubh. Family Coats of 9. Nóra: Seo. Arms by email. 10. Pádraig: Cé mhéad? You are invited 11. Nora: Seacht Euro, más é do thoil é. to visit Could you translate this well? (1.) What time of day is it? (2.) What is the weather like? (3.) How www. is Patrick’s health? (4.) But how else is he? (5.) What does Nora offer Patrick? (6.) What does she bigwood.com/ ask if he wants with his coffee? (7.) How does he say, “Yes”? (8.) How does he say, “No”? (9.) What heraldry does Patrick like? (10.) Can you guess what a ceapaire is? (11.) How does Nora say, “Here it is”? (12.) What does Patrick ask Nora? (13.) What is her answer? (14.) How do you say “Please” and ©-bigwood.com “Thank you”? (15.) Who does Patrick thank for IRELAND IN CROSSWORDS his health? ACROSS 9. Elf room passkey. (anag.) Galway beauty spot near 1. A cell dustbin goes astray in Irish capital strong- Letterfrack with 3 lakes and a famous abbey. (4,2,8) Answers: (1.) It is afternoon/evening. (2.) The hold wherein is St. Patrick’s Hall used for many state 10. No, tough, many can be broken in Ulster region of weather is very bad – cold and wet. (3.) He is vey functions. (6,6) many lakes, known as the MacMahon country, . (6,8) well. (4.) But he is also very cold. (5.) She offers 11. Electron deficient learner fails to start jungle 15. Engaged in banter seated around. (6) him a cup of coffee. (6.) “Milk and sugar”. (7.) king. (3) 16. Brute dug up the root crop. (5) He agrees, using the same verb she used in the 12. Conditional return of plant container. (3) 17. Grand let in prosperous Cork town, known as the Future Tense. (8.) He disagrees using níor, a 13. Wants to be born a detective sergeant. (5) ‘Bath of Ireland’ where Thomas Davies was born. (6) Past Tense particle. (9.) He like his coffee black. 14. I moult badly in the last month in beautiful 18. “No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life As love’s (10.) It is a new word, “sandwich”. (11.) She simply Timoleague. (6) young ——.” Moore. (5) says, “Here – Seo”. (12.) He asks, “How much?” 17. Did the cow sound colourful when the boat was 20. Made haste along in Maghera navigation. (3) (13.) “Seven Euros” (14.) “Please” – más é do tied up? (6) 21. Tip of the separate legend! (3) thoil é; “Thank you” – go raibh maith agat. 19. “You write with ease, to show —— breeding. But 26. A contrived event will put a stop to growth. (5) (15.) He thanks God. easy writing’s vile hard reading.” Sheridan. (4) 27. Sam’s coming over for the celebration. (4) 21. Ardfert rekindling involves long migratory march. 28. Southern, yet upset about what’s causing a pain Notice in Line 1 that she addresses him as A (4) in the eye. (4) Phádraig, using the honorificA which requires 22. All one’s bail (anag.) Galway horse town with a 30. Tie in the back room of the hospital. (4) lenition (aspiration) of his name since it begins well-known castle adjoining Garbally park. (11) 32. Sap rising in Kerry resort four miles west of Tralee, with P. This will change the pronunciation from / 23. “There was —— ground where a man might linger, with mineral springs. (3) PAH-trik/ to /FAH-trik/. You must always do this For a week or two for time was not our master.” Ewan 33. Take us out of 26 down with explosive result ini- when speaking directly to a person; you may omit McColl -The Travelling People. (4) tially. (3) it when talking about a person. 24. Noble but not quite on time. (4) CROSSWORD SOLUTION ON PAGE 23 25. Cut back and see where the zloty goes round. (6) Remember that the first a in atá is not pro- 29. This do suit, up in workplace. (6) nounced but must be there in writing “Official 31. “Where fierce indignation can no longer tear his Irish” – but I see it being omitted in some new texts. ——.” Epitaph of Jonathan Swift. (5) 32. Drunkard returns to south. (3) Irish Sayings … In Line 5, Nora asks, “Would you like (take) a cup 34. Soft approach by United Nations initially is a “People live in each other’s shelter.” of coffee?” His answer is “Gabhfaidh” the Future wordy joke. (3) “The world would not make a racehorse of a donkey.” Tense of Gabh, “Yes” followed by “Thank you.” 35. Wants west tor. (anag.) Tyrone village near Coal- “You are not a fully fledged sailor unless you have island and seat of Viscount Charlemont. (12) sailed under full sail,” “and you have not built a wall There are no absolute words in Irish for “yes” unless you have rounded a corner.” and “no.” To agree with what someone says you DOWN “There is no strength without unity.” must use the same verb they used in the future 2. One nut I cracked. (4) “You must live with a person to know a person. If tense; to disagree you must use the past tense 3. Peruvian pack animal seen coming back through you want to know me come and live with me.” negative “níor maith”. Tuam all alone. (5) “Praise the young and they will blossom” 4. Upset trash can to find the means of writing. (3) “The raggy colt often made a powerful horse.” Why? Just because that’s the way it is. Actually 5. Oh, R.U.C. tour ban row. (anag.) North Wexford sea- “Age is honorable and youth is noble.” since there is no real “present” time one can only side resort near Gorey with a 2 mile sandy beach. (8,7) “Youth does not mind where it sets its foot.” agree as a future and disagree as a past. 6. “Go to the — thou sluggard; consider her ways, and “Both your friend and your enemy think you will be wise.” Proverbs Chap. 6 verse 6 (3) never die.” There are at least three ways in Irish to ask, 7. Sound of Ireland’s first republican? (4) “The well fed does not understand the lean.” “How are you?” Cad é mar atá tú?, Cén bhfuil 8. “Nothing is —— done in this world until men are “He who comes with a story to you brings two away a chaoi tú?, and Conas atá tú? This last one is prepared to kill one another if it is not done.” Shaw (4) from you” the most used by learners since it matches directly with English: ADVERTISEMENT Conas atá tú? How are you? Ceapaire is a new word meaning “sandwich”. Photography by Notice that Patrick did not have to say, “a sand- wich.” There are no indefinite articles (“a, some, any”) in Irish. 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Antrim: Mervyn Kinkead The organ was placed in a 14- Longford town for the county’s from Lisburn is sixty-five but foot pit some 140 years ago to first mosque. The 200,000-euro his sense of adventure hasn’t ensure the pipes did not obscure price has been raised through deserted him yet. He recently the stained glass window, with donations and fundraising for became the first man to cross the result that acoustics became the site at the Townspark In- the Irish Sea in a bath, having a problem as it took some time dustrial Estate, which will ac- travelled from Donaghadee for the sound to travel to the commodate between three and to Portpatrick, a distance of back of the cathedral. However, four hundred people at any one nineteen nautical miles, in eight according to acoustics experts time. Prior to this, Muslims in hours. About three miles short the rebuilding of the organ Longford were worshipping in of his destination the unusual will ensure that this problem rented premises or in a private vessel began to take water, but will be overcome, while new house in the town where no Mervyn managed to bail it out bellows and blowers will also more than thirty people could and he was greeted in Port- be installed. be accommodated. Dr Ali is the patrick by a welcoming crowd. Derry: Fearing that the Director of the Longford Islamic At first he had talked jokingly state of the parochial house Centre. about making the voyage but could lead to the loss of a priest Louth: Callaghan’s Butch- someone suggested doing it for in the parish, the people of ers and Deli of Market Street charity and Mervyn took up the Glenullin, between Garvagh in Ardee has been presented challenge. and Dungiven, have built a with a Retail Excellence Award Armagh: Next year has been new parochial house. The job in a competition promoting designated International Year was carried out during the sum- standards in the Irish retail in- of Volunteers and one person mer evenings and weekends dustry. The store is included in who certainly embodies the and curate Father Karl Hann the top 100 shops in the country concept is Biddy Kaufmann is looking forward to moving following the visit of a mystery from Meigh. Biddy, who is 97 in soon. Already the village shopper who gave 90 percent years of age, spent about half has come together to create a approval for the way in which her life in America where she top-class GAA ground, to build it is run, Callaghan’s have been continued her volunteering a community centre, and to in business for more than 100 activities. On her return to prepare for outdoor Masses in years, having been established Ireland some forty years ago an ancient chapel. The work on by present owner Peter Cal- she began helping those affected the new parochial house was co- laghan’s great-grandfather in by the Troubles. Now she runs ordinated by members of John 1906. Peter and his brother a luncheon club for pensioners, Mitchel’s GAA Club. Andrew took over the business the youngest of whom is 80, and Donegal: Last month Anne from their father, Johnny, more is also a founder member of the Marie Ward from Portnablagh than twenty years ago and An- Meigh Community Association became the first Irish woman drew now has his own shop in and was a prime mover in the and the tenth person to com- Bettystown. establishment of the Meigh plete the swim from Northern Mayo: Ballinrobe last month Community Centre that opened Ireland to Scotland. Anne Marie the family out. amber shirts and features such celebrated a native son who was fifteen years ago. was accompanied by a support Galway: Michael Dempsey items as hurleys, sliotars and twice awarded the US Medal of Carlow: The as-yet-unnamed team including members of from Moylough built a house, in the Kilkenny flag. The cupcakes Honor for outstanding bravery roundabout at the junction of Sheephaven Swimming Club on part to provide income after his were made by Mary and were and had a battleship named the Palentine and Hacketstown what was her fourth attempt at retirement, but after two years then sold at Jackie’s cafe, where after him. John King was born roads in Carlow has a new fea- the crossing. Setting off from Co. trying to sell the four-bedroom assistant Marianne Mullins re- in the townland of Currabee, ture, its very own dolmen. Since Down, Anne Marie completed bungalow he has now said he ported that people thought they emigrating to America in 1886 the roundabout comes under the the 22-mile crossing in a time is open to “any offers over one were a great idea and snapped and joining the US Navy seven remit of the county rather than just inside nineteen hours, euro.” The house is costing him them up. years later. He saw service in the town council, it was decided arriving in Portpatrick on the money in insurance, mainte- Laois: A group of Chinese both the Spanish-American war to save money by not calling in a Scottish coast in the early hours nance, and property tax and trainee teachers, who have and in the Philippine-American design team. Instead town engi- of the morning. As on a similar might have had to be boarded already visited a number of conflict. The ceremony in Ball- neer Brian O’Donovan and Pat attempt, she was plagued by up, but now he has had a signifi- schools in the Dublin area, inrobe included the unveiling Doyle co-operated in installing jellyfish and was covered in cant number of people showing paid a visit to Derrylamogue of a life-size statue of King and a dolmen, using a capstone Pat stings by the time she reached an interest in his unusual offer. National School last month as a performance by a US Navy found while carrying out work at her destination. Among those who contacted him part of their Irish experience. band. Attending the ceremony Duckett’s Grove. In addition, six Down: Last month, Newry yesterday was a Nigerian doctor The school was also pleased to was Ann Reid, a grand-niece of trees have been planted on the afforded a civic reception to living in Dublin and a woman receive the young visitors as it the US naval hero. roundabout, six bays of gravel its own dance champion, Nao- with links with the county who does not have a multicultural Meath: In order to attract have been installed and ivy has imh Morgan, who was named is a native of Australia. element and Principal Maher more tourists to the area a new been set. The colours featured Champion of Champions at the Kerry: As part of his bid to thought it would be good for her package has been unveiled, with are the county colours of red, World Cup of Dance held on reclaim ancestral lands for the pupils to experience another cul- cathaoirleach of the Kells Town yellow and green. the island of Sardinia in July. Irish people, former New York ture. With just 104 pupils and 4 Council Conor Fergus launching Cavan: Many people are fa- She had already won both the policeman John Sweeney was classroom teachers, Derrylamo- the venture, with Kevin Kidney miliar with the Maguire twins, modern dance and tap sections in Lauragh last month where gue school is a good example of Fáilte Ireland. The Book of Leona and Lisa, the fifteen- before taking the overall title. he drew his sword on Charles of a rural school, a type rare Kells Experience can be either year-old golfing prodigies from The reception was hosted in Bigham, the grandson of Lord in China. Following the visit a three-day or four-day tour, Ballyhugh, but now they have the council chamber by Mayor Lansdowne. The incident took the student teachers walked in taking in St. Ciaran’s Well and a rival for attention. Their nine- Mick Murphy and was attended place in Dereen Gardens and Glenbarrow before having din- high crosses, the spire of Loyd, year-old brother Odhran last by Naoimh’s family and friends the Lansdowne Estate was one ner in a pub in Mountmellick. Causey Farm, Conalbreany month became the youngest in addition to members of the of a number, including Blarney Leitrim: Amelia Rose Reyn- Cemetery, Tailteann House and Irish child ever to win the Wee local authority. The civic recep- Castle Estate and Lismore olds from Lough Rynn, Mohill, Kells Victorian Waterworks. Wonders Great Britain/Ireland tion for Naoimh, a student at Castle in Co. Waterford, which who is representing the county Tourists will be able to board competition, which took place at the Sacred Heart school, was John Sweeney wants to win back in this year’s The Face of Ireland any one of eight fourteen- and the famous St Andrew’s course initially proposed by Councillor through the courts. He crowned modelling competition, believes twenty-seven-seater coaches in in Scotland. Odhran was com- Jack Patterson. himself King of Ireland last she is in with a good chance of Dublin to be brought to Kells to peting against more than 1,200 Dublin: The tenth anniver- year, ordering his crown from bringing the title home to the begin the tour, or they can avail hundred participants from 30 sary of the National Braille Pro- Dublin, and set up the charity county. The nineteen-year-old of a one-day tour. The Book of countries and won the compe- duction Centre at St Joseph’s known as Irish Crown Estates won her place in the final at the Kells Experience is the work of tition by an impressive seven Centre for the Visually Impaired through which he hopes to help semi-final in Balleybofey in Au- local woman Lucy O’Reilly. shots. Teachers at his national in Drumcondra was marked last Irish people in need. gust and the final will also take Monaghan: Seven members school have presented Odhran month by a visit from artist Rob- Kildare: Twelve years ago a place in the Donegal town at of the Maher family from Car- with a new putter to mark his ert Ballagh and Nobel Laureate number of plaques created by the end of October. Amelia Rose rickmacross have set a record by achievement. Seamus Heaney. A bench had sculptor Brid Ní Rinn were put has two sons, Calvin, aged three all attending the same school, Clare: The Cliffs of Moher been designed for the occasion into storage but at last they are and one-year-old Oisín, and is St. Joseph’s National School have been shortlisted for in- by Ballagh, while Heaney had to be taken out and affixed to a hoping that a modeling career in the town, at the same time. clusion in the New 7 Wonders composed a poem, “Seeing the 1798 monument in Athy. The will allow her to give them the A photograph of Cian, Cathal, of Nature list, which is due Sky,” which has been inscribed delay in erecting the monu- best start in life. Eoin, Conor, Darragh, Oisín, to be published in November, in Braille onto the bench. The ment was due to archaeological Limerick: It is a big disap- and Odhran Maher appeared and last week an interesting centre has 25 staff members problems at the original site pointment to Declan Murphy in the Irish Times last month method of securing votes was who last year completed 2,800 on Woodstock Street but the of Newcastle West that he has at the start of another school staged. Children from twenty transcriptions into Braille. monument is now to be located been forced to close down the year, and the seven don’t con- national schools in the north Fermanagh: Sinead Mur- at Emily Square. The plaques family business and return to stitute the entire family of Paul of the county were on hand to phy, originally from Lisnaskea will be placed on three limestone Australia with his wife and and Edel Maher. For there are release more than 700 bright but now working in Los Angeles, slabs, each some eight feet in three children. Declan is the two younger brothers at home orange balloons, each bearing last month undertook a 100-mile height, with inscriptions in fifth generation of the Murphy awaiting their turn to start at the “Vote for the Cliffs” logo. bicycle ride across California Irish, English, and French. The family involved in the men’s the school, Cillian and Fionn, The balloons also carried an from Los Angeles to San Diego first week in November has been clothing shop on Maiden Street, as well as Aisling, the only girl invitation to contact the Cliffs of to raise funds for a friend’s suggested as a possible date for and returned from Australia to in the family of ten. Moher visitor centre. According nephew. Sinead, the daughter the unveiling of the monument. take over from his father three Offaly: Aidan Deegan, a to centre manager Katherine of Madeline and Tony Murphy, years ago. However dwindling novice in the world of modeling, Webster, the hope is that some is raising money for treatment Kilkenny: Jackie Hoyne of business due to the recession managed to take second place in of the biodegradable balloons for fifteen-year-old Joey Rich- the Blackberry Cafe in Thom- has led him to make the difficult the Mister International Com- will travel far enough to bring ardson, who was paralyzed astown and Mary McEvoy of A decision to close the shop begun petition in Dublin. The twenty- in the diaspora vote. from the waist down following Slice of Heaven in Piltown joined by his great-great-grandfather two-year-old from Clonminch Cork: The organ in St. Fin an accident last year. He is forces last month to produce a in 1889 and re-emigrate with his Road in the town is studying Barre’s Cathedral, which is responding to treatment but un- range of cupcakes specifically Australian wife Kate and their mathematical science at the the only such instrument to fortunately his insurance does designed to boost spirits for three Australian-born children. University of Limerick and he have been constructed in a pit, not cover the cost and Sinead the All-Ireland match against Longford: Dr Syed Ali last was spotted on Facebook by the is to be rebuilt and work has is joining with other members Tipperary. The Kilkenny Cup- month announced the securing head of a model agency looking already begun on the project. of the Irish community to help cake is decked out in black and of a premises on the outskirts of (Continued on page 20) Page 22 October 2010 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com News Direct From Ireland

Political parties hold their president Bill Clinton is to visit The plant is owned by Shabra, “think-ins” – It is not so many the North in support of US Sec- an indigenous company employ- years since the first autumn Ireland Today: retary of State Hillary Clinton’s ing 49 workers that collects, political “think-in” took place promotion of an economic mis- reprocesses and recycles waste prior to the resumption of Dáil Irish among the world’s sion. The Washington confer- plastic bottles and film. The new sittings. I believe it was Fianna ence will bring together the chief workers will be recruited over Fáil that held the first one but most charitable executives or senior managers of the next three years. now no political party could al- 12 US companies that operate Finance Minister’s health low September to pass without A study of the giving patterns among different nations placed the Irish in third place alongside Canada. The first two places in the North, with 12 of similar - ‘no clear or immediate dan- TDs and Senators being seen rank in a bid to encourage them ger’ – Speaking to RTÉ, Minis- to come together at a hotel well were taken by Australia and New Zealand. The study took into account the willingness to donate cash, the level of volunteer- to have a presence in the North. ter for Finance Brian Lenihan away from Dublin, ostensibly to C o n s t r u c t i o n s e c t o r has said that his cancer has now discuss the future of the coun- ing, and readiness to help a stranger. The World Giving Index, published by the Charities Aid Foundation of Britain, linked unions consider pay cut – stabilized and, although there try. Presumably they discuss Unions representing workers is always a risk, he is not in strategy for the coming year but the results with the its Wellbeing Index, which found that, despite all the doom and gloom reported here on a daily basis, in the construction sector have any immediate danger and his the sessions are held in private. at last met to discuss a Labour energy levels are greatly im- Journalists are expected to wait Irish people are 16th happiest of 153 nationalities. – LIAM FERRIE Court recommendation that proved. Lenihan has undergone outside for any crumbs that an their members should accept a chemotherapy and radiotherapy individual TD or Senator might 7.5 percent pay cut rather than for a cancerous growth at the let slip in error or deliberately. with the Liam McCarthy cup, children had been buried in un- the 20 percent sought by employ- entrance to his pancreas. Photographers and television with team captain Eoin Kelly marked graves at the home but ers. It was in July that the Court Finlay to seek presidency camera crews are also expected and manager Liam Sheedy rid- now Meehan says new research reported on the issue and it will – Fergus Finlay, former senior to be on hand to provide proof ing in the driver’s cab. An open has produced the much higher be some more weeks before a aide to Dick Spring when he held that the party (whichever one top bus then took the players to figure. He also claims that be- decision is made. At a meeting on the position of Tánaiste, has an- it is) is united. Semple Stadium for an official tween 1935 and 1940 one child Wednesday the unions decided nounced that he is seeking the In recent days Fine Gael held reception. died in the institution every to consult with their members Labour Party nomination for its “think-in” at Faithlegg House Simon Community reports three weeks. Former residents of over an indeterminate number next year’s presidential election. Hotel in Co. Waterford while increase in homelessness the home argue that they should of weeks and then to ballot them. Finlay, who currently heads the Fianna Fáil TDs and Senators – For the first time in several have been eligible for compen- The number of people em- Irish branch of the children’s met in Galway for two days of years the numbers of people sation from the Redress Board ployed in the sector is less than charity Dr Barnardo’s, has internal debate. sleeping rough or using emer- which dealt with Catholic-run half that at the peak of the prop- written to all Labour TDs and Drop in public service gency services for the homeless institutions. erty boom and the Construction Senators offering his services. numbers – Figures supplied has increased, with a rise of 20 Tributes paid to legendary Industry Federation says that The first real reaction came by Minister for Finance Brian pecent over the past 18 months. broadcaster – Some 200 fam- the high level of wages paid at from Labour TD for Galway Lenihan, in response to a During 2009 the Dublin Simon ily and guests gathered at the that time cannot be sustained. West Michael D. Higgins, who parliamentary question from Community worked with an Galway Bay Hotel in Salthill, On Tuesday the CIF agreed to confirmed earlier rumors that Labour environment spokes- average 812 a month, while for Galway, last month to honor accept the Labour Court recom- he would also be interested in person Joanna Tuffy, show a the second quarter of this year GAA commentator Micheál Ó mendations. seeking the nomination. decrease in the numbers in the the figure rose to 908. Chief Muircheartaigh on the occasion 235 new jobs to be created – Elsewhere Taoiseach Bertie public service over the past executive Sam McGuinness of his 80th birthday. He himself Deloitte Ireland announced last Ahern said he would be inter- year. Between the end of 2008 has called on the Government recently celebrated the occasion month that it will be filling up ested in seeking the Fianna Fáil and the end of 2009 the total to deliver the 1,200 leases on by climbing Mount Brandon in to 200 positions across the firm. nomination. number dropped from 319,092 property promised, as part of Kerry with 23 members of his The new positions will, for the Long-awaited Conven- to 309,751, with a further fall its policy to end homelessness, family. Among those who paid most part, be a combination of tion Centre opens – The new to 309,146 in the first quarter by the end of 2010. tribute to the man described by experienced hires in the firm’s Convention Centre Dublin, of this year. Local authorities On Sunday a similar message Taoiseach Brian Cowen as “the Technology and Consulting overlooking the north bank of recorded the largest decrease, came from Sister Stanislaus best marketing instrument the Practice and graduate recruit- the Liffey at Spencer Dock, was with a total number of 2,964 Kennedy of Focus Ireland, an- GAA ever had” were a number ment positions. Following a formally opened by Taoiseach leaving the service. Tuffy noted other housing charity. Describ- of former county managers and number of significant business Brian Cowen last month. The that the numbers represented a ing the current situation as akin players and GAA officials. wins, more than 30 technology strikingly modern building will marked reduction, given that in to the 1980s, she estimated that The evening was the subject consultants are currently be- accommodate up to 8,000 del- previous years the public service there are now 5,000 homeless of a special broadcast by Raidió ing recruited in Dublin. The egates, has a 3,000-seat tiered experienced an average increase people across the country. na Gaeltachta and tributes were graduate positions, which will conference hall, and can cater of several thousand each year. Researcher claims many paid by the other party leaders be filled in 2011, will be in the for a 2,000 guest banquet. Crowds turn out to wel- children died in care home in addition to Brian Cowen, as organization’s offices in Dublin, In more detail the Convention come home Tipp team –Some – In an article in the latest edi- well as Archbishop Dermot Clif- Cork and Limerick. Centre has six flat-floored halls, 30,000 Tipperary hurling fans tion of ‘History Ireland’ maga- ford, the GAA patron, and Gerry Also, Minister for Enterprise, in addition to the tiered audito- turned out on Mon., Sept. 6, to zine, Niall Meehan claims that Adams. A special poem for the Trade and Innovation Batt rium, plus four boardrooms and welcome home their victorious between 1922 and 1949, a total occasion was composed by Kerry O’Keeffe announced 35 new 11 meetings rooms for break-out hurling team who had denied of 211 children died while in poet Gabriel Fitzmaurice. jobs when he formally opened a sessions. The theatre capacity Kilkenny their five-in-a-row in the care of the Protestant-run Bill Clinton to visit North state-of-the-art 3.5-million euro in the flat-floored halls ranges the All-Ireland hurling final the Bethany Home in the Dublin next month – Prior to next plastic bottle sorting plant in from 240 to 1,800 and they can day before. The team arrived suburb of Rathgar. Earlier this month’s US/NI economic con- Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan. also be used as exhibition space. into Thurles station, complete year it was claimed that 40 ference in Washington, former

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(Continued from page 20) Kelly’s of Strandhill that came tunately Pauline McGoldrick Dempsey, the bridge links the not farming he is kept busy as a for a new face. Some interest out on top. For the past eight and her nine-year-old daughter Clonmore Business Park to the crew member of Cahore Inshore has already been shown by years the pub has been run by Karla were in the back of the car Lynn roundabout on the Tul- Rescue. companies but Aidan, the eldest Padraic and Geraldine Killoran, and, though very shaken, they lamore road and will ease con- Wicklow: Showjumpers of the nine children of Peter and though Padraic, from River- were unhurt. On hearing the gestion in the town by allowing both professional and amateur Mavis Deegan, has said he will stown, had worked there some noise Daniel immediately ran traffic to avoid the town centre. joined forces last month to raise first complete the final year of years ago when it was known back to his badly damaged car Wexford: From a total of money for St. Catherine’s Day his degree before taking time to as the Santa Maria. The couple and was able to help them out twenty-one young farmers a Care Centre, part of the services build up a portfolio. and their four children, Michael, of the passenger door. shortlist of six was chosen and based in Newcastle. Among Roscommon: Moves are Sarah, Brian, and Hannah, all Waterford: An agreement, the final title of FBD Young the 700 who gathered at Bal- afoot to mark the 150th an- took part in the live broadcast that the Mount Congreve Gar- Farmer of the Year 2010 went lymoney Park Stud in Kilbride niversary of the birth of artist with Sean Moncrieff. dens in Kilmeaden be placed in to Paul Kehoe from Gorey. The for the Newcastle Grand Prix Roderick O’Connor with cel- Tipperary: Archaeologists public ownership twenty-one announcement of the winner Horse Show were show-jumping ebrations in the county. Born working at Longford Pass Bog years after the death of the was made at a ceremony in the stars Paul O’Shea and Ken in Milltown, Castleplunkett, have uncovered the remains of owner, has been superseded and Tower Hotel in Waterford. The McMahon. More than thirty Roderick O’Connor spent much an old oak road which has been the world-renowned gardens thirty-four-year-old is a beef competitions took place over of his life in France and was dated to 986 BC, using dendro- are now to be handed over in and livestock farmer and is the two-day event, with a prize particularly associated with chronology. The road, which the immediate future. Ambrose also a member of the national fund of 7,000 euro sponsored by Pont-Aven in Brittany, where runs parallel to a modern road, Congreve, the owner of the livestock committee of the IFA. Bloxham Stockbrokers, with the he became a friend of Paul was found in the Bord na Móna gardens, is now aged 103 years. He is also a member of the overall winner being Edward Gauguin. Living on the income bog and is constructed of oak Subject to formal approval the Teagasc beef stakeholders com- Doyle. The aim of the event was from rents on his Irish land, planks laid across oak beams gardens will be handed into the mittee and is involved in local to raise up to 10,000 euro for St. when the lands were sold in and gravel. Experts believe that care of the National Botanic politics in Gorey. When Paul is Catherine’s. 1903 under the Wyndham Land the road may have been used Gardens. They were the subject Act, he was able to continue as a causeway to cross the bog of a proposal submitted to the his work without having to but no evidence has been found county council two years ago for worry about selling any of it. A of either wheel tracks or hoof a development on a part of the reland s eather meeting was held last month in marks to support the theory. property of a resort with a hotel I ’ W Kilmurry Community Centre to However it is thought that the and spa, holiday homes and a Reported Monday, September 27, 2010 discuss the celebrations which, road might have formed part of forty-berth marina. We had some heavy overnight rain which left plenty it is hoped, will have input from an ancient road network. Westmeath: The new bridge of water on the roads on Wednesday but apart from that the county council and possibly Tyrone: The McGoldrick that was opened in Mullingar it was a mostly dry week. Colder conditions towards from Pont-Aven. family from Gortin were on their last month, the final link in the end of the week brought a night frost to parts of the midlands. Sligo: A live broadcast took way out to dinner when Daniel the ring road around the town, It has been dry since Friday and it should remain so for most place last month from the pub in parked the car to go to an ATM has been named after famed of today. Rain arriving in the evening will become heavy and Strandhill that has been voted on Main Street. The ATM is just entertainer and Mullingar na- continue throughout Tuesday. The heavy rain will be a feature the best “local” in the country. across the road from a graveyard tive Joe Dolan. The Joe Dolan of Wednesday in the east. Thursday will be showery and we have A competition hosted by New- and a large chestnut tree had Bridge, a two-lane carriageway been told to expect a ‘washout’ on Friday. The only saving grace stalk 106-108 fm in association become uprooted during the of 540 metres, crosses the flood is that it will be milder than in recent days. with the Vintners’ Federation very stormy conditions; it fell, plains of the River Brosna and Latest Temperatures: of Ireland called for votes from damaging the wall and landing Lacy’s Canal. Officially opened Day 12C (54F) Night 6C (43F) around the country, and it was on the McGoldricks’ car. For- by Minister for Transport Noel Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com October 2010 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 23 Boston Irish Reporter Book Briefs Reviews of books recently published in Ireland, courtesy of readireland.com

Follow the Money his campaign for Catholic and step-by-step route from locally and nation- By David McWilliams emancipation, when he cards. It is full information ally renowned writers We catch up with old founded the first success- on how to get there, when such as Fintan O’Toole, friends Breakfast Roll ful mass democratic move- to go and where to stay. Michael Loughrey, and Man and Miss Pencil ment in European history, Historical points of inter- many others. Skirt, and we meet new and became “The Libera- est are highlighted in it. characters like the Mer- tor.” Patrick Geoghegan’s chant of Ennis, Shylock, new interpretative biog- The Book of Tara and the Godfather. We raphy concentrates on By Michael Slavin have late night tea with O’Connell’s glory period, Tara is the heartland Brian Lenihan and cross culminating in 1829. The Burren Village: of Ireland’s Celtic past. It swords with Seanie Fitz- book provides a radi- Tales of History is the site of St Patrick’s patrick. We learn why the cal new interpretation confrontation with the of O’Connell’s reckless and Imagination average drug dealer on Sarah Poyntz, Editor druids and seat of the High the side of the street has youth, his career as a Kings. Legend and history lawyer, and his titanic fish, and dairy. There more in common with the then follows a range of meet in Tara – the Stone banker than either would struggle to win Catholic of Destiny, which cries out Cork, which was regarded emancipation over a quar- over 60 traditional step- care to mention, as we fol- by-step recipes. More than only when touched by a low the money – in both as one of the finest of its ter of a century. Recogniz- true king, still sits at its kind. He was a prolific ing his flaws as well as his 250 color photographs rackets – from its source illustrate how each dish summit. Centuries after at the very top right down composer who wrote near- greatness, it shows the Tara had been abandoned ly 400 works, and he was forces that drove him to is made, as well as show- to the “buy now, pay later” ing the beautiful final by Irish rulers, it was cho- deals at rock bottom. Why a highly respected teacher create and lead an entirely sen as the rallying point whose students included new movement in Irish result. Full nutritional should we trust the people information provides an for the United Irishmen of who got us into this mess Sean A Riada. The Irish politics. Perhaps it was the 1798 rebellion. Daniel Catholic church did not no wonder that in 1829, at-a-glance dietary refer- in the first place? They ence, and there are many O’Connell, The Liberator, were wrong then and they regain public influence following the concession relied on its power in the until the middle of the of Catholic emancipation, suggestions for variations are wrong now. The politi- and accompaniments, 19th century to draw a cians, bankers, and devel- 19th century when most of George IV lamented that record attendance to a the British anti-Catholic O’Connell was now “the as well as stories of the opers think they can hand traditions surrounding Home Rule meeting. To- us the bill and walk away legislation was repealed. king of Ireland.” day over 30,0000 people Aloys Fleischmann senior the recipes. Packed with from the carnage. They tantalizing recipes, ex- visit Tara each year. want us follow a route that and his father-in-law, This text weaves together Hans Conrad Swertz, pert advice and stunning will make things worse for photography, this book is The villages written strands of mythology, his- the ordinary man on the were among the fifty tory, archaeology and geol- continental church musi- essential reading for all about in this book all have street while saving the lovers of Irish food. their own character and ogy to reconstruct Tara’s bankers at the top of the cians who were brought past. It is part guide, part to Ireland from the 1860s “Burren Villages” takes tree, insisting that there readers on a journey they history and part legend. is no other way. But there by the bishops to develop Cycle Touring Catholic church music, as will want to repeat again is an obvious alternative Ireland and again. The trails and that has been adopted by no indigenous tradition By Tom Cooper of Catholic sacred choral paths that wind like gray every economy that has To cycle tour in Ireland ribbons across the hills successfully emerged from music had survived the is not just to pass through period of the Penal Laws. are a journey through this type of crisis. With the country, but to become time. The Burren holds the same sense of fun The leading figure of the part of it. The timeless Irish Revival, Edward many secrets. Interpret- as The Pope’s Children, mountains, valleys and ing its innermost inscru- David McWilliams makes Martyn, together with lakes are waiting, as are the foreign immigrant table thoughts is not an answering hard questions the hostels, camp sites, easy challenge. People easy. In his typical breezy musicians were the driv- and traditional Irish pubs. ing force in the reform of set out to capture it; in- style, he suggests where “Cycle Touring in Ireland” stead it captures them. to go from here. To be led church music prescribed The Very Best describes 12 routes all by Pope Pius X in 1903. Burrenophilia is not as up the garden path once of Traditional around and across the well known as Franco- in the past ten years is In Ireland, the efforts country, seeking out the to provide ecclesiastical Irish Cooking philia or Anglophilia but a tragedy; to be led up quiet, the quirky, and the is a recognized bona fide twice by the same people music of quality formed By Biddy spectacular parts of this part of a wider cultural White-Lennon aphilia. This title is pre- is unforgiveable. There is beautiful island in tours sented with contributions an alternative. Follow the movement emanating and Georgina that can be fitted into a Money is an optimistic and from a growing aware- Campbell week’s riding or combined uplifting book about that ness and appreciation of This book offers a taste into itineraries right up PUZZLE SOLUTION FROM PAGE 20 alternative, which is well Ireland’s Gaelic heritage of some of the best-loved to a complete tour. The within our grasp if only and ancient European recipes and traditional routes in the book have we’d wake up and seize it. links. This biography dishes that have helped to been ridden as fully loaded is the first full study of earn Ireland’s reputation tours to ensure the most one of these continental for culinary excellence. up-to-date and relevant musicians who made a It begins with an insight guidance on road condi- particularly significant into some of the key ingre- tions and what is worth contribution to Irish cul- dients, from vegetables, seeing. This title is illus- tural life. 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Thursday, October 7, 2010 Seaport Hotel, One Seaport Lane, Boston, MA Boston IrishCelebrating Family Honors 20Luncheon years Registration 11:30 a.m.. Luncheon 12:15 p.m. $125 per guest, Sponsorship Opportunities Table of 10, $1250 The Boston“Telling Irish Reporter, the region’s the leading stories chronicler of all thingsof Irish-American,Boston’s will Irish” celebrate its 20th anniversary with a Celebratory Luncheon on Thursday, October 7, 2010 Host Committee at Boston’s Seaport Hotel/World Trade Center. With an attendance of more than 300 top Robert K. Sheridan, Boston business,You civic and political are leaders, Cordiallythe luncheon event will launch aInvited new annual to Attend a Event Chair awards ceremony, the Boston Irish Family Honors. The Boston Irish Reporter is one of the Hon. Michael Lonergan, region’s few remaining family-owned and-operated publications and, in honoring our own Consul General of Ireland heritage, the newspaper will make presentations to two Boston Irish individuals for their Edward W. Forry Publisher special achievements in public service and business, and to three exemplary Irish families who share our common roots in Boston and Ireland. Patrick J. Bench 20th Anniversary Luncheon Boston Irish Honors for 2010 Hon. William M. Bulger Jim Carmody John T. Carroll ForIntroducing Leadership in Public Service the First Annual Joseph E. Corcoran Hon. Edward J. Markey, Della Costello U.S. Congress 7th Dist MA John Cullinane Lena Deevey LSA Dick Flavin For Excellence in Business John Philip Foley, Esq BosJohnt Donohue,on Irish Honors Maureen Forry William Forry CEO, Arbella Insurance David Greaney Phil Haughey Exemplary Boston Irish Families Kieran Jordan The Brett family Jim Keefe Edris Kelley The Hynes family William F. Kennedy, Esq The Geraghty family Rev. Thomas B. Kennedy Mimi LaCamera Sponsorship opportunities are available for this first annual event, and you are invited to Barbara M. Langis show your support at one of the following “sponsorship” levels: Kevin W. Leary Joseph F. Leary Jr Platinum Sponsor: $15,000 Mary Joyce Morris •Two tables of ten at luncheon • Full page ad in program publication Seamus Mulligan • 12 monthly Full Page ads in Boston Irish Reporter James S. O’Brien Mary Ann Brett GoldMayor Sponsor John B. $10,000Hynes Margaret Geraghty Congressman Edward Markey John Donohue Jean McKenna O’Donnell William O’Donnell • Table for ten at luncheon • Full page ad in program publication Hon. Robert H. Quinn • 12 monthly half page ads in Boston Irish Reporter William J Reilly Jr ExemplaryBronze sponsor $7500 Boston Irish Families Larry Reynolds • Table for ten at luncheon • 1/2 page ad in program publication John Shaughnessy, Sr Gil Sullivan The Brett• 12 monthlyfamily 1/4 page ads in BostonThe Irish Hynes Reporter Family The Geraghty Family John Stenson Emerald sponsor $2500 Hon. Martin Walsh • Table for ten at luncheon • 1/4 page ad in program publication Robert White For more information,For Leadership please contact Ed Forry,in Public President & S Publisherervice at 617-436-1222, orFor Excellence in Business Hon. W. Paul White Larry Zabar email to [email protected] Boston Irish Reporter, 150 Hon. Mt Vernon Edward Street, Ste J. 120, Markey Dorchester MA 02125 John Donohue U.S. Congress Chairman, President and Massachusetts 7th District CEO, Arbella Insurance

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