September 2017 Boston’s hometown VOL. 28 #9 journal of Irish culture. $2.00 Worldwide at All contents copyright © 2017 bostonirish.com Boston Neighborhood News, Inc. Grace Cotter Regan to lead BC High By Reporter Staff board of trustees, said that Regan was would be a possibility to be the president Grace Cotter Regan will be the next “unanimously supported” by the board, of BC High. I never thought honestly president of Boston College High School, adding, “She brings a wealth of educa- that they would consider a woman,” she the school’s board of trustees announced tional experience grounded in the Jesuit told the radio station. She added: “I’m on Aug. 24. The new head of the 154-year- and Catholic tradition.” the product of single sex education, and old Jesuit institution has most recently Cotter Regan has deep connections my boys are as well — both of my sons, served as head of school at St. Mary’s in to the campus on Morrissey Boulevard. my husband. I really like single-sex Lynn and was previously the executive Her son Bartley was a student-athlete education.” director of advancement for the New at the high school and is a graduate of Cotter Regan is an alumna of Boston England Province of Jesuits and the the class of 2012. Her late father— Jim College and as director of the alumni Boston College Alumni Association. Cotter, a native of Dorchester’s Savin Hill association she managed an elected She succeeds longtime President Wil- section— was the longtime head football board of directors and 22 staff members. liam Kemeza, who retired after a 30- coach and athletic director at BC High. She has also served as vice president of year-career at the school earlier this year. In an interview with WBUR last week, the Boston Public Library Association, In a statement issued to the BC High Cotter acknowledged that she was sur- where she was charged with raising community announcing the news, Fr. prised to be offered the top post at the funds for the restoration of the historic Old pals: Boston’s Cardinal O’Malley Brian Conley SJ, chairman of BC High’s Dorchester school. “I never thought it (Continued on page 8) and Grace Cotter Regan. ICC to host A Makem and a Clancy … ‘DNA Day’ … honor music on Sept. 9 Coming this month, the Irish Cultural Centre past while they of New England, in part- nership with the Maine Gaeltacht DNA Project, frame music present will host a ‘DNA Day’ on its Canton site on Sept. 9, By Sean Smith addition of Mickey and Liam Spain – became the beginning at 1 p.m., and Special to the BIR everyone, of Irish descent Yes, they’re called Makem and Spain Broth- or not, is welcome. “Makem and Clancy,” but ers, and is now the trio Staff and historians they’re not that Makem Makem and Spain. Clancy from the Maine Project and Clancy. Not exactly, was a founding member of will be on hand to talk anyway. Rory Makem and the band Danú, has played about Autosomal testing Donal Clancy – the sons with The Chieftains and and about what we can of, respectively, Tommy fiddler Eileen Ivers, col- learn about our history Makem and Liam Clancy laborated with numerous from having our DNA ana- – are justifiably proud other musicians and sing- lyzed. of their families’ storied ers, and released three Rory Makem (right) and Donal Clancy performing at the Burren Backroom The ICCNE will pres- place in Irish music, and solo albums. series last month. Sean Smith photo ent two registrants with both had the opportunity But throughout their an Autosomal Test Kit to perform with their fa- individual pursuits, the legacies of The Clancy out classics like “Bren- appreciative, enthusias- as a gift. mous fathers over the latter-day Makem and Brothers and the origi- nan on the Moor,” “Whis- tic audience that happily Registration is $30 a years. They’ve also forged Clancy have always sung nal Makem and Clancy. tling Gypsy Rover,” “Wild sang along on practically person, with space limited their own musical paths: the praises – literally – of Last month, they came to Mountain Thyme” and every song. to 75 guests. An applicant Makem played in a band their forebears, and last Somerville to perform at many more, and shared Prior to the show, the can register by emailing with brothers Shane and year finally joined forces The Burren’s Backroom plenty of stories and two talked about life as [email protected]. Conor that – with the as a duo to carry on the series, where they belted reminiscences with an (Continued on page 13) From two Neponset boys, a vote for ROTC and the value of a military life By Rowan Walrath ger to carry on the family After working with the Reporter Correspondent tradition. Massachusetts State Po- Michael and Patrick “I’ve wanted to do it lice, he now is employed Murray are cut from the pretty much as long as I by the Department of same cloth: The brothers can remember,” Michael Homeland Security. live in Neponset, they play said. “I have a lot of fam- The elder Murray said hockey, they are Harvard ily members who served his sons are just two men, and they both joined in the Marine Corps in Neponset residents who the Reserve Officer Train- particular, but some Army share close military ties. ing Corps (ROTC) on the as well. My dad was a Ma- All individuals inter- campus in Cambridge. rine. He was active duty viewed for this article With full-tuition ROTC before I was born, but I just by the Reporter spoke for scholarships for Ivy always had that influence themselves and not the US League educations, and around.” Armed Forces. an upcoming four-year- Tim Murray, Michael “I was enlisted in the minimum service com- and Patrick’s father, was Marine Corps, [and] my mitment, both young men, a Marine corporal, then father was in the Marine Patrick Murray, right, offered his brother Michael Murray his first salute at his the latest in a long line of a sergeant in the Marine Corps,” Tim said. “One Commisioning Ceremony this May. It is a tradition for commissioning officers military Murrays, are ea- Corps Reserves until 1994. (Continued on page 8) to receive their first salute from someone important to them.Tim Burke photo

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Kennedy Library Forum In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America Tuesday, October 10, 2017 6-7:30 PM JFK Presidential Library, Columbia Point, Boston Free Parking – Accessible by T - JFK/UMass (Red Line)

Reservations for this free program are strongly recommended and guarantee a seat in the building, but not in the main hall. To make a reservation, please call Join filmmaker Maurice Fitzpatrick, who will screen his new documentary “In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America”. A discussion 617-514-1643 or register online at on the work and legacy of John Hume, who shared a Nobel Peace Prize for his role in peacebuilding in Northern Ireland, follows. www.jfklibrary.org/forums bostonirish.com September 2017 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 3 Martin’s Park, due to open next fall, called place of ‘light, hope, positivity’ By Jonathan Innocent er, all my brothers and I for peace and unity. An Reporter Correspondent wanted to do was go to enduring image of Mar- The family of eight- the park,” she told the tin shows him holding a year-old Martin Richard, crowd of officials, park poster bearing the mes- the youngest Boston sponsors, and hard- sage “No more hurting Marathon bombing vic- hatted children grasping people - peace.” tim, offered heartfelt shovels. “We loved it so Bill Richard, Martin remarks alongside May- much, we would go in the and Jane’s father, said or Martin Walsh and rain, snow, and probably the park will be “a place Gov. Charlie Baker at even hail. But when I got where all kids will have a groundbreaking cer- hurt, it was hard for me the opportunity to learn emony for Martin’s Park because I wasn’t used to and play together with- on the South Boston wa- my new leg. I couldn’t out prejudice.” terfront last Wednesday even climb a simple Martin’s Park will be afternoon (Aug. 17). The thing like a tree. It was converted from green park is scheduled to be hard watching other kids space previously owned completed in the fall of while I was stuck sitting by the MBTA, along 2018. on the sidelines.” with a parking lot space Jane Richard, who The $10 million park owned by the Boston is named in the honor Children’s Museum to Children joined in the groundbreaking for Martin’s Park last Thursday after- lost her left leg in the noon on Congress Street near the Boston Children’s Museum. Also on hand were explosion that claimed of the young Martin. His create the freshly de- members of the Richard family, Gov. Charlie Baker and Mayor Martin Walsh. her brother’s life, said, family, with the support signed play area at the Jonathan Innocent photo “This park is going to and organization of the Smith Family Water- include everything that Martin Richard Founda- front. This transition and Recreation Depart- and accessible to all. and positivity and future I wished for.” tion, has celebrated Mar- has been overseen by the ment. “This park and all it on which you can build “When we were young- tin as a young advocate City of Boston’s Parks Designed by renowned stands for and repre- something beautiful out landscaper Michael Van sents, and the Martin of it,” Gov. Baker said. Valkenburgh, also the Richard Foundation and “And if there were ever visionary behind Brook- the Richard family, are a time in recent history lyn Bridge Park and about taking perhaps when we would have downtown Chicago’s the darkest and most a chance to stand here Maggie Daley Park, terrible and horrific ex- today, this week, and Martin’s Park will have a perience anybody could celebrate that… it is number of features that possibly imagine and right now.” are meant to be inclusive finding light, and hope,

Celebrating 27 years “Telling the Stories of Boston’s Irish” The Ireland Funds hosted its 28th annual Nantucket Celebration on July 29 You are cordially invited at the home of Bob & Laura Reynolds, and honored Dr. Margot Hartmann, Boston Irish Honors President and CEO of Nantucket Cottage Hospital, pictured are (l-r): Event 2017 Committee to the 27th Anniversary Luncheon Chairs Laura Reynolds, Bob Reynolds, Linda Holliday, Jim Geraghty, Susan Honorary Chairs Sponsored by the Boston Irish Reporter Geraghty, and New England Director of Ireland Funds America, Steve Greeley Edward J. Markey, Photo credit: Cary Tozer Photography United States Senator Martin J. Walsh, Thursday, October 26, 2017 Maine Irish Heritage Center gives Mayor of Boston Seaport Hotel, Main Ballroom Fionnuala Quinlan, One Seaport Lane, Boston MA US Sen. Collins its Claddagh Award Consul General of Ireland The Maine Irish Heri- symbolizes the ideals Aiden Browne, Event Chair BOSTON IRISH HONORS tage Center (MIHC) has of friendship, love and Ed Forry, Publisher named US Sen. Susan Col- loyalty to a person of lins as its 2017 Claddagh Irish descent who has James T. Brett Award recipient. “I am dedicated his or her life to William M. Bulger fortunate to have grown service within the Maine John Burke up amid the hard work, community. Collins is the James Carmody determination, innova- 10th annual Claddagh John T. Carroll tion, and common sense recipient and joins ranks Della Costello 2017 Honorees that defines this great that include former US Steve Costello [potato] industry,” Col- Sen. George Mitchell Diddy & John Cullinane lins said in response to and former Gov. Joseph the news. “To me, noth- Brennan. Darren Donovan Brendan Feeney ing says ‘home’ like the Sen. Susan Collins The award will be pre- sight of potato blossoms sented on Fri., Nov. 10, at Dick Flavin stretching as far as the eye they demonstrate.” a venue to be announced John Philip Foley can see and the heritage To MIHC, the Claddagh later. Bill Forry KENNEDY FAMILY Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry Maureen Forry-Sorrell NORA, ANNMARIE, BILL “John Hume in America” premiere Anne Geraghty David Greaney set for JFK Library on Tues., Oct. 10 Jim Hunt III TOM TINLIN A 90-minute documen- America” and a discussion gressmen and senators, John B. Hynes III tary that chronicles the with the director, Maurice British PMs Tony Blair Edris Kelley pioneering Irish peace- Fitzpatrick. and Sir John Major, and Rev. Thomas B. Kennedy KEVIN CULLEN maker John Hume will Narrated by Liam Nee- personal accounts from Mimi & Paul LaCamera be screened and discussed son, with an original Bono, Bertie Ahern and Sean Moynihan Registration begins 11:15 a.m. at a special public forum musical score by Bill Enda Kenny, depicting Mike Sheehan at Dorchester’s John F. Whelan, the 90-minute the former SDLP leader Mary Sugrue Luncheon 11:45 a.m. Kennedy Library and film includes dramatic and Nobel Laureate’s role $150 per guest, Table of 10, $1500 Museum on Tues., Oct. 10. footage from the conflict in as one of the architects of Gil Sullivan Bobby White The 6 p.m. event will Northern Ireland, as well the historic peace process. Email: [email protected]. include a screening of as interviews with Presi- Register online for the W. Paul White Sponsorship opportunities available - please call 617-436-1222 the film “In the Name dents Bill Clinton and free event at jfklibrary.org. of Peace: John Hume in Jimmy Carter, US con-

Brian W. O’Sullivan CFP®, ChFc, CLU Partner 234 Copeland Street, Suite 225 Quincy, MA 02169 Tel. 617-479-0075 Ext. 331 Fax 617-479-0071 Brian W. O’Sullivan, CFP ®, ChFC, CLU, is a registered representative of and offers securities, investment advisory and financial planning services through MML Investors Services, LLC, Member [email protected] SIPC. Supervisory Address: 101 Federal Street, Suite 800, Boston, MA 02210 • 617-439-4389 www.commonwealthfinancialgroup.com Page 4 September 2017 BOSTON IRISH Reporter bostonirish.com Publisher’s Notebook Don’t place your bet on a smooth Brexit process By Joe Leary parent in a divorce from Europe. The Special to the BIR British people voted 51.9 percent The vote of the British people to leave the European to leave Europe and 48.1 percent Union, commonly referred to as Brexit, has caused to remain; at this point there is no resentment, anger, and regret in many quarters. Its way to tell how they might vote a Joe Leary implementation will be very complicated. second time. The two sides, European Union countries and the According to its website, the European Union was United Kingdom, have entered complex negotiations to formed “to end the frequent and bloody wars between accomplish the break-up. The Union’s chief negotiator neighbors which culminated in the Second World War. Auld lang syne is Michel Barnier of France; the British Secretary for As of 1950 the European Coal and Steel Community leaving Europe is David Davis. Departments involv- began to unite European countries economically and for ‘Old Harbor’ ing hundreds of men and women have been set up. It politically in order to secure a lasting peace.” has been estimated that Brexit will take two or more The six founding countries were Belgium, France, By Ed Forry years to finalize. We will all be sick of it by then. Many Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. A group of current and former South Boston folks who are already. Over the next 20 years, with the help of the United grew up in Old Harbor Village are planning a reunion Britain leaving the European Union is serious stuff. States, the European economy grew substantially. So at Florian Hall in Dorchester on Sun., Sept. 24, from 1 All countries involved could be hurt to one degree or much so that the United Kingdom made application p.m. to 5 p.m. They will gather that afternoon, even as another. Ireland and Northern Ireland may suffer the twice to join the Common Market. Charles de Gaulle, plans advance for a massive demoli- most. New rules must be put in place for their common then president of France, vetoed the application twice. tion and reconstruction of the historic border, the only land border between the UK and the He did not trust them. complex. Common market countries. Normally this would require However, in 1973, after de Gaulle left office, Ireland, Now called the Mary Ellen Mc- a system of customs and passport facilities for the col- Denmark, and the UK joined the Union. Today there Cormack development, it sits on 31 lection of duties and to prevent free unrecorded move- are 28 Union members with a huge infrastructure and acres on the northern edge of Southie ment of travelers. Hard and fast border controls will be its own Parliament. It is the infrastructure that British between Old Colony Avenue and detrimental to the North and South; on the other hand, nationalists have difficulty with. “Give us our country Dorchester Avenue. It was the first they could be the biggest winners if Brexit turns out to back,” exclaim those in favor of leaving. public housing development built in be a small step toward a much desired United Ireland. The EU structure that exists today permits free New England, and remains to this Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Ireland’s Foreign Affairs movement of its people across state borders, no cus- day among the largest ever built. Department are trying their best to prevent damage toms duties on goods traded, a sharing of economic Old Harbor was a federal Public Works Administration to Ireland’s economy and changes to border programs data, and a spirit of trust and togetherness against (PWA) project that was begun in 1936, as the country that were set by the Good Friday agreement 20 years common enemies. That will all change once a major was beginning to emerge from the Great Depression. It ago. Television and newspapers headlines proclaim new partner likes the United Kingdom leaves. Prices will opened in May, 1938, and consists of more than 1,000 solutions nearly every day but most of the chatter is go up to pay for the extra customs duties, long lines at apartments, with 27 three-story apartment buildings posturing by one side or the other and speculation by airports and border crossings will become normal, and and 152 two-story row houses. The project was cham- the media. Very little has been decided. The sides are former friends will be distrustful once again. The Ger- pioned by South Boston’s then-Congressman, John W. simply setting their own priorities. man, French, and United Kingdom rivalry will become McCormack, and was later named to honor his mother. There is evidence that most of the British people did much more present. “Let’s raise the roof before they raze the Old Harbor,” not fully appreciate what they were voting for. The re- There will be other organizations like NATO that headlines a flyer promoting the reunion prepared by sults were not the same throughout the UK. Northern will help protect both sides militarily but overall Brexit the ad hoc committee. A handful of them met at the Ireland, Scotland, the city of London, and young people will be another step alienating Europe from the United firefighters hall in Dorchester one afternoon last month voted to remain. It was the older, more conservative Kingdom. People will start to remember what it was to make plans for the get together. “We were one of voters who wanted to leave. like in 1945. the first families to move in,” one woman told me. “We The Conservative British Government refuses to What was once considered a very good thing may be moved in May 1938, and I was one year old. We lived consider a second vote in spite of the difficulty now ap- destroyed? at 65 Logan Way, in one of the row houses – three bedrooms, one bath, six kids, mother and father, eight people. Everybody was like that,” she said. Off the Bench When I joked that I heard that Logan Way was the best street in the project, everyone chuckled: “McDonough Way,” one person said. “Well, I did better; there were eight of us,” one man said. “Five girls, three boys, one Reflections on an afterlife; two views bathroom.” “We survived, though,” someone said, and By James W. Dolan crippled, and displaced can be balanced against wealth, they all agreed. Special to the Reporter privilege, and greed. Morality is just another means for The meeting was teeming with a warm sense of nos- My brother and I have a friendly dispute on the ex- the powerful to control the weak. talgia, as one person’s memories brought forth a torrent istence of an afterlife. He poetically defines the soul as Without a supreme being, all is arbitrary, social justice of recollections. “I remember that my father was in the “a power borrowed from the wheel of fire that animates but a whimsical ideal. We are all accidents churning in service, and there were so many kids around. If you the cosmos.” He compares it to an “ember of that cos- an ocean of coincidence without a course or direction. had children, you couldn’t be drafted, but you could mic fire” that one rides until death “when the ember That, I find hard to accept. As beautiful as my brother’s volunteer,” another said. “And many guys did, because is consumed again in the fire.” He vision of mankind’s presence in an evolving cosmos is, it was a job. So there were a lot of single parent fami- describes life as participation “in a it is somehow incomplete. The power, symmetry, im- lies… There was a woman right next door to me, her sacred, cosmic, evolutionary process mensity, and grandeur he associates with that incredible husband was in the Navy, and my mother and she used striving toward wholeness,” which phenomenon fails to adequately account for creatures. to go to the movies together; that was how they spent “may be called God.” Are those of us born in this tiny corner of the universe their time. There was no TV, of course, and they were He goes on to suggest two pos- just the flotsam and jetsam of some impersonal creative encouraged to go to the movies, because they could col- sible outcomes: Since the ember/ process? Or do we have a central role in a drama far lect dishes and place settings to outfit the kitchen.” soul is the “essence of me” it may beyond our capacity to understand? “Mothers were the mainstays of the project- you knew go on to a “personal afterlife” where I believe that out of an act of pure love, an all-powerful everybody’s mother,” someone said. “I remember Mrs. one is reunited with loved ones and all-knowing God, who certainly didn’t need us, chose Flannery. She was a baker, pies and brownies and and “received into the bosom of to create humankind with a free will and then provide everything… you always went to see her!” James W. Dolan a benevolent cosmos.” A heaven guidance for us to strive for “wholeness” (salvation) One of them recalled,”My mother made a cake; she where “there is nothing lacking… with him. It is in the striving we succeed. Aware of called it poor man’s fruit cake.” Another said, “Of course no discord only sweet communion.” The alternative is our weaknesses, a just and loving God provides many Saturday night was beans and franks, and remember “that ember which has animated my life is stripped of ways to reach him and bountiful mercy to “forgive us the cans of brown bread?” all individual attributes and re-enters the wheel of fire our trespasses” when we do. The project, now 80 years old, will soon undergo a total purified.” He concludes: “Either way, life goes on - with When you come down to it, my brother and I are not reconstruction that could take as long as ten years. The you if the idea suits you, or without you.” that far apart. While he graphically portrays the cycle WinnCompanies was awarded a $1.6 billion contract His inspiring description, although beautiful, is dif- of life, I need a deeper meaning, a design or purpose, to transform the current 1,016 subsidized apartment ficult to reconcile with my own experience. I can accept something that accounts not only for life’s beauty and units into a mixed income community, demolishing all existence as the “upward striving” toward wholeness/ goodness but also for its evil and seemingly arbitrary 27 three-story buildings, replacing them with 3,000 new God, but what does the striving consist of? What is ex- unfairness. Without a reckoning, there is no compelling units in a mix of “workforce housing, market rate and pected of us? For me, God is more than an impersonal incentive to conform our behavior to objective virtues, homeowner condominiums. force. While manifest in the cosmos and evolution, his the most important of which is love. It is that which “All units will be identical in quality and integrated connection to humankind is more direct. He is revealed draws us however imperfectly toward the “wholeness” evenly among the newly constructed buildings, no in what he demands of us as we aspire toward union. my brother and I see as God. matter what the income level,” the company said in a The way is laid out; we are not simply left to our own James W. Dolan is a retired Dorchester District Court press release about the plans, which includes creation devices. judge who now practices law. of other amenities, and possibly some retail uses. There are rules, standards, guidelines built around “The team we have assembled on behalf of the BHA objective virtues such as truth, love, compassion, mercy, and Mary Ellen McCormack residents brings with it two understanding, tolerance, and forgiveness. These are centuries of combined experience on large-scale, phased all framed within the context of free will against a mixed finance redevelopments,” said WinnCompanies backdrop of conscience and capacity. Free will provides Boston Irish CEO Gilbert Winn. “Our collective goal is to create a a choice, a conscience, a guide, and capacity, a sliding 21st century neighborhood where the residents are scale to measure culpability. There are circumstances REPORTER the highest priority, not just through new homes and beyond our control that affect judgment and behavior, The Boston Irish Reporter is published monthly by: new community amenities, but through social and job like intelligence, health, and upbringing. That dispar- Boston Neighborhood News, Inc., programs designed to create a better quality of life and ity is best illustrated by the phrase: “There but for the 150 Mt. 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The right is reserved by The Boston Irish Event organizers may be reached at oldharborreunion@ present is all there is. Get it while you can. There is Reporter to edit, reject, or cut any copy without notice. gmail.com. nothing beyond in which the suffering of the poor, bostonirish.com September 2017 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 5 Boston rally fills the void left by ‘alt-right’ no-shows By Bill Forry you could spot the neo-Nazis at punk, Editor metal, and hardcore shows by their Organizers of Saturday’s overblown shaved heads and the red laces on their “free speech rally” on Boston Common combat boots. These days, it’s wicked dif- got far more than they bargained for ficult to distinguish between the average when they showed up to find tens of cul-du-sac-bred boat-shoe dude and the thousands of fired-up but mostly peaceful tiki torch-wielding Bannon-esque preppy Bostonians and visitors intent on making bro-bags seen in Charlottesville, the likes a statement of their own. of whom feel threatened by the social Or, rather, statements. advancements of women, LGBTQ people, There was a and minority groups as their beloved wide array of po- American normalcy erodes.” Commentary litical speech in Two BINJ correspondents witnessed currency on the the day’s only on-scene gun arrest— that Common and surrounding streets on of a young man wearing a signature Saturday. Socialists, anarchists, trade Trump “MAGA” hat who tried to evade unionists, peace activists, and militant Boston Police and was found to be car- leftists rubbed shoulders with aging anti- rying a concealed handgun. A correspon- war demonstrators, veterans, and Black dent for the Reporter saw none of the Lives Matter adherents. It was a big, isolated violence or arrests, but watched chaotic tent —one that would surely have as a phalanx of state troopers in full riot collapsed without the twin pillars that gear marched into positions around the propped it up just long enough on Sat- State House. There were 33 arrests— urday: a seething disgust for the current mainly when counter-protestors tangled president and the white supremacist, with Boston Police trying to extricate neo-fascist column that he has stroked A familiar message of peace inspired by Dorchester’s own Martin Richard the “free speech” contingent from the into a renewed threat to Americans, and was carried by this couple, who watched the events on Boston Common on Common in prisoner transport wagons. to people of color in particular. Saturday afternoon. Bill Forry photo It was an unfortunate twist to a day The organizers of Saturday’s rally that was — on balance— a much-needed that? The city-imposed restrictions gave who did show up to speak and what they — mainly faceless internet trolls and antidote to the images streamed out of them a convenient foil to explain away had to say. right-wing provocateurs— say they were Charlottesville the week before. the fact that their pathetic sideshow Some were disappointed that no denied a true platform for their Parkman Whether on the march from Roxbury— failed to draw an actual audience. actual “Nazis”— or at least, very few, Bandstand speeches. The permit issued or among those massed on the Common No journalists were allowed through were in evidence anywhere near the last week by city leaders did limit the itself— there was a quiet jubilance to the barricades to record or stream-out Common. “I feel like we were stood up,” rally’s potential size, penned off the band- Saturday’s gathering that mirrored that the speeches, which is too bad. What has James Hilliard, a 22-year-old student stand, and — for good reason— limited of the much larger Women’s March that come out via recordings by participants from Allston told Zack Huffman, one of the likelihood of hand-to-hand combat followed Inauguration Day last January. in the days since indicates that actual several reporters for DigBoston and the among the extremists on both sides. But For so many who are struggling to come white supremacist-types who were on Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journal- that’s what the rally instigators accepted to terms with the daily indignities of the the original bill bailed out. Still, it would ism (BINJ) who covered the day’s events in staging last weekend’s event. Trump debacle, Saturday offered hope, have been better to have a more complete in great detail. They could have sought relief in court solidarity, and, however fleeting, a way understanding from a reporter of exactly Huffman continued: “Back in the day, to broaden their permit— but why do forward. Mending walls after ‘The Troubles’ By Christopher J. Muse beth I, sliced up Ireland like sausage links, awarding the courts with respect and hope,” he said. As the poet Robert Frost famously penned, “Some- the land to their relatives, the nobility, and favored The Doherty brothers, like all the civic leaders, thing there is that does not love a wall.” And, as Scottish Presbyterians and English Episcopalians, politicians, and community organizers who shared experience teaches, walls can be made of stone, wire who promptly dispossessed the native Irish Catholics. their experiences, were personally victimized by and, often, attitudes. The long-serving queen noted: “I have sent wolves the violence directed toward themselves or family. I was recently invited to join a “Trek” involving a not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left And by that I mean bombings of businesses, threats, dozen graduating students from the Johnson School of me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over.” maiming, and death. Management at Cornell University on a tour through Thus began 400 years of repression, violence, and Even with 19 years of peace, 90 percent of the Northern Ireland to learn about intractable conflicts starvation, inciting continuous rebellion and war in population is segregated by religions that ironically and obstacles that hinder reconciliation almost 20 some measure. are nearly identical in theology and dogma. years after the Good Friday/Belfast Peace Agreement. When a truce was declared in 1921, and 6 counties The power-sharing arrangement has produced grid- It was a week-long in the north were separated from the 26 in the south, lock. And as moving forward toward cultural tolerance listening tour, filled Elizabeth’s royal descendant, George V, on a journey to becomes difficult, looking backward to the conflict with conversations Belfast appealed “to all Irishmen to pause, to stretch becomes inevitable and easy, especially for the young for which the Irish out the hand of forbearance and conciliation, to forgive men who glamorize their fathers and grandfathers. are well known. In and forget, and to join in making for the land they Within a mile of Belfast’s bustling downtown are the the end, we noted love a new era of peace, contentment and goodwill.” public housing “estates,” where ugly war zone walls that walls continue to Neither side extended or received the other’s hand. snake through neighborhoods with Catholic and Prot- exist; some are made While the south struggled to create a country, the estant separated on either side. Most of the residents, of stone and wire, but minority Catholics in the north were as divided as Catholic and Protestant, are poor, unemployed, and the more divisive ones ever culturally, religiously, and economically from disenfranchised. Yet many of them prefer the security have been shaped and their Protestant neighbors, and were as resistant as of the walls. Points of access are limited, and many of built on attitudes, ever to governance by the British Crown. them are gated and locked in the evening. prejudices, and hate. This was the backdrop for the civil rights struggle As Frost wrote, “Good fences make good neighbors.” First, some back- in the early ’60s that spiraled into the assassinations In walled-off North Belfast, they make, at least, less ground. The Trek and bombings that left more than 3,000 dead during dangerous ones. was directed by Gen. a 30-year era known as the Troubles. Peace wall in George W. Casey, a When the Good Friday Agreement was negotiated North Belfast Christopher Muse visiting professor at and signed in 1998, providing for power-sharing and Just outside one section of the wall, in a neutral area Cornell and the retired strong anti-discrimination laws, everything was in described as an Interface, a modern sports complex and chief of staff of the US Army, whose career included the place to break down historic divisions; to learn to trust; community center have been built where a prison and command of coalition forces in Iraq and negotiations for to collaborate for the common good; and, in short, to British Army barracks once stood. Perhaps recalling the peace-keeping mission in Kosovo. In other words, move forward. It happened. But it was not enough. Frost’s rhetorical question, “What was I walling in or he was at the center of cauldrons of historic hate and Good fences make walling out,” it is here that dedicated social workers violence in the Middle East and the Balkans, where good neighbors bring a new generation of Protestant and Catholic conflicts are Intractable with a capital “I.” The cities of Derry and Belfast, which anchor the youth together, addressing similar problems, including The spiritual director of this Trek was Boston’s counties in the north, are booming. Cranes dot the teen suicide and addiction, and promoting common Padraig O’Malley. His insightful discussion of the skylines, the downtowns are modern and vibrant, and goals with tutoring, coaching and counseling. centuries-old conflict of the indigenous Irish and the people wear an air of success. Tourists flock to their Our speakers argued that as long as there are di- their colonizers set the foundation for the journey. old towns, the stunning coastal villages, fabulous golf vided communities, the fragile peace is threatened. His position as distinguished professor of peace and courses, and welcoming pubs. That is why our host, Quinton Oliver, has dedicated reconciliation at the University of Massachusetts During an all-day tour of the divided sections of his adult life to peacemaking in Belfast and beyond. Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, his Derry, and particularly at the location where, in “The divisions still exist. But at least they’re fought decades-long work for peace during “the Troubles” January 1972, British paratroopers fired upon dozens with elections and not with bombs,” he said. in Northern Ireland, and his Rolodex enabled our of Irish Catholics peacefully protesting, killing 14 It is why Belfast Deputy Mayor Mary Ellen Camp- students to meet civic and political leaders from Derry and wounding twice that number, Derry community bell, herself imprisoned as a member of the IRA, now to Belfast and the coastal communities in between. organizer Michael Doherty eloquently described the concerned that the young have glamorized the “heroes” Most of the graduate students came from careers tragic history of his city. of the sectarian conflict, tells them: “I was in jail, before landing at Cornell. Half were service veterans While all appears well, peaceful and progressive, and jail is horrible.” It is why she serves food at all who served in combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. he noted, the walls remain, and he and others do not council meetings, forcing the political party members The students left the US with the purpose of develop- take for granted the peace they earned with their to mingle. It is why she, like George V, exclaimed: ing negotiation skills. families’ blood. The River Foyle and the 15th century “You should always extend the hand of friendship. Each took away from the trip significant lessons in city walls provide the obvious separation, but the It is their decision to take it or not.” human rights and the promotion of just societies often mistrust remains, and the willingness to find common And it is why Gen. Casey, on the final evening of ignored or forgotten by others engaged in business ground is in short supply. our Trek, encouraged a DUP Assembly member who pursuits. They shared these “takeaways,” which are Doherty’s days are spent bridging the divide, for resisted power-sharing with his Sinn Fein counter- consolidated below and which have relevance to the public matters as mundane as parade permits; to the parts to “Keep at it. It takes time. But it is worth it.” legal community as well. significant, such as preventing youth violence; and the And, finally, as some propose new walls, and old And for this judge, who is sensitive to the impact of beneficial, such as uniting the business communities barriers remain standing, it is why lawyers and judges bias (real, implicit, and imaginary) and its companion, for projects for which religious affiliation should not from far away Massachusetts should take note that distrust, upon the fair administration of justice, the be factored. what citizens are feeling and how we treat each other, experience was an awakening. Doherty’s brother Des, a prominent civil rights inside and outside of our courthouses, impact our roles To paraphrase Padraig O’Malley’s introductory lawyer who represented family survivors of the 1972 and define our responsibilities and duties. remarks, the Tudor royalty, particularly Queen Eliza- Bloody Sunday Massacre, confidently plugs away in This article first appeared in the Massachusetts the halls of justice. “Surprisingly, even after all the Lawyers Weekly. Christopher J. Muse is a judge on Peter F. Stevens is off this month. cover-ups and unfair treatment, we still look upon the Massachusetts Superior Court bench. Page 6 September 2017 BOSTON IRISH Reporter bostonirish.com Boston Irish Reporter’s Here & There

By Bill O’Donnell following the election. Adams quickly squelched any When the Festival concluded for the evening, with Armagh Family World’s Oldest, Says Guin- thought that despite Deputy SF Leader Mary Lou the finale the following night, Amanda kept her own ness – A family of siblings from the Armagh/Tyrone McDonald articulating Sinn Fein policy, that he counsel, remembering the two who were with her in border in the North has been named the world’s was the party leader and would lead in the election. spirit. Many of the Roses’ families and the audience oldest by Guinness World Records. The Donnellys UN Criticizes Ireland On Magdalene Failures out front made a beeline for the Rose Hotel across from Collegelands on the border of Armagh and – The United Nations has admonished Ireland on the street. For Amanda, it was a bittersweet eve- Tyrone have a combined its handling of the Magdalene Laundries. The UN ning, filled with memories that she could not share age of 1,073 years. The Committee against Torture found fault with the Irish with the others. siblings are the children government in two areas of its investigation of the Jesuit Publication Angers Conservative of Peter and Ellen administration of the laundries: The government Catholics in US – There is a simmering but low Donnelly. Peter was a has not implemented its recommendations to inves- level argument going with some accusing right-wing successful farmer with tigate allegations of ill treatment of the Magdalene Catholics and Christians of forging a pact with the a prosperous apple busi- laundries, and it has not prosecuted perpetrators president and thus deepening political polariza- ness, and his family to- and ensured that victims have an enforceable right tion in the United States. The argument is about a day accounts for almost to compensation. Also noted in the UN report is a recent article in the Jesuit publication La Civilta 200 grandchildren and need to improve staffing at prisons, to review the Cattolica that some see as a call by Pope Francis great grandchildren. As prison healthcare system, particularly the increase for the Catholic church to disassociate itself from to the reigning record in overcrowding in several women’s prisons. the Trump administration’s right-wing policies on holders, the 13 Donnelly It should be noted that the Committee praised everything from climate change to migration. The brothers and sisters Ireland for many achievements in the six years since pope has criticized Trump’s demand for a wall along range in age from 93 the previous review. our Mexican border, saying such a move was not down to 72 and were Trump Sets a Record For Bogus ‘Facts’ – In a Christian. Francis to date has refrained from com- Bill O’Donnell recently featured on a period from 6:30 p.m. on Mon., Aug 14, to 8:09 p.m. menting on the article. BBC NI documentary. the following day —less than 26 hours – President Some Catholic conservatives reacted strongly to Donnelly family Trump made two speeches, held a news conference parts of the article that claimed “the philosophy of members, chatting casually, first brought up the and used his Twitter finger with abandon, leaving the Christian right and violent Islamists are more possibility that the family siblings might actually behind a litany of false and misleading “information, “ similar than many care to think...” The article high- be the “oldest family.” Inquiries were made, and according to Fact Checker. The count in the 26 hours lights Steve Bannon, a Catholic and until a few research by the Guinness company confirmed that was 29 false or misleading claims on everything from weeks ago the chief White House strategist. Noting the Donnellys belonged in the record book with the black youth employment to job creation and energy that Bannon has promoted blocking action against citation. exports. (And on the seventh month, he rested!) climate change and exploited fears of migrants and The original family members had a celebration As a candidate Trump claimed that 58 percent of Muslims with calls for “walls and purifying deporta- in May after traveling from Coventry, and the rest African-American youth was unemployed. The US tions,” the article argues that right-wing American of the family came later from Dublin, Belfast, and Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the number at about evangelicals and conservative Catholics risk corrupt- across Northern Ireland. The May gathering was a third of that, at 19.2 percent. On energy exports, ing the Catholic faith with an ideology intended to solely for the original 13 siblings. the accomplishment was Barack Obama’s. During inject religious influence into the political sphere. There doesn’t appear to be any family in the wings his tenure America became a net exporter of oil and Many would argue that such injection has already to challenge the Donnelly’s ascendancy to the ranks left that good fortune to his successor, Trump, who taken place and the struggle for Catholic hearts and of Guinness World Records. now claims it as his own. What’s new? minds is well under way and a clear affront to the Race Is On To Attract EU Banks – As a result In claiming cuts in illegal immigration at our separation of church and state. And now that Mr. of the Brexit referendum there is a scramble among southern border, he transposed numbers and used Bannon is back with Breitbart and its website news- EU’s remaining countries to reach out to entice cuts under Obama and claimed them as his own. paper and spreading his political fervor, it will be banks and their revenue and jobs to relocate from In disputing the three million voter edge Hillary interesting to see how he operates viz a viz the man their original venues. Many in London have voted Clinton finished with in the election, he talked about in the White House, and what role will the pontiff to leave the Union, and move to a new site. The two his record-setting electoral college votes. In reality, of the Catholic Church play (and how hard will he top contenders to draw the highly paid jobs and the every Republican president since Rutherford B. play it) in a war of words with people he views as tax revenue from these banks are in Ireland and Hayes (1876), excepting Richard Nixon in 1968 unrelenting enemies of the Church he leads. Frankfurt. Arrangements to bring the banks to EU and George W. Bush in 2000, won more electoral Trump’s Support Is Eroding – The roughly sites have been hugely competitive but Ireland and votes than Trump. 35 percent of American voters who, at least at one Germany have a leg up in their campaigns. We could go on and pile up the Pinocchios, but time, have been supportive of Trump, along with The departure of British-based banks to EU sites this pathetic, pathological liar would only make up a handful or a few more Republican senators, and must be accomplished prior to Britain’s formal leave- a few hundred more. wealthy political contributors make up the bloc of taking in March 2019. The Irish Times reports that Finucane Case Finally Going To UK High the Faithful that support the embattled White House “while Paris and Amsterdam are set to lure one or Court – Geraldine Finucane and her family have resident. In recent days, as the obsessive lies and two major lenders, Germany and Ireland have to won in their bid for a public inquiry to the British misinformation echoed along the Twitter line and date secured the bulk of commitments from large Supreme Court. The family of the slain 39-year-old the tap-dancing president looked desperately for a and prestigious banks.” In recent weeks Bank of human rights lawyer’s has been trying for years (she way to keep intact his followers when he spoke of America, Citi, and Morgan Stanley, as well as sev- was shot and killed in 1989) for an inquiry that was the blood of Charlottesville, Trump’s legions have eral Japanese banks, have announced that their EU originally promised but later withdrawn. Over the dwindled to their fewest publicly avowed followers headquarters will be either in Dublin or Frankfurt. years there have been numerous allegations made since election day. On the jobs front, the largest banks in London sug- about collusion between loyalist paramilitaries and While the elite are being heard, for many the gest that close to 10,000 positions could go to the the British state, and that is a major reason the checks remain unseen. After Virginia there has continent or Ireland in the next two years. Finucanes have pushed for a transparent public arisen a spreading fear that the innate racism that Terror Alerts Curious Welcomes to a Cruise inquiry. Almost five years ago then British Prime permeates the shrunken corpus of the Trumpian Ship – It’s not every cruise ship bound for Euro and Minister David Cameron described as “shocking” Wonderworld has gone to cover. GOP senators, Irish ports that receives “safety letters,” but tourism the level of state collusion with paramilitaries in once uncomfortable dissing their own president, officials in Belfast are concerned that an abundance the murder of the young lawyer. are moving away in droves, afraid of contagion and of caution has prompted the alerts being handed to It is expected that the UK Supreme Court will losing the elite’s good view, and perks and chummy Belfast-bound ship passengers. The notices refer hear the case next year. phone calls from Himself. to possible terror attacks with “the potential risk Boston Crowd, Police Work Together To Keep Not to be forgotten are the cancelled galas, boy- of isolated violence” in Belfast, where officials are the Peace – Congratulations to most everyone (to- cotted ceremonies and proud corporate chieftains calling the alerts “unnecessarily alarmist” and urg- tal: 33 arrests), in particular the Boston Police, for fleeing from advisory boards and the invitations ing the cruise operator to “consider softening” its avoiding a repeat of the Charlottesville horror show, from Himself. No Mas! contents. This year it is projected that a record 93 and to Mayor Marty Walsh and his City Hall staff Make no mistake, Charlottesville was a turning ships will dock at Belfast ports, bringing 157,000 for keeping the rhetorical lid on during the tense point, a tipping point. The Trump “brand” has taken passengers to the North. hours. With all those people in downtown Boston a hit, or in the bankers’ jargon, a “bath.” since he Since the cessation of broad-based organized vio- and only a handful of minor-league arrests, it was avowed that some “fine people” were protesting lence in Belfast and in other Northern areas, locals thankfully more like a Wolfe Tones concert, or a St. alongside the neo-Nazis and white supremacists. there have essentially been peaceful, well apart from Patrick Parade on good behavior. After more than seven months of incompetence, dys- terrorist attacks on the continent. The cruise opera- Boston Strong can mean many things. function, lies, me, me, me and the insults to what’s tors contend that places like France, Athens, and Rose of Tralee Pageant in Somber Hue For left of our sanity and good will, the final thing we Istanbul are properly identified as possible terrorist One Rose – For one of the Rose of Tralee contestants have to offer to this president is patience. And the targets, but not Belfast. “This has had no impact on it was a night to remember for a number of reasons. well is empty. the popularity of Belfast as a destination, with 100 For San Francisco’s Rose, 19-year-old Amanda Even the nonprofit organizations have their run- percent growth in visitor numbers in the past five Donohue, it was fun and festive and part of the show ning shoes at the ready. Scared of losing their hefty years.” A Belfast Harbor spokesman added: “Cruise in the Dome in the pageant’s Co. Kerry venue, but contributors and equally concerned about becoming a ships make available a daily fact sheet on local in- it was also a night to recall personal loss, a gaping pariah at Palm Beach or, God forbid, at Camp David, formation to visitors. The P&O Cunard is the only hole of two years standing. And the music and stage the big one, they are cancelling planned fundraising line we know of which advises on passenger safety.” presentation did little to ease the pain for Amanda. events at Trump’s Mar-a-lago club in Florida. Do The Following Poll Number Surprise Back in June, 2015, Amanda’s sister Ashley and And the White House announced recently that Anybody? – US Senate majority Leader Mitch cousin Olivia Burke were part of a H-1 contingent neither the president nor First Lady Melania will McConnell (R-Kentucky) has an 18 precent job ap- that had traveled from home in Ireland to Berkeley, attend the annual Kennedy Center Honors that proval rating in Kentucky. One of the most regressive California, for a combination visit to America and the are more than three months away. Presidents and Senate leaders in contemporary times, McConnell opportunity to be with friends, learning new things, their spouses have, with rare exceptions, attended is perhaps most famous for his quote in the first and a blessed stay on the sunny west coast of the this event for more than 40 years. The beat goes on. days of the Obama presidency: “My only interest is United States. In what Amanda called “one of the Whatever the outcome of this tipping point, it in making him a one-term president.” darkest moments of her life,” she lost her precious cannot come too soon. The question is: Will it take Other elements from the new poll of his own sister and her cousin when they died in the collapse an impending indictment, or emails, or the pesky Kentucky constituents show that 74 percent of the of an apartment balcony in Berkeley. Also killed tax returns, or business records, or will he decide voters disapprove of the job he is doing. Time to on that June day were students Eimear Walsh, to take the Nixonian route: a long, comfortable life repeal and replace? As to the recent Senate vote on Lorcan Miller, Niccolai Schuster, and Eoghan of leisure and the precious expense account —but the failed Republican healthcare bill, only 27 percent Culligan. Other students were badly injured by the no books from his pen. Has he ever read one cover of respondents favored the bill. collapse that came amidst a pleasant moment when to cover? Adams To Lead S/F; Party OK’s Junior their futures were bright and tomorrow would come Whatever it takes, do it. Don’t seek to jail him, nor Partner Role – It is unclear when the next Irish shining through. anything too humiliating. Please, just send him away. election will be held, but two facts are guaranteed, Amanda, said that taking part in the Rose of Whatever it takes, do it. Give us our country back, says Sinn Fein Leader Gerry Adams: He will Tralee Festival in Kerry “had been monumental to and our good thoughts about each other and another lead the party into the election, and, in a position the healing process,” and she knew as she entered look at the Constitution. Will it be, sans Mr. Trump, reversal, Sinn Fein has signalled its willingness to the Dome that her late sister and cousin “were in again a treasure for the ages? Show Time is over. be a junior partner in any future Irish government the Dome with her.” Ready to be America again. God bless us all. bostonirish.com September 2017 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 7 Immigration Q&A Irish International Immigrant Center Immigration papers: An agency accredited by US Department of Justice Play things straight One State Street, 8th Floor, Boston, MA 02109 Q. I’m applying for legal permanent residence in Telephone (617) 542-7654 Fax (617) 542-7655 the US based on my marriage to a US citizen. 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As they do so, of the water. from Clonmel, according lies mourned the death just make sure in the The boy was med-flight- to published reports in by drowning on Aug. 20 summertime, you don’t let they miss the big picture. ed to Boston Children’s Ireland. of six-year-old Brayden your eye off them.” Investing represents but The Tipperary Star Kelly of Dorchester, who one facet of long-term financial planning. Trying to build wealth is one thing; trying From two Neponset boys, a vote for to protect it is another. An effort must be made to manage risk. ROTC and the value of a military life (Continued from page 1) “My freshman year of gram was available at treme. Since 9/11, there’s Insurance can play a central role in wealth thing that has always, to high school, 14 or 15 — nearby MIT, Harvard been more apathy than this day, sort of surprised probably 15 — was when students could not enroll antagonism toward the protection. That role is underappreciated me, is the number of kids in I started seriously consid- in courses there until 1976. military, as was the case – partly because some of the greatest risks Dorchester, and Neponset ering the military,” said In the 1990s, Harvard before that, particularly to wealth go unnoticed in daily life. Five in particular, who go into Michael. “I was looking at students with the Anti- in the ‘90s and the ‘70s.” the military. … I think it’s the ways to go about it. My ROTC Action Committee Mawn’s organization days a week, investors notice what happens sort of phenomenal.” parents obviously wanted were again protesting focuses on awareness of on Wall Street; the market is constantly Michael, now 22, agreed me to go to school, so that ROTC, this time in light the military as a public “top of mind.” What about those “back that the neighborhood was a must.” of the military’s “Don’t service and encourages influence played an impor- Michael and Patrick Ask, Don’t Tell” program participation in ROTC. of mind” things investors may not readily tant role in his interest in credit their family with barring openly gay service Mawn said he hopes that acknowledge? service. “As I was growing emphasizing the impor- members. Harvard cut its Harvard will do more up, a lot of people I looked tance of attending college. financial ties with ROTC “proactive outreach” to up to, coaches in sports and For his part, their father, in 1995 and organized the increase the number of What if an individual suddenly cannot work? whatnot, seemed to have a while conceding his signifi- Friends of Harvard ROTC cadets on campus, which Without disability insurance, a seriously military background, so it cant role in military influ- to cover the administrative remains extremely small injured or ill person out of the workforce was something I was inter- ence in his family, said he costs of hosting ROTC at — less than one percent ested in as well,” he said. always wanted his sons to MIT, where it is still based. of the student body. may have to dip into savings to replace He entered Harvard chart their own paths. Today’s Harvard students A year ago, Patrick Mur- income. As the Council for Disability University and joined “It’s not something I enrolled in ROTC have ray made Mawn’s point, Awareness notes, the average length of a ROTC in 2013. actively, for lack of a better office spaces on Harvard’s but change seems to be in Patrick’s experience has term, encourage, because campus, but training takes the air. “I believe [he] was long-term disability claim is nearly three mostly mirrored his older it’s a big decision,” Tim places at MIT. Harvard the only Army incoming years. Workers’ compensation insurance will brother’s, but the 20 year said. “I think a decision has provided transporta- freshman for ROTC last only pay out if a disability directly relates to old’s focus is on the Army of that nature, as an indi- tion for early-morning year,” his father said. “For rather than the Marines. vidual, you have to make physical training since a student body that’s the an incident that occurs at work, and most “I guess for me, kind of because you’ve got to own 2011. size of Harvard’s, that’s long-term disabilities are not workplace growing up in Dorches- the good and the bad that Outgoing Harvard pres- shocking. But I also un- related. ter and within my fam- comes with it. And a lot ident Drew Faust has derstand, and again, it’s of times, there’s a lot of been largely credited with infinitesimal, but I want to ily specifically, we have a proud military history, a bad that comes with it. turning the tide for the say this year the number What if an individual suddenly dies? If a military tradition within A lot of discomfort, lot of university’s ROTC pro- jumped to like a dozen. So household relies on that person’s income, our family,” Patrick said. sacrifice that comes with gram. In winter of 2010, hopefully, that’s a sign of that decision.” Navy ROTC was officially things to come.” how does it cope financially with that “From a young age, there was always that exposure Harvard itself has a recognized on campus, fol- The day before Mi- income abruptly disappearing? Does it spend to it.” storied past with ROTC. lowed by Army ROTC in chael graduated in May down its savings or its invested assets? In Patrick saw Michael The university can boast of spring 2012 and Air Force with a bachelor of arts veterans going all the way ROTC just over a year ago, such a crisis, life insurance can offer relief. as a bit of a pioneer. Al- in government, he was though he had long been back to the Revolutionary in April 2016. commissioned as a second The payout from a policy with a six-figure interested in entering War. It was one of the first Captain Paul Mawn lieutenant in the US Ma- benefit can provide the equivalent of years the military, having his schools in the US to host (ret.) is chairman of the rine Corps. Now stationed an ROTC program, and it of income. older brother in the ROTC Advocates for ROTC, a net- at Boston University, he program allowed him to has graduated more Medal work of individuals that will travel to Quantico, “see the path that he went of Honor recipients than supports ROTC programs Virginia, for Officer Can- Why do people underinsure themselves down,” he said. any other university with on college campuses. Him- didate School next month. as they strive to build wealth? Partly, Even before Michael, the exception of the service self a graduate of Harvard, Patrick, a rising sopho- there were other trail- academies. and a Navy ROTC alum- more at Harvard pursuing it is because death and disability are blazers in the family for In 1969, one manifesta- nus, he works with the a degree in economics, will uncomfortable conversation topics. Many Patrick: two cousins who tion of on-campus protest Advocates to encourage be back on campus in a few people neglect estate planning due to this were officers in the Marine against the Vietnam War diversity of opinion at weeks. “I’m excited to see Corps. They pointed Mi- was a strong opposition Harvard along with sup- that new crop of cadets, same discomfort and because they lack chael toward ROTC. The to Harvard’s ROTC pro- port for the military. and with myself being a knowledge of just how insurance can be program, Michael figured, gram. That spring, as “Harvard has, with some second-year, I’ll take on used to promote wealth preservation. would afford him a mix of hundreds of students oc- people I think, a misun- a little bit of leadership,” “normal” civilian life and cupied University Hall, derstood reputation as he said. “Showing the new military training. From and a later confrontation a left-wing, exclusively incoming freshmen, show- The bottom line? Insurance is a vital, there, ROTC “seemed kind with police left some 75 liberal, elite university, ing them the ropes of it. necessary aspect of a long-term financial of like a no-brainer — as injured, students suc- anti-military, etc., and it Get back into the swing of long as you could get the cessfully demanded that certainly is some of that things because it is a good plan. Insurance may not be as exciting to scholarship.” The scholar- the university abolish the — maybe even the major- routine to have. I’m just the average person as investments, but it ships meant full rides to program on campus. ity — but not all,” Mawn excited all around.” can certainly help a household maintain Harvard for the brothers. While an ROTC pro- said. “It’s not all that ex- some financial equilibrium in a crisis, and it also can become a crucial part of estate Grace Cotter Regan to lead BC High planning. (Continued from page 1) Boston College School of mont (1987), and a bach- Central America, an area McKim Building, library Ministry and Theology elor of arts degree in the- where she has traveled Brian W. O’Sullivan is a registered representative of and of- in 2008. She also holds ology and sociology from extensively. fers securities, investment advisory and financial planning courtyard, and the 27 services through MML Investors Services, LLC, Member SIPC branches of the Boston a master’s in education Boston College (1982). She and her husband (www.sipc.org). Supervisory Address: 101 Federal Street, Public Library. degree in student af- After graduating from Bernie live in West Rox- Suite 800, Boston, MA 02110. 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NOVEMBER 19, 2017 REDSOX.COM/HURLING TICKETS ON SALE NOW! Page 10 September 2017 BOSTON IRISH Reporter bostonirish.com A gender-flipping ride on the rapids By R. J. Donovan Q. This production comes with an Special to the BIR unusual bit of casting. Ten men, in four boats, coursing A. I think there are 7 women, two through The Grand Canyon. This is people who identify as non-binary, and “Men On Boats,” the fearless, comic we have one trans actor . . . Even though adventures of an actual 1869 expedition the actual characters in “Men On Boats” by ten volunteer explorers who set out were historically white cis-gender males, to chart The Colorado River. (the playwright) really wanted the cast SpeakEasy Stage Company is present- to be as diverse as possible in gender ing the Boston-area premiere of “Men and in ethnicity. And I think SpeakEasy On Boats” from Sept. 8 to Oct. 7 at the really has done a fantastic job of casting Calderwood Pavilion. However, there’s a because we are seeing a lot of representa- swashbuckling shift awaiting audiences. tion on stage. In the production notes, playwright Ja- Q. What peaked your interest to audi- clyn Backhaus stipulates that while the tion. characters in the play were historically A. I think what really drew me to this (Left to right) Veronika Duerr, Robin JaVonne Smith and Bridgette Hayes cis-gender white males, the cast should be play is how physical it’s going to be . . . I rehearse SpeakEasy Stage Company’s “Men On Boats,” playing the Calderwood made up entirely of people who are not. love doing comedies and I’m definitely a Pavilion, Sept. 8 - Oct 7. Nile Hawver/Nile Scott Shots photo “I am talking about racially diverse character actor. And this is going to be actors who are female-identifying, a really great character. pirate who “fell in love” with a prosti- trans-identifying, gender-fluid, and/or Q. Have you taken on a male role tute – my great, great grandmother . non-gender-conforming,” she states in before? . . Apparently, she would ride up and the script. A. I played a man a few years ago in down the Mississippi with the men and ,Comedic but never camp, the cast of this production of (Flat Earth’s) “Radium was known for her story-telling, among this rousing historical pageant includes Girls.” It was such an interesting expe- other things . . . They found all of these Bridgette Hayes as explorer John Colton rience stepping into a male experience. old documents about her – her name was Sumner. The multi-talented Hayes Meryl Streep has this great quote where Bridgette, too . . . Maybe that’s where I works as an actress, costume designer, she talks about how all the stories in get the storytelling from! props artisan, dramaturge and teaching the past were written for men or from a Q. You know more about your heritage artist. man’s experience. She says she didn’t than most people. She’s also artistic associate at Bridge want to play Becky in “Tom Sawyer.” She A. We’re definitely a meat and potatoes Rep and has worked with the Bad Habit, wanted to play Tom Sawyer. Or Huck type of family. That’s the type of Irish Company One, Hub Theatre and Flat Finn. Their stories are more interesting. we were raised as. My sisters and I did Earth Theater companies, among others. Those are the ones you relate to. Irish step dancing as kids and loved Originally from Delaware, she has Q. I understand you’ve had a few Irish that. Part of my family history is that ancestors who had their own misadven- we really loved the folklore of Ireland . Bridgette Hayes plays explorer John appeared with the Delaware Children’s Colton Sumner in “Men In Boats,” from Theater and Wilmington Drama League tures on boats. . . (and) I’ve been cast quite frequently as Irish in various plays. SpeakEasy Stage Company, at the in addition to performing off-Broadway. A. My family hails from Galway and Calderwood Pavilion, Sept. 8 - Oct. 7. With a BFA from Boston University, County Cork. They came over during Q. It must be interesting to be an art- she’s currently pursuing a master’s in the potato famine, through New Orleans. ist and work at The Conservatory as it’s parents have always been supportive of dramatic arts at Harvard. One of my great, great grandfathers was merged with Berklee. my career in the arts. If that doesn’t fill her schedule enough, a riverboat gunrunner who lived in Pine A. It’s been challenging, but everyone Q. When did you know you wanted to her 9-to-5 job is as executive assistant to Bluff, Arkansas, and traveled up and is so excited about it. You’ve got all the make this your life’s work? the president and executive director at down the Arkansas River, and then the classically trained musicians now mixing A. Well, the first play, and the reason the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. She Mississippi to New Orleans. One day, he with the musicians that come from a jazz I actually first auditioned (came) when also plays four instruments. kissed his wife goodbye, left with his load background at Berklee. The technology I was five. My Mom took me to see a We recently spoke about “Men On of guns, and was never heard from again. in the music industry right now, it’s just production of “Charlotte’s Web” at the Boats” and her colorful Irish heritage. Q. Anyone else afloat on the family really exciting to see what people are Delaware Children’s Theatre. I burst out Here’s a condensed look at our conver- tree? doing with it. crying when Charlotte dies. And my Mom sation. A. My other ancestor was a riverboat Q. Any other artists in your family? had to carry me out into the hallway so A. Literally every other person in my that I wouldn’t disturb the rest of the family is in medicine, so I am definitely audience. The director came out and said, the black sheep of the family. ‘You need to put this kid on stage. She’s Q. Was there pressure to go the Med got emotions and we need to see them!” School route or were your folks encour- R. J. Donovan is editor and publisher aging? of onstageboston.com. A. My Mom is the one who got me into ••• theater. She used to take me to the the- “Men on Boats,” SpeakEasy Stage, ater, ever since I was four years old. She Sept. 8 - Oct. 7, Calderwood Pavilion, 527 brought me to my first audition. And she Tremont Street, Boston. Info: speakea- did props when I was on stage. So no, my systage.com or 617-933-8600. CIS sets tour of Boston’s Irish monuments The Charitable Irish petizers, and an open bar. CIS president Christo- Society plans a trolley Space is very limited; pher Duggan. “This tour tour of Irish monuments you can register online offers an opportunity to in Boston for current and at tinyurl.com/y94wpfn3, learn about the many prospective members on or contact Hilda Landry monuments and statues Thurs., Sept. 14, from 5:30 at 617-228-4445 or hilda. in Downtown Boston and p.m. to 9 p.m. The trolley landry@smithduggan. the Back Bay area which will depart from the front com to register. have Irish connections ei- of the State House. The “We pass by these ther because of the person tour will be followed by a monuments almost on a depicted or the artists that reception at Carrie Nation daily basis, giving little sculpted them. In many Restaurant, 11 Beacon thought to their history instances, there are also Street, Boston. Cost is $55 and why they were erected associations to the Chari- per person for the ride, ap- in our beloved city,” says table Irish Society.”

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By Sean Smith ing the nickname “The Flying Special to the BIR Farmer.” A family story can be a pre- There was another dimen- cious heirloom, passed among sion to Sydney: He was Tait’s relatives and across genera- widowed brother-in-law, whose tions. But sometimes, the story wife Myrtle – Margaret’s older is so inspiring, so compelling, it sister – had died shortly after has to be shared with the wider giving birth to their son. In the world. years following Myrtle’s death, Such is the case for Brighton Margaret found herself growing resident Louise Bichan, a fiddler closer to Sydney as she, along from Scotland’s Orkney Islands with her other sisters, helped studying at the Berklee College him raise Sydney Jr. He was, of Music who four years ago Bichan says, the family’s “ap- embarked on an effort to retrace proved choice.” the epic journey taken by her As Bichan sees it, though, her grandmother, Margaret S. Tait, grandmother wasn’t so much Louise Bichan incorporates traditional Scottish fiddle and modern influences. across Canada more than six fleeing a romantic quandry but Photo courtesy Louise Bichan decades ago. rather trying to find herself as a young woman come of age in a Lee, Duncan Lyall and Mike played a big part in the feelings she met – such as Cape Breton Now, Bichan’s Margaret S. Vass – whom she respected not she developed for Sydney.” fiddler Kimberley Fraser, who Tait Project has yielded the al- world that had been drastically transformed in the quarter-cen- only for their talents but also The excerpts from Tait’s had lived in Boston for several bum “Out of My Own Light,” a for their comfort level in work- performance on CBC Winnipeg years while studying at Berk- suite of instrumental pieces com- tury since her birth. While that exploration involved staying ing with multifaceted styles of were taken from a vinyl record lee – encouraged her to apply posed by Bichan, plus restored music. that had been produced for her, to Berklee. Although dubious archival recordings of Tait’s with relatives living in Canada (she also spent time briefly in “Trying to direct everything and had gotten lost among her about her chances, Bichan de- performance of Scottish songs on was kind of terrifying,” she possessions. The LP was in bad cided to give it a try, and wound Canadian radio during her trip. Michigan), going out on her own was nonetheless a big undertak- laughs, “but everyone was so condition when it was found, but up earning a scholarship. She Bichan draws on the Orkney wonderful, and very excited listening to her grandmother arrived in September of 2015. fiddle tradition (she began play- ing, one still viewed in some quarters as unconventional for about what we were doing.” sing “My Love Is Like a Red, “It’s been absolutely fantas- ing at age 7) for her compositions “Out of My Own Light” follows Red Rose,” “Highland Laddie” tic,” says Bichan, a performance while incorporating other influ- a single female in her 20s. “Nobody thought she would a roughly chronological outline: and other staples of Scottish folk major with a minor in American ences and styles – chamber-folk, The opening track, “Quoybur- song in the parlor-formal style, roots. “What’s great is I’m not jazz, experimental – assisted by come back,” says Bichan. In the end, however strong ray,” is named after Tait’s child- with piano accompaniment, was boxed into one genre: Middle a quintet of musicians on fiddle, hood home; “Swanbister,” the a revelation for Bichan. Eastern, Brazilian, Ecuadoran, double bass, cello, piano, tenor her feelings for Ian, Margaret felt an even stronger tie to her concluding piece, was the town “I knew she sang, because she old-timey, jazz, bluegrass – I’ve guitar and percussion. where she and Sydney settled af- was in the choir, but I’d never been able to play around with “Out of My Own Light” family, and the Orkneys, and that proved to be decisive in ter their marriage. Other tracks heard her sound like that,” says all of them.” ranges from festive full-bodied center around events or places in Bichan. “It was very special, a Add to that the opportunity to ensemble pieces to brooding, her decision to marry Sydney: “Flying farmer” weds, proclaims this chapter of Margaret’s life, or totally emotional experience.” sit in at local sessions, and the meditative patchworks of riffs serve as introductions to major Bichan salvaged as much various friends and acquain- or soundscapes, evoking the the headline of a newspaper story on the wedding, among characters: “Ian,” “Sydney the of the recording as possible to tances she’s made, and Bichan people, places and events cen- Pilot” and – one of the album’s piece together an eight-and- feels she’s gained enormously tral to her grandmother’s odys- the clippings in Tait’s collection and featured among the photos more intense, vivid compositions a-half-minute “bonus” track. from her time in Boston. sey, which took her through – “Myrtle,” which begins with a Fragments appear at a few Yet Bichan still finds herself Montreal, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Bichan took for her project. “Ian could have gone any- slow, elegiac passage that tran- other junctures on the album, tugged toward home, to continue and parts of Saskatchewan to sitions into a crazy-quilt of dis- notably on “CBC Winnipeg,” exploring her grandmother’s Victoria. where,” says Bichan, “but Mar- garet didn’t want to be anywhere sonant notes, until the stringed with Lee’s cello gently churning story. She’s organized some live The project [louisebichan. instruments coalesce around underneath – a portal of sorts, performances of “Out of My Own co.uk/out-of-my-own-light] has else.” The experience of sifting a heartbeat-steady percussive connecting past to present. Light,” and thinks of creating a been at times all-consuming, rhythm; a family member’s Even as Bichan began putting film (a cousin has even suggested yet enormously satisfying for through her grandmother’s pos- sessions crystalized for Bichan poem composed for Myrtle’s “Out of My Own Light” together, a ballet). Naturally, she wishes Bichan from both a personal and obituary, and set to music and she pursued other ventures, her Granny was still around, so artistic standpoint, making use the traits and interests she had in common with Margaret. sung by Bichan, appears at the including one that was an she could ask her a multitude of of her talents as a photographer beginning and end, with the unexpected dividend from her questions about her adventures: and videographer as well as mu- “Granny couldn’t go to a family event without a camera in hand, memorable final line “Love and trip. In addition to visiting her What was it like? What were sician. It has given her a deeper memory outlive all.” relatives, Bichan made stops you feeling? insight into her family history just like me. And I have boxes of newspaper and magazine clip- “Myrtle is a very important in, among other places, Nova “I could spend ages going back while enabling her to make her character in this story,” says Scotia and northern California, through the diaries, because I own memorable journey – at the pings, just like her. So I really think that it’s from her I got that Bichan. “Margaret looked up to where she attended the Valley always seem to find little nug- same age (25) Margaret began Myrtle – she never thought she of the Moon Fiddle Camp, a gets and insights. hers – which led her, indirectly, need to document things, and it shaped me as an artist.” was as good a singer as Myrtle. popular destination for many “I’m not done with this at all,” to Boston. In a city shaped to a I think her devotion to Myrtle Boston-area musicians. People she smiles. great extent by Celtic heritage But a key portion of the jour- and legacy, Bichan and her fam- nals was missing: the time Tait ily story nestles comfortably. spent in Canada. “I felt I was “Granny was always next door lacking a big part of the story,” to me,” she says of her grand- says Bichan, who’d been to mother, who died in 2008. “We’d Canada as a teenager with her spend lots of time together. I was own family and had met some really lucky to have her as part of her relatives. “So I decided I of my life. But I never thought would go find the relatives she’d of the history there before me. visited and see what memories Although everyone knew she and impressions of her they had. had gone on this journey years What was she thinking then? before, it was something that What was her mood? And what just wasn’t talked about.” were the things they might have The discovery of her grand- seen in her, as a young woman, mother’s journals, letters and that I saw years later when I other memorabilia after her knew her?” death revealed much of those Stopping in Ottawa, Win- unspoken details, including nipeg, and Victoria, Bichan the turmoil that prompted Tait caught up with surviving family to cross the ocean to a place members who helped fill in some she’d never been. She was being of the blanks for her: “We’d sit courted by two suitors, and the for hours, and they remembered dilemma had colored just about more than they thought. They every aspect of her life. As she had loads of amazing stories wrote in May of 1950: “I’m so about when the family came darned restless and unhappy to visit the Orkneys, as well these days just can’t make a as about Margaret.” Bichan decision one way or another. If captured these encounters only I could get right away for in photos as well as on video a while I’m sure it would help. and audio and, while perhaps I’ll never get out of my own light she didn’t know it at the time, while I continue here.” slowly gathered inspiration for The two men in Tait’s life rep- the musical part of “Out of My resented a significant contrast. Own Light.” Ian, whom she’d met in college, Upon returning to Orkney, Bi- was an engineer whose path chan spent about a month holed seemed destined to lead out of up at home writing out her musi- the Orkneys – before Margaret’s cal ideas, even though she had departure he was preparing to “little knowledge of harmony or take a job in Edinburgh. Sydney chords – I just made some demo was a farmer who, though rooted tracks and wrote the scores as to the land, wasn’t confined to it; best I could.” She recruited a he frequently piloted his small group of musicians – Jennifer plane around the islands, earn- Austin, Signy Jakobsdottir, Su-a Page 12 September 2017 BOSTON IRISH Reporter bostonirish.com BIR CALENDAR: Irish/Celtic events this month Highlighting this month’s slate of Irish/Celtic events forces almost 10 years ago to form The High Kings, in Greater Boston and Eastern Massachusetts is the whose sound derives from the classic Irish ballad annual South Shore Irish Festival, which takes place style that swept into popularity during the 1950s and at the Marshfield Fairgrounds in Marshfield on Sept. 60s through such bands as the Clancy Brothers and 9 and 10. Headliners for this year include Derek The Dubliners. Since then, they’ve toured extensively Warfield & The Young Wolfe Tones, The Ameri- throughout the US and Europe, recorded four studio can Rogues, Fr. Ray “The Singing Priest” Kelly albums and two live albums, and released two live (who in addition to performing will also say Sunday DVDs, combining modern songs in the folk idiom – Mass), Deirdre Reilly, and local U2 tribute band and even from other genres – with some of the classic The Joshua Tree. ballad repertoire. There also will be a number of Boston, Massachu- For details about the show, which is presented by setts, and New England acts, such as: The Lindsays, World Music/CRASHarts, go to thehighkings.com/ The Silver Spears, Jinty McGrath, The Fenian Sons, Open the Door for Three visits the Burren Backroom tour-dates. Devri, Pauline Wells, Curragh’s Fancy, Colm O’Brien, series on October 1. Alison Grasso photo The Burren Backroom series schedule for the coming The Gobshites, The Dooleys, Erin’s Melody, Denis p.m. The line-up is Scottish/Cape Breton-style fiddler weeks, as usual, features a variety of sounds and styles, O’Gorman, Ciaran Nagle with Tara Novak, Boston beginning on Sept. 6 with Nova Scotian-based quartet Katie McNally; Irish music duo Matt and Shannon Erin’s Og, Rare Old Times, Keohane & Kenneally, and (Darren McMullen, guitar, mandolin, mandola, Heaton; Emerald Rae, who plays Irish, Scottish and Còig DJ Sean O’Toole. Cape Breton fiddle, as well as the Welsh crwth, and banjo, bouzouki, whistles, flute, vocals; Rachel Davis, Other attractions at the festival include an encamp- fiddle, viola, vocals; Jason Roach, piano; Chrissy Crow- sings traditional and original songs; Mariel Vander- ment of The Viking Irish, a corn hole tournament, and ley, fiddle, viola), all of whom have enjoyed successful steel, versed in Scandinavian and American fiddle a tug-of-war. For more information, including ticket solo careers. Originally formed to promote the 2014 styles; and Louise Bichan, a fiddler from Scotland’s prices and the schedule of events, go to southshoreirish- Orkney Islands living in Boston and attending the Celtic Colours International Festival in Nova Scotia, festival.com. Berklee College of Music. the band proved to have staying power, thanks to their In addition to their appearance at the South Shore Proceeds will go to NuDay Syria, a non-profit that energetic renditions of traditional and folk music from Irish Festival, The Joshua Tree also will present a seeks to address housing and food needs for displaced the Canadian Maritimes. Còig’s first album won the concert at the Irish Cultural Centre of New England in families with single mothers or wounded family mem- Canadian Folk Music Award for Traditional Album of Canton on Sept. 16 at 8 p.m. The band has developed a bers. NuDay Syria also facilitates educational and the Year, among other honors; the band’s second album, national reputation in evoking the magic and majesty micro-financial opportunities to help ensure financial “Rove” – which includes a cover of the Peter Gabriel of U2, and prides itself on reproducing the legendary independence and otherwise improve quality of life. hit “Solsbury Hill” – was released earlier this summer. Irish rockers’ distinct sound — covering the very early For tickets and other information, see mktix.com/ Fiddler Jeremy Kittel, whose style encompasses years up to the present — while maintaining artistic pca, or call 978-692-6333. Celtic, American, and jazz elements, returns to the integrity. Backroom on Sept. 13. Kittel has worked with a wide Internationally renowned ballad group The High For information, see irishculture.org. range of artists, including local American Scottish fid- Kings come to the Somerville Theatre on Sept. 30, at 8 A collection of Boston-area Celtic music performers dler Hanneke Cassel, Boston native singer-songwriter p.m. Vocalists and musicians Finbarr Clancy, Brian will play a benefit to support humanitarian aid for Aoife O’Donovan, and celebrated cellist Yo Yo Ma; he Dunphy, Martin Furey and Darren Holden joined Syria at the Westford Public Library on Sept. 9 at 7 also was a member of the Grammy-winning quartet Turtle Island. Sept. 20 will see a visit from The Nordic Fid- dlers Bloc, three musicians from some of the world’s northern-most places: Olav Luksengård Mjelva (Norway), Anders Hall (Sweden) and Kevin Hen- derson (Shetland Islands). The trio, part of the 2015 “Christmas Celtic Sojourn,” mines its respective fiddle traditions to create a fascinating synthesis of styles and sounds – sometimes haunting, sometimes vigor- ous, sometimes jovial – while upholding the distinctive flavor of each element. Also appearing in the Sept. 20 show is the fiddle-guitar duo of Qristina and Quinn Bachand, siblings from British Columbia in Canada who in the past decade have moved from their Celtic beginnings to incorporate old-timey, roots, jazz and original material into their music, and introducing experimental and improvisa- tional elements – as witnessed by their most recent album, “Little Hinges,” which includes fiddle tune sets and edgy vocal numbers alike. On Oct. 1, the trio Open the Door for Three, a trio of highly acclaimed musicians with strong roots in the Irish tradition, whose individual and collective resumes include “Riverdance,” Cherish the Ladies, Mick Moloney and The Greenfields of America, Liz Carroll, John Doyle, Danú, Robbie O’Connell, The String Sisters, and John Whelan. Liz Knowles (fiddle) strikes that elusive balance of classical technique and tonality with the verve and drive of traditional music; Kieran O’Hare (uilleann pipes, flute, whistle) is in great demand as performer, session musician and teacher, and developed a keen sense of how to design music for the stage; Pat Broaders (bouzouki, vocals) gained a love of singing through his father and the vibrant music scene of his native Dublin, and has an equally good reputation as an accompanist. For tickets and other information concerning the Backroom series, see burren.com/Backroom-Series. html. Scottish-born David Francey, whose observational, slices-of-life songwriting style propelled him – at age 45 – into a musical career, will perform at Club Passim on Sept. 22 at 8 p.m. Francey moved with his family at age 12 from Scotland to Canada, and as an adult worked in rail yards, construction sites, and the Yukon wilderness – all the while composing poetry and setting it to music for his own enjoyment. Urged by family and friends to share his gift, Francey wound up becoming a three-time winner in Canada’s prestigious Juno Awards, and earning first prize in the USA Songwriting Competition and John Lennon Songwriting Contest; a reviewer called him “the closest thing Canada has to Woody Guthrie.” Last year, he released his 11th album, “Empty Train.” Go to passim.org for tickets and other information. Medford’s Chevalier Theatre will host a performance on Sept. 23 by Irish country singer, guitarist, pianist and accordionist Nathan Carter, who will be on his debut North American tour. A former All-Ireland ac- cordion and singing champion, the 26-year-old Carter has three number-one albums, two number-one singles and two number-one live performance DVDs, as well as a recently aired PBS special. Special guest star Chloë Agnew, formerly of Celtic Woman, will join Carter for renditions of old country favorites, Irish folk songs and adult contemporary classics. For more details, see chevaliertheatre.com. Master traditional singer – and weaver – Norman Kennedy will give a house concert on Sept. 23, sponsored through the Folk Song Society of Greater Boston. Born in Scotland and now living in Vermont, Kennedy has been active as a singer and weaver for decades, and in 2003 was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship – the highest honor in folk and traditional arts in the United States. For reservations, send e-mail to houseconcerts@ fssgb.org -- the address will be given on confirmation. bostonirish.com September 2017 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 13 Honoring music past while framing music present (Continued from page 1) had just finished his book Makem and Clancy – past [“The Mountain of the and present. Women: Memoirs of an Q. So how did you Irish Troubadour”], and guys finally get together? I remember he recited it I understand it was a verbatim for us. [Laughs] combination of planning Q. Growing up with and unforeseen circum- all that music happen- stances. ing around you, did it hit Makem: In early 2016, you that your fathers did we got a call from Joanie something special? Madden [vocalist and Makem: My formative flutist for Cherish the years, I guess you’d call Ladies], who wanted both them, were at the height of us for her annual cruise of Makem and Clancy. in February of this year. We’d always go to their We’d thought about play- shows, and I just loved it. ing together for years, When I was eight or nine because of our love of song, years old, I would go into and our culture, the tradi- my dad’s record collection, tion in our families, and and I’d listen to the Kings- the history of our families ton Trio, and The Weavers together, so we agreed. and Woody Guthrie, and And besides it’s hard to so on. That was the only say “no” to Joanie. music I listened to. My That summer, I was friends were into rock and heading back to the Mid- roll, and I liked it myself, but I kept going back to Rory Makem (left) tried not to be “a jukebox for the Clancys and Makem” when he started out as a west from a festival, and performer, “but you know, they are all such great songs!” Donal Clancy says the impact of the Clancy Donal was at the Mil- the folk music. And then my father and Brothers and Tommy Makem on Ireland went far beyond music: “They were proud and happy to be waukee Irish Fest and he Irish, and that had a big effect on everyone.” Sean Smith photo said, “Why don’t you come the three Clancys had a reunion. The first concert play with me?” So we got songs with Mickey and impresses you most about nobody would want to ways found it funny that was at Lincoln Center, so up and did “Whistling Liam [Spain] – Mickey’s the Clancys and Makem do it. my dad and the Clancys, we took a big family trip Gypsy Rover” and a couple a great songwriter. It’s and what they accom- Clancy: But when the although they were from down to New York – I wore of other songs that our hard to write a song in plished – going to America Clancys started up, and rural Ireland, were more my brand new suit from fathers used to sing, and the vernacular, and have and creating something they became popular, they well-rounded and better Sears. We were right in it felt really, really good. it sound old, like some- that seemed totally new? helped resurrect all the old read – they knew more the front row, and then I was in Ireland that thing from the folk music Makem: I don’t think it songs. They inspired a lot than these people. the four of them came fall, and Donal and I canon. I’ve written a lot was new to them. of people and that’s a big I hate to bring Bob bounding out on stage, and ran through a whole list of songs that ended up in Clancy: Exactly. You part of their legacy. Dylan into this again, I’d never seen anything of songs, and thought it the garbage can. had these four lads from Makem: What’s some- since everyone always like it – the audience was would be fine. And then But I’d be doing it, play- small-town Ireland who times forgotten is that the brings him up. But I saw electric, they went crazy. [Burren co-owner] Tommy ing the music, no matter did something that was Clancys – beginning with an interview he did once in That’s when I realized, McCarthy called us to do what. And there’s so much new and exciting without Paddy and Tom – went to which he talked about the “Wow, this isn’t what my his annual benefit concert more I need to learn. realizing it. They were New York as actors and Clancys and my father, friends’ parents do for a at the National Concert Clancy: There was no doing something they worked on and off Broad- and he said, “There was living.” Hall in Dublin in Janu- question of me playing loved in the way they felt way. The singing was a always something in their Well, living ary. So that was our first Clancy: music – my dad gave me it should be done. lark. They’d put on shows eye, as if they knew some- in Waterford, it was all I actual gig. By the time we my first guitar when I was And it’s amazing that after the plays, and that’s thing you didn’t know.” knew – the sessions, the went on Joanie’s cruise eight, and I was doing gigs our fathers, who were how they met the likes of And it was absolutely true. parties, people coming and we’d already done those in my early teens. I went such kindred spirits, with Pete Seeger, Woody Guth- Clancy: They made going – and I enjoyed the two appearances. straight into the business the same interests, same rie, Jean Ritchie. a big impact on Irish fun and the energy. And Q. An obvious ques- after leaving school, and ambitions, same back- Clancy: That theatri- music, one that was felt I went to the Makem and tion: Were you childhood I started off doing some- grounds in many ways, cal background was very for years and years and Clancy shows and the re- friends? thing different, playing happened to meet – re- important. They knew widely appreciated. They union concerts, too, and I Clancy: Well, at first with a number of bands or ally seems like it was just how to construct a show, got this big contract with liked that. There was no we were in different parts whoever needed a guitar meant to be. how to pace things. So that Columbia Records, which particular time I thought of the world – my dad player. Makem: I’ve always definitely helped them ap- was incredible for a bunch we were any different than had settled in Canada, It was only later on that thought they were the peal to audiences. of guys from Ireland. It other families. which was where I was I went back into the fam- four right guys at the Makem: They were was Bono who said that What was it like for born, and Tommy and his Q. ily’s music. I played in a right time. on the periphery of the the Clancys were the first you to forge your own family were living in New trio with Robbie O’Connell Clancy: Irish music folk scene. They wouldn’t Irish rock stars. musical identities? Hampshire. and my dad, and we’d do was practically on the have gone to Washington But they also had an I tried not to Makem: And then Liam Makem: a lot of the old songs. But verge of extinction then. Square Park or hung out impact on Ireland itself, at and Tommy started to do any Clancys/Makem Robbie loves to take the It was really looked down with the beatniks. They a time when the country play together, so I think to songs for the longest time, old songs and give them upon. You didn’t hear would’ve been hanging wasn’t in the best way. make things easier, Liam because we were trying new melodies and adapted older folks singing the old out with the newspaper You’d see them wear- moved the family to Dover to separate ourselves. I lyrics, and of course he’s songs anymore, they were guys, the writers. The ing the sweaters, with [NH], where we were liv- started with a long-necked a wonderful songwriter, more interested in what- people who went to New big smiles, standing and ing. I think the first time banjo – that’s what my so we’d do some of his ever music was popular. York for the folk music walking tall. They were we met would’ve been father always played songs. And I would do an It was inconceivable that were academics, and they proud and happy to be 1978. We were visiting my – and I’ve had it for a instrumental on guitar. someone could be a profes- wanted to be what the Irish, and that had a big Aunt Molly, my granny’s long time now. And people Of course, I was with sional Irish folk singer. Clancys and my father effect on everyone. sister, who also was living would ask, “Is that your Danú at the beginning Makem: That’s because already were. And I al- in Dover, and my mother father’s banjo?” So I tried before the gig with my called down to say “The not to be a jukebox for dad came up, which paid Clancys are here.” the Clancys and Makem, better, so I left. I came Clancy: That’s one of but you know, they are all back to the band in 2003, my earliest memories, such great songs! I went but I did my last tour with actually, coming to Dover. through every songbook, them in March. It got to I would’ve been three, I every record I have, look- the stage, I think, where think. But we only stayed ing for older songs. we are all settling down in Dover for five years Once, I was backing my and it felt like whatever before we moved to Wa- father for a gig in New used to be there had kind terford [Ireland]. Orleans, and I thought of faded away – a lot of the Makem: Our older sib- I’d found a song he didn’t guys who’d been there had lings were about the same know, “The Trip We Took left. The rest of them are age and went to school Over the Mountain.” He really gung ho about it, so together. But the two of always would have me I felt it wasn’t fair to them us didn’t really pal around do a song during his con- if I wasn’t into it anymore. that much. You have to certs, so I sang it, and he My own music has consider that we had applauded with everyone changed. When I went about a five-year age gap. else. solo, my interests started When you’re 13, you don’t Later, when we were to shift. You are cordially invited hang out with an eight- back in the dressing room, The thing is with year-old, you know. But Dad says, “That song you Makem and Clancy, they to attend the then Donal and his family sang?” And I was think- just sang the songs they moved to Waterford, and ing to myself, “Here it is, liked; it didn’t matter Annual Breakfast to benefit the after that we both wound it’s one he doesn’t know.” where they came from. up getting into the busi- Then he says, “Your gran- It’s much the same for Simon of Cyrene Society ness. I think the next time ny used to sing that song.” me. I don’t differentiate we saw each other was at It’s a tough business to between the family reper- Sunday, September 24, 2017 a festival in Chicago – you be in. My parents didn’t toire and what I do myself. 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon were playing with Rob- realize how tough it was When I do a solo gig, I’ll do bie [O’Connell] and your to get work if your name some songs I wrote myself, father. wasn’t Tommy Makem or and some instrumentals, Venezia Restaurant Clancy: I remember Liam Clancy, or Makem and some other folk songs 20 Erickson Street the Makems coming to my and Clancy. My mom man- I’ve picked up along the 21st birthday party. They aged them for years, and way, and then I’ll usually Boston, MA bought me a bottle of Jack she didn’t have to make throw in some of the old Daniels as a present. too many phone calls. favorites. Donation $45.00 per person Makem: Yes, your dad I tried to write my own Q. Looking back, what Page 14 September 2017 BOSTON IRISH Reporter bostonirish.com CD Reviews in the 1898 Spanish-American War, but realizing that spare and delicate to sinuous and powerful. his true sympathies are with his opponents. One of the most notable Donegal fiddlers, John Doyle and Irvine, of course, have developed into Doherty, came from a family renowned for making and By Sean Smith consummate songwriters, too, and are in top form here. playing tin fiddles, and McGeehan pays him tribute Usher’s Island, “Usher’s Island” • Sports analo- Doyle has shown a penchant for historical writing, and with a sequence of three tunes from the Doherty reper- gies can be pernicious yet so tantalizing. So when you his “Heart in Hand” is an autobiographical, emotionally toire: “The Four Posts of the Bed” – which features the hear of a band with an “all-star line-up,” it’s tempting vivid recounting of the life of Richard Joyce, the 17th- motif of a tapping bow, on each corner of the fiddle, to sometimes to think of a team loaded with Most Valuable century Galway native who, while enslaved abroad, represent the four titular posts – the haunting “Paddy’s Player candidates, seemingly destined for unparalleled became a goldsmith and reputedly created the Clad- Rambles Through the Park” and a waltz that sounds success – only to fall short because of clashing egos dagh ring. Irvine is likewise an impressive historian like it originated many, many miles east of Donegal. and failure to unite skills and talents effectively, thus in his songwriting, but of late also has become more McGeehan’s strengths as an arranger are evident leading to humiliation and recrimination. personal, more nostalgic, and quite the wit. In “As Good throughout “The Tin Fiddle,” but particularly so on Well, you can forget As It Gets” he revisits his formational 1960s sojourn “Hettie McKenzie”: It starts with an accented percus- about that particular in The Balkans, a subject he’s covered previously via sive beat and some bluesy picked notes before laying analogy as far as this contemplative pieces like “Autumn Gold,” “Time Will out into a stirring 2/4 march with a mesmerizing drone album is concerned. Cure Me” and “B’neas’s Green Glade” – but here it’s with underneath, and then breaks off into a warp-drive reel Usher’s Island is the fond affection and memories of romantic assignations with multiple leads. quintet of Andy Irvine, (failed and successful), and downright funny wordplay. In some cases, McGeehan patiently develops a motif Donal Lunny, Paddy Gla- And mention must be made of Lunny’s return en- or theme in one track that blends into – or dramati- ckin, Mike McGoldrick gagement with “Bean Pháidín,” which he recorded cally changes on – the subsequent track. “O’Rourke’s and John Doyle, five of with Planxty on “The Well Below the Valley” – voiced Highland” (a McGeehan original) builds off a plucked the most accomplished rather more quietly and deliberately this time around. four-note pattern into the melody, gradually segues figures in the Irish music On their respective websites, Irvine and Vertical into a richly textured improvisational passage, then revival of the past half- Records both refer to this as the “first” Usher’s Island heads back the way it came, until suddenly McGeehan century (give or take), album – one shouldn’t automatically assume that bursts into the well-known traditional reel “Gravel and what they’ve produced actually exceeds expecta- to mean there’ll be a second (a third?), but a little Walks to Grannie,” mimicking via overdubs the octave tions. In fact, “Usher’s Island” is much like a series of optimism these days is a duet style of fiddling common to Donegal (and Kerry). arboreal growth rings, hinting not only at the quintet’s lovely thing. [verticalre- “The Anvil” is a collection of percussive rhythms on the impact on Irish music but also at their individual pro- cords.co.uk] fiddle body that serves as a prelude to “The Tinsmith,” gression as musicians – from interpreting the tradition Damien McGeehan, with a jagged-edged bow-chopping undercurrent on to interpolating elements of it into their own creations. “The Tin Fiddle” • which McGeehan unfurls a series of semi-distorted Most importantly, though, it’s simply a pleasure Donegal’s distinctive jazzy runs inspired by Duke Ellington’s “Caravan” and to hear the power, stateliness, and grace of Glackin’s fiddle tradition goes be- Stephane Grappelli’s “Minor Swing.” fiddle and McGoldrick’s flute (as well as his uilleann yond the music. For gen- The outlier is “Peadar O’Haione’s,” a jig much favored pipes and whistle), such as on the jig medley – “The erations, fiddlers in that by McGeehan’s great grandfather, a fiddler himself. Half Century Set” – that opens the album, a set of part of Ireland struck McGeehan plays it straight, with no overdubs or special reels that includes two from the repertoire of esteemed their bows on instru- effects, and thus gives us a sense of what it must’ve Donegal fiddler Johnny Doherty [see “The Tin Fiddle” ments fashioned wholly been like to listen to a Donegal tin fiddle back in his review below], and “Sean Keane’s,” a pair of delightful or partly out of tin that could be made and repaired ancestor’s day: somewhat muted but resonant in its hornpipes. Equally pleasing is the accompaniment, more quickly than timber ones (although their dura- own way, and thoroughly captivating. [damienmcgee- whether chordal, harmonic or contrapuntal, of Messrs. bility was far shorter, usually 40-50 years). It would han.com] Irvine, Lunny and Doyle. They give plenty of room to the seem a rather esoteric concept on which to base a whole Cantrip, “The Crossing” • Cantrip emerged from melody instruments and vocals but Irvine’s mandola, album, but McGeehan’s exploration of the tin fiddle is the lively Edinburgh session scene two decades ago as a Lunny’s bouzouki and Doyle’s guitar are ever-present far more than some exercise in obscure folklore. quartet, but over time has now become a transatlantic in all their glory. McGeehan, part of the pioneering Donegal fiddle trio: Scots native Jon Bews (fiddle, vocals), a former And then there are the songs. Irvine and Doyle, trio Fidil, uses the tin fiddle to generate a host of member of Malinky; Dan Houghton (bagpipes, flute, respectively, give new life to the traditional classics multi-tracked sounds – bowing, scraping, strumming, whistle, guitar, bouzouki, vocals), Ghanaian-born but “Molly Ban” and “Wild Roving” (a quieter, more sub- plucking, tapping (on strings and the body) – that cover reared in Scotland, and now based in New England; dued variant of the old pub favorite), and two obscure, the melodic, harmonic and rhythmic components of and Boston-area native Eric McDonald (guitar, man- fascinating ballads: “Felix the Soldier,” a New England traditional Donegal tunes as well as his own composi- dolin, vocals), who has song from the French and Indian War; and “Cairndaisy,” tions. He stitches and layers these together with results an extensive list of bands about an Irish Catholic emigrant fighting for the US that make for an astonishing variety, from hypnotically and collaborations to his credit. Cantrip’s changes in- volve more than numbers and personalities. Their sound is leaner, the en- ergy more focused and a little more disciplined. Houghton’s pipes and Bew’s fiddle make for a powerful combination on the instrumental sets, like “Rector at the Feis,” “The Musical Beast” and “Ian Green of Greenstax”; in addition to playing excellent rhythm guitar, McDonald takes up the melody in the opening jig (his own composition) on “The Crossing” and provides a dexterous mandolin solo during the “Ian Green” medley. They also venture beyond Scottish tradition into other domains, like that Irish session chestnut “The Musical Priest” and a couple of Swedish tunes, expertly rendered by Bews, at the end of the “Hot and Cold” set. The album’s four songs represent an even wider di- For gorgeous getawa s… versity, in both form and content. The Scottish Gaelic lament “A’ Mhic Iain ’ic Sheumais (Oh Son of John)” is given appropriately solemn treatment by Houghton’s low-toned, pensive voice, while McDonald imbues “Sae Will We Yet” with the warmth an 18th-century song Ireland’s Blue Book is a collection of Irish country house hotels, of fellowship (and drink) deserves. Bews does a quite manor houses, castles and restaurants. riveting take on Northern English singer-songwriter Jez Lowe’s “Tom Tom” – a paean to ancient arts in Located throughout the island of Ireland these charming the age of all-pervasive technology – and a restrained and stylish hideaways are perfect for your holiday in Ireland. yet cheeky one on the hilarious “Old Waily, Windy Knight” (by eminent folk parodists The Kipper Fam- ily), which could be described as a night-visiting song For your free copy of the Ireland’s Blue Book guide, please email your postal address to [email protected] as choreographed by Benny Hill. www.irelandsbluebook.com / T +353 1 676 9914 Cantrip did a brief New England tour back in the summer, and “The Crossing” provides ample reason to look forward to a return visit, hopefully in the not- too-distant future. [cantrip-music.com]

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By Judy Enright tity of food or a memo- Special to the BIR rable meal. The salad Ireland is a virtual was overdressed, poorly goldmine for history buffs. executed, and uninviting. There are museums aplen- The cheese plate was an ty, multiple monuments, improvement, but noth- lovely historic homes, ing to write home about. and hotels that welcome I would love to return to guests. this hotel, but next time MANOR HOUSE will be making the trip HOTELS into town for all meals.” This spring, a friend Another Trip Advisor and I headed north and review, this time by a spent two nights at Beech couple from Florida that Hill Country House Hotel, visited last May, read: one of 29 luxury boutique “Wonderful old-timey hotels and castles that are hotel with tons of his- included in the Manor tory. The whole place is House Hotel group in the essentially a museum. Republic and in Northern Nonetheless, the rooms Ireland. are large, clean, and mod- Beech Hill, outside ern. The lounge is friendly Londonderry, has a long and the restaurant has a and fascinating history medium size menu with stretching back to Capt. excellent dishes from Thomas Skipton, who steak and Guinness pie built the current man- to fine dining.” sion in 1739, and called My friend and I had it Beechhill because there two dinners in the Beech were so many trees around Hill dining room and were the house. surprised that there were When the last Skipton no fish dishes on the lim- died, the estate went ited menu since we were to his cousin, George George Skipton inherited Beech Hill in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, from his cousin Thomas Skipton quite close to the sea. We Crookshank Kennedy, in the 1800s, planted new trees and improved the layout and appearance of the grounds. This image of visited in the early spring, who continued making im- him and his family is part of an historical display at Beech Hill Country House Hotel in Londonderry. so vegetables served with provements, planted even the meal were seasonal more trees, and added a winter root vegetables and large porch to the front not especially appetizing. of the house with a room Our breakfast was good, above now known as the though – we both ordered library. cooked-to-order omelets. In 1872, when the prop- The bottom line is that erty was sold to the Nich- each person’s experience olsons of Newbuildings, is distinctly his or her own. N. Ireland, the estate We’d definitely return and included 1,169 acres. The Marines who visit Beech give the dining room an- hotel now sits on 32 acres. Hill House Hotel in other chance to delight us. US NAVY BASE Londonderry, Northern SEPTEMBER While the history of Ireland, today continue HAPPENINGS Beech Hill ownership and a tradition started more There are many things subsequent changes is than 70 years ago when to do in Ireland in the fall, interesting, it’s the story many of their wartime including several events of the US Navy’s estab- predecessors carved along the Gourmet Gre- lishment of a World War their names, dates and enway in Co. Mayo. II camp on the grounds initials on a large tree in On Sept. 15, visit Mur- there that is riveting. US the woods now known as revagh Honey and meet the Marines’ Tree. Marines billeted in Quon- James McDermott, see set huts at Beech Hill from once sheltered their com- his apiary, and watch 1942 to 1944 to guard the rades, carve their initials him harvest Golden Mur- Navy’s Operating Base and dates into the huge, revagh Honey. Londonderry, which was ancient Marines’ Tree From Sept. 11 to 17, the its main center of on the grounds, visit the make a reservation at the operations in Europe museum, and stop by the A US Marine Corps’ Memorial was erected in 1997 at Beech Hill Country House award-winning An Port until after the Normandy monument erected on the Hotel in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Marines were billeted at Base One Mor Restaurant in West- landings. hotel grounds in 1997 by Europe, Beech Hill Camp, during the Second World War to guard the US Na- port, Co. Mayo, to sample Londonderry - the UK’s the Beech Hill US Navy/ val operating base in Londonderry. That base was decommissioned in 1944 creative dishes made from most westerly port - made Marine Corps Association. but the hotel still recognizes the history and observes US Navy and Marine Clare Island salmon. the city an obvious choice THE MANOR HOUSE month in August. Judy Enright photos From Sept. 22-24, for a strategic base. From HOTEL Galway City celebrates there, the Navy could help Current owners Patri- in-house, including beau- Express taxi tours to at- REVIEWS the Galway International protect convoys from U- cia (Patsy) O’Kane and tician, hairdresser, flow- tractions along the North We sometimes check Oyster & Seafood Festi- boat attacks during the her brother, Seamus Don- ers, and more. “We bring Antrim coast and also to Trip Advisor to see how val. More than 500,000 Battle of the Atlantic. The nelly, bought the property all the professionals here Donegal. When you’re in other Americans liked visitors have consumed base also fueled escort in 1989, spent the next for the bride,” Patsy said. that area, be sure to visit their Irish experiences. more than 3 million oys- vessels, serviced ships two years making reno- A TWO-NIGHT STAY historic Londonderry city A California resident ters since the festival’s from many nations and, vations, and opened up My large bedroom in the to walk the 17th Century who visited Beech Hill last inception in 1954. See at its height, had more in 1991. older section of the hotel city walls built to protect month wrote: “The room galwayoysterfestival.com than 5,000 American “It’s been a labor of was spotlessly clean and early English and Scottish was lovely and the service for more. personnel. love,” Patsy said, “and I nicely decorated with an- settlers. Derry is the only was great. However I am Westport’s art festival Today, when you walk can’t call it anything else. tiques as was my friend’s remaining completely extremely disappointed is Sept. 27 to Oct. 1 and through the manicured It’s been almost 30 years room next door. There are walled city in Ireland. by the quality of the food the Keel Sheep Show is grounds, ornamental gar- and we’re still working on 30 bedrooms and suites at There’s so much to do served. We ordered room Sat., Sept. 30, at the Achill dens, and series of trails it. It’s a way of life. I’ve Beech Hill, almost all with in the area and a visit is service for a light dinner, Head Hotel, Co. Mayo. through at Beech Hill, it’s enjoyed it and learned so garden views. highly recommended. See and for the price of the Enjoy Ireland whenever hard to imagine that more much.” Much work has been visitderry.com for more meals were expecting and wherever you go. than 400 Quonset huts Patsy is omnipresent. done there since Patsy information. either a substantial quan- and 30 shelters were once She’s chatting with guests and Seamus bought the there, serving as accom- or staff, checking dining property and it shows. In modation huts and mess room service, and mak- 2011, restoration work, tents, small workshops, ing small changes and which included new sash and even active theatres. improvements here and windows, extensive re- Handmade since 1925 The history of Beech there. She is a totally roofing, and external and Hill’s military past is com- hands-on owner, assisted interior redecoration, was memorated at the hotel by her nephew, Conor completed. in an on-site museum Donnelly, and other fam- The day after we ar- and trails dedicated to ily members. rived, we drove up to The Marine Lt. Gen. Martin By the end of the sum- Giant’s Causeway and R. Berndt (1948-2011) mer, Beech Hill hopes to then had an outstanding and his wife, Diana, who offer self-catering in five lunch at Bushmills Inn in championed the creation two-bedroom cottages on the town that’s home to of this museum. the grounds, Patsy said. the world’s oldest whis- The Londonderry base “We plow money back in,” key distillery near the was decommissioned in she said, “doing things Causeway. There are July 1944, but Beech Hill that are sustainable.” many other activities in still has special meaning In addition to confer- the area, too. for the Marines and their ences and events, the The hotel staff offered families who continue to hotel also focuses on wed- suggestions and provided visit. They stay in the dings and can provide all helpful brochures for hotel on grounds that wedding accoutrements activities like Causeway Page 18 September 2017 BOSTON IRISH Reporter bostonirish.com The Irish Language by Philip Mac AnGhabhann

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