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Boston Irish Honors Returns to Seaport Hotel on October 20 Corcorans, Hunts, Mulvoys, Kathy O’Toole, State Sen October 2011 VOL. 22 #10 $1.50 Boston’s hometown journal of Irish culture. Worldwide at bostonirish.com All contents copyright © 2011 Boston Neighborhood News, Inc. Boston Irish Honors returns to Seaport Hotel on October 20 Corcorans, Hunts, Mulvoys, Kathy O’Toole, State Sen. Tom Kennedy will be celebrated The Boston Irish Reporter, the region’s leading chronicler of all things Irish-American, will host the second annual Boston Irish Honors luncheon on Thursday, October 20, 2011 in the main ballroom of Boston’s Seaport Hotel. In keeping with our own heritage, the newspaper publicly recognizes three exemplary local Irish families whose ancestors emigrated from Ireland to give better lives to their children and grandchildren. We also will give special recognition to two Boston Irish individuals for their special achievements in government Andy Irvine returns to Boston October 6 with a performance at Four Green Fields. and in business. Photo by Brian Hartigan This year’s honorees will include former Boston Police Commissioner Kathleen O’Toole, who has just returned from Ireland after several years A discussion with Andy Irvine: working as a top police official; and State Senator Thomas Kennedy of Brockton, who has represented the city of Brockton for more than 25 years in the Life on the road, soloing, composing state legislature. Three prominent Boston Irish families will also be By Sean Smith in no small part to Irvine. celebrated at the event: the Corcoran family, who have Special to the BiR Nor has Irvine been content to rest on his achieve- been among the state’s leading builders and philanthro- First of two parts ments: Several years ago, he helped form the innovative pists of the last half-century— a tradition now carried For most of his adult life, Andy Irvine has been true Irish-Appalachian-Balkan ensemble Mozaik while con- on by a new generation of Corcorans. The Hunt fam- to the advice he set down in one of his best-loved songs: tinuing to play occasional reunion tours with his earlier ily— led by James and Jean Hunt of Dorchester— will Never tire of the road. bands. And through all this he has cultivated a highly be celebrated for their pioneering work in the fields of Irvine’s ongoing odyssey – which this month brings successful solo career and developed a reputation as a community health care and government in the Com- him to Boston, where he’ll perform on Oct. 6 at Four skillful, eloquent writer of songs, many built around monwealth. And the Mulvoy family — originally from Green Fields – these last four decades have taken him historical figures and events as well as social concerns Dorchester by way of County Galway— will be honored not only through Europe, the US, and plenty of other a la Woody Guthrie – all sung with a voice possessed for, among other things, two brothers’ many decades of places, but also across the length and breadth of the of a warm, utterly natural quality. His most recent good works in the field of sports and news journalism. modern Irish music revival as well. CD, last year’s “Abocurragh,” featured collaborations “This year’s honorees are all wonderful examples He has been a part of seminal bands like Sweeney’s with many of his longtime associates, including Donal of the success and dynamism of the Irish diaspora Men, Planxty, and Patrick Street, and in the mid-1970s Lunny and Liam O’Flynn from Planxty. here in the United States,” said Ed Forry, founder of paired up with Paul Brady to make a landmark album A newly remarried Irvine spoke with the BIR about the Boston Irish Reporter. “They have all excelled in that has had lasting influence and appeal. His visits to his demanding schedule, his biographical-style song- their respective fields and fulfilled the dreams of their Eastern Europe in the 1960s led him to explore that writing, and the prospects for another Planxty reunion, parents, who turned to these shores for a better life. region’s musical traditions, which he incorporated into among other topics. And all have— in one way or another— contributed his playing of Irish music; in particular, the presence Q. Andy, a glance at your calendar for the next few mightily to the collective good. We are a better city and of the bouzouki in Irish, and other Celtic, music owes (Continued on page 17) state for their work— and in saluting the Mulvoys, the Corcorans, the Hunts, Kathy O’Toole and Senator Tom Kennedy — we seek to pay homage to their ancestors Playing a belle, or a nun, Adams — and our own— who carved out a life for us in this land — and made it our home.” Kathy St. George delights The Boston Irish Honors event debuted in October, Corner 2010 before an appreciative audience of more than 300 By R. J. Donovan performances, whether top Boston business, civic and political leaders. The 2010 Special to the BiR musical or comedic. preps for honorees were: U.S. Congressman Edward J. Markey; At the moment, Kathy She found time to talk John Donohue CEO, Arbella Insurance; the Brett fam- St. George is just finish- about her work on the ily, the Hynes family and the Geraghty family. ing up a successful run morning of a two-show festival This year’s Boston Irish Honors will once again be day in Stoneham. Here’s in “Steel Magnolias” at By Sean Smith hosted by Dick Flavin, the legendary Boston televi- Stoneham Theatre. She’s an edited look at our con- sion commentator, speaker, playwright and actor who versation. Special to the BiR simultaneously in re- Call it a block party with brought us the critically-acclaimed one-man show, BIR: You started off in KATHY ST. GEORGE hearsals for “The Divine an open invitation to the “According to Tip.” life as a teacher. Diminutive dynamo Sister,” Charles Busch’s rest of the world. The third The 2011 Boston Irish Honors event has been KSG: I always wanted twisted, campy, lampoon maybe I might want to annual Irish Heritage planned and encouraged by a powerhouse host com- to be second grade teacher of every old Hollywood be a Music Specialist. I Festival will take place on mittee led by chairman Matthew Power, President of because I loved my nun movie ever made about was practicing the piano Sun., Oct. 9, in Adams Cor- Risk Specialist Companies Insurance Agency, Inc. of in the second grade. Sis- nuns, which opens Oct. 21 one day at the college and ner, Dorchester, Boston’s Boston; founding event chairman Robert Sheridan of ter Marie Germaine. A at SpeakEasy Stage. there was a sign posted on largest neighborhood, SBLI and Hon. Michael Lonergan, Consul General of sweetheart. I went to St. Juggling assignments the wall that said, Accom- celebrating Irish music, Ireland and Reporter publisher Ed Forry. Patrick’s School here in is nothing new to the di- panist Needed for Singer dance, and culture with a Committee members include Jim Brett, Bill Bulger, Stoneham. I loved that minutive dynamo. Born New to Boston. I answered focus that is unabashedly Jim Carmody, John T. Carroll, Della Costello, John teacher so much, I said, in Medford and raised the ad . It turned out local. Cullinane, Dan Driscoll, Dick Flavin, John Philip that’s it, I want to be a sec- in Stoneham, the actress [the singer’s] husband was While the festival head- Foley, Anne Geraghty, Dave Greaney, Steve Greeley, ond grade teacher when and singer took a leave of the new Theatre professor liners include Na Fianna, Barry T. Hynes, Kieran Jordan, Jim Keefe, Edris Kel- I grow up. And so I did. absence in 1979 from her at the college. They were a hot new ballad-style ley, Bill Kennedy, Rev. Tom Kennedy, Paul and Mimi BIR: Being a teacher job in education to trod just starting to develop a group from Ireland, along LaCamera, Barbie Langis, Joe Leary, Mary Joyce Mor- is like being on stage in the boards on Broadway, Theatre major, and so he with well-traveled, ever- ris, Sean Moynihan, Jim O’Brien, Bill O’Donnell, Bill many ways. But how did off-Broadway, at Lincoln asked me to play the little popular singers Robbie Reilly, Jack Shaughnessy, Gil Sullivan, Bobby White you first get into perform- Center and in five national girl in his first production O’Connell and Aoife Clan- and Paul White. ing? tours. But it’s here in of “Wait Until Dark.” I cy (both New England resi- For more information on tickets and sponsorship op- KSG: I was a junior at Boston that she’s built said, Oh my God I could dents), most of the other portunities, contact Ed Forry, President & Publisher of a dedicated following of Salem State. I minored in (Continued on page 10) the Boston Irish Reporter at 617-436-1222. admirers who flock to her Music because I thought (Continued on page 17) Page 2 October 2011 BOSTON IRISH REPORTER Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com In Memory of Paintings of Ireland Mike Cummings, 1924-2011 by Michael J. Cummings of Milton MA to the footnotes of history until Mike died on Saturday, October 1, 2011 after became interested. In 1968, he formed a decade long battle with Lou Gehrig’s the Patrick S. Gilmore Society, a musical Disease. He was 87 years old. appreciation group that organized an- Mary McSweeney His wake is taking place on Tues- nual band concerts on Boston City Hall day, October 4, at the Thomas Funeral Plaza and the Charles River Esplanade, Home, East Milton Sq., 4:00 -8:00 p.m, encouraging a new generation of musi- with a 10:30 a.m.funeral mass Oct 5 St.
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