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Sun., Nov. 19 Is the Day: AIG Hurling Classic Returns to Fenway Park November 2017 Boston’s hometown VOL. 28 #11 journal of Irish culture. $2.00 Worldwide at All contents copyright © 2017 bostonirish.com Boston Neighborhood News, Inc. Sun., Nov. 19 is the day: AIG Hurling Classic returns to Fenway Park By Daniel Sheehan BiR CoRReSponDent The AIG Hurling Classic is coming back to Fenway Park, this time in the form of a three-match tournament on Sun., Nov. 19. The event will feature four of Ireland’s top teams, with Galway taking on Dublin in a rematch of the 2015 contest, and Tipperary facing Clare in the second preliminary match. The winners will then play for the championship. America’s oldest major league ballpark has had ties to Ireland for nearly a cen- tury. It was there in 1919 that the eminent Irish leader Eamon de Valera made his Darren Gleeson of Co. Tipperary case for the recognition of a newly inde- joined Red Sox President Sam Ken- pendent Ireland to a standing-room only nedy to announce the AIG Fenway gathering. A century later, the Irish of Classic last June. Boston’s ties to the motherland remain which saw Galway emerge victorious over as strong as ever, as evidenced by the Waterford. The reigning world champions immense popularity of the 2015 hurling will seek to defend their title and earn exhibition, which was played in front of a a second straight victory over Dublin in crowd of 30,000. That contest saw Galway the Fenway Classic. come from behind in a thrilling matchup “Along with the championship trophy, against Dublin to win, 50-47. there will be an intense Irish pride for Event organizers were encouraged and counties competing in the final match,” inspired by the success of the first of what said Gaelic Players Association chief ex- they hoped would become a recurring ecutive officer Dermot Earley. “The new series. “The strong demand and positive tournament format is going to bring the response to the inaugural AIG Fenway best out of four brilliant teams. It will be Hurling Classic in 2015 prompted us to an unforgettable day for fans, players, and make this year’s event even bigger and the sport of hurling as a whole.” better,” said Fenway Sports Manage- The classic will be preceded by a lively ment managing director Mark Lev. “The Irish festival featuring Irish food, music, game’s exciting combination of speed, and dancing. The festival will begin at skill, constant action, and scoring has 11 a.m. The preliminary games will be Galway hurlers Colm and Jason Flynn gave their team captain Andy Smith really resonated with fans.” played at 12:30 and 1:30 p.m., and the a lift as they celebrated their victory over Dublin at the AIG Fenway Hurl- So this month, “the fastest game on championship match at 3 p.m. Tickets are ing Classic in Nov. 2015. The classic will be reprised this month as a one-day grass” returns to Fenway in the wake of available for purchase at mlb.com/redsox/ tournament on Nov. 19. Image: Ray McManus/Sportsfile last month’s All-Ireland Championship, tickets/special-events/hurling. Immigrant experience draws attention at Irish Honors luncheon By Daniel Sheehan migrants — to protect them from persecution, and RepoRteR CoRReSponDent protect them from hate,” he said. “Many of our [Irish] The Boston Irish Reporter hosted its eighth an- ancestors and relatives who came to this country were nual Boston Irish Honors luncheon on Oct. 26 at the undocumented. We should never forget that.” Seaport Hotel. The event drew some 400 guests who The mayor said that it was only fitting that the helped to honor Boston Globe columnist Kevin Cullen, BIR honors continue to be conscious of the plight of former state highway commissioner and Boston may- immigrants Boston, for they are the people who built oral advisor Tom Tinlin, and a Dorchester and South and continue to build our city. Boston family dedicated to serving their community: He added: “It’s important for us today … to remember Annmarie,Nora, and Bill Kennedy. that those immigrants coming today will be the leaders The event was bookended by passionate speeches of the future. Some day they’ll be somebody standing, from Mayor Marty Walsh and Cullen, both of whom maybe at this microphone, maybe at this luncheon, preached humility and tolerance to the largely Boston whose mother might have come from Honduras and Irish audience in the context of the divisive national whose father might have come from El Salvador and debate surrounding the anti-immigrant climate in they met at a hall or restaurant in East Boston. Twenty- Washington. five years later… their son or daughter could become Walsh’s parents immigrated from Connemara, Co. mayor of Boston. And we hope that the immigrants 25 Galway in the 1960s, while Cullen’s grandparents years from now are treated better than the immigrants came to America a generation earlier. Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh offered opening of today are being treated.” The mayor, who has been outspoken against the remarks at the Boston Irish Honors luncheon, say- Cullen echoed Walsh’s sentiments in his remarks ing in part: “Those of us that are Irish-Americans concluding the luncheon, chiding those who would current administration’s harsh stance on immigration, must be on the front lines to continue to fight and implored his fellow Irish Americans to remember that willfully ignore their own immigrant past and turn a welcome immigrants — to protect them from per- blind eye to the current plight of those seeking a bet- just a few generations ago, their forebears were in the secution, and protect them from hate. “Many of our same position as today’s Latin American immigrants. ter life in America. ancestors and relatives who came to this country As a group that “faced institutional discrimination for “Those of us that are Irish-Americans must be on were undocumented. We should never forget that.” the front lines to continue to fight and welcome im- Isabel Leon/City of Boston photo (Continued on page 17) I work in Hollywood but I keep my money in my hometown-Kevin Chapman Check out City of Boston Credit Union - visit CityofBostonCU.com Page 2 November 2017 BOSTON IRISH RePORTeR bostonirish.com bostonirish.com November 2017 BOSTON IRISH RePORTeR Page 3 To order: www.gerardfdoherty.com Doherty memoir sheds light on Kennedy friendships www.amazon.com By Daniel Sheehan representative, Doherty RepoRteR CoRReSponDent presents an intimate About a minute had portrait of his hometown, passed since Gerard its Irish Catholic history, Doherty welcomed me and its complicated politi- into his office on Franklin cal past. Street in Boston, and he From his stories of had already launched into success on the campaign one of his favorite stories trail, it’s clear that the po- litical savvy he learned in about the Kennedy broth- It is the remarkable story of a man who Charlestown proved use- grew up in modest circumstances, to ers, one involving Ted acquire a degree from Harvard, to ful on both the state and overcome a devastating illness, to rise to Kennedy and a bathtub be friends with the most famous brothers in American history, in central Massachusetts. national level. Doherty’s to work with three U.S. Presidents and to establish a successful boldness and creativ- law practice. It is the American story personified. “Ted was accustomed www.gerardfdoherty.com to soaking in a tub every ity were instrumental afternoon for half an hour in a number of political tionship with the family to relax,” Doherty said. “It victories, including one for decades on end. was toward the end of a in Indiana during RFK’s ••• long day of campaigning presidential campaign The JFK Library host- and we were in a small, when Doherty, in what ed a conversation with remote town in central he calls “a Machiavellian Doherty and WGBH’s Mass when he urged me idea,” solicited the help Jim Braude on Oct. 15. to find a tub for him. We of a local marching band At the conclusion, Braude came upon a home and I to help rally support and read the one line from the walked up and knocked gather signatures at com- book that he thought to be on the front door and ex- munity churches. “wildly untrue.” Doherty plained the situation. The In addition to its trea- was recalling a meeting Gerard Doherty speaks as WGBH’s Jim Braude listens at the JFK Library sure trove of stories and man who answered didn’t on Oct. 15. with two politicians dur- believe me!” anecdotes, “They Were ing which he was forced In the end, the confused setts, lawyer, real estate stories to tell. man, and his first foray My Friends” also includes to stall. He writes, “I then homeowner obliged after broker. But most notably, His storytelling takes into politics. a number of previously did something I do quite seeing Kennedy in the he was a political advisor, center stage in the au- Employing a matter-of- unreleased photographs well. I talked for a very flesh, providing Doherty strategist, and campaign tobiographical memoir, fact narrative voice, he from Doherty’s personal long time without saying with a particularly en- manager who worked on which spans the nearly works his way through collection, many of which anything of consequence.” tertaining anecdote, one the front lines for Presi- ten decades of his life, the throngs of people who hang on the wall in his of- Whether this was of many in his new book, dent John F. Kennedy, recounting whimsical have made an impact fice.
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