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between your fin- gers. Tired from I sit amongst reams of dis- maraderie built in giving to- our misadven- plays. The 29th Annual Cleveland gether, for over three decades. tures, we would Irish Cultural Festival is a month Our volunteer ranks are filled wait for our din- off, and time seems to be rushing with many who bear the same ner and swing on toward me. It is with great relief last name or founding relation; the playground that I sent the brand new Greater another generation of families set, watching Cleveland Irish Directory off to working ticket, pop, beer and To Every Season my aunt carry freshly harvested beans and the printer today. It will be avail- other stations. They are our “t’maters” for our noon meal. able at Cleveland Irish Cultural strength and our foundation. As a girl, I always wanted to live on a farm. While my aunt would prepare the beans, care- Festival July 22-24, at the Berea New volunteers offer more I would wonder what my life would be like if fully popping off the tough ends, I would sit on Fairgrounds. Now I can work than just a pair of hands, for my mother hadn’t moved from her hometown of the high kitchen stool visiting with her, always hard at having fun. their energy and creativity can- Billings, Missouri. But if fate had unfolded in keeping one eye on the window that overlooked I was sixteen when my dad not be manufactured; it must any other way, I wouldn’t be who I am today. the farm. I never tired of her stories or soft Mis- walked into my bedroom one John O’Brien, Jr. be earned in laughter and em- My earliest memories of the farm sprout like souri drawl. Even now, I feel beans with bacon day in 1982 and said, “Johnny, braced in created memories. vegetables on a vine. One moment I recall my are best boiled with a side of country wisdom. we’re starting a festival, you are doing the Seeing thousands of people living, laughing granddad before he died, sitting in his white When I long for the farm, I take my colander parking,” and walked out. Twenty-nine years and learning on the Midway is simply icing on wicker chair sheltered from the heat of the mid- filled with summer beans and sit on my front later, we still worry about the parking, and the the cake for this cádre of compatriots. day sun beneath a towering oak tree awaiting my porch with a glass of iced tea and revel in a mo- walk to the front gate for our guests. After line- I have been privileged to work with many family’s arrival from Chicago. During another ment’s quiet. The thud of the beans falling into up and the publicity efforts, the parking lot is festivals in exchanging ideas and sharing early memory, I can feel the stifling humidity the stainless bowl the only sound I hear. the first thing our guests see. It has always knowledge. Those sharing of best practices the evening my granddad was waked. Crickets Though I lived in the city, I tried to recap- been free, but always at a significant cost and extend far beyond the too short festival sea- chirped loudly that twilight, nature’s mourners ture my moments on the farm. Each summer, concern to us as organizers. son. The relationships forged in quiet conver- drowning out the human tears. my mother would buy me packs of seeds: canta- Entertainment is king and by far the most sations with other organizers, performers, edu- I can still see my five-year-old self, standing loupe, tomatoes, pumpkins, and corn. Our Chi- cited reason people spend their time and mon- cators and luminaries are truly the little extra outside the century-old funeral home, dressed in cago garage faced an alley and sat about three ey in going to an event. Great line-ups draw light that eases loads and warms cold winters a black polka-dotted dress with a large yellow feet away from our neighbor’s. great crowds, great experiences keep them with a bonfire’s great light and a friendship’s daisy for a pocket. Unaffected by the cacophony Huge clusters of wild mint choked the there. Only the weather (and the hyper weather great warmth. It is an honor. of crickets, I bent down and scratched the mos- ground. With my father’s help, I managed to forecasters) have more impact on an events at- Hope to see you at the 29th Annual Cleve- quito bites that dotted my bare legs and ankles. clear a space, long enough to plant corn and tendance. land Irish Cultural Festival, a week later at I remember being quite put off that I had not cantaloupe. My father humored me, convinced The behind the scenes effort that starts on Dayton Celtic Fest, or a week after that, at the received a mass card. My older cousin gently that nothing would ever grow in that city soil but the Sunday before the event with over 450 Dublin Irish Fest. Trifecta! scolded me saying that I was too young to read weeds. volunteers, actually starts nine months earlier, To close, in another honor, I was recently and didn’t need one. Boldly, I grabbed her card Strangely enough, my plants grew. The corn when bands, grounds, production and promo- named to Irish America Magazine’s “Top 100 during the prayer service and proved her wrong, grew tall, reaching toward the top of the garage. tion are all offered, argued and booked. About Irish American’s”. It is hard to know what to say reading each and every word. Even though my The corn itself was tough and inedible, probably 1% of the festival weekend workers volunteer when recognized for doing what I love, except first memories revolved around a death, what I owing to the age of the hardware store seeds, in festival preparation year ‘round. Volunteers to say thank you. So in this the 29th Fest and most remember is how alive I felt on the farm. but still it grew. My cantaloupe vines hardly give up evenings or a Saturday to discuss the the Top 100, I wish to say Thank You OhIAN Precocious and curious to a fault, I spent three prospered. The fruit was small and hard; never past, plan the future and spark new ways to readers for your support, your ideas, your atten- weeks each year of my childhood, knee deep in to fully ripen in the shade of the garage. That preserve, promote and present the rich culture dance and most of all, for sharing in this most hay and manure, trying to figure out where I fit summer I harvested more memories than pro- that has enriched so many of us. wonderful cult and culture that is being Irish. in the world. Like the young calf whose color- duce, but my desire to be part of the earth was The reward for these volunteers is the ca- Slán, John ing is dark enough to stand out from his fair, quenched. * www.ianohio.com, www.facebook.com/OhioIrishAmericanNews, caramel colored siblings, I was curly-haired Each summer rain brings a sense of freshness www.twitter.com/jobjr, www.myspace.com/ohian, and olive-skinned. I looked different from my to the earth. Cool rain ushers in humidity, moist http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ohioirishamericannews fair-skinned, blond-haired Missouri cousins, but enough to curl my hair and lift the scent off of inside we were kindred spirits, country kids at green leaves and pink flowering petals. In the tasted the salt from brisk sea winds that lashed love. We are, he and I, kindred spirits, country heart. suburbs and the city, such fragrance is fleeting. across his face. Vegetable-like he grew by his fa- kids at heart. Aunt Peggy kept a garden filled with toma- Car exhaust and construction vehicles temper ther’s side, nourished with tradition and mother’s Continued on Page 15… toes, corn, melons, and trailing beans. Dinner the headiness of the earth. was served at lunchtime. My uncle had already In the Irish countryside, the fragrance of the www.mariannemangan.com been working since 4:30 am and was ready for fields is omnipresent; the smell of mown hay fresh buttered corn, green beans boiled with ba- and sweet grass, not unlike the scents of the con, and slices of salted watermelon. Missouri farm, stay with you through years, de- Barefoot and innocent, my younger cousin cades, and generations. Such perfume transports and I were as thick as thieves. Somehow we fol- you to another time and place where worries lowed an unending trail of mischief. If told to are held in perspective; the bleating of newborn stay out of the cornfield, in we would go. lambs harnessing you back to the earth. Trapped in a field filled with late July corn is I wish to give my children the gifts my par- at once frightening and exhilarating. The depth ents gave me, the gift of the earth, the farm, of the rows of corn is disorienting, maze-like. and fresh air. My husband shares this ideal as imagine your image Each stalk of corn resembles another. The stalks he spent summers in Ireland, much like I spent scratch against your bare skin, but the smell is mine in Missouri. He followed in the wake of 216-671-4673 pure and of the earth, yellow corn silks smooth his uncle’s footsteps through field and bog. He [email protected] 4 ianOHIO www.ianohio.com irish american news • July 2011

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It did help College Green later that evening. In a during John F. Kennedy’s historic visit that Sinn rousing speech, he encouraged people in June 1963. Fein’s leader not to give in to those who claim the Gerry Adams country cannot cope with the challeng- Trad Musicians’ Hub praised the es facing it. Anyone interested in traditional Irish Queen after “We’re people, the Irish and Ameri- music around the world should look out she expressed cans, who never stop imagining a for a new website. It’s called Trad Con- ‘sincere sym- brighter future, even in bitter times. nect and it links people who share a pathy’ to all We’re people who make that future common interest in playing trad music. those affected happen through hard work, and through The website presents a forum for mu- by the Trou- sacrifice, through investing in those sicians living in the same area—either Queen and Obama Give Irish Lift bles in North- things that matter most, like family and at home or abroad—to get together and There has been a noticeable spring in ern Ireland community.” share their love of playing Irish music. the Irish step since the morale-boosting and Ireland’s 800 year fight for free- The President said Ireland was a The creator of the site said that with visits of Queen Elizabeth and Barack dom. He had declined all invitations to “little country, that inspires the biggest the busy lifestyles people have today, Obama to the Emerald isle. The mood events during her visit to Ireland but he things—your best days are still ahead.” they don’t have the time to commit to of the nation was lifted after years of did take note of her keynote speech at At a press conference after meet- weekly music sessions, so Trad Connect depressing news about our economy. the State banquet in Dublin Castle. ing Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Kenny, aims to allow people to arrange music We were hosting the first British mon- The Queen also visited Croke Park, President Obama pledged that the Unit- sessions with people in their own areas arch in Ireland in a century. Her visit, scene of the original Bloody Sunday ed States would do everything it could in the same situation. at the age of 85, showed two indepen- massacre when the Black and Tans killed to help Ireland on the road to economic Already musicians in London, Syd- dent neighbouring states holding out 14 players and fans at a GAA match in recovery. He said he had discussed the ney, New York, Chicago and Montreal the hand of friendship to each other as 1920. Opinion polls in advance of her important economic issues with the have signed up to the free site. Brazil, equals, regretting what had happened visit had shown that the vast majority Taoiseach and was glad to see progress France, Spain and Eastern Europe have in the past and moving on to shape welcomed her visit to Ireland. One ra- being made in stabilising the economic also joined. Once signed up to the site, the future because the past cannot be dio poll ran as high as 80%. situation. members are categorised by their level changed. If the Queen’s visit was full of sym- “I know it’s a hard road, but it’s one of ability, age and location. They are then At the Garden of Remembrance in bolism and respect, President Barack that the Irish people are more than up to notified of other musicians in the same central Dublin, the Queen paid respect Obama’s visit a few days later rocked the task in achieving.” area and encouraged to meet up. Check to those patriots who had opposed Brit- with palpable excitement. Ireland As one Irish writer put it, there was out the site: www.tradconnect.com. ish Rule, including the leaders of the turned out in force to greet a long lost another, unstated advantage in remind- 1916 Rising, by laying a wreath and cousin and his wife, Michelle. ing America Obama is also of white, Thatched Cottages On Wane bowing to their memory. That set the They got an ecstatic welcome in European extraction. By producing his It’s bad news for Ireland’s thatched tone for the rest of her four-day State Moneygall, Co Offaly, where they were long-form birth certificate last month cottages with a report finding that less visit during which she visited Kildare, greeted by Mr. Obama’s eighth cousin, and disposing of Osama bin Laden, than 2,000 of them remain in the coun- the Rock of Cashel in Tipperary and Henry Healy. They spent close to forty- Obama put paid—at least temporari- try. One of the reasons is that finding Cork, where she got a truly rousing five minutes shaking hands and greet- ly—to the “birther” conspiracy theory. anyone who can thatch is becoming in- welcome. ing hundreds of people along the main His Irish roots are another nail in that creasingly more difficult. Another is ris- Just after she left Ireland, friends street. A relaxed President pulled ba- coffin. ing insurance costs. What a pity this pic- from the United States rang to say they bies from the crowd and hugged locals. According to a new biography of ture postcard scene of the Emerald Isle had heard on the media there that there They then called to President Stanley Anne Dunham, Obama’s moth- is on the wane. were bombs going off everywhere in Obama’s ancestral home and to Ollie er felt hurt that he chose to identify so Finally, a big hello to the proud Mayos Ireland during her stay with us. Nothing Hayes’s Pub, where the president and completely with the African-American from Cleveland who attended the Mayo could have been further from the truth. his wife sampled Guinness. President community, when he’d been raised World Convention in Mayo recently, es- No bombs went off, and there was no Obama said “sláinte” before drinking by her (white) side of the family. By pecially Pat Lenehan and Gerry Quinn incident involving the Queen. Yes, there his pint and paying for it. “I just want making the pilgrimage to Moneygall, whom I had the great pleasure of meet- was a muted protest by a small group you to know the president pays his bar Obama acknowledged his Caucasian ing. about 300 yards from the Garden of tab,” he joked. roots. Obama has an almost Irish love Until next time, slan. Remembrance, and yes, some hooded Barack Obama crowned a trium- of symbolism. Not by chance, the Irish Terry youths did set fire to a rubbish wheelie phant day in Ireland with an address to Embassy in Washington gave U.S. jour- [email protected] bin, but other than that, very little. an estimated 50,000 people at Dublin’s nalists a copy of the speeches made www.terry-reilly.com. 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ago on the ships and boats as a two producers and as of today, less producer.” method of preserving. During the than a year later, they have forty Rory explains that they now 1990’s, whilst living and working one producers. Rory saw a need distribute nationally and as of May in London, I decided to make this for this. I asked him why, and he they began to ship to the UK. spiced beef. I purchased my beef explained that these artisan produc- Now if only we could get some and the spice mixture calls for one ers were unable to reach a larger of these foods here… ”The only very important ingredient, Salt audience outside of their shops and reason for time, is so that every- Petre. I went from store to store market stalls. “What we do is re- thing doesn’t happen at once.” looking and asking for this but to connect the customer and the local —Albert Einstein no avail. Finally, upon chatting to a Food Fit For A Queen manager in my local Sainsbury’s he Rustic Raspberry Tart with Kerrygold Butter Crust Ireland waited with baited breath sandwich. If you have never had told me it was an ingredient in gun for an historic visit from HRH Queen spiced beef then you are simply powder. No wonder I was getting Elizabeth. It began with her arrival in missing out on one of life’s plea- funny looks! Dublin, taking in the National stud sures! This famous beef was one of The Queen and Prince Phillip in Kildare, making her way down the many items that appeared in the meandered their way through the to Co. Tipperary and stalls, stopping to chat to spending her last day in various vendors, asking Cork City. many questions and laugh- The English Market ing with the people of was her first stop. Cork. I can only imagine This famous land- what a feast for the senses mark is well known it must have been. Before to us Corkonians. In leaving, she was presented fact, I remember tak- with a basket that em- ing a shortcut through bodied all that was and the market to get to is the ‘English Market.’ Crust In a food processor, whirl to- the bus stop on Patrick The kitchens in Bucking- 1 C. all purpose flour gether flour and salt. Add but- Street. Fishmongers, ham Palace were in for a 1/4 tsp salt ter, pulsing until the mixture re- butchers, bakers and treat. Meat from Bresnan’s 6 tbsp cold unsalted Kerry- sembles coarse meal. Add egg cheese makers have Butchers and Tom Dur- gold Pure Irish Butter, cut into yolk and water 1 teaspoon at a been there for genera- can’s Butchers, Irish Por- 1/2” chunks time, process just until dough tions. It first opened its English Market Queen’s Basket ter Cake from ‘The Farm- 1 lg. egg yolk (reserve clumps together and begins doors in 1788. gate Cafe,” Wexford Irish Honey, white) to form a ball. Set 2 pieces of A traditional favorite in Cork basket presented to the Queen. Tom Smoked Salmon from Ballycotton 3 to 5 tsp iced water plastic wrap aside (12-15 inch- City every Christmas is ‘Spiced Durcan, a well know Cork butcher Seafood and Earl Grey Irish Tea Filling es each). Lightly dust each with Beef.’ I remember my father bring- explained to her majesty how this Breac (cake) from ABC Bakery. 2 C. raspberries flour. Gather dough and press ing home the fresh supply, newly Cork spiced beef was made. This In 2010 www.localmarkets. 3 tbsp sugar into a flat disk. Place dough sliced, eager to have a spiced beef particular method was used years ie was founded. Rory McCann 2 tsp cornstarch onto one piece of plastic, then launched this website with twenty Preheat oven to 425 ° F. place 2nd piece on top. With a rolling pin, roll dough into about an 11-12 inch round. P.J. McIntyre’s Peel off top layer of plastic, invert onto baking sheet lined Irish Pub with parchment paper. Remove 17119 Lorain Ave. other layer of plastic. Distribute Cleveland, OH 44111 berries in center of pastry, leav- ing a 2 inch border. In a small 216-941-9311 bowl, mix sugar and cornstarch. Sprinkle 3 tablespoons mixture Cleveland’s evenly over fruit. Gently fold Authentic Irish Pub edges of pastry over berries, pleating edges to fit. Leave an opening 4-6 inches wide in the center. Brush pastry with re- served egg white. Sprinkle pas- try lightly with remaining sugar mixture. Bake on bottom rack Now Serving Breakfast/Brunch of the oven for 25-30 minutes every Sunday at 8am or until crust is golden brown. Cool in pan for 15 minutes. See the Out and About Ohio Section Website: www.RachelGaff- for all PJ’s Music in June... neys.com. Follow on Twitter: @Rachelgaffney. Facebook: www.pjmcintyres.com Rachel Gaffney. Blog: www.ra- Book All Of Your Party Events In Our New Room! chelgaffney.blogspot.com. July 2011 • irish american news www.ianohio.com ianOHIO 7

Louisburgh workhouse. He told way. They arrived wet and cold at back through Doolough Pass. As them he had no authority to grant Delphi Lodge the next afternoon. their journey continued, the crowd them food or a ticket, but they The Board of Guardian mem- continued to leak a trail of dead could appeal to two of the Board of bers were at lunch when the people behind them as hypothermia and Guardians, Colonel Hograve and arrived and amazingly, they could exhaustion took its grim toll on the Mr. Lecky, who were meeting the not be disturbed. The starving starving band. They soon reached a next day at Delphi Lodge, located crowd was told to wait. A few more spot in the pass called Stroppabue twelve miles south of Louisburgh. died of exhaustion while waiting. which was a cliff overhanging the Delphi Lodge was a hunting lodge When they had finished their meal, lake of Doolough. The Tragedy at Doolough and was located on the other side Hograve and Lecky decided to At this point in the pass, the of Doolough Pass, a mountain pass meet with the great mass of starv- cold air funneled across Doolough Last month I wrote about distributed without checking into that runs between the Sheffry Hills ing people. and churned into a screaming vor- Croagh Patrick, the holy mountain the workhouse. Of course, to qual- and the Mweelrea Mountains. The crowd was advised to return tex of wind and hail. Weakened by in the west of Ireland in County ify for outdoor relief you had to be starvation, disease, and exposure, Mayo. This month’s article is about “inspected and approved” by the the heavy squall swept many of the a tragic incident that occurred dur- Board of Guardians. The poor also starving crowd off the cliff and into ing the Great Hunger and in the had to prove that they did not own the lake. Many drowned in the icy shadow of Croagh Patrick. It oc- more than a quarter acre of land to waters. Others managed to reach curred in and about the town of receive any relief. the bank of the Glankeen River, but Louisburgh, near the lake known The British had purchased a fatigued by the hardships of their as Doolough (Black Lake). supply of Indian corn from Amer- journey, there they died. As you may recall from read- ica. There was no market for the It is unknown how many of this ing this column, the British passed coarse Indian corn in Britain, so it group of starving people met their a law in 1838 that established the was assured that this distribution death in the waters of Doolough. Poor Law Unions in districts all would not interfere with the nor- Accounts of the tragedy place the over Ireland. Each district had its mal course of trade. The Guard- death toll at anywhere from 100 to own workhouse that was man- ians were authorized to issue three over 400. aged by a locally elected Board of pounds of corn to those paupers Doolough Marker The next morning, the Receiv- Guardians. This system, financed who passed inspection. It should ing Officer at Louisburgh heard by taxes imposed on the landlords, be noted that grinding the Indian The crowd spent the night in to Louisburgh. Without explana- of the tragedy and took a group of was supposed to be for the benefit corn was quite difficult and for a Louisburg. Weakened from their tion, the two Guardians refused to men along the goat track to Delphi of the poor, hungry, and destitute starving person, the coarse grain trip, many of the 600 men, women give them either their three pounds and buried the dead where they Irish. Instead the dreaded work- was a little like digesting razor and children who slept in the streets of corn or a ticket to enter the fell without coffins or ceremony. It houses became little more than blades; but it was food. that night died. The next day, five workhouse. is recorded that the path from the concentration camps for the poor, In March of 1849, over six hun- hundred of those that remained Disappointed, the group headed Louisburgh to the Glankeen River where death and disease flour- dred starving people made their trudged through the mud and rain back to Louisburgh over the same and from the Glankeen to Delphi ished. way into the town of Louisburgh along a goat track in the direc- bleak and dangerous path they was covered with corpses “as nu- In most districts, the Board of in search of food through outdoor tion of Delphi Lodge, crossing the had just taken. A strong south- merous as sheaves of corn in an Guardians were a bureaucratic relief or a ticket that would admit Glankeen River at flood stage and west wind blew up carrying with autumn field.” gang that dealt harshly with the them to the workhouse. They met through the mountain pass. Still it showers, freezing rain and hail Irish poor and often prevented with the Receiving Officer at the more died of exhaustion along the stones. Their journey took them Continued on Page 17… those who qualified for relief from receiving it. Some of the relief funds for the Irish ended up lining the pockets of greedy Guardians. With the failure of the potato crop in 1845, Ireland was sent into a downward spiral of starva- tion, poverty, disease and death. Subsequent annual crop failures brought even more suffering. As the Great Hunger progressed, more Fine Irish Spirits and more Irish were made destitute and homeless, without any means of obtaining food. The truly sad Fine Irish Food truth about the Great Hunger is that the British continued to ship Fine Irish Entertainment food from Ireland while millions of Irish starved. County Mayo was particularly hard hit during the Summer Hours, Closed Sundays until Fall hunger, losing an estimated 27% of its population to death or emi- 117 WEST LIBERTY ST • MEDINA, OHIO gration. For a while the workhouses 330-764-3333 were authorized to provide “out- www.sullysmedina.com door relief,” that is, food could be 8 ianOHIO www.ianohio.com irish american news • July 2011

He occupied a familiar spot where Having stated my position about it in notebook, I wait for my second pint other famous leaders have stood last month’s letter, my overall reac- to settle. The room is beginning to including Michael Collins (1922) tion to the four days was one of ad- fill as ‘knocking-off’ time approach- and Bill Clinton (1995). His words miration. Not for anything having to es. Comfortably situated, I close my of hope were filled with promise, do with Britishness, but rather pride eyes as my thoughts carry me back unity. in Ireland and for my Irishness. As to another summer’s day some years The friendship and the bond be- the world saw and took note of the ago. tween the United States and Ireland symbolism surrounding the Garden It was the near the end of July Greetings… I’m sitting in the topped off by President Barrack could not be stronger. Obviously it of Remembrance, the War Memo- just outside Cleveland. A warm sun back room of the Palace Bar on Fleet Obama’s emotive speech directed to is not just a matter of strategic inter- rial and the Croke Park ceremonies, beat down on the barns and midway Street. It’s a quiet retreat from the both Ireland and Irish-America. est. It’s not just a matter of foreign it filled me with a renewed sense of of the Berea Fairgrounds. I’d been maddening crowd wearing out the Silhouetted behind him was the policy for the United States. Ireland national devotion. invited to speak and sign books at pavement between College Green majestic, granite expanse of (Hen- carries a blood link with us. And for Sadly, these festivities became the Cleveland Irish Cultural Festival and O’Connell’s Bridge. Less than a ry) Grattan’s old Parliament House the millions of Irish Americans, this muted by the death of Ireland’s for- organised by the O’Brien family. I month ago 25,000 souls packed The (1739), which today serves as a mu- continues to symbolise the home- mer two-time, Fine Gael Taoiseach believe it was 2002 and only my sec- Green to hear the words and music seum and Bank of Ireland office. On land and the extraordinary traditions Garret Fitzgerald. As leader of his ond or third such invitation. of some of Ireland’s finest entertain- 23 May, America’s 44th president of an extraordinary people. party from 1977 to 1987, Fitzger- Walking around the festival ers. This two-hour spectacular was addressed an approving audience. I’m sure you saw pictures of the ald, a so-called political liberal, had grounds that Friday afternoon, antic- Obama’s earlier that day, arriving worked earlier for Aer Lingus, then ipation and butterflies stirred inside into Moneygall (Co. Offaly) to visit served as a university lecturer, law- me. I remembered buying a t-shirt the ancestral haunt of the Kearney’s, yer and government minister. to commemorate the occasion. Sur- distant relatives of his mother’s. De- His terms in office were marked rounding me was a flurry of activity spite dodgy weather, the Obama’s by controversy. Both Ireland’s as vendors made last minute adjust- waded in and literally embraced northern ‘troubles’ and a national, ments to their displays. The smell of an Irish welcome extended by the economic malaise occupied the grilling sausages, peppers and on- residents of this wee village and his lion’s share of his time. One no- ions filled the air. Beer taps waited in newly-discovered relatives. table attempt to resolve his island’s anticipation while golf carts rushed The American leader’s short but differences saw him spearhead the to and fro delivering last minute sup- heartfelt visit was just the capstone creation of the New Ireland Forum plies and transporting entertainers to to an amazing week. First, there in 1983. their assigned stages. was the British monarch’s contro- Fitzgerald saw the Forum as a There, seemingly unperturbed versial four-day visit to Ireland. way of bringing the recognised polit- by the organised chaos around Soon after her arrival, she placed ical parties of both North and South him, strolled Tommy Makem. As a wreath at the Garden of Remem- together for their common benefit. he walked in my direction, I was brance, which honours the fallen of Unfortunately, the Ulster Unionists speechless thinking — Wow! The Ireland’s long-endured struggle for and British PM Margaret Thatcher great man himself. freedom against British tyranny. Fit- rejected any attempt to form such an As we passed, our eyes met. I tingly, she bowed to those men and association. In fact, the Iron Lady’s raised my hand to wave and he said, women of 1798, 1803, 1848, 1867, famous 1984 ‘Out, Out, Out’ speech — Fine day so. 1916 and the 1919-1921 War for In- squelched his hopes, but did provide Awestruck, I nodded and said dependence. some impetus for both British and something like, — Indeed. The following day, shepherded by Irish governments to resume nego- Now, after signing books at nu- Irish President Mary McAleese, the tiating. A year later saw Fitzgerald merous Irish festivals, I still remem- visitor laid a second wreath in Ire- and Thatcher sign a second Anglo- ber that encounter, along with many land’s National War Memorial Gar- Irish Agreement, the first being in others… too numerous to recount dens at Islandbridge. The celebrity 1921. here. honoured the c. 49,400 Irish who’d The former Taoiseach, now a So for those of you planning on died in the First War, as well as the much revered elder statesman, re- attending your first, be it in Cleve- others who gave their lives serving ceived a state funeral. As you can land or beyond, great! To the veter- Irish regiments both near and far. see, Ireland’s political and social ans who go to several every year… Thankfully, this ceremonial Brit- diaries have been full lately. wonderful, but regardless, know ish visit passed without incident. Now, with pen poised over my that many unforgettable experiences await you at some nearby Irish fes- tival. Reporting from the Palace Bar in Dublin, I remain yours, Cathal P.S. Special congratulations to John O’Brien, Jr. for being named one of Irish America’s Top 100 by Irish Central. *Cathal’s latest book, Fear Not The Storm, The Story of Tom Cul- len, An Irish Revolutionary, is now available on-line or from your fa- vourite bookseller. July 2011 • irish american news www.ianohio.com ianOHIO 9

Irish pubs in fancy, up and com- really have been apt for Her Maj- corner: a local band preferably, ing neighbourhoods. It amazes esty to drink a pint, from a genuine having a good time themselves… me how hip the Irish pub is these pub lover’s point of view? a place where someone can gos- days. They are mainly ‘million And that is my point, I suppose. sip in peace, and where the resi- dollar’ beautifully refurbished The Irish pub once had a kind of dent drunk can drink in peace and parlours, but they’re not the kinds anti-conformist character to it. You continue bothering people with- of places that I personally would spat on the floor. You got in a fight, out fear of being barred from the go to for a beer. or watched one, and when the fight premises for once and for all. Nor am I someone who’d soon- was over the drinking continued. When the ‘house drunk’ gets er drink in a ‘dive’ bar, because You’d nearly feel uncomfortable barred you know that the pub Tres Coronas And A Guinness ‘dive’ bars are often million dollar even swearing in some of the newer has gone corporate. Leave him bars made to look like ‘dive bars.’ ‘hip’ joints. slumped on the counter, mutter- A good friend of mine in New ber what it was called, but I had too A lot of the genuine divey places Just give me a genuine neigh- ing and singing to himself and York, who works in the music in- many beers last night and the brain have for some reason gone the bourhood bar, it doesn’t matter smelling, until it’s last call. Unless dustry, has for the past year or two is not so alert today. On Sunday af- way of the ‘family’ pub. I suppose about the decor, where people have he drinks and drives— for even been looking for a suitable spot to ternoons they used to get an Irish it’s inevitable, now that the Irish been going for years, where you’ll genuinely laid back, unpretentious open a pub in. It has long been a singer in. I had a weekly gig going pub has entered the ‘mainstream.’ find plenty of familiar faces, where places have to have their limits. dream of his to quit his day job and in a pub across the street with some You can find one on almost every you’re really part of the crowd and Sean McCabe’s novels can be go into the bar trade. friends at the same time. We’d pop main street in the bigger towns. you feel so, and of course where ordered through his website: mc- I said to him “Go easy, Patrick. over during our break for a pint. There was a day when opening they have a bit of live music in the cabesband.com. Don’t quit the day job yet. Open All the stools were occupied by an Irish pub was almost an act of your pub first, put someone behind hard drinking construction work- subversion! No highly respected the bar, do what you have to do to ers, enjoying the Irish ballads be- member of a community could get people inside the doors, hire a ing sung in the corner. Sunnyside afford to be seen in one, never DJ if necessary on the weekends, and Woodside were full of Irish mind leave one in a state of in- hire a singer for Sundays, someone back then. Most of them went ebriation. who can really get the crowd go- home when Ireland’s economy got I noticed how the Queen of ing, like Sean McCabe or Seamus strong at the end of the nineties, England declined to drink from Kennedy or Christy Moore, but and as a result these Queens neigh- the pint of Guinness that was put whatever you do, don’t give up the bourhoods have become predomi- on the counter for her when she day job just yet.” nantly Spanish. Today one Irish visited St James’ Gate brewery As anybody in the trade knows, pub remains in Sunnyside. in Dublin recently. Some people pubs are unpredictable, especially We went and had a beer at ‘Tres were probably insulted by that: in this era of corporate, million Coronas’ at midnight on a Satur- the million dollar pub owners and dollar establishments. It has be- day. It was pretty quiet. No wonder the people who drink in them. A come that bit tougher for the more it was for sale. The whole neigh- more traditional pub owner would traditional pubs to survive. bourhood, I noticed, is dotted with have seen the justice of it. Whatever happened to the good Spanish bars which used to have After all, many’s the rebellion ole family run pub, by the way? Irish names. against the crown was planned in There used to be so many. Thank- “It’s the changing times, Pat- the backroom of a pub! Would it fully, there are still a few left, that rick,” I said. “The changing bring in live music all the time. times.” They are usually the best place for “Would it be wise to open an a musician to play. Irish bar in a Spanish neighbour- I’m thinking of Byrne’s Pub in hood,” I asked? Columbus, or The Golden Ace in “Maybe it would be something Indianapolis. These venues feel different,” he said. more personal, because they are; “Maybe,” I said doubtfully. and if it wasn’t for them and a “I could learn Spanish,” he similar few others, the Irish music said. scene in America would be a lot “You could maybe call it ‘Tres weaker. For example, in the win- Coronas And A Guinness’,” I said, ter months, when there are less “and that way get the best of both festivals, where do bands play? It’s worlds.” easy enough to find the answer to “Hey there’s an idea,” said Pat- that one. rick. Anyhow, to get back to my story. The owner had offered Patrick I went with my friend to check out a ‘good price.’ It didn’t sound like a few premises for his future bar. too much of a ‘good price’ to me, He is quite serious about opening so I was relieved when my friend one, but is wisely taking his time. decided to pass on ‘Tres Coronas,’ Our first stop was ‘Tres Coro- or, as it might have been, ‘Tres Co- nas’ in Sunnyside, Queens. Now ronas And A Guinness.’ this used to be an Irish pub, way We looked at a few other back in the mid-nineties. I’ve places in Queens and Brooklyn. racked my brains trying to remem- We passed a lot of newly opened 10 ianOHIO www.ianohio.com irish american news • July 2011

Whatever Fits In The Box children. Sheahan is very highly re- Having left Kilmainham, I still talk ment. Quite unconsciously, the chil- By Niamh O’Sullivan garded by his descendants in present with great enthusiasm about this fas- dren, together with their two teachers, day Australia, having worked hard and cinating object. Recently visiting the Ms. Garrihy and Ms. O’Grady, altered In April 1843, a relatively small, In October 1845, he received a secured a successful life for himself “History Club” of Coláiste Pobail Set- the task to their being deported, and black wooden box accompanied John ticket-of-leave, allowing him to labour and his family. Throughout his life- anta in Dublin, I spoke with the first having to fit their possessions into Sheahan, a former inmate of Kilmain- on his own behalf while still being time, John Sheahan kept safe the pre- and second year students about the jail a small schoolbag. These “History ham Prison, on board “The North classed as a convict, and in August cious black box which had car- Club” kids and their teachers Briton” as the ship arrived in Hobart, 1848, he was granted a conditional ried his few possessions to his had taken John’s 1843 box, and Van Diemen’s Land. Sheahan had been pardon, classifying him as technically new world. inspired by his story, were able convicted in the Limerick Assizes the free, but unable to leave the colony un- John Sheahan’s great grand- to make it even more relevant previous July of an agrarian crime, til his sentence expired. John Sheahan daughter, Marie Sheahan, cor- to the times in which they and was sentenced to be transported. was certified free in April 1854, by responded some years ago with themselves live. It is thought that his intentions were which time he had married a servant me in the Kilmainham Jail Ar- Their choices were funny to keep the price of potatoes at some girl, Mary Ann Hughes, originally chives, sending me documents and endearing and very clever. kind of affordable level, even if his from Co. Down. and early photographs of John Some of them mentioned vac- methods were lacking. He had been After receiving his Certificate of and his family outside their cot- uum packs, which could con- indicted for assaulting the dwellings Freedom, Sheahan built a cottage for tage. One photograph intrigued tain at least triple the amount of Patrick Burns and Patrick Carroll his family in the central Victorian me—depicting an old black wooden and John Sheahan’s black box. These of clothes, and many of them would and administering unlawful oaths. He goldfield at Campbell’s Creek. Their box, in bright sunlight, on a modern young, modern students, from many bring sweets! Realising the need for was also sentenced to twelve months firstborn child died at a young age, but garden path. Marie described how different countries, were greatly inter- hope and spiritual guidance, some imprisonment for appearing in arms. John and Mary Ann raised nine other John had been permitted to take with ested in John, and I gave them a small would bring their bibles and others him from Ireland whatever fitted in assignment: to write about what they books. The need to keep occupied was that box. might bring with them in their box, reflected by one student wishing to In all my years working in the Kil- should they ever have been sentenced bring a pen and notebooks to perfect mainham Archives, this was the one to such a fate themselves. her drawing skills, and another who and only time I asked a family would They were relieved to hear that would bring a deflated basketball and they consider donating an item to Kil- they would be permitted to pack con- pump. mainham. The Sheehan family in Aus- temporary possessions, and only had Living to the full in 2011, virtually tralia deliberated upon this request in to consider the size of the box. After no student would go anywhere without great depth, and in October 2000, the all, we each have to live in our own their mobile phone. They would also black box completed its return jour- age, even whilst reflecting upon the bring treasured photos of their fami- ney, 157 years later, to Kilmainham times of others… lies, something which would not only Prison, where it was proudly placed Then a subtle, rather interesting have been a comfort to John Sheahan, on display. modification settled on the assign- but would have been of enormous assistance to his great grand- daughter in her lengthy, still in- complete search for information relating to him. Ultimately, the winning paper was one of three from students who would bring a diary and pen. I’ve worked too long amongst old papers and jour- nals not to recog- nise the immense value represented by this choice. As the young student stated: “…to write what happened, to remember the important days.” 150 years from now, what will the assignment be, and what journeys will be told then? July 2011 • irish american news www.ianohio.com ianOHIO 11

IANOhio Editor in Top 100 Irish Americans The Official Sign Company of Irish Central has by his father, John the Sean Moore Memorial Irish Vo- named IANOhio Edi- O’Brien, Sr. who con- cals Scholarship Fund, which he also Cleveland Irish Cultural Festival tor, John O’Brien, Jr., tinues on as Director co-founded, and the Northeast Ohio one of the 2011 Top and hails from County Rose of Tralee Contest. He is also a TEL 440.238.0135 100 Irish Americans Roscommon, making co-founder of the Famine Memorial From IrishCentral. his son first generation Committee, which placed a ten-ton CELL 440.336.6119 com: Irish-American. granite engraved stone on the banks FAX 440.238.0208 John O’Brien, Jr. John Jr. is a cre- of the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland dedicates his life to ative writer himself. as a memorial to those who died or 15290 Pearl Rd. Irish culture. The Cleveland native is In the 2010 Irish Book, Art & Music emigrated during the Great Famine. the Co-Founder, Co-Publisher and Ed- Showcase in Chicago, O’Brien’s poem O’Brien’s success comes with Strongsville, OH 44136 itor of the Ohio Irish American News, “The Vacant Chair” took first prize. He enduring several obstacles: He was [email protected] a monthly newsmagazine which was is also the author of Festival Legends: born with over 60% hearing loss and started in 2007. Songs & Stories, a book that looks into has been battling rheumatoid arthritis O’Brien is also the Assistant Direc- the lives of Irish music legends. for over 26 years. Overcoming these tor of the Cleveland Irish Cultural Fes- O’Brien serves on the board of obstacles, he has made great contribu- tival. The annual event, which draws several groups including the Irish tions to the Ohio Irish American com- around 35,000 people, was founded American Charitable Foundation, munity. About our Cover… 2011 Northern Ohio Rose of Tralee Bridget Linton Sheer Sound The winner of the 2001 North- Bridget is an advocate Celebrating our 24th year as ern Ohio Rose of Tralee is Bridget for the Juvenile Diabetes “Official Sound Company Linton, pictured on our cover. Research Foundation and Bridget is majoring in Broadcast the Susan G. Komen Foun- of Cleveland Irish Cultural Festival.” Journalism at the University of Ak- dation. Bridget’s great- Call Sheer Sound for all of your Concert, ron, where she has earned place- grandparents, Brigid Ward ment on the Dean’s List and is a and James Dixon, both im- Festival and Special Event sound needs member of the University of Ak- migrated to Cleveland from ron Dance Team. Bridget is also an County Mayo. Bridget repre- Irish dancer and seven-time world sented Northern Ohio in the 216.533.2527 qualifier and medal holder. Her International Rose of Tralee career goal is to become a world- competition in Ireland. wide news correspondent. Photo by John O’Brien, Jr.. 12 ianOHIO www.ianohio.com irish american news • July 2011

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Cleveland Irish Cultural Festival is “I am hands-on, doing the work I like 25 26 27 celebrating its 29th Annual Festival this to do,” Franklin said. “I haven’t had to go year. For twenty-six of those twenty-nine to work a day in my life. I love what I do. years, the official I will be sixty-five 28 sound company of in a few months, but Cleveland Irish Cul- I have no plans to 29 tural Festival has quit. I am having too been Sheer Sound. much fun—and peo- Under the direction ple give me money!” of Franklin Kra- I was at Notre ACROSS DOWN kowski, Sheer Sound Dame, in Aeronau- has grown right with tical Engineering. I 1 (n) looking down and out 1 (n) pacifier the festival, from an left school in 1971 3 (n) shots of liqour 2 (v) keep quiet initial package of and was a profes- 6 (n) swimming trunks 3 (n) informant a couple of speak- sional musician. I 8 (n or adj) idiot, stupid 4 (n) runners, trainers ers and microphones saw the opportunity 10 (n) traveler,gypsy 5 (adj) poor or bad (and a total sound for production com- cost of $275) in 1986, panies and started 12 (n) someone who avoids work 7 (n) friend to now, nearly thirty Sheer Sound in 1975. 13 (n) trousers 8 (v) walk aimlessly years later, outfitting The first few jobs I 14 (n) kid 9 (n) a bookie for horse/greyhound a major event with ten stages, dozens of got were by good luck: Higbees wanted 15 (n) catholic racing bands, and sound production gleaned from sound production. My initial focus was 16 (v) upset 11 (n) a pint of Guinness(it is good being there year in and year out, to know on installing closed circuit TV, intercoms 17 (n) a look-see for you) the intricacies and pulse of Irish music in etc., but over the first few years, business- 12 (n) pub booth America. es, churches needed sound, and needed 19 (n) euro 17 (v) to be proved wrong Sheer Sound does major productions knowledge. The business evolved over the 23 (n) beach 18 (n) sleep all over the Cleveland area, as well as spe- next few years to about 50/50 sound vs. 24 (v) having someone on, cial events throughout the United States, installs. making fun of them 19 (n) a long time including the Pope’s visit to Detroit and “We offer total event production man- 25 (n) ice cream sandwich 20 (adj) horrible, not good concerts and tours for such stars as Roy agement, including sound, stage and light- 21 (adj) tired Clark, Lou Rawls, Billy Ray Cyrus and ing. We cover all aspects, and help many 26 suckin' _____, (v) having a (n) a small fish or a small child Ray Charles. They regularly are the pro- people who may only put on one event really good time 22 duction company for the Cleveland Pops, a year. We know the specifics—is there 28 (adj) a strange individual 23 (n) loose change both at Severance Hall and on the road, enough electricity? Is the stage large 29 (n) horse-play/carry-on 27 (n) packet of chips (french fries) and shows at the West Side Irish American enough for that size band? We have ex- 28 (n) an English person Club. Their ability to bring out the glory pertise in costs—the logistics and whether of the harp, the fiddle, the pipes or the far the budget and actual costs are compatible. Created by Linda Fulton Burke www.CrosswordWeaver.com ranging instrument that is the voice, con- We give practical pre-event guidance so tinues to evolve, just as the music does. people don’t get in over their head or have That decades long exposure to Irish mu- unexpected costs—and don’t have bands We Welcome Our Newest Advertisers! sic has instilled in Franklin a deep love for walk off if the band doesn’t have what they the music and passion of the Irish culture. need.” Quinan’s Irish Pub  Kansas City Irish Fest Not one for just giving lip service to an “It has been a great experience to see The New Barleycorn  Next Day Signs & Graphics ideal, Franklin backs it up with his wallet, how the festival has evolved. I can enjoy by actively supporting that culture. He has what is going on. To look back, to see how They make the OHIAN possible! Let them know you saw been advertiser with the Ohio Irish Ameri- it has grown: We are proud to be a part of can News for a long time. it.” them in the Ohio Irish American News! July 2011 • irish american news www.ianohio.com ianOHIO 13

Euro 2012 qual- ifying game, he took him- self to the top of this unique scoring chart. Keane became the first player from Britain or The Passing of a Ireland to score fifty senior international goals when bag- Derry and Cleveland Great ging the double in his country’s 2-0 win over Many great scribes have come out of the Macedonia in Skopje. town of Derry; Brian Friel (playwright), Sea- The previous benchmark of forty-nine mus Heaney (poet) and Phil Coulter (music). was held by Manchester United and England It appears that when it comes to writing a great Sir Bobby Charlton. Keane, thrilled at play, a poem or a few songs, then there’s a his feat, said: “It means a hell of a lot. When good chance a man from Derry was behind I first started off, Niall Quinn said I’d reach it it. So what about when it comes to sports? so I’m delighted.” Journalists in Derry have come and gone, but Keane’s current career is one that is up in there is one man who perhaps flew under the the air, he most recently was on loan to West radar both in Derry and here in Cleveland, Ham United in the English Premier League Ohio, when it comes to writing about sports. but with their relegation to the lower divi- Sadly though, as with most great people, sion it is unclear whether or not he’ll stay we don’t hear about the ‘other’ things they the course with the Hammers, or if he’ll find did until after they leave us. A great friend of his way back into yet another EPL club. My everyone, Ben Clingain, sadly packed up his guess is Keane will move to one of the newly clubs and took them upstairs to play a few promoted clubs into the EPL, or maybe he’ll rounds with the other greats that have gone stick it out with Tottenham, the club who cur- before him. In the nine or ten years that I rently owns his contract. knew Ben, it was always Derry and sports that Keane would certainly do the job for a we talked about. We also had another strong club whose main goal is to do enough to bond in that, along with Friel, Heaney and stay in the league, if anything else, Keane Coulter, we all attended St Columb’s College is a player guaranteed to give it 110% every (Catholic boy’s high school) in Derry. time he pulls on a shirt, regardless of what When we talked sports, it was usually team it is. As it stand right now, his own about Derry City Football Club, and how personal record is pretty impressive. In 108 maybe they had come through another turbu- games for the Republic of Ireland he has lent season, or maybe it was when they went now scored fifty-one goals—nearly a goal to Paris to play Paris St. Germaine in the every game—I’d take that in a heartbeat for UEFA Cup. But whatever it was, Benny was any team I followed. In the Premier League up to date and knew what was going on. he is currently the 10th all-time top scorer Those that knew Ben knew he was an avid with 123 goals. golfer, but some may not know that he also helped scribe and edit a few sports-themed Trivia books over the years. Some of the title’s Ben First last month’s question: In Ireland had a hand in included Boxing Clever, Dog teams in Gaelic Football play annually Tails: Great Stories of Greyhounds and their for the biggest prize in the sport, the Sam Owners, Hunting Tales, Tales of Anglers Maguire Trophy, awarded to the winner of Rest: An Anthology of Fishing Stories and the Senior Football All-Ireland Final. What International Golf Almanac (1995). is the hurling equivalent known as? To Ben’s family I would like to pass along The answer is the Liam McCarthy my condolences. To Ben, thanks for the Cup. The Cup commemorates the mem- friendship and the memories. As Ben would ory of Liam McCarthy, who was born in say ‘bloody hell mate, it was great craic.” London to Irish parents in 1851; he was prominently involved in the establish- Football - ment of a GAA county board in Lon- Robbie Keane Makes History don in the 1890’s. In 1921, a trophy in When you talk Irish or British football re- his honor was presented to the Central cords rarely does the name of an Irish player Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association come up, but recently Robbie Keane made and replaced the Great Southern Cup as sure that for the time being his name will be the All-Ireland trophy. Limerick, as All- the answer to the trivia question: Which Irish Ireland champions in 1921, was the first or British international player has scored the recipient of the Liam McCarthy Cup. most international goals. With Keane scoring his latest two goals against Macedonia in the Continued on Page 16… 14 ianOHIO www.ianohio.com irish american news • July 2011

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Blowin’ In Continued from Page 3… Together, my husband and I plant heirloom tomatoes, potatoes, and squash. Each year we experiment with a new vegetable: cauliflower, Swiss chard, and recently asparagus. We encourage the children to taste a bit of lettuce straight from the soil, to inhale the scent of a sun-warmed tomato, to dig into the earth with innocent hands. Some plants will grow to fruition. Some will succumb to disease. Each is planted with care and love. These vines will grow strong. Strengthened by the years, these vines will keep our 2011 Midwest GAA Football and Hurling Schedule family tethered through seasons marked by tempests and seasons of great calm. Date Visitor Home Team Venue Result Susan holds a Master’s Degree in English from John Carroll University and Saturday May 14th Buffalo Fenians Junior D Rochester Erin Isles Junior D Rochester 5:05 v 5:05 a Master’s Degree in Education from Baldwin-Wallace College. She may be Saturday May 21st St Pat’s 7-a-side Tournament Cleveland Saturday June 4th Buffalo Fenians Junior D Syracuse Celtics Junior D Syracuse 2:07 v 1:14 reached at [email protected]. Saturday June 4th Football & Hurling Clubs from the Midwest & Mid-Atlantic Pittsburgh 2:08 v 9:14 Founder’s Field Sunday June 12th St Pat’s Men Junior C Pittsburgh Celtics Junior C Pittsburgh St Pat’s Ladies Pittsburgh Banshee’s St Pat’s Men Junior B Pittsburgh Celtics Junior B Sunday June 19th Cleveland St Jarlath’s Detroit Wolfetone’s Detroit Sunday June 26th St Pat’s Men Junior C Detroit Wolfetone’s Junior C WSIA St Pat’s Ladies Detroit St Anne’s Ladies St Pat’s Men Junior B Detroit Wolfetone’s Junior B Cleveland St Jarlath’s Pittsburgh Celtics Saturday July 9th St Pat’s Men Junior C Detroit Wolfetone’s Junior C Detroit St Pat’s Ladies Detroit St Anne’s Ladies St Pat’s Men Junior B Detroit Wolfetone’s Junior B Saturday July 16th St Pat’s Men Junior B Cleveland St Jarlath’s WSIA Syracuse Celtics Junior D Buffalo Fenians Junior D Buffalo Akron Guards Hurling St. Louis Tournament St. Louis, MO. Saturday July 23rd St Pat’s Men Junior C Pittsburgh Celtics Junior C WSIA St Pat’s Ladies Pittsburgh Banshee’s St Pat’s Men Junior B Pittsburgh Celtics Junior B Rochester Erin Isles Junior D Buffalo Fenians Junior D Buffalo Saturday, July 30th Akron Guards Hurling Indianapolis Tournament Indianapolis, IN Sunday July 31st St Pat’s Men Junior B Cleveland St Jarlath’s Avon Lake Pittsburgh Junior C Detroit Wolfetone’s Junior C Detroit Pittsburgh Junior B Detroit Wolfetone’s Junior B Pittsburgh Banshee’s Detroit St Anne’s Ladies Sunday August 7th Cleveland St Jarlath’s Pittsburgh Celtics Avon Lake Saturday August 13th St Pat’s Men Select Rochester Erin Isles Rochester Sunday August 14th Cleveland St Jarlath’s Detroit Wolfetone’s Avon Lake Sunday August 21st Midwest Finals TDB Labor Day Weekend National Playoffs San Francisco September (TBC) St Pat’s Men Select Buffalo Fenians Buffalo 16 ianOHIO www.ianohio.com irish american news • July 2011

the hope of real change. The bridge culture. The desire to reach out to- can be our own worst enemy when officially opens later in June. Will wards the other was mutual, two it comes to living up to our poten- it survive to see Derry become the nations with a shared past were tial. We can complain about the Terry From Derry city of culture in 2013, or will it beginning to look to a new future, incessant rain, it’s a national pas- by Terry Boyle be destroyed, metaphorically or built on the hard won labour of the time. But water can be harnessed physically, by those trapped in the Northern Ireland peace process. to produce energy, or bridged to cycle of violence? The second noteworthy event combine resources. It can also I’d like to think that there is was President Obama’s visit to the immerse us in our despair, should even room for the cynic to have a island. The city of Moneygall, Co. we remain stagnant and refuse to Bridging the Troubled Waters change of heart. I certainly think Offaly, with a small population of change. that the success of the recent Royal 300, took centre stage as the Presi- I’m not suggesting that it’s sim- May has always been a good named ‘Peace Bridge.’ visit has given us reason to hope. dent Obama returned to his Irish ply a matter of the glass half full month to be in Ireland. Over the As I wandered down towards For the first time, since the 26 roots. The generosity of the Irish or empty, but it’s discouraging to past six years of returning home, the Foyle River to see the new counties became a Republic, a continued to reign despite the watch a city such as Derry attempt the May sun has been kind and addition, I wondered how long British head of state was invited, looming debt. to emerge from its past conflict, made happy faces. This year, how- it would remain standing. The at the request of the Irish Presi- And while the cynic might want prepare itself to be recognized as ever, it rained almost everyday. I bridge, costing thirteen million dent, to visit the country. Queen to draw attention to the seeming a city of culture, only to be sabo- was becoming tired of the weath- pounds, spans the river that tra- Elizabeth II’s visit, as you would irresponsibility of such spending, taged by disgruntled Republicans. er man’s over usage of the word ditionally separates the Protestant expect, created quite a stir. Not the possible solicitation of Irish There are huge questions about changeable, which simply means and Catholic communities. The only was her presence on Irish voters for Obama, and playing the future of Northern Ireland and that a glorious start to the morn- third bridge over the Foyle, it is de- soil highly controversial and ex- down of economic crisis facing the financial re-structuring of the ing will inevitably dissipate into a signed to envisage a ‘handshake,’ pensive, but it signaled a possible the Republic, both visits, I would Republic’s debt to be faced, but wintry, cold, day. I even heard one a metaphorical reaching out be- change in British/Irish relation- argue, brought with them a sense there is little to be gained by pro- foreign visitor to Derry exclaim, tween two polarized cultures. ships. There were dissenters and of hope. With emigration on the longing the violence. The voice of it’s raining and sunny. The home of civil rights, protests, but generally the mon- rise, a downturn in the housing reason should not be relegated to Despite the bewilderment the Bloody Sunday, and the seat of arch was received with a true Irish market and the loss of revenue, the wilderness as the ravings of elements produced, it was good to blatant gerrymandering, Derry is failte. Ireland is only too painfully aware an eccentric liberal, but should in- be back. It has been a year since I attempting to bridge its past to the Such an historic occasion sym- of its financial troubles. It needs stead be heard from the rooftops last visited, and already there were future while under continual threat bolized, for quite a few of us, a de- the support of its European neigh- as the rhetoric of the people. signs of changes. The prominent by dissidents. As its people strive sire to move beyond the stagnant bours, and the economic invest- *Terry, originally from Derry, Guildhall (city hall) is now cov- towards making peace the signs of rhetoric of past injustices to create ment of American businesses, if now resides in Chicago and teach- ered with industrial sheets of plas- political fracture continue to be a place of mutual understanding. it is to recover from its economic es Irish and British Literature at tic, undergoing its makeover for exposed. Numerous bomb scares, This visit does not cancel out his- decline. At such times, bridges are Loyola University, Chicago. teren- the 2013 year of culture, and a new designed to thwart political stabil- torical grievances, but it does at to be built—not blown up. [email protected]. pedestrian bridge is almost near ity, interspersed with real threats, least signify a dignified gesture My trip has once again left me completion. Of the latter, some aimed at undermining progress towards reconciliation. reflecting on what will be the fu- Owens Sports cynic remarked that it wouldn’t be towards peace are becoming more The Queen wore green, spoke ture of Ireland? There is no doubt Continued from Page 13… standing long before it is blown frequent. a little of the Irish language, and in my mind that the country has up by the dissident IRA, a com- For the politically disaffected, was treated to the best of Irish much to offer the world, but we In 1992, the original Liam ment that seems at odds with the the peace process is a sell out, McCarthy Cup was retired. Tip- optimistic aspirations of the aptly while for the majority it represents June Crossword Puzzle Answers perary was the last team to claim the original. An exact replica was Irish Slang - Part 3 produced and has been awarded Solution: on an annual basis since then. S C U N D E R E D Kilkenny were the first team to C O win the ‘new’ McCarthy Cup. R U S H E R S S S P This month’s question: Earlier U A S C S H A T T E R E D R B P C R I A A I mentioned that the Republic S C A B S A V A G E O K I of Ireland have not fared well E N N P L O N K E R T when it comes to playoff games. R G S T O S I In 1995 the Irish had to play a E A H W C E playoff game in order to qualify P R P O G U E P U S S for Euro 1996 in England – who R R O T did they play and what was the P A V E S C A R L E T result? S S P A V E Y K E *Mark Owens is originally R H S I I P R A M P O P P I E S S C R A T C H E R E from Derry City, Ireland and has N R N T O D D S resided in the Cleveland area N S A M B O S U C since 2001 where he is employed I N G R U N N E R S P P R by State Farm Insurance Com- E A Q G E C O U A panies, having previously spent W R U C T I O N S P A R A L Y T I C W time studying at John Carroll F E N T E K B University. Send questions, com- U U N N I F T Y E E ments or suggestions for future O F F L I C E N S E I E N D articles to Mark at: markowens@ U P E E L E R P I N T O F P L A I N ireland.com. July 2011 • irish american news www.ianohio.com ianOHIO 17

Sean Moore Memorial Irish Vocals Scholarship The 2011 Sean Moore Memo- rial Vocals Scholarship Winners are Margaret Winterich, Olmsted Twp., who won the 15-17 age group. Brittany O’Reilly, Hil- ton N.Y., won the age 18 & over group. The 2011 competition was held as part of the Cleveland Feis over Memorial Day weekend. Margaret and Brittany are pictured with John and Joan Pat- terson of the Sean Moore Irish Memorial Vocals Scholarship Committee, and Judge Helen Gannon. Margaret Winterich’s Voice Teacher is Katie Cooper. Brittany O’Reilly’s Voice Teacher is Deborah Montgomery-Cove.

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