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Editor’s Corner glory, under stern but legacy’s Pubs Around Ireland Puzzle approving eyes. This generation and Irish Language Cleveland’s leaves judgments checked at the monthly Speaking Irish lesson; door, not care about your sex and mental madness as Festival or sexual preference, your race Focus features 3 big fests to or your religion, your health or come this month in Pittsburgh, your hipness; they all hold the Muskegon and Kansas City - all same position in my heart – irrel- festivals going and growing evant. What is relevant, is what strong. you accomplish - it is the only Terry Kenneally’s Off the Shelf John O’Brien, Jr. criteria that matters. book review and September Within, there is a bit of history Out & About Ohio’s music and Talk about ending summer with Mike Finn’s Illuminations: cultural celebrations are high- with a bang! Cleveland Irish The Battle of Yellow Ford and lighted throughout this issue. I Cultural Festival then the Mid- Anne Waters’ 100th Commemo- write an Inner View on what it west GAA Championships left ration, a bit of sports with Fields is like to put on a festival and me feeling immersed, both in of Glory and the coming Gaelic Francis McGarry writes on Irish the ancient feeling that being sports U.S. National Champion- Immigration to Ohio Irish graces upon us all, and in ship, plus David McDonnell’s Vibrancy is Mecca. Not only is a new feeling of vibrancy and Our Irish Man on the Street’s there new energy and direction sustainability for the events I World Cup Preview; a bit of in the festival and the sports,, love with all my heart. Cleanup humor and mental health with notice the new strength in the is as urgent; I was sorry to have Dick Lardie’s Living with Lardie, paper? 32 pages is following the to miss Dublin Irish Fest, but Maureen Ginley’s Growing up consecutive streak started in Jan- heard it was a blast. Irish and Sue Mangan’s commit- uary of ’14, of each issue being or The big bang was festifying ting to living as a child in Blowin tying a record sized issue for us. and the Fields of Glory, in all its In’; mental tests in Linda Burke’s Your commitment to the OhIAN, with active support speaking thousand fold over the very There are over 1.4 million people of Irish much appreciated words alone, by advertising with us, has al- descent in Ohio; 475,000 in Greater lowed us to grow so significantly in the last 21 months. Thank Cleveland; 176,000 in Cuyahoga County: you; words are not enough, but Thank you. Want to reach them? Advertise in the Slán, Ohio Irish American News: John [email protected]. “Follow me where I go, what I do and who I know; O’Bent Enterprises includes: www.twitter.com/jobjr www.facebook.com/ TheThe ShamrockShamrock CottageCottage OhioIrishAmericanNews An Irish, Scottish & Welsh Gift Shop www.linkedin.com/in/ jobjr/ http://songsandsto- GUINNESS MERCHANDISE ries.net/myblog/feed/ NOTRE DAME MERCHANDISE ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS About Our Cover MERCHANDISE 9097 Mentor Avenue Dancing like no one is Mentor, Ohio 44060 watching, at Cleveland

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A Time Before crying; Hunger was setting in. 5 Credit Cards more minutes and then I saw the The title is a bit misleading. I sign: TOLL $2 per car, PLUS $2 actually had one credit card. A per person. What? $10 to cross Sohio card for gas stations. Let the bridge. I had $9.53. me start at the beginning of this Kay and I looked at each other story. and almost cried. That would The year was 1970. Kay and have made 4 of us crying. I sug- guess I missed the paper that day. bies thought it was funny. ing I asked him if there was any I were living in Tacoma, Wash- gested we can turn around, pull Remember when we said it That was the longest mile I chance I could charge a pack of ington with two babies; Joey into a clearing, feed the kids and couldn’t get worse? Well I was have ever driven. Kay’s hands cigarettes on the card also. Then was 20 months old and Kevin change two diapers. We headed one mile onto the reservation on were shaking by the time we he said something that changed was 7 months old. My work back, but we drove for 10 or 12 a one lane dirt road, with 8 drunk, finally got on the road. The the whole trip. “I don’t care if had taken me out there and the miles with no clearing. I don’t Indian boys/men wanting to Indians made a U turn on the you charge a month’s groceries.” economy was terrible. I was know if the crying kids or the get revenge for us stealing the highway and with a final shake So we did. The rest of the ride on straight commissions and smelly diapers started us argu- fishing rights of their tribe. They of the fist headed back up the was happy and we had cookies. had been struggling for the last ing but we were beginning to started yelling at me to get off dirt road. We survived. That’s Kay and I will be celebrating few months, as more and more yell at each other. the reservation. I asked where I as good as it gets. our 50th anniversary soon. One people were laid off in my target Those of you reading this could turn around. They started I needed some gas so we were of the things on our bucket list is industry. probably don’t think this could chanting for me to BACK UP, on the lookout for a station that crossing the Hood Canal Bridge. To make a long story short get any worse. You’re wrong, BACK UP, and BACK UP. would accept a Sohio card. A (something I am not good at), we hang on to your hat. I told Kay I got into the car, settled ev- small country store was coming had $9.53 cash to get to the end that I would pull onto the next eryone in, leaned over the seat up and it had a single gas pump. of the month and it was the 16th dirt road just so we could feed looking backwards and began I pulled in, when the man came of the month. We were feeling a the kids and change the dia- backing up the mile I had driven out to pump the gas (no one bit stressed, but being the eternal pers. I made a hard right on to in. Every now and then they pumped their own gas back optimist, I suggested we load up a dusty one lane road, drove a would run into my front bumper then), he said sure they took So- the kids, grab some peanut but- while looking for an area where just to hurry me along. The ba- hio cards. While he was pump- ter and jelly, and then head to the another car could get by me, if ocean for a picnic on Saturday. necessary. I went about a mile We had been in Tacoma a but the kids were in tears, so I sh M year without seeing the ocean. I just stopped on that dirt road. Iri u mapped out the route (no GPS Kay leaned over the seat Live sic! then): drive south out of Tacoma, and started changing diapers. I then west and north up to the grabbed the loaf of bread and Hood Canal Bridge, cross the the peanut butter and jelly and bridge into the national park and began making sandwiches on on to the ocean. We had a port- the hood of the car. I passed them a-crib in the back seat so the kids in as Kay finished each of the traveled as if they were in a play kids. They were dry, eating and pen. The cars didn’t even have happy again. seat belts back then. I was passing Kay’s sandwich Off we went. Our money in when a look came on Kay’s troubles were forgotten for a face that I figured she had seen day. The day was sunny and the Bigfoot. That’s when I heard kids were in a good mood play- the Whooping and Hollering Hours: ing together as we headed north behind me. I turned around to Mon-Wed towards the Hood Canal Bridge. see a pickup truck with about 8 “30 miles to the Bridge”, the sign Indian youths (Utes?) yelling at 11am-Midnight 414 South Main St. said. 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A Golfing World Curtis Cup stars Lisa and Leona Maguire The OhIAN would Within Their Grasp like to welcome new By David McDonnell advertising partners If you have any fascination with sports in Ireland you will have heard about the Gaelic Imports, Maguire twins. Lisa and Leona are two Irish golfing Precision Driving, prodigies from Cavan who in 2010, at the age of 15, became the two youngest play- Fitzgerald Tours, ers to represent Great Britain and Ireland Terry Kenneally Ire- against the United States of America in the Curtis Cup.The Curtis Cup is the land Tour, Cincin- women’s version of the Walker Cup, and is the most prestigious amateur team nati Irish Heritage event held on alternative sides of the Center, Barb Bange- Atlantic Ocean every two years. It was a remarkable achievement for time. We talked to a lot of the coaches over men - together we the then teenagers; however, it was not there and we just thought the weather is “When you are home during the summer the first time that the pair had appeared always really good, there are good facili- you miss the sunshine. You have to get bring you the OhIAN. in the Irish national consciousness. Back ties and good coaches, so everything just used to playing in the rain all over again. in 2006, at the age of 11, Lisa Maguire lined up well to go out there.” In America the weather to play golf all overcame more than 800 worldwide Lisa is currently studying psychology. year around is definitely an upside. But competitors to become the winner of the For someone with the aspiration to be a the main focus right now is when we go Under-12 World Golf Championship at professional golfer in the not too distant to Florida on the first week in September. Pinehurst in North Carolina. Her twin future, it seems an ideal major. She has Then we have one event in Georgia and Leona placed third in the tournament and one year of a four year degree completed two more in North Carolina. Right now later that year, the sisters were chosen to and has a timetable that allows her and there are a lot of European players in col- bring the Ryder Cup to the presentation her sister to get the required practice to lege over in America. We all kind of play ceremony after Europe’s victory over the help fulfill their golfing ambitions, “We the same circuit from September right USA at the K Club. There was a tangible have a good schedule. We get to go to through to May. We see each other the sense that these two girls were going to be our lectures in the morning up until lunch whole time and it gets very competitive.” worth keeping an eye on as their golfing time. In the afternoons, we usually play Next summer the Curtis Cup will take careers developed. golf or go off and practice. That was one of place at Dun Laoighre golf course in In the intervening years, the Maguire the incentives of going to the US. We knew Dublin. It is an event that both girls have twins haven’t disappointed, with both we would get a lot more time to play golf earmarked to be involved in, particularly Lisa and Leona racking up a host of as well as get a bit of study done at the as it takes place on Irish soil. It is perhaps amateur domestic and international titles. same time. Especially with golf people one of the carrots on the horizon from Currently, Leona is the top ranked ama- say it’s a mind game more than anything keeping the Cavan pair from turning teur women’s player in the world. else, so psychology can’t do any harm in professional in the interim. Last year, after completing secondary that respect.” It is a topic that Lisa has come across school in Ireland, the pair decided to go In May, Lisa and Leona came back to before and for the moment she remains to an American university to progress Ireland to spend some time at home for coy. “That is the question people always their golfing careers and get a third level the summer break. As an added bonus, ask, ‘When are you going to turn pro- education. After much deliberation, Lisa it provided the pair with a plethora of fessional’ and go at it full time? Right and Leona embarked on a four year ven- European events to partake in. now we are over in college in America. ture at Duke University in North Carolina. With their second year at Duke Univer- We have one year done so we are going For Lisa it was a return to the state sity starting in September, Lisa Maguire is back for another year, so we’ll see how where she won that world underage title looking forward to be competing stateside that goes and then see what the options all those years ago: “We went and visited once again. Throughout the first semes- are. I guess the timing of the Curtis Cup a few places, a lot of different universities. ter, most of the golf events are based on works out well. We will be coming home North Carolina is not as industrialized the East coast, while after Christmas the from America at the end of May and it as some of the other places. It is not too events transfer over towards California is on during the first week of June, so it dissimilar from home. It definitely took a and Arizona. kind of works out well that way. 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my uncle, a delighted from my trove of memory; as I immerse Such days remind me of my last visit to grin, and a twinkle of myself in moments past, middle-age may Ireland. Not knowing when I would again appreciation in his pale continue to creep up on me, but my hair is feel the pull of the Atlantic tide or the ten- eyes. While my cousins no longer touched with grey, and my skin der caress of the soft breeze on a summer’s worked, I tried my best to is tanned and smooth from play in open day in foxglove-strewn meadows, I stood stay out of the way. fields. My heart, although, is changeless, completely still, barely breathing. Like Often, I would find still filled with awe and bittersweet longing the eternal child that I am, hidden away myself sitting on a fallen for the peace found only in nature. in an unobtrusive closet, I offered myself Immersion log by a moss-covered pond intermittently At long last, my family found me, curled to the moment. Absorbing the taste of the singing Kansas’ “Dust in the Wind” and up in the closet, tear-streaked and near salt, and the downy cool of the breeze as it I have never dealt well with departure. Don McLean’s “American Pie” to myself, sleep. My oldest cousin clucked “Bless her whispered across the fields, my mind and As a child, there were two occasions each as a random calf would stumble over in heart,” as she embraced me in a hug of de- more importantly, my soul was nourished, year to which I looked forward almost my direction. Clearly, I was a bit odd, but parture. I remember the warmth of her love, immersed in nutrients for those days feverishly and always seemed to end with not a threatening presence, as the barn cats the smell of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit Gum, and when the world and her troubles may great haste: Christmas and our annual fam- and cows seemed used to my solitary arias. the sounds of KC and the Sunshine Band become almost too heavy to bear. ily visit to my grandmother Mim’s home One night before our intended dawn de- singing songs of adolescent hope. in Missouri. parture, I hid in a hall closet. 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is mentioned only discreetly lish anyway would make that and its products. Just like the amongst acquaintances. impossible since he would be moonshine operations here, When I first visited Ire- unable to write reports, so he smoke was often a give-away land, I never heard anyone declined the position. He was that something illegal might talking about it. Like many allowed to continue his pro- be “cooking”, so the windy things, it was something of duction unhindered, and the Connemara weather provided the past, and not something essence of his recipe has sur- a good disguise for the stills. in which people showed vived and been passed down Poitín, however, has had a create from sunshine and much pride. Just like here, it and perpetuated through the bigger battle to fight. Due to The Cratur rain, in the mountains and has some connotations of a generations. The the strength valleys, the original trea- past that is less than educated. young man who of the drink, After watching a rural vet- sured spirit “Potcheen””. However, I would occasionally was at the center there are erinarian revive a dying lamb The above quote is from a hear an older person say that of the story is many stories with a drop of the “cratur”, you legal distiller of Poitín, the many things could be cured getting ready to of people be- would have to wonder, what Bunratty Winery in Ireland. with a “drop of the cratur, from begin legal, craft- coming very exactly is that “cratur” stuff? Poitín is the Irish equivalent arthritis to the common cold. style production ill after drink- The lamb was very grateful for of the mountain moonshine The first poitín that I was of the grandfa- ing it, with it anyway. Cratur is a euphe- of the United States. Like the exposed to was presented one ther’s recipe. even blind- mism for whisky, but I have US moonshine, it has been cold evening during Christmas, What is ness having heard it used more often for mainly illegal to produce and while my husband and I were happening in been reported. Poitín, pronounced (put-cheen). possess. Also like the moon- visiting in Connemara. It was Ireland is much After my ex- “Truely a spiritual thing shine of the US, it is made and taken from an unmarked bottle like what has perience with that the Irish did long ago found mainly in the remote stored at the back of a kitchen happened here; it, the idea of when they trapped the pure mountainous areas of the cabinet. The lady of the house people are realizing that some someone becoming sick after and magical of nature to country and is something that admonished the husband for of the products that they found drinking it seems likely but I revealing that they kept such backward or old-fashioned have never heard of anyone thing in their house, but we in the face of modern mass- actually losing their sight. reassured them that we were production actually have value. Poitín is also not consistently not going to expose them. I There has been an impres- made from any one product. It was offered a glass. Just smell- sive food revival, especially could be made out of things ing it was enough to make in West Cork, where they are like barley, potatoes or apples; me fear for the survival of my making things like hand- whatever someone had plenty eyebrows, I was not about to made cheese and sausages. of. With the mix of ingredients ingest it! My husband hap- Anyone who believes that and makers, the quality of pily had one glass, but that food in Ireland is not good poitín varies greatly. Yet there one glass was enough for all. really needs to improve where are families who have a reputa- Time Magazine placed it they travel. Organic is not a tion with the locals for making at number one in its “Top 10 necessary label with many a batch of reliable quality. Ridiculously Strong Drinks” of these producers since they So now poitín, the old-wives list in 2010. According to the were never anything else. cure for arthritis and colds, is magazine, poitín could reach Along with food, there is also starting to become respect- 95% alcohol by volume. Other a craft beer and cider revival able. The families, who have sources state that it comes going on around the country, had underground production in at anywhere between 45% and again, just like here in the for generations, may be the -90% alcohol by volume. US, is very popular with the ones to profit finally from their I heard a story during my younger crowd. So, poitín was grandfather’s secret recipe. The recent visit to Connemara. inevitably next on the list. European Union has sanc- It was about a young man The history of poitín is prob- tioned that only poitín made whose grandfather was a ably as long as that of the coun- in Ireland can be called that, so rather infamous poitín maker try itself. The term poitín comes if you see it in a bar or liquor in his day. He was caught from the Irish word for small store, you know that you are by the local guards during pot, which describes what getting the “pure drop” that is their pursuit of a dangerous the mixture would have been in so many songs and stories. criminal. The guards saw his made in. A law was passed in Quote from: http:// still and some bottles hidden 1661 placing a tax on spirits homepage.eircom. on the property. The grand- made for personal consump- net/~bunrattywinery/ father displayed intelligence tion. The law was reinforced historypotcheen.htm and bravery and helped to in 1760 with another law that Other sources used: apprehend the criminal. The made it illegal to operate a still. https:en.wikipedia.org/ guards felt that they could not Poitín was made in rural wiki/Poit%C3%ADn prosecute the man for his still areas, mostly in the mountains Time, “Top 10 Ridiculously under those circumstances. and places that would have Strong Drinks” Nov. 16, 2010 They actually tried to recruit been difficult to get to. Stills Thejournal.ie-“How him to the guarda force at that were often put on land bor- poitín went from illegal point. The grandfather realized ders so that one person could moonshine to being sold that his lack of literacy in Eng- blame another for the still in Tesco” Nov.17, 2013. 12 IAN Ohio “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com September 2015 Festival Focus! dogs tent, special Irish 12th Annual Mass Sunday at 10 am, Strings, Kennedy’s Kitchen, Irish conversation, Irish Barleyjuice and much more. Kansas City musical instrument MIMF is kicking off the festival Irish Fest demos, Irish Extreme a day earlier this year by adding September 4 - 6 Zone, Hedge School, a Pub Pre- Curragh Racing, Blar- view Party ney Bingo, Irish Brigade on Thursday Featuring: We Banjo night. Irish & 3, Gaelic Storm, Mundy, (Civil War re-enactors), and more. Celebrate Celtic music Byrne & Kelly, Socks on on four cov- the Frying Pan, Daimh, Gaelic Mass on Sunday. Visit www.pghirish- ered stages! Baile an Salsa, Carswell & Continuous Hope Eddie Delahunt, Jim fest.org for info. Fun for the entire family. live music, Plus: the Celtic Kitchen Cosgrove, Flashpoint, Ceili and Pub serve authentic Irish food at the Crossroads, dance and drink, an Irish Marketplace, schools and many more. 6th Annual Highland Games, children’s ac- Plus: Cultural displays Muskegon Irish tivities, cultural center, and ses- & interactive workshops, sion tent. The Michigan Feis, an Tourism Ireland’s Cul- Music Festival Irish dance competition, is held ture Café, Comedy Stage, Kings, Red Hot Chili Pipers, We Banjo 3, Willis Clan, JigJam, Dennis Sept.17 - 20 on Saturday. Sunday features a shopping, ethnic food, genealogy, 9am Catholic Mass, followed by a Whiskey Tasting, Doyle, Cathal Dunne, Alan Irvine, Bastrd Bearded Irishmen, Slua, Featuring: Slide, High Kings, traditional Irish breakfast. 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them behind me as I began my to present my findings and liberal arts curriculum there al- education is something I credit stories about Ireland. It was lowed me to explore academic as a big influence for how much customary to bring in a food disciplines I had only heard of; I grew to love being a student. from the country you presented I got to take classes such as Act- A big aspect of being a St. on, so naturally I brought in ing for Film, Italian, and even Christopher student was to some soda bread. Not only did an independent study based complete a country report in my Grandma help in making on experimental short stories! the sixth grade. Normally, stu- the bread, she also delivered This diversity lead me to dents were assigned a country, it right to my classroom! be more inquisitive and ask but if they turned in a note She spent the morning with questions that would aid me For as long as I can remember, logical step. For kindergartners, signed by a parent request- my History class, explain- in developing into a more well the first day of a new school the beginning of the school year ing the country, they were ing everything she had told rounded, whole person. I asked year has felt like Christmas kicked off with a big picnic. more often than not permit- me as I worked on the report “why?” instead of just taking morning to me. There’s some- I remember getting dolled ted to report on that nation. and why her culture was so what I was told at face value. thing about fresh notebooks; a up in my nicest dress, jam- Naturally, I requested Ireland. important to her, even after I read assigned books and nice, crisp, new outfit (in my ming my feet into a new pair But I didn’t just submit a note being in the United States for suggested readings. I went on case – a uniform for my twelve of Mary Janes, and jumping up immersion trips and partici- years of private school); and and down on the front steps pated in retreats with Campus new syllabi that gets me more of my house as I waited for Ministry. I was growing into pumped up than any amount of my Grandma and Grandpa to the person I am today – some- eggnog and/or Christmas cook- pick me up. Once they did, we one interested in furthering ies could. Don’t get me wrong, made the short drive to school, her education while remain- some of my best memories excited for the day ahead. ing passionate about making are sharing Christmas morn- I stood in lines with my the opportunities like I had ing coffee with my family and classmates, met my teacher, and more accessible to everyone. watching my siblings open explored the room where I’d be I graduated from John Car- their presents, but there is just learning for the next year. Ev- roll in May of 2014. Yes, I was something magical about the erything was so bright, so color- all set to begin graduate school beginning of a new school year. ful. The books on the shelves in the Fall, but I was leaving One of my earliest school were shiny and new, just like behind a place that had become memories occurred when I the excitement I felt at the op- a second home to me. I was at began kindergarten at St. Chris- portunity to learn and grow in a loss as to what I should do. topher School in Rocky River. I a new school environment. How would I find that sense had attended the Church since What was so wonderful of familiarity when I started I was old enough to sit in the about this day was that I got to with the Northeast Ohio Master pews and not screech when my share it with two of my biggest of Fine Arts in Creative Writing parents paid attention to the supporters. My grandparents Program? All of my worries priest instead of me, so going have always encouraged me in Columnist Maureen Ginley with her grandparents washed away after attend- to school there was the next every aspect of life, but having ing Orientation and meeting the professors and classmates from my Mom and Dad. so many years. My classmates I’d be spending three years I wrote an essay, a pages- spoke of this for the remain- reading, writing, working, and long explanation for der of the year, and it remains learning with. The welcome why my teacher should one of my favorite “Grandma I received that day is compa- choose my and not the Ginley stories” to this day. rable to the one I felt at John dozen other students After St. Christopher, I Carroll when I moved into who requested to write moved on to Magnificat High my dorm freshman year. In about the country where School, where I spend four the NEOMFA, we all work our families are from. years honing my skills in dif- together to grow as writers My plea must have ferent classrooms – English, because we have a common worked, because my Art, French – and developing goal: to get our words - words teacher chose me and into someone that was pre- we believe are poignant and I got to begin in-depth pared for the rigor of a college important - out into the world. research on Ireland’s curriculum. I found my time As you can probably tell history, my family’s at Magnificat to be completely by now, school always has history, and anything and totally enriching; I didn’t been, and will always be, one else I wished to explore. think anything could top my of the most important parts I tore through books, education there. Then I discov- of my life. When I step into a spent countless after- ered John Carroll University. classroom and crack open a noons at the library, and To say that John Carroll was textbook, glance over a new talked endlessly with my the best thing to ever hap- syllabus, I see a world’s worth Grandma about her life pen to me would be a gross of possibilities. A new school in Ireland and what it understatement. I could write year is a new start for me, an was like for her to grow an entire book about what that opportunity to learn more, up in County Mayo. school did for me. While at grow more. I cannot wait to Finally, the day came JCU, I grew as a student. The see where this one takes me. September 2015 “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com 15

Irish Hunger and Migration- Myth, Memoryand Memorialization By Patrick Fitzgerald, Chris- tine Kinealy, and Gerard Moran River Terrace Building Quinnipiac University Press 2015 19111 Detroit Rd, Ste 200 ISBN 978-0-9909454-0-6 198 pps. Rocky River, OH 44115 Having personally visited the 440-333-8960 Great Hunger Museum in Hamden, [email protected] Connecticut, as well as the Irish Famine Museum in Strokestown, County Roscommon, I have come away with a better understand- ing of two of the most important themes in Irish history, famine and emigration. The book reviewed this month is a collection of es- says about the Famine from dif- helping us understand how Ireland ferent disciplinary perspectives, was transformed, that of emigration not only by historians, but also is every bit as significant and has sociologists, geographers, litera- dominated the Irish psyche from ture specialists, political scientists, the 17th century up to the present. artists, musicians, and others. This book is a contribution to While the Great Famine was a the ongoing scholarship about defining moment in Irish history, the Great Famine and I found it was not the only occasion when it to be a TOP SHELF read. Ireland experienced subsistence **Terrence J. Kenneally is an at- crisis and food shortages. The col- torney and owner of Terrence J. lection of essays by E. Margaret Kenneally & Assoc. Co. in Rocky Crawford showed that these were a River, Ohio. He handles defense common feature in Ireland, particu- litigation for insurance companies larly in the 18th and 19th centuries. and their insureds throughout With poverty, hunger, and famine the state of Ohio. He received his being constant features in the lives Master’s Degree in Irish Stud- of the people, one of its consequenc- ies from John Carroll University. es was an exodus from the country Mr. Kenneally is also head of the as people attempted to escape the Irish Studies program at Holy ravages of hunger and death. While Name High School. He may be the famine theme is important in reached at [email protected]. 16 IAN Ohio “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com September 2015

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Howlett Ready world title. provinces have proved that if they get to a reach out and connect with successful Irish The All-Black Opinion quarter final or a semi final of a tournament diaspora abroad who want to be involved for Rugby World It is a tournament that holds a lot of in- like this then anything can happen.” in helping Munster maintain the success Cup to Sparkle terest for former All-Black Doug Howlett, The Munster Way that they have enjoyed particularly over the who is still their all-time record try scorer. Doug Howlett came to Munster in No- last 15 years. Howlett believes that the most By David McDonnell Howlett last played for the Kiwis in the 2007 vember 2007. He was an integral part of important factor for Munster to be success- Four years we have been waiting and it’s World Cup, before transferring to play his team that won the Heineken Cup in 2008. ful is to maintain the winning environment almost upon us. The last few weeks has felt club rugby with Munster in Ireland. He be- Since he retired, Howlett now works as a that has been the bedrock of all their success. like one long intake of breath, a sort of calm lieves that it is important for New Zealand corporate ambassador for the province. It “What I like about the environment in before the storm that we can now exhale peak at the right time: “The World Cup isn’t is a challenging role especially considering Munster is a bit like the All Blacks, that they with the greatest rugby event every four on until September and you don’t want to the gigantic amounts of television money are a small region but they are competing years finally approaching on the horizon. peak too early. I have been to tournaments currently pouring into French and English on a European scale and in 2006 band 2008 And like every World Cup, it seems that it’s before, where you have gone into the clubs through massive television contracts. winning championships. So that was and almost the All-Blacks to lose as much as it tournament as favorites and played great These are teams Munster must compete is an attraction for me and understanding is every other teams to win. rugby, just to get pipped on the day. The with every year in Europe’s premier club what makes this small group so successful. Well at least it did signs are good for competition. “A lot of it is the environment that is until the last game of the All Blacks. A lot It is a challenge that Dougie, as he is af- already created. I came into a team with this year’s southern of questions have fectionately known down Munster way, is John Hayes, Jerry Flannery, Paul O’Connell, hemisphere’s rugby been asked of the relishing. Denis Leamy and David Wallace. They Championship, that players but they are “Everybody knows the rugby landscape is came through the age groups together. saw Australia turn great questions to be changing. The funding that is coming into They came through tough times and then over New Zealand asked now going in some of the French teams and into the Pre- achieved a lot. You are bred similar to that to take the spoils. It a World Cup. miership is putting our game under threat. as an international player and it is hard not showed for the first “I like the depth “Munster is built on home grown talent. to play for guys like that. time in a few years a within the squad. They have been for years and they have had sort of frailty about For example, when success from them so the key fundamentally “There are groups there that are develop- the Kiwi’s. In the last they left Dan Carter is retaining our own players first through ing in the academy and within the Munster few weeks the pe- and Sonny Bill Wil- schoolboys, then through academies and A competition. Jack O’Donaghue is some- rennial World Cup liams behind the Munster A and onto the first team. one that has come through and started a favorites have come week they went to “A core of Munster players and a light few games for Munster last season but to a consensus that it South Africa shows sprinkling of international talent seem to there is a line coming through. Sometimes is better to learn those a lot of trust by the be the right recipe to be able to compete all these guys only need an opportunity to lessons now instead Doug Howlett coach that someone with some of these superior funded teams.” show their wares. Hopefully, we can earth of the knockout phase else stepping in can One of the aspects of the corporate work a few bright stars early in the season when of rugby’s greatest do the job. Espe- undertaken by the Munster board is to we lose players to the World Cup.” showpiece. cially at Ellis Park. I have played there and When Argentina convincingly beat South that has to be the hottest of hotspots that Africa away on the same day, everyone in you can play in. the rugby sphere took a double take. It “Australia is improving. They have looked a result that had almost magically made some adjustments to their group. appeared. It had been the first time an Ar- England at home is a dangerous team. I gentinean side had ever beaten the Spring- like the look of what Ireland has done with boks. That it was a 37-25 comprehensive the players they have under Joe Schmidt victory made it all the more shocking. stewardship. It is exciting.” The two top sides in the world, New The other side of the draw sees Ireland Zealand and South Africa, losing games on facing France in the last match of Pool D. 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tive women. As a member of the Irish Citi- Margaret Skinnider zen Army, Margaret was on active duty during the Rising. She acted as a dispatch rider for Michael Mallin and at one point during the fighting she aided Margaret Skinnider bomb - detonators in her 16 men to return to Stephen’s hat with the wires encircling Green in Dublin city centre. Her James Connolly’s ideals and her body. She stayed on deck expertise with firearms enabled ideology attracted a variety of the entire journey in order to her to fire at British soldiers strong minded but little known avoid accidentally detonating from the roof of the College of female activists. One such was the equipment. In addition, as Surgeons. She later proclaimed, Margaret Skinnider. She was a result of marksman training ‘more than once I saw the man I born in Scotland in 1893; her received in preparation for the aimed at fall.’ father originally hailed from Co pending war to defeat the Brit- For the time she took com- Monaghan but her mother was ish Empire, she became quite mand of a number of men in an of Scottish origin. proficient with firearms. This attempt to set fire to a building, Margaret studied to become a was put to good use during the thus cutting off the British army teacher of maths and was active 1916 Rising. retreat. During the conflict she in the campaign for women’s Margaret had an obvious inter- was shot three times and sub- rights. As a member of the Wom- est in the military and was asked sequently spent seven weeks in en’s Social and Political Union to survey Beggars Bush Barracks hospital. She was incensed when in Scotland she was involved in by the Countess, with a view to eventually she heard the leaders the campaign to obtain suffrage detonating explosives should it of the Rising had been executed for women. The hostility and be considered necessary. The stating, ‘We had obeyed all vilification that many of these plan was given to James Con- rules of war and surrendered campaigners received ensured nolly, who decided it could as formally as any army ever that only the most stalwart and be implemented in the event capitulated.’ a pension for her services. She that gender bias and prejudice courageous of women were conscription was introduced in Margaret managed to obtain returned to teaching at a primary was and is eliminated. Women active. Ireland. permission to visit Scotland; school in Dublin and continued in 1916 who put their head above She also joined the Glasgow Skinnider subsequently be- afraid of imprisonment she in this occupation until 1961. the parapet literally and figura- branch of Cumann na mBan came a close associate of James sailed to America, spending During this time her activism tively were very often scorned (Women’s volunteer movement), Connolly and in 1916 joined the two years there campaigning did not cease. She was a leading and isolated. Her assistance to thereby coming into contact Irish Citizen Army. It is surpris- for Cumann na mBan. On her member of the Irish National obtain the new Free State was with Countess Markievicz; it is ing the number of women who return she continued her military teachers Association fighting in welcomed, but once the state believed she came to Dublin in found empathy with Connolly’s activity through the War of Inde- particular for women’s rights was achieved, she was expected 1915 at the request of the Count- ideals and the surmise is that his pendence, eventually spending and equality of employment. She to return to her ‘place’. This ess. Her trip to Dublin was belief in the equality of the sexes time in prison. became President of the associa- was the case with many women quite unique as she smuggled found favour with educated ac- Skinnider was significant tion in 1956, eventually becom- after the First World War as the because of both her Republican ing a member of the executive social code of masculine supe- and feminist ideals. She did council of the Irish Congress of riority was once again enforced. not allow her gender, at a time Trade Unions. She died in 1971. Margaret Skinnider and her like when women were subordi- It is through the efforts of ensured that women had a voice nate, to prevent her attempting women like Margaret Skinnider that could and should alway to achieve her goals. The Irish citizen Army treated all men and Please Cut Out and present it the next time women equally, so she was free you patronize one of our advertisers to command and fight for Irish freedom without any hindrance despite being female.. This free- dom continued through the Thank War of Independence and was no barrier to her imprisonment. Yet, when the country finally You achieved it’s Free State status, she was denied a pension from for advertising in The Ohio the new government in 1925 because of her gender. 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rugby tournament every four years. that the depth of the squad has greatly The second major blunder by Eddie improved. I like Joe Schmidt. He is very was making known his preferred start- affable and generous in his dealings ing 15 months out from the tournament. with the media. He displays no sem- In the 2007 summer tour of Argentina, blance of arrogance or self- importance. O’Sullivan left those 15 players at home He respects all his peers and oppo- to rest after a long season. It meant nents and does so with an abundance some of those earmarked for the start- of compassion and class. Yet inside ing 15 consciously or subconsciously the dressing room he has a reputation and it was going to be ‘our’ World took their place for granted, while for demanding the highest of profes- Ireland Hopes to Cup. And in its own way it was, for it others who were playing well in camp sional standards and adherence to his Pass History Lesson is still vividly remembered albeit for weren’t rewarded with team selection. game plan. He is regarded in some the wrong reasons. A New Exam quarters as the best coach in the world. A poor opening This year the Rugby World Cup starts Ireland failing to perform on performance against on September 18 and in some ways we the biggest stage seems just as re- minnows Namibia are in similar territory to 2007. The team mote as it did all those years ago. was followed by is riding high after winning successive Ireland begin their campaign against Ireland surviving Six Nations titles in the last two years. an unfancied Canada and minnows to win by the skin We are again in a group without the Romania, before they are widely ex- of their teeth after a three southern hemisphere powerhous- pected to beat Italy in their third match. late onslaught from es. We have an excellent captain in Paul Ireland’s best chance in reaching the underdogs Georgia. O’Connell and we have a much lauded last four rests on overcoming France Heavy losses to France coach in kiwi Joe Schmidt; the public is in the final group game. Win and they and Argentina saw once again expecting Ireland to deliver will likely play Argentina for a place the Irish team return at the very least a semi- final berth. in the final four. Lose and it is a quar- home with their pro- From the outside there seems to ter final date with the best team in the verbial tails between their legs. be no complacency from any of the world, the New Zealand All-Blacks. Back in 2007 we got The public found it hard to compre- players. We are told by the experts France, for so long the jewel in the ahead of ourselves. hend how and why crown of northern hemisphere By ‘we,’ I mean the Irish rugby the team had under rugby, has been awful this year. team, the Irish rugby supporters and performed so badly. In the Six Nations, they lost truth be told the whole Emerald Isle. Accusations and blame convincingly to Ireland and In the final day of the Six Nations were the order of the Wales before getting a hiding that year, Ireland played some scintil- day, most of which from England in the final game lating rugby, scoring 50 odd points were vitriolic in nature of the tournament. Their coach, and demolishing Italy in Rome on St and aimed directly Philippe Saint-Andre, has been Patrick’s Day. We were on the cusp at manager Eddie pilloried nationally and inter- of winning the competition, only for O’Sullivan, who was nationally as being inept at this a last minute French try against Scot- roundly booed by a level. His replacement, Guy land to deny us on point’s difference. large section of Irish Noves, has been lined up to The 2007 World Cup was looming supporters at the next take over in November. Al- and this time it was going to be differ- home international the though losing the final narrowly ent. We believed with great surety that following spring. Eddie four years ago, bookmakers we were centimeters if not millimeters was ushered out the have them at odds of 20-1 to short of becoming the best side in Eu- door soon after and succeed this time around. rope.We were in a group without any of became a managerial And yet rugby history tells the top three southern hemisphere sides, pariah on the profes- us that any French team called New Zealand, Australia or South Africa. sional rugby scene in underdogs bites worse than it Our pack was backboned by a Mun- Ireland. When the dust barks. On their day they can beat ster side who had won Europe’s pre- finally settled and the any side in the world; one thing mier club competition the year before. postmortems complet- that is not in doubt is the caliber Our centers and outside backs were ed, it became clear that of their players. Any team with comprised of the best players that Lein- the Irish management Morgan Parra, Thierry Dusau- ster had to offer. We had a lauded coach had made two serious toir, and Wesley Fofana needs to in Eddie O’Sullivan and we had the best errors of judgment. be given the highest of respect. player on the planet in Brian O’Drioscal. The first was that Let’s hope when France line We had long been the nearly men of the team had done up to face the men in green, rugby, but that year it felt different. too much physical the Irish players and manage- A Lesson work at the training ment will be able to perform at In the lead up to the tournament the camp in Poland. It was their maximum on the biggest players acted differently too, talking work more conducive stage when it is most needed. up their chances in a very un-Irish way to preseason train- This time I believe they will. about winning the World Cup and ing than sharpening This time the whole coun- about how reaching the semi-finals their skills to hit the try believes we’ll triumph. was the nadir of their ambitions. This ground running at team was Ireland’s golden generation the most important We have been wrong before. 20 IAN Ohio “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com September 2015

The Mid- west Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), under the guidance of the North American County Board, is the divi- sional board respon- sible for administer- ing the Gaelic sports of Football and Hurling in Akron, Albany, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Cleve- land, Columbus, Detroit, Kalamazoo, Pittsburgh, Roches- ter and Syracuse. The Ohio Irish American News is proud to carry on a legacy of support for the Gaelic Athletic Association. The Midwest Junior Football Division winner is awarded the Tom O’Donoghue Memorial Cup, named after Pittsburgh Championship: legend Tom O’Donaghue Tom O’Donoghue Akron Celtic Guards 3-10 (1935 – 2007). The Jr. competi- Cup Games: July 25 Pittsburgh Pucas 4-7 tion teams are Buffalo Fenians, Cleveland St. Pats 8-19 Inter-Divisional Cincinnati GAA, Cleveland Buffalo Fenians 1-3 Senior Football: St. Pat’s and the Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Celtics 4-10 Philadelphia St. Pats 2-17 Celtics. The two finalists Cincinnati GAA 2-5 Pittsburgh Celtics 0-9 will represent the division at Midwest Hurling the North American County GAA Midwest Board playoffs, held Labor Day Weekend, this year in Chicago. Championship: Tom O’Donaghue, from Lis- August 8-9 towel, Co. Kerry, was a member Men’s Jr. Hurling of the GAA both in Ireland and Championship Final: upon arrival in Pittsburgh. He Pittsburgh Pucas defeat played in the U.S. from 1955 Akron Celtic Guards until 1973 and coached until 4-11 to 2-1 (23 – 7) 1988, bringing two National Titles to Pittsburgh. He served Men’s Jr. Football as President of the NACB of the Gaelic Athletic Association Continued on next page from the 1970s to early 1980s. His children and grandchildren continue that legacy of commit- ment and nurturing of the Irish culture by active participation. The 317USA (Shield) Cup is named after a new online retail clothing company, and presented to the winners of the Midwest Division’ Jr. Football Shield Competition; Columbus Naghten Street, Detroit Wolfe Tones, Cincinnati GAA and guest Baltimore Bohemians make up this year’s competi- tion. www.317USA.com September 2015 “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com 21

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town. Five miles of bad road lay between the Armagh garrison and the Blackwater Fort. It was a narrow strip of uneven ground, with bogs and thick woods at both sides. Right in the way, at Yellow Ford, on the river Cal- lan, two miles north of Armagh, O’Neill had gathered his forces, The Battle of love of the Irish. He also held a and was determined to dispute personal grudge against O’Neill. the passage of Bagenal. At inter- Yellow Ford It seems O’Neill had years ear- vals along the way O’Neill and lier eloped with Bagenal’s sister his Spanish engineers had dug The Nine Years War (1594- Mabel. deep holes and trenches, and 1603) was fought between the Bagenal assembled an army of had blocked the line of march Irish, led by Hugh O’Neill and roughly 4,000 foot soldiers and with felled trees and brushwood. Red Hugh O’Donnell, and the 350 cavalry. The force included The largest of these blockades English, led by a line of failed Irish soldiers serving in the was a trench a mile long, five feet commanders. The Irish won English army, as well as recently deep, and four feet across, with quite a few major battles against arrived soldiers from England. a thick hedge of thorns on top. the English, but ended up losing The soldiers were armed with O’Neill’s men also hid in the for- the war. One of the most sig- the standard weapons of the day, est and bogs along the road and nificant battles during the period muskets and pikes. They also harassed Bagenal’s troops with was won by a united Irish force had several pieces of artillery. musket fire and spears. at the Battle of Yellow Ford (In They marched from Dublin to Bagenal’s forces were orga- Irish: Cath Bhéal an Átha Buí) in Newry and from there to Arma- nized in three sections, with the County Armagh. gh town, where they stayed the cavalry in the center. An experi- In 1597 the British built a fort night before venturing further enced commander would know on the Blackwater River which north to relieve the Blackwater that in the march, this formation was the boundary between Fort. must be maintained with proper slaughtered the forward section O’Neill and O’Donnell had County Armagh and County O’Neill had a good intelligence distances between the regiments at Yellow Ford. achieved a significant victory Tyrone. The Blackwater Fort was network in Dublin and he soon so as to maintain constant con- By this time the English forma- over the English. This was not intended to facilitate later mili- found out about plans for Bage- tact. O’Neill’s objective was to tions were in disarray. Many of supposed to happen and the tary expeditions into Tyrone, the nal’s expedition. He sent mes- harass the moving army to slow Bagenal’s Irish soldiers deserted victory caused many countries stronghold of the Earl of Tyrone, sengers to Red Hugh O’Donnell it up and disrupt the regular for- and joined O’Neill; others just in Europe to take note. It also Hugh O’Neill. Resenting the fact to come to his aid against this mation. This was to be achieved dropped their arms and ran caused many in Ireland who that the fort was near his head- large force. O’Donnell pro- by ambush and sniper fire. away. O’Neill’s forces had won had supported the English or quarters in Dungannon, O’Neill ceeded immediately to join The harassment caused a great victory and only lost remained neutral to support the attacked the fort. O’Neill tried O’Neill along with all his forces the distance between the forward 200 to 300 killed in the process. united Irish cause of O’Neill and every way he could to overcome both infantry and cavalry and section and the rest of the sec- Although exact numbers are O’Donnell. the fort without success. O’Neill other troops from Connacht. The tions to increase and it become hard to determine, the English Queen Elizabeth I, naturally, decided to surround the fort and Irish throughout the province of isolated. The forward section lost about 900 killed at the battle. was infuriated. The downside starve the occupants out. Ulster also joined O’Neill and had pushed on to the first Irish This included 18 officers. Deser- of the Irish victory was that the After the siege had contin- were assembled before Bagenal trench and after heavy fighting tions among Irish soldiers in the Queen doubled the number of ued for some time, the British reached Armagh town. O’Neill succeeded in crossing it only to English ranks numbered about English forces in Ireland. This commander, Captain Thomas also had several Spanish engi- find that they were in a prepared 900. brought about an escalation Williams, and his men began neers and many Scottish merce- killing area and they were forced The remainder of the English of the conflict that would end to run short on food. They had naries in his army. to retreat into the path of the sec- army retreated back to the gar- badly for the Irish at the Battle managed to seize a number of In addition to O’Neill and ond section. At this point, in the rison at Armagh town. Out of of Kinsale in 1601 and result in O’Neill’s horses on which they O’Donnell the force included battle, Bagenal, who was with the 4,000 soldiers who had set the eventual end of Gaelic Ire- subsisted for a time. Soon even Hugh Maguire and James Mac- the first section, opened the visor out from Armagh, just over 2,000 land with the Flight of the Earls this supply ran short. Despite Donnell of the Glens (and his of his helmet to get a better look returned after the battle. O’Neill in 1607. the hardship they still resisted Galloglass); all were leaders of at the action and was fatally shot followed them and besieged surrender. ability and experience. Although in the head. The command was Armagh. Those who reached *J. Michael Finn is the Ohio News of O’Neill’s siege at the we don’t have the exact number taken over by Thomas Wingfield. Armagh were virtual prisoners State Historian for the Ancient fort reached Dublin. There had of troops O’Neill assembled, Shortly after this the English gun inside the town. After a siege Order of Hibernians and Divi- been little support for building estimates are that the total was powder store ignited, appar- of three days, the English sur- sion Historian for the Patrick the fort in the first place as many around 5,000, just slightly larger ently by accident, causing further rendered. O’Neill agreed to let Pearse Division in Columbus, felt it was too far away to be ad- than the English force. O’Neill’s confusion and demoralization. the remaining soldiers leave Ohio. He is also Chairman of equately protected. Nonetheless, army was armed with axes, Wingfield started to organize a Armagh provided they left their the Catholic Record Society for it was judged as necessary that spears, swords and muskets. retreat to Armagh but the com- arms and ammunition behind. the Diocese of Columbus, Ohio. the fort be relieved. Sir Henry Unlike the English, the Irish mander of the forward section They were evacuated from Ne- He writes on Irish and Irish- Bagenal volunteered to com- foot soldiers were not heavily didn’t retreat and O’Neill took wry back to Dublin by sea. The American history; Ohio history mand the English force that was armored. advantage of the enemy confu- English force at the Blackwater and Ohio Catholic history. You assembled. Bagenal had fought On August 14, 1598, Bagenal sion to send in his cavalry backed Fort also surrendered under the may contact him at previously in Ulster and had no moved his army out of Armagh with swordsmen on foot and same terms. [email protected]. September 2015 “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com 23

the former colonies and to the famine. Irish poverty in Ireland Emancipation. Their rebellion in European mainland. The Irish was directly tied to religion. 1798 did not unite the Catholic linen trade almost doubled by The Atlantic world had ex- and the Protestant, nor did it 1792, multiplying the number perienced revolution. Colonies defeat Britain. The Irish Protes- of ships sailing for America. As had become nations and the tant who was in favor of an Irish the traffic in the shipping lanes Industrial Revolution was begin- Republic could not get past the increased, people became a larger ning. Irish Catholics were just fear of a Catholic majority with “Liberty must be conquered and self-defined unquestioned impetus of commodity trade. now legally able to teach their constitutional powers. British with the sword. To beg for rights commercial authority. Britain 32,000 Irish migrated to the children. Poyning’s Law was deconstruction of the uprising is a peculiarity of people unable maintained the supremacy of Delaware Valley alone in the six being replaced with neoliberal realized that obstruction to lib- to exercise them.” – Antonio the metropole regardless of geo- years following the Revolution. economic subservience. Ireland erty and exploited the secretarian Maceo. graphical distance. This rule Trade was moving farther north had already began to migrate. divide to maintain order. The Age of Revolution touched was defined and redefined by on the American coast to New The hermeneutics of revolution The period after the Ameri- all of the Atlantic world. The the passage of various Acts of York and Boston and Irish im- would lead to the exodus of Irish can Revolution and preceding American Revolution, The French Parliament. The Staple Act in migrants were increasing from Catholics. the Act of Union provides the Revolution, The Haitian Revolu- 1633 permitted enough economic Leinster, Munster and Connacht. The amalgamation of revolu- ideological and political struc- tion, and the Rebellion of 1798 in space for Cork to control the Irish newspapers published ad- tionary and liberal democratic ture for mass migration. Next Ireland were all interconnected provisions trade with the British vertisements for travel to Amer- ideals precipitated migration, but month I will discuss the period within the political and economic West Indies and Ulster to have ica. Ads detailed the quality of it also was a catalyst for rebellion. between 1800 and 1845 and the realities that traversed the Atlan- a competitive advantage in the ship, the expediency of travel Many Irish, both Catholic and one million Irish who migrated tic in the 18th Century. There was linen trade. This was the excep- and the credentials of the captain. Protestant, were dissatisfied with to America in those years. For also the Industrial Revolution, tion not the rule. These were not Coffin Ships. the limited freedoms in Ireland in further reading this month: The which was perhaps less romantic In totality, the Acts of Parlia- Why immigrate to America? the Age of Revolution. The Irish Age of Revolution 1789-1848 by historically, but affected the Irish ment were legal decrees to assist Crane Britton wrote in The Anat- Parliament did not represent a Eric Hobsbawm, The Anatomy people as much as the revolu- in the economic predominance omy of Revolution that revolu- Jacobin-minded middle class; of Revolution by Crane Brinton, tions of the sword. Historian Eric of Britain; they established tariffs tion occurs with blocked mobility. it was still a tool for aristocracy. Free Trade and Empire in the Hobsbawm notes that the end and banned crops. It is why in That should be amended in the Theobold Wolfe Tone organized Anglo-Irish Commercial Propo- result of the Age of Revolution the 1760s George Washington Irish context to say that so does the Society of United Irishmen, a sitions of 1785, by James Livesey, is the birth of the middle class uprooted the tobacco in his fields migration. Ireland was begin- contingent of Protestant Irishmen Irish Atlantic Trade in the Seven- of bourgeois capitalism. This and planted wheat. It is also ning to benefit from the lim- who advocated an ecumenical teenth and Eighteenth Centuries thought cannot be ignored in the why the second law passed by ited freedoms of legislation and democratic republic and Catholic by R.C. Nash. migration of the Irish. United States Congress in 1787 trade that was less encumbered. The seeds of revolution were was a tariff. However, the majority of the planted long before the shots The Atlantic world was adjust- Irish people were still disenfran- were fired at Lexington and Con- ing its understanding of empire chised. In 1793 a limited number cord. So were the seeds of Irish in the late 18th century as a result of landed Irish Catholics were Immigration to America, since 10 of the American and French allowed to vote. Ireland was percent of the population of the Revolutions. Free trade became far from a utopia if one was not Colonies was Irish born. Social a feature of popular politics in part of the Protestant Ascendancy. unrest was neither uncommon Ireland by the 1770s and inspired Nearly all the acreage of Ireland in the American colonies nor in shopping boycotts and nonim- was consolidated in the hands of the Irish countryside. The Age portation agreements. 10,000 Protestant families, as was of Rebellion preceded the Age Because free trade was central political power. of Revolution. to the demands for national self- Irish prosperity was precarious In both places British goods interest and political freedom, the and was commandeered to serve were boycotted and secret soci- metropoles adjusted their imperi- the Crown and British industrial eties attempted to protect rights, al approach. In 1785 William Pitt interests. Typhus and cholera whether real and perceived, by proposed free trade for Britain were common and the bulk of various means. The American and Ireland and attempted to use the Irish people were economi- colonies and Ireland were geo- this ideological rallying point as cally poor. Resistance in Ireland graphically separate yet united in a mechanism of imperial integra- was used to justify lack of capital economic causality and perhaps tion. Pitt’s approach was a direct investment and resulting con- in bloodline. Both developed a response to the social movement strained industrialization. Irish pre-revolution ideology based on for political reform in Ireland and tenants were still subjugated to calls for democracy and liberty. Irish achievement of legislative a manorial agrarian system that On the national level in Ireland independence in 1782. His pitch had vanished from the rest of that included demands for eco- intended to coordinate economic Europe. The Age of Revolution nomic freedom and free trade, and fiscal policy between the had not arbitrated changes in the especially the end of a British two islands devoid of explicit land system as it was not it the trade and credit monopoly. In political controls. The Irish gov- interest of the landowners. the Irish countryside it meant the ernment did not accept his offer. The majority of Irish were ability to survive as a tenant and The Irish wanted freedom, com- agrarian and lived well below cultivate a small patch of land plete and outside the framework European standards. The Irish with potatoes. of British imperialism. economy was under-developed The Colonial Period estab- Following the American Revo- and was extremely vulnerable to lished British military control lution, Irish trade increased to natural disaster, like the potato ibamchicago.com 24 IAN Ohio “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com September 2015

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structed him to ship Rossa’s body is a place of peace, sacred to the never be at peace.” [The original back home, as he quickly realised dead, where men should speak handwritten script is on display Rossa could fulfil one last under- with all charity and with all at the Pearse Museum, St. Enda’s, taking for his beloved country. restraint but I hold a Christian Rathfarnham, Dublin] Promptly going to work, the IRB thing, as O’Donovan Rossa held But before I end this letter, I began organising a public funeral it, to hate evil, to hate untruth, thought I’d include a personal scheduled for 1 August. to hate oppression; and, hating remembrance. Back in the early “...but the fools, the fools, the ments in Irish history and was an Concurrently, Clarke started them, to strive to overthrow them. 1990s, while attending the Mi- fools! — they have left us our occasion that would be hugely in- casting about for someone to Our foes are strong and wise and chael Collins Annual Commemo- Fenian dead...” Once again, those strumental in shaping the future deliver a powerful eulogy. De- wary; but, strong and wise and ration at BealnaBlath in West hallowed, compelling words of our nation.” spite some misgivings, he chose wary as they are, they cannot Cork, I met an old farmer. As filled the air. They echoed among O’Donovan Rossa was born in Pádraig Pearse. After discuss- undo the miracles of God who we talked, the name O’Donovan the gravestones in Dublin’s West Cork in September 1831. In ing his intentions with the Irish ripens in the hearts of young men Rossa came up. He said, “Let me Glasnevin Cemetery as they the 1850s he moved to Skibber- schoolmaster, Clarke directed the seed sown by the young men tell you a story about him. Back once did exactly one-hundred een, became a shopkeeper and Pearse to “Make it hot as hell!”, of a former generation.” in those days, it was customary years ago. founded the Phoenix National and that’s exactly Then, in conclusion, he as- for the expectant woman to have Now, on a fine summer’s morn- and Literary Society, a republi- what the burgeoning author serted... the baby in her family home. So ing last month, a special cer- can front-organisation aimed at and revolutionary did. ”Life springs from death; and Rossa’s mother, then living in emony was re-enacted honouring wrestling Ireland’s freedom from Thus, on 1 August, Pádraig from the graves of patriot men Reeanascreena and knowing her the burial of a famous Fenian, Jer- Britain, by force, if necessary. His Henry Pearse stepped up before and women spring living nations. time was near, began walking to emiah O’Donovan Rossa, a man Phoenix Society soon merged O’Donovan Rossa’s grave and The Defenders of this Realm her parent’s farm in Roscarbery. who’d suffered great hardships with the newly established IRB delivered what many believe to have worked well in secret and Unfortunately, she missed-timed at the hands of his English jailers. in 1858. be Ireland’s Gettysburg Address. in the open. They think that they the birth. Alone and squatting But despite his life’s misfortunes, Predictably, Rossa’s anti-British Among his carefully chosen have purchased half of us and down by the side of the road, little he managed to overcome each activities saw him arrested in words, Pearse said, “We stand at intimidated the other half. They baby Rossa was born. Having adversity while keeping the 1865. Charged with high trea- Rossa’s grave not in sadness but think that they have foreseen delivered, she gathered up the dream of Ireland’s freedom alive son, he was sentenced to penal rather in exaltation of spirit that it everything, think that they have child in her arms and continued in his heart. servitude for life in England. But, has been given to us to come thus provided against everything; her walk. To this day the villages This tribute marks the first of after enduring five-plus years of into so close a communion with but the fools, the fools, the fools! of Reeanascreena and Roscarbery a yearlong series of forty-some tortuous confinement, he was that brave and splendid Gael.” — they have left us our Fenian both claim O’Donovan Rossa as State ceremonies celebrating deported to the United States Later, he stated... dead, and, while Ireland holds theirs.” God bless him and you Ireland’s 2016 Centenary Pro- on condition he never return to [Speaking of Glasnevin] ”This these graves, Ireland unfree shall too, Cathal gramme. Rossa, an Irish revo- Ireland. lutionary, was a 19th-century Now ensconced Fenian who’d fought long and in New York City, hard to see Ireland free. His life he joined forces and subsequent death became a with friend John symbol for many Irish national- Devoy and active- ists and revolutionaries the world ly supported Clan over. His funeral, organised by na Gael while con- the Irish Republican Brotherhood tinuing to fund- [IRB] in support of the newly raise for Ireland’s formed Irish Volunteers [1913], cause. Despite was, in effect, a call to arms. It was years of personal IRB’s wish to prepare the Irish disagreement and people for an upcoming rebellion. turmoil, he earned In the presence of the Irish the name ‘Fenian Defence Forces’ 6th Infantry Flame,’ a man battalion, Ireland’s present-day who’d dedicate President, Michael D Higgins, led his life to Irish in- the official State commemoration dependence. in Glasnevin. He was accompa- In June 1915, nied by Taoiseach Enda Kenny death claimed him and Minister for the Arts, Heri- at eighty-three tage and the Gaeltacht, Heather while still resid- Humphreys. ing in his adopted Michael D’s stirring words city. When word captured the attention of the arrived in Dub- thousands who’d gathered to lin of his death, witness the observance. “Even Tom Clarke, later 100 years after his death his name one of the seven is synonymous with the Fenians signatories of the and with Irish Nationalism. The 1916 Proclamation liberation of his country became and then-leader his life’s ambition. His funeral of the IRB, wrote remains one of the pivotal mo- to Devoy. He in- 26 IAN Ohio “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com September 2015

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Over $500 in Fallen Hero Fund Present @ Strangers Here, 18th - Donal admission, bands perform outside 414 South Main Street, Find- cash prizes and food, refresh- Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica, O’Shaughnessy, 25th - Cats On on riverfront deck, weather permit- lay 45840 419.420.3602 www. ments, live music w/ Lords 6:00 p.m. w/ Manic Episode, Holiday. 1114 Center St. Cleve- ting. 6th - FINAL Irish Sunday logansirishpubfindlay.com of Leisure, Irish vendors, gift Brigid’s Cross, Erin Viancourt, land 44113-2406 216.696.6968. w/ The Portersharks. Labor Day Plank Road Tavern basket raffles & more. Admis- Entandre, Angel P. Only $5 www.flatironcafe.com Weekend blowout! 1148 Main Open Sessiún Every Thursday sion $6, under 12 free. 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414 S. Main St., Findlay, 7:30 pm Traditional Irish Oberlin’s Traditional Irish Sessiúns Session – 2nd Monday of the Akron Hibernian’s Ceili Band month 7 - 9 Slow Train Café, Sessions, Wednesdays 7:30 pm. 55 East College St., Oberlin. Mark Heffernan Div 2 Hall Informal all experience 2000 Brown St, Akron 330-724- welcome: www.oberlin. 2083. Beginner to intermediate net/~irishsession Bardic Circle @The Shamrock Club of Columbus Beginner - friendly, intermediate level Irish Traditional Social session meeting every other Dance for Adults Thursdays 8:00 pm - 11pm All are welcome to learn and Irish Eyes Heavenly Pub, 1st have fun Wednesday of month. 3324 Tuesdays 8-10 pm, set danc- Secor Rd, Toledo ing lessons, St. Clarence Church, Stone Mad – 1st Sunday of the North Olmsted month Holleran Traditional Wednesdays 7-9 pm, set danc- Irish Session, 7pm ing lessons, Irish American Club Plank Road – Every Thursday - East Side 7 – 10. All ages and experience Thursdays, September 3, 10, 24, welcome. 16719 Detroit Road, 7-9 pm, West Side Irish American Lakewood, 44107 Club The Harp – 1st Friday each Ceili Mor! Sunday, 10/11, 4 - 8 month, 9pm pm, music by The Kilroys, $10, Logan’s Irish Pub – 3rd kids free. Wednesday For information, contact Ceili- [email protected]

Meeting For A Historical and Literary Tour of Ireland Trip Join us on Tuesday, Sep- View, OH 44125) 7:00 p.m. tember 15, 2015 for an in- in the upstairs room. Learn formational meeting about more about this amazing trip. the trip at Lockkeepers Res- Please RSVP to colleenhcorri- taurant, Independence, OH [email protected] or call Tim ( 8001 Rockside Rd, Valley Vaughn (216) 210-0828. SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

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ing of The Fest. Rebecca Brady Camp- volunteers this year. I shifted the auld bell recorded our TV commercial too. brain to do another proof Wednesday Huge Thanks to all our media and night as the OhIAN began to take vendor partners and all our many shape. Late, I then fell into the Hot tub friends, performers and supporters for and drifted for hours – ok, 15 minutes. doing what was required, then doing After a quick meeting at the Enter- even more. So many donated so much tainer’s hotel, we then wrapped up in support of promoting The Fest, we most of the setup on Thursday, near on are so grateful. We are finally making 6pm. It was quite peaceful amidst the Putting on the O’Ritz headway in seeing those support- madness as we sat back and chatted This is my 33rd year with Cleve- ers share The Fest on Social Media; with Whiskey Tasting Coordinators land Irish Cultural Festival. My dad maximizing the power that sharing Ann Calvey and Sheila Farkas, who started the festival, but I started, offers to spread the word of The Fest also volunteered to distribute Vol- doing the parking! After college I to audiences and potential attendees. unteer T-Shirts as volunteers came graduated to doing the food, then During The Fest, I usually take 6 out to the grounds to get them (and onward, and some say, upward, from consecutive days vaca from the Sher- the super duper secret of what color there. I have been Deputy Direc- iff’s Dept., starting on the Tuesday they are this year, is revealed). tor for near on 2 decades. In many before. After all the media appear- So much was built, I only lost one ways, it gets easier each year, though ances Tuesday morning, we race out thing, besides lots of sweat, lots of skin we add more and more. In others … to the grounds and start on building and a little blood etc… – by far the #LiveMoreLifeBeMoreIrish easels as we direct the unloading of the most valuable and the most damag- Last year we made many signifi- trucks to their correct building, hoping ing loss was one completely smashed cant changes, but the biggest for me, to move the same things less often. hearing aid. I always put them in a especially evident this year, was the “When the sun goes down o’er Cleve- case in my pocket when I get up in the development of our Creative Team. land town, the colors last for hours morning, post shower wet ears and Separate from our board of directors, oh! The lights come on, the night’s a hearing aids do not do well together. they are charged with brainstorming; song, and the streets all turn to gold”. A heavy box being leveraged hit my developing and implementing new Home late, I print things we need for thigh and crushed the delicate little things to attract new people and more the week, I then took a break to proof $2,000 window to music and voices. people. They have so far exceeded We decide to do PR in house this year, the 1st draft of the August issue of the Somehow the right aid, resting right expectations that I just sit back and as no one knows our festival, or cares as Ohio Irish American News; 28 pages next to the left one in the case, wasn’t say Thank you – to God and to them. much, as we do. T’was a good decision, of blissful things to see, hear and do – a even scratched; so there’s that! Some of the load is lifted, free- as the crowds and response attest. Tues- memory factory in full production. Richie Reece, of Brigid’s Cross and a ing me up take up other challenges. day appearances on New Day Cleve- Wednesday was set up day, and went partner in the four Hooley Houses, in- BI- Monthly meetings led to monthly land, The Morning Show, Spotlight on really well. Our all-volunteer workforce vited the entertainers out for a fest kick- meetings led to 2 weekends of massive 5, Willis & Snyder - who were both live came ready to roll. I am a firm believer off dinner – the meal was fantastic, and painting of our Irish Village storefronts and also recorded an interview that you have to attack hard work. The the conversation magnifico! We don’t that lead to Temple Bar. The 2nd was ran several times all week; and Nolan, analysis, best practices stuff has already often get to chat with the performers at the 17th – 19th of July, the weekend Malone & Kulick (4 and 0 Baybee) were been done, now, it’s time to attack. Life- The Fest as we run from cliff to cliff. A before The Fest. 15 people, including fun and effective; Gary Dee from Ch 3 long volunteers move about without good dinner, loads of laughs and those new artists, joined us and their skill- came out live and did interviews and needing direction, and the buildings great convos were the perfect prescrip- ful crafting is amazing. The Village the weather from The Fest for several go up –we have to do a time lapse of tion for kicking off The Fest just right. leading to Temple Bar has doubled hours; Barleycorn appeared Live on that someday – t’would be very cool. Thank you, thank you, Cara Butler, this year; God willing, next year too. shows both Saturday and Sunday morn- We were way ahead, despite less Continued on next page September 2015 “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com 29

beers this year featured Guin- ness Blonde, Smithwicks Pale and Millersburg Vienna Lager –and were a great success! Yes, I quality tested them all … Friday crowds were big, vibrant and pulsing with energy and fun that is ev- erything you want, and everything we work so hard to generate. No amount of money will buy it, only quality highlights within will earn it. Tis tradition to have a nice cigar with friends at the end of each day –but this year, both, who live in Florida, but come up to spare me the heavy lifting, could not come this year – first time in many years that neither could come. Kevin well, tho moving slower; the broken Alyth McCormack, Jon Pilatske, and es- Happy Hour and the kickoff with McDonough, our food coordi- auld back, however, had much griping pecially Richie for welcoming the great Celtic Rockers Carbon Leaf. Hooley nator, knew of my ritual and brought and burning to bother me life. Since folks and taking such good care of us all. Hour’s Bridget and Josh kicked off the me a bodacious one to wrap up Friday this was the first time I was able to see Friday is our polish up day, mak- Rock Stage Saturday and Sunday too. with. Best laid plans … didn’t allow our performers up close this year, I ing sure things work, look good, Beverage Distributors’ Rita Gaertner Saturday or Sunday, but man, I appreci- easily muted it with hugs, conversa- and are accessible. Beer, pop, food, was amazing – such a dynamo who not ate the thoughtfulness of doing that. tion and a few songs and tunes till 3, ice and more roll in, sometimes only sees the big picture, but can see op- Despite it being the first day, all the before that nagging little voice chirp- at the EXACT same time… portunities within it too. She and Greg fires and firsts, I was still able to leave ing, Go To Bed, finally won out. WMMS of iHeart Radio sent radio added so much to this festival, I decided the grounds not too long after half Continued on next page personality Charlie out for Friday’s I am going to clone her. New Craft midnight. My body was holding up 30 IAN Ohio “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com September 2015

Saturday was like Friday, but way WAY bigger. By now most of you have heard about the Foam Glow race going on in and around the racetrack Saturday night. We had no choice, but the organizers of it were class acts; professional, courteous and very flexible. We made the best of it. Since we could only set up the tent once; we couldn’t use from the grass by the back Pavilion, back, all weekend. We had to squeeze the Harp Stage, food court, and Miller Stage from the grass to the midway; they all got a bear hug. of my all-time favorite people. Joanie is I was worried especially about the driving force and founder of Cher- the soft voice of Frances Black being ish the Ladies, celebrating their 30th drowned out, but she more than held year together, and has been a mentor her own. There is a load of power in to me over 3 decades as I try to find that woman, both musically and in ways to add value to our festival. She her soul, accomplishment that directly has played all over the world, seen makes the world a better place, for her and given so much, and like me, cares I love the taste of a McDonald and seeks the peace of God, amidst being here. I sat down with Ronan little for glamor over substance. She breakfast, but for obvious reasons, the pain and the fashion. Sunday was Tynan on the same subject, and his is full of wisdom and not shy about never eat it, outside of festival week- an amazing day, full of music, family response was vintage Tynan, classy, sharing it with those who ask. end. Stumble from hotel bed to and a deep love of our heritage, our powerful and not to be messed with: All those closest to me share a trait of Breakfast every day for their Bacon faith and each other, brought Live “Don’t worry about it; this is OUR party, direct and honest communication – we Egg n Cheese Bagel Value Meal w and in full green, white and orange I will take care of it”. One of the great are not big on lots of words, passive- Large coffee is a lift and a pleasure tinted color, to share with you. Gentleman in this business – awesome. aggressive communication, or games as I gather thoughts, battle plans and I always resolve to” see more music The most significant fallout, and the – we share because we care, not to get strength for the day. 51 weeks to the next year”, but that is not my focus, so thing that I am most sick about, was a pat on the back. On Saturday Joanie next McD’s! It’s another hug I guess. usually part of a song or two is all I that we had to close all Eastland Road and I had a brief chat, heavily punctu- The biggest hug of all is Sunday, for can get. All four bands new to us this parking on Saturday to Irish Fest pa- ated with laughter and a pepsi or three, we always start off The Fest with Mass. year got tremendous response. Ashley trons. This caused inconvenience and but Sunday we had a mighty good Our whole festival family gathers on a Davis, Runa, Frances Black and Ennis conversation, she gave me strength. lost patrons throughout the day, and bleacher; stays together, prays together Continued on next page massive exit problems at the end of the night. We exhausted our choices, but still, I am sorry for all that people had to go through. Progressive Field, The Q, The Browns and I suppose Blossom and other large venues all deal with long wait times to get out, but it was first of this degree for us. We will fix it. At 9:30 or so, we opened the gates to Foam Glow runners and many came thru. A young woman asked me for garbage bags to save her car seats from ruin, and I was able to locate some for her. She then told me I was a blessing. Under a mandate to provide the best experience we can for our guests, it caught me by surprise. I was not able to answer her before she headed off to her car, but as the weekend contin- ued, that song hummed in my head and moved the Irish mist from my eyes; it became very symbolic to me: how many blessings I have found, or I should say, that found me, throughout the coordination and development of the festival all this year. They came front and center, encouraged by the opened eyes; it was oh so apropos. I got off-site around 1am, but 3am came so quickly! Joanie Madden is one September 2015 “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com 31

We Get Letters … old records to see if they could find it for married, plus a few real Irish folk songs me. The next day they called, having thrown in. This music shop is ordering John.... I just have to tell you about your received it that morning. I purchased it, extra because the word if spreading fast what your newspaper feature has done listened and was hooked. Have to admit of this fantastic Priest and his music. for me. Two months ago you featured Fr. I was not 100% hooked, but the more I I’m also going to write about the CD on Ray Kelly on the cover page and an article played it, I couldn’t stop. Facebook and tell folks where they can inside about his CD “Where I Belong”. I Everyone who listens to it, has to have get the CD. started looking around for the CD but a copy. So I have ordered 8 so far with 2 Thanks, again, for this fabulous month- no one here in Columbia ever heard of it, more on the way. This CD is the perfect ly newspaper. I read it from cover to cover let alone had it. I called my sister, Ann gift for engaged couples or even young/ and enjoy every article. Frencel (Brook Park, Ohio), to see if she old married couples. Several of the songs could locate it at one of the Irish Shops. are meant for those planning on getting Katie Herbkersman- Columbia, SC She had no luck either. I called a place Katie Herbkersman Ann Frencel here (Columbia, SC) that buys and sells iBAM! Chicago Putting on the O’Ritz 2015 October Continued from previous page 9, 10 & 11 were fantastic additions and loved by The Irish American Heritage Center everyone that heard them, me included; 4626 North Knox Chicago gorgeous voices and notes; humor and dance where ever they roamed. We close at 10:30p.m. on Sun- days; I left soon after midnight. The after’s party was amazing and so IBAM! Gala memorable. Have you ever tried Friday Oct 9 Kansas Whiskey? Oh man! Julie Fitz and Michael Holland went OFF on a dance rift behind the bar Honoring Irish Chef (the only place with a hard floor), the singing was beautiful, Cormac De Home, couch and hot tub. Barra on Harp is the most mesmerizing I have learned to take the Tuesday after Darina Allen thing to watch. I told folks that they The Fest off too – the wall of pain won’t are the reason people come to the fest, really hit till Wednesday, but Tuesday first for the music, but then, because of gives me a chance to find my garage them and the friendships and goodwill and living room again, sort what is there Saturday October 10 they build. Better ambassadors could and apologize with tlc to the neglected not be found. You are the reason, so I lawn, flowers and hammock that can want to thank you for making this our fill free time pre and post fest. I have Sharon most successful festival ever. Then I also learned, while still going, to get it toasted that Kansas Whiskey! (again). done. Yet, my heart ached for the music. I arose Monday sore and happy; sad About 6 weeks before The Fest, our Shannon it was over; dreading the cleanup. We Fest Temple Bar performances Coordina- must be off the grounds by 5pm that day. tor Maureen Reich was gathering a group Sunday October 11 9 days to set up, 6 HOURS to take down, to go see the Galway band, We Banjo 3, at as we organized, counted, packed, taped, the fantastic Music Box Supper Club, on The High rolled and wrapped everything carefully, the Tuesday after The Fest. But I bugged to lessen the chaos and work come un- off, not too sure how the Rheumatoid loading time next year. The cleanup went and broken back would be after the holy Kings well and I was able to be at the storage as havoc that is The Fest. I felt relatively things came in, so I could put them away ok, so I joined Kati, Maureen, Amanda, right (i.e. once), and spare my Pop having Jimmy, Shannon, Erin, Erin, Kevin,Rasa. Tickets to muscle things when we reset for next Marilyn, Dave, Beth, Roger and open- year. The last box was stacked at 3:30. ing band The Portersharks at Music Box. Dropping off of loaned equipment So glad I did. We Banjo 3 has loads of on and such took another hourish, but a personality, LOADS of talent among the shower never felt so good when we foursome -2 sets of Howley and Scahill Sale were done. Mindy kidnapped me brothers, so I am glad I bucked up and for dinner at Hooley House, where I went, they are just flat out fantastic. had started the weekend on Thurs- Wednesday was back to work at the day, and ended the fest (sorta), on Sheriff’s Department. Hard to come Now! Monday. The AC and the ridiculously down from such a high, yet I must – for supportive company were most wel- it is only 350 days till The 34th Annual come. My cup runneth over, again. Cleveland Irish Cultural Festival. ibamchicago.com SEA OF BLUE/ NEO FALLEN HEROES FUND

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