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Boston Irish Reporter Staff The Justice Department, in the person of US At- torney Carmen M. Ortiz, continues to work on behalf of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) in an attempt to force to release from its archives recollections that are part of an oral history project on the Irish Republican Army and the time of the “Troubles” in the North. Citing a pledge of confidentially given to those inter- viewed for the history, BC has been resisting subpoena actions for those portions of the archive known as the “Belfast Project.” Initially, federal officials requested copies of the recollections of two individuals who were involved with the IRA some 40 years ago; they have since followed up with additional subpoena actions, essentially asking for the whole Belfast collection. While the matter wends it way through the judicial process in the hands of Federal Judge Joseph Tauro, Long Time Courting, from left: Shannon Heaton, Sarah Blair, Ariel Friedman, and Liz Simmons. members of the media have begun to weigh in with their theories of, and comments on, the case. In a recent column, the Boston Globe’s Kevin Cullen Long Time Courting four celebrate wrote that the PSNI, via Ortiz’s office, now wants what he calls “the whole enchilada: anything and everything … related to the 1972 disappearance and murder of a friendship and yen for exploration Belfast mother of 10 named Jean McConville, who was abducted and executed by the Irish Republican Army as By Sean Smith that came from a Johnny Cash record, a fiddler finds that a suspected informer. Her body was recovered in 2003.” Special to the BIR her voice can be an equally important instrument, and Initially, reports Cullen, the PSNI-US Attorney team There is no one formula or blueprint for forming a concert sound-checks become a laboratory for cobbling wanted the recollections of but two individuals in con- band. Sometimes it’s by conscious design, sometimes together what is arguably their CD’s highlight track. nection with long-ago IRA activities. But the bottom it’s a matter of happenstance, a confluence of the right Most of all, LTC is four people who get a clearly line to all this activity, Cullen says, “is an attempt by factors at the right time. obvious kick out of being with each other, even if those police in Northern Ireland to certainly embarrass and And then there’s Long Time Courting, which com- times do not come all that often, given their copious (Continued on page 5) bines all that and more. musical activities and family considerations. The all-female Boston-based Celtic music quartet “I just feel blessed to play with them,” says Simmons, is celebrating its third birthday with the release of who shares lead vocal duties with Heaton. “Musically, Boston Irish Honors its debut CD, “Alternate Routes,” a showcase of the I’ve grown so much. Working in a band is such a great enchanting vocals, top-rank musicianship, and well- education anyhow, but I feel I am always learning things conceived, intelligent arrangements that have charmed from the girls I never knew about music, or myself.” program set and impressed audiences throughout the Northeast, “When I talk about Long Time Courting as a ‘work and elsewhere. The anniversary also has served as an in progress,’ I mean it in a totally positive way,” says for Oct. 20 opportunity for reflection among the “LTC” members: Heaton. “In this band, there is so much room to grow Liz Simmons (lead vocals, guitar); Shannon Heaton and develop a bond. It’s a wonderful place where we (flute, whistle, lead vocals); Ariel Friedman (cello, vo- can all bring ideas and know they’ll be treated fairly, Story, Page 3 cals); and newest member Sarah Blair (fiddle, vocals), honestly, and with respect.” who handily filled the void left by the departure of Fairly, honestly, and with respect also describes original co-founder Ellery Klein last year. how LTC treats the music they play, as is evident on As the four explain it, Long Time Courting represents “Alternate Routes,” which includes energetic, bravura that elusive, coveted blend of talent and temperament, tune sets, sprightly, smart versions of traditional songs Millard Fillmore, meet an ideal union of musical backgrounds and experiences like “Maggie Dean” and “The Miller and the Lass,” that spur collective creativity and individual growth. a soulful, sensitive rendering of Robbie O’Connell’s Ms. Bachman, Gov. Perry In LTC, for example, a classically trained cellist gets to “Islander’s Lament” and the elegiac “Barbara Allen,” devise an arrangement for a centuries-old folk ballad (Continued on page 17) Peter F. Stevens writes, Page 5 From Andrew Square to Port-au-Prince, Brian Concannon fights for Haiti’s causes By Greg O’Brien provide relief for months, perhaps years. They are too nation for generations. Special to the BIR little—they stop where the requirements of helping Newly based on Dorchester Avenue in Andrew It may be hard to imagine any parallel between poor people conflict with the requirements of the bu- Square (a celebration of the move to 666 Dorchester Ireland and destitute, still earthquake-ravaged Haiti, reaucrats’ economic theories. In the meantime, just Ave. will be held on site on Wed., Sept. 14, from 6 and yet there are any number: analogous gripping as Ireland exported food during a famine, Haiti will p.m. to 8 p.m.), the Institute has set its mission suc- histories of famine, long stretches of political and keep exporting money. So more Haitians will die of cinctly: “To work with the people of Haiti in their non- economic repression, and the bad geographical luck the diseases of hunger, and more children will grow violent struggle for the consolidation of constitutional of being adjacent to a super power or dominant force older without going to school.” democracy, justice and human rights by distributing that presents undesirable attention. It is always dif- There is yet another critical connection be- objective and accurate information on human rights ficult fighting a bully in your own backyard. tween Ireland and Haiti, and it is Brian Concannon. conditions in Haiti, pursuing legal cases, and coop- Human rights attorney Brian Concannon wrote of Director of the Institute for Justice & Democ- erating with human rights and solidarity groups in these dilemmas three years ago in the Boston Irish racy In Haiti, Concannon, 48, has devoted most of his Haiti and abroad.” Reporter and in the Boston Haitian Reporter. “Like the adult life to enforcing human rights for impoverished Under Concannon’s resolute direction, the IJDH British response to Ireland’s famine, bank programs Haitians and reforming long-standing US policies that seeks restoration of the rule of law and democracy in (in Haiti) do not rise to the need,” he wrote, predicting have undermined and destabilized that Carribean Haiti and works to sustain changes required to avert the inevitable in a column headlined: Eating Dirt in Haiti’s next crisis. For such a small organization—a cadre of well- Haiti and Ireland. “They are too late—they will not Brian Concannon: Human rights crusader (Continued on page 6) Page 2 September 2011 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com

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Center for Irish Programs/University Libraries – will host an Irish art exhibit in the Burns Library during November 2011. The collection of several dozen Irish paintings, including works by Sean Keating, Paul Henry, and Jack B. Yeats, is owned by the Government of Ireland and is scheduled for additional American venue sites following the Boston College showing.

The Center will also host a program featuring William Hay, Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly, together with Dr. Phil Budden, British Consul General, at Boston College on Tuesday, September 6.

Irish Studies will host the first presentation in its 2011-2012 lecture series on September 21 at the Burns Library. Profes- sor Colin Barr, a prolific young scholar on the Irish Church will speak on “Ireland’s Empire: The Roman Catholic Church in the Anglo-World, 1830-1922”.

For additional information about other Center activities regarding Irish Studies, the Irish Institute, the Burns Library’s Irish Collections, the BC-Ireland operation in , or the Gaelic Roots traditional Irish music concerts, visit www.bc.edu. Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com September 2011 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 3 Boston Irish Honors returns to Seaport Hotel on Oct. 20 The Boston Irish Re- of Ireland and Reporter porter, the region’s lead- Corcorans, Hunts, Mulvoys, Kathy O’Toole, publisher Ed Forry. ing chronicler of all things Committee members Irish-American, will host State Sen. Tom Kennedy to be honored include Jim Brett, Bill the second annual Boston Bulger, Jim Carmody, Irish Honors luncheon ing as a top police official; Commonwealth. And the mightily to the collective the Geraghty family. John T. Carroll, Della on Thursday, October 20, and State Senator Thomas Mulvoy family — origi- good. We are a better city This year’s Boston Irish Costello, John Cullinane, 2011 in the main ballroom Kennedy of Brockton, nally from Dorchester by and state for their work— Honors will once again Dan Driscoll, Dick Fla- of Boston’s Seaport Hotel. who has represented the way of County Galway— and in saluting the Mul- be hosted by Dick Flavin, vin, John Philip Foley, In keeping with our own city of Brockton for more will be honored for, among voys, the Corcorans, the the legendary Boston Anne Geraghty, Dave heritage, the newspaper than 25 years in the state other things, two brothers’ Hunts, Kathy O’Toole and television commentator, Greaney, Steve Greeley, publicly recognizes three legislature. many decades of good Senator Tom Kennedy — speaker, playwright and Barry T. Hynes, Kieran exemplary local Irish Three illustrious Boston works in the field of sports we seek to pay homage to actor who brought us the Jordan, Jim Keefe, Edris families whose ancestors Irish families will also be and news journalism. their ancestors — and our critically-acclaimed one- Kelley, Bill Kennedy, emigrated from Ireland to celebrated at the event: “This year’s honorees own— who carved out a man show, “According Rev. Tom Kennedy, Paul give better lives to their the Corcoran family, who are all wonderful ex- life for us in this land — to Tip.” and Mimi LaCamera, children and grandchil- have been among the amples of the success and and made it our home.” The 2011 Boston Irish Barbie Langis, Joe Leary, dren. We also will give state’s leading builders dynamism of the Irish di- The Boston Irish Honors Honors event has been Mary Joyce Morris, Sean special recognition to and philanthropists of the aspora here in the United event debuted in October, planned and encouraged Moynihan, Jim O’Brien, two Boston Irish persons last half-century— a tra- States,” said Ed Forry, 2010 before an apprecia- by a powerhouse host Bill O’Donnell, Bill Reilly, for their special achieve- dition now carried on by a founder of the Boston Irish tive audience of more than committee led by chair- Jack Shaughnessy, Gil ments in government and new generation of Corco- Reporter. “They have all 300 top Boston business, man Matthew Power, Sullivan, Bobby White in business. rans. The Hunt family— excelled in their respec- civic and political lead- President of Risk Special- and Paul White. This year’s honorees led by James and Jean tive fields and fulfilled ers. The 2010 honorees ist Companies Insurance For more information will include former Bos- Hunt of Dorchester— will the dreams of their par- were: U.S. Congressman Agency, Inc. of Boston; on tickets and sponsorship ton Police Commissioner be celebrated for their pio- ents, who turned to these Edward J. Markey; John founding event chair- opportunities, contact Ed Kathleen O’Toole, who has neering work in the fields shores for a better life. Donohue CEO, Arbella man Robert Sheridan of Forry, President & Pub- just returned from Ireland of community health care And all have— in one way Insurance; the Brett fam- SBLI and Hon. Michael lisher of the Boston Irish after several years work- and government in the or another— contributed ily, the Hynes family and Lonergan, Consul General Reporter at 617-436-1222. Hero crossing guard’s legacy helps kids get to school

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– MICHAEL CAPRIO Member FDIC | Member DIF Page 4 September 2011 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Publisher’s Notebook Commentary Goodby summer, The fact is that US companies hello, autumn; like doing business in Ireland busy days ahead By Joe Leary Ireland is a very positive place to locate our business.” Special to the BIR Adds John E. Kelley, senior VP and director of By Ed Forry At least one segment of the Irish economy is doing IBM research: “We get support from the Government The summer of 2011 is all but history now. The very well this year – exports of goods and services are whenever we need it quickly and have an excellent re- sultry days are mostly behind us, some of the kids way up, largely due to American companies doing busi- lationship with Irish Universities to assist our research are back in school, the tomatoes are at last almost ness in Ireland. Some of the largest American corpora- projects. Ireland has wonderful technical people, some all ripe on the vine. In just the last tions in the world and many smaller ones have chosen of the most talented in the world.” fortnight, Bostonians have lived Ireland as their European Cormac MacDonncha of ThermoKing in Galway with through first an earthquake, then, base of operations while 500 employees said, “The quality of life in Ireland is days later, the first hurricane of the employing over 100,000 key to attracting talent and, additionally, the Irish are new decade. Even the Olde Town Irish to run their busi- extremely efficient. In terms of hours per unit required team is sitting in first place as we nesses. Another 300,000 to produce a unit they are half of others.” enter Labor Day weekend. What an Irish are employed by Irish And Jim Peterson, CEO of Microsemi (close to a August month it was! companies to supply and billion dollar company), says Ireland is “our European If you believe in omens, then service the 500 American headquarters. If you ask me why Ireland, I’ll tell you it’s perhaps you will agree that a World businesses who have lo- because of IDA Ireland. They have become our strate- Series championship is almost a certainty. Almost. cated in Ireland. gic partner. We work very well with the government.” But back to reality: The arrival of September brings The Export/Import fig- Richard Finn, managing director of Microsemi, says a return to the activities of the many Irish organiza- ures for June and for the Ireland has the best-educated talent pool compared tions in . first six months of 2011 with similar operations in the US and Europe. In Canton, the Irish Cultural Centre has unveiled were released last month. There is no doubt that Ireland is suffering. Its 14 an ambitious program of classes this fall that will be They showed a growing percent unemployment rate refuses to go down. Taxes centered on the culture of Ireland. The “ICC Acad- surplus for exports over are higher and salaries are lower. But there is also emy” will open for registration this Sunday (Sept. 4) Joe Leary imports, which are increas- no doubt that Ireland is changing for the better. The at 1 pm, with a variety of course offerings, includ- ing year over year. The banking insolvency, the housing foreclosures, the un- ing Traditional Aran Cable Knitting, Tin Whistle surplus for June was 4.08 scrupulous developers have all been revealed. Hard for beginners and intermediates, and Mancy Grady billion euro and for the first six months of 2011, 38.6 measures have been taken to prevent such risk- taking teaching the bodhran and tipper hand skills. billion euro. And exports were also up a very healthy and opportunism from occurring again. It was Ireland’s There will be group set dancing every Monday night, 9.1 percent for the year. American companies were tiny size and an unbelieving leadership that made it a three-session workshop series in Irish baking and responsible for roughly 75 percent of that growth. so vulnerable. cooking, and even the formation of an ICC knitting IDA Ireland in Dublin is primarily responsible for Today, housing prices are way down, business space group to meet on the first Sunday of the month. recruiting these companies and assisting them with rental costs in Dublin are down 52 percent, employee The are a range of fees for the courses, from $5 their decisions. A company that chooses Ireland to salaries are falling, the cost of living is down, electricity donations up to $200 for some courses. As always, help expand its business can rely on the IDA to make costs for manufacturing are lower than in Europe, all paid-up members are afforded a reduced discount the move as easy as possible. IDA, rated as one of the of which paints a more attractive picture for American price for the offerings. All the classes are offered at top inward investment groups in the world, has John companies seeking to expand their investments in the the ICC’s Canton campus, and pre-registration is Conlon, executive vice president of IDA Ireland in country. required. New York, heading a team of 21 executives stationed IDA’s John Conlon is enthusiastically proud of the Meanwhile, in Dorchester, the Irish Pastoral Centre in critical decision making areas of the United States work his team is accomplishing. “When I go in to talk has completed its relocation to offices in the rectory – New York, Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco, with a new prospective company I can point to a very of St. Brendan’s Parish on Gallivan Boulevard. The and Los Angeles. These men and women are all Irish successful track record. Nine out of the world’s top ten rectory mail address is 15 Rita Road, Dorchester MA themselves and among Ireland’s best and brightest. Biotech companies for instance have located in Ireland. 02124, and the phone number is 617-265-5300. The In an interview with the BIR, Conlon said, ”We The companies are very pleased with our talent pool. IPC will host an open house to show off its new digs are up 20 percent over last year in bringing American We have the youngest population in Europe with a next Thursday (Sept. 8) from 3 p.m. to 7 pm. companies to Ireland. In the first 6 months of this year, high degree of computer proficiency and appreciation And plans are underway to stage the third annual Amgen, Google and Intel, just to name a few, have of technology, including the most cutting edge software one-day Irish Festival on Columbus Day weekend spent hundreds of millions of dollars increasing their applications. Our universities are another valuable (Sun., Oct. 9) at Adams Corner. That neighborhood investments in Ireland.” asset doing research and advanced biomedical study. boasts of one of the city’s largest Irish attractions, Skeptics should heed the words of American execu- “Our corporate tax rate is important also. At 12.5 including Gerard’s Adams Corner restaurant and tives on the IDA website if they doubt the appeal of percent, it allows companies to reinvest their profits general store, Greenhills Irish Bakery, and the world- Ireland. Brian Ruane, CEO of Alternative Investment and help them grow. famous Eire Pub. And for that one day in October the of BNY Mellon in New York, says, “We have 1,700 It’s a big success story. We are up significantly in streets will be closed to traffic as thousands enjoy employees in Ireland. The labor pool is exceptional and each of the last three years.” music, dance and merriment. The holiday weekend event is free of charge, and organizers have planned a Sept. 17 fundraiser at Florian Hall, featuring music by the Fenian Sons. Off the Bench In , the Irish Network INBoston is getting ready for the season today with a “Celebrate the End of Summer” reception at the Irish-owned Back Bay Hotel on Stuart Street. Also this month, The Mad Hatters have taken over the board of the Eire Society will gather in Dedham to prepare for the new season’s events, and also to By James W. Dolan which the other two are balanced. Maintaining that make plans for a gala Gold Medal Dinner, likely in Special to the Reporter balance could be defined as the common good. the spring of 2012. The Society was founded in 1937 The country has slipped down the rabbit hole and Republicans tend to weigh in on the side of the rich to promote awareness of Irish culture in Boston, and the mad hatters are in charge. As if to confirm the fear while the Democrats advocate for the poor. They both next year will celebrate its 75th anniversary. of many Americans stretch to reach the middle class where most of the And our own special project, the 2011 Boston that the country is in voters reside. The middle class is also where most of Irish Honors luncheon, is set for Thurs., Oct. 20, at decline, our leaders the independents are located, split between those that the Seaport Hotel main ballroom. This is an event seem incapable of hope and believe they have a chance to be rich – the conceived by this newspaper as a way of honoring governing. upper middle class – and those that fear they may slip the lives of contemporary Boston Irish families and Has democracy run into poverty – the lower middle class. individuals who can serve as living examples of the its course? Are we The “plight” of the rich is not particularly worrisome. great Irish values of loyalty and fidelity, family, at a point where the One would not expect the poor or middle class to be friends, and country. A story on Page 3 in this issue “common good” has up nights worrying about the haves. Unfortunately, gives more details on this signature event for the been so distorted it is not many rich seem to be concerned about the poor. Boston Irish Reporter. beyond recognition? Those that do now tend to be Democrats or that fast Our honorees once again are exemplary in every way Have the system’s disappearing class of liberal Republicans. of all that is good among Boston’s Irish community. checks overwhelmed One would think that in a democracy the poor and its balances? middle class, by the sheer weight of numbers, would How do we defend dominate the system. That was never the case. The against ourselves as rich have always been able to assert more power and James W. Dolan internal conflicts mul- influence. tiply? Were we naive Our country has written too many checks and our Boston Irish to think that the greatest threats to our security were account is unbalanced. The Republicans are right in external? Doesn’t history teach us that great nations focusing our attention on the spending problem. If only REPORTER decay from within? they were as concerned about the checks and balances The Boston Irish Reporter is published monthly by: Were we at a point where one devastating terrorist essential to social equilibrium, like health care for all, attack was enough to topple our house of cards? Were social security and tax fairness. Boston Neighborhood News, Inc., the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan overreactions While the Republicans precipitated the debt ceiling 150 Mt. Vernon St., Suite 120, Dorchester, MA 02125 that sapped our strength and diverted us from more crisis, President Obama could have avoided it by im- [email protected] www.bostonirish.com important problems at home? mediately shutting down the two wars he inherited Mary C. Forry, President (1983-2004) Do we honor our veterans, past and present, by los- and letting the Bush tax cuts expire. By not doing Edward W. Forry, Publisher ing the American dream … not to some foreign power so, he backed into the debt ceiling crisis and set the Thomas F. Mulvoy Jr., Managing Editor but by our own failings? stage for a shabby display of brinkmanship by House William P. Forry, Contributing Editor These are some of the questions we should be asking Republicans. Peter F. Stevens, Contributing Editor as we watch this once proud and powerful nation spin Almost all of whom signed a “no tax increase under News Room: (617) 436-1222 Ads : (617) 436-1222 out of control. These self-inflicted wounds may not be any circumstances” pledge as part of their election fatal but they could be unless our leaders agree that campaigns. Was that a promise to assure their election Fax: (617) 825-5516 [email protected] the common good is paramount. or an abdication of responsibility? On The Web at www.bostonirish.com The welfare of the rich is not in jeopardy. That will We need more politicians who will not confuse their Date of Next Issue: October, 2011 not happen because they have the power and the money own good with the common good. I fear it is becoming Deadline for Next Issue: Tuesday, September 20 at 2 p.m. to get attention. Lacking resources, the poor are at a more difficult for people like that to be elected. Published monthly in the first week of each month. distinct disadvantage. Their welfare is easily ignored. Alice is not the only one who ventured into “Won- derland.” The Boston Irish Reporter is not liable for errors appearing in advertisements The middle class, despite its size, can be overlooked beyond the cost of the space occupied by the error. The right is reserved by in the clash between the “wants” of the rich and the James W. Dolan is a retired Dorchester District Court The Boston Irish Reporter to edit, reject, or cut any copy without notice. “needs” of the poor. The middle class is the fulcrum on judge who now practices law. Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com September 2011 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 5 POINT OF VIEW / PETER F. STEVENS Here’s hoping the 2010’s Tea Party story ends the same way the 1850’s Know-Nothings era did By Peter F. Stevens The Boston Irish of the 1850s BIR Staff The Boston Irish community of the 1850s would would have recognized today’s have recognized the ways and means of the Tea Party of today. Those immigrants from the “old sod” would presidential political landscape have known exactly what the “I-want-my-country- back” crowd of 2011 was up to and would likely be part furious, part ashamed to learn that any of their the 1850s “Platform of the American Party of Mas- descendants were imbibing the tea of Texas Governor sachusetts” is illuminating. The Know Nothings, like Rick Perry, Congresswoman Michelle Bachman, Dick the Tea Party, feared “the imminent peril of Freedom, Armey, FreedomWorks, the Koch brothers, et al. (In both from internal and external foes.” They asserted a case of art imitating life, check out the old Eddie “that the Bible as the source and fountain of all true Murphy-Dan Aykroyd comedy “Trading Places” for a and national liberty should be made.” look at the uber-rich, bigoted, social-experimenting, Yes, the Tea Party shrieks that its tenets are fis- morally bankrupt “Duke” brothers played by Don cal sanity and no taxes. I’ll leave it to economists to Ameche and Ralph Bellamy and you will that some determine how sane the Tea Party cadre’s willing- “Koch-like” traits abound.) ness to let the nation default on its debt was, and The Boston Irish of yesteryear would have sized up is. What I don’t need anyone to explain is the Tea the 2011 Tea Partiers for who and what they are – Party’s avowed crusade – yes, crusade – to achieve the simplistic, doctrinaire, and incapable of the slightest ouster of the “other” from the Oval office, no matter vestige of reasonable compromise (see “Debt Ceiling the cost to the nation’s well-being. One can certainly Debate”) at best, of tolerance at worst. As we plunge be vehemently opposed to the president on any and into the upcoming presidential election, those in the all policy issues, but it flies in the face of reason to Irish-American community who have sipped deeply of state that the Tea Party’s antipathy toward him is Campaign issues for former President Millard Fill- ideological tea might ask themselves a single, simple all about taxes and politics. Again, people are entitled to their beliefs, but not more, the Know-Nothing American Party’s candidate question: “What would my great-great-grandparents for president in 1856, US Rep. Michelle Bachman, from any of the counties have thought about the Tea their own facts, half-facts, and outright distortions. Anyone in the Boston Irish and Irish-American com- and Texas Gov. Rick Perry, evolve around “real Party?” Americans” and Biblical values in all ways of life. I suspect that our ancestors with green bloodlines munity who holds the current political tea to his or might have approved a name change for the Tea Party her lips should look carefully into history’s mirror for – to the Know Nothing Party. As noted in this space a glimpse of the lives of their forebears some 160 years in May, the Know Nothings, aka, the American Party, ago. They were then the other. They were then the which infected the local and national landscape, was outsider. The code words of today once applied to them. a hate-filled party that not only appeared locally and The Boston Irish saw a fractious, bitter presidential nationwide, but that also ruled the political roost for election in 1856, when the Know-Nothing American a few years. Its goal was to turn back the calendar to Party mounted a viable campaign for the White House. some half-mythical land where “real Americans” held They ran a former president, Millard Fillmore. And sway and were governed by the Bible in all ways and while many Boston voters no doubt cast their ballots in all walks of life.” for him, his ticket captured but one state, Maryland, The Know Nothings (that label comes from the and just a few years later, the Civil War would shove the Know-Nothing era into the fetid backwaters of story that whenever they were asked what they were win. Meanwhile, we are left to wonder how long it up to, the answer was always, “We know nothing”) history. In the decades that followed, prejudice toward im- will be before moderate Republicans, a breed rarely, worked to deny immigrants and anyone seen as not if ever, seen in public these days, restore sanity to a “real American” a foothold in the nation. Like Rick migrants endured, but the Boston Irish had learned from the Know Nothings: power comes through the their fissured party. (Which isn’t to say that the the Perry, much of their so-called solution to society’s Democrats’ fissures don’t run deep, too.) woes mirrors country star Carrie Underwood’s hit ballot box. If history repeats itself next year, the Tea Party/ To torture the adage, our Boston Irish ancestors of song, “Jesus Take the Wheel.” the 1850s surely would have warned their descendants Too harsh a comment? Aside from Perry’s evangeli- Know Nothings of the 21st century will fall short of a President Rick Perry or someone of his ilk, and that if “it quacks like a Know Nothing, it quacks like cal stadium event a few weeks ago and his campaign a Tea Partier.” for drought-stricken Texas to pray for rain, a look at Democrats, Republicans, and independents will all US Attorney raises ante in Boston College archive case (Continued from page 1) about peace in Northern Ireland; wouldn’t it be ironic O’Dowd also notes that Moloney, a former journal- possibly prosecute Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams.” if now it played a part in undoing it?” they ask. ist in Northern Ireland, apparently felt “the rule of Meanwhile, in a recent OpEd page column published For his part, veteran journalist Niall O’Dowd, confidentiality or immediate release of information in the Globe, Ed Moloney, the director of the Belfast founder of the Irish Voice newspaper and Irish America from sources did not apply to him.” project at BC, and Anthony McIntyre, identified in the magazine, writing on his website, Irish Central.com, O’Dowd points out that “the recollections of Brendan column as the project’s lead researcher on the IRA, questioned the college’s connection to Moloney ([he] Hughes, one of the IRA men in the oral history project lament what they called a “fishing expedition,” say- “has written repeatedly in hostile fashion about Adams, [whose recollections are being sought in the federal ing the stability of the power-sharing government in a fact that BC conveniently ignored when they hired subpoena case], formed a major basis of the 2010 book Belfast could conceivably be threatened by this case.” him”), and to McIntyre (”a leading dissident republi- by Moloney called ‘Voices from the Grave.” “The United States played a huge role in bringing can who also had a deep loathing for Gerry Adams”). All parties now await word from Judge Tauro.

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150 Mt. Vernon Street, Dorchester, MA 02125 Exp______Page 6 September 2011 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Profile Concannon, Haiti: a visceral connection (Continued from page 1) accept,” he notes with charac- trained attorneys, policy coor- teristic fire. “They are contrary dinators, communication spe- to American notions of human cialists, and legal interns—you rights and democracy.” might think that co-founder Concannon and his Institute Concannon is fighting out of have become a battering rams his weight class in the poorest for Haitian justice and the country in the Americas, one implementation of US policies with a tortured past and a his- that respect Haiti’s democratic tory of oppressive dictators. “It sovereignty. Formed in 2004 is the mother of all social justice when Concannon left Haiti in struggles,” says Concannon. the wake of Aristide’s ouster, Resources at IJDH are slight, the organization draws on its given the enormity of the task. founders’ internationally ac- The organization today has an claimed successes in the fields of operating budget of $750,000, law, medicine, and social justice two thirds of which is allocated activism. “We saw ten years of to the Bureau des Avocats In- democratic progress slip away ternationaux (BAI)—a public because the US disagreed with interest law office in Port-au- policies that Haiti’s leaders Prince founded in 1995 and were elected to implement,” he co-managed by Concannon says today. from 1996 to 2004. In the latter IJDH board members today year, an armed rebellion led to include, among others, Paul the overthrow of then President Farmer, a founder of Partner’s Jean-Bertand Aristide and the Health, professor at Harvard creation of a provisional gov- Medical School, and a UN ernment, prompting Concon- deputy envoy to Haiti; the at- nan to leave the country after torney Ira J. Kurzban, adjunct nine years of residency. professor of law at University of But he is used to fighting Miami and Nova Southeastern out of his weight class. To University; the attorney Byran understand his mission in life Stevenson, a Harvard Law is to appreciate the man, his graduate, executive director of impressive energy, and his the Equal Justice Initiative of sense of purpose. At the BAI, he Alabama, and clinical profes- helped prepare the prosecution sor at NYU School of Law; Rob in the highly publicized Rabo- Broggi, a Harvard graduate, a teau Massacre trial in 2000, hedge fund manager with Rap- one of the most significant hu- tor Funds, and board member man rights cases anywhere in of the ONEXONE Foundation, the Western Hemisphere. The and Roxbury Latin School; and trial led to the conviction of 53 the author, teacher, and activist soldiers and paramilitaries for Laura Flynn, former director their brutal attack on a pro- of international relations for democracy neighborhood. As the Aristide Foundation for Concannon’s biography notes, Democracy in Haiti. he also has represented Haitian Concannon’s wife Marcy, an political prisoners before the economist whom he met years Inter-American Commission ago at a UN mission in Haiti, on Human Rights, as well as assists at IJDH in concert with the plaintiff in Yvon Neptune her husband and also at home v. Haiti, the only Haiti case in Marshfield where they are ever tried before the Inter- raising Evan, 3 1/2, and Geor- American Court of Human gia, 1 1/2. Rights. In addition, he has There have been successes at worked for the United Nations IJDH over the years, but the as a Human Rights Officer work is never done. “There are (1995–1996), received fellow- days when you don’t succeed,” ships from Harvard Law School says Concannon from his base- and , and “A lot of bad things happen throughout the world in our name— ment office. “The failures come trained international judges, hard, and that’s when faith must US asylum officers and law stu- things that Americans, if they really knew, would not accept. They prevail.” dents across the country. He is are contrary to American notions of human rights and democracy.” Raised in the church by devout a member of the editorial board Irish-Catholic parents, Concon- of Health and Human Rights, he was fairly intellectual, well- highest honor for moral charac- cal and economic interests here. nan concedes that he’s not a An International Journal and read, and the kind of person ter and selfless service among In 1804, Haiti became the churchgoer, but he says he works often speaks and writes about who liked to spout off Greek its many thousands of alumni. second nation in the Americas daily to live the Gospel. “I try to social justice in Haiti. Holder of and Latin,” Concannon re- After Georgetown, Concan- to declare its independence, heed the call of Matthew 25:36,” an undergraduate degree from calls. “Mom was more intense non worked in corporate law at yet the young United States he says, referring to the passage Middlebury College and a law and deeply focused on social the Boston firm Mintz, Levin, did not immediately recognize that proclaims, “I was naked degree from Georgetown, he change.” Concannon and his but just long enough to pay off Haiti’s new status; it took 60 and you clothed me; I was sick speaks English, Haitian Creole, siblings, he says, are a blend his tuition; the call of social years. “You would think that and you took care of me; I was and French. of the two—an amalgamation service was unmistakable the first independent country in prison and you visited me.” Not bad for a lawyer who of great passion, perseverance, and compelling. In 1995, he in this hemisphere, the Cradle Over the last several decades, quit his first job at a major and strength of character. accepted a job in Haiti with a of Liberty, would let the second Concannon has seen the in- Boston law firm after three and No slouch when it came to United Nations mission as a one in. … I don’t think it’s too sides of many prisons in Haiti. a half years because he felt his perseverance, Concannon early human rights officer after a blunt to say that it was racism On this day, he was making corporate work was “morally on pursued his passions with military junta takeover that at play.” preparations for another trip neutral.” conviction—as a young athlete cost 3,000-to-5,000 Haitians Haiti, which in its own way while pondering the country’s Such moral bearing came at in tennis and cross country, and their lives. After working for the had assisted the colonies in future. The stereotypes that the collective encouragement later at BC High with a social UN for close to a year, he joined their fight against the British, accompany any mention of his of his Dorchester-born parents, justice orientation. He then at- the Bureau des Avocats Interna- earned its independence by the adopted homeland are bother- who raised five children, two tended Middlebury in Vermont tionaux (BAI) to advocate more hands of freed slaves who led some to him. of them public interest law- where he majored in history for prosecutions. a rebellion after pro-slavery When he first arrived in yers and three of them social and French. After graduating, Haiti’s political and economic U.S. interests had placed an Haiti two decades ago, he says workers. Perhaps there was he went down to Georgetown. problems have causes and ef- embargo on the island in sup- he was overcome by the spirit something in the water at the “It was a good match for my fects very much tied to the island port of Haitian slave owners. and resolve of its people. “There family home in Marshfield. interests and skills,” he says. nation’s relationship with the Haiti, it was thought by some, is a wholesale lack of public Concannon’s late father, “I had the feeling that law was United States. Today, people presented a threat of contagion, knowledge about Haiti,” he says, Brian, of St. Mark’s Parish, a way of reform.” And so it was remember Jean-Claude “Baby says Concannon, noting that the pushing back into his chair, his was a personal injury lawyer, no surprise that he followed Doc” Duvalier and his father, prevailing attitude was simple: hands cupped behind his head. “always fighting for the little in the footsteps of his parents Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier, “We can’t let spread the idea of “Gaps in knowledge are filled guy,” says his son in noting and his paternal grandfather, who ruled Haiti with iron hands blacks being free and running with misperceptions. Haiti is his father’s Galway roots. His John, who was a state rep from for decades until 1986, when the their own country.” At the time, not the basket case that some mother, RoseAnne, whose fam- Dorchester, a member of James young Duvalier fled the country, key political and economic inter- think. Such stereotypes are a ily came from Monaghan, was Michael Curley’s political orga- bringing to a close a two-genera- ests in the Americas and abroad way of deflecting penetrating raised in , taught nization, and an unsuccessful tion reign of terror and plunder. were in focus as well. issues, and many of them point English as a young woman at challenger to incumbent Con- But a root cause of the country’s Habits are hard to break and to us as a nation.” Roxbury High School in Dudley gressman John McCormack, political and economic troubles, the meddling has continued over Greg O’Brien is president of Square, then, after raising her who would later become House says Concannon, can be found in time, says Concannon. The US, Stony Brook Group, a publish- children, earned a degree from Speaker. troubling international policies seeing its self-interest in play, ing and political/communica- New Law School and Law, politics, and social and meddling directed at Haiti has propped up a number of tions strategy company based became a domestic relations justice are all essential ingredi- across the Caribbean. regimes that proved to be unsa- on Cape Cod. The author/edi- attorney with a strong com- ents in the mix of Concannon’s “There have been more unjust vory. “A lot of bad things happen tor of several books, he writes mitment to the enforcement of life. Seven years ago, he was US policies imposed on Haiti throughout the world in our frequently for national and legal rights of abused women. honored with the St. Ignatius than any other country,” he says, name—things that Americans, regional publications. “Dad was a gregarious guy; Award at BC High, the school’s referring to generations of politi- if they really knew, would not Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com September 2011 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 7 Boston Irish Reporter’s Here & There

By Bill O’Donnell and generated food and related aid from many quar- but I generally find CNN and the Wolfman pretty Lenihan Family Passes On Politics – For the ters. Yet none has done more as a people, or contrib- harmless and reasonably fair, although the Times first time in a third of a century no member of the uted more generously in money and organizational and the evening segments of MSNBC have certainly Lenihan family will stand for election in Dublin West. resources than has Ireland. Once again, be it Haiti shown “attitude” and as their biggest “failing” they The death three months ago of Fianna Fail TD and or Chernobyl, Ireland is among the global leaders in occasionally cast a cold eye on the disjointed, contradic- former Finance Minister Brian Lenihan has brought charitable giving and response to desperate need. tory, and oft- times baffling monologues that come out to a close the active participation of the family mem- The fund-raising figures for Horn of Africa famine of the Vatican, from principals and spokesmen alike. bers in Irish national politics. Mary O’Rourke, an relief among the Irish people, the Dublin govern- Slow learners we all, apparently, on VaticanSpeak. aunt of Brian, and a longtime Fianna Fail TD and ment, and an array of humanitarian private non Unsurprisingly, the hard-nosed archbishop is silent minister, was defeated for reelection earlier this year. government agencies who call Ireland home, has been on the “fair & balanced” Fox News regime. Devo- One brother, former junior minister Conor Leni- stunning. In terms of fund-raising the Irish people tional enough, I guess. What would be surprising if han, who also lost his seat in the February election, have donated more than $17 million while the Irish we were to hear Archbishop Chaput castigate some is now living and working in Mos- state has sent some $10 million to ease conditions of his colleagues in the Catholic hierarchy (bishops cow; Tom Lenihan, 20, a son of in Somalia. Dochas, the umbrella organization for to cardinals) who have been consistent enablers and the late Brian, has announced he Ireland’s overseas NGOs, estimates that there are clerical re-assignment specialists (CRS). will not be a candidate. at least eight member organizations working on the Stop Whining – Do Your Homework – I am so It has been a long and successful ground in the famine-ridden Horn. They include Goal, weary the past August weeks of hearing everyone political reign for the Lenihans, Concern, Trocaire, Oxfam Ireland, Unicef, World Vi- from Peggy Noonan to some of the scraggy wanna- decades of service going back to sion, and Plan Ireland. be Republican candidates for President carping the late Brian’s father, Brian This typical outpouring from Ireland comes as the about Barack Obama and his annual vacation, all Senior, who was a veteran Dail Irish nation and her people struggle with high unem- 9 or 10 days of it. I don’t know how much down time member and appointed Tanaiste ployment and cutbacks in everything from education the estimable Fred Thompson took as senator or by Charles Haughey, and before to social welfare, hospital care and pensions following presidential candidate, but it was probably more than Brian Sr. to his father, Patrick, a bare-bones austerity program that has seriously enough. However, I did look at the vacation schedules Bill O’Donnell and a sister in Dail Eireann. The impacted working and middle class Irish. of two of our earlier GOP leaders, George W. Bush elder Brian Lenihan served as Irish Mortgage Relief A Possibility – The state of and Ronald Reagan. minister in four posts including Justice and Foreign the Irish homeowner contending with the broad-based The Facts: President Obama, after 31 months in Affairs, was a candidate for the Irish presidency in collapse in housing prices is, in a word, desperate. One office, has taken 61 vacation days. At the 31-month 1990, and died in 1995. leading Irish economist who was quoted in the Irish point in their presidencies, Bush had taken 180 vaca- The Fianna Fail Party, already staggered by its Independent newspaper described the situation faced tion days and Reagan 112 days. All in all, President February electoral rout, will, going forward, be less by thousands of homeowners as “the biggest crisis the Bush (II) spent more than 1,000 days on vacation a party of the people with no Lenihans answering Irish economy is facing.” Less than two weeks ago, during his two terms. the quorum bell. a gaggle of respected economic academics, including RANDOM CLIPPINGS Students Warned On Fake Passports – The UCD Economics Professor Morgan Kelly and others, Ireland has lost one of its premier sculptors and art- Union of Students in Ireland has sent out an alert along with former Barclay senior bond trader Peter ists with the death of Eamon O’Doherty. Among his to Irish holders of J-1 working visas and US travel Brown, came out in support of a proposal calling for public art works are Galway’s Eyre Square signature visas urging them not to travel on modified passports. the mortgage debt of thousands of struggling families sculpture, Dublin’s James Connolly Memorial near It seems that traveling students, many interested in to be either written down or, in the most extreme Liberty Square, and the Anna Livia fountain (floozie improperly adding a year or two to the age to conform cases, written off completely. in the Jacuzzi). … Mary McAleese reminds the to alcohol licensing rules in the states, have been us- The latest figures from the Central Bank estimate flock to observe a minute’s silence on September 10 ing laminates to alter birth dates. that almost 50,000 Irish mortgages were in arrears in memory of those who died in the Great Famine. … The attachments used by some traveling students over three months, the majority over six months Gerry Adams, he of the short memory, is inveighing “compromises the travel document” and its removal behind in their payments. A major economist said at against the IMF, and the European Union. The ques- will cause permanent damage, all of which are eas- a mid-August conference that spending a relatively tions: Did he take and use EU funds for pet projects? ily detectible by border control officials. There have modest $7 -$8 billion to underwrite those unable to And isn’t it a bit late to seek fiscal virginity? … A top been several instances where travelers with false or meet mortgage payments now or in the future would tax expert in the North predicts that the Republic will altered passports have been arrested. probably solve most of the national problem. never give up its 12.5 percent tax rate, and urged NI Students are further warned that altering a passport The Irish government is as yet unenthusiastic, while to lower its 26 percent rate. … Eogan O’Dea, a pro is a criminal offense in Ireland but a federal offense banks say they would consider such a plan but only if poker player from Dalkey, Co. Dublin, is in a good in the US and subject to serious penalties. The Union other Irish banks joined in the proposal. Stay tuned. position to grab the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas of Students in Ireland is advising anyone with altered Did You Know … that John Morrissey, born when the tables reopen for the final on November 5. passports to take action to obtain a replacement pass- in Templemore, Co. Tipperary, in 1831, created the … The senior Muslim cleric in Ireland says there is port before attempting to return to Ireland. The USI celebrated Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York, nothing in his religion that forces a woman to have stresses that while holders of these altered passports host to thousands and the grassy heartland of elegant her face fully covered. A Cork councillor is trying to may believe that they will pass border inspection and horse racing during its hugely popular seven-week ban burkas. Can we talk? … Sad news out of : arrive home unchallenged, that is not the case. summer racing meet held yearly? The weekly Irish Post has closed its doors. A sign of The USI urges students with improper passports to Morrissey was a youthful roustabout and later a the times. … I love the story of the Limerick man contact the nearest Irish embassy or consulate before champion bare-knuckle boxer who taught himself and his American bride. They were married after attempting to travel. to read and write in a brothel, became a renowned only two weeks. The bride from North Carolina is a We Remember 9/11 – It has been a fast-moving, gambler and wealthy casino operator, and, with smooth talker. She says she is loving living in West fraught decade since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist at- William Travers and others, founded the Saratoga Limerick because “I love overcast weather and rain.” tacks on America. The recent Seals raid that removed Race Course. In 1996, Morrissey was elected to the … The rumor mills in SDLP circles are suggesting Bin Laden from our midst did not solve America’s po- International Boxing Hall of Fame. Each summer that Margaret Ritchie, the SDLP leader, is “ready litical, financial, or social problems but it told a world meet at Saratoga features a stakes race dedicated to to quit as leader.” The hardest worker in that party is too often doubtful of America’s spine and resilience the memory of John Morrissey. the MP for South Belfast, Dr. Alasdair McDonnell, that we can still take care of business. Bertie: Lessons To Sell, Will Travel – When who would like (and deserves) the top job to get the I clearly remember that September day when the your name is Bertie Ahern, a man with a short party moving again. … Mike Quinlin of the Boston planes crashed into the two towers and the Pentagon memory but a long pension, you can get away with Irish Tourist group is seeking input from Boston area and into that Pennsylvania field because we were in giving speeches to foreigners who don’t read the Irish Irish in an attempt to keep the Aer Lingus flights ac- Ireland, outside Dundalk to be precise, following an papers or know any better. Bertie, the wrap-around tive through the winter months, which was not the overnight flight into Dublin. It was great fun to be king you’d like to have a pint with, is supplement- case last winter. … Rick Perry is all hot air and hat back and along with favorite in-laws. The four of us, ing his government pension by giving lectures at but little substance and less cattle. The Texas state Jean and myself and my sister-in-law Pat and hus- $40,000 plus to American companies about how he debt is staggering, the jobs created in Texas are low band Will had left Logan the evening of Sept. 10 and transformed the moribund Irish economy into the paying and minimum wage like Mississippi’s, the arrived at the airport after a fast flight from Boston Celtic Tiger glory. Yes, the same good-natured chap education system is one of the worst in America, very early in the Irish morning of the 11th. with a flair for dinnertime fund-raising, who is con- ranking 46th to 49th in literacy and SAT scores, and The five-hour time difference meant we were with sidered by many of his former constituents to be the Texas employment is largely state and federal jobs. We our hosts at the Trainor family home well before the architect of the disastrous recession, is offering tips already had one Texas governor fool us. Not a second planes crashed in Manhattan. We saw the second to the American CEOs on how to be competitive. Isn’t time. … Haven’t seen it yet, but the reviews for the plane, United Airline Flight 175, on live television that beyond precious? Imagine, verbal gold at around Irish-made “The Guard” are putting it on everyone’s crash into the South Tower of the World Trade Center $700 a minute, and worth every sou. top-film list. Made in Connemara. See it, they say. at 9:03 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time; American Airlines Included in Bertie’s Strut & Spout stemwinders Congratulations to the venerable Black Rose on Flight 11 had struck the North Tower of the Center are topics taken directly from his career in the Dail lower State Street. An honest pub marking its 35th 17 minutes earlier, which we did not see. and as Taoiseach: anniversary this year. … Pawtucket’s Friendly We spent the next two weeks traveling through His approach to executing a successful long-term Sons of St. Patrick will honor pardoned Irishman northeastern Ireland, to places like Waterford, vision. How to persuade stakeholders to embrace John Gordon on Oct. 8 at St. Mary’s Cemetery. Cork, Mayo, Galway, Clare, and Kerry. It was, after change. How to bring people with you by building … It’s disappointing news to hear that Jay Sev- our scores of Irish visits over the years, the most consensus. What every leader must do to achieve erin is returning to the world of radio with low unsettling and surreal but memorable of our trips large-scale success. signal WXKS. He joins other frothing right wingers there. The Kindness of the Irish, the reaching out, Labor TD Ciaran Lynch says he is astonished like Rush, Glen Beck and Sean Hannity with the understanding and, yes, the tears from strang- that companies want to employ Ahern to give them their one-note destructive garbage. … Cancel the ers once they knew we were Yanks, was profound in advice. It’s absolutely bewildering, says Lynch, given tickets for Michael Flatley’s “Lord of the Dance” its communion, the benchmark Irish oneness with the broad coverage of Ireland’s economic collapse, spectacular planned for the Cliffs of Moher. It has America. The warmth of the Irish people in those that Ahern is being promoted as a strategic thinker. been postponed indefinitely due to the recession or wary, uncertain days is a fresh and recurring memory. I share Deputy Lynch’s disbelief. whatever. … Weather forecasters are predicting a After several frantic days trying to reach our Finally, in case you’re in the Leinster House neigh- severe winter in Ireland. It would be the third harsh daughter by phone we finally talked, uncertain if our borhood this month, you may want to stop by to see winter in a row. … Belfast is the best city value for return flight date or time could or would be honored. Bertie’s portrait (government issue at $14,000) freshly tourists in the UK. Closest are Liverpool, Cardiff, We learned that our daughter Erin, 28, had lost a hung near the entrance of the Dail chambers. When Glasgow, and Manchester. … Good Luck to the friend from years earlier, a Girl Scout pal she hadn’t the hell is the Mahon Tribunal Report due? members and leadership of the Irish Social Club for seen in years. The news that Amy Jarret, the former New Philly Church Leader Flays Media – The a resurgence. … Hopefully it will have a different scouting friend, had been a crew member among the about-to-be-installed archbishop of Philadelphia, ending. The 100th anniversary cruise retracing the 65 people on United Flight 175 brought the substance Charles Chaput, presumably parachuted in to clean voyage of the Titanic will sail from Southampton and sadness of the 9/11 loss into even more painful up the monstrous clerical abuse residue there, decided on April 8, 2012 bound for Cobh. … The Vatican is focus For her, for us … and so it has remained. to try a bit of distraction by calling TV’s CNN and planning some dramatics for the Irish Church that The Generous Irish – The film footage of Somalia MSNBC and “untrustworthy” could mean dioceses reduced in number and a new and the surrounding Horn of Africa as it suffers its when it comes to religion. Maybe he means they don’t lineup of Irish bishops replacing the current crop. worst siege of famine in decades is nothing less than take dictation. Hope this doesn’t mean that Dublin’s irreplaceable heartbreaking. The suffering has stunned the world He may have the odd point occasionally well taken, Archbishop Martin will be jettisoned. Page 8 September 2011 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Immigration Q & A Irish International Immigration Center Be very careful An agency accredited by US Department of Justice when moving 100 Franklin Street, Boston, MA 02110 Telephone (617) 542-7654 Fax (617) 542-7655 to new address Website:iicenter.org Email: [email protected] Q. 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The event is open migrants who moved to a new residence and have legal questions please town Neighborhood Cen- ments, Megan Carroll, to all. Appointments are been waiting a long time for some communication attend one of our free ter; Centro Latino; College is making great progress recommended, but drop- from USCIS, only to learn later on that a piece of weekly legal clinics and Bound Dorchester; Irish in matching our interns ins are welcome. Please important mail was lost or returned as undeliverable. meet with immigration International Immigrant with placements. Our call Kielan at 617-542- So what should you do? First, practically all attorneys and citizenship Center, Jewish Vocational volunteers are doing an 7654, Ext 42, to make an aliens residing in the US for 30 days or more, not specialists. Please call Service; and Massachu- amazing job in contribut- appointment. just those with pending applications, are required 617-542-7654 in advance. setts Association of Por- ing to the program. We Q.P.R: Suicide Pre- to file a notification with USCIS within ten days of Our clinics are free. tuguese Speakers. are sorry to say goodbye to vention & Intervention an address change. This includes legal permanent Sept. 6 – 4 p.m.-6 p.m.: The benefits of becom- Mark Fitzgerald, who has – Free Workshop – Aug. residents (green card holders) but not people with The IIIC, 100 Franklin ing a citizen include: interned with us from the 31, 6 p.m. – We invite A or G visas. There are two ways to do this. First, Street, Boston. Civic Engagement: University of Limerick. you to attend our next one can file on-line by going to uscis.gov/AR-11 and Sept. 12 – 6:30 p.m.: Voting, eligibility for a Best wishes, Mark, on all QPR Suicide Prevention following the instructions. Second, one can choose Green Briar Pub Brigh- federal job, and becoming your studies back home. Training on Wed., Aug. instead to use the simple, one-page AR-11 form that ton. an elected official IIIC Wellness and 31, at the IIIC in Down- you can download from the government’s website at Sept. 28, 6:30 p.m.: St. Family: Bringing fam- Education Services town Boston, from 6 p.m. uscis.gov and mail to the address shown on the form. Mark’s Parish (Church ily members to the US, – The IIIC offers free to 7:30 p.m. QPR stands There is no charge to file an address change. Basement) 1725 Dorches- obtaining citizenship for counseling, health clinics, for Question, Persuade, Second, and actually much more important if you ter Ave., Dorchester. children abroad job skills workshops, and and Refer, three steps that have an application pending, you need to inform US- Saturday Sept. 17 – Ease of travel: US other resources to immi- you can learn to help save CIS directly of your address change so that the officers Free US citizenship passport benefits, visa, grants. Danielle Owen, a a life from suicide. The processing your case will mail future communications application assistance foreign services licensed substance abuse workshop is 90 minutes. to your new residence. You can do this either by filing – A new collaboration of Security: Protection counselor, can assist you Please call Kielan at 617- online as indicated above and following the instruc- organizations coordinated against future restrictions if you are experiencing 542-7644 to register. tions pertaining to people with pending cases, or by by the Fish Family Foun- for permanent residents issues such as substance Our Stories ~ Our calling the USCIS help line at 1-800-375-5283 and dation, and the Massa- (e.g., SSI, food stamps and abuse, domestic violence, Lives: A Community providing your address change information. chusetts Immigrant and Medicaid) anxiety, depression, lack Reflection of Septem- Remember: If you choose not to use on-line filing, Refugee Advocacy Coali- Financial: The N-400 of access to health care, ber 11 – On Sun, Sept. just mailing the AR-11 form is not enough if you have tion (MIRA) has launched carries a one-time fee or homelessness. Please 11, the Irish International a case pending with USCIS. You need to contact the a new initiative intended whereas the I-90 needs to contact Danielle, at 617- Immigrant Center in part- agency as soon as you move. to increase naturaliza- be renewed every 10 years. 542-7654,Ext. 14 or at nership with the Malden For record retention purposes, in order to have tion rates in the Greater Note that you will do not [email protected]. All Irish American Club will proof that you complied with the address change Boston area. The collab- lose your Irish citizenship calls will be treated confi- be hosting an afternoon requirements, (1) if you mail the AR-11 form you orative is hosting its first by becoming a US citizen! dentially. of storytelling, music, and should keep a copy and mail the signed original by event on Sat., Sept.17, We encourage you to Free Health Screen- Irish dancing to remember certified mail, return receipt requested, and (2) if you at 11 a.m. at the Irish take the first step on ing: Mon., Sept. 26, 3-6 the event that changed our file on-line you should record the confirmation number International Immigrant becoming a US citizen by p.m. – The IIIC in partner- lives, honor those we’ve you receive, and you should print out the page with Center on the lower level calling John. We will do ship with the Cathedral of lost on September 11, and the information you submitted, and sign and date it. of 100 Franklin Street, our best to help you. The Holy Cross (Cathe- celebrate the resilience of Keep all such records in a safe place. Boston, in recognition IIIC Learning Ex- dral Cares), and Cumann this great nation. Please A further note: In cases where an applicant has of US Citizenship Day to change Programs – The Áirigh, Runchara Na h join us between 2 p.m. a financial sponsor who submitted an affidavit of assist eligible Legal Per- IIIC continue to manage ireann (Association of and 5 p.m. at the Club in support (Form I-864) in his/her case (such as usually manent Residents apply the Wider Horizons pro- Irish Caregivers and Con- Malden. happens where an immigrant has a US citizen or legal permanent resident spouse or other petitioning relative), the sponsor (not the immigrant) also has an Matters Of Substance obligation to file a change of address form when the sponsor’s address changes. The form for this purpose Growing Older with Alcohol and Medications is I-865, and there is no fee required. Disclaimer: These articles are published to in- A. It is very difficult to help him sleep), or using form generally, not to advise in individual cases. By Danielle Owen IIIC Staff see someone we love, who alcohol in a harmful way? Immigration law is always subject to change. The used to be self-sufficient, As we grow older, our US Citizenship and Immigration Services and US My Dad is 70 and has always been very healthy. become gradually less so bodies respond differently Department of State regularly amend regulations as they age. It is espe- to alcohol and medica- and alter processing and filing procedures. For legal It has only been in the last year, since my mam died, cially difficult when this tion than when we were advice seek the assistance of an IIIC immigration person used to take care younger. It’s helpful to be specialist or an immigration lawyer. that I’ve noticed he is not doing so well, but it’s hard of us, and now we find aware that some of your to put my finger on what our roles reversing. It is dad’s current medica- is wrong. I keep finding completely normal for you tions may not be mixing Irish International bruises on his arms that and your dad to experience well with others, like he can’t always explain, he some resistance to this over the counter meds or Danielle Owen Immigrant Center rarely wants to come out change. However, some herbal remedies, and most of the symptoms you have medications do not mix trating with my daughter and me •Difficulty staying 100 Franklin St., Lower Level 1, Boston, 02110 at the weekends, seems to mentioned could indicate well with alcohol. It may Enter at 60 Arch Street or 201 Devonshire Street a problem he may be seem strange to mention in touch with family or have more memory lapses friends Tel: (617)542-7654 • Fax: (617)542-7655 • www.iicenter.org (like forgetting he took his having with his medica- alcohol specifically, but in tions and/or perhaps his my experience, some of the •Lack of interest in meds and taking double usual activities the dose), says he is not alcohol intake. It might symptoms you note poten- also be helpful to keep in tially indicate a problem. If you have noticed any sleeping well, forgets to eat of the above, it might be A Taste of Ireland and doesn’t always notice mind that your dad may According to SAMHSA & Immigration and helpful to chat with your wearing the same outfit a still be grieving the loss CSAT, signals for concern Sunday, February 13, 2011 from 1pm of your mother last year. include: dad about your concerns, Citizenship Services - few days in a row. showing him this list. If he Cape Cod Irish Village, 822 Main St. He insists he is fine and Do you think he could be •Memory trouble after South Yarmouth, MA 02264 experiencing depression, having a drink or taking still insists there is noth- Free Legal Clinics: that I’m just ‘fussing’ but ing to worry about, chat something doesn’t feel taking more medication medicine with your own doctor, get Aug. 30, 6 p.m.: The South Boston right. What should I do? than usual (like meds to •Loss of coordination (walking unsteadily, fre- advice from your local Se- Labouré Center,Black and 275 WestGreen Broadway, nior Center or program, or South Boston. quent falls) •Changes in sleeping perhaps your spiritual ad- Sept.Sunday, 6 – 4 March p.m.-6 6, 2011 p.m.: from 2pmThe IIIC, habits visor. The Irish Pastoral 100Lessons Franklin about Hope: Street, Resilience inBoston. the Face of Disaster Centre runs a great senior Montserrat Aspirers Hall, Dorchester •Unexplained bruises Sept. 12 – 6:30 p.m.: Green Briar •Irritability, sadness, program, and you can call Pub Brighton. Cora Flood to learn more depression Sept. 28, 6:30 p.m.: St. Mark’s FOLEY LAW OFFICES, P.C. •Changes in eating at 617-479-7404. You can With gratitude to the Irish Government also confidentially contact Parish (Church Basement) 1725 Attorney John Philip Foley habits forDorchester 20 years of ongoing Ave., Dorchester.funding and for their care •Wanting to stay alone me, a licensed counselor, at the Irish International and concern for the Irish community. Permanent Residency & Citizenship • Family & Business a lot of the time Immigration • Labor Certification & Temporary Visas •Failing to bathe or Immigrant Center (617- ALL Nationalities & AILA Members keep clean 542-7654, Ext. 14, or via •Having trouble finish- e-mail at dowen@iiicenter. ing sentences or concen- org. Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com September 2011 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 9 BRETT’S BOSTON By Harry Brett Exclusive photos of Boston Irish people & events

The Irish Cultural Centre in Canton played host last month to the annual O’Neill’s Con- tinental Youth Competition, which over four days featured more than 100 teams with players aged 6 to 18 from the US, , England, and Ire- land competing in the tradi- tional sports of Gaelic football, hurling, and . The BIR’s Harry Brett was on hand to record some of the the 1. proceedings. 1.) Connie Kelly, PR Officer for Kerry foot- ball club; 2.)Nianh McManus, Westmeath; 3.) JohnO’Driscoll, Quincy, coaching under 10 year olds; 4.) Martin and Aine McDonagh with children Roisin and Fioina, Quincy; 5.) Paul and Erica Boyce with children Fionn and Liam, Braintree; 6.) Seamus with dad Shane; 7.) Kate Lee, Dorchester; Sean Folan, Dorchester; 8.) Michelle Pafundi, So. Boston; Alieecia Lewis, W. Roxbury; Fawn Lofton, Medford; 9.) Rory Moore, Stoughton; John Connolly, Canton; Pat Kelly, 2. 3. Milton; 10.) young players; 11.) footballers; 12.) Mai Gallagher, Needham; Jal Peters, Quincy; Denise Murray, Milton; Sr. Marguerite Kelly, Irish Pastoral Centre.

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By R. J. Donovan Sunday in June” and “A Class When Will read the play, he not saster,” he said. Next came the Special to The BIR Act.” only found it funny, but could flute. “I still wasn’t very good at Actor, singer, pianist and On Sept. 16, he returns to see himself in the role of Adam. it.” And finally, the piano. “We director Will McGarrahan has SpeakEasy Stage Company to “He certainly has my had a piano in the house which been part of Boston’s theater open the season in “Next Fall.” rhythms,” he said. “What’s in- my folks bought for my sisters . community for more than a de- Written by Geoffrey Nauffts and teresting about the play is that . . I started taking lessons. And cade. During that time, he has nominated for a Tony Award in we all end up [dealing] with the then I was like, ‘Oh, I get how established himself as one of the 2010, the play looks at the ups prejudices of people who are music works. This goes up and city’s most reliable and diverse and downs of an unlikely gay very religious . . . It’s not only this goes down’ and it all made talents. He’s an accomplished couple’s four-year relationship between two people, it’s really sense.” musician, gifted at comedy, with humor and honesty. how you exist in the bigger com- He made his professional act- and he can just about stop your In the play, Luke (played by munity and the smaller com- ing debut at the Four Seasons heart with a dramatic moment. Dan Roach) is devoutly reli- munity. How people label, and Dinner Theater in Albany play- Will McGarrahan returns to A graduate of Boston Col- gious. Adam, (played by Will) people get judgy, and all that.” ing Yonkers in “Gypsy.” “I think he SpeakEasy Stage Company does not believe in God at all. Performing first beckoned I was 16 at the time. I don’t know lege, he has appeared at Lyric on Sept. 16 in “Next Fall.” Stage Company, Gloucester A crisis changes everything while Will was still in middle what they paid us. $20 a week? Stage, Publick Theatre, and in their lives while giving new school just outside of Albany, Something like that.” His first sublet after sublet, he headed Nora Theatre, among others, insight into what and how we New York. “I was always do- union job followed with a sum- to Seattle. “I’d never been there, in everything from “A Moon believe. ing theater since I knew what mer production of Neil Simon’s I didn’t know anyone there,” he For The Misbegotten” to “Grey The New York Times called theater was,” he said. “Biloxi Blues” at Lake George. said. In his mind, he saw the Gardens,” “Some Men,” “25th the play “an intellectual stealth Music entered the picture He then tried his luck in New city as gray and cloudy. Hav- Annual Putnam County Spell- bomb” with the “stinging breezi- around the same time, first with York City. Calling the experi- ing spent a couple of months in ing Bee,” “9 Circles,” “The Last ness of a cosmopolitan comedy.” the violin. “That was a total di- ence frustrating and tiring of (Continued on page 12) Gaelic Roots schedule set Keith Murphy Legendary strikes out on a new path Derrane By Sean Smith Special to the BIR All good things must pass, but will be sometimes they leave other good things in their wake. So it is with the popular honored traditional band Nightingale, A special tribute to the leg- which last month rang down endary Joe Derrane – and a the curtain after nearly two performance by the Boston-born decades. Nightingale singer/ Irish accordionist and composer guitarist/mandolinist/pianist himself – will highlight this fall’s Keith Murphy, however, is Gaelic Roots Music, Dance, and already at work on a new solo Lecture series. The series, under project, of which he will offer a the direction of Sullivan Artist- sneak preview later this month in-Residence Séamus Connolly, at Club Passim in Harvard also will feature “The Musical Square. Priest,” Monsignor Charlie Murphy – a collaborator with Coen, fiddle-piano duo Gráinne Matt and Shannon Heaton, Murphy and Kathleen Boyle, , Martin O’Connor, and a program of holiday music Winifred Horan, Hanneke Cas- by harpist Aine Minogue. sel, Lissa Schneckenburger and This fall also will introduce Childsplay, among others – will a new venue for Gaelic Roots, appear as part of a double bill which is sponsored by the Bos- on Sept. 22 at Club Passim with ton College Center for Irish flutist Shannon Heaton and Programs and features music harpist Maeve Gilchrist. from Ireland, Scotland, Cape A native Newfoundlander A tribute to legendary Boston accordionist Joe Derrane kicks off this fall’s Gaelic Roots series who lives in Vermont, Murphy Breton, Appalachia as well as at Boston College. Sean Smith photo other Gaelic-related traditions. has been a major influence in Unless otherwise noted, Gaelic before-seen film footage of “A ries,” was released last year and the community as a Roots events — previously held Concert for the Ages.” garnered positive reviews. Born teacher as well as a performer in Connolly House on BC’s •Monsignor Charlie Coen in Scotland, Boyle comes from a for his percussively rhythmic Chestnut Hill Campus — will Thurs., Oct. 20, 6:30-8:30 family steeped in the traditional guitar style and distinctive now take place at 2101 Com- p.m. music of Donegal — her grand- chordal mandolin playing, and monwealth Avenue on the BC The southeast Galway native mother, fiddler Néillidh Boyle, is at home in many traditions, Brighton Campus. — whose nickname derives, composed the “Moving Cloud” from Irish to French to Cana- A look at this fall’s Gaelic appropriately enough, from a reel. A talented pianist and dian to Scottish. He also is con- Roots schedule: classic Irish traditional reel — accordion player who has won sidered a resource for his views •“The Genius and Growing is an accomplished singer and All-Scotland and All-Britain on interpreting and arranging Impact of Joe Derrane” performer on concertina, flute titles on both instruments, she traditional music, and produced Thurs., Sept. 22, Gasson and whistle, as well as one of the released her well-received first the album by Boston area Scot- Hall Irish Room, 7-9 p.m. most revered Irish music teach- solo album, “An Cailin Rua,” tish/Cape Breton band Tri. Since his historic comeback in ers and mentors. Monsignor during the past year. Murphy, along with his wife, 1994, Derrane has released sev- Coen also has drawn acclaim •Aine Minogue the fiddler Becky Tracy, and en celebrated albums, received as an organizer and leader of Thursday, December 8, accordionist/pianist Jeremiah a National Heritage Fellowship Irish music concerts, sessions 6:30-8:30 p.m. McLane, began playing to- (2004), and was the subject of “A and other events, whether in A native of Tipperary, gether as Nightingale in 1993, Concert for the Ages” all-star his former parish in Dutchess Minogue is widely recognized and proved equally adept at tribute last November. This Country, NY, or elsewhere. His as a premier Irish harpist filling concert halls as well as living legend of Irish music will honors include being selected as and singer who conveys the contra dance halls throughout be the special guest of distin- Traditional Musician of the Year lyricism and richness of Irish New England. Listeners and guished Wall Street Journal and for 2005 by the Irish Echo and music, mythology, and poetry. dancers alike appreciated the Irish Echo music writer Earle as a member of the Comhaltas Minogue also is attuned to the Aine Minogue will present trio’s sterling music ability and Hitchner and Berklee College of Ceoltóirí Éireann Mid-Atlantic traditions, rituals, and celebra- music of the winter solstice their canny selection and ar- Music Professor of Strings John Region Hall of Fame. tions associated with the ancient and Christmas. rangements of tunes or songs; McGann, an award-winning •Gráinne Murphy and Celtic world, and often presents Gaelic of “Óiche Chuain,” the Murphy’s clear, unaffected sing- guitarist and mandolinist and a Kathleen Boyle special concerts that evoke Irish version of “Silent Night.” ing voice and vast repertoire of frequent Derrane collaborator. Tuesday, November 15, a particular season or major songs – along with his use of This combined lecture/concert 6:30-8:30 p.m. theme. For her Gaelic Roots foot percussion – heightened will feature presentations by A native of Boston and a show, she will offer music of the All concerts are free and open Nightingale’s appeal. The band Hitchner and McGann about former student of Seamus Con- winter solstice and Christmas, to the public. There is free park- recorded four albums, the last of Derrane’s recent music and ex- nolly, Murphy is known to many with tunes and carols that have ing available adjacent to 2101 which (as it turns out), “Jolie,” panding influence, commentary Irish music fans as the fiddler roots in ancient traditions of Commonwealth Avenue, which was released in 2009. from Derrane himself, a live for the long-popular Irish-Amer- the British Isles such as “The is handicapped accessible. For There was no acrimony in- performance of some Derrane ican band . Horn Dance” and “Hunting the more on the Gaelic Roots series, volved in the decision to retire tunes and others by McGann Her first solo album, “Short Sto- Wren,” and a performance in see bc.edu/gaelicroots. Nightingale, Murphy says. with Connolly, and never- (Continued on page 15) Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com September 2011 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 11

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Dublin,” he deadpanned. center stage, behind the sharp humor and lots of themselves in one area -- a while. You go to an au- *** “I needed to try some- piano, or both, as he was quirky show business comedy, drama, musicals dition. This is what I’m “Next Fall,” from Speak- thing new. Looking back when he won critical ac- references. Will played -- Will’s career has really selling. This is who I am. Easy Stage Company, on it, it was [something)] claim in “Souvenir” at a musical theater-loving been an interesting blend These are my skills . . . Sept. 16 - October 15 at The really important for me to Lyric Stage with Leigh character called Man In of everything. “I really do If that’s what you want, Calderwood Pavilion at do. It was about being a Barrett. Chair who serves as a sort try and make an effort to you will hire me. And if The Boston Center for the grown up and paying the Of the range of shows of narrator for the show, keep swapping it up,” he not, you won’t. And that’s Arts, 527 Tremont Street. rent and paying for food he’s appeared in, he said, speaking directly to the said. “Some of that you okay . . . I certainly have Tickets: 617-933-8600 or and checking out how to “There’s some material audience throughout. can’t really control, but I had a nice variety of things bostontheatrescene.com. make your life work and that’s more crowd pleas- Of the strong response, do try . . . I always say, I to do in the theater, which all that.” A solid career ing than others. And there he said “I’m still getting think I do several things I love.” followed. are shows that you hear it. People are stopping really mediocre. And Thirteen years later, people talking about years me on the street, on the that’s a talent,” he said Boston would resurface in later. And you kind of go, sidewalk. And not just in with a hearty laugh. his life. Paul Daigneault, ‘Oh, you still remember the South End. Anywhere For someone who’s whom he’d known when that? ‘ “ in Boston. And it’s not spent his life in a business they were both students One show that really just ‘I saw you in ‘Drowsy that, while rewarding, can at BC, had subsequent- clicked with audiences Chaperone’ and it was be fraught with emotional ly founded SpeakEasy and critics alike was “Five good.’ They make a big highs and lows, McGa- Stage. In 1999, he invited By Tenn,” an evening of deal about it. It’s inter- harran is very focused Will to take a role in the five intense one act plays esting. Certainly ‘Drowsy and low key. When I told William Finn musical “A by Tennessee Williams, Chaperone’ wants to be him he had a refresh- New Brain.” Daigneault which SpeakEasy pre- liked. Something like ingly pragmatic attitude A column of news and updates of the Boston Celtic would later ask him to di- sented in 2006. Another ‘Five by Tenn’ or ‘Moon toward his work, he gave Music Fest (BCMFest), which celebrates the Boston rect Stephen Sondheim’s was last spring’s “The For The Misbegotten’ is a throaty laugh and af- area’s rich heritage of Irish, Scottish, Cape Breton music and dance with a grassroots, musician-run winter music festival and other events during the year. – SEAN SMITH Time for a ceilidh, BCMFest-style – BCMFest’s monthly series at Club Passim in Harvard Square will take on a different look for September 12. Instead of a concert, Celtic Music Monday will present a “BCMFest Ceilidh,” an opportunity for friends and supporters of BCMFest – and anyone who would like to learn more about BCMFest – to gather together and enjoy the evening. Bring instruments, songs, stories and jokes to share. “The night will kick off with a session and develop into a full-blown ceilidh,” says BCMFest Board member Laura Cortese, who is co-organizing the event. “The idea is to relax and chat, and enjoy a night with old and new friends.” Members of the BCMFest Board will be on hand, along with others who have contributed their time and talents to BCMFest over the years, to chat informally about the festival and other BCMFest activities. Admission is free to the “BCMFest Ceilidh.” Beer, wine and food will be available for purchase. BCMFest 2012 update – The BCMFest Board met last month to pore through performer applications for the 2012 festival, which takes place Jan. 6 and 7. Board members were once again impressed by the diversity of submissions, and the overall fine quality of the musicians and singers who sent in applications. The 2012 festival line-up, and other details, will be announced in a few weeks. Be sure to check bcmfest. com for updates. Keep in touch – News and updates on BCMFest events are available on bcmfest.com, and you can also sign up for the BCMFest e-mail list. You can also fol- low BCMFest on and Twitter [www.twitter. com/bcmfest].

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The annual Simon of Cyrene Breakfast will be dedicated in memory of Rev. Msgr. Thomas J. McDonnell, co-founder with Sister Peggy Youngclaus. Father Tom passed away on June 14, 2009. The Breakfast will be served Sunday Sept 11, 2011 Anthony’s Pier 4 9 a.m- 12 noon

The committee will continue the mission that Fr. Tom initiated, “Making the Goodness of God alive by sharing, instructing, advis- ing, consoling, feeling and praying with the community of people who are disabled and their families.” The Society continues the monthly Days of Prayer in Somerville at the Little Sisters of the Poor, and the Family Masses in South Boston. This summer, some 125 persons from 25 families were able to enjoy the Cape Cod vacation houses in Brewster. We do realize that there are many demands on your goodness and generosity in this difficult year, and we appreciate the faithful support in the past and hope that it can continue, Please join us at Pier 4 on September 11. Breakfast tickets are $40.00, Donations may be made to the Simon of Cyrene Society, P.O. Box 54, South Boston, MA 02127. SIMON OF CYRENE SOCIETY

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By Judy Enright Special to the BIR The Irish are under- standably proud of their heritage with all its heroes and events and charac- ters. And probably no- where is that pride more evident than at the Cobh Heritage Centre in Co. Cork, located in an old Vic- torian railroad station on the harbor there. Cobh, as A sobering sign at the Cobh Heritage Museum not- many know, started out as ing the departure of more than three million Irish a town called Cove, thanks through Queenstown (now Cobh) between 1815 and to its location in the cove 1970. (Judy Enright photos) of Cork, on a hill on the southern shore of Great Capital of Ireland. The ers in Newport, which Island in the townland of 35th Kinsale Gourmet wins worldwide competi- Ballyvaloon. Festival – sponsored this tions regularly with their Cove gained prominence year and last by Bollinger homemade sausages that as a naval and military Champagne – is planned come in assorted flavors, base during the American for Oct. 7-9 and is a great including leek and tomato War of Independence and take if you’re in the area. and garlic and more. They the Napoleonic Wars and The Heritage Centre are consistently excellent. was the departure point is a fascinating place to For more information, for more than 1.5 million visit and offers an excel- visit goodfoodireland.ie. Irish who left their homes lent restaurant as well EDEN AWARD between 1845 and 1851. as clothing and gift shops We attended the 2010 On Aug. 3, 1849, Queen and more. Hours are 9:30 opening of the Great West- Victoria stepped onto Irish a.m. to 6 p.m. from May 1 ern Greenway in Co. Mayo soil for the very first time to Nov. 1 (Monday to Sat- – that stretched from New- and the town was renamed urday) and Sundays and port to at the Queenstown in her honor. bank holidays, 11 a.m. to time – and were delighted After Irish independence 6 p.m. Last admission is to hear that the Greenway from Britain in 1920, the at 5 p.m. New this sum- now extends from West- town was renamed Cobh mer are walking tours of port to and (the Irish for Cove) and Spike Island that leave that it recently won the pronounced the same. from Kennedy Pier at noon 2011 EDEN (European The Heritage Centre on weekends. Tickets are Destinations of Excel- offers fascinating exhib- available at the Heritage lence) prize for excellence. its about the town, the Centre. The website (mulranny. history of the famine IRISH FOOD ie/what-is-eden/) says, and emigration aboard We often rave about “Ireland has always been the so-called coffin ships, the outstanding meals known throughout the and the convict ships that we’ve had in Ireland and, world as an excellent between 1791 and 1853 if you plan a visit, please tourism destination. Now carried some 30,000 men note that the non-profit it’s home to five official and 9,000 women from agency, Good Food Ire- European Destinations of Cobh to Australia, and land, recently published Excellence too – and all are also has fascinating ex- a “digitally enhanced” perfect for a short break.” hibits on the Titanic and touring guide. The guide, In addition to the Green- Lusitania. The Centre has they say, is unique because way, other projects that A statue outside the Cobh, Co. Cork, Heritage Centre depicts Annie Moore and also produced a booklet to the printed edition can have won EDEN awards her two brothers, the first emigrants to be processed at Ellis Island when it help trace Irish ancestry connect to a digital ver- since 2006 are: Clonakilty officially opened in 1892. A similar statue can be found outside the NY process- that can be purchased by sion via a mobile phone District, Co. Cork; Car- ing center and symbolizes the many Irish who made the same long journey in contacting info@cobhher- app and smartphone users lingford and the Cooley steerage to escape the Famine and the hardships of Irish life. itage.com or by visiting will be guided to the near- peninsula, Co. Louth; the website, cobhheritage. est quality restaurants in Sheeps’s Head Way, West forests. become a den for squatters tage spokesmen said they com. their area. Cork, and Loop Head Pen- KILLARNEY HOUSE and drinking parties. hoped the project would So, that’s a brief history Restaurants, pubs, ca- insula, Co. Clare. AND GROUNDS The property, a short create jobs, stimulate the of this interesting har- fes, hotels, and cooking Each year, there is an We read in an Irish walk from Killarney’s local economy, and boost borside town and a little schools are listed and all EDEN competition and Times’ story by Anne Lu- town center, was given to tourism in the area. rundown on all you can see are committed to locally winners are chosen for cey recently that “Some the state in 1998 by Phila- ACTIVITIES at the Heritage Centre, a sourced ingredients so the their natural beauty, cul- 5.2-million euro from the delphians John and Mary • The Galway Interna- local attraction that is well food is not only fresh and tural life, and commitment Tourism capital fund, McShain, who lived at tional Oyster Festival will worth a visit as is that delicious but their commit- to sustainable tourism. administered by Fáilte Killarney House for many be held from Sept. 22-25. entire area of Co. Cork. ment also supports local The Greenway, along Ireland, has been an- years after they bought the See the website galway- There are so many won- farmers, food producers, an old railway bed, is a nounced for the restora- house and 25,000 acres oysterfest.com, for details. derful attractions there, and fishermen. 42-km off-road walking, tion of Killarney House in 1952. John retired in • Also in Co. Galway including Fota Wildlife Two of my personal fa- running and cycling track. and pleasure grounds. The 1978 and died at Killarney on the same dates is the Park, Jameson distillery vorites in Co. Mayo are on Its construction required 18th-century town house, House in 1989. Mary died Portumna Shorelines Arts in Midleton, the towns of the Good Food list – Café the cooperation of every and its 19th-century plea- there in 1998. Their only Festival from Sept. 22-25. Youghal, Kinsale, Clon- Rua in where landowner along the way. sure gardens overlooking child, Pauline, is a Roman See shorelinesartsfestival. akilty, Bandon and much they serve consistently Great credit goes to all the lakes of Killarney Catholic nun. com for more. more. There is great food delicious luncheons (take those who appreciated were originally part of a The newspaper stories • In Longford Town, to be found in that area home some Spotted Dog the concept and agreed chateau-style building said that new funding will Co. Longford, from Sept. too, especially in Kinsale, Bread and Lemon Cake if to let the Greenway cross that was donated to the allow for development of 22-25, stop by the Johnny known as the Gourmet you go) and Kelly’s Butch- through their fields and state by the McShain an exhibition and cultural Keenan Festival, family, American philan- center and that rooms will named for legendary Irish thropists who bought it be restored with original musician Johnny Keenan, from the Kenmare family, furnishings. The massive and listen to some tunes. local Earls and landlords. project is being under- The festival celebrates It is at the gateway to the taken by the National culture and friendship Killarney National Park.” Parks and Wildlife Service through the medium of But, Killarney House (NPWS.) music, in particular the re- had fallen on hard times The adjoining pleasure lationship of Irish music to in recent years. A story gardens will also be re- American bluegrass mu- EIRE in The Irish Examiner stored and an interpre- sic. Visit johnnykeenan. added, “Its continuing tive center for Killarney com for more information. state of disrepair was a National Park will be de- VISITING pub near embarrassment for veloped there. The 5.2-mil- Whenever you choose the Government.” After lion euro is the largest to travel to Ireland, you’ll being given to the state, single investment for a find so much to do and so the house had been left tourism project in 2011. many interesting places 795 Adams St. • Dorchester to deteriorate and had Several tourism and heri- to visit. There are, sadly, fewer and fewer direct AUTO BODY REPAIRS (617) 825-1760 flights from Boston to “President’s Choice” (617) 825-2594 Shannon on Aer Lingus – FAX (617) 825-7937 especially during the fall and winter months. 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full-hearted style College of Music. She’s a founding member of the to “We Dreamed Folk Arts Quartet – an exponent of ChamberGrass, CD Roundup Our Dreams” – which melds traditional/roots music (Celtic, Appala- written by Richard chian, Scandinavian, etc.) with chamber music – and By Sean Smith Farrelly, composer more recently has played with The Outside Track, a Cherish the Ladies, “Country Crossroads: of “The Isle of In- well-received band of young musicians representing The Nashville Sessions” – The ties between Irish nisfree,” the theme the Canadian, Irish and Scottish folk traditions. Her and American country music have been the subject for John Ford’s partnership with guitarist-vocalist and fellow Canadian of numerous recording projects in the past couple of legendary Irish- Walsh stretches back 11 years, and this nine-track CD decades, some more successful than others. (Disclaimer: American movie (their first) shows why: The duo has a winning chem- The term “country,” like most labels used to categorize “The Quiet Man” istry and enthusiasm that even a studio recording can music, is often irritatingly vague; for our purposes, – and the tradi- convey. The tracks are a representation of their live think beyond the tional Ulster song material, which includes Irish, Scottish, and French pop-and-commer- “Verdant Braes of Canadian traditional fare, as well as contemporary/ cial country, or Screen.” Gill more original tunes and songs. singer-songwriter than does justice The Celtic-oriented repertoire includes a comely country, to more to Andy M. Stewart and Kathy Stewart’s “Donegal but not overly sentimental “Sweet Forget Me Not” t r a d i t i o n a l l y Rain,” while Griffith – though singing in a somewhat and “The Rocky Road to Dublin,” the latter of which rooted forms like subdued lower register – brings a flinty charm to the is done by Walsh a cappella, which serves to highlight bluegrass, Appa- ever-popular Ewan MacColl standard “Dirty Old Town.” just how frenetic, and challenging, the song is both lachian, and old- Mention must also be made of Connolly, not only for rhythmically and lyrically. Hernandez joins Walsh on timey.) But when a thoroughly lovely treatment of “For Ireland I Won’t vocals for “Sweet Forget Me Not, “ as well as Kieran a distinguished Tell Her Name” but also for the harmony vocals she Kane’s waiting-for-my-luck-to-change lament “Dirty Irish-American and Madden contribute to the other songs, notably Little Town” and “$400 Later,” a cajun-tinged Walsh music group like “Verdant Braes of Screen,” which – eased along by composition about poor judgment and wild nights. Cherish the La- Kathleen Boyle’s piano – takes on the air of an Ap- Hernandez’s stellar fiddling is the duo’s most obvi- dies decides to palachian hymn. ous asset, and she is in splendid form on the CD’s have a go, you can Madden, fiddler Grainne Murphy, and accordionist four tune sets, and her own “Mom’s Lullaby.” She and reasonably assume it will turn out pretty well. And Mirella Murray spark the instrumental sets, with the Walsh glide through that venerable standard “Whis- that’s exactly the case with “Country Crossroads,” the able assistance of Carroll (“Woods of Old Limerick”), key Before Breakfast,” which the two adorn with a release of which appropriately enough coincides with Ivers (“Southfork Posse”) and Knowles (“Waltzing Down vocalization of the melody, and thence into Walsh’s the band’s 25th anniversary year. the Aisle”). The revelation, though, is the five-string “La Visite,” where he does a more elaborate vocal turn. Recorded in Nashville, the album features guest banjo-and-dobro tandem of Brown and Rob Ickes, who Her virtuosic ease with different fiddle traditions is appearances and contributions by Maura O’Connell, niftily underscore the primary rhythm section of Boyle apparent in the “Swedish Jig/Fil et Bobine/Les Poules Vince Gill, Nanci Griffith, Alison Brown, and other and guitarist-mandolinist Mary Coogan, and play a big Huppes” medley, and a set of reels, “Red Haired Girl country music stalwarts, as well as past Cherish the role in giving the album its distinctive Irish-Nashville From Tulloch/Seamus O’Connel’s Fancy/Leviathan.” Ladies members/collaborators Eileen Ivers, Liz Carroll, stamp. The musical ground Hernandez and Walsh cover may Deirdre Connolly, and Liz Knowles. Joanie Madden, On the long road Cherish the Ladies have traveled strike some as so vast as to be unfocused and muddled. the band’s indefatigable flute and whistle player, pro- this past quarter-century, “Country Crossroads” is a But their interplay and rapport with one another makes duced the album and, one imagines, provided a lot of smoothly flowing intersection. whatever it is they’re playing – a French Canadian reel, organizational enthusiasm. an Irish standard, a foot-stomping pub song – seem The song selections, and the arrangements for each, Ivonne Hernandez & Jeremy Walsh, “Live Off perfectly suited to their talents. If a studio recording are judicious and well-crafted to suit the assembled tal- the Floor” – Hernandez, a British Columbia native makes you want to see what the artist sounds like in ent. O’Connell (who could sing the Nashville phone book and a multiple prize-winning fiddle champion, came concert, than “Live Off the Floor” assuredly does the job. and make it sound appealing) brings her characteristic to Boston during the past decade to attend Berklee Sept. 23 at Unity Somerville: Aoife Clancy and Kyle Carey Beloved Irish singer Ao- of the renowned Clancy Carey’s interest in folk which is based on a short includes contributions in Somerville. Suggested ife Clancy and New Hamp- Brothers — Aoife has and traditional music has story by Cape Breton by Aoife Clancy, Pauline donations for the concert shire singer-songwriter established herself as one taken her to such places author Alistair MacLeod. Scanlon, Trevor Hutchin- are $20, $15 (advance) Kyle Carey — whose of the foremost “divas” as Cape Breton, where Her debut CD, “Monon- son and John Kirk, among and $5 student rush. For compositions draw on the of Irish and contempo- she studied fiddle styles gah,” was produced by others. information, see google. language and textures rary folk music, touring and struck up a friend- former Lunasa guitarist Unity Somerville is lo- com/site/notlobmusic. of Irish, Scottish, Cape throughout the US and ship with Cape Breton’s Donogh Hennessy and cated on 6 Williams Street Breton and Appalachian Europe as a soloist and in fiddling legend Jerry traditions — will appear occasional collaborations Holland, and the Isle of in concert on Sept. 23 in with Robbie O’Connell Skye in Scotland, where Unity Somerville near and other performers. she became immersed in Davis Square. The event, A former member of the Gaelic song and language. which begins at 8 p.m., is groundbreaking all-fe- These experiences, along is pleased to sponsor the sponsored by Notlob Folk male Irish band Cherish with other various literary Concerts. the Ladies, Clancy has influences, have served Raised in a famous Irish recorded two solo CDs and as the inspiration for her musical family — her appeared on numerous songs, such as “The Star father was other recordings. Above Rankin’s Point,” Keith Murphy strikes out on a new path (Continued from page 10) the instruments and the “We’d been playing less arrangements I wanted. and less these last few This is a ‘real’ solo project, sunday, september 25, 2011 at noon years, really pulling back and it’s been taking place from the dance scene, in a more concentrated because we were all so period of time, so there is busy with other projects. a certain unity to it.” Nightingale is not a casual While Murphy says he band that can get together doesn’t have any concrete on a whim to do the oc- recording plans yet, the casional gig; it requires a series of gigs he is em- level of maintenance that, barking on – including increasingly, was hard to the September 22 concert keep up. Keith Murphy is taking – will help to “road test” “Given all the time and a “road test” this month. the new material. energy we’d put into the exclusively, but now I “Part of what I find band, ending it was not a exciting in my new solo decision taken lightly. But was experimenting with different tunings, and it material is how singing hard as it was to let go, without other instru- Hosting & registration: we realized the time had was a whole new process. I also started playing with mentalists intensifies come to move on.” the energy of the song for tavern in tHe square Even before Night- a fingerpicking style I’d never used before. This me,” says Murphy. “I loved 161 brighton ave, , Ma ingale’s finale, at the the work that I did with Peacham Acoustic Music was all very exciting, and I even found myself revisit- ensembles and the effect Festival in Vermont, Mur- of layered counterpoints For more information or to register, visit: phy had already struck ing some older parts of my repertoire.” over the singing. But it out on a new path. During is refreshing to play and www.brianHonan.org the past year, he began Murphy had done a solo project before, his “Bound sing in a more musically working on a new reper- stripped down way and I The Brian J. Honan Charitable Fund was established to carry on 5K the Charitable Fund has been able to support and foster local toire, mainly traditional for Canaan” CD that was Brian’s commitment to the causes that he championed throughout and national programs that support education, recreation, housing released in 2005. But this am reminded that many the course of his life. With funds raised from the Brian J. Honan and healthcare. folk ballads collected in of my favorite singers did Vermont as well as songs go-round is different in many ways, he says. some of their best work from Newfoundland. that way: Nic Jones, Paul presented by: Along the way, he began “Although ‘Canaan’ was technically a ‘solo album,’ Brady, Dick Gaughan.” reinventing his musical For ticket prices and approach. it was really an ensemble effort,” says Murphy of the other information con- “As I started looking cerning the September 22 sponsored by: at these new songs, I CD, which included ap- pearances by Tracy, Mark concert with Keith Mur- started working in a phy, and Shannon Heaton new guitar style. Before, Simos, Mark Roberts ,and Rani Arbo. “I spent and Maeve Gilchrist, go to I’d used the ‘DADGAD’ passim.org. tuning and style almost years trying to map out Page 16 September 2011 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com The Irish Language by Philip Mac AnGhabhann Celtic

Last month at the end of the column we introduced the Habitual Past Tense. Cross The Habitual Past is the equivalent of “used to” as in “She used to eat eggs” and implies “but I don’t know if she eats them any more” or “She doesn’t eat Words them now”. Of course, you don’t have to say, “used The Irish to” in Irish and it is optional in English. This verb tense is used to describe on-going crosswords are actions or conditions in the past. Often it is used in contrast with the Definite Past in such sen- a service of an tences as, “She used to swim until the shark attacked her” or “He played the pipes for years Ireland-based before he lost his fingers in a traffic accident.” In the first of these sentences “used to swim” is in the website which Habitual Past and “attacked” is a Definite Past; in the second, “He played” will be in the Habitual Past provides Irish but “lost” will be a Definite Past – each Definite Past will have happened once while “used to swim” Family Coats of and “played” went on over a longer period of time. Those of you who may have studied Spanish or Arms by email. Portuguese will immediately see the Past Habitual similarity to the Imperfect tense of this group of You are invited languages while the Definite Past equates with the Preterit. to visit The Definite and Habitual Past always lenite (“aspirate”) the initial consonant. You already know www. that verbs which begin with a vowel or F- “artifi- cially lenite” by prefixingD’. The D’ is pronounced bigwood.com/ /d/ before a “broad” vowel or /j/ before a slender one. The same holds true for the Habitual Past. heraldry In addition to leniting the initial consonant or vowel as if to make the Definite Past, the Habitual Past uses a series of suffixes: \ ACROSS 6. A Saul can wander through Kerry village on coast “When I./you/he/etc. was /were at university…” 1. Pounce, pray try it. (anag.) Largest inland of the thirty road from Inch, where Thomas Crean, of South Pole “I used to clean my room.” two, with the Golden Vale through its middle. (6,9) fame, lived . ( 8) Ghlanainn mo sheomra. 8. Kitchen sideboard will clothe you. (7) 7. Stay around the east to find this Irish poet with “You used to clean your room.” 10. Bring car around, Al, to go to Offaly town, near Bo- strong Sligo connections. (5) Ghlantá do sheomra. her, where the Shrine of St. Manchan is preserved. (5) 9. No sharing beds. (anag.) Single street Offaly village “He used to clean his room.” 12. Public relations officer is not amateur, in short. (3) north of Banagher. (13) Ghlanadh a sheomra. 13. “You have --- too long here. Depart and let us have 11. “Not die here in a rage like a poisoned --- in a hole.” “She used to clean her room.” done with you. In the name of God, go!” Cromwell. (3) Swift. (3) Ghlanadh a seomra. 14. Pitch article on Meath’s royal hill. (4) 15. Do plan up to find where the zloty circulates. (6) “We used to clean our room.” 15. ‘Tis P.C. to shake up the ancient north Britons. (5) 17. Require the French to irritate. (6) Ghlanaimis ar seomra. 16. “No glass of ours was ever raised to toast the ----” 20. Kale heart dismantled in Limerick market town on “You-all used to clean your room.” - Seamus Heaney. (5) the River Deel, famous for brown trout. (9) Ghlanadh ‘ur seomra. 18. “Great steamers white and gold, Go rolling down 21. Wore edge of Donegal resort near Dunlewy. (8) “They used to clean their room.” to ---.” Rudyard Kipling. (3) 25. Licence for pet seen around broken rim. (6) Ghlanaidis a seomra. 19. Northern Irish part-time military that was referred 26. “Though honey is ----- do not lick it off a briar.” in bureau draft. (1.1.1.) Irish Proverb. (5) Remember that there are two types of verbs in 21. Flag, I’m alone. (anag.) Natural amphitheatre 5 27. “Your friend the British soldier can stand up to Irish. The endings above are for “Type 1” verbs – miles by 3 miles in County Wicklow, where the Slaney anything, except the British --- Office.” G.B. Shaw (3) monosyllables. “Type 2”, verbs of two syllables, use winds through. (4,2,5) 30. “Englishmen never will be slaves; they are ---- to do slightly different endings. Here are illustrations of whatever the Government and public opinion allows “Type 1” verbs – those of one syllable. 22. This time coming back through Lixnaw on Friday. (3) 23. Fling high by leaving lobby. (3) them to.” G.B. Shaw (4) Glan ! “Clean !” 33. Be return, second class to go back out, in the main. (3) Ghlanainn mé /GLAHN-uhn/ 24. “Praise to the Holiest in the height, and in the Ghlantá tú /GLAHN-tuh/ ----- be praise.” CROSSWORD SOLUTION ON PAGE 17 Ghlanadh sé /GLAHN-uhk/ Cardinal Newman. (5) Ghlanadh sí /GLAHN-uhk/ 26. Scandinavian root? (5) Ghlanaimis muid /GLAHN-uh-meesh/ 28. Ancient Irish ring fort seen in Beltra Thursday. (4) Ghlanadh sibh /GLAHN-uhk/ 29. Load of money to stuff with? (3) Ghlanaidis siad /GLAHN-uh-jeesh/ 31. Deer eggs? (3) Irish Sayings … 32. Wear in hero design. (5) A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied Cuir ! “Put !” 34. Under mud out east and stirred for pretty Tipper- in one swig. Chuiriainn mé /HOOR-uhn/ ary village near Killenure Castle. (7) Show the fatted calf but not the thing that fattened him. Chuiritea tú /HOOR-chuh/ 35. Baby teeth eat her. (anag.) Dublin playhouse opened Marry a woman from the mountain, and you’ll marry Chuiriadh sé /HOOR-uhk/ in 1904 made famous by the dramas of Synge, O’Casey, the mountain. Chuiriadh sí /HOOR-uhk/ and Yeats. (3,5,7) It’s better to solve the problem than to improve the law. Chuiriaimis muid /HOOR-uh-meesh/ The thing that is closest to the heart, is closest to the Chuiriadh sibh /HOOR-uhk/ DOWN mouth. Chuiriaidis siad /HOOR-uh-jeesh/ 1. No cap quip. (anag.) Quiet Waterford village near Don’t bring your troubles to the person who hasn’t got Mount Melleray Abbey under the Knockmealdowns. (9) sympathy for your case. As you can see, there will be only a difference in 2. “A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had A scholar’s ink lasts longer than a martyr’s blood. pronunciation for tú “you-singular” between those not thought death had ----- so many.” T.S. Eliot (6) Take gifts with a sigh , most men give to be paid. verbs that end in “broad” vowels (a, o, u) and “slen- 3. Return to make contact with swarm. (4) A country without a language is a country without a der” vowels (e, i). 4. Ring patrol not confused with busy Laois town with soul. Two syllable verbs – and most two syllable verbs the first turf-fired power station in Ireland. (13) The person that isn’t strong, has to be clever. end in -igh - simply lose the second syllable when at- 5. And so on in Clontibret castle. (3) Youth sheds many a skin.The steed (horse) does not taching the endings. However the endings are slightly retain its speed forever. different. In the ending for “I”, mé, the last vowel is accented, meaning that it is now pronounced like / ADVERTISEMENT een/. For “he, she’ and “you-plural” the a is replaced by o with the result that –dh, a /k/ sound is more guttural and before “slender” vowels (e, i)will sound like t. An example is ceannaigh /KEYN-ee/, “buy.” Photography by Cheannaínn mé /HEYN-een/ “I used to buy.” Cheannaíteá tú /HEYN-ee-chah/“You used to buy.” Cheannaiodh sé /HEYN-eet/ “He used to buy.” Cheannaiodh sí /HEYN-eet/ “She used to buy.” Image Photo Service Cheannaímis muid /HEYN-ee-meesh/“We used to buy.” Cheannaiodh sibh /HEYN-eet/ “You used to buy.” • Weddings • Anniversaries Cheannaídís siad /HEYN-eej-eesh/ “They used to buy.” • Banquets • Portraits We will have more to say about two-syllable verbs and the ending –igh in next month’s column. • Reunions tig “understand” • Groups • Families tóraigh “Look for” smaoinigh “think about” dúin “Close” • Special Occasions éirigh “get up, rise” fás “grow” lean “follow” (617) 291-6609 ith “eat” díol “sell” cóirigh “arrange” The official photographers of the Boston Irish Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com September 2011 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 17 Celebrating friendship, and exploration PUZZLE SOLUTION FROM PAGE 16 (Continued from page 1) “I don’t know a lot about patient, and I have an a band, but interpersonal that timeless ballad of love ,” incentive to work on stuff dynamics go a long way ruined by toxic jealousy says Friedman, “but as geared for a quartet in- to making it seem more -- although there have we’re exploring other stead of a duo, and all that like a gathering of friends been countless recordings genres now, including has definitely helped me than a labor of love. Long of it throughout folkdom, those which are more to grow musically. My solo Time Courting excels in the band was inspired by familiar to me, I can con- project, ‘The Blue Dress’ this respect, too, say the Johnny Cash’s version. tribute my knowledge. We [which she released on four members. Friedman That the band exists at all share and learn from CD last year], was partly may not match the demo- all is a testament to the one another, and that’s inspired by being in LTC.” graphic profile of the other penchant and eagerness why I love playing with Blair, for her part, three, who are married for exploration on the Long Time Courting.” hadn’t had much opportu- with children, but she part of its members, who The loss of a founding nity, or much of a predilec- doesn’t feel the odd one are already part of some member can be a trau- tion, to consider her vocal out in the group: “They very rewarding musical matizing experience for a talents. “I have the No. 4 live vicariously through partnerships. Simmons close-knit band, but LTC voice,” she laughs, “but it’s me because I’m younger is a co-founder of the was able to weather the great to learn how to sing and single,” she quips. alt-trad band Annalivia, departure of Klein – who with other people, and to “We do live vicariously and performs occasion- moved to Israel with her hear how we harmonize.” through Ariel,” laughs ally with guitarist and husband and children in Friedman feels she has Simmons. “We talk about vocalist Hannah Sand- 2010 – with grace. “The strengthened her grasp of kids and marriage, but we ers; Heaton is half of a transition was organic traditional music through also talk with Ariel about highly popular Irish/Irish- and positive, a real testa- her LTC association, yet her life, and we offer our American music duo with ment to the bond we have,” she also has been able insights. And we end up husband Matt; Friedman says Heaton. “We talked to contribute her own giggling our heads off and frequently plays as part through it, and while we expertise. The arrange- staying up way too late.” of a trio with American were sad to lose a musi- ment for “Barbara Allen” Heaton notes, “A band is Scottish fiddler Hanneke cian of Ellery’s stature, is one example of her influ- approximately 25 percent Cassel, and has recorded we were very happy for ence, as is the “Alternate rehearsing and perform- two CDs with her sister her and her family to have Routes” set – when the ing, 75 percent schedul- Large Format Printing Mia – she and Heaton such an incredible oppor- band transitions from the ing, driving around, and also perform with the tunity. We brainstormed set’s opening tune, “The hanging out, so it really Billboards • Banners ensemble Childsplay; and as to who could be our Morning Dew,” to “Alter- does help if you get along. Blair is a member of The new member, and Sarah nate Routes” (a Heaton I think we’re fortunate in 1022 Morrissey Boulevard, Dorchester Sevens and a regular on was our first choice; it was original), Friedman and that we have a diversity the contra dance circuit Ellery’s idea, too.” Blair combine cello and of stories to tell, and we 617-282-2100 (Klein played for several “They were all really fiddle to produce an exqui- enjoy listening to one carrolladvertising.com years with Gaelic Storm, good players, and a very sitely harmonized, slowly another.” although she had left congenial group of wom- shifting counterpoint to that band by the time she en,” recalls Blair, who the agile melody of Hea- joined LTC). knew Klein and Simmons ton’s flute. “Ellery and I had done and was somewhat ac- “With ‘Alternate Routes’ Phillips Candy House some brainstorming, and quainted with Heaton. “I and ‘Barbara Allen,’ we fine chocolates since 1925 played a few times; same thought it would be a good went for a ‘stringier’ kind thing with Liz and me,” experience to be in all-fe- of sound than what we recalls Heaton. “It was male band, especially one had done in the past,” just a natural grouping, with such beautiful ar- says Friedman. “As you and we felt very excited rangements, particularly continue to settle into a about doing something for their songs – I hadn’t band, you start seeing together as musicians had a lot of opportunities more and more different and as friends. I thought to play with singers. My possibilities, and with there was really some- only disappointment was this band there is a lot of thing compelling about that Ellery and I couldn’t freedom to explore those an all-female project, after be in the band together.” possibilities.” having played primarily As the other LTC mem- The “Alternate Routes” with men. bers aver, Blair did more set stands out for another “That’s not to say that I than step into the space reason, as Heaton reveals. mind playing with men; at formerly occupied by “We don’t always have a the end of the day, I really Klein; she transformed lot of time for rehearsal, don’t care if I’m playing the band through the ad- so we’ve used the sound with men or women, as dition of her contra dance- checks at our gigs to ar- long as they are good influenced repertoire and range some of our mate- musicians. But there is ability, as well as overall rial. We worked out the set a different chemistry approach to music. It’s when we were preparing to playing with women, not that she made LTC for a concert in Bingham- and I loved the idea of a “better,” per se, but rather ton, and although we band of all women, who enhanced its existing were tired and hungry we could sing as well as play qualities while enlarging were able to do it all, and instruments together, the dimensions within it came out beautifully. and with interesting, fun which the band works – It’s a case of making the arrangements. The key for one example of her impact best possible use of your me in being in Long Time is the “Polska efter Elias time, whether you’re with Courting, though, is that Tallari” track on the CD, family, or with friends, or they’re great musicians.” which marries a strikingly working on a project – you The trio felt they needed beautiful Scandinavian seize the moment.” a fourth instrument, says tune to two Irish polkas. Another, even more Simmons, and a cello LTC also provides a recent measure of Long “seemed like a perfect fascinating case study for Time Courting’s evolution fit” – and Friedman, they what might be called the is an as-yet-unrecorded believed, was the right “my other band” effect. song the four collaborated person to play it. In some All four members were on. “It was such a refresh- ways, it was an unlikely already accomplished mu- ing experience,” says Hea- choice, given that the clas- sicians, who thoroughly ton. “We all had ideas for sically trained Friedman enjoyed their respective it, but there was not one (who studied cello perfor- ongoing bands and col- dominant person who took mance from Northwest- laborations, when they command; it was literally ern) had only been playing came together in Long a group effort.” folk and traditional music Time Courting. But over Musical rapport is one for a few years, in contrast the past three years, with thing, and perhaps ulti- to the far lengthier experi- mutual encouragement mately the key thing, for ence of Heaton, Simmons, and support, they’ve found and Klein. But Friedman’s new facets to their music. skills as a musician and “I think, at the begin- singer were without ques- ning, to some degree we SAVE $$$ ON YOUR HOMEOWNERS INSURANCE! tion, says Simmons. saw this band in terms of “What I also appreci- how it differed from our ated was that Ariel is other bands, rather than YOU MAY QUALIFY FOR UP TO A 33% DISCOUNT interested in other kinds appreciating it for its own of music, namely Appa- sake,” notes Simmons. lachian and old-timey, “But that’s changed. We’re which I also like,” she more selective now about JUDITH M. FLYNN says. “So we were able what songs and tunes we to add that to the Irish/ decide to play, and how Insurance Agency, Inc. 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Antrim: Star polo players next month. six metres high. One of those from Argentina and France Derry: Deputy First Minister behind the ‘I Am Wall’ project joined players from Britain and Martin McGuinness performed is Margaret Bannon, director Ireland at Polo in the City at the official opening of a garden of Droichead Arts Centre and the end of August in the Prince of remembrance at the House she was hoping that up to two Regent Park in Castlereagh. in the Wells hostel in Derry and a half thousand would turn The event was held to raise last month. The hostel opened up for the event and hold hands funds for Mencap and, accord- in 1972 and since that time has for the space of one hour. There ing to Laura McManus, all the helped hundreds of homeless were plans for the human wall funds will go directly to the men, many of them coping with to be filmed from the air so it charity, which helps those with addictions. It was the idea of will be recorded for posterity. learning difficulties. In addition residents of the hostel to build Mayo: One school that hasn’t to the tournament there was to the garden in the courtyard to been worried by the recent an- be a barbeque and a post-polo remember their friends who nouncement of an increase in party in the park as well as a were victims of addiction, and the pupil-teacher ratio is the soiree at Cafe Vaudeville in the the men themselves carried national school on city centre. out the work. Initially funded Island. In fact, according to is- Armagh: Recordings made directly from the community, land development officer Mary in the 1950s by renowned the centre now receives support Catherine Heanue, the school folk singer , the from the Housing Executive would welcome such a move. At mother of Tommy and Jack under the Supporting People present St .Columba’s has only Makem, are to be released on CD programme. three pupils, the lowest number this year. The recordings were Donegal: For only the fourth ever, and there are fears that made by a number of people, time in the history of the festival it will have to close. To guard including Armagh man Sean a local woman has been named against this, the community O’Boyle, in the Makem home as this year’s Mary from Dun- has launched a campaign to in Victoria Street in Keady and gloe. Debbie Rodgers is from attract new people to the island, Mrs. Makem’s recording of ‘As Burtonport and she received her especially families with young I Roved Out’ was chosen by the crown from last year’s winner, children who could help in- BBC as the signature tune for Jemma Ferry from Edinburgh. crease the pupil-teacher ratio. folk music programmes in the Joining Debbie on stage for her Meath: Two bridges in the 1950s and 1960s. The CD collec- party piece was her father Joe, county came in for a bit of a tion will be launched in October who accompanied her rendition bashing recently, though fortu- at the Festival of ‘The Water is Wide’ on guitar, nately there were no serious in- in Armagh. and the two were joined by her juries. A bus carrying children Carlow: Yvette Byrne from mother Mary when Debbie was who were taking part in the Ardattin, who graduated in announced as the winner. The Meath Travellers Workshop fashion from Griffith College in twenty-one-year-old has just Summer Project crashed into Dublin in May, stole the show graduated in English and Mu- a railway bridge at Laytown at Ladies’ Day at last month’s sic and hopes to teach children on their way home to Navan. Dublin Horse Show when she with autism. from Budapest with his two nefeather and received help Meanwhile a truck transporting walked away with the prize. Down: A pensioner from children, Elena and Senan; his from a number of volunteers a digger hit the railway bridge Some 400 ladies entered for Bangor who was helped by her grandmother was Phil McNa- and local businesses. The next near Castletown on the Kells the contest but it was Yvette, very own Good Samaritan has mara. All members of the clan Horse Camp is to take place to Ardee road, with the bridge in a dress made from curtain thanked the unnamed man have a connection with Michael this month and Maggie expects collapsing onto the truck. The material purchased in Hickey’s, through the pages of a local McNamara, who was born in other such facilities to be set up driver was helped from the who was picked as the winner. paper. Isabel Caughey had re- Ganty in 1934. across the country. truck and he, too, escaped seri- She did, however, buy the lace turned on the train from Belfast Kerry: The Dingle Creamery Leitrim: A new Community ous injury. for the top of the dress in Paris. after visiting her daughter but opened in 1889 and produced School for Ballinamore appears Monaghan: The All-Ireland Yvette’s prize is a 10,000-euro missed the last bus to her home milk until the 1970s, but now to have taken one step closer Fleadh in Cavan on August 21 holiday in the wine country of in . It was while she it is producing another kind of following the announcement featured an extended family California. was examining bus timetables liquid. The plant has been taken from the Department of Educa- who originally come from Lough Cavan: A new exhibition with a security guard that the over by the Dingle Brewing tion that the school is among a Egish. The Senior Band com- space and art gallery has been Good Samaritan told her he Company and its first prod- number which are being put out petition in the Ulster Fleadh, established at the former Cen- would see she got home safely. uct, Crean’s, was introduced to tender. The present system held in Dungiven, Co. Derry in tra premises on Main Street in Picking up her shopping bag at the Beerfest in Annascaul, is unique in that it requires July, was won by Banna Ceoil Ballinagh, donated by Eamonn he carried it to a taxi and in- the home of Arctic explorer students to move between dif- Gaolta, who chose the name Gavin, and it will be the venue sisted on paying the fare for the Tom Crean. The lager was the ferent campuses for different since Gaolta translates as ‘rela- for an unofficial Fleadh event. 70-year-old. work of consultant brewer Tim lessons, and Ballinamore Par- tions.’ The members all belong The gallery was officially opened Dublin: A series of ten life- O’Rourke and is already avail- ents’ Association chairperson to the Geoghegan family and last month by Judge Seán sized statues, which have previ- able in five pubs in the town, Maureen Martin has welcomed head of the family is Granny McBride and the exhibition, ously been on show in Denmark, according to Jerry O’Sullivan, the announcement. The new Mollie, now ninety-four years entitled ‘A Public Hanging,’ Hungary, Norway and Wales, who is originally from Kildare. school will be located opposite of age. The musicians include features the work of Neil Spears, made their appearance on the By this month he expects the the Seán O’Heslin football field Lisa, Aileen, Breege and Aoife Kenneth Webb, and sculptor streets of Dublin last month. brew to be sold in twenty pubs, on the Enniskillen road and will Geoghegan from Cavan, Sarah Sandra Bell, among others. The initiative of the Danish including some in Kildare and have capacity for four hundred and Louise O’Kane from Bal- The gallery was the initiative organization UDENFOR, the Ranelagh in Dublin. students. lybay, Barry Geoghegan from of artist Pamela Mussen, who bronze sculptures are part Kildare: Declan Breen from Limerick: Five cruise lin- Lough Egish, Peter and Kate was disappointed that little was of an Ending Homelessness Newbridge, a member of the ers are scheduled to call into Marquis from Carrickmacross happening in the town during Exhibition organized by Focus Defence Forces who now uses Foynes this summer and they and Michael Lavin from Derry. last year’s All-Ireland Fleadh Ireland. Entitled “Out here I a wheelchair following an ac- are already boosting the local Offaly: Members of the in Cavan. survive. In a home I could live,” cident, undertook the crossing economy. To date three have O’Molloy Clan met last month Clare: The cottage owned by the series promoted awareness between Ireland and Scotland made their visits and Margaret in Tullamore and one of the nineteenth century herbalist of the problem of homelessness in a kayak last month. Declan O’Shaughnessy of the Foynes highlights of the weekend was Biddy Early, the Wise Woman in Ireland; at present more than was joined by two other kay- Flying Boat Museum reported to be the handing over of the of Clare, at Dromore Hill near five thousand people in Ireland akers, also affected by spinal that up to 400 hundred visitors Chieftainship by Frances Mol- Feakle has been put on the are without a home. injuries, and they left from from the Adonia visited the mu- loy Berry to a new Chieftain in market by its present owner, Fermanagh: When Annie Groomstown in Co. Down for seum last month. In addition to Charleville Castle. This is the Billy Loughnane. However he Hassard celebrated her 100th the forty-kilometre journey to the cruise passengers, visitors third O’Molloy Clan gathering is anxious that whoever buys birthday in Cleenish Parish Hall Portpatrick in Scotland. The also arrive in Foynes to view the following the establishment of it will respect the heritage as- in Bellanaleck last month, she trio was raising funds for the liners, leading to extra business the O’Molloy Clan Association pect of the property, which is was joined not only by family support services provided by locally. The suitability of Foynes seven years ago with the aim now derelict. The hope is that but also by friends old and new. Spinal Injuries Ireland. as a destination for cruise ships of promoting the name and the it will be restored as a tourist Annie was particularly pleased Kilkenny: Local photogra- has been extensively promoted territory of Fireall; the territory attraction as it already has a to see old friends from the Cora- pher Amanda Burke was in the by Shannon Development in extends from Durrow to Eglish steady stream of visitors ev- nerk, Derrygonnelly and Drum- right place at the right time last conjunction with the Shannon on the edge of Birr. Lectures and ery year. The asking price for rainey, Culkey, areas where she month to capture an image of a Foynes Port Company. a guided tour form part of the the cottage is 75,000 euro and and her late husband Eddie rare visitor to the city. Amanda Longford: When the 100th events, while a Mediaeval Feast Mayor of Clare Pat Hayes has had farmed. At the celebration, was crossing John’s Bridge in anniversary of the sinking of was to take place in Charleville also expressed the hope that it refreshments were prepared by Kilkenny city where a crowd of the Titanic is marked next year, Castle. will become a greater draw for members of Cleenish and Mul- people had gathered to watch the parish of Killoe will be hold- Roscommon: Work on the tourists. laghdun Mothers’ Union, while an otter playing in the River ing its own ceremony. For one reconstruction of the north wall Cork: The report after the charitable donations received Nore. Amanda was lucky to of those who lost their lives on of Boyle Abbey by the Office of initial visit of European Entent in lieu of presents, at Annie’s have her camera with her and the vessel was James Farrell, Public Works is progressing Florale judges gave hope to the request, totalled 920 pounds. she jumped over the wall and who ensured that Katie Gilnagh well and in the coming weeks residents of Coolagown near Galway: Last month some ran down to the railings along and Katie Mullan from Rhyne new glass and a timber aisle are Fermoy that their village has 300 members of the McNamara the bank. There she focused on escaped in a lifeboat, though to be added. The north arcade a good chance of being success- clan converged on Loughrea for bubbles in the water until the Farrell himself lost his life in the and nave wall of the twelfth ful in the competition. Head- a gathering organized by Tom otter resurfaced, when she was tragedy. His actions, however, century Cistercian monastery ing the group of visitors was McNamara, originally from able to get a perfect picture. have been immortalized in films were found to be unstable and chairperson Clive Addison who Craughwell but now living in Laois: For the first time in about the Titanic. The memorial a unique numbering system raised the European Entente New Zealand. Overseeing the Ireland a horse therapy camp plan has been initiated by local was devised to ensure that, af- Florale flag before leading the festivities was Bridie Uniacke, for children with autism took man John Devaney ,who has ter the edifice was dismantled group on a tour of the village who moved from the family base place last month in Stradbally. carried out research into the and placed in storage, it could and commenting on the work in Ganty to Dunsandle when she Founder of the venture Maggie life of the Clonee native. be reconstructed exactly in carried out by the Coolagown married. She has thirteen chil- Whelan discovered the thera- Louth: One Saturday last accordance with its original Development Group over the dren, thirty-six grandchildren, peutic benefits of working with month, a human wall encircled specification. past twenty years. The village and eight great-grandchildren. horses while dealing with her the town of Drogheda, following Sligo: At the Twinfest in is representing Ireland in the The man who made the most own autistic son, Merck. The the line of the original walls of Keash, Ballymote on August small villages section, with the arduous journey was undoubt- three-day camp was held on the town which enclosed forty- 20 special guests of honor were winners due to be announced edly Marco Grandi, who drove property owned by David Pen- six hectares of land and stood (Continued on page 19) Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com September 2011 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 19 News Direct From Ireland

From the Irish Emigrant have been charged with offences is hoped will create 45 jobs over Prisoners to be offered relating to the violence. Deputy the next three years. Described early release to free up Ireland Today: First Minister Martin McGuin- as “high-potential start-ups,” space – The Irish Times reports ness said that the behavior of all the companies operate in a that Minister for Justice Alan those involved was “completely range of sectors including IT, Shatter is considering an early Defendant cites Constitution and law unacceptable”. medical devices, electronics and release scheme for long-term Travel company closes health care. The 24 companies prisoners in an effort to ease dictionary to judge, then bills him with the loss of 14 jobs in all received backing from Enter- the overcrowding problem in our Appearing before Judge David Anderson at Wexford District Cork – The closure last month prise Ireland in the first half of prisons. Currently between 720 Court one day last month, Bobby Sludds, 29, of Enniscorthy de- of MyGuide Ireland resulted in the year. and 750 of the prison popula- manded to see the judge’s oath of office, backing up his demand the loss of 14 jobs in Skibbereen Politics & Politicians tion of 4,500 is on early release, by quoting from the Constitution. Sludds then questioned the and Cork city. It is reported Minister Noonan was ad- mainly as a result of the short- summons issued by the court and read the relevant passage that the company had a total vised against pension levy age of spaces. The number of from Black’s Law Dictionary before claiming that he was not of 50 employees so presumably – Minister for Finance Michael prisoners serving sentences of the Bobby Oliver Sludds named in the summons. the remaining 36 staff had Noonan ignored the advice of five years to life has reached Judge Anderson remanded Sludds in custody in order to been employed in its Boston his senior officials when he 1,480, a 51 percent increase on clear up the confusion about his name, at which point the office. MyGuide, founded as 1 introduced a 0.6 percent levy the figure in 2005 and it is the defendant told the judge he could expect a bill. The case later 2 Travel in 1998, specialized on pension funds in May. Docu- group that is being considered came before the High Court and Sludds was released after the in bringing visitors to Ireland ments made available under for early release. State decided not to seek to justify his continued detention. from the US, Canada, Japan, the Freedom of Information Arson attack on car of – LIAM FERRIE France, Germany, and England. Act show that Department of Quinn CEO – A BMW SUV, While customers may be incon- Finance experts had major res- parked in the driveway of a venienced with the closure, it is ervations about the levy. house in Ratoath, Co. Meath, six-man toilet is installed on ‘Amhran na bhFiann. The home not thought that any will suffer The Minister was told that was badly damaged in an arson Camden Street and two on side enjoyed a 4-0 victory in what a financial loss. most pension funds did not have attack early last month. The Westmorland Street on Friday was a European Championship Paypal to create a fur- the reserves to meet existing and house and the one next door were and Saturday nights, though qualifier. The Minister only ther 200 jobs; jobs boost for projected obligations; that nei- also damaged. No one was in the no provision is made for women saw one of the goals as she left Galway – Online payments ther employers nor employees house at the time of the incident since they have not presented a at the interval when the score company PayPal is to recruit had the resources to make up the which happened shortly before problem with public urination. stood at 1-0. 200 additional staff at its Eu- shortfall; and that between 75 11 p.m. This story took on a new Independent councillor Man- Army shot innocent man, ropean Centre of Excellence in percent and 80 percent of defined significance when it was learned nix Flynn has expressed his says Historic Enquiries Blanchardstown, Dublin. The benefits schemes are technically that the house and vehicle be- opposition to the solution, say- Team – The North’s Historic US multinational opened its insolvent and the aggregate longed to Paul O’Brien, the man ing the toilets are “unsavoury, Enquiries Team has completed first office in Ireland in 2003 and deficit of Irish pension funds was appointed by Anglo Irish Bank unsightly, and out of place in a its investigations into the shoot- currently employs some 1,350 somewhere between 10-billion as chief executive officer of the cosmopolitan city”. ing dead of Billy McKavanagh staff here. The new recruits and 15-billion euro. He was also Quinn Group. This is just the New technology leading in Belfast in 1971. In its report, are required to fill a variety of told that the imposition of a levy latest in a number of incidents to marital problems – The published on the 40th anni- positions, including sales, cus- would increase criticism of ineq- being blamed on people who annual report from Accord, the versary of his death, the team tomer service, risk operations, uitable treatment of public and object to Anglo’s takeover of the Catholic marriage advisory concluded that when he was financial operations and account private sector pensions as the group’s assets and who want to service, has cited the Internet shot in the back by a soldier the management. public service pension scheme see Seán Quinn restored as head and mobile phones as factors 22-year-old was “unarmed and I should have mentioned last would not be affected. There was of the group. in an increase in the number posed no threat whatsoever.” At week that Delcath, a speciality also a fear that multinationals Following the incident O’Brien of couples seeking help with the time the press pharmaceutical and medical would transfer pension fund as- called on Quinn to disown those their relationships. There is a office gave the impression that device company, is establish- sets to overseas administrators involved in the various attacks 20 percent increase since last he was an IRA sniper. Relatives ing its European Headquarters or trustees and so avoid the tax. on Quinn Group property. An year in couples citing the source of Mr. McKavanagh say that an in Galway. The new operation Politicians collect 7.5m angry Quinn felt that O’Brien of problems as spending too apology from the British Govern- will support the company’s com- euro in expenses – Members was implying that he believed much time on the Internet and ment would help to bring closure mercial launch of its Hepatic of the Oireachtas received ex- him to be involved in the attacks. using mobile phones, while the for them. CHEMOSAT Delivery System in penses of 7.5m pounds for the He rejected this unequivocally. increase since these issues first Nationalist youths cause Europe which, it is anticipated, final ten months of 2010. New Quinn had, in fact, previously appeared in the statistics in trouble at end of Apprentice will ultimately fulfill an annual rules relating to expenses came issued a statement making it 2007 is 125 percent. A 9 percent Boys parade – The annual unmet clinical need for as many into effect last March. These clear that those who were carry- increase was also recorded in Apprentice Boys Parade took as 100,000 patients with cancers replaced the traditional mile- ing out such acts were not acting couples citing financial problems place in Derry last month and it in the liver across 30 countries. age allowance with a fixed rate in his name and he requested as a source of conflict. might have passed off peacefully An unspecified number of jobs travel allowance based on how them to cease. Minister arrives late for but for a number of nationalist will be created in the areas of far the TD or Senator lives from Portable toilets to address soccer match – As predicted, youths preparing to attack PSNI marketing, sales and logistic Leinster House. Deductions are public urination problem – Minister for Sport Caral Ní Ch- officers as proceedings came to support. made from those who fail to The problem of public urination uilin arrived late for the North’s an end. A stock pile of petrol Early this week Boston Scien- attend the Dáil or Seanad on a in Dublin, particularly at the soccer international against the bombs had been prepared and tific announced that it is invest- sufficient number of days. TDs weekend, is being addressed by Faroe Islands at Windsor Park these were thrown at police ing some 26-million euro in an can also claim an unvouched Dublin City Council with the last month in order to avoid Land Rovers. The reinforced R&D unit at its Clonmel plant. public representation allowance installation of portable toilets for having to stand for the Brit- vehicles were, however, able to There will be no immediate in- of 15, 000 euro or, if they produce men at two locations, Camden ish National Anthem. This is withstand all that was thrown at crease in the number of people receipts, this can rise to 27,500; Street and Westmorland Street. the first time that a Sinn Féin them. In what were particularly employed at the facility. for Senators the figures are All permanent public toilets in minister has visited the grounds nasty scenes, three vehicles were – LIAM FERRIE 9,250 and 15,000. The new rules the city have been closed on for an international match and hijacked and set alight; in one 24 start-ups to create 445 actually resulted in savings on health and safety grounds, since mirrors her predecessor Edwin incident a mother and daughter jobs– Minister for Enterprise, the previous year of 13 percent they were used extensively by Poots’ visit to a GAA match in were forcibly removed from their Jobs and Innovation Richard on that claimed by TDs, while drug addicts and resulted in Pairc Esler in Newry, when car. Three men aged, 18, 19 Bruton last month announced Senators’ claims were down by needles being discarded. One he avoided being present for and 24, were later arrested and details of 24 companies that it 30 percent.

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(Continued from page 16) Corick House in Clogher marked The couple, who have a young thy. He is also moving from the Leisure, which now stands on former conjoined twins Hassan the retirement of Michael Mur- family, have decided to remain main parish residence to his new the site, was unveiled by Phil and Hussein Benhaffaf from phy after thirty-eight years anonymous but it has been re- house a short distance away, Lynott’s mother Philomena last Cork. This is the second year of teaching at Omagh Academy; for vealed that they bought their and will still be available to help month. The event was organized the Twinfest, which encourages the past twenty-six years he was Quickpick ticket at the Post out on productions by the local by local man and Thin Lizzy fan twins, triplets, and quads to head of English at the school. Office in Dungarvan. pantomime society. Colm Weadick and the plaque come together for fun and a few In addition to his work in the Westmeath: Mullingar busi- Wicklow: The 40th anni- itself was engraved by Gorey competitions such as the young- school, Mr. Murphy was director nessman John MacEvilly has versary of the Thin Lizzy tour, Stone Art. A commemorative est twins, the oldest twins, and of the Academy Players and was come up with an idea to give which included a live show at booklet in aid of Arklow Drugs a twin three-legged race. The responsible for more than thirty a boost to the Irish economy, the former Centre Ballroom in Awareness Week was also event is organized by Patrick productions over the years. He which has now received the Arklow, has been marked by the launched in Christy’s Lounge Ward and the main recipient of was also a founder-member backing of the Town Council unveiling of a commemorative followed by live music from funds raised on the day is The of the Omagh Inter-Schools and the Chamber of Commerce. plaque. The plaque at Coral tribute band Skid Lizzy. Meningitis Trust. Patrick lost English Group and organized Financial adviser John is look- his five-month-old niece, Katie overseas visits to Stratford- ing for every Irish person, at Garvey, to the illness. upon-Avon, Canterbury, and home and abroad, to spend 100 Tipperary: Ten walking London. At the dinner in Corick euro on a non-essential product trails, known as The Tipperary House, he was accompanied by or service made in Ireland. He Ten, have been developed to his wife and was presented with has chosen Sept. 24 as Shop Ireland’s Weather take advantage of the increas- a painting of the school by Roy for Ireland day and Chamber Reported Monday, August 29, 2011 ing interest in walking which is Wilkinson, a former head of art president Pat Whelan is calling attracting visitors from overseas at the Academy. on businesses in the town to put as well as Ireland. A booklet fea- Waterford: One man in Dun- together special offers for the It was a week typical of this year’s excuse for a turing the walks was launched garvan is very grateful that his day to increase trade locally. summer. We saw the sun from time to time but temperatures in Grange village last month and wife doesn’t regularly clear out Wexford: Father John Jor- never got above 18C and were as low as 13C at various times at the launch Con Ryan, one of her handbag, as she recently dan, who has been suffering during the week. Showers, some of them very heavy, were twelve rural recreation officers, found a two-month old lottery from cancer, has decided it is always a threat. noted that farmers will receive ticket which she had forgot- time to retire as parish priest of annual payments for maintain- ten about. When she checked Oulart, but he has also decided The coming week looks more promising with very little ing the trails. Among the walks the numbers she found that that it is in the village that he rain expected before Friday and we hope to enjoy long sunny are the Grange Crag Loop near they had won 350,000 euro in would like to spend his final spells. Temperatures will, however, remain modest. Urlingford and the East Mun- the National Lottery and soon years. Last month he celebrated ster Way, from Carrick-on-Suir they were sipping champagne his last Mass as parish priest Latest Temperatures: to Kilsheelan. in the Lottery offices in Dublin before handing over to Father Day 15C (59F)...... Night 8C (46F) Tyrone: A farewell dinner in as they collected their cheque. Paddy Browne from Enniscor- Page 20 September 2011 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Save the Date October 20, 2011 Boston Irish Honors 2011 Luncheon at the Seaport Hotel, Main Ballroom Sponsored by the Boston Irish Reporter Matt Power, Event Chair • Dick Flavin, Emcee Individuals 2011 Former Boston Police Commissioner Kathleen O’Toole Boston Public Service: State Senator Tom Kennedy Families Irish The Corcoran Family James and Jean Hunt Family Honorees The Mulvoy Family

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