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March 2013 Boston’s hometown VOL. 24 #3 journal of Irish culture. $1.50 Worldwide at All contents copyright © 2013 Boston Neighborhood News, Inc. bostonirish.com ‘The Olympics of Irish Dancing’ fun and, most of all, some of the best Irish dancing you’re Boston likely to see. “These are the top Irish dancers, competing on equal readies footing in a city long known as a center of Irish culture,” says for 7-day World Irish Dancing Champion- ships Chairman Terry Gillan, a Dublin native now living in festival Connecticut who for some years taught Irish dance in Boston. By Sean Smith “There’s skill, athleticism and Special to the BIR drama — it’s the best day’s Already known as a hub for theater you can get.” education, culture, medical sci- The Worlds are held under ence, and sports, among other the auspices of An Coimisiún le things, Boston will claim an Rincí Gaelacha, or Commission additional distinction later this for Irish Dancing, created as an month: For a week, it will be the authority in 1930 to promote world’s capital of Irish dancing. and foster all forms of Irish From March 24-31, Boston dance. In the decades since then, will serve as host for the 2013 the commission has established World Irish Dancing Champion- regional councils in the US, ships — only the second time Canada, Australia, and other in the event’s 40-plus years parts of the world. Dancers that it has taken place in the compete in local feisanna, spon- US (Philadelphia was the first, sored by dance schools or Irish in 2009). Some 7,000 dancers, cultural associations, with the along with family members, Dancing feet like these will be a familiar sight when the World Irish Dancing Championships highest finishers advancing to friends and spectators, from come to Boston later this month. Some 7,000 competitors are expected to take part in the event. the Oireachtas, or regional and Ireland, the UK, Canada, Aus- Sean Smith photo national competitions, and from tralia, and elsewhere in the there onto the Worlds, which US, are expected to hit town tory of civic achievement for But the week also will be as well. And more than a few until recently have been held for the competition, which will Boston, which was awarded the awash in literally thousands of these sagas have taken shape in Ireland. be centered in The Hynes Con- event over 20 other cities around upon thousands of individual in the shadow of the Hynes and Dancers will compete in age- vention Center and Sheraton the world, and will bring some stories, built around the culmi- Sheraton. grouped solo competitions from Boston Hotel. late-winter/early-spring excite- nation of hopes, dreams, sweat, So, the word from Worlds par- under 11 years old up to senior Hosting the “Worlds,” as they ment to the area — along with, and sacrifice, not just on the ticipants past and present and level, which is for dancers over are popularly known, marks of course, a hoped-for economic part of the competitors but their other observers is: Get ready for another chapter in a rich his- windfall. teachers and often their families seven days of spectacle, thrills, (Continued on page 20) Sister Lena Deevy For many famine Irish, steps down after Deer Island proved their 24 years as IIIC head only glimpse of America By Peter F. Stevens epidemic that they ordered Millar succeed center’s founder BIR Staff a medical receiving room In 1847, a crisis unfolded erected on Long Wharf. As The Irish International served as deputy director nearly daily along Boston’s overwhelmed physicians Immigrant Center (IIIC) for the past two years. docks. Leaking, lurch- dispatched the gravely announced last month “We are deeply grate- ing vessels aptly dubbed ill to hospitals, the city of that after 24 years as ful to Sister Lena for her “coffin ships” unloaded Boston frantically made executive director of the incalculable contributions hordes of ragged Irish emergency preparations to center, Sister Lena Deevy to the IIIC and her deep passengers who had fled set up Deer Island as “the LSA has decided to step commitment, care, and the Great Famine, An place of quarantine for the down from her day-to- focus on the mission of Ronnie Millar and Sister Leena Deevy. Gorta Mor. Some 25,000 Port of Boston.” day responsibilities, and helping people over the Photo courtesy IIIC arrived in “Black ‘47,” and The swelling influx of to take up the role of ex- past 24 years,” said Mike with thousands wracked Irish crowding Boston- ecutive director emerita, Buckley, President of the and advocating for im- ecutive director, someone by “ship fever,” likely a bound famine ships posed effective April 1. Sister IIIC board. “To continue migrants, we are very who has the experience, form of typhus, Boston of- such a health risk that Lena will be succeeded building upon the success fortunate to have in Ron- (Continued on page 12) ficials so feared a citywide (Continued on page 15) by Ronnie Millar, who has of Sister Lena in serving nie Millar, as our new ex-

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By Jackie Gentile umes to the need,” said tunity to let that grow.” really feel a connected- Special to the BIR John McGahan, president Members and staff ness to the program,” It can be difficult for and CEO of the Gavin alike hail from Dorches- McGahan added. those recovering from Foundation. “I think it ter, South Boston, the Though other similar alcohol or drug abuse to really speaks volumes South End, and other centers reported that it find a place that not only for the word circulating Boston neighborhoods. took 4-6 months to come welcomes them, but also amongst the recovery A number of employ- up with a name, McGahan helps them navigate their community that it’s a ees are from Dorchester, anticipates a sense of return to their commu- good place to go.” “which was by design pride among participants. nity and their families. In 1962, former parole because we really tried, “I’ve been pretty clear The Gavin Foundation officer James F. Gavin when we hired people, with people that we want in South Boston does just founded the organization, to get people that we felt the name to be driven that and has recently ex- then known as the Arch were going to be ener- from within.” panded to do even more. Foundation, to provide getic,” said McGahan. With activities such as Its new Recovery Cen- a safe haven for men Southie’s Gavin Foundation offers open doors to The Center operates yoga, a women’s group, ter officially opened its who had been incarcer- those in recovery. “I think it really speaks volumes on a peer-to-peer model, Alcoholics Anonymous, a doors early last month, ated for crimes related for the word circulating amongst the recovery making all of the es- meditation group, and the then hosted an open to substance use. The community that it’s a good place to go,” says John tablishment’s activities Massachusetts Organiza- house last week thatdrew space allowed them to McGahan, the foundation’s president and CEO, at purely member-run, not tion of Addiction Recovery more than 200 people. regroup, rejuvenate, and right. Photo courtesy Gavin Foundation administratively con- (MOAR) among others, Since the expiration of eventually return to their cocted. “So the things that options for those in the a federal grant for the community. Gavin House out to district courts in have happened already recovery community are organization’s YARD was the program’s first Dorchester, Somerville, are things that people numerous. What McGa- program, the Center project – a residential Quincy, Hingham, and that are going there have han hopes the Center has been a substantial rehabilitation program Brighton. It provides said, ‘I want to do this. will become in addition replacement, modeled for adult men getting a 12-step participation Can we do this?’” said is a resource for affected after its predecessor’s back on their feet. In the program, anger manage- McGahan. family members. “best practices” and other mid-1990s, the Gavin ment, drug screenings, He and his staff provide “It’s a family disease,” Massachusetts recovery Foundation was formed and other services for the space, the materials he said. “We want to centers. and created the Total Im- members aiming to live and the know-how, but support not just the indi- Last Monday, during mersion Program (TIP) drug- and alcohol-free. it’s ultimately up to the vidual trying to overcome, normal business hours to offer an alternative “I think this is an op- members to make it all but the whole family.” (9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), 66 to incarceration. TIP portunity. Dorchester happen. The membership For more information, people visited the Center started as a collaboration has access to this Center. is also responsible for of- visit gavinfoundation. for participant-driven with the South Boston Anybody in the recovery ficially naming the Center org. activities. District Court in 1996 world has access to this cate Craig Galvin. “That’s “so it’ll mean something “I think it speaks vol- and has since branched Center,” said local advo- going to give us an oppor- to them. I want them to St. Patrick’s Day parades Following is a calendar of St. Patrick’s Day parade events, courtesy of the Boston Irish Tourism Association:

West Dennis: Sat., March 9, 11 a.m.

Worcester: Sun., March 10, noon.

Abington: Sun., March 17, 1 p.m.

South Boston: Sun., March 17, 1 p.m.

Holyoke: Sun., March 17, 11:50 a.m.

Scituate: Sun., March 17, 1 p.m.

For people traveling outside of Mas- Daniel Berger-Jones and Phil Tayler. sachusetts this month, check out these other St. Patrick’s Day parades:

Savin Hill’s Tayler stars in Quebec City: Sat., March 23, 1:30 p.m. Lyric’s Irish-themed comedy Manchester, NH: Sun., March 24, noon Dublin, Ireland: Sun., March 17, noon himself with the titular “Stones in His By Chris Harding A blessing Pocket” generates nagging conscience Special to the BIR For a schedule of Irish music and twinges. Running through March 16, halfway dancing, literary and theater events, and The headline in Gaelic atop this Written before the Irish film industry through St. Patrick’s month (as it is other cultural activities this month, visit month’s front page means ‘St. Patrick’s really started booming, “Stones” revolves known by our neighbors in Southie), the IrishMassachusetts.com/march.php. Day Blessing on You.” It is pronounced around a fictitious“fil-um” called “The Lyric Stage Company of Boston presents Ban-ick-tee na fay-lah pwad-rig or-iv. the popular two-man Irish comedy, Quiet Valley,” (a title that harkens back “Stones in His Pocket.” Savin Hill’s to “The Quiet Man” and “How Green Was March concerts roundup, Page 24 Phil Tayler shares the task of portray- My Valley”). Its clichéd plot traces the love ing 15 different characters with Daniel between Maeve and Rory and features Berger-Jones in this piquant, but hardly the heroine arriving on horseback during light-hearted satire about two lads hired “the big turf-cutting scene.” ‘Celtic Crossing’ boosts as extras when a Hollywood crew takes In the play, the extra characters get over a small village in County Kerry. the stage time of a star, while the movie Tayler and Berger-Jones are the two star characters get the stage time of an ‘Cops for Kids with Cancer’ “background bogmen,” who in real life extra. Jones’ condescending foreigners “have nothing and are going nowhere,” idealize and sentimentalize the Irish March 2 at Norwood Theater and are ironically cast as “dispossessed people, while the clueless townsfolk ideal- peasants,” but only in the way American ize and glamorize the Tinseltown types. On Saturday night, March 2, at 7:30 Ocean Music Hall, raising needed dol- moviegoers expect to see them. Each Irish-Americans will particularly enjoy p.m. at the newly re-opened Norwood lars for many charities, including Dana actor also portrays other extras, towns- the way the Brits and Americans scold Theater, a brilliant cast of singers and Farber and the Jimmy Fund, Military people, the film’s star, director, and crew the locals for not acting properly Irish dancers will join local singer Pauline Veterans, Foster Children, and many members. Berger-Jones as “cheerful” enough. However, true to life, by the end Wells to kick off a celebration of Bos- others. They are just returning from Charlie Conlon, the more optimistic of of the show none of the characters seems ton’s Irish heritage and the upcoming a week in the Caribbean with Andy the duo, appears, for example, as the to have wised up. St. Patrick’s Day holiday. Cooney’s “Cruise of Irish Stars.” film’s sexy star Caroline Giovanni and the Though set designer Matthew Whiton Anyone who has attended any of In the music community, Pauline is Scottish bouncer Jock Campbell. Tayler, plunks a costume rack on his simple set Pauline’s concerts can appreciate the described by many as a “heartfelt and as the more moody and hot-tempered and flanks it with two columns of vari- inspiration and emotion each show inspiring singer.” It is her work support- Jake Quinn, takes, among other roles, ous styles of hats on pegs, the two actors brings. The 2013 production of “A Celtic ing the Jimmy Fund that conceived the Mickey, the oldest surviving extra from make no significant costume changes Crossing” will, the producers say, “evoke first production of “A Celtic Crossing” “The Quiet Man,” and Aisling, the bossy during their instant transitions between the emotion and spirit of Irish song and in 2006. third assistant director. characters. They just duck behind each dance to support the “Cops for Kids with Joining the production as a featured “Stones” can be staged with elabo- other, drop their suspenders or turn their Cancer” organization while showcasing guest for the first time is Dublin native, rate projections, but Director Courtney scally caps around. traditional Irish music and highlighting Cape Cod resident, and extraordinary O’Connor, an adjunct professor from Tayler’s hair may be tinted an uncon- contemporary Irish, country and some fiddle player, Patsy Whelan. Emerson College, wisely keeps the focus vincing shade of red, but there’s nothing rock and roll music. Also joining in will be the master- on the mercurial performers. Audiences unconvincing about his quickly shuffled One of Boston’s finest Irish Country ful dancers of the O ’Dwyer School of get a mental workout keeping track of accents. Berger-Jones is equally spot-on. bands DEVRI, featuring, Declan Hou- Irish Dance and longtime radio host, who’s playing whom. Kudos, therefore, to their internationally ton, Larry Flint, Chuck Parish, Steve WROL’s Matt O’Donnell, who this year Belfast playwright Marie Jones ex- known dialect coach, Nina Zendejas. O’Callaghan, Martin McPhilemy, and is celebrating 25 years of broadcasting pressed surprise in 2001 when her work Tayler’s next gig at the Lyric will be Caroline O’Shea will supply the sound the Irish Hit Parade. won the UK’s top honor, the Olivier as one of the three sailors on 24-hour for the evening. Tickets are $25 and are available by Award for Best Comedy. Though there leave in the revival of the 1944 musi- Wells, a Cambridge Police Lieutenant going to the Norwood Theater website, are chuckles galore throughout the show, cal On the Town. Keep up with him at in her day job, is supported by DEVRI norwoodstage.com, or calling 617-696- her subplot about a young man who com- philtayler.com. and has hosted nearly a dozen concerts, 7172. mits suicide mid-production by drowning from Boston’s Wilbur Theater to the Blue Page 4 March 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Publisher’s Notebook Deer Island memorial getting a second look By Ed Forry The awful years of An Gorta Mor, the great hunger that ravaged Ireland in the middle of the 19th century, saw thousands of Irish board ships that took them across to America. Between 1847 and 1849 some 25,000 souls arrived in Boston Harbor on the “coffin ships,” which under an edict by the city’s health officials were steered to Deer Is- land, where the passengers would be examined, and if necessary, quarantined to prevent the spread of any communicable diseases from coming ashore. Hundreds failed to survive, and most who died were laid to rest in unmarked paupers’ graves right there on Deer Island. The names of Irish burials reads like a roll call of Irish Boston: Ahearn, Barry Doherty, Dolan, Donahue, Foley, Gal- lagher, Leary, Looney, Mahoney, Regan, Riley, Ryan, Shaughnessy, Twohig, Walsh, York – more than 500 Irish surnames, many of whom very likely were ances- tors of families who survived the journey and went on to build new lives in America. Some twenty years ago, a small group of met with Sixth class pupils gather around the school sign: Nicole Monks, Aaron Doody, Siobhán Calnan, James then-Mayor Ray Flynn and his staff to plan a memorial Allen, Rachel O’Donovan and Bridget Brabazon. Murray Tidmarsh photo for the Deer Island deceased, those hundreds of poor Irish emigrants who had escaped the terrible famine only to fall just short of the “promised land.” A com- mittee led by Dr. Bill and Rita O’Connell of Duxbury West Cork school gets a surprise researched the site’s history and resolved to establish a lasting memorial. By Joe Leary nership contacted her to obtain more information after A small amount of money was raised, and they reached Special to the BIR which the decision was made to issue a grant of $2,000 out to others for design and fundraising ideas, eventually Every weekday, 24 Irish children, ages 5 to 12, to the Derryclough School, which was sent to Ireland creating a website (deerislandirishmemorial.info). The attend a two-room school house in the remote West last month. island is now connected to Winthrop by a causeway, and Cork countryside between the villages of Drinagh and “Principal Teresa Holland has only been here two Boston’s MWRA sewage treatment plant is adjacent to Drimoleague. It is here, under the caring guidance of years,” Keogh noted in her column. “She and her as- the burial grounds. Principal Teresa Holland, that these children prepare sistant and a part-time special needs teacher take care The agency pledged support, and the city of Boston themselves for Irish high school and entrance to the of the 24 students. Holland takes charge of the ‘Senior committed $50,000 from the Edward Ingersoll Browne ferociously competitive Irish University system. room’ with 15 students and teacher Suzanne Murphy Trust Fund for construction costs. But the initial design, The Derryclough National School, however, has is responsible for the ‘Junior room’ with 9 students. calculated to cost ten times as much, proved impossible barely enough funds to keep operating. Located in the One visit to Derryclough National School confirms why to raise. famous West Cork rolling farm small schools are so deeply valued by pupils and their In addition, when the Deer Island plan was first country, the school has been seri- families. Here, children learn how to be confident and conceived there was no local Irish famine memorial. ously limited by constant govern- relaxed, how to get along with each other, and how to But in 1997, philanthropists John O’Connor and John ment budget cutbacks. get their work done.” Flaherty established a memorial near Harvard Square, According to reporter Jackie Keogh goes on to note that “Derryclough National and then-Ireland President Mary Robinson presided at Keogh in her February column School is a Catholic school, under the patronage of the the dedication. In 1998, at the corner of Washington published in The Southern Star Bishop of Cork and Ross, but many of the children and and School streets on the Freedom Trail in downtown newspaper, in Skibbereen, West families of different backgrounds find an open mind Boston, a committee led by the late developer Tom Cork, “The pressure that all such and warm welcome there. Indeed, the school commu- Flatley dedicated a dramatic memorial featuring two small schools are under is com- nity prides itself on the atmosphere of acceptance and plaintive statues that evoke both the suffering of the pounded by the fact that the minor children have the confidence and communication skills famine victims and the hope of those who fled by boat works grant was cut in 2012. The to deal with difference by learning from it.” to Boston and began the city’s Irish transformation. Joe Leary capitation grant – which covers After the Irish Partnership grant was received by the The hopes to create a memorial at Deer Island contin- schools’ day-to-day expenses – was school, Keogh wrote a second story the following week ued to drive the O’Connells, and even after Bill’s wife cut last year, and again this year. In addition, resource in which she quoted Principal Holland saing, “I could Rita was diagnosed with cancer, the Duxbury couple hours have been cut, as has the ancillary services grant.” hardly believe it. It’s the last thing you would expect. kept the dream alive. Last year, when Boston hosted a Keogh goes on to say this is no different than other No one ever thinks they are going to get a call from worldwide Irish famine commemoration, Dr. Bill tried small schools the length and breadth of Ireland, all the United States offering them a sizable donation for without success to arrange a Deer Island visit for new of whom have difficulty raising funds for any kind of the school. I received the message from Boston on my President Michael D Higgins; then, at year’s end, Rita special activities. answering machine. When I played the message I was succumbed to her disease. Americans may not understand the nature and fetch amazed and rang them back straight away. Two months ago, Ireland’s Consul General to Boston of these funding reductions, but it is easy to appreci- After I got over the initial shock I was able to thank Michael Lonergan reached out to revive the Deer Island ate how so many of them might impact a school’s hard them. $2,000 is, by our standards, a lot of money and effort. “As you are aware Dr. Bill O’Connell has been working teachers. the fact that it came completely out of the blue was a very involved with this project for some time and as you The Dublin government has little choice in making source of great joy and celebration for all of us.” know, sadly his wife Rita passed away over Christmas,” these cuts if they are to reduce Ireland’s dependency The Partnership transmittal letter suggests that Lonergan wrote. “I wondered if we might meet ourselves on European lenders. the funds be used to strengthen the school’s library just to have a chat about the feasibility of this and what But the parents and teachers of the Derryclough and assist science teaching through the purchase of we might be able to do to get this project back on track National School aren’t giving up. Recognizing the acute appropriate materials. and in a reasonable timeframe.” need, the school community is actively fund raising As we go into March celebrating our Irish heritage, Early last month, a small group gathered to begin the to provide the funds to help teachers continue a high Partnership donors can take pride in what they have effort, and I was delighted on behalf of our newspaper, level of educational excellence. done for this treasured school in West Cork. the Boston Irish Reporter to join the effort. Already, After becoming aware of the school’s plight through Joe Leary is CEO and president of the Irish American contact has been made with the sculptor Ted Clausen, Jackie Keogh’s column, Boston’s Irish American Part- Partnership. the MWRA, and the Browne Fund. It is likely that a more modest memorial will be designed, but the new supporters bring with them a resolve to get it done. It An apology to women of Catholic laundries would be a fitting tribute not only to the famine victims, but also to Dr. Bill and to the wonderfully dedicated Rita. By Shawn Pogatchnik by public officials, such as judges or truancy officers, Associated Press and all spent months or years in menial labor without DUBLIN – Ireland ignored the mistreatment of access to education. Most did laundry for local hotels, thousands of women who were incarcerated within hospitals and prisons, while others scrubbed floors or Boston Irish Catholic nun-operated laundries and must pay the made rosary beads for the church’s profit. survivors compensation, Prime Minister Enda Kenny “The Magdalene women might have been told that REPORTER said last month in delivering an emotional state apology they were washing away a wrong, or a sin. 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Forry, Contributing Editor a senior judge to recommend an aid program for the lenes directly. “As a society, for many years we failed Peter F. Stevens, Contributing Editor approximately 1,000 women still living from the resi- you. We forgot you or, if we thought of you at all, we News Room: (617) 436-1222 dential workhouses, the last of which closed in 1996. did so in untrue and offensive stereotypes. This is a He also pledged government funding for the erection national shame, for which I say again: I am deeply Ads : (617) 436-1222 of a national memorial “to remind us all of this dark sorry and offer my full and heartfelt apologies,” he Fax: (617) 825-5516 [email protected] part of our history.” said. Lawmakers and spectators applauded. 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By Peter F. Stevens BIR Staff On March 17, Boston will be awash in St. Patrick’s Day revelry. All nonsense such as green beer, green plastic derbies, “Kiss Me, I’m Irish” badges, and faces reflecting various stages of inebriation and embla- zoned with painted shamrocks or the Irish tricolor aside, the Point of View Saint’s High, Holy Holiday can be celebrated with unabashed abandon. It is worth remembering, however, that what we take for granted in 2013 was not ever so. For the Boston Irish, honoring – let alone celebrating – St. Patrick’s Day proved a long struggle. The first local stirrings to commemorate Ireland’s patron saint came in 1737. On March 17th of that year, 26 men gathered in the heart of Puritan Boston to hold a decidedly Improper Bostonian event. They were Irish-born men living in a place where most lo- cals loathed anything that smacked of “Popery,” and celebrating a Catholic saint’s holy day could well have proven a risky proposition. The reason that the 26 men pulled it off was that they were Protestant; however, since some were formerly Roman Catholics who had “embraced” a new faith to assimilate in Boston, their devotion to Protestantism may have been wan. The religious question aside, the men drew up a charter that professed their pride as sons of the Emerald Isle when they met on the day dedicated to Ireland’s patron saint. The first St. Pat- rick’s Day celebration of The Charitable Irish Society was under way. To become members, men had to be reasonably suc- Marine artist E. D. Walker’s depiction of the USS Jamestown, a vessel borrowed in 1847 from the US cessful and “natives of Ireland, or Natives of any other government by Capt. Robert Bennet Forbes, of Milton, MA, to bring food, medical supplies, and other Part of the British Dominions of Irish Extraction, being materials to help the famine victims in Ireland. Art work courtesy of Forbes House Museum Protestants, and inhabitants of Boston.” Of the first members of The Charitable Irish, historian any commemorations of St. Patrick’s Day. One of the By 1900, St. Patrick’s Day parades organized by the James Bernard Cullen has written: “An important part early manifestations of the local Irish love for their old Ancient Order of Hibernians, which numbered some of the membership of The Charitable Irish Society was sod’s patron saint was the Shamrock Society, a social 8,000 members in Boston alone, had become the norm. the Irish Presbyterian Church, established in Boston club that gathered on March 17 to defiantly toast the Bands, organizations, refreshments – all were handled in 1727. They first worshipped in a building which had saint and “sing the old songs,” the revelers’ voices peal- by the Hibernians’ Entertainment Committee. In the been a barn on the corner of Berry Street and Long ing from Dooley’s, the Mansion House, and Jameson’s. hands of Ward 17 boss “Pea Jacket” Maguire and other Lane (now Channing and Federal streets); and this No single building, however, would long serve to hold Boston Irish leaders, fun, festivities, and pride in Irish unpretentious building served them, with the addition the growing numbers of local Irish longing to celebrate roots ruled the city on March 17. of a couple of wings, till 1744…” the day in a bigger way. A historian noted: “No banquet In March 1901, the blare of bands and the vibrations Despite Boston’s vehement prejudice toward Catho- room was broad enough to comprehend all the Sons of of marchers’ feet pealed above South Boston’s streets. lics of the 18th century, the society ignored the religious Erin, even had they the price of dinner.” Banners awash with glittering shamrocks, harps and restriction in 1764, after a historically short term of There was only one way, Boston Irish leaders de- images of the patron saint himself nodded in the gusts 27 years. The members officially removed the Presby- cided, to include not just Irishmen, but also women and racing in from the Atlantic. The date, however, was terian requirement in 1804. Today, the tradition that children, in a celebration of St. Patrick. The solution March 18 – with good reason. The city’s leaders had began on March 17, 1737, continues. The Charitable was a parade. sanctioned South Boston’s first official St. Patrick’s/ Irish Society holds a unique place in the annals of the As early as 1841, without official sanction by Boston’s Evacuation Day Parade for the 18th because the 17th Boston Irish and Irish America alike. government officials, more than 2,000 local Irish had had fallen on Sunday and was subject to the Blue Perhaps the best-known Boston Irish symbol of St. marched through the North End, their bands booming, Laws. On that Monday morning, the procession com- Patrick’s Day is The Parade. Locally, the phrase means crowds singing. Earlier, they had honored their patron menced with a rattle of drums, the cries of pipes, and one thing – South Boston’s annual St. Patrick’s Day saint at a traditional Mass. the pounding notes of brass bands. Parade. It all started officially in 1901, but the proces- The cant of Brahmins who reviled the St. Patrick’s A newspaper column captured the essence of St. sion that so many both enjoy but take for granted today Day Masses and revelry notwithstanding, the Boston Patrick’s Day in Boston then – 1901 – and now: “A did not arrive easily for the Boston Irish. Irish prayed and paraded on March 17. In 1886, Hugh sign that, although scattered far and wide, Irishmen As Irish-Catholic immigrants landed in Boston in O’Brien, Boston’s first Irish-born mayor, infuriated still hold to their love of country and countrymen, and ever-increasing numbers in the 1840s and 1850s and the Yankee nabobs of Beacon Hill with his decision to never forget the verdant home they fondly call the staked their claim to a new life in America, they soon close the Boston Public Library in honor of the revered gem of the sea.” thumbed their collective nose at Yankee antipathy to saint and the celebrations in his name. 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By Bill O’Donnell JFK memorabilia auction stirs memories –Dave time], whose public remarks...were the excuse by foreign Cullen & Murphy’s Bulger Book A Winner –I Powers, special assistant to President John F. Kennedy, law enforcement agencies to raid a confidential academic have ordered it, so I haven’t read it yet, but the true who in his lifetime traveled from Charlestown in 1946 archive housed at Boston College...” Stay tuned. crime story of Whitey Bulger as written by the Globe’s to Dallas in 1963 with Kennedy, died in 1998. His fam- Brown Goes For the Gold as GOP’s Top Candi- Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy is no doubt the ily, in preparing to sell the Powers’s home in Arlington, dates Hide – Scott Brown, the former senator but real thing. It has it all, say the early reviews. Cullen came upon a political treasure trove from Dave’s 17 unwilling participant in the John Kerry succession and Murphy have decades of experience in covering years with JFK. The large collection of photos, artifacts, sweepstakes, has taken the Fox Network’s soup and Whitey and the Boston underworld and as journalists and personal Kennedy-era objects went to auction last agreed to be a talking head for the Murdoch-owned and urban historians they have written what will likely month and brought in nearly $2 million. conservative TV outlet. The last attractive familiar Fox be the definitive account of the The news of the auction and photographs of the leather face hired at big bucks was Sarah Palin, who reportedly Bulger era, warts and all. bomber jacket with the presidential seal that JFK gave made a million a year looking good but saying little. Jimmy Breslin, Pulitzer to Powers brought back warm memories of visiting While Brown skittered to the sideline before signing Prize winner and columnist, with Dave at his office at the JFK Library & Museum. on with Fox, his high profile colleagues in the Republi- calls it “Easily the best story During the decade of the ‘80s, I was the editor of the can party have all taken a powder. Neither of the two about crime I’ve read.” Michael Irish Echo in Boston and I would stop by the library to decent Democratic congressmen are world beaters but Connelly, the biggest-selling visit with Dave from time to time. He would reminisce Massachusetts is a blue state and that was enough to fiction crime writer in America, from behind his desk in a smallish room that seemed make Kerry Healey, Charlie Baker, Bill Weld and describes the Cullen-Murphy more cramped museum than curator’s office. It was a others decide to wait for a softer landing down the line. book as “The definitive story...a continuing history lesson that I devoured. Meanwhile Bay State Republican spokes-people have masterwork of reporting. A good Many times Dave would be wearing the old bomber been trying desperately to put a shine on the sneakers friend and longtime university jacket, once noting that it was his favorite item from of two-year state Rep. Dan Winslow and former navy professor and book reviewer “President Kennedy.” The auction price in mid-January SEAL Gabriel Gomez, who are looking for their Scott says it is “Absolutely riveting, for that bomber jacket was over half a million dollars. Brown moment. GOP strategist Todd Domke, who Bill O’Donnell disturbing, troubling, and We talked about many things but as a history buff, I should know better, is pushing the Winslow-Gomez wonderfully written.” was more the listener to the unique travels and adven- peanuts up the hill, saying, “I think both candidates are There have been a succession of books about Whitey ture of this former townie who was at President Ken- strong and surprisingly encouraging.” Of course they are. and Southie and the myths about the longtime crime nedy’s side until Dallas, and then spent 15 additional New Team Energizes WGBH Radio – It was a boss and accused murderer, but if the early line from years organizing the president’s archives and personal pleasant surprise to hear that Jim Braude and Mar- reviewers is even close to accurate none have come as possessions at a government facility in Waltham until gery Eagan have exited toxic WTKK and signed on close to the bone as the Cullen-Murphy writing team. the presidential library opened at Columbia Point in for a weekday 12-2 p.m. show on Boston Public Radio’s Eire Society Honors Sister Lena Deevy – After Dorchester in October 1979. WGBH, 89.7. The duo’s presence with several of the 24 years as executive director of the organization she On many occasions Dave recalled JFK’s June 1963 deadbeats who have been heard on TKK had made some founded, Boston’s Irish International Immigrant Center, visit to Ireland and how happy the president was on the listeners reluctant to tune in that station but they should Sister Lena Deevy is stepping down, effective April 1. trip. He repeated JFK’s words that he would have loved be flying on public radio, which is a good platform for (See story on Page One). Her energetic and committed being a candidate in Ireland and also about returning the intelligent and entertaining Braude-Eagan team. stewardship of the IIIC has been recognized by Ireland there after his years as president. Bloody Sunday Families Deserve Fair Settle- and America with national honors from both countries, Not on every visit but on very special occasions, Dave ment – One of the lasting verities of life is that money and now it is time to honor the immigrants’ friend here would ask me to pull down a bottle of Irish whiskey from never properly recompenses victims of injustice. This at home. Sister Lena will be feted at the Eire Society’s a standing cabinet behind where I sat and we would does not mean that those who wreak injustice on others annual Gold Medal dinner on Thurs., April 25, at the share a quiet toast together. I’m not sure what the rules should be excused from reparations or compensation. Boston Park Plaza Hotel. Previous honorees have in- were then about drinking in government offices but I Not at all! cluded President Kennedy, George Mitchell, Car- am sure that the statute of limitations is long past. Forty years after the massacre, and following months dinal Cushing, Siobhan McKenna, Thomas “Tip” John Kerry’s Ancestors Aided Famine Relief – of discussion, the British Ministry of Defence has settled O’Neill, The Chieftains, John Hume, and Seamus The newly appointed US Secretary of State is not Irish on an offer to the families of Blood Sunday victims. The Heaney. Reception at 6 p.m., dinner at 7. For informa- but John Forbes Kerry’s ties to Ireland are strong British government has publicly affirmed that “we found tion or ticket reservations, contact Barbara Fitzgerald as a direct descendant on his mother’s side of Captain no instances where it appeared to us that soldiers either at 617-698-8758. Robert Forbes and his brother John Murray Forbes. were or might have been justified in firing.” And the Senator Warren Comes Out Swinging – In an During the heartbreaking 1840s in Ireland as millions killing of 13 innocent people was described by Prime earlier meeting with the media following her election, were dying from starvation or emigrating, John Kerry’s Minister Cameron as “shocking.” The sum total com- Elizabeth Warren was low key, showing little of the ancestors defied a ban on the use of US government funds pensation for 40 years of unresolved injustice? A paltry dynamism and sure-fire resolve she displayed on the for famine relief and sent tons of food by ship to Ireland. $77,418.09 per family. Laughable if not so painful. campaign trail. That was then. This is now! Her inau- These and other fascinating details of John Kerry’s That kind of chump change is regularly awarded in gural appearance as a member of the Senate Banking ancestors and the seminal role in famine relief played British courts for defamation, libel, or illegal discharge of Committee saw the tenacious Warren at her patented by the Forbes brothers are the product of research by an employee. Not for decades of trying to tell neighbors best as friend of the consumer and dogged pursuer of a a popular Boston personality, Dr. Francis Costello, that your dead son or husband had no gun, no bomb, no table full of senior banking regulators. a historian, author, and economic consultant. Costello, semtex explosives. We so often hear folks say, “It’s not Her question at the hearing for Elisse Walter, chair who is based in Belfast, is writing a book on the global about the money,” when it is about the money. One of the of the Securities and Exchange Commission, cut to the impact of the Great Famine and is the author of several victim’s families described the government payment as core of the appalling lack of US government indictments books relating to Irish history. “an insult.” If a similar charge and an admission by the of Wall Street money managers, when she asked Wal- He has unearthed the details on the Forbes brothers’ defendants in a US court along the lines of the Bloody ter, “Can you identify the last time you took the Wall outfitting and staffing of a number ships out of Boston Sunday tragedy had been coupled with John Edwards Street banks to trial?” The reply from the SEC chair to loaded with critically needed food for the starving Irish. or another sharp tort attorney, the plaintiffs would Warren was telling, “‘I’ll have to get back to you with During the severest days of the famine the Forbes broth- need barrels to cart off the damages award. $17,418.09 the specific information.” ers sent food and other essentials directly to Irish ports is grossly inadequate to the insult. And yes, it seems it Watching the edgy exchanges between the regula- with a value in today’s value that would be $30 million. is about the money! tors and the Bay State’s senior member of the Senate, The two Forbes-sponsored ships that carried the food RANDOM CLIPPINGS reminded this viewer of something out of a “Mr. Smith to Ireland, according to Costello, were the Jamestown It appears that Cohans, the pub in Cong used in the Goes To Washington-type film, where constituents, yes and the Macedonian. film “The Quiet Man,” is up for sale and has attracted voters, actually have a voice and are heard. Unionist-Sinn Fein Election Comes with A Sub- several serious potential buyers. On our last visit to Ryanair Pursuit Of Aer Lingus Stalls – The de- plot – There will be a unique contest in mid-Ulster on Cong we had chats with some of the movie extras and cision of the European Commission to deny Michael March 7: the election of a new member of the British attended Mass there. … Rupert Murdoch’s media O’Leary’s Ryanair bid for Aer Lingus likely hinged on Parliament to replace Martin McGuinness, who is empire, under assault for phone hacking, has had six the anti-competitive aspects of Ryanair’s proposal. But stepping down to concentrate on his Belfast leadership former employees newly arrested last month. … Polling not to be ignored when analyzing the EU decision is the duties. What is different and unusual about this par- support for same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland in unwavering opposition of the Irish government, which ticular contest is that it pits two men against each other a survey by the unionist protestant Newsletter shows retains a partial stock position, a 25 percent stake, in who share a terrible moment from the Troubles. Nigel almost 75 percent in favor. … Pope Benedict, in his Aer Lingus. Lutton, a unionist, is facing the Sinn Fein candidate, leaving and his pledge to stay away from the conclave, O’Leary has long coveted Aer Lingus, long known as Francie Molloy, in the Westminster by-election. has never displayed more grace and a grasp of reality. Ireland’s National Airline, because O’Leary believes The two men know each other, they have a history. Re the conclave: It is an absolute moral disgrace and a that his short-haul carrier (famous for low fares and Lutton’s father, Frederick ,was shot dead by an IRA serious PR blunder to allow the disgraced retired L.A. novel if bizarre marketing) would give Ryanair a big gunman in 1979 in Moy, County Tyrone. His opponent Cardinal, Roger Mahony, to vote for the next Pope. boost into long-distance flights and a good piece of the this month, Molloy, a veteran republican, was once The superb linen Hall Library, the Archive of the North American air traffic. accused in the murder of the elder Lutton. However, Troubles, is now online and that’s a treat. … The Irish Ryanair continues to be a profit-maker but in recent Molloy has always strongly denied involvement in the government has arranged to have many world monu- times has implemented or at least tried to exact fees Lutton attack. Other political factors, logistics, and voter ments turned green this St. Pat’s holiday. They await for everything from in-flight toilet use to draconian bag- numbers, will decide the by-election, while the truth of word from Buckingham Palace. … The former CEO of gage and booking charges. In this observer’s opinion, what happened 30 years ago remains undetermined the giant Irish Nationwide was with the company for Aer Lingus can find a far more compatible partner than but, as always, poisonous. 37 years and had no computer access in his office. … Fi- Michael O’Leary and Ryanair. Moloney and McIntyre To Move Forward on BC anna Fail, counted as dead last year, has rebounded and Seamus Heaney, The Poet As Realist – All the Case – In a statement on Feb., 12, Edward Moloney leads the polls against Fine Gael and Labour. Amazing! polling from a variety of sources strongly suggests that and Anthony said, “We will continue to press ahead ... It just keeps coming and coming. The new Magdalen a united Ireland, as Gerry Adams and Sinn Fein have with our petition [separate from the BC appeal] to the Laundry Report has more of the same unspeakable, been promoting via a US Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari, and we will long-term abuse. referendum, is not on. Even in Catholic/nationalist keep a watchful eye on developments in the Boston Answered prayers: Red Sox pitcher Dice K has been areas there is solid support for the present status quo. College appeal as they unfold.” dealt to Terry Francona and his new team in Cleveland. Change is often traumatic and with the border between At issue is material about the Troubles era in a BC God is good. … The DUP’s angry unionist, Gregory the six counties and the twenty-six more a mindset archive of interviews that the police in Northern Ireland Campbell, caught Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness than a reality, there seems to the average nationalist have demanded by subpoena, a move that the US Justice and the Derry mayor making a quick exit just before punter (and certainly his unionist neighbor) no cause Department so far has acceded to, pending resolution the dinner toast to the Queen. …There appears to be a for undue haste. in the courts. growing consensus that the two parties in Washington And that’s what Seamus Heaney, Ireland’s Nobel The two men, organizers and interviewers of the oral can get together with the president for meaningful im- Laureate and poet of the ages, also believes. In a recent history of participants in the Troubles, are contending migration reform. …The Financial Times has given a interview in The Times, Heaney suggests that these are that “ they are entitled to be heard on these matters thumbs up on an Ireland deal with Europe’s Central “very dangerous times indeed.” He strongly suggests which involve the First Amendment rights of academ- Bank. ...So big deal, Bill Flynn picked up Gerry Ad- that there still remains much work to be done to bring ics and journalists in the confidentiality of sources and ams’s prostate surgery fee in the states. … If Florida the divided communities closer together. 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Profile A passion for helping youth at risk drives ‘JP kid’ O’Neill

By Greg O’Brien Special to the BIR Michael Delaney O’Neill, a big Irish name for a gangly boy, spent his early years in the shadow of James Michael Curley. To be precise, O’Neill, now chairperson of the Boston School Committee and senior vice president of marketing and distribution for Savings Bank Life Insurance of Massachusetts – the “no-nonsense” guys – grew up in a house just behind the Curley home in Jamaica Plain famed for its shamrock-laden shutters. Clearly the politics and street sense of Hizzoner have rubbed off on O’Neill. “I’m a JP kid,” he boasts, “and proud of it!” So was his late father, John Henry O’Neill, Jr., who was born in the Moraine Street house, and who later served as Boston Mayor John F. Collins’s co-campaign manager and executive secretary for eight years. Michael O’Neill’s paternal grandfather, John Henry O’Neill, a Cork farmer who emigrated to Boston, then became the owner of O’Neill’s Meat Market on Mission Hill, built the Jamaica Plain home as testament that a butcher could have game. His grandson has game, too, in the family manner. Holder of an Irish citizenship, with a degree from Boston College, and an MBA in entrepreneurial stud- ies at Babson, Michael O’Neill is one of the brightest bulbs in Boston banking and insurance circles, and The gang’s all here: From left, front row: John H O’Neill III, Michael O’Neill, Mayor Menino, School Su- the fiduciary head of the oldest public school system perintendent Dr. Carol Johnson. Second row: Zachary Murphy, Tyler Murphy, Rana Murphy-O’Neill, in America, to which position he brings a passion for Megan O’Neill, Shavaun O’Neill, Robert Emmett O’Neill. Photo courtesy Mayor’s Office helping youth at risk. “I was trained in my Irish heritage to help the un- The immediate O’Neill family hasn’t strayed far from “The irony of this was that I was traveling to Ed- derdog,” O’Neill said recently in an interview with Jamaica Plain. His four siblings live in West Roxbury, inburgh to be taught by Harvard professors whom I the Boston Irish Reporter. “To whom much is given, and O’Neill now lives in Charlestown. “I might as well could see out of my window at work in Boston,” said the Jesuits told us, much is expected.” be in California as far as they’re concerned,” he jokes. O’Neill. “But it was a great education, and I got to play His passion for the underprivileged is a model for Educated at JP’s Joseph P. Manning School at the golf at St. Andrew’s!” He describes himself as “a sailor corporate America. When some of his buddies ask him top of Moss Hill, then Boston Latin, O’Neill played who golfs,” code for pack the golf bag with extra balls. why he cares so much about inner city dropouts, he competitive neighborhood hockey and baseball, and As if O’Neill’s corporate resume isn’t full of ac- has his answer at the ready: “Statistics show that the at the Latin School, he excelled on the swim, tennis, complishment, that passion for assisting youth at average high school dropout will earn a million dollars and sailing teams. risk keeps driving him forward. Like his mother, he less in a lifetime than a college graduate, will die a Sailing? How does a landlocked kid learn how to will never retire. His involvement in schools began decade earlier, will have a much higher divorce rate, sail? On the Irish Rivieria, of course. Generations ago, in his late 20s when he wsas living in Hyde Park. far more children born out of wedlock, and will cost grandfather O’Neill, the butcher who would be king, While walking his dog one day near the Hyde Park taxpayers about a half million dollars in assistance. built a family summer home in Scituate where his High School campus, he came across a sign that read: We need to break the cycle of poverty. It has a ripple grandson learned to sail in the harbor where today Academy of Finance. “I called the headmaster, told affect across society.” Spoken by a true entrepreneur, he keeps his sleek Cal 33 sailboat, named Rossmore. him I was a young banker living in Hyde Park, and the words are a wakeup call. O’Neill and his wife, Rana (Haidar)—a retail banker asked how could I help,” O’Neill recalled. The term “entrepreneur” first appeared in the and Beirut native who as a child moved with her family It was the start of years of service to Boston Public French dictionary in 1723. As defined by the Irish- to Cape Cod due to the civil war in Lebanon —were Schools that led to his appointment as board chair- French economist Richard Cantillon, it describes an married at Scituate Harbor Yacht Club in a waterfront man of the Boston Private Industry Council’s Youth individual who is a champion for needed change no ceremony that invoked the sands of heritage. Council and, in July 2008, a seat on the seven-member matter the risk. O’Neill is all of that. “My cousins in Rossmore shipped over some beach Boston School Committee. He’s in his second term on “Michael is the perfect choice to lead the school sand, which was added to sand from the Cape, Jamaica the board. committee,” said Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino Pond, and Beirut,” says O’Neill, the stepfather of “The decisions facing this committee will have an upon O’Neill’s election in January as chairperson. “He Rana’s three children from a previous marriage. “We important impact on the future of the school district,” will serve as an advocate for youth across our city.” mixed the sand as symbolism that we were blended outgoing chairperson Rev. Gregory Grover, Sr., said With a school district of 57,000 students, 125 schools, together.” at O’Neill’s election to the post about two months ago. 8,500 employees, and close to a $1billion annual oper- O’Neill’s career itself is a blend of lots of ingredients, “I have no doubt that Michael will lead the committee ating budget, O’Neill must turn advocacy into results, most of them having to do with selling. As an eighth well, and consider the many voices in all aspects of as he has done in the past on professional fronts in grader at Boston Latin, he was a “soda man” at BC the decision-making process.” his work with SBLI, Bank of America, Citizens Bank, games. “Get ya Coke, heah, get ya Coke, heah!” he Still many challenges lie ahead in improving student and the US Trust Corp, all places where he has turned mimics. He was so good at it that when he was in col- test scores, reducing the dropout rate, coordinating a numbers, the beans of an organization, into motivat- lege at Boston College, Boston University hired him to complex student assignment plan, adding, where pos- ing and meaningful results. manage its concessions stands, although he fell into sible, student enrichment programs, juggling a tight He has had much help along the way, starting with some disfavor by wearing his BC jacket at BU hockey budget amidst rising transportation and health care his defining roots in Jamaica Plain where it gradually games. Luckily, he didn’t get the puck beat out of him; costs, and increasing the district’s graduation rate, became clear that he is a blend of his parents’ resolve he was “finally asked not to wear it.” the highest today in 20 years. for fulfillment in life. His mother Joan (Delaney), a After graduation, BC Athletic Director Bill Flynn “We have to do more with less,” he says, referencing housewife, was a “warm, loving and gracious woman, offered O’Neill the position of running all concessions funding constraints on Beacon Hill. but always to the point,” a New Yorker by birth who at school athletic events during the Doug Flutie years, All of which will take the political acumen of a James ultimately became a Red Sox fan, yet until the day an offer he jumped at, forming a concession company Michael Curley, the leadership and drive of a Michael she died, she spoke in a Big Apple vernacular spout- with his dad, called Delano Enterprises (short for Collins, and the patience of Michael the Archangel. ing words like “cawfee.” Delaney and O’Neill). Not fully satisfied with selling O’Neill is up to the task, with encouragement and She was a wordsmith of sorts. Her father was a suc- hot dogs and popcorn and watching Hail Mary passes, support from SBLI, a firm that defines community cessful Manhattan publisher of detective and crime O’Neill attended night school at Babson for a masters commitment. “It’s about the kids,” he says, quoting magazines, and upon her husband’s retirement, she in business administration, which opened a surfeit of the counsel of an early mentor, Neal Finnegan, a informed him, “You may have retired, but I’m not.” opportunities with: US Trust as a commercial lender prominent Boston banker who served as chairman And with that, she became highly active in commu- and a regional president; senior vice president of of Northeastern University’s board of trustees “Our nity service, serving as president of the Brigham & Citizens Financial Group; president of Citizens CFG youth are Boston’s greatest resource, its best hope Women’s Faulkner Hospital volunteer group. Insurance Services; a board member at SBLI; senior for the future. A life ought to be measured by one’s O’Neill’s late father, with ties to the pastoral vil- vice president and private client advisor for US Trust commitment to youth, perhaps the highest calling lage of Rossmore outside Clonakilty, was a devoted Bank of America’s Private Wealth Management; and in a world filled with temptation and distraction for husband, “abide-by–the-rules man, and an individual senior vice president of marketing and distribution at personal gain.” of achievement in his tenure at City Hall and as a SBLI, a position he has held since April 2010 under By any measuring stick, Michael Delaney O’Neill longtime member of the board of directors of Deposi- the mentorship of former CEO Bob Sheridan and now stands tall with his passion for that commitment. tors Trust Company in Medford. Christopher Pinkerton. Greg O’Brien, a regular Boston Irish Reporter con- There was a bit of fighter in him, passed down to his Along the way, O’Neill supplemented his educa- tributor, is president of Stony Book Group, a publish- five children. The family ancestral fields of Rossmore, tion at the American Banking Association’s Stonier ing and political/communications consulting firm Sam’s Cross in particular, are near the birthplace of Graduate School of Banking and the Royal Bank of based on the Cape. He is the author/editor of several the Irish revolutionary leader and legend Michael Scotland’s Harvard Business School Executive Educa- books, and has contributed to regional and national Collins. It’s a family bragging right; cousins still farm tion program in Edinburgh. Citizens Bank is the US publications.) the land in nearby Ferlihanes. extension of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Former Reporter editor O’Sullivan joins Globe political team After more than two cal Intelligence post held and then served as the also spent a solid stint three years ago. At State years at National Journal until recently by Glen Reporter’s news editor reporting out of the State House News, he covered as chief analyst, deputy Johnson, who left the from 2003-2006. House. “For Jim, this it all – the health care daily briefings editor paper to work for Secre- O’Sullivan plans to will be a homecoming. law, gay marriage, Pat- and White House corre- tary of State John Kerry. start on or before March He grew up in Cohasset, rick, Romney, leadership spondent, Jim O’Sullivan O’Sullivan was the editor 11, according to a memo graduated from Boston battles, budgets, etc – and — the former news edi- in chief of The Heights, from deputy managing College, and worked at broke just enough stories tor of the Dorchester the student-run news- editor for local news the Dorchester Reporter to irritate the Globe,” Reporter— is returning paper at Boston College. Jen Peter, a former As- and State House News Peter wrote. to Massachusetts to fill O’Sullivan worked for the sociated Press reporter Service, before heading the Boston Globe’s Politi- Reporter while still at BC who, like O’Sullivan, down to Washington Page 12 March 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Sister Lena Deevy stepping down as IIIC head (Continued from page 1) tion reform may finally legislation passes, a path Irish immigrant popula- vices, learning exchange leadership transition and talent, and dedication to happen after many years to legal residence and US tion in New England. Over programs, advocacy, and to position the organi- lead our organization in of stalled progress. In citizenship will open to the years, the organiza- cross-cultural community zation for a successful meeting the challenges of collaboration with other many who have been liv- tion has developed into a building. future. “I am delighted the future.” immigrant organizations, ing in the shadows. multi-service center serv- Over the course of the to have Ronnie as my suc- This transition comes at the IIIC says, it will be In 1989, Sister Lena ing immigrants from Ire- past year, Millar has cessor,” said Sister Lena, an important time for the involved at every stage and a group of Irish im- land and from 120 other been working closely with “and I will be available immigrant community as as elected representatives migrants founded the IIIC countries with legal, well- Sister Lena and the IIIC to help out whenever he comprehensive immigra- grapple with this issue. If to meet the needs of a large ness, and education ser- Board to ensure a smooth calls on me.”

To all our friends in the Boston Irish community.

Heart felt thank you to all who sent expressions of sympathy, mass and novena cards, in memory of my lovely Rita who passed on Dec. 31st 2012. She loved all of you dearly. Each one of you brought a smile to her face and warmth to her heart.

As I am unable to thank each one of you person- ally, please accept my deepest thanks.

Dr. Bill O’Connell

“Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Dublin General Strike” Happy 1737- 2013 St. Patrick’s Day

The President and Board of Directors of The Charitable Irish Society of Boston Cordially invite you to attend the 276th Anniversary Dinner Sunday, March l7, 2013

Honored Guest and Keynote Speaker

John J. Sweeney AFL-CIO President Emeritus

The Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel The Oval Room 136 St. James Avenue Boston, Massachusetts

For tickets and information 617-330-1737 Congressman Reception at 6:00pm $175 per person Dinner at 7:00pm RSVP michael capuano Black Tie Optional March 12, 2013 www.charitableirishsociety.comwww.charitableirishsociety.org Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com March 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 13 Irish International Immigrant Center Immigration Q & A An agency accredited by US Department of Justice When children travel abroad with one parent 100 Franklin Street, Boston, MA 02110 Q. I plan to take my two small children on a vacation Telephone (617) 542-7654 Fax (617) 542-7655 to several countries. My husband will be joining us a little later. We are all US citizens. Will there be any Website:iiicenter.org Email: [email protected] problems because the children will be traveling initially with only one parent? A. The US government does not have exit require- ments for people leaving this country. However, some J-1 IWT couple find airlines may have policies regarding documentation for children traveling with one parent (or guardian), and some countries definitely do have entry requirements that cover this situation. This is true irrespective of job success at Covidien whether the travelers are US citizens, legal permanent residents, or visa holders. By Gail Batutis skills. Within a week, they What should you do? First, check the entry require- Special to the BIR were asked to come in for ments for the countries that you will be visiting by Gerard Hanna and Ni- an interview. In Hanna’s going to the website of the country’s embassy in the cole Quinn began plan- words, “everything went US. Countries may, for example, require a notarized ning their United States brilliantly,” and in just a statement from the parent not traveling that clearly adventure long before few days, they both had shows consent to the children’s travel. Or they may they reached the shores jobs in distributor rebates have requirements that are ambiguous, or they may of Boston. As undergradu- and tracings. not address the issue at all in information available ates studying biomedical Hanna and Quinn are from the particular embassies. engineering at the Univer- now “settled in a beautiful So we recommend that you be prepared for scrutiny sity of Ulster, Northern apartment in Mansfield, as you travel with your children, just in case. You must, Ireland, they were aware just ten minutes away of course, have passports (including any necessary of the opportunity to work from our new workplace. foreign visas) for the children. In addition, you should in the United States for We are experiencing so get a notarized letter from your husband precisely their placement year to many new things and describing and consenting to the dates and destina- gain experience in their developing our skills more tions of travel. Also, you should take along certified field of study. However, every day. We look for- copies of the children’s birth certificates to prove that their hopes of simple ap- Gerard Hanna and Nicole Quinn ward to these next eight you are the parent. Actually, travelers coming to the United States are advised to take these steps as well. plications and abundant Center. had made from previous months before we return The same advice applies in situations where parents job offers soon turned into Following their eligibil- experiences. One of these home to Belfast, and are are no longer together. In addition, the traveling par- a nightmare of “e-mailing, ity interview with Jude contacts happened to be so grateful to Megan, Jude ent should be sure to take along a copy of any child calling, and writing letters Clarke, Hanna and Quinn from Covidien, one of the and everyone else at the custody orders issued by a court as part of divorce to over 100 companies in were referred to Megan leading medical device IIIC for all of their help proceedings, as these typically address issues sur- the US asking about the Carroll, the Director of companies in the world.” in providing us with this rounding travel by the children, especially out of the possibility of an intern- Intern Placements. There Carroll introduced them promising opportunity; state of the custodial parent’s residence. (If they do ship but with no success.” was an instant connection, to two senior managers setting us up for a very not, we strongly advise that they be modified to avoid They worried they “From the first e-mail we and the vice president successful career in the future misunderstandings.) wouldn’t be able to get a knew that we had met – who gave Hanna and future!” International child abduction is of course the very job at all; much less their someone who shared the Quinn opportunities to With the help of the serious issue underlying such precautions. Any parent vision of working for one of same ambitions for us as apply for three openings. IIIC, these two hard- who has a concern in this regard should go to the US Boston’s leading biomedi- we did for ourselves. We In preparation, Carroll working students have State Department’s website at travel.state.gov and cal companies, but their were very lucky to have worked closely with the no doubt achieved just click on the link to “Children and Family” for a full luck changed after they [Carroll], who supplied two Antrim natives on the first of many dreams discussion of the legal and practical issues involved, reached out to the Irish us with lists of contacts their cover letters, re- to come. as well as the resources available to parents dealing International Immigrant within our field that she sumes, and interview with abduction issues. If you have questions about any aspect of immigra- tion law, you can have a free, confidential consultation Matters Of Substance at one of our legal clinics advertised monthly in the Boston Irish Reporter.

Exploring the legend of ‘Pota Phadraig’ Disclaimer: These articles are published to inform Where did this “close positive light, this parable No one plans to have a generally, not to advise in individual cases. US Citi- connection” begin, the one could be viewed about how problem with alcohol but zenship and Immigration Services and the US Depart- between alcohol and St. being generous with our if you are wondering, ask ment of State frequently amend regulations and alter Patrick’s Day? There is family, friends, and neigh- yourself the following: processing and filing procedures. For legal advice seek a great deal of myth and bors keeps the “devil” Have you ever felt you the assistance of an IIIC immigration specialist or an legend surrounding Ire- starved and at bay. The should cut down on your immigration lawyer. land’s National Holiday, Irish are known for and drinking? 2. Have people but very little of it is ac- proud of their generosity, annoyed you by criticizing tually substantiated. The as indicated by the World your drinking? 3. Have legend of “Pota Phadraig,” Giving Index that in 2010 you ever felt bad or guilty or “Patrick’s Pot,” says some 72 percent of the about your drinking? 4. St. Patrick was short- Irish population gave to Have you ever had a drink changed on a shot of whis- charity and 60 percent first thing in the morning key and told the landlord helped a stranger in the to steady your nerves or of the tavern that the devil month before they were get rid of a hangover (eye- FOLEY LAW OFFICES, P.C. Danielle Owen was in his cellar gorging surveyed. So why don’t the opener)? himself on the landlord’s Irish celebrate their gen- Change is always pos- Attorney John Philip Foley dishonesty. Terrified by erosity on their national sible but sometimes we Permanent Residency & Citizenship • Family & Business By Danielle Owen this prospect, the land- holiday? St. Patrick sug- need support. We never Immigration • Labor Certification & Temporary Visas lord vowed to change his gests we “have a drop” of plan to have problems ALL Nationalities & AILA Members “It’s a matter of concern ways and when Patrick the hard stuff, but did he with alcohol but if you are to a lot of people that there returned to the tavern really mean for us to drink worried, there is some- is a very close connection some time later, he found all day? As proud Irish and where to go to chat about between alcohol and a lot that the landlord now Irish Americans, we can your concerns. Contact of our national celebra- filled everyone’s glass to decide what we want St. Danielle, in confidence tions in this country. It overflowing! Patrick then Patrick’s Day to mean for and without judgment, plays a very central role in announced, the legend us and our families. How- at the IIIC by phone at our lives. We know that St. goes, that the landlord’s ever, this close connection 617-542-7654, Ext. 14 Patrick’s day should be a newfound generosity was can mask if someone has or by e-mail at dowen@ great day for Ireland, but “starving the devil in his a problem with alcohol. iicenter.org. th too often it’s marred by cellar,” and proclaimed In my work here in Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona March 5 Free Legal Clinic IIIC, 100 Franklin St., Downtown Boston alcohol.” that thereafter everyone Boston, those who have Daoibh! All clinics are first-come, first-served. For complete details, please call (617) 542-7654. (Former) Irish Health should have a drop of the problems like this find Minister ‘hard stuff’ on his feast that this holiday can hide Danielle Owen is the March 5th QPR Suicide Prevention Workshop Roisín Shortall in 2012 day, hence “Patrick’s Pot.” their heavy alcohol use in IIIC’s Director of Wellness 6:00 PM Hancock Adult Day Center, 164 Parkingway, Quincy When read in its most the name of St. Patrick. & Education Services. For more information, please contact Ann Marie Cugno at (617) 542-7654 ext. 32.

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All clinics are first-come, first-served. For complete details, please call (617) 542-7654. here in the orld an ou ind W W C Y F th March 19 Free Legal Clinic IIIC, 100 Franklin St., Downtown Boston All clinics are first-come, first-served. For complete details, please call (617) 542-7654. News about Ourselves March 27th Free Legal Clinic 6:30 PM St. Mark’s Parish, 1725 Dorchester Ave., Dorchester All clinics are first-come, first-served. For complete details, please call (617) 542-7654. & Our Town April Home Health Aide and CPR Certification Courses

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All famine ships plodding into Boston Harbor and judged by port officials to be “foul and infected with any malignant or contagious disease” moored at Deer Island until the port physician quarantined Irish men, woman, and children suffer- ing from typhus, cholera, and an array of fevers and oversaw the “cleaning and purification” of ships. Only then could the healthier immigrants set foot in Boston. From 1947 to 1849, approximately 4,186 people were quarantined at Deer Island “as a precautionary measure to ward off a pestilence that would have been ruinous to the public health and business of the city.” Not all were to make it off the island. Today, an effort continues to erect a memorial to the immigrants buried on Deer Island that would be Waiting for the voyage from the Famine lands to America in hope of relief. visible from virtually every point of the harbor’s edge. The brainchild of Dr. William O’Connell and his wife, conditions were little better than the crowded coffin soon die out, and sullen indifference and despair or the late Rita O’Connell, the memorial would stand as ships. A Boston Committee of Internal Health study disorder, intemperance and utter degradation reign a poignant and dignified symbol of the Irish who fled of the slums related that the Irish languished in “a supreme.” their famine-gutted country and survived the terrifying perfect hive of human beings, without comforts and The lack of sanitation in the slums, or “rookeries,” Atlantic crossing only to perish on Deer Island. Rita mostly without common necessaries; in many cases unleashed a wide array of disease, cholera proving the O’Connell once noted, “It’s important we don’t forget huddled together like brutes, without regard to age most lethal. Of Irish children born in Boston during the stories of people such as Patrick J. McCarthy, who or sex or sense of decency. Under such circumstances the Famine years, approximately 60 percent died lost his mother, father, and six siblings on Deer Island self-respect, forethought, all the high and noble virtues before the age of six. but went on to graduate from Harvard and become mayor of Providence.” Even before Bostonians grasped the health hazard posed by Famine ships clotted with direly ill passengers, the Irish newcomers were not welcomed. In 1847, the city was changing – and its Yankee population did not The Tinker’s Cart welcome that change. As the shiploads of Famine Irish arrived almost daily, Anglo-Protestant families who had ruled over the city since their Puritan ancestors Quality Irish Gifts set foot in the region in the 1620s embraced still the anti-Irish, anti-Catholic prejudice of Boston’s founders. 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The Boston Harbor Hotel - Wharf Room Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts Friday, March 15, 2013 8 a.m. Featured Speakers Phil Hogan, TD Minister for the Environment, Community, & Local Government Professor Daire Keogh, President, St. Patrick’s College, Dublin Invocation Father William Joy Special Appearance The Pope John Paul II Catholic Academy Choir & Musicians Dorchester & Mattapan, Massachusetts The Woods School of Irish Dance, South Boston, Massachusetts The Boston Boy Choir, The Boston Archdiocesan Choir School of St. Paul’s Church, Cambridge, MA A special drawing will take place for all attendees for Two Round-Trip Tickets to Ireland! Sponsored by Tourism Ireland, New York The Irish American Partnership 33 Broad Street • Boston, Massachusetts 02109 For reservations, call 617-723-2707 www.IrishAp. org Page 18 March 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Boston irish Boston Irish Arts, Entertainment, Travel & More ‘LittleReporter Bit of Ireland’ remembers Larry Reynolds Regal’s celebration plays March 15 - 17

By R. J. Donovan Special to the BIR The atmosphere is always lively at “A Little Bit of Ireland,” Reagle Music Theatre’s annual celebration of Irish music, dance and lighthearted comedy. This year’s 15th edition takes place March 15 - 17 at Rob- inson Theatre in Waltham. Featured among those returning to the company will be: World Champion Irish Step Dancer Liam Harney (star of the London production of “Riverdance”) along with a troupe from the Harney Academy of Irish Step- Dancing in Walpole; harpist Judith Ross, leading The Massachusetts Harp Ensemble of more than a dozen pedal harp players ranging in age from seven to 70; and Comhaltas, this year led by Gaelic fiddler Sean Clohessy, the re- cipient of multiple All-Ireland titles. B r o a d w a y ’ s Sarah Pfisterer (“Phantom of the Opera,” “Show- boat”), who’s be- come a beloved part of the Reagle Featured at the Reagle Theatre’s production of “A family over the Little Bit of Ireland” will include a tribute to the past few years, will appear as featured soloist. The late Larry Reynolds (inset at far left), along with company will be rounded out by Reagle favorite Har- (clockwise from top left above): Members of The old “Jerry” Walker, delivering his impish brand of Massachusetts Harp Ensemble, led by Judith Ross; comedy, plus a sizable company of singers, dancers World Champion Irish Step Dancer Liam Harney and musicians. and members of the Harney Academy of Irish Step- This year’s show will carry a bittersweet touch due Dancing in Walpole; Broadway star and Reagle to the absence of world-renowned Celtic fiddler Larry regular soloist Sarah Pfisterer; and Tara Lynch, Reynolds. Larry not only performed in every “Little accordionist and chairwoman of the Boston chapter stories in Larry’s memory during a special section of of Comhaltas. Photos by Herb Philpott Bit of Ireland” show since the beginning, but helped the Friday performance. Bob Eagle, Reagle’s Producing Artistic Director, pull Born in Ahascragh, Larry arrived in Boston in 1953. the first show together. He earned his living as a master carpenter, but it was Americans by Irish America magazine. In tribute, this year’s production will be dedicated to his dedication to sharing his love of Irish music that Remembering the inception of “A Little Bit of Ire- Larry, who died last October at the age of 80. At the was the center of his being. A favorite of everyone from land,” Bob Eagle said the idea came about partly by Opening Night performance, Larry will be presented Tip O’Neill to Ireland’s President Mary Robinson, Larry necessity. While Reagle’s summer musicals have posthumously with the Golden Eagle Award, which played an integral role in popularizing Irish music always been popular with critics and audiences alike, has only been given once before. in Boston and throughout New England. Among his Bob was looking for a way to present performances Larry’s wife Phyllis and their children will attend many achievements, in 1975 he helped form the Boston during the fall and winter months to help keep the to accept the award. As well, a host of Larry’s friends chapter of the Irish cultural organization Comhaltas, company fiscally sound. and fellow musicians will present personal songs and and in 2006, he was named one of the Top 100 Irish (Continued on page 22) Old dances The Burren’s McCarthy takes pen in hand, result is can inspire ‘The Fiddlers of Inishbofin’ Premiere at author’s pub; new ones performances March 13-16. By Kieran Jordan probe them — learning Special to the BIR and contributing, reviv- By Sean Smith McCarthy’s role in the As an Irish dancer, I ing and creating. Digging Special to the BIR play isn’t limited to writer work with traditional into old dances inspires A musical disaster en and musical director. He’ll steps and rhythms that new ones. route to a picturesque be appearing as part of the are hundreds of years I am particularly in- Kieran Jordan island off the coast of Gal- cast, which also includes old. Irish dance steps are volved in the “sean-nós” Janine Gunning, Brendan riencing a huge revival, in way may seem an unlikely usually not transcribed form of Irish dance, which Quirke, Michelle Glynn, Ireland and abroad. The inspiration for a play, but or written down, and is an improvised, free- Desmond Rushe, Joanne tradition almost died out these elements suited the there is little standard- form style, so there is O’ Connell, Shane Lally completely in the 20th cen- imagination of long-time ized terminology for the even less documentation — all staff members of The tury, as it was considered a local Irish music personal- movements. Steps are or standardization in Burren or Skellig — and professional musician “wild” marginalized style ity Tommy McCarthy. passed on through live this style, compared to McCarthy’s wife, Louise with a Type-A personality; that was less celebrated A West Clare native, teaching, and are retained the traditional step dance Costello. Singer-songwrit- Liam, a former instru- than the more formal McCarthy is well known through practice and per- style. For example, I have er SeanOg will perform ment maker of consider- competitive step dancing. as musician, promoter, formance. The repertoire seen at least half a dozen the songs, while McCarthy able repute, opted for a But younger dancers have and organizer, and as lives in the dancer’s body versions of the popular (fiddle, mandolin) and simpler life and moved to embraced sean-nós in the the owner of the popular and mind. sean-nós “Connemara Costello (fiddle, banjo, Inishbofin to become an last couple of decades, and Boston-area Irish pub The Creating new chore- step.” Connemara is an accordion) join backing organic herb farmer. are bringing new energy Burren in Somerville’s ography with “old-style” Irish-speaking region in vocalists Hugh McGowan It is at the party where and new artistry to it. It’s Davis Square and its steps allows me to par- Galway in the west of Ire- (guitar) and Tom Bianchi a key plot development something old that is new sister pub, The Skellig in ticipate in the Irish dance land, and while the base (double bass) in the play’s involving Liam and Fiona again. Or it’s something Waltham. tradition in an exciting rhythm for the Conne- musical ensemble. occurs, one that McCarthy new that’s old. Now, McCarthy has and personal way. The mara step is recognizably The play’s major char- took from a true-to-life Kieran Jordan is a turned his talents to traditional steps provide the same, the weight acters are two fiddlers, experience, as he explains: Boston-based performer theater, penning “The the vocabulary, but the shifts, number of sounds, Liam and Fiona, who wind “A couple of years ago, we and choreographer. She Fiddlers of Inishbofin,” a themes, designs, and new technique, and look of this up at a party being held went to attend a friend’s will be performing with play built around comic steps that emerge are very step vary greatly from one on a boat en route to the birthday celebration. The the sean-nós Irish dance mishaps, rivalry, intrigue, much part of a contempo- dancer to the next. So island of Inishbofin. While island was full of visiting show “Atlantic Steps” at romance, drama and — of rary creative process. I it’s not an exact science. they may share an inter- musicians and friends, the Berklee Performance course — Irish music. “The suppose this is why we call Sean-nós dance is more est in Irish traditional and everyone was in fine Center on March 23. More Fiddlers of Inishbofin” will it a “living tradition.” As a about individual style — a music, the two could not form — except that one of info is available at Kier- have its premiere at The choreographer, I honor my here-and-now, emotional be more different: Fiona the local musicians wound anJordan.com or atlan- Burren with performances traditions and continue to response to the music. on March 13-16. is a thoroughly urban, (Continued on page 22) Sean-nós dance is expe- ticsteps.com. Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com March 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 19 Page 20 March 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com ‘The Olympics of Irish Dancing’ (Continued from page 1) of ‘Quinns’ in business, so I thought I’d 21 years old. The program of events will try something a little more distinctive.”) also include ceili and figure dance compe- It was during these past several years titions as well as dance drama. Separate when Quinn crossed paths with Stewart competitions are organized for male and and McKinney, who share key charac- female competitors in solo events. Team teristics: Both are from California, grew competitions have sections for mixed and up in families with little or no roots or unmixed teams. [For general details involvement in Irish culture, and were on the World Irish Dancing Champion- inspired by performances of Irish dance ships, see clrg.ie; a separate website for at their respective elementary schools events and activities during the Worlds to take it up themselves. Both had the at Boston is at clrg.ie/boston2013] opportunity to work with Quinn when The impact of the Worlds, however, she spent time in California teaching extends considerably beyond the Irish and giving workshops, and both found dance community, says Pat Moscari- their connection with her was so good tolo, president and CEO of the Greater they relocated to Boston to maintain it. Boston Convention and Visitors Bureau. These decisions to uproot, however, Competitors and other visitors will ac- were not hastily or impulsively made. count for almost 20,000 total hotel room Stewart was nearing the end of high nights, he notes, and the total impact for school, and since attending college was in the regional economy is expected to be her plans, Boston presented a wealth of close to $13 million. educational opportunities (she wound up “That’s quite a spending kick for the enrolling in Emmanuel College). Zenaida region and our hotels, restaurants, and and her mother, Beth, also had other retailers,” he says. “Much like a Super considerations for moving to Boston: It Bowl, the economic and tourism impact brought them closer to other family mem- ripples out beyond the week-long activi- bers, and put them in an area with vast ties. Those that come to Boston for the offerings of activities that appealed to World Championships will likely come Zenaida’s considerable artistic interests. back again in the future, with family and Make no mistake, though, the chance friends and business colleagues. That to have Quinn as a full-time teacher, second economic kick is priceless — no and the shot at going to the Worlds, was convention and visitors bureau has an the decisive factor for Stewart and the advertising budget to rival what the McKinneys. Worlds deliver.” “Zenaida was raised in a family where, “This is a huge plum for Boston,” if you have a love of something, you give agrees Brian O’Donovan, host of WGBH- it everything you can,” says Beth. “I was FM’s “A Celtic Sojourn.” “It’s fascinating amazed when she got so interested in to see the proliferation of Irish music and Irish dance; she pulled it out of nowhere dance around the globe over the past — or, actually, I think the dancing picked decade or so, and the Worlds is a perfect her. But she kept at it, and once you example of the extent to which that has could see how connected she was with happened. All those competitions and Attracta, and how Attracta helped to rituals that go along with Irish dance bring out her best, all the signs pointed now happen in places from Dublin to to us coming here.” Brisbane to LA, and keep the tradition “Irish dancing has become part of me,” alive and well.” says Zenaida. “It’s a way I can really ex- “The Worlds are like the Olympics of press myself , and Attracta has helped me Irish dancing — every dancer dreams of to improve how I do that. One of the best going,” says Milton native and Boston things she told me about competitions College senior Elizabeth Woods, sound- was, ‘Just go out and dance your best, ing an oft-repeated comparison. and if you feel good inside then you’ve “All of the best dancers and teach- already won.’ And if I don’t win, I know ers are there to give it all they’ve got what things I didn’t do well.” after months and months of practice,” Stewart also is grateful for the role says Woods, who competed in the 2003 Quinn has played in her development. Worlds in Killarney. “It was definitely a “I owe a lot to her. She played a huge stressful atmosphere leading up to the part in my becoming good enough to win days I danced, but they were also filled the Nationals. Attracta just helped me with excitement. to focus on my goal, and to believe that “Just participating is an accomplish- I was a good enough dancer to make it ment in itself, and to get that far is happen.” very rewarding. Although injuries kept Quinn, for her part, is glad she has me from returning to the Worlds, I Another student of Quinn, 11-year-old Zenaida McKinney, will be competing been a positive force in Stewart and in the Worlds. Quinn’s advice, says Zenaida, is “Just go out and dance your think it was the years of hard work and Zenaida’s lives, and flattered that both best, and if you feel good inside then you’ve already won.” dedication to Irish dancing that were felt strongly enough to want to come to the true learning experiences for me. Morlock has another reason to be Boston to maintain their connection with I learned how to set goals and how to enthusiastic, as the first from her Irish her. But, she emphasizes, she’s made it be disciplined enough to achieve them. dance school — the Rose-Ritchie Acad- clear that however much she might able I will never forget going to the Worlds emy of Irish Dance — to compete in the to do for them, in the end they are the and I think it is one of the reasons why Worlds. “I am so excited to welcome my ones who will determine the extent of I have remained involved with the Irish dance teachers, Patricia and Rori, to their success, or failure. dance world today,” says Woods, now Boston. It means so much to me that “I never force or expect any of my stu- the co-president of BC’s student Irish they are flying across the country so that dents to do competitions,” says Quinn. dance troupe. I can experience the Worlds alongside “If I see they’ve learned the steps, I’ll Two of Woods’s fellow BC Irish dancers, them. I’ve dreamed of this experience for tell the parents that they can try out a freshmen Bridget TeeKing and Madeline 13 years and I can’t wait to be wrapped competition — and I’ve never had a kid Jacob, are Worlds veterans: Both are up in this crazy, extremely Irish event.” say they don’t want to. I don’t push it, but making their seventh appearance this Morlock’s comment underscores one my message is, if you want to advance, year. “There is an intense, electric feel of the key facets of the Worlds, and of you have to put in the work. And because to the event that is both intimidating and Irish dance itself: the teacher-student there are now so many others in Irish exciting at the same time,” says TeeKing, relationship. Dancers and teachers alike dancing who are also working hard, of Brookfield, Connecticut. “The scene is will tell you that, when the rapport is you have that much more competition beautiful and terrifying, as you walk into right, it can lead to wonderful things — to face.” the hall seating thousands of spectators and that includes reaching Worlds-level Quinn says the footwork and other intently watching a massive stage.” status. Sometimes, maintaining and aspects of the dance technique are Jacob, a native of Media, Pennsylvani, nurturing that kind of bond requires important, obviously, but she also has adds: “There are different accents, dif- life-changing commitments. dancers pay attention to strength and ferent languages, and different clothing Such is the case with Brighton native posture, and those elusive, intangible styles wherever one looks. Although and Irish dance teacher Attracta Quinn and oh-so-critical elements of confidence everyone is from different places, we and two of her Worlds-bound students: and self-esteem. are all there for the same reason: the Emily Stewart, 19, the North American “I think everyone has a certain amount dancing. Dancers are warming up in champion in her age category, who has of natural talent for dance, but it takes every open space, teachers are giving competed in the Worlds five times — in- a good work ethic to do something with that talent,” she says. “You can have their last words of advice, mothers are cluding last year, her first as a student Emily Stewart, the North American running everywhere. Some may say this of Quinn, when she placed 11th overall; beautiful footwork, but if you don’t come Irish dancing champion in the age 19 out and absolutely love what you do — is a chaotic time with wigs, fake tanner, and 11-year-old Zenaida McKinney, who group, with her teacher, Brighton resi- and show that you love it — you won’t and rhinestones everywhere you look will be in her first Worlds. dent Attracta Quinn. Stewart decided — but I would say that this is normal.” Quinn, whose parents are from to attend college in Boston in part so get the most out of dancing, whether in A few miles east along Commonwealth Roscommon and Sligo, began dancing at she could study with Quinn. competition or in performance. Avenue, another college-age Irish dancer age 7 under the tutelage of Rita O’Shea, “Fortunately, Zenaida and Emily have shown they are capable of doing is eagerly anticipating her first Worlds. founder and director of the O’Shea-Chap- O’Shea-Chaplin while attending Boston the work, keeping their minds on what “I can’t begin to describe my excitement,” lin Academy of Irish Dance. She qualified College — she graduated in 2006 — and they have to do, and most of all, loving says Boston University sophomore for the Worlds every year and went sev- in 2008 opened up her own school, Scoil Irish dance. It may sound like a cliché, Elizabeth Morlock, a native of San Di- eral times, in an era when few Americans Rince Naomh Attracta, Gaelic for “St. but I tell them, like all my students, not ego. “I’m looking forward to the entire would compete in the Worlds. Right Attracta’s Dance School.” (Explaining to worry about winning or where they experience: the hard work beforehand, after high school, she spent two years the choice of the school name, Quinn says place, but to be confident that they will the pre-dancing nerves, the post-dancing in the cast of “Lord of the Dance,” then her father’s family is from Tubbercurry, dance the best they can.” relief, being there with my dance teachers returned to Brighton, got her Irish dance the birthplace of St. Attracta, for whom and family, and the awards ceremony.” teacher certification in 2002, taught at she is named. “There are already a lot Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com March 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 21 CD Review/ Sean Smith Carr, accordionist considerable talents to Irish and Appalachian music, Phil Cunningham in part through her work with the Celtic-Americana and piper-flutist band Annalivia. She can now add songwriting to her Heidi Talbot, “Angels Without Wings” • Talbot Michael McGold- resume on this, her second CD, comprised largely of has established her place among Ireland’s leading rick – but at times Rae originals. female vocalists, on the strength of her stint with threatens to over- Unlike her 2005 release “Contemplaytion,” which had Cherish the La- shadow Talbot. several guest musicians, this is an all-Rae production: dies and four solo To be sure, there She musters fiddle, guitar, foot percussion and, most CDs (the previous are certainly in- distinctively, the crwth (“krooth”), an ancient Welsh one being 2010’s stances when the fiddle characterized by a resonant, modal sound qual- “The Last Star”). balance is right, ity. The latter instrument enables her to concoct some “Angels Without such as Talbot’s fascinating textures, notably on the title track, which Wings” sees her duet with O’Brien includes an overdubbed fiddle harmony alongside her make a definitive on the quasi-spiri- honeyed vocals. This song, like many of the others on the transition to con- tual “When the Roses Come Again” (which has echoes album – notably “Go Dig My Grave” or “The Marauder” temporary materi- of Kate Rusby’s “Walk the Road”) and the bittersweetly – is unquestionably of this day and age, but it’s quite al, albeit with folk/ nostalgic “Wine and Roses.” The tracks with Polwart possible to see a commonality with the folk tradition in traditional roots, – “Dearest Johnny” and “New Cajun Waltz” — are the imagery, themes and lyric structure. “Sugar Baby” most of its 11 songs among the album’s best, and “Will I Ever Get to Sleep” and “Truly Understand” are in fact traditional songs, written by her and/ (a comical take on domestic frenzy) is graced by a break Rae supplying a melody for the latter; she marries a or husband and featuring McGoldrick’s classic harmonized whistles, traditional tune to her “Summer Will Come.” bandmate John punctuated by a brass fanfare. The instrumental tracks are a fascinating prism of McCusker, with some assistance from frequent col- Yet at times you wish Talbot would get more space for sounds, from the rhythmic twists and turns of “Fire Fly” laborators American country and bluegrass singer- herself. It will be interesting to see how she performs and “Moon Dance” to the mesmerizing fiddle-crwth duet musician Tim O’Brien and English singer-songwriter this album on tour, with what one assumes will be a far in “Mountain Chant,” that — with Rae’s use of various Boo Hewerdine. smaller contingent of backers and guests. The betting fiddle tunings — seem rooted in several regional musical Talbot’s dark-hued soprano voice “so well-suited to here is a stripped-down “Angels Without Wings” will styles. You’re treated to driving Appalachian-like riffs, the traditional music realm” adapts to a more acoustic- be just as, if not more, enjoyable. harmonies re-imagined as if out of some Scandinavian pop, Americana-flavored sound just fine, thanks. In Emerald Rae, “If Only I Could Fly” • North Shore valley, passages mined from Celtic traditions — all fact, she erases any doubts about this right away on the native Rae has been one of the Boston area’s best Scot- sounding simultaneously ancient and new. first (and titular) track, a winsome, accordion-dappled tish/Cape Breton-style fiddlers and tradition-influenced Rae might not be able to achieve actual flight, but she musing about believing in the possibilities of goodness. composers for what seems like years now — even has shown herself quite capable of spreading her wings. Talbot later brings a reflective, no-regrets torch-song though she’s only 27 — but of late she has expanded her demeanor to “I’m Not Sorry,” a getting-the-last-word- in missive “she’s described it as a mini-psychodrama” to a former lover: “I wanted to tell you that I had a baby/Since then you don’t drive me crazy/Since then hope you got happy.” The list of guest vocalists and musicians on the album is lengthy and impressive – including O’Brien, Hewerdine, Scottish singers King Creosote, Julie Fow- lis and Karine Polwart, Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler, dobro player Jerry Douglas, guitarist Ian

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PUZZLE SOLUTION FROM PAGE 33 Page 22 March 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com ‘Little Bit of Ireland’ remembers Larry Reynolds (Continued from page 18) he said. “There were years. She recalled their The following March, everyone,” she said. “If once again deliver an At the time, the “River- people walking in, not first meeting after she Larry invited her to join you ever wanted to do outstanding evening’s dance” storm was sweep- even acknowledging one relocated to Boston. “I the company of “A Little something –’How do I do entertainment. “There’s ing the country. When another necessarily, and was playing Irish music Bit of Ireland.” “I was in- this Larry,’ or ‘Who would a beautiful range of songs the show’s national tour a musical number would in New Jersey and when troduced to Larry through I go to for that” – he was that Bob and his crew have arrived in Boston, it play- have started. And they’d I was leaving to come up music,” she said, “but a tremendous enabler. picked. . . On top of that, ing to packed houses. just opened their case, here, they said, ‘You need was lucky enough that he Quietly so. ‘I’ll put you you have things like the “That kind of motivated get out their instrument to make sure you get ahold became a close personal in touch with so and so’ harpists. Visually, that me,” Bob said. “I used to and start playing . . . I of Larry Reynolds.’” friend outside of music. and then he’d step out always makes me choke. sit around at parties and thought that was very, She arrived in town on And that was one of the and let you do your thing. I have not seen anything family would get up and do very special.” a fall weekend, unpacked special elements related That’s hard to find in any like that, this array of 16 step dancing. But nothing Bob is especially pleased and headed off to a ses- to Larry. Your level of community. He crossed a or 20 harpists. I mean like (‘Riverdance’).” that Larry’s son, Larry, sion in Watertown where musicianship might be the lot of boundaries.” wow! But that’s the range He decided he’d take Jr., who has toured for she was instantly wel- way you were introduced Since the beginning, that‘s in the show.” advantage of the renewed years playing the accor- comed into Larry’s circle to Larry, but he really got “Little Bit of Ireland” has A high spot in every enthusiasm for Irish en- dion with Noel Henry’s of family and friends. “I’ve into how you were as a been founded in tradition. performance is the tradi- tertainment by creating Irish Band, will be taking traveled a lot and lived in person – as a human be- Bob Eagle works to make tional sing-a-long. “It’s an Irish revue for Reagle. his father’s spot in the different countries,” she ing. That was a priority. the show a bit different hysterical,” Tara said. One of his first calls was orchestra pit this year. said, “but to walk into a If you happened to play or each year, but there are “You get to raise the lights to Larry Reynolds, whom Accordionist Tara place full of people danc- sing or dance, wonderful, always touchstones that and everyone’s singing he’d known for years. Lynch, who has been a ing, playing music, having but he always kept that up people look forward to, these songs, and they’re As a result of that member of Comhaltas a great time, and immedi- front in the relationships whether it’s “The Irish old as the hills – crazy old friendship, Bob witnessed in three countries, four ately everyone just pulls he had with people. It was Blessing” or some of the songs – but the audience a traditional Irish session. branches, and who cur- you in and makes you feel the person.” favorite choral pieces. loves it and they’re really “One night I went with rently serves as chair- like family. I’d never come “Through his personal- With a sense of pride, engaged. It’s like a kind of Larry to the Green Briar woman of the Boston across it, and they’re still ity and being a musician he said, “My dad’s folks all crazy, whacked out party.” in Brighton, and was so chapter, worked closely that way. Larry set the and working as a car- came from Athan Rye, and No doubt, as the party struck by the experience,” with Larry through the tone for that.” penter, he got to know I’d sent over a DVD of the rages on at Reagle, some- show (for them to watch) where Larry Reynolds will at one point. They’re be playing along. country folk and very (R. J. Donovan is pub- Irish. And a note came lisher of OnStageBoston. back – ‘How’d you make it com) so Irish?’ I thought that *** was a great compliment.” “A Little Bit of Ireland,” Tara, who’s helping to Reagle Music Theatre, coordinate the tribute 617 Lexington Street, to Larry for the Friday Waltham. Tickets: 781- From the Greenhills of Ireland night performance, says 891-5600 or reaglemusic- this year’s show will theatre.org. to the Greenhills of Dorchester Another Reynolds salute The Green Briar Irish Pub in Brighton will hold a special “Tribute Seisiun” on Mon., March 4, in honor of the late Larry Reynolds, who helped establish and Happy St. Patrick’s Day to All! for many years co-led the pub’s now-legendary weekly music session. The event will begin with a reception at 6 p.m., followed by the seisiun at 7 p.m. A dedication will take place at 8 p.m. Soups & Stews to warm the The Green Briar is located at 304 Washington Street in Brighton. For more information, see greenbriarpub.com. cockles of your heart! The Burren’s McCarthy • Guinness Beef Stew • Chicken Curry takes pen in hand, result • Chicken Stew • Irish Lamb Stew is ‘Fiddlers of Inishbofin’ (Continued from page 18) of the Western World,” up sitting on the fiddle along with McCarthy’s of a female guest from sister Marion and legend- For your Sweet Tooth Dublin.” ary Clare fiddler Bobby The play follows Liam Casey; McCarthy was able and Fiona through the to sit in for Casey during fall-out from this catas- some of the performances, trophe, as they warily and found it “a great expe- Fresh Sherry Trifle size up each other and rience.” In fact, McCarthy alternate between flirta- and his family became Bailey’s Sponge Cake tion and insults in classic friends with one of the romantic comedy fashion leads in the play, Stephen (there also is a subplot Rea, who would go on to Bailey’s Swiss Rolls involving another pair of major roles in films like fiddlers, Enya and Sean, “The Crying Game,” “The Bailey’s Eclairs and their own budding Butcher Boy,” and “V for relationship). When the Vendetta.” Porter Cakes two aren’t trading com- McCarthy has great pliments, they’re sniping praise for the actors in at each other’s choice of “Inishbofin” (“I feel they Boston’s Best Irish Scones lifestyle, with repartee are all perfect for their worthy of a screwball parts,” he says) and for comedy: the play’s director and Liam: “Don’t worry, scriptwriter, Peter Holm. I’ll have you on that five Although the play has Irish Specialties o’clock ferry, for sure.” a generally light tone to it, McCarthy notes there Fiona: “You have a is a serious undertone: clock, do you?” Proceeds from the perfor- Hot Irish Breakfast Raisin Bread mances will go to benefit Liam: “Nay, I have a breast cancer research. Irish Sausage Rolls Round Bannock sun-dial outside. But if it’s “The Burren and Skel- cloudy it’s always noon.” lig staff have always been Irish Whiskey Cakes Treacle Soda Bread very close,” he explains, Will Liam be able to “and, unfortunately some fix Fiona’s fiddle, so she staff members or their Brown Soda Bread Irish Barm Brack can get off the island and relatives have been struck return to her familiar with breast cancer. There existence? Will true love, is great will amongst all and music, conquer all? the actors who are also Greenhills Bakery Open Monday-Saturday McCarthy isn’t about to staff members to make 780 Adams Street 5 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. aspire to the credentials “The Fiddlers of Inishbo- of a J. M. Synge, but he fin” the finest play Boston Dorchester, MA 02124 Sunday 6 a.m. - 2 p.m. does trace his interest has ever seen, and to raise in the theatrical arts to as much money as we can 617-825-8187 www.greenhillsbakery.com that playwright’s most towards breast cancer celebrated work. When research.” McCarthy was growing up For ticket information in London, his father, also and other details on “The a musician, often took part Fiddlers of Inishbofin,” in musical plays, includ- see burren.com. ing Synge’s “The Playboy Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com March 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 23 Concerts galore for St. Pat’s month

By Sean Smith Special to the BIR Not that Greater Boston doesn’t have plenty of Irish/ Celtic music events during other months of the year, but March is unique in its offerings of concerts and special performances and celebrations evoking the name of St. Patrick or other things Celtic. Here’s a look at just some of the personalities who will be in the spotlight in and around town during the next few weeks. • Richard Wood & Gordon Belsher, March 5, Johnny D’s, Somerville: Wood is an award-winning Prince Edward Island fiddler noted for melding his traditional style with rock-and-roll energy, and his appearances with The Chieftains, Shania Twain and former “Riverdance” star Jean Butler, among others; Belsher has featured his guitar, mandola, bodhran and vocals on two CDs, both nominated for the “Roots/ Traditional Solo Recording of the Year” category of the East Coast Music Awards. [johnnyds.com] • Karan Casey & John Doyle, with Maeve Gil- christ, March 6, Davis Square Theater, Somerville: Charter members of the legendary group Solas, these two have become two of the more outstanding Irish music performers of the past decade or more. Casey has released five well-received solo albums and, among other collaborations, has appeared in “A Christmas Celtic Sojourn” — as has Doyle, who has cultivated a multifaceted career as guitarist, vocalist, producer and, lately, songwriter. Casey and Doyle joined forces two years ago to make the acclaimed album “Exile’s Return.” Opening for Casey and Doyle will be Scottish-born harpist Maeve Gilchrist, who brings jazz and world music influences to her repertoire of mainly traditional songs and tunes. [davissquaretheatre.com] • Sharon Shannon, March 8, Somerville Theater: Ireland’s squeezebox siren returns to the Boston area, where she played an enthralling set at last July’s Sum- mer Arts Weekend festival in Copley Square. For the better part of three decades, Shannon has cultivated a Boston-based group Long Time Courting, along with the duo of Katie McNally and Eric McDonald, reputation as one of her generation’s best Irish tradi- performs at Club Passim. tional accordionists while, at the same time, exploring Boston-based singer-songwriters share a bill to pres- other musical forms from Appalachian to classical to ent a more contemporary side of Irish music. Born hip-hop and rap. Her collaborators have included Bono, and raised in County Cork, Bradshaw started off as a Adam Clayton, Sinead O’Connor, Jackson Browne, writer but then hit a long and winding musical road John Prine, Steve Earle, Mark Knopfler, The RTE that took him through Europe, New York City, San Concert Orchestra, The Chieftains, The Waterboys, Francisco, and, eventually, Boston, where he wound Willie Nelson, Nigel Kennedy, Alison Krauss and Shane up studying at Berklee College of Music. His songs MacGowan – not to mention an assortment of canine have a country-rock/acoustic folk-pop feel, shaped by friends, who have helped her exhibit her considerable influences like Guy Clark and The Waterboys; you can spark and sense of fun, as well as her humanitarian hear for yourself on his 2012 CD “Home.” side (watch her “Top Dog Gaffo” video on YouTube). Flynn, who hails from Wicklow, was a co-founder of [somervilletheatreonline.com] the popular Boston band Cliffs of Doneen, which won • Cherish the Ladies, March 8, Shalin Liu Per- two Boston Music Awards. After a serious accident formance Center, Rockport: The groundbreaking temporarily derailed his career, he rebounded to release all-female Celtic ensemble has branched out in recent his first solo CD, “On Your Way.” Since then, he has years to incorporate American roots music into its recorded three other albums, cultivating a reputation splendid renditions of Irish tunes and songs— their for an honest, emotionally powerful writing and sing- 25th-anniversary release from 2010, “Country Cross- ing style. More recently, Flynn has composed music for roads,” included guest performers like Vince Gill, Nanci film and TV, including “The Legend of Lucy Keys,” “The Griffith, Maura O’Connell, Rob Ickes and Alison Brown. Young and the Restless” and “Road Rules.” [passim.org] [rockportmusic.org/newperformance.html] • Long Time Courting, with Katie McNally & • Boston Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann School Eric McDonald, March 20, Club Passim, Harvard of Music, March 9 Barnes & Noble, Peabody: CCE Vocalist Moira Smiley is among the impressive cast Square: Long Time Courting combines four talented music school teachers and students, along with dancers of performers at this year’s “St. Patrick’s Day Celtic New England-based female musicians and singers in from Scoil Rince Naomh Attracta, will perform for a Sojourn” event in Sanders Theater. Liz Simmons (guitar), Shannon Heaton (flute, whistle, “book fair” fundraiser beginning at 3 p.m. at the Barnes accordion), Sarah Blair (fiddle) and Val Thompson & Noble in Peabody (210 Andover St.). The CCE music “We’re focusing on a smorgasboard of roots and (cello), offering up riveting and often exquisite neo- school will receive a portion of proceeds from merchan- branches this year, with visiting musicians as well as traditional Celtic music with a lively, personable stage dise sold to patrons having a CCE book fair voucher. others who make their home in the Boston area,” says presence. They’ll be splitting the bill with an exciting • Matt Cranitch and Jackie Daly, March 14, O’Donovan. “Having often incorporated spoken word — young fiddle-guitar duo of McNally and McDonald, Boston College: Between them, these guys seem to poetry and storytelling — in the ‘Celtic Sojourn’ shows, whose Scottish-influenced music is imbued with a con- have played with most every Irish musician of note of this time we thought it would be great to have another temporary dynamic and winning charm. [passim.org] the last four decades or so, and appeared on about a voice in Billy Meleady, who was integral to this year’s • Atlantic Steps, March 23, Berklee Performance thousand recordings. As individuals and as a duo, they Christmas Revels production that focused on the Irish Center: Ireland’s sean nós (old style) dance tradition is exemplify the storied Sliabh Luachra music tradition experience.” [wgbh.org/celtic] at the center of this production, the brainchild of young from the west of Ireland — think lots of polkas and • The Saw Doctors, March 15, House of Blues, Connemara native Brian Cunningham — his resume slides. Cranitch (fiddle) was a founder of the pioneer- Boston: One of Ireland’s cleverest, quirkiest and best- includes appearances with De Dannan, The Chieftains, ing trio Na Fili, and also plays with Sliabh Notes, loved bands is marking its 25th anniversary with a Sharon Shannon, Altan, Dervish and Téada, among who will be at The Burren [burren.com] on March 7. North American tour that includes a stop in Boston, others — who got the idea for Atlantic Steps during Daly, in addition to his solo work, has been a member and the release of a double CD, “2525,” that traces their a massive ceili on the Galway docks in sight of the of De Dannan and Patrick Street and collaborated with quarter-century career from its Galway beginnings. ocean. Boston-area dancers Kieran Jordan and Jackie such musicians as Seamus Creagh, Kevin Burke, and Stalwart fans will likely, and perhaps rightfully, carp O’Riley are among the cast of Atlantic Steps, which Seamus and Manus Maguire. about songs left off the album (no “Green and Red of incorporates songs along with music and dance in its In addition to appearing at BC as part of the Gaelic Mayo”? no “I’d Love to Kiss the Bangles”?), but “2525” telling of the sean-nos story. Roots series [bc.edu/gaelicroots], the duo also will be nonetheless provides a most effective overview of their “What we’re doing is creating a world on stage that part of this year’s “A St. Patrick’s Day Celtic Sojourn” assorted tastes, styles, influences and temperaments: draws the audience into the spirit of sean-nós dance,” — speaking of which: There are classic concert sing-along favorites like “N17,” says Jordan. “ It is a theatrical show — with lights, • “A St. Patrick’s Day Celtic Sojourn,” March 16, “Galway and Mayo” and “Tommy K”; their 2011 hit costumes, and choreography — but we’re also trying Sanders Theater, Harvard University: Much as its remake of “Downtown,” complete with Petula Clark; to maintain the rawness and realness of sean-nós Christmas counterpart has become a holiday tradition straight-out yet melodic rock-and-roll (“Friday Town,” dance. The audiences so far seem to appreciate the for audiences around Boston and elsewhere in New “Takin’ the Train,” “Hazard”) and ceili/showband rock story line — the journey of sean-nós dance as it came England, the “Celtic Sojourn” event for St. Patrick’s (“Presentation Boarder”); there’s also evidence of the across the Atlantic — and they also seem to feel the Day — now in its eighth year — has gained a following band’s cheeky, even scandalous personality (“Bless Me energy and fun that we are having on stage. Brian is of its own. WGBH-FM radio host Brian O’Donovan has Father,” “I Useta Lover”) and its romantic), heartfelt definitely the most high-energy sean-nós dancer I’ve once again assembled a cast of performers with local, side (“Hope You Meet Again,” “Share the Darkness”). seen, and that positive spirit affects the whole show.” regional and international ties, and whose styles and And one track even suggests a prescient political view: [berklee.edu/BPC] repertoires evoke not only Ireland but also Scotland, their 1994 composition, “Michael D. Rocking in the • Irish Cultural Centre of New England: You’d Appalachia, New England, and other places. Dail,” honoring an academic-turned-politician and early think the ICCNE, based in Canton, would be making Besides the aforementioned Matt Cranitch and Jackie Saw Doctors supporter — none other than Michael D. a pretty big deal of this month, and you’d be right. The Daly, this year’s “St. Patrick’s Day Celtic Sojourn” in- Higgins, now president of Ireland. [houseofblues.com/ center will have an assortment of special events leading cludes vocalists Moira Smiley and Maureen McMullan; venues/clubvenues/boston] up to St. Patrick’s Day weekend, including: “Roots of the duo of tenor Kevin McDermott and pianist Ralph • Matt and Shannon Heaton, March 16 and 17, American Music,” a lecture and performance by dis- Richey; pianist and guitarist Keith Murphy, the show’s The Beehive, Boston: Equally admired for expres- tinguished scholar-musician Mick Moloney (March musical director; uilleann piper Patrick Hutchinson; sive singing as well as instrumental prowess, this 8); cult favorite “jig-punk” Irish American band The tin whistle player Kathleen Conneely; fiddler-guitarist- Boston-based flute-guitar husband-wife duo have put Prodigals (March 10); that Matt Cranitch-Jackie pianist Mark Simos; hardanger fiddle player Mariel their inimitable stamp on Irish music, interpolating Daly duo again, if you can’t get out to see them (or even Vandersteel; pianist Jacqueline Schwab; The Coyne their own compositions and perspectives into the Irish if you can) at BC or “St. Patrick’s Day Celtic Sojourn” Family with vocalist Bridget Fitzgerald; percussionist tradition they revere and represent with a passion. (March 13); and the Joshua Tree, Boston’s acclaimed Eoin McQuinn; pianist-vocalist Lindsay O’Donovan; [beehiveboston.com] U2 tribute band (March 15). The weekend itself will the Harney Academy of Irish Dance; and appearances • Bob Bradshaw and Flynn, March 17, Club include plenty of music and other entertainment, all by actor Billy Meleady. Passim, Harvard Square: Two Irish-born and now family-friendly. [irishculture.org] Page 24 March 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Traveling People ‘The Gathering’ and ‘The People’s Parade’ give an added boost to St. Patrick’s Festival in Dublin By Judy Enright Special to the BIR Dublin’s St. Patrick’s Day celebration is always extraordinary and lasts for much longer than just a day. But as spectacular as the annual festival al- ways is, this year’s event promises to be the biggest and best yet thanks to the tourist industry’s massive global promotion, “The Gathering Ireland 2013.” The Dublin festival runs from March 14 to 18 and one of the many interest- ing new attractions this year is The People’s Pa- rade, which will precede the annual parade. As many as 8,000 visitors have been invited to fill out applications and march on the 17th along a 2.5 km (a little over a mile) route through Dublin’s streets. If you’d like to be included in The People’s Parade, an application form is available on the website (stpatricksfestival.ie) The regular parade promises to be especially spectacular this year with performances by high school and university marching bands from at least 12 US states as well as Dublin, Canada, Germany, Italy, and more. Included is a band from the New York Fire Depart- ment that will perform in the NYC parade, jump on a plane, arrive in Dublin in the early morning Inside the St. Patrick Centre in Downpatrick, Co. Down, Northern Ireland. hours of St. Patrick’s Day, One of the many interesting interactive displays at the St. Patrick Centre in rehearse with their Irish Downpatrick, Co. Down, Northern Ireland. The Centre is about 2 1/2 hours counterparts, and then from Dublin and 30 minutes from Belfast. join the parade. Mansion House, Dublin and “Ireland Reaching One of the 41 bedrooms and suites at the Bushmills Inn in Co. Antrim, Northern The Dublin Festival City Council Building, and Out” that is designed to Ireland. The Inn was recently awarded the “Best Boutique Hotel in Ireland” will be a week filled with Palace Street. enhance tourist numbers. designation by Golfers’ Guide to Ireland. (Judy Enright photo)(J assorted music and street Perhaps we’re a bit Ireland Reaching Out The St. Patrick Centre in Downpatrick, Co. Down, Northern Ireland. performances, a road race, “jaded” but this does seem (Ireland XO) works with Photos courtesy of Saint Patrick Centre family fun fairs, a treasure somewhat over-the-top parishes across the coun- hunt, and more. and a long way from the try to help people trace missionaries on Dark and Dublin and much the euro. Of particular interest days when the Irish cele- their roots to specific Irish Ages Europe. The Centre more. Details are on the While you’re in the for visitors during that brated March 17 in Dublin parishes. The Ireland XO also has a wonderful res- Centre’s website (saint- North, Bushmills Inn in week will be guided walks with a live shamrock in website (irelandxo.com) is taurant, extensive craft patrickcentre.com) or you Bushmills, Co. Antrim, is with a Dublin historian their lapels or pinned to working to provide a pro- and gift shop, conference may email Dr. Tim Camp- a lovely place to stay – and who will focus on St. Pat- their coats, attendance file for every parish and is facilities, a tourist infor- bell, director, (director@ has a wonderful restau- rick and the Dublin of at Mass, a viewing of the currently identifying and mation center, and it often saintpatrickcentre.com) rant. Be sure to take the Patrick’s day (385 to 461 parade, then lunch with training volunteers in lo- features special exhibits or call Jane Anderson here Bushmills’ distillery tour A.D.) The tours last a little the family. However, cal parishes there who will in the art gallery. There at 414-405-1118 for more. the next day and carry over 2 hours and will in- tourism officials say this guide returning members are many well-known art- Because of the con- on to visit other beautiful clude Christ Church and Global Greening initiative of the diaspora to places ists in Northern Ireland, nection with Milwaukee and interesting Northern St. Patrick’s as well as returned five million euros of interest, including including one of my favor- and the Friends group, Ireland sights. interesting places that to the country last year family homesteads, grave- ites, Gail Kelly, who holds Dr. Campbell and many Another favorite hotel many tourists never see. and they are expecting to stones or land connected an M.F.A. from Louisiana other representatives of where we’ve stayed a For more information at least double that this with their families. You State University here, re- Ireland’s counties and number of times is the 35- on all the St. Patrick’s year. We wonder if Presi- can leave queries on the turned home in 1992 and attractions often visit the room Londonderry Arms Festival events in Dublin, dent Obama, with his website and receive a re- now trades as Algan Arts. Milwaukee Irish Fest in Hotel in Carnlough Bay, visit the website at: stpat- Irish roots in Moneygall, sponse from local, trained We have bought many of August every year. I’ve at- a lovely little harbor town ricksfestival.ie Co. Offaly, will light the volunteers, who can help her prints and cards over tended several times and and a delightful hotel, also GREENING THE White House green on link you with an ancestral the years. it is an amazing festival. with great food in-house WORLD March 17? home. While you’re at the St. Nearly every imaginable (two restaurants – for According to The Irish The Times also reported For further information Patrick Centre, be sure to Irish tourist group is there formal or informal dining.) Times, Minister for Tour- that Tourism Ireland, as on The Gathering Ireland visit Patrick’s grave at the and it’s a long and delight- Originally built in 1848 as ism Leo Varadkar recent- part of the genealogy tele- 2013 or for information lovely Down Cathedral ful weekend of music, food, a coaching inn, the hotel ly launched the largest vision show “Who Do You on how to plan your own next door and stop by the Irish products and fun. If has been owned for 60 global St. Patrick’s Day Think You Are,” traced Gathering, log on to gath- Down County Museum in you have an opportunity to years by the O’Neill fam- promotional drive in the the ancestry of Duchess of eringireland.com. town. Downpatrick has go, it’s well worth it. ily, the longest established history of the country. Cambridge, Kate Middle- ST. PATRICK planned many events and ST. PATRICK’S hotelier family in Ireland. If you can believe it, ton, to Ireland! All of this CENTRE activities to celebrate St. TRAIL Wherever you choose to cash-strapped Ireland will hoopla has been created by You can celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Details are The Northern Ireland celebrate Ireland’s patron spend 35,000 euros on a a Tourism Ireland promo- Patrick’s Day wherever available on the Northern Tourist Board has cre- saint, we hope you will “Global Greening” that tion dubbed “The Gather- you are, but if you hap- Ireland Tourism site: ated a St. Patrick’s Trail enjoy that special day. will shine green lights ing,” which is reportedly pen to be in Ireland this discovernorthernireland. (discovernorthernireland. SPRING March 17 on dozens of the “on target” so far with pas- month, you could scarcely com. com/stpatrick) that is fun Spring has arrived in world’s major landmarks, senger numbers at Dublin find a better place to learn LEGACY TOUR to explore with all kinds of Ireland with fleecy, white including the Pyramids Airport up three percent about the patron saint A group in Milwaukee landmarks ranging from lambs gamboling across of Giza, the Christ the in January compared with than at the St. Patrick that is associated with the St. Patrick’s Cathedral the greenest of green Redeemer statue in Rio last year. The Gathering Centre in Downpatrick, St. Patrick Centre is plan- in Armagh, to Bagenal’s fields and golden daf- de Janeiro, the “Welcome” is designed to bring an Co. Down. It is the world’s ning a trip to Northern Castle in Newry, Struell fodils nodding in masses sign in Las Vegas, and the additional 325,000 visi- only permanent exhibit Ireland and the Republic Wells in Downpatrick, planted along roadsides Little Mermaid statue in tors to Ireland this year, dedicated to telling the from Oct. 4-13 called “The Bangor Abbey, and more. everywhere. This is an Copenhagen. In addition, which would generate story of Ireland’s patron Legacy of St. Patrick Tour Northern Ireland is really absolutely brilliant time of Dublin landmarks that some 170 million euros saint. of Ireland.” The group, a lovely part of the island year to visit the Emerald will be “greened” include for the economy, they say. The Ego Patricius Exhi- called Friends of St. Pat- and the gardens at some Isle. Travel information the Irish Architectural Ar- Last September, Mi- bition at the Centre is an rick, have designed the of the manor homes are is available from your chive, The Gibson Hotel, chael Ring, Minister of interactive interpretive tour to include hidden and worth a trip on their own. favorite travel agent or O’Connell Tower at Glasn- State for Tourism and experience that explores legendary sites, meetings There’s a lot to see there, online at Aer Lingus and evin Cemetery, The Odeon Sport, announced a part- in a fun and fascinating with politicians, visits to but do remember that other airlines that serve Bar, The Custom House, nership between “The way the saint’s story as Belfast’s Titanic Centre, the monetary unit is the Ireland. Convention Centre, The Gathering Ireland 2013” well as the impact of Irish attractions in Galway pound Sterling and not Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com March 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 25 Enshrining Patrick Kavanagh

By Thomas O’Grady ter of Ireland’s literary world dominated Special to the BIR by Kavanagh, his urban archrival and Recently, but not for the first time, I paid nemesis Brendan Behan, and the multi- a visit to a roadside shrine (as it were) monikered Brian O’Nolan/Flann O’Brien/ that remembers one of the iconic figures Myles na Gopaleen. of so-called Bohemian Dublin of the 1940s Before McDaid’s, the omphalos would and ’50s. Actually, the “shrine”—com- have been another public house sacred to memorating poet Patrick Kavanagh—has the memory of Kavanagh and company, two separate but related parts. The earlier The Palace Bar on Fleet Street. The part is a bench dedicated by his friends on watering hole of choice for most of the St. Patrick’s Day of 1968, the year after leading literary and artistic figures in his death, fulfilling a wish Kavanagh had Dublin during Kavanagh’s early years in made a decade earlier in a poem titled the city, The Palace was presided over by “Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand R. M. “Bertie” Smyllie, the larger-than-life Canal, Dublin.” Sitting on a bench erected (both physically and in personality) editor to the memory of Mrs. Dermot O’Brien of The Irish Times and in that capacity a (the wife of a well-known Dublin painter frequent benefactor providing journalistic of landscapes and portraits), Kavanagh piecework to hungry (or thirsty) poets wrote a sonnet requesting the same for and other literary types. In 1940, New himself: “O commemorate me where there Zealand cartoonist Alan Reeve published is water, / Canal water preferably, so in The Irish Times a now-famous sketch The author with John Coll’s bronze sculpture of Patrick Kavanagh on a bench stilly / Greeny at the heart of summer.” of the back room of The Palace. Titled on the north bank of the Grand Canal along Wilton Road. He got his wish, and forty-five years after “Dublin Culture,” the drawing carica- its dedication, that “canal-bank seat for tures upwards of forty regular denizens Recounting the shop’s evolution from following morning as usual.” the passer-by” remains “Where by a lock of the bar, including Francis McManus, a local hardware store to the magnetic Asked by Brendan Lynch about Kava- niagarously roars / The falls for those Maurice Walsh, Austin Clarke, Padraic center of a literary community, Miss nagh’s death in 1967, Mary King remem- who sit in the tremendous silence / Of Fallon, F. R. Higgins, Flann O’Brien, O’Flaherty remembers that “it was Pat- bered his funeral entourage winding its mid-July.” Located on the south bank of Brinsley MacNamara, Harry Kernoff, and rick Kavanagh who provided the greatest way through Ballsbridge en route toward the Grand Canal along Mespil Road, that Seán O’Sullivan. Kavanagh too is in the encouragement when I was starting off.” Monaghan: “they brought Patrick on a bench, which has the poem inscribed on picture, but as a newcomer to the Dublin When the shop opened in 1949, Kavanagh final lap of his favourite stomping ground, one of its granite trestles, is about a ten- literary scene he looks a bit uncomfortable lived nearby on Pembroke Road and, as past Parsons to Pembroke, Raglan, and minute walk from St. Stephen’s Green in and appears ready to leave the others to Miss O’Flaherty explains, quickly became Waterloo Roads. The morning was miser- the heart of Dublin. their heavy imbibing and their barbed- a fixture: “Soon he was part of the fur- able and dark, grief seemed to overhang And so is another bench, the second wit gossiping. niture and if he ever missed a morning, the canal, but it was heartwarming that part of the Kavanagh shrine—but this Located just off Westmoreland Street at customers would ask ‘Where’s Patrick so many people turned out along the street one, on the north bank along Wilton the edge of the once decrepit but now hip today?’” Legendary for his cantanker- to see him off to Inniskeen.” Road, has incorporated onto it a life-size Temple Bar area of Dublin, The Palace ousness, Kavanagh had a particularly In 2004, the centenary of Kavanagh’s bronze sculpture, created by John Coll seems to have changed hardly an iota in toxic relationship with playwright and birth, the Monaghan Association of Dublin and unveiled in June of 1991, of the poet more than seventy years: like McDaid’s, it memoirist Brendan Behan, another regu- mounted a plaque on the wall of the Bridge seated in a reflective pose as if he were remains an inviting and hospitable oasis lar visitor to the shop. Yet, according to House recognizing the poet’s lengthy and composing the poem that prompted the in “the heart of the Hibernian metropolis” Miss O’Flaherty, their personal animosity deep connection with Parsons Bookshop. first bench. Or perhaps Coll imagined (Joyce’s phrase) and an essential port of never intruded on the sacred space of the The shop outlasted Kavanagh by twenty- Kavanagh drafting “Canal Bank Walk,” call for devotees of Kavanagh. shop: “Though Patrick sometimes got in two years. But recently, pausing beneath another sonnet inspired by that slow- But the enduringness of pubs like Mc- people’s way while sitting in the door, that plaque, I realized that, as in most moving man-made waterway—a remark- Daid’s and The Palace only accentuates particularly in the good weather, I think matters, Kavanagh himself had the last able feat of engineering that took most the loss of another “house of worship”— we kept him on the straight and narrow. word in the form of a ballad he wrote in of the last half of the eighteenth century perhaps the cathedral to those mere Even though Brendan Behan called a few 1953: “If ever you go to Dublin town / In to complete—that ultimately linked the chapels—associated with Kavanagh: that times while he was here, Patrick never a hundred years or so / Inquire for me River Liffey in Dublin with the River is, Parsons Bookshop, which used to be said anything untoward. I think the only in Baggot Street / And what I was like Shannon in Co. Offaly. Written in 1958 located in a building known as the Bridge time I saw him cross was when he observed to know.” in the aftermath of his recovery from lung House, on Baggot Street Bridge that a book he didn’t like in the window. ‘I’ll Thomas O’Grady is Director of Irish cancer, and also from legal difficulties, spans the Grand Canal just a minute’s never darken this door again,’ he growled. Studies at the University of Massachu- “Canal Bank Walk” represented a sort of stroll from the two Kavanagh benches. But he was back looking for his stool the setts Boston. manifesto of renewal for Kavanagh, who During my student days in Dublin in the by 1939 had transplanted himself more late 1970s, I visited Parsons a number of or less permanently from rural County times, usually in search of books missing Monaghan to Ireland’s mostly unwel- from the shelves of the bigger bookshops coming literary hub: “Leafy-with-love in the city center. I recall specifically banks and the green waters of the canal picking up the Millington editions of / Pouring redemption for me, that I do / Benedict Kiely’s The Cards of the Gambler The will of God, wallow in the habitual, and Mervyn Wall’s Leaves for the Burn- the banal, / Grow with nature again as ing and the Helicon edition of Wall’s The before I grew.” Unfortunate Fursey. If those two benches comprise a shrine As it turns out, Kiely and Wall were both to Kavanagh, an essential place of pilgrim- regular visitors to Parsons Bookshop— age for his devoted readers, then surely but apparently no one was as regular as some of the pubs that he frequented dur- Patrick Kavanagh. In his engaging and ing his quarter-century or so in Dublin illuminating book Parsons Bookshop: At might be thought of as chapels. I have the Heart of Bohemian Dublin, 1949-1989 paid visits to some of those too—again, (The Liffey Press, 2006), Brendan Lynch recently and not for the first time. Aptly tells the story of the shop in entertain- enough, one of them, McDaid’s on Harry ing and illuminating detail, much of it Street (just off Grafton Street, the city’s gleaned from interviews with the shop’s central shopping thoroughfare), was in a founder and owner, Miss May O’Flaherty, previous life a literal chapel of the Mora- and her longtime assistant, Mary King. vian Church, a Protestant denomination Early in the book, Miss O’Flaherty recalls from eastern Europe that made inroads in that author Mary Lavin once exclaimed: Ireland in the eighteenth century. Still a “Parsons, where one met as many inter- going concern today, in the 1940s and ’50s esting writers on the floor of the shop as McDaid’s was what James Joyce might on the shelves!” In Lynch’s narrative, no have called the omphalos—the very cen- one was more “interesting” than Patrick Kavanagh.

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Husband-wife Husband-wife duo duo Wednesday, March 1 of the Donkey Pilgrims” author, Monday, March 13 Wednesday, March 1 of the Donkey Pilgrims” author, Monday, March 13 ters/irish/studies/news/film/ters/irish/studies/news/film/ presentspresents a acaptivating captivating blend blend of of ICCUSA regular monthly Kitty O’Shea’s, 131 State Street, IIC Legal Clinic, 7 p.m., Kells ICCUSA regular monthly Kitty O’Shea’s, 131 State Street, IIC Legal Clinic, 7 p.m., Kells films2006.films2006. traditionaltraditional Appalachian, Appalachian, Celtic, Celtic, meeting, 6:30 p.m., special guest Boston, 2 p.m. Restaurant and Bar, 161 meeting, 6:30 p.m., special guest Boston, 2 p.m. Restaurant and Bar, 161 Friday,Friday, March March 17 17 andand original original folk folk music music sung sung speaker former US Secret Ser- Friday, March 10 Brighton Avenue, Allston. speaker former US Secret Ser- Friday, March 10 Brighton Avenue, Allston. JFKJFK and and Ireland, Ireland, a anew new year- year- withwith beautiful beautiful vocals vocals and and an an vice agent John Enright. Jurys The Irish Ancestral Research Tuesday, March 14 vice agent John Enright. Jurys The Irish Ancestral Research Tuesday, March 14 longlong exhibit, exhibit, opens opens at at John John F. F. astonishingastonishing array array of of unusual unusual Hotel, Boston. Association TIARA Meeting, Hothouse Flowers in concert, Hotel, Boston. Association TIARA Meeting, Hothouse Flowers in concert, KennedyKennedy Presidential Presidential Library Library instruments.instruments. This This performance performance Saturday, March 4 Paul Bunnell, speaker. 511 Paradise Rock Club, Boston. Saturday, March 4 Paul Bunnell, speaker. 511 Paradise Rock Club, Boston. && Museum, Museum, Columbia Columbia Point, Point, isis part part of of the the Celebrate! 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Hallet Street, Dorchester. 7:15 The Chieftains - Traditional Author Reading- Irish novel- Hallet Street, Dorchester. 7:15 The Chieftains - Traditional Author Reading- Irish novel- thethe president president by by the the people people of of ICCUSAICCUSA hosts hosts the the tenth tenth an- an- p.m. Hot and cold buffet served. Boston St. Patrick’s concert at ist John McGahern reads from p.m. Hot and cold buffet served. Boston St. Patrick’s concert at ist John McGahern reads from IrelandIreland as as well well as as documents, documents, nualnual St. St. Patrick’s Patrick’s Day Day brunch brunch at at Music by Erin’s Melody and the Boston Symphony Hall, 301 and discusses his memoir All Music by Erin’s Melody and the Boston Symphony Hall, 301 and discusses his memoir All photographsphotographs and and film film footage footage Doyle’sDoyle’s in in Jamaica Jamaica Plain, Plain, noon. noon. Harney School of Irish Step Massachusetts Ave., 8 p.m. Tick- Will Be Well, Harvard Book- Harney School of Irish Step Massachusetts Ave., 8 p.m. Tick- Will Be Well, Harvard Book- relatingrelating his his June June 1963 1963 state state visit visit SpecialSpecial guest, guest, Ireland’s Ireland’s Minis- Minis- Dancers. $30 a ticket. Info: ets & info: 888-256-1100. store, 6:30 p.m. Dancers. $30 a ticket. Info: ets & info: 888-256-1100. store, 6:30 p.m. toto the the country country of of his his forbears. forbears. terter Seamus Seamus Brennan. Brennan. Michael McCarron, 617-696- An Evening with Ronan Tuesday & Wednesday, Michael McCarron, 617-696- An Evening with Ronan Tuesday & Wednesday, Info:Info: 617-514-1600, 617-514-1600, Sunday,Sunday, March March 19 19 1702. Tynan, Berklee Performance March 14 & 15 1702. Tynan, Berklee Performance March 14 & 15 JFKlibrary.org.JFKlibrary.org. Leahy,Leahy, Canada’s Canada’s Celtic Celtic fid- fid- Ladies AOH indoor yard sale, Center, Boston. 7:30 p.m Tick- The Pogues perform, Ladies AOH indoor yard sale, Center, Boston. 7:30 p.m Tick- The Pogues perform, TheThe Irish Irish Pastoral Pastoral Center Center will will dlers,dlers, perform perform in in concert, concert, 3 p.m.,3 p.m., Hibernian Hall, 151 Watertown ets & info: 617-931-2000, Orpheum Theatre, Boston Fea- Hibernian Hall, 151 Watertown ets & info: 617-931-2000, Orpheum Theatre, Boston Fea- holdhold its its St. St. Patrick’s Patrick’s Day Day Mass Mass SomervilleSomerville Theatre. Theatre. 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Officers Association of Massa- Fair, Irish Cultural Centre of Spider Stacy, James Fearnly, Officers Association of Massa- Fair, Irish Cultural Centre of Spider Stacy, James Fearnly, CharitableCharitable Irish Irish Society Society Din- Din- Thursday,Thursday, March March 23 23 chusetts annual Awards Din- New England, Canton Students Darryl Hunt, Andrew Rankin, chusetts annual Awards Din- New England, Canton Students Darryl Hunt, Andrew Rankin, ner,ner, Omni Omni Parker Parker House, House, Bos- Bos- SeamusSeamus Kennedy Kennedy performs performs at at ner at American Legion Post from across the state in Grades Philip Chevron and Terry ner at American Legion Post from across the state in Grades Philip Chevron and Terry ton.ton. The The nation’s nation’s oldest oldest Irish Irish ClintonClinton Town Town Hall, Hall, Clinton. 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On On March March 17, 17, musical musical en- en- Saturday,Saturday, April April 8 8 will discuss his “It May Be For- with family activities, musical $150.00 per person will discuss his “It May Be For- with family activities, musical $150.00 per person tertainmenttertainment during during the the after- after- EireEire Society Society 69th 69th annual annual Gold Gold ever - An Irish Rebel on the entertainment, a performance Thursday- Tuesday, ever - An Irish Rebel on the entertainment, a performance Thursday- Tuesday, noonnoon followed followed by by an an evening evening MedalMedal Award Award dinner, dinner, honoring honoring American Frontier.” Info: 783- by the New Boston Junior Ceili March 16 - March 21 American Frontier.” Info: 783- by the New Boston Junior Ceili March 16 - March 21 dance.dance. On On March March 18, 18, music music by by PeterPeter Meade, Meade, Blue Blue Cross/Blue Cross/Blue 331-5188, irishculture.org. Band, step dancing exhibitions, Boston College Irish Studies’ 331-5188, irishculture.org. Band, step dancing exhibitions, Boston College Irish Studies’ TheThe Symbolics Symbolics and and entertain- entertain- ShieldShield executive executive and and past past chair- chair- The Eire Society of Boston crafts, and refreshments. Noon- film series runs over the St. The Eire Society of Boston crafts, and refreshments. Noon- film series runs over the St. mentment all all day. day. More More info: info: 781- 781- man,man, Catholic Catholic Charities Charities of of Bos- Bos- hosts Kevin O’Hara, “The Last 6 p.m. Admission is free. Patrick’s Day weekend, begin- hosts Kevin O’Hara, “The Last 6 p.m. Admission is free. Patrick’s Day weekend, begin- 821-8291,821-8291, irishculture.org. irishculture.org. ton.ton. Park Park Plaza Plaza Hotel, Hotel, Boston. Boston. 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Friday, March 15, 2013 Irish Heritage Month is supported 44th ANNUAL SAINT PATRICK”S DAY LUNCHEON at the in part by a grant from the Lawrence Lawrence Firefighters Association Relief’s In,O ne Market Street, Cultural Council, a local agency South Lawrence, MA 01843. Traditional Corned Beef and Cabbage which is supported by the Massachu- Dinner with entertainment by the Silver Spears Irish Showband at setts Cultural Council, a state agency. NOON. Awarding of the Honorable John E. Fenton Citizenship Award - For more information please contact Jack Lahey at 603 Cancellation of Events For information on cancellation of AOH 898 7766. Sponsored by Division 8 AOH & LAOH events, please contact the AOH/LAOH Cancellation Line @ 603-893-5802 Friday, March 15, 2013 AN EVENING OF IRISH MUSIC - 3 pm until ? at the Claddagh For information on AOH Membership please write to: Divi- Pub and Restaurant, 399 Canal Street, Lawrence, MA. For further sion 8 AOH Organizer, PO Box 1407, Lawrence, MA 01842. information call 978 688-8337. Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com March 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 27

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day

Irish Studies at Stonehill

Our program presents students with a wide-ranging exploration into Ireland — as it examines the people, culture, politics, and religion of the country.

Encompassing various learning approaches – study abroad, classroom discussion, and independent study – the program offers:

• A minor concentration that encourages students to gain a deeper cultural understanding of Ireland

• Opportunities to study at the National University of Galway or intern in business, government, healthcare, and other fields in Dublin

• A variety of courses ranging from Early Christian Ireland to Irish Music to the Irish-American Experience

• Collection of Irish Government Documents – the only comprehensive U.S. collection of Irish government reports, parliamentary papers, debates and special studies – housed in Stonehill’s MacPháidín Library.

For more on Irish Studies at Stonehill, contact Director of Irish Studies Professor Richard B. Finnegan at 508-565-1135. Page 32 March 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com In the ring with the Boxing O’Briens By Jackie Gentile Maureen O’Brien is fly- welterweight division. na Supernor of Worces- Special to the BIR ing high. The 30-year-old “It feels good,” she said. ter, the Holyoke Golden With two Golden Gloves Dorchester native won the “It was exciting having all Gloves champ of the West- titles under her belt, Lowell Golden Gloves on the hard work pay off.” ern New England team. February 15 in the light O’Brien beat Dean- Though she was more Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all Boston Irish Reporter readers

Maureen O’Brien and her father, John O’Brien. Photo by Bill Forry nervous than last year, including punches, the O’Brien was “a better basic boxing stance, sit- caliber fighter this year.” ups and pushups. O’Brien After a lot of running, also works as a personal sparring, being in the gym trainer at Boston Sports and doing pad work with Club where her boxing her trainer, she was ready specialty helps set her for victory. apart from other trainers, “It’s a little more intense she says. because you’ve got your “She picked it up pretty sights set on getting ready easy,” John said of his for that and winning,” daughter getting into the she said. sport. Two other notable Gre- O’Brien remembers sit- alish gym veterans came ting on her father’s lap, up big at the 67th annual watching matches on TV. competition held at the With John as her main Lowell Auditorium. Dan- influence, it became a big Congressman Ed Markey iel Higgins and Ramon part of her life. She took up Paid for by the Markey Committee Rodriguez both won their taekwondo when she was respective bouts. 7 and went on to compete Now a resident of Hull, with three national teams. O’Brien travels back to A leg injury steered her her hometown daily to more toward boxing. the Grealish Boxing Club “Boxing’s something I and Fitness center to train always wanted to do,” she with owner Martin and a said. “I did it as a workout familiar face: her father, [after the injury] then I John. wanted to compete, so Boxing runs through that’s kind of how it hap- the 30-year-old’s veins. pened.” John has been boxing for Though she is following nearly 40 years and im- in her father’s footsteps, parts his wisdom on his and though they both daughter. have a good jab, O’Brien John’s grandfather, an is paving her own way in Irish immigrant, got him the boxing world. into boxing when he was a “I was really proud kid. He started training at of Maureen,” John said the Quincy Boxing Club, of her recent win. “She but has trained at many worked very hard.” gyms since, including the The now two-time Somerville Boxing Club, champ trains hard and Arlington’s Boston Sport fights hard, but stresses Boxing Club in the 1990s, that safety is a big factor and now at the Grealish when training to get in gym. In addition, he has the ring. taught boxing at BU for “The biggest thing is 13 years. if you’re gonna do it, you “There’s a very posi- gotta be serious about it,” tive atmosphere there,” O’Brien cautioned. “The he said of the family-run main thing is staying in club. “We all work to- shape and stay disciplined gether there, the kids help and reach your goal.” each other – it works out Since her last fight that way.” was her tenth, she can Both John and Mau- now compete as an open reen train and teach at fighter. Her next goal is the Freeport St. facility. to join a national boxing She currently teaches a team. women’s boxing and fit- “Gonna keep going with ness class on Mondays and it. At least, for a little Thursdays, showing stu- while,” she laughed. “See dents boxing basics and how far I can get.” conditioning techniques Subscribe Today to Boston’s Own Hometown Newspaper A Subscription to the Boston Irish Reporter Makes an Ideal Gift for Any Special Occasion. Why Not Order One Today for Yourself, Boston Irish or for That Special Irish Someone in Your Life?

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Let us review (or “revise” in Anglo-Irish) Adverbs 12 13 14 15 for “late-starters” and for those who follow this Cross column as a reminder. Adverbs. as you remember 16 from school days, are those words and phrases that describe verbs in terms of “manner” – how something Words happens ; “place” – where something takes place; and 17 “time” – when it happens. The Irish Adverbs of “manner” can be one at a time or several 18 19 20 at a time. They are often marked on English by the crosswords are suffix “-ly” as in “slowly”. If there are more than one Adverbs of manner they must be joined by “and” in a service of an English and in Irish with agus or its abbreviation, ‘s: “slowly and carefully.” Ireland-based 21 22 Many adverbs of “place” and “time” are phrases in English. This is not always true in Irish. Here are website which English examples of each. Manner: “He walked slowly.” provides Irish Place: “He walked slowly into to the room.” 23 24 25 Time: “He walked slowly into the room at Family Coats of eight o’clock.” You can have multiple adverbs: Arms by email. 26 27 “He walked slowly and carefully into the room You are invited last night at eight o’clock.” 28 29 Word order in English is normally “manner”, “place” and “time” with few exceptions. It is awkward and to visit sounds contrived to native speakers of English if we 30 31 32 33 “front” adverbs of “place” and manner” unless it is www. poetical or used as a literary device. However, for 34 emphasis, we can “front” adverbs of “time”. bigwood.com/ “At eight o’clock he walked slowly and carefully into the room.” heraldry 35 Irish, being a process centered language has the verb always at the beginning of a sentence. In gen- eral Irish sentences with adverbs follow the same pattern as English. ©-bigwood.com Léigh Liam leabhar le Nóra IRELAND IN CROSSWORDS “Read Liam (a) book to Nora ACROSS 11. Lad ride in tune about the Republican aspiration os ard sa chistin aréir. 1. Melon clan’s joy. (anag.) Scottish leader of the Irish for 32 altogether. (6,7) aloud in the kitchen last night” Citizen Army during the Easter Rising of 1916. (5,8) 14. Wives torn in bits in Fermanagh agricultural centre Verb+Subject+Object+Indirect Object+Adv 10. “Surely mortal — is a broomstick!” Swift (3) where Necarne castle is. (11) Manner + Adv Place + Adv Time 12. Ed, she is confused, but pays attention. (5) 19. Question: did the ropes get tangled back in Killure Sentences using verbal nouns – indicating that 13. On edge right before 999. (3) so perfectly? (5) the action is/was/will be actually in progress at the 15. Wear this in the kitchen or pan will tip over. (5) 20. “Better build schoolrooms for the boy than —— and time of reference – use the same format: 16. Poetic before being included in Clogher edition. (3) gibbets for the man.” Eliza Cook. (5) Tá Liam ag léamh 17. Having had an inclination in a Rathkeale ante- 22. Lots dance out east about Ireland’s nearest neigh- “Is Liam (at) reading chamber. (5) bour. (8) leabhar le Nóra os ard … 18. By all means sway about. (3) 23. I.e. lark about in Derry angling centre in the Bann ( a) book to Nora aloud … 19. Nice P.R. about the heir to the throne. (6) valley. (6) Verb Bi+Subject+Verbal Noun + Direct Object 21. He gets skill to turn to the Kerry rocky islands 9 24. Customer puts in fifty one to an American penny. (6) + Indirect Obj. + Adverbs … miles off Valentia with an old monastic settlement. (3,8) 27. Pat’s a mess when it comes to foreign food. (5) If there are two adverbs of “manner” they can be 24. These boxes would be for Plato’s mentor if so 28. Fierce man-eating giant, therefore Roman retreats joined as explained above with “and” agus /AH-guhs/. prefixed. (6) from Mayo green environment. (4) There can be more than one adverb of “Place” and 25. Golfer’s shout in secluded Westmeath village near 29. Apparently, colonels give a clue to what General “Time”. Adverbs of “place” are often in the forms of Castlepollard, with numerous ancient crosses. (4) McAuliffe said in reply to the Germans who demanded prepositional phrases – sa chistin “in the kitchen”, 26. Second class stream yields a first rate sea fish! (5) his surrender in 1944. (4) ar an brother “on the road.” 28. “Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do gen- CROSSWORD SOLUTION ON PAGE 21 An example from English might be something like erally discover everybody’s face but their —.” Swift. (3) this … 30. Get a tender back in Thurles running. (5) Adv. Place Adv. Place Adv. Time 31. Large ox-antelope appears when gun is broken. (3) “… in the middle of the road at eight o’clock 32. Is pan enough to take to the country? (5) Adv. Time Adv. Time 34. Old hated irregular in Ireland got his out in the Irish Sayings in the morning yesterday.” sun. (3) “Youth does not mind where it sets its foot.” Here are some simple adverbs of “place’ and 35. Seal led saints over to the offshore Wexford bird “Both your friend and your enemy think you will “time”. You know most of these already. They will sanctuary where Bagenal Harvey was captured. (6,7) never die.” almost always be the last word(s) in an Irish sentence. “The well fed does not understand the lean.” DOWN “He who comes with a story to you brings two away Place: anseo /UHN-shaw/ “here” 2. Purple quartz found in mast they dismantled. (8) from you” ansin /UHN-shin/ “there” 3. “We are all born —. Some remain so.” Beckett. (3) “Quiet people are well able to look after themselves.” 4. “Eschew evil and do good: seek peace and —— it.” “A friend’s eye is a good mirror.” Time: amárach /UH-marahk/ “tomorrow” Psalm 34 verse 13 (5) “It is the good horse that draws its own cart.” anocht /UH-nahkt/ “tonight” 5. See you apparently in the matter of the way to treat “A lock is better than suspicion.” anois /UH-nish/ “now” bacon. (4) “Two thirds of the work is the semblance.” anuraidh /Uh-noor-ee/ “last year” 6. “Yet malice never was his aim; He lashed the vice “He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed aréir /UH-reyr/ “last night” but spared the ——.” until midday.” go minic /goh MIN-ik/ “often” Swift (his own epitaph) (4) “Quiet people are well able to look after themselves.” inné /IN-eh/ “yesterday” 7. Guru seen in Kincora clearly. (6) “A friend’s eye is a good mirror.” inniu /IN-noo/ “today” 8. Run lag out of large Armagh linen town near Lough “It is the good horse that draws its own cart.” Other: arís /UH-rish/ “again” Neagh where George Russell, (AE), was born. (6) “A lock is better than suspicion.” freisin /FREY-shin/ “also”, “too” 9. We’ve lent Beth’s version to Connemara’s high “Two thirds of the work is the semblance.” Some of these words may be combined in phrases. dozen. (3,6,4) Notice that the phrase best translated in to English as “from time to time” is literally “now and again” – ADVERTISEMENT anois is arís /UH-nish iss UH-rish /. Here are some sentences to put in to Irish – as well as some practice on both regular and irregular verbs – and don’t forget to eclipse some nouns after “the” when in a prepositional phase. 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Battle lines are ley’s “Lord of the Dance,” Worcester. drawn, passions ignite featuring Aisling Nally Aisling Nally has toured and a love story fueled (from Canton and former all over the world and by the dramatic leaps dance student of O’Shea- has danced on stage with and turns of dancers’ Chaplin Academy of Irish Michel Flatley in “Feet of bodies begins to build Dance) in the lead role Flames” in Taiwan. She against a backdrop of Celt- of “Saoirse” kicked off a is a certified Irish Dance ic rhythm. The action is 60-city North American teacher with the Irish played out over 21 scenes Jim Brett has been elected president of the board tour at the K-Rock Centre Dancing Commission on a grand scale of preci- of directors of the Massachusetts Association for in Kingston, Ontario, on (An Coimisiun leRinci Aisling Nally sion dancing, dramatic Mental Health. Brett is the president and CEO of Jan. 29. Gaelaca) Dublin. music, colorful costumes, The New England Council, a group that represents The tour includes dates Described by the New tures a blend of traditional and state-of-the-art stag- businesses across all six New England states, and at two Massachusetts York Post as “fascinating, and modern Celtic music ing and lighting. has worked for more than 20 years as an activist on venues: Wed., March 6th, rewarding and above all, and dance. The story is For ticket information, behalf of those with intellectual disabilities. That at 7:30 p.m. at Lowell entertaining,” and by the based upon mythical Irish go to lowellmemorialau- work has included serving as chairman of the Memorial Auditorium Los Angeles Times as “a folklore as Don Dorcha, ditorium.org or hanover- President’s Committee for People with Intellectual in Lowell, and Thurs., showpiece extravaganza,” Lord of Darkness, chal- theatre.org. Disabilities and the Massachusetts Governor’s Com- March 7th, at 8 p.m. at “Lord of the Dance” fea- lenges the ethereal lord mission on Intellectual Disability. The Boston-based Massachusetts Association for Mental Health is a non-profit that advocated for the creation of services Friends of Irish Research for those with mental illness. have new home in Brockton The Friends of Irish icclibrary.info. Upcoming in the Old St. Mary’s family research, simply Looking to buy Research is a collection of meetings are scheduled Cemetery in Canton. Pe- send an email to friend- friends with more than 100 for March 1, March 8, and riodically, the Friends will sofirishresearch@gmail. years of experience in help- March 22. offer seminars and clinics com. The Friends provide in the ing families find their Irish The Friends library is to share ways to improve all of this for free, though roots. 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