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The proclamation above was issued on April 24, 1916, by the leaders of the short-lived Easter Rising. Related stories, Pages 5 and 8. Page 2 April 2016 BOSTON IRISH Reporter bostonirish.com Rev. Bartley MacPháidín, at 79; Applications open Built up Stonehill College for 22 years for Global Irish

The Rev. Bartley commitment was evident Summer Camp MacPháidín, C.S.C., in how he transformed the Stonehill College’s eighth college academically, aes- Deadline is April 20 and longest serving presi- thetically, and financially, dent, passed away on ” said Stonehill President DUBLIN – Ireland’s culture as well as day trips March 17 at age 79. In (Rev.) John Denning, Minister for Diaspora Af- and outdoor adventures. recent years, he had been C.S.C. “Affable and with fairs, Jimmy Deenihan, For the pilot phase, ap- living at Holy Cross House a natural instinct for has announced the open- plications are being sought on the grounds of the making connections and ing of applications for from Irish-American high University of Notre Dame. building relationships, the Global Irish Summer school students aged 15- His funeral Mass Father Bartley always un- Camp, noting that the 17 years who have never was said at Stonehill derstood the importance of “initiative will bring a visited Ireland. on Wednesday morning, vision and how to secure group of 20 young Ameri- “The Summer Camp March 30. it, shaping Stonehill into cans of Irish heritage to program is an excellent Fr. MacPháidín took a vibrant community of Ireland for the first time opportunity for children office in 1978 and led scholarship and faith,” Fr. and is aimed at deepen- of Irish emigrants to the college for 22 years. Denning added.” ing their engagement strengthen their links Under his leadership, In 1999, Fr. MacPháidín Commons; Merkert-Tracy his tenure. Dillon said with the country of their with Ireland though a Stonehill’s academic repu- received Stonehill’s Out- Science Center, and nu- that Fr. MacPháidín had ancestors.” short immersive visit,” tation grew dramatically s t a n d i n g A l u m n u s merous student residence a uncanny knack, noting The camp program said Deenihan. “Follow- and the college’s facilities Award in recognition of all halls. that he was “a gifted and will be piloted this year ing their participation, and endowment were that he had achieved for Fr. MacPháidín was multilingual story teller with the participation of it is hoped that they will enhanced considerably. the college. On the occa- active in the promotion who was blessed with 20 Irish-American high leave with a new-found Fr. MacPháidín affected sion of Stonehill’s golden of private higher educa- plenty of Irish charm and school students. Funding love of Ireland which will every facet of Stonehill anniversary, he received tion at state and federal a razor sharp intellect, will be provided under the stay with them for many life, including academics, the College’s Moreau Me- levels. He participated Fr. Bartley had flair and Department of Foreign years.” finances, physical plant, dallion in recognition of in community causes and a capacity for making Affairs and Trade’s Emi- Added Professor Liam community involvement, the important role that he also maintained a strong things happen. He did grant Support Program Kennedy of the UCD Clin- student life, and public played in Stonehill’s first interest in Irish affairs. He so repeatedly in leading and the camp itself will ton Institute: image. 50 years. served on many boards, the college but, at the be administered by the “This is a great initiative “Fr. Bartley was a dy- As president of Stone- including those of the same time, his pastoral Institute of Study Abroad that imaginatively en- namic president. The hill, he oversaw the con- American Ireland Fund, outreach was legendary. I Ireland and the UCD Clin- gages the next generation college grew dramatically struction of many new Brockton Hospital, and might add, he was a very ton Institute. of the Irish diaspora. We under his leadership. He buildings and facilities, Xaverian Brothers High fine cook, especially when The program will in- look forward to welcoming rallied alumni and friends including: the Bartley School. He was also chap- preparing wonderful Ital- clude classes and work- the first cohort of students to the Stonehill cause and MacPháidín, C.S.C. Li- lain to the New England ian cuisine.” shops on Irish history, and helping to build an translated that affection brary; the Sally Blair Chiefs of Police. A native of Donegal, Fr. language, and culture in exciting and sustainable into a powerful instru- Ames Sports Complex; Francis X. Dillon, a 1970 MacPháidín earned his addition to field trips to program for the children ment in moving the college the Joseph W. Martin, Stonehill graduate who Bachelor of Arts degree important sites across the of our emigrants.” forward. As a priest of Jr. Institute for Law and is now vice president for from Stonehill in 1959, He island. While the camp Applications must be the Congregation of Holy Society; John W. Stanger advancement at Stonehill, was ordained a priest in will have a strong educa- made through globalirish- Cross, he was dedicated to Hall (Lockary Computer worked closely with Fr. the Congregation of Holy tional focus, it will also in- summercamp.com before the college and that deep Center); Roche Dining MacPháidín throughout Cross in 1963. clude interaction with all April 20. facets of Irish society and Minister Humphreys lauded in Boston visit

Irish Minister Heather Humphreys, BIR publisher Ed Forry, Irish Consul General Fionnuala Quinlan, State Senator Linda Dorcena Forry, and Partner- ship President Joe Leary at The Irish American Partnership’s St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast on March 17 at the Boston Harbor Hotel. Minister Humphreys spent a busy four days in Boston over the St Pat- rick’s weekend, and represented the Irish government at holiday events sponsored by several Irish organizations.

Aer Lingus adds extra Boston-Dublin flights Officials of Aer Lingus have announced that it has added two extra roundtrip flights between Boston and Dublin during the first week of September, making 1,000 additional seats available to meet the strong demand from BC football fans wanting to see the season opening game of Boston. The extra flights will operate on September 1 and September 1, 2016. The Aer Lingus College Football Classic between Boston College and Georgia Tech will take place in Dublin’s Aviva Stadium on Saturday, September 3, and is the third time in five years, an American college football game will be staged in Ireland. Aer Lingus Chief Commercial Officer, Keith But- ler said: “We are very proud to partner with Irish American Events, Boston College and Georgia Tech for the Aer Lingus College Football Classic in 2016. Aer Lingus operates three daily services from Boston to Ireland with connections to over 40 cities in Europe and we are delighted to increase our capacity on the route to meet the strong demand from US visitors who are keen to experience the game in Dublin’s Aviva Stadium. We look forward to offering guests a warm welcome on board our flights in September.” bostonirish.com April 2016 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 3 Jibes top menu at Southie’s St. Patrick’s breakfast By Jennifer Smith people here this morning Reporter Staff than all the people who The annual St. Pat- voted for Jeb Bush,” she rick’s Day Breakfast at said, to a combination of the convention center laughter and “awws.” last Sunday delivered “You have as many col- laughs, groans, and an lege students as at a Clin- enduring image of Mayor ton rally, the diversity of Martin Walsh wearing a Sanders rally, and the a dense, pseudo-fur coat combined blood-alcohol of that seems destined to a Trump rally,” she added. grace screensavers across “People here have been the city. drinking since the crack State Sen. Linda Dorce- of dawn, and yet you’re na Forry, hosting the an- still more coherent than nual event for the third Donald Trump.” time, led the way through Trump also provid- a chortle-and-cringe- ed the set-up for some worthy set befitting the delightful prop humor, breakfast’s hallowed and as Congressman Steve awkward tradition of top Lynch revealed giant state and city elected of- fake hands, a take from a ficials trying their hands campaign trail reference at comedy, but surely to Trump’s small hands relieved that they have that Lynch used to needle less joke-reliant day jobs. Mayor Martin Walsh. The failed attempt ear- A number of politi- lier in the month by cians made easy fun of the mayor and police the embattled Sen. Brian Joyce, who is the subject Congresman Stephen Lynch scored with a St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast routine that teased Mayor Martin commissioner to shorten Walsh and GOP presidential front runner Donald Trump. Don West / fOTOGRAfIKS the post-breakfast St. of an ongoing ethics probe. Patrick’s Day Parade Joyce allegedly had re- “So I’m here today to off, and decorating the through South Boston in- ceived free dry cleaning take a moment to publicly South Boston sidewalks furiated locals and served for years while in office, endorse Elizabeth War- with chalk before South as fodder for fresh zingers. making him a soft target ren, Marty Walsh, and Boston Rep. Nick Collins “Mayor Walsh was trying for jibes. Maura Healey for gover- appropriated their draw- to get the breakfast cut Governor Charlie Bak- nor in 2018,” Baker said, ing utensils for himself. in half, too,’’ Sen. Forry er made a slightly de- a whimsical kiss-of-death And Walsh, after taking said, to laughs from the layed entrance, hoisting political move on his own his lumps over the parade 600-some guests. a basket of laundry at behalf. kerfuffle, won points by The barbs at the “love- the podium. “I’m sorry As in previous years, the end of the breakfast. in” breakfast were gentler I’m late,” Baker said. “I’ve prepared videos played a Referencing the jugger- than Irish Minister for been waiting for Senator central role at the break- naut Adele music video Arts, Heritage and the Joyce. I had some laundry fast. A chuckle-worthy for “Hello,” the mayor Gaeltacht Heather Hum- I needed done. And boy, I in-office sketch featured sipped Doughboy coffee phreys had been led to hear he gets a really good Massachusetts House and ambled around as im- expect, she said at the po- deal.” Speaker Robert DeLeo ages and headlines of the dium. But the politicians The Republican gover- assessing the Legisla- Baker-Walsh “bromance” gamely leveled their shots nor noted that his sky-high ture’s work on marijuana floated across the screen. against their colleagues approval ratings have not legalization by pretending Clad in the absurd and themselves on stage seemed to translate into to be high in his State fur coat, Walsh stared and in pre-recorded video successful endorsements House office. longingly with arms out- sketches, amid breaks for -- Scott Brown and Rich- Two other filmed stretched toward the ard Tisei in 2012 and sketches sparked hearty State House from Boston Irish musical interludes. Sr. Brenda Forry, a South Boston native and cousin Sen. Elizabeth Warren, 2014, and, most recently, laughs. In one, the gov- Common, looking for his the ill-fated run by New ernor and Sen. Forry gubernatorial BFF to talk to the breakfast host, offered the opening prayer on after a crack about try- March 20. Don West / fOTOGRAfIKS ing her best to avoid the Jersey Gov. Chris Chris- unleashed their inner about GE bringing its annual political laugh/ tie in the presidential scamps on Southie, chuck- headquarters to Boston. parody, his phone calls said. “I need you.” groan fest, took aim at race, who then endorsed ing water balloons at City Walsh mumbled mourn- going unreturned. “Give the presidential race and Donald Trump, whom he Councillor At-Large Mi- fully through the musical me a call back,” Walsh the crowd before her. “It had vilified when he was chael Flaherty’s car, ring- seems that there are more a candidate. ing Congressman Lynch’s doorbell and scurrying The Boston College Center for Irish Programs & School of For Father Finn, a second Theology & Ministry invite you to attend: salute from immigration agency

BIR Staff by Choice” citations have According to a report Last summer, Father recognized more than 100 in The Pilot, the Boston Dan Finn, a highly visible individuals, including the archdiocese’s newspaper supporter of all ethnic seven named and honored and digital site, Father communities in Dorches- in ceremonies last year, Finn was hailed at a ter and across Boston, a group that included follow-up ceremony last especially during his two- Father Finn, New York month at the Irish Pas- decade tenure as pastor Yankees pitcher Mariano toral Center’s offices in of St. Mark’s parish, was Rivera, the Latin singer St. Brendan’s parish in named an “Outstanding and actor Thalia, Alberto Dorchester where US American by Choice” by Vasallo, Jr., Founder, Citizenship and Immi- US Citizenship and Im- El Mundo Newspaper, gration Services district migration Services. Cambridge, Mass., Ma- director Denis Riordan It was ten years ago that ria Contreras-Sweet Ad- re-presented him with his the immigration services ministrator, US Small award after USCIS had agency decided to honor Business Administration, had it framed. substantial civic contri- Larry La, a Washington “Pope Francis talks butions by naturalized DC area restaurateur, about the shepherd, the Topics include: US citizens. Since then, and Sgt. Major Mercy A. shepherd’s need to have • Church’s failure of nerve “Outstanding American Diez, a vocalist with the the smell of the flock on US Army Band. him, and what better shep- • Collapse of “Catholic culture” in Ireland herd, what better model, • Future role of Christianity in public life what better example, than Daniel Finn,” the Pilot • Secularization quoted Riordan saying to • Learning from the position of the Church of Ireland IPC staff and seniors from IPC’s Senior Citizen Out- • Catholic Church in America: has it better weathered the storm reach Program assembled around some of these issues? for the ceremony. Father Finn “belongs to the Irish,” Riordan told the Among the Conference Speakers are: Pilot. He belongs to the Vietnamese. He belongs • Dr. Michael Jackson, Church of Ireland, Archbishop of Dublin to the Chinese. He belongs • Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, Catholic Archbishop of Dublin to the Cape Verdeans, and to the Haitians and • Patsy McGarry, The Irish Times people from Latin America • Baroness Nuala O’ Loan, House of Lords, London and the Caribbean – he • Margaret Steinfels, Fordham University Father Dan Finn receives ‘American by Choice’ belongs to everyone.” recognition from the U.S. Citizenship and Immi- Father Finn today is This conference is free & open to the public. Please register gration Services district director Denis Riordan, serving as the chaplain to attend at 617-552-3938, [email protected], or on our website March 16. Pilot photo/Mark Labbe of the IPC. at http://www.bc.edu/centers/irish/studies/calendar.html

Page 4 April 2016 BOSTON IRISH Reporter bostonirish.com Publisher’s Notebook The Irish government in crisis: A Dublin tale: The good news, the bad news

By Joe Leary candidates (23 of them) or a group of smaller parties. Two cathedrals Special to the BIR The problem is that as of this writing, no party or Irish voters may have shot themselves in the foot in apparent coalition of parties seems capable of muster- By Ed Forry ing enough votes in the Dail to form a government, Tourism Ireland’s manager of group tourism Jean Mc- the Parliamentary election in late February. In the wake of the catastrophic recession of the last decade, Ireland leaving Ireland temporarily governed by caretakers. Cluskey hosted a Boston event last month for local travel Never a healthy plan. agents and tour leaders to learn what’s new and different seems to be confused about which of its political parties and which of its politicians it The leaders of both Fine Gael, the former and now on the island. “Tourism Ireland is delighted to invite you acting prime minister, Enda Kenny. and Fianna Fail, to ‘Meet The Irish,’ she said. “Come and learn about Ire- wants to lead the country into its immediate future. with its the newly rejuvenated leader, Micheal Martin, land’s new product for your group leaders and clients.” are fiercely attempting to form coalitions to become McCluskey introduced six Irish trade suppliers on They have not chosen a workable government and it the ruling party. her sales mission, including representatives from Both are making deals, issuing new policies, and Dunraven Arms Hotel, Adare; GPO Witness His- may be necessary to vote again in a month or two if a major promising whatever it takes to obtain votes. If neither tory, Dublin; Griffin Hotel Group; Manor House is successful, a new election will be necessary. The Hotels/Irish Country Hotels; and the two Dub- compromise cannot be achieved by the hodgepodge of political shame of it is that we are entering the month of April lin cathedrals, Christ Church and St. Patrick’s. when Ireland will be celebrating the 100th anniversary In interviews before the program, I learned about the parties and independents who were elected. of the Easter Rebellion, which began the sequence of two cathedrals in Dublin. Saint Patrick’s and Christ events that led to complete independence and the final Church are located in Dublin 8, within a half mile of Fine Gael, the leading and controlling party over these separation from its neighbor. each other. Both belong to the Church of Ireland, dat- Joe Leary The celebration will take place, of course, but if a ing back to the Reformation. past five years, had instituted severe cutbacks in salaries, pensions and increased a government has not been formed by April 24, it will be St. Patrick’s Cathedral: Marketing & Events led by caretakers. Even if a government is formed, it officer Clarissa DeLap, a Brookline native now living wide array of fees in order to create free revenue to pay back the German bankers who had loaned the Irish will be via a patchwork of promises and uncomfortable with her husband in Dublin, spoke about its history: deals. The voters have made sure of that. “St. Patrick’s is the largest government the funds to operate during the terrible years. It was known as the austerity program. Right now the men and women leading their parties cathedral in Ireland,” she are changing what they said during the run-up to the said. “It is 800 years old, and Fine Gael and their coalition partners, the Labour Party, paid an awful price in the February voting. To- election. Things they said they would never do they are was founded on the site of a moving toward with great speed. It will be interesting well that St, Patrick is said to gether they had approximately 110 seats in the Dail (as the Parliament is known). In the election, Fine to see who wins. Both Fine Gael and Fianna Fail have have used to convert pagans insisted they will never enter in a government with to Christianity. We welcome Gael was reduced to 50 seats (from 76) and Labour catastrophically was reduced to 7 seats (from 37). Sinn Fein, so that leaves compromise with each other about 500,000 visitors annu- and efforts to recruit the smaller parties and the 23 ally to one of the most active With the effects of the depression still being felt five years ago, the ruling party at the time – Fianna Fail independents that the Irish seem to have fallen in tourist attractions in Dublin. love with lately. “We are an active place of - was reduced to less than half of its members in the 2011 elections and thought to be finished as a major Unfortunately for the outgoing government, less than worship with services twice a two weeks after the election Ireland’s Central Statistics day, including song services party for many years. But no, they made a dramatic comeback this winter and elected 44 of its members Office announced that the country had returned to its with the choir every day.” boom years. Growth rates were at their best levels in She said a boys choir is trained “at the school across to the new Dail. Much to the consternation of many existing politicians 15 years. And it was broad based, covering several the road,” and St Patrick’s is open daily for public and segments of the economy. The economy expanded by private guided tours. and a large portion of Dublin’s aristocracy, Sinn Fein elected 23 members and is now the third major party in more than 9 percent in the fourth quarter of last year “We have a beautiful stained glass window showing and by 7.8 percent for the full year 2015. the life of St. Patrick in thirty nine images, also statues the Republic. They are also the only all Ireland North/ South party. Additionally, many voters seemed to reject That certainly would have been good news for the and sculptures of St. Patrick throughout the church,” voters, and it may have prevented the current situation. DeLap said. “Jonathan Swift, who was the dean here the larger parties to vote for independent, nonaffiliated (1713-1745), is buried in the cathedral.” A regular feature is lunchtime recitals with visiting choirs, and Off the Bench “they happen almost every day between 1 and 2 p.m., she said. Christ Church Cathedral: Said Susanne Reid, tourism development manager. “We opened up our Trump as president would present belfry so people can climb up the 86 steps, go across the medieval roof, and right into the tower. You can have a go at ringing the bells at Christ Church Cathedral. clear and present danger to our union There are 19 bells in the tower, the largest number at any cathedral in the world. People really enjoy that; it By James W. Dolan is something to remember. Special to the Reporter “Last year was the 800th year (since) the Magna The decline of a nation usually is the result of Carta was ratified, and Christ Church has its own copy. internal forces that undermine its strength and People get to see a manuscript of the Magna Carta, confidence. The likely nomination of Donald Trump and it’s pretty special.” One of the odd attractions at and the possibility of his being elected president is Christ Church is a “mummified cat and rat” that was discovered years ago when workers were repairing an more than alarming; it’s perilous. I have lived under old organ. thirteen presidents and during seven wars. The elec- As with St. Patrick’s, Christ Church officials wel- tion of Trump represents a clear and present danger come tourists, and although worshipers are welcome to our union like no other I have seen. at all services, there’s a modest entrance fee for tours. To borrow from Macbeth: “Tourism would be the principal source of income for Trump “struts and frets his the cathedral,” she said. “It’s a working cathedral, part hour upon the stage, full of of the Church of Ireland, Episcopal. Christ Church has sound and fury, signifying a professional choir with 22 professional singers and nothing.” Why then are so a full-time music director. The standard of music is many enthralled by the antics Donald Trump: A transparent narcissist. beautiful,” she said, of a man so manifestly ill- The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin still rec- equipped and unsuited to lead ognizes Christ Church as its seat, although Catholic the nation? We’ve had a few humanity struggles to capture and sustain improve- liturgies have not been celebrated in either cathedral great presidents, others that ments in how we treat one another. Government in almost five centuries. In Dublin, the main Catholic were good, some were mediocre plays an important role in both as it seeks to balance church, St. Mary’s, is designated a pro-cathedral. and a few incompetent. But economic progress and social welfare, strengthening Christ Church’s Reid says a strong bond exist be- James W. Dolan none as transparently narcis- commerce while making sure the many and not just tween Catholic prelate Diarmuid Martin and Church sistic as Trump. a few share in the benefits. Of late, the good will of Ireland leader Michael Jackson. “Both archbishops Megalomania is the only explanation for how he necessary to make these adjustments is absent. were together at Christ Church for evensong on the presents himself. Without a hint of subtlety or humil- At times, human development appears decades Eve of St. Patrick,” she said. “And on Good Friday both behind scientific and technological progress. The two archbishops walked from Christ Church to St Mary’s.” ity, he glories in the attention he needs and demands. For more information online, visit christchurchca- Like some Roman emperor, he wraps himself in a do not evolve in tandem. Humanity always seem to thedral.ie and stpatrickscathedral.ie. toga of wealth. It is the flagrant display of his self- be trying to catch up. Despite all the new information worth. His measure of success is money, power, and technology, there is less meaningful communication in adulation; his political ascent a “reality” TV show Congress now than when all they had were telephones. becoming all too real: the ultimate insider presents I certainly don’t know how to make people better. Boston Irish himself as an outsider. But I do know Donald Trump is not the answer. The Trump phenomenon has capitalized on the One needs to recognize and acknowledge flaws be- REPORTER “blame mentality” by oversimplifying the complex fore trying to correct them. 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By Peter F. Stevens Teevan: The situation was so complex, so rooted in BIR Staff history, tradition, culture, society, politics, and the A history-from-the-top-down approach focuses on First World War. One theme that’s so important to the leaders and prominent players in epochal events me is that people don’t just remember the rebels, but and movements, and a history-from-the-ground-up that they remember all of the Irishmen who died in the approach presents so-called ordinary people swept up trenches of the Western Front or came home maimed in the bigger picture. In “Rebellion,” a five-part RTE physically and psychologically. What we now call post- miniseries airing this month on Sundance TV, the 1916 traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) was “shell-shock” Easter Rising unfolds through the latter approach. back then. In Dublin, Belfast, and all Ireland, you had The ambitious series, with its six million euro price men affected by it. tag standin as RTE’s most expensive docudrama, was Q. In many ways, you depict the Rising as genera- filmed in Dublin in 2015. tional. The series opens with the eruption of World War Teevan: Everything was changing in Ireland, and I, and as the cataclysmic conflict deepens and Irish World War I accelerated the breakdown of conventional are cut down in droves on the Western Front, view- mores. The older generation was more inclined to sup- ers experience the events largely in Dublin, Belfast, port Home Rule or, if Protestant, to maintain the status and London through the prism of three young women quo. To so many of the younger generation, the status along with their families, friends, and lovers. All are quo was unacceptable anymore. Women in Ireland were juxtaposed against the gathering turmoil of the push already moving far ahead of other nations in pushing for Irish independence. Idealism, tangled loyalties to for the vote, equal rights, and societal roles in which family and social, cultural, and political tradition, raw a woman could have a genuine career if she chose. To opportunism – all of these themes others loom large “old” Ireland, such ideas seemed radical. Later, when in the production. de Valera became the Republic’s first president, his Directed by Finnish native Aku Louhimies and conservative Catholicism set back women who had written and co-produced by Colin Teevan, “Rebellion” fought alongside the men during Easter Week of 1916. features a strong cast and some vivid performances. Q. Why did you opt for a ground-up approach to a Notable among the stars are Charlie Murphy, Brian top-down one? Gleeson, and Ruth Bradley – all well-known to many Teevan: Well, I wanted to present the basic principles viewers from their turns in “Love/Hate” – and Sarah that drove regular men and women to take up arms Greene, of “Penny Dreadful.” and fight from the barricades in 1916. I wanted to Murphy plays medical student Elizabeth Butler, tell about the other people immersed in it – not focus whose family and fiancé are determined to show their on the leaders. It’s so true that history is written by support for both the British war effort and for Home the victors, and that’s why it’s so important to explore Rule. She goes in a decidedly different direction by The three-night series Rebellion premieres on the forgotten voices of those who struggled, suffered, joining the women rebels led by Countess Constance SundanceTV on April 24. The cast includes, from and, in many cases, sacrificed themselves for a cause. Markievicz. Their mission is to seize and hold Stephen’s left: May Lacy, Elizabeth Butler, Jimmy Mahon and Their names are always forgotten. That’s the reason Green and set up headquarters in the Royal College of Frances O’Flaherty. Image courtesy SundanceTV I believe that it’s so important to listen to them. Surgeons during the Rising. Gleeson is Jimmy Mahon, I want also to ensure that people realize that Pearse an Irish Citizen Army man in love with Elizabeth. Historical docudrama is a tricky business at best. and other rebels were hardly the only ones fighting in Played by Sarah Greene, Elizabeth’s friend May Understandably, bonafide historians are always ready 1916. Over 150,000 Irishmen were fighting in Europe. Lacey is employed at the British headquarters at to pounce upon the slightest factual inaccuracies. On They, too, were risking their lives, and doing so for Dublin Castle and involved in an affair with British the other hand, many viewers will depart fast for any- a cause that fewer and fewer believed in as the war Chief Secretary Charles Hammond (Tom Turner), who thing that, to them, smacks of “dry-as-dust” history. dragged on. dumps her when his wife arrives in Dublin. In an act They want visceral emotion and action. Teevan has Q. The literal meaning of “rebellion” is prevalent both personal and perhaps patriotic, May smuggles a embraced that oft-daunting balancing act. The look throughout the series. British document with a list of Irish Volunteers and of the series – from Dublin’s General Post Office to Teevan: Yes, strongly so. I wanted to explore the Sinn Féiners about to be arrested and gives it Frances Kilmainham and other sites – is utterly genuine, as are whole level of revolution in Ireland and elsewhere. O’Flaherty (Ruth Bradley), who teaches at Enda’s with the emotions and inner turmoil of the characters. By There was rebellion across Ireland, in Finland, in none other than rebel leader Patrick Pearse (played by design, Teevan chose to tell the story through women Russia, and with the Spartacists in Germany. There’s Marcus Lamb). The action is off and running. as the leads. always the moment when a riot becomes a revolution. Colin Teevan, whose work “Charlie” examined the In short, viewers who want a by-the-book telling You rebel against everything you’ve ever known – the controversial life and career of disgraced Taoiseach of the Rising from the top down might carp at the nar- genie’s let out of the lamp. No turning back after that Charles Haughey, has chosen to depict the Easter Rising rative choices of the miniseries. Teevan and company, moment. The old rules are gone. They don’t apply in a different vein – through fictional characters who however, have rendered a compelling, dramatic, and anymore. stand as composites of their era. The leaders of the emotional portrait of the Rising. “Rebellion” is ulti- Yeats published his famous poem [“Easter 1916”] Rising appear fleetingly. The aforementioned Marcus mately well worth the watching. some four years after the Rising. No one knew where Lamb does render a memorable Pearse by capturing a Recently, Teevan spoke by phone with the BIR: the revolt would lead, but his words – “All changed, genuine sense of almost frightening conviction in his Q. Although you chose to tell the story of the Easter changed utterly” – truly captured that uncertainty and determination to offer himself and the other rebels as Rising from the vantage points not through the familiar also the certainty that nothing would ever be the same. a blood sacrifice for Irish freedom. As James Connolly, figures – de Valera, Collins, Markievicz, Pearse, Con- ••• Brian McCardie’s one scene – replete with Connolly’s nolly, and so forth – the broad themes that drove the “Rebellion” airs on SundanceTV at 8 p.m., starting trademark Scottish accent – is dramatic. Camille rebellion are very much part of the plot lines. Sun., April 24, through Tues., April 26. O’Sullivan appears briefly as Countess Markievicz. Point of View A shade of Emerald Isle green in Augusta this year?

By Peter F. Stevens and Clarke’s close to none, and Lowry’s somewhere BIR Staff in between slim to none. While one never knows, it Will this be the year that there’ll be a “wearing of the is McIlroy upon whom the golf crown of the island green” – the green jacket of a Masters champion – for a weighs heaviest. He has youth and is arguably the golfer who hails from the old sod? With Rory McIlroy game’s most spectacular shot-making talent. He also in the field, it could happen the second week of this knows how to close out a major, and if he’s at or near month. Then again, Augusta is the one major that has the top of the Augusta leaderboard on the final day, eluded the young linkster from Holywood, Co. Down. it’s a solid bet that the wearing of the 2016 green could Augusta National was the site where, in 2011, McIlroy have a decidedly Emerald shade. went into the final round with a four-stroke lead but McIlroy and his fellow Irish golfers can hope that suffered an implosion that cost him that green blazer. April at Augusta turns out as well for any of them One can’t downplay chances that the pride of as early April 1922 ended for another player from Northern Ireland will contend at Augusta this month their home turf. His triumph came at Pinehurst in and perhaps add to the Emerald Isle’s Tour Majors the North and South Open, which was viewed as an trophy case. For all of the golf-mad Emerald Isle, the unofficial major by the era’s best professionals. Atop surge begun by Dubliner Padraig Harrington’s major the leaderboard, the name of Paddy O’Hare marked breakthrough at the 2007 and 2008 British Opens and the first time an Irishman had won a professional the 2008 PGA Championship spread to the North and tournament in America. across the golfing globe. O’Hare cradled “his handsome championship trophy” Just a bit over five years ago, in July 2011, the gifted and pocketed his winner’s share – $300. The New York Northern Irish golfer Graeme McDowell tweeted the Times lauded: “If O’Hara’s [sic] wasted second round follow tongue-in-cheek words: “Darren Clarke – the of 69 had been taken into account [the day’s scores first Northern Irish golfer to win a major in almost were wiped away because torrential rain prevented four weeks.” McDowell, himself the winner of the 2010 many players from finishing the round], he would US Open, was lauding Clarke’s stunning triumph at have broken all Pinehurst records with a total of 289 the 2011 British Open, another bit in a run of “majors for 72 holes of play.” magic” by Irish golfers after no linkster from the Emer- According to The Irish Times, the misspelling of ald Isle had snagged a major since Fred Daly in 1947. O’Hare’s name may or may or may not have been a McIlroy will complete a career grand slam if he typo: “Either way, they [Americans] preferred the Irish prevails on the hallowed Georgia tract this year. Last lilt of Pat O’Hara.” O’Hare, fresh from his triumph, spring, he notched a fourth-place finish; Bobby Jones’s returned to Ireland as something of a conquering hero dream course continues to bedevil the four-time major for an intended two-week vacation. He never boarded champion. How good is the Northern Irishman? So Rory McIlroy: Time for a Masters win? the return ship to the States, discovering that he was good that he’s the first European to win three differ- homesick. In 1927, the name Paddy O’Hare once again ent majors; so good that along with Jack Nicklaus and draig Harrington and Shane Lowry and the North’s crowned a leaderboard. The tournament?” The Irish Tiger Woods, McIlroy is one of the only three golfers Graeme McDowell and Darren Clarke. One need Professional Championship. to win three majors by the age of 25. only check with the odds-makers, though, to see that Take it to the bank that no one will misspell Rory’s Joining McIlroy at Augusta are the Republic’s Pa- many rate McDowell’s chances as slim, Harrington’s surname if he wins at Augusta. Page 6 April 2016 BOSTON IRISH Reporter bostonirish.com bostonirish.com April 2016 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 7 Immigration Q&A Irish International Immigrant Center An agency accredited by US Department of Justice Update: High Court 100 Franklin Street, Boston, MA 02110 Telephone (617) 542-7654 Fax (617) 542-7655 case on DAPA, DACA Website:iiicenter.org Email: [email protected] Q. I heard that the Supreme Court is reviewing President Obama’s DAPA & DACA programs. What is the timeline for a decision? A. You’re right. The Supreme Court has agreed to review the decision of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in US v. 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Stevens began to burn from the top down. [James] Connolly BIR Staff was wounded twice. The first wound he hid from his Fourth of four parts. men, [but] the second was more serious, for one foot was shattered, and he was in great pain. With the aid One hundred years ago, on Wed., April 26, 1916, of morphine he carried on directing the battle as best shock and excitement gripped Boston’s Irish neigh- he could. The Dublin fires were now great conflagra- borhoods. Readers collectively gasped that day at tions. With the streets full of small arms and the water the Boston Globe’s morning-edition headline: “Serious supplies often cut, these could not be dealt with. Still, Revolt Rises in Dublin – Armed Sinn Fein Men Fought no major rebel strongpoint surrendered.” British Troops.” The headline in the Evening Globe of Fri., April 28, The rebels had proclaimed “the birth of the Irish revealed: “Parts of Dublin in Flames, Street-Fighting Republic.” Continues.” Citing a report from London, the paper The dramatic story of the Easter Rising, which stated, “One dispatch received from Ireland this af- had been raging in Dublin since Monday, had finally ternoon says that Sackville and Grafton Streets in reached Boston, and for the next few weeks, the city’s Dublin are in flames and that artillery is being used Irish pored over the Globe’s, the Herald’s, and other on the houses, the inhabitants having been removed.” local newspapers’ front-page coverage of the valiant Later, eyewitnesses would assail the “truth” of the but ill-fated revolt led against the British by Padraig latter statement. “Street-fighting continues,” the report Pearse, James Connolly, and other rebels. noted, “and there is much looting…but the reinforced In Boston, people frantically tried to telegraph rela- military is making steady progress. Most of the shops tives in Dublin and elsewhere throughout the island. From the letter that Patrick Pearse, president of the are closed, and passenger communication is still cut off.” Few messages went through for nearly two weeks, as short-lived Irish Republic, wrote to his mother on the As any Boston Irish who had attempted to send Dublin’s windows were shattered from the roars and eve of his execution. It is dated Kilmainham Prison, a telegram to their old homes had learned, “normal rumbles of British artillery and the nights were lit up May 3, 1916: telegraph, telephone and mail service with Ireland by the flashes of the fieldpieces’ muzzles and flaming has not been restored, and the existing means of com- sheets of small-arms fire. “Our hope and belief is that the Government will munication are subject to such a strict censorship that Many in Boston Irish read an April 30, 1916, piece spare the lives of all our followers, but we do not expect it is possible to obtain only fragmentary information.” in The New York Times, which asked prominent Irish that they will spare the lives of the leaders. We are The Globe and the Herald ran scraps of that infor- Americans to assess the rebellion even as firsthand ready to die and we shall die cheerfully and proudly. mation, describing desperate fighting in Dublin on communications from Dublin remained fragmentary Personally I do not hope or even desire to live, but I the 28th, when Connolly ordered a number of women at best. First and foremost, the Times reported, Irish- do hope and desire and believe that the lives of all our rebels to leave the burning General Post Office. The American leaders denied that the rebels were acting followers will be saved including the lives dear to you end loomed for the battered insurgents. on behalf of Kaiser Wilhelm’s Germany, then at war and me (my own excepted) and this will be a great In a last savage battle along King Street, near the with Britain, France, Russia, and Italy. “Irish Sepa- consolation to me when dying. Four Courts, approximately 5,000 British troops with ratists in this country [the U.S.A.] do not believe that You must not grieve for all this. We have preserved armored cars and machine guns required 28 hours to the uprising in Dublin was the formal planned begin- Ireland’s honour and our own. Our deeds of last week advance just 150 yards against 200 rebels. The sight of ning of a revolution,” the report noted, “and they scout are the most splendid in Ireland’s history. People will writhing and screaming comrades amid motionless ones [dismiss] the idea that the capture of the British Post say hard things of us now, but we shall be remembered torn apart by Irish fire on King Street ignited a fury Office and the severing of telegraph wires in the Irish by posterity and blessed by unborn generations.” among many of the British soldiers pressing closer to capital were financed or instituted by the Germans…” the rebels. A Globe article noted: “It was then that the The Times analysis added that many Irish Ameri- troops of the South Staffordshire Regiment bayoneted cans believed “that Ireland’s golden opportunity for On the front page of the April 26 Boston Evening and shot civilians hiding in cellars. And now it was revolution had come” and that the fighting in Dublin Globe appeared the following headline in giant, bold all over. On Saturday morning, Pearse and Connolly represented “in short, another Boston Tea Party or black print: “Dublin Under Martial Law.” The city’s surrendered unconditionally.” Battle of Lexington.” Brahmins likely nodded their assent to a Globe story In Boston, as elsewhere in the United States, many According to the Times, supporters in Boston and picked up from the London wire and deriding the Rising Irish hardly viewed the rebels as heroes from the first elsewhere of John Redmond’s long-running and frus- as “an act of folly by political lunatics – old disgruntled news of the revolt. Boston priests denounced Pearse, trating campaign for Irish Home Rule expressed “the cranks and young Sinn Feiners.” Connolly, and their comrades in arms as criminals opinion there cannot be anything but regret to follow Adding to the excitement in Boston were newspaper against proper authority, “traitors” against a nation the uprising for which Ireland and themselves must accounts contending that documents seized from a at war against “the Hun.” suffer.” German spy proved that “prominent Irishmen in the A large part of the Boston Irish community did not The rebellion had erupted on Easter Monday, April United States” had been working with Germany to yet know how to assess the doomed Easter Rising. 24, when a band of 1,000-1,500 Irishmen, armed largely foment and finance the revolt in Dublin. Nervously, Newspapers carried accounts of Dublin crowds jeering with obsolete German rifles, seized the sprawling Boston’s Irish awaited the inevitable news that the and hurling invective at the ragged, bloodied rebels as General Post Office on Sackville Street (now O’Connell British had crushed the insurgents. they were marched through the streets to prison. Then, Street) and other key points throughout Dublin, catch- That grim reality was confirmed in the morning edi- the reprisals by the British came – and everything ing the British Army by surprise. Michael Collins, tions of the Globe and the Herald on Thurs., April 27. changed in Dublin and across the Atlantic in Boston. Eamon de Valera, and the other rebels dug in as best Emblazoned on page one of the Globe were the words Next: “All Changed, Changed Utterly…” (“Eas- they could and braced for the British onslaught to “British Defeat Dublin Rebels.” The headline was a ter 1916,” W.B. Yeats) come. By the time that the news of the Rising reached bit premature – in Dublin the British troops were bor- ••• Boston’s papers, the British had imposed martial law ing in for the kill. Some soldiers were shooting male For further reading, see Michael P. Quinlin, “Bos- upon Dublin and were pounding the Irish positions, the civilians on sight because many of the rebels did not ton and the Irish Rising,” Irish America Magazine, gunboat Helga reducing rebel meeting-place Liberty wear uniforms. February-March 2016; The Easter Rising, Michael Foy Hall to a charred ruin. British batteries and troops “On that day [Thursday],” the Globe related, “at- and Brian Barton, Sutton Publishing, 1999; and The took up positions at Trinity College, and soldiers sur- tacks were made on Boland’s Mill, the men in the Rising (Centenary Edition) – Ireland: Easter 1916, rounded the rebels’ positions and inched ever closer. South Dublin Union were forced to give ground, and Fearghal McGarry, Oxford University Press, 2016.) there was shelling of the General Post Office, which Kenny remains caretaker PM as governing coalition fractures By Shawn Pogatchnik ity measures reduced his Associated Press Labour Party ally to just DUBLIN— Ireland’s seven lawmakers. new parliament over- Those 57 lawmakers whelmingly rejected both backed Kenny, but 94 re- Prime Minister Enda jected him as “Taoiseach,” Kenny and his main ri- the formal Gaelic title val in votes to select the for leader. Minutes later, next government leader lawmakers dealt an even on March 10, creating a stronger rebuke to Fianna political vacuum that may Fail leader Micheal Mar- take weeks of difficult tin. He received 43 votes, coalition talks to fill. all from his own party, Ireland’s parliament while 108 said no. might not convene again Irish nationalist Sinn until this month follow- Enda Kenny: Still Prime Minister – for now. Fein’s 23 lawmakers voted ing the year’s two most Irish News photo for their own leader, Gerry politically charged events to work hard in the inter- on March 10, government Adams, who received no on the Irish calendar, St. ests of the country and statisticians announced support from others. Patrick’s Day and Easter. the people,” Kenny told that Ireland had cemented Coalitions have gov- Kenny, Ireland’s leader lawmakers. its status as Europe’s most erned Ireland since 1989. since 2011, said he would At risk in any protracted rapidly expanding econo- This is the first time that resign from his position, stalemate is Ireland’s my with growth rates last the two heavyweights of after which the head of impressive economic re- experienced in 2000. political life, Fianna Fail state, President Michael bound from its 2010 bail- While Kenny’s Fine Gael and Fine Gael, have been D. Higgins, would imme- out, which was delivered remains the largest party, unable to form a numeri- diately reappoint him as cally stable coalition with Pianist, fiddler and composer Charlie Lennon was by a Kenny-led govern- with 50 lawmakers in the caretaker prime minister. ment that, until voters 158-seat parliament, it anyone but each other. among the performers at the March 28 Easter Ris- “Let me assure the Irish If Kenny and Martin ing commemorative concert held at Boston College. cast their ballots Feb. no longer has a coalition people that the govern- 26, enjoyed the biggest partner strong enough to cannot forge an agreement The event featured BC musicians and dancers as that delivers stable gov- well as special guests, including retired director of ment remains in place parliamentary majority deliver a majority after and that I and my Cabinet in Irish history. left-wing voters infuriated ernment, a second election BC Irish music programs Seamus Connolly. will follow. Sean Smith photo colleagues will continue As lawmakers convened by government auster- bostonirish.com April 2016 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 9 Boston Irish Reporter’s Here & There

By Bill O’Donnell other exculpatory evidence pointing to the Irishmen’s rambling conversations. We early birds were on the Irish Unity Would Boost North & South – The innocence ignored or put aside. alert to see what candidate or key aide (they usually unification of the island of Ireland, a favorite theme The six men — Paddy Joe Hill, Richard Mc- knew what was happening) had something that had of many nationalists, would produce a significant Ilkenny, Hugh Callaghan, Gerry Hunter, Johnny advanced from rumor to about-to-break. economic benefit for Ireland, north and south, says Walker, and Billy Power were taken into custody, Strictly speaking, I wasn’t supposed to be there with a Canadian study just released. tried and convicted because they were Irish. One of them. I had no byline, no up-and-comer I was push- The report, conducted by the University of British the released men, Gerry Hunter, was the guest of ing, but I liked the atmosphere and nobody cared as Columbia, is being heralded as the “first comprehen- Boston. I still recall the smiling but nervous man who long as you got the odd round here and there. It was sive simulation of political and economic integration.” sat with us in Doyle’s in Jamaica Plain. How does one fun to see the men, mostly men, who served as the Its findings indicate strong, solid benefits and savings begin to get those lost years back. Impossible! mechanics who oiled the campaign machinery. Later on both sides of the border. The new international Irish Have A Role In Brexit Vote – The referen- in the evening, just stopping by to say hello and move survey also shows dramatic dum on Britain leaving or staying in the European on, came the working candidates. Jerry Brown, the growth following integration, Union will be held less than three months from now, on Greggs, father and son, TV’s Tom Brokaw having including $36 billion in new June 23. The British voters will decide what direction a drink before dinner, Walter Cronkite every once GDP expansion in the first for the UK. But the Irish, too, have a part to play in in a while in sloppy hat and tan raincoat, Howard eight years. the vote. Many Irish do have a vote (living in Britain) Baker, on rare occasions, amiable, quiet George H.W. The report suggests that and the Irish living in the North can participate. All Bush, some stylish visiting reporters from the Los benefits would be island-wide in all there are over 600,000 qualified Irish voters: Angeles Times, Jack Germond, the raucous laugh but the North would benefit In England and Wales there are more than 400,000 announcing his arrival, and maybe a familiar face, more than the Republic. The residents who were born in the Republic, and a further like Marty Nolan from the Boston Globe. I sort of reasons for the disparity, says 215,000 born in the North. miss the give and take of those olden days, and from the study’s leader, is that “the Many observers are suggesting the possibility of a what’s on offer on political television these sorry, North is obviously very close vote in June. In that scenario the 600,000 surreal days, there’s not much replacing it. the less developed economy” Irish can, as swing voters, make a significant differ- Rest In Peace, Robert Kenney – The former di- Bill O’Donnell The Republic, meanwhile, ence in the Brexit outcome. rector of the BRA was Boston Mayor Kevin White’s would enjoy benefits of bet- A compelling factor for the Irish is the fact that point man in the 1970s on the development of Faneuil ter market access and better experts, including the London School of Economics, Hall Marketplace and other key downtown projects economies of scale of investments. A win-win for both contend that an exit vote in the referendum could that decades later are serving us so well. Bob Kenney parts of Ireland. lead to major economic losses in Britain. The out- was a quiet man of few words as a son noted after While the report provides a beacon of encouragement look is that after England, the biggest loser in living his death. He didn’t do bragging well; he let his work for many on the island it also has found its critics standards would be Ireland, with the island suffering ethic and the buildings he developed and brought to among the unionists in the North. Chief among the “the largest proportional losses of any country other life do most of his talking. He was a crackerjack, a naysayers is the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), than Britain.” genuinely talented man who never made a point of which said the unity report “Sounds like Gerry Adams- What was that election-day cry years ago in the trying to convince you that he was smarter than you style economics and has all the same credibility.” They Curley, Lomasney era – “Vote early and often!” Yes, or the fellow standing next to you. used to be friends! indeed. I liked Bob enormously. He was a close friend of In rebutting the findings the DUP said, “Support for Sister Pascalina: The Rest Of The Story – She friends of mine and we would bump into one another the Union has never been higher in Northern Ireland has, with ample reason, been called “The most power- now and then, and amidst the warmth he exuded, I was because the people ...see the value of being part of one ful woman in Vatican history.” She was for some 41 always curious how this kind, gentle, accomplished of the world’s largest economies and other positives years advisor, confidante, secretary to the Vatican man had gotten so much done in such a high visibility of being in the United Kingdom.” cleric Eugenio Pacelli, and then virtual co-adjutor world without being outrageously popular or a media A Miffed Gerry Adams Channels Rosa Parks with him when he, as Pope Pius XII, was dealing favorite. Somewhere along the way, it dawned on me – The US Secret Service says that the dust-up that with serious questions of policies and strategy con- that he was so successful and well-liked because he resulted in the Sinn Féin leader being detained at cerning the Catholic Church he ruled. knew what was important in life and what wasn’t. the White House last month and finally leaving after In my outing on this topic in this space previously, He was the full package. waiting for some 90 minutes was due to an “admin- I had to cut short the story of a truly extraordinary My condolences to Bob’s wife Kathy, their three istrative input error.” Adams’s remark after leaving woman. Born Josefina Lehnert in Bavaria in 1894, sons, and the Kenney family. – “Sinn Féin will not sit at the back of the bus for she was called Sister Pascalina during her decades RANDOM CLIPPINGS anyone,” an expression forever tied to US civil rights as a Catholic nun and La Popessa by many during The ugliest and most bogus charge ever raised icon Rosa Parks – won Gerry some criticism from her Vatican years when she served Pius the pope. against President Obama by the befuddled right- political foes at home. The two of them worked together for the betterment wing nuts is that Obama is responsible for creating There are a number of rationales for the Adams of the Church. They had frequent private disagree- Trump because of his partisanship. … Give Fidelity snub being circulated in Washington and Dublin ments over policy, strategy, and what was best for a pat on the back for its benefit program that helps political circles where Adams and his policies find the pope and the Church. Pascalina verbally scuffled their workers pay off their student loans. … George scant comfort, but one has quietly risen to the top as with cardinals and other Curia members when she Regan will convince few when he whines “It’s not the key reason for the unusual White House security sensed they were engaged in activities unhelpful to about the money” in his money-seeking lawsuit against holdup, and it has a history. Pius and his mission. Suffolk U. … Tom T.C. Cummings of WUNR 1600 According to the Irish Independent newspaper, a When they had clashes or unresolved differences, Radio has passed on. Our condolences to wife She- recent British government report charged that the she omitted the honorary “Your Holiness” when ad- lia Lordan Cummings. … Smart move up North Provisional Irish Republican Army still exists and is dressing the pope, and he omitted calling her Sister as Antrim councillors now refuse to fund tires used involved in organized crime, including recent murders Pascalina when he was unhappy with something for dreaded bonfires. The North’s civil service, once in Ireland. The British report further notes that PIRA Pascalina said. But always it was respectful, if some- dominated by Protestants, is no longer that way and members “believe that the army council oversees both times edgy, and their devotion to each other and the the complaints are piling up. PIRA and Sinn Fein with an overarching strategy.” cause they served was never out of sight. Stephen Colbert is not shy about bringing his The Obama administration has been quiet on many What I liked learning about Sister Pascalina was Catholicism to his late night TV show. … The word aspects of homegrown terrorism in Ireland, but the that every idea, policy suggestion, strong opinion or is out that President Obama is plunging into the death and disappearance of Belfast mother of ten negotiated argument was invariably a fight between campaign arena with gusto. … Boston Mayor Marty Jean McConville in 1972 has been a continuing the two and she always came down on the side of Walsh is no stranger to the White House, where his ugly sore spot in any relations between the Obama what best served Pius and the church. From time to urban smarts are prime time favorites of the Obama White House and Adams. time she stiffened the back of the pontiff. She never team. … US Sen. Ed Markey was for some airline Lord Of The Dance Is Retiring – Speaking on used the relationship to further her own career. They fee cuts but the Senate blocked a new consumer aid the eve of his retirement from active dance, Michael often thought alike on major issues. In instances bill that would have slowed the rising fees. … One of Flatley told a Irish American Fund audience of his where saving Jews and others from the Nazis, she the more abusive charities, Wounded Warrior, which debts to his parents and what his stunningly success- and the pope sometimes disagreed on methods but spends huge sums living high, has fired two top execs, ful career has meant. never on what was morally right. Between the two but much more monitoring is overdue. … The move It was a rare look at Michael and his life, but more of them and others in the Vatican they saved scores is on in the respective legislative bodies in Ireland it was a speech close to the bone and a poignant mo- with false exit papers, and hid thousands more within to cut the high VAT tax for tourist spots, hotels, etc. ment as he closed the curtain. the Vatican walls. The rate now in the UK is a ridiculous 20 percent. “I wish my father could be here tonight. He was After Pius died in 1958, her old foes in the Curia In case you missed it former Anglo Irish bank chief a Sligo man, sadly he passed away a year ago. My prompted her quick departure, and only a very few, David Drumm is back in Dublin facing ten years in mother just turned 80 and she couldn’t make the like New York’s Cardinal Spellman and Boston’s his fraud case. … Post Office boxes, usually green, are trip. My mother is from Carlow and they came to Cardinal Cushing, were aware and respectful of her being painted red for the 1916 events. Funniest is one the United States from Carlow in 1947 with nothing singular service and influence for good over the years An Post comment that some PO boxes may have been and they worked so hard. Two Irish people. ... they in the back offices of Vatican City. Pascalina spent on the streets since the Rising. … Peace walls, some worked day and night to support us. I would have her remaining years at a convent in Vienna and died anyway, are coming down now in Belfast, the first of nothing, I would be nothing without my parents, and there at 89. 21 targeted walls. Ulster U reports that the North any award I receive in my lifetime, particularly this The Past Gets Razed – The Sheraton Wayfarer spends $1.2 billion yearly coping with divisions there. one, it’s for them.” Is No More – After watching some of the Republican … If you’re not otherwise engaged, Washington Post But like the athlete he is, the dancer recalled his debates in recent weeks and shaking my head at the super columnist E.J. Dionne is to speak and offer injuries: “a torn calf, two ruptured Achilles tendons, personal invective being wildly tossed around, I was his new book on Tues., April 26 at the JFK Library. a broken toe. It has been severe but I wouldn’t trade lamenting the old days and wishing that politicking … Martin McGuinness is calling for reunification it for the world.” 2016 had more of the old stuff and the personalities if the Brits quit the EU. … Stormont is way behind Michael finished with a nod to the impact that Irish going back a few decades. in the women who serve in the assembly. … Former dance, the culture, has had on the world. “It was my Then I picked up a short article by James Perry, Irish President Mary McAleese is for the British great honor for the last twenty years to do what I do. a wonderful old pro, a first-rate journalist at Dow voters to reject leaving the EU. … Ian Paisley, Jr. We have bought Irish culture to the four corners of Jones and the Journal and political observer of many zapped the 1916 Rising celebration as a loser. If this the globe. We have sold out every major venue from New Hampshire primaries. Not any longer being son of Nepotism had a brain, he’d be dangerous. … Tokyo to Texas, from Mexico to Moscow,” he said. much of a traveler myself, I only learned from Jim’s Mother Teresa becomes a saint on Sept. 4. I met her I have been to many live shows over the years but article that the Sheraton Wayfarer in Bedford, New once on a Boston-New York flight to meet Charlie watching Michael Flatley and Jean Butler danc- Hampshire, had been abandoned and recently razed Haughey, who won’t be tabbed for similar honors. … ing together in center stage at the Point in Dublin is to create condos and a shopping center. I was sad- Protests are under way from relatives of 1916 victims probably the most special, transcendent theatrical dened, but times change. who don’t want the Glasnevin memorial wall to have moment I have ever experienced. 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By Sean Smith Special to the BIR The band’s name is taken from the title of a William Butler Yeats poem. Its co-founder is a protégé of re- nowned Sligo-style fiddler Brian Conway, one member has taught at the Boston Harbor Scottish Fiddle Camp, and another is a dynamic, peripatetic bagpiper. And over the past few years, the band has become a fixture at Greater Boston Irish/Celtic venues and events like The Burren, the Irish Culture Centre of New England’s annual festival, and BCMFest. Don’t pigeonhole local quintet Cat and the Moon into the “Celtic” category, though. It’s just not that simple. For one thing, there’s an unmistakable bluegrass strain running through their music, evident in the rolling cadence of five-string banjo and backing-on-the- offbeat by guitar. But wait a minute – now they’re playing a jazz/funk mash-up, in the Bela Fleck/”Newgrass” style, an electric bass line walking along the melody, and percussion accentuating the rhythm. And then they shift gears again, and tear through a bona-fide traditional Irish reel. Hey, did they just play Bach? You have to be pretty darn good musicians to pull this sort of thing off, and the members of Cat and the Moon – Kathleen Parks (fiddle), Ricky Mier (banjo), Charles Berthoud (electric bass), Eamon Sefton (guitar), Elias Alexander (percussion, bagpipes) – certainly fit that description: They were all good enough to get into the Berklee College of Music, which is where they met and developed their sound over the past few years. They’ve preserved the fruits of this formative period on their recently released debut CD. Cat and the Moon members (L-R) Elias Alexander, Eamon Sefton, Charles Berthoud, Ricky Mier and Trite as the phrase may be, “expect the unexpected” Kathleen Parks met while studying at the Berklee College of Music. can aptly describe the Cat and the Moon oeuvre, such as stray riffs you’ve heard before but perhaps can’t im- out on classical violin at age 5 – Irish fiddle at age 9, One of Sefton’s pals at Berklee was Alexander, an mediately place – yes, that’s Bach’s “Presto Sonata in when she began studying with Conway. Oregonian who plays a music store’s worth of instru- G Minor” Mier and Parks briefly reference during “The When she was 13, Parks heard pioneering fiddler ments including Scottish bagpipes, is also a top-notch Taste.” Appropriately enough, “Cat and the Moon” could Eileen Ivers, and was taken by her fusion of Irish and percussionist, and a certifiable live wire. And then serve as a signature track for the band: Parks opens world music, as well as jazz and other genres. “It was there was Berthoud, who came all the way from Lon- with some aggressive rhythmic chopping before she so beautiful and powerful, and I thought ‘That’s what I don – “Charles is astoundingly good,” says Mier. “He and Mier glide into the melody, with its twisty-turny want to do!’ So I got close to my dad and learned more can do things on the bass that are just unbelievable, accents and time signature shifts. Just as you realize about what he played, like swing and funk – he intro- and he’s open to a lot of different styles and vibes. He you’ve heard the theme from “Inspector Gadget,” Mier duced me to Earth, Wind and Fire – and that helped fit right in.” and Berthoud go into a pas-de-deux that ends with in getting used to playing improvisations.” There are certain challenges to forming a band at snatches of “The Sailor’s Hornpipe” and “Pop Goes Mier, who is unfailingly gregarious and effusive – Berklee. Perhaps the biggest is that most every Berklee the Weasel,” and then Parks embarks on a percussive he’s been known to start a conversation by showing off student seems to be part of a half-dozen other bands step-dance break, trading off beats with Alexander coin tricks – describes his childhood musical activity or collaborations. That’s certainly true for Cat and the before the band has one more go at the main theme. as “making stuff up. My parents listened to disco, and Moon: Mier and Parks play with bluegrass unit Twisted The band’s treatment of the traditional Irish reels I grew up downloading; sometimes I’d hear something Pine, for instance, and Parks, Sefton, and Alexander “Fermoy Lasses/Cup of Tea” unfolds slowly and quietly, and say, ‘It would be cool to play this in a band.’” Mier are members of Irish-Scottish group Fresh Haggis; Al- Parks working in increasingly complex variations and started on guitar in middle school, “but it had too exander also is front man for Afro-Celt/funk ensemble improvisations over Sefton’s steady chordings, until many strings, so I got a bass instead.” He had enough Soulsha. It took a lot of work and focus, Parks and Mier Mier raises the starter’s pistol and they’re off and run- natural ability to take advanced music classes on both say, for Cat and the Moon to mesh their talents and ning on “Cup of Tea,” at least for a little while – Parks instruments in high school, and besides learning clas- ideas and come up with something cohesive enough and Mier take improvisational solos, and the tune be- sics such as “Stairway to Heaven” and “Blackbird,” he that would endure beyond a jam session. gins to recalibrate in bluegrass mode, then at the end got very good at fingerpicking. “One thing that helped a lot was that we had a seems almost, but not quite, back in its Irish setting. “Then someone showed me a banjo,” he recalls, “and residency at The Burren for a couple of months,” says That track and “Home Again,” which uses a brisk jig I dragged Mom to the store to show her the song I Mier. “When you have a regular gig where you have rhythm as its foundation, showcase Mier’s ability to learned. A few weeks later, she surprised me with a to play for three hours at a time, you get better, and tease out triplets as if he were playing a tenor banjo – banjo that I never put down.” you develop a chemistry.” the kind you use with a plectrum – as opposed to the If Eileen Ivers was Parks’s big revelation, Bela Fleck Adds Parks, “Playing at The Burren definitely im- fingers-operated five-string brand. Parks, meanwhile, – with his technical proficiency and inventive progres- proved not only our collective musical abilities, but also uses her fiddle not only for melody but also for creating sive bluegrass style – was Mier’s. As he became more our entertainment skills. It’s one thing to sit around mood and texture, such as during one of Berthoud’s and more familiar with the banjo, Mier put together playing music with each other, but when you have an patented bass solos on “Moonrise.” Alexander brings a band with some fellow students to play bluegrass, audience you have to keep them in mind, too, and do out the bagpipes for a set of tunes he co-wrote, “Sunset although “there wasn’t a violin or fiddle player in the what you can so they enjoy themselves.” Run/Enemy Feminine Anemone,” the latter of which is entire school.” Last year, the band felt ready to hit the recording a driving, head-for-the-hills jig that recalls the work of Then Mier met Boston-area banjo player Gabe Hirsh- studio, another crucial milestone in its development. Scotland’s “acid-croft” bands like Shooglenifty. feld on social media, who told him about Berklee. “I “We were road-tested by then, but we knew we had “I think it’s a good picture of where we are, where checked it out and fell in love,” he says. to really fine-tune our arrangements and make sure we’ve come from,” says Mier. “The music – Celtic, Jam sessions are as regular an occurrence at Berk- we were all together,” says Mier. “I gave everyone a bluegrass, funk, blues, disco, whatever – is the culmi- lee as, say, breathing. So naturally enough, Mier and big pep-talk: ‘This needs to be the definitive recording nation of all our experiences, and it’s the conversation Parks crossed paths at one such get-together. As Mier of Cat and the Moon.’ I didn’t mean in terms of playing we have with one another.” recalls it, although they both knew an Irish tune – “The absolutely perfect, with no mistakes. I wanted us to All the members of Cat and the Moon are skillful Swallowtail Jig” – they didn’t have any bluegrass tunes think about how we wanted to sound: What is it that musicians, and each gets a chance to shine, but it is in common. defines us as a band? co-founders Parks and Mier who are unquestionably “So we just instantly made stuff up,” he says. “She “We really came together on this, and I think the the band’s focal point – visually as well as musically. was amazing. I showed her a few of the tunes I’d come result is totally us.” In performance, they’ll frequently engage one another up with, and she got it just like that.” But the band isn’t content to stay that particular as they trade off licks, sometimes striking rock-star “Most all of what we did at first was funk,” adds “us,” say Parks and Mier. They’re looking to embark poses, other times effecting deadpan glances, all the Parks, the only member of the band still in Berklee. on a new direction, which involves Parks’ abilities as while spinning out a litany of riffs, harmonies, and “Being in a place like Berklee, you’re at a crossroads. a singer and songwriter. duets. Theirs is a fascinating pairing, from opposite There are so many ways to go, if you allow yourself to “Kathleen’s written some great songs,” says Mier. “It sides of the country – Mier is from San Francisco, be open to the possibilities of something new. This was will really add a whole new dimension to our sound, Parks from north of New York City – and from quite totally different than what I was used to with Irish and give us more ideas to work with.” different musical paths. sessions, and I really loved it.” Where Cat and the Moon is concerned, anything Parks’s family provided her considerable inspira- Even as they began building their own repertoire, seems possible – which is what Yeats suggested at the tion: Her father is a professional trumpet player in Parks and Mier found other kindred spirits at Berk- end of the poem that is the band’s namesake: “Maybe a polka band who also plays jazz, and her mother is lee like Sefton, a Boston-area native whose formative the moon may learn/tired of that courtly fashion/a a dancer in Irish as well as Polish tradition. With a experiences included playing with Celtic fiddle band new dance turn.” grandmother from Galway, it’s no wonder Parks took Chasing Redbird and attending the annual Boston For more about Cat and the Moon, see catandthe- up Irish stepdance at a young age, and – after starting Harbor Scottish Fiddle School (he’s now on the faculty). moon.com.

Brian W. O’Sullivan CFP®, ChFc, CLU Partner 234 Copeland Street, Suite 225 Quincy, MA 02169 Tel. 617-479-0075 Ext. 331 Fax 617-479-0071 Brian W. O’Sullivan, CFP ®, ChFC, CLU, is a registered representative of and offers securities, investment advisory and financial planning services through MML Investors Services, LLC, Member [email protected] SIPC. Supervisory Address: 101 Federal Street, Suite 800, Boston, MA 02210 • 617-439-4389 www.commonwealthfinancialgroup.com bostonirish.com April 2016 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 13 HAPPENINGS CALENDAR By Sean Smith picking style. McAuley and O’Caoimh groups like Pentangle and Steeleye Special to the BIR have been part of a trio with McAuley’s Span. The concert is free. See berklee. Here’s a look at some of the Irish/Celtic Solas bandmate fiddler Winifred Horan. edu/events/anglo-celtic-vocal-ensemble- music and dance happenings around the For tickets and updates on Backroom flowers-forest. Greater Boston area this month: events, see burren.com/Backroom- • Boston College’s Gaelic Roots series • The Burren Backroom series will Series.html. will welcome Kevin Crawford and Cil- feature The Truckley Howl, a trio of local • Genre-hopping musicians Flynn lian Vallely, two members of pioneering fiddler/guitaristNathan Gourley with Cohen (guitar, mandolin, vocals) and Irish band Lúnasa, on April 7 at 6:30 concertina player Mairead Hurley and Duncan Wickel (fiddle, cello) will pres- p.m. in the Cadigan Alumni Center on guitarist/pianist/flutistJohn Blake for ent a concert at Harvard Square’s Club BC’s Brighton Campus. Two of Ireland’s a matinee performance at 3 p.m. on April Passim on April 3 at 3 p.m. Well-known most influential and active traditional 2. Gourley, who has played with the likes for his work in Appalachian, old-timey musicians, Crawford (flute, whistles) and of Paddy O’Brien (Chulrua) and Brian and other American music styles, Cohen Vallely (uilleann pipes, flute, whistles) Miller (Bua), has more recently been in – co-founder of string and vocal trio Low also have many other successful pursuits: a duo with another local musician, fid- Lily (formerly Annalivia) – has been Crawford has released four solo albums dler Laura Feddersen, with whom he equally at home in the Celtic domain, and in recent years has teamed up with recorded the CD “Life Is All Checkered.” playing with John Whelan, Aoife Clancy, fiddler Martin Hayes and guitarist John Hurley, a former All-Ireland champion, Cathie Ryan, and Women of Ireland. Doyle as the trio The Teatotallers; Val- has appeared on numerous Irish TV Wickel has been similarly versatile, lely toured with the show “Riverdance” Boston-area native Aoife O’Donovan shows and at several major festivals. hailed for his mastery in jazz, bluegrass, and has accompanied Bruce Springs- returns to her old turf this month Blake is an ex-member of Téada and has and old-timey while also playing with teen, Natalie Merchant, Tim O’Brien when she plays at The Sinclair in been an accompanist for many prominent eminent Irish/Celtic musicians such and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. Crawford Cambridge on April 13. musicians, including Boston native Colm as Liz Carroll, John Doyle, and Cara and Vallely also released the album “On Chattman Photography Gannon. Dillon. Among his many projects and Common Ground.” On April 20 at 7:30 p.m., legendary collaborations, he recorded an album The concert is free, but registration is popular folk songs and tunes. The concert Scottish band The Tannahill Weavers as a member of the traditional Irish trio requested. Go to the Gaelic Roots website is free; donations will be accepted. For will come to the Backroom stage. The The Red Wellies. [bc.edu/gaelicroots] to register and for more information, see sites.google.com/ “Tannies,” whose origins go back to the On April 10 at 7:30 p.m., Passim will other information. site/notlobmusic. late 1960s, was the first professional feature a double bill of Celtic duos Will • Fresh off the release of her new • The Canadian American Club of Scottish band to incorporate full-sized Woodson and Eric McDonald and solo recording, “In the Magic Hour,” Massachusetts in Watertown will host Highland bagpipes in performance, and Joey Abarta and Nathan Gourley. Boston-area native Aoife O’Donovan the trio of Joe Deleault (accordion), over the course of the 1970s built a fol- Woodson (border pipes, flute) and will perform on April 13 at The Sinclair Jordan Tirell-Wysocki (fiddle) and lowing not only in the UK but Europe Boston-area native McDonald (guitar, in Harvard Square (doors open at 7:30 Janine Randall (piano), along with and the US as well. Co-founders Roy mandolin, vocals) focus on traditional p.m., show at 8:30 p.m.). O’Donovan, special guest Cam MacMaster (guitar, Gullane (vocals, guitar) and Phil Smil- Scottish and Cape Breton tunes – the although with considerable experience vocals) on April 23 at 8 p.m. in the club’s lie (flute, whistles, bodhran, vocals) primal-force beauty of pipes set to bassy in the Irish/Celtic genre – including downstairs pub. Deleault is a pianist and continue to hold forth, with John Martin tone and pulse of guitar – as well as songs appearances in “A Christmas Celtic composer who has played with pop music (fiddle, viola, cello, vocals) and Lorne presented in emotive, serene fashion. On Sojourn” and with Karan Casey and luminaries such as Jon Bon Jovi and MacDougall (Highland bagpipes, small the Irish side is Abarta, widely acclaimed Seamus Egan, among others – is well- Carly Simon, but he’s also well-versed pipes, whistle). Opening the concert will as one of the best young uilleann pipers known as co-founder for the progressive in Canada’s East Coast music traditions. be Boston-based Fresh Haggis, whose around, and fiddler/guitarist Gourley bluegrass/string band Crooked Still. In Purchase tickets at brownpapertickets. members (Elias Alexander, border pipes, [who’s playing at The Burren Backroom recent years, she has embarked on a com/event/2509064. vocals; Eamon Sefton, guitar, vocals; series as part of The Truckley Howl, as career as a singer-songwriter, touring On April 30, the club will hold Kathleen Parks, fiddle; Patrick Bowling, noted above], who together play in the around the US, Ireland, and the UK; “Ceili(dh) for a Cause,” an Irish and flute, whistles, vocals) combine Irish and “pure drop” traditional style. earlier this year, she performed on “CBS Scottish dance evening that will benefit Scottish traditional music with exuber- For tickets and other information, go This Morning.” The show, which is for two community cancer support agencies: ance and passion. to passim.org. persons 18 and over, will open with New The Childrens Room, which provides Closing out the Backroom schedule • A warm welcome to spring is the York City-based songwriter Cassandra caring support for grieving children, for the month will be the duo of Mick theme of “The Flowers of the Forest,” a Jenkins. For ticket information and other teens, and families [childrensroom.org] McAuley and Colm O’Caoimh on program of traditional Irish, Scottish, details go to sinclaircambridge.com. and The Virginia Thurston Healing April 27 at 7:30 p.m. McAuley (accordion, and English folk songs by the Berklee • A concert by Boston-area band Boxty Garden, a therapeutic environment for whistle, vocals) is a longtime member of College of Music Anglo-Celtic Vocal will take place on April 23 at 1 p.m. at the those affected by cancer [healinggarden. Irish-American supergroup Altan, and Ensemble on April 4 at 2 p.m. in the Endicott Estate in Dedham, presented net]. Musicians will include Laurel has toured and/or recorded with Niamh David Friend Recital Hall (921 Boylston by notloB Music in association with the Martin, Mark Roberts, Helen Kisiel, Parsons, Karan Casey, Patti Griffin Street in Boston). Under the direction of annual James Joyce Ramble road race. Ed Pearlman, and various guests, with and Susan McKeown, among others. Berklee faculty members Didi Stewart Boxty features Cormac Marnell (vocals, Kieran Jordan and Laura Scott call- O’Caoimh – a native of Kilkenny, as is and Alizon Lissance, the ensemble will five-string banjo, whistle, harmonica) ing and teaching the dancing. Suggested McAuley – is known for his innovative present ballads, work songs, sea chan- and Dave Bowman (whistle, mandolin, donation is $25, $10 for children under guitar backing, which includes elements teys, and songs of “off-color humor,” octave mandolin, tenor banjo, vocals), 12. Tickets available at ceiliforacause. of jazz and swing, and a deft finger- in the manner of popular folk revival who play classic traditional Irish and brownpapertickets.com. Bradshaw adventurous with ‘Whatever You Wanted’ By Sean Smith out, which makes the song – much like Special to the BIR the relationship it describes – “sound The Bob Bradshaw story just keeps kind of open-ended.” getting better, and his music’s doing As Bradshaw explains, it took a while pretty well, too. before he realized he was in fact making Bradshaw, a singer-songwriter from an album. “Francisco and I were playing Cork, began his musical career about around with different rhythms together 30 years ago (among others he’s worked for a year – 12/8, 5/4, 6/8 – but I didn’t with is singer-songwriter Ron Kavana), have lyrics. Then, gradually, the stuff moved to the US in the late 1980s, and we’d been playing turned into songs, and eventually made his way to Boston. On I felt it was maybe time to get serious impulse, he enrolled in the Berklee Col- about it. Also, I’m kind of programmed lege of Music, almost changed his mind so that when I get about 10 to 12 songs about attending, and ultimately – at a in hand, it means I’m close to making significantly older age than most of his an album.” fellow graduates – earned his degree And as he made “Whatever You in 2009. Wanted,” Bradshaw collected plenty of Since getting his diploma, Bradshaw memorable moments and scenes. “‘What- has made three recordings, including ever You Wanted,’ which I wrote with the late-2015 release “Whatever You Flynn, was an exercise in numbers – all Wanted,” making for a total of six solo triplets, in 12/8. And Duncan shows up albums in all, three on either side of his Bob Bradshaw: “I think I’ve gotten out of my own way more when it comes with his cello, which I didn’t even realize Berklee period. And for Bradshaw, the to putting a song together.” he played, and he played it like a fiddle. years at Berklee do represent a signifi- “With ‘Go Get Along,’ I was really cant demarcation in his career. “Two days alone and I’m doin’ great/I The title track (co-written with Flynn, pleased at how everyone got the right “I knew how to write a song before take a jump to celebrate/Strapped into who also sings and plays guitar) is a blunt mood – Annalise gives it that playful then, but I learned so much at Berklee,” a parachute/I wait a while to pull to the break-up song that has echoes of Tom kind of sass. One of the best experiences he explains. “I learned how to incorpo- cord” (“Losing You”); “Sparrow tells me: Petty’s “Don’t Come Around Here No was doing ‘The Long Ride Home’: At the rate sound structure in a way I hadn’t listen up/I’m tryin’ to tell you somethin’ More,” but with more urgency, Emerick’s beginning it was just James [Rohr] and before. And one of the most important good/Your garden’s got the sweetest harmony and Wickel’s brusque cello on me, and I was singing while I watched things I learned was ‘strong words in worms/I like a juicy neighborhood” the chorus helping drive home the point: him play piano, just kind of cueing off strong places.’ I think it took a while to (“Sparrow”). “Whatever you wanted/whatever you each other – never really done that be- fully digest everything, but I feel like it’s Bradshaw doesn’t hesitate to credit came here about/whatever you wanted/ fore, and it was a lot of fun. I was very really sinking in now.” his collaborators on “Whatever You Well, I’m all out.” fortunate to be able to work with such On “Whatever You Wanted, “ Brad- Wanted,” like drummer Francisco Matas, “Go Get Along” is another good-bye great people.” shaw shows a willingness to experi- fellow singer-songwriter Flynn, backing song and a delightful take on Western Bradshaw already has a seed of an ment with and expand on his blended vocalist Annalise Emerick, keyboard- swing, Levine’s lap steel providing a idea for how his next album might take country-rock/acoustic folk-pop style, ist James Rohr, fiddler/cellist Duncan Lefty Frizzell-like aura. Somewhat in shape, but for now he’s satisfied to re- incorporating brass on four of the tracks, Wickel, horn players Scott Aruda and the same vein is the charmingly ironic flect on “Whatever You Wanted” and the for example, and trying out different time Joe Stewart, and longtime friends Scoop “Dream,” a veritable compendium of progression it represents in his music. signatures. His lyrics are as economical McGuire – who co-produced the album gauzy pop songs, Mike DeNiro’s vibes “If someone calls my songs ‘simple,’ I as ever, conveying emotions and situa- in addition to playing bass and guitar set alongside Levine’s surf-style guitar. take it as a compliment,” he says. “I think tions with understated eloquence here, – and Duke Levine on electric and lap “Crazy Heart” (more love-gone-wrong) I’ve gotten out of my own way more when sly wit there, and everywhere a long, steel guitars. is spare in its arrangement, Bradshaw’s it comes to putting a song together. My appraising glance: “No medals for the The credit is well deserved: “Whatever acoustic guitar and Matas’ quiet drum- goal is to write a song that apparently souls who lay low/In quiet rooms to hide You Wanted” is Bradshaw’s most musi- ming moving things along while Levine wrote itself.” their eyes/Nobody’s gonna put a halo/On cally adventurous effort so far, yet there’s provides a gentle shower of chords and For more on Bob Bradshaw, see bob- a fool who cries” (“A Fool Who Cries”); nothing that sounds like an overreach. riffs; there’s no bass, as Bradshaw points bradshaw.net Page 14 April 2016 BOSTON IRISH Reporter bostonirish.com Hypocrisy rules in Sheridan’s ‘School For Scandal

By R. J. Donovan room in London. is easy to memorize because wright with “The Rivals,” “The Special to the BIR Add characters with names there’s a tempo and a rhythm. Critic” and “St. Patrick’s Day, The Actors’ Shakespeare like Snake and Lady Sneerwell You know, the iambic rhythm. or the Scheming Lieutenant,” Project is closing out its season and you’ve got an idea of the It makes it much easier to among others. Developing a with the masterful comedy embarrassing train wreck that memorize than one would think real affinity for the theater in of manners, “The School for lurks behind every fluttering because you’ve got something London, he purchased a partial Scandal.” From the pen of Irish eyelash. to hang your hat on as you’re interest in the historic Drury playwright Richard Brinsley “In this play, scandal is going. You know you’re missing Lane Theatre. He later acquired Sheridan (adapted by Steven like a poisonous apple,” said a syllable somewhere if you’ve the theater outright. Many of Barkhimer), the play weaves a Plum in an interview with the gotten to the end of a line and his plays, including “School for witty tapestry examining the BIR. “They’re biting into it, and you’ve still got a foot left.” Scandal,” debuted there. pretentiousness and hypocrisy it’s delicious, but it really rots She adds that “School for Not content to limit his of British high society in the you from the inside out.” Scandal” is more complex spotlight to the arts, Sheridan 1770s. For Sheridan’s cast of char- and keeps the actors on their entered politics in 1780 as a Filled with intrigue, lust, and acters, acquiring information toes. “The vernacular is – it’s Whig member of the British the perils of social climbing vs. about secret transgressions a sentence with ten dependent House of Commons. With his reputation, “School for Scandal” and being the first to drop the clauses. You’ve really got to robust command of language, plays at the Multicultural Arts bombshell involves skill and think very, very, very fast. he proved himself a gifted ora- Center in Cambridge from April competition. “It’s status. Who Award-winning Paula Plum You’ve got to think ahead of the tor. When he died in 1816, he 13 to May 8. has the most scandalous story directs Richard Brinsley line. The words have got to be was buried in Poet’s Corner at Directed by the award–win- to tell?” said Plum. Sheridan’s “The School for completely inside of your body. Westminster Abbey. ning actress, writer, and teacher “What is it that sells newspa- Scandal,” from Actors’ Shake- It is very, very challenging, be- Centuries after its debut, Paula Plum, the production pers? It’s not the good news,” speare Project at the Multi- cause it’s not the way we speak Sheridan’s “School for Scandal” features Sarah Newhouse, she said. “We want the truth cultural Arts Center in Cam- in everyday life.” still stands as one of the most Omar Robinson, Richard Snee, exposed. But then we also bridge, April 13 - May 8. In many ways, Richard Brins- enduring of all classic theater Bobbie Steinbach, Lydia Bar- want to see people exposed for ley Sheridan’s life was grounded comedies. nett-Mulligan, Gabriel Graetz, what they truly are . . . There’s Additionally, in 2004 she was in language and the arts right Scandal, deception, and scut- Rebecca Schneebaum, and Mi- a certain schadenfreude that one of the founding members from his birth in Dublin in 1751. tlebutt “are just as potent (now) chael Underhill. exists –(enjoying) seeing other of Actors’ Shakespeare Project. His mother was an author and as they were for 18th-century In today’s world of immedi- people fall. So there’s a double Because the company’s work is his father an actor who later audiences,” said Plum. “But ate access, privacy has become instinct being satisfied here.” not exclusively bound by Shake- became an educator. even as scandal reveals the un- nonexistent while the public has As one of Boston’s most re- speare, she was intrigued by the After the family relocated to seemly hypocrisy of human na- developed an almost insatiable spected artists, Paula Plum prospect of directing “School for England, Sheridan himself was ture, we all savor that moment appetite for the latest juicy has appeared on virtually every Scandal” this season. thrust into the headlines when a when the hypocrite is exposed tidbits about Kim and Kayne. stage in New England. With “Every year we read a bunch newspaper article defamed the and truth triumphs. That sense “School for Scandal” shows that multiple Elliot Norton and of plays as a company,” she said. character of Elizabeth Ann Lin- of victory helps ‘The School for our obsession with gossip began IRNE Awards to her credit, “We get together and we toss ley, daughter of the composer Scandal’ remain as topical and long before Gawker and TMZ. she has fascinated audiences the plays around and we read Thomas Linley and the young sharply funny today as it was The witty plot swirls around in everything from “Savannah them and we laugh and we try lady who was soon to become in Sheridan’s time.” wealthy Sir Peter Teazle and Disputation” at SpeakEasy to figure out what’s the best fit. Sheridan’s bride. As societal R. J. Donovan is editor and his extravagant, free-spirited, Stage, to “Miss Witherspoon” at I had another play in mind, but rules dictated, Sheridan chal- publisher of onstageboston.com. and much younger wife, Lady Lyric Stage, “Molly Sweeney” at this one was more suited to us as lenged the author to a duel to ••• Teazle. Her personal attributes Gloucester Stage, and “Mother a company in terms of language defend Miss Linley’s honor. The “The School for Scandal,” from alone cause local tongues to wag. Courage” at the ART. and style.” experience reportedly provided Actors’ Shakespeare Project, But when whispers suggest Plum, who traces her heritage The language of “School for him with the kind of character April 13 - May 8, Multicultural the good lady may be involved back to her great grandfather in Scandal” has been singled out assassination plot points he Arts Center, 41 Second Street, in an indiscretion with the du- Co. Roscommon, has also served by scholars as being very “mus- would later explore in “School East Cambridge. Information: plicitous Joseph Surface, the as artistic director of Brian cular.” Plum agrees. “That’s a for Scandal.” 866-811-4111 or actorsshake- toxic tendrils of scandal begin to O’Donovan’s “Christmas Celtic very good description. It’s chal- Sheridan ultimately earned speareproject.org. slither into every smart drawing Sojourn” for the past 14 years. lenging for actors. Shakespeare a solid reputation as a play-

Slide”) – as well as other up-tempo home. The fact that she learned it from served as a means for thoughtful com- CD Reviews numbers. Griffin plays all manner of her dad, who learned it from Luke Kelly mentary on present-day issues, and Cara acoustic, electric and bass guitars, along himself, makes it all the more poignant, embraces that role with “Cain’s War,” By Sean Smith with bouzouki, often multiply tracked, somehow. [meabhandmattmusic@ written by Walther, Treyz, and Edgar Méabh Ní Bheaglaoich and Matt which drives the tunes along splendidly gmail.com] after the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Griffin, “Cuisle” • Accordionist and yet doesn’t impinge on Ní Bheaglaoich’s Cara, “Yet We Sing” • After 12 Paris: Wagels and Morgebrodt under- singer Ní Bheaglaoich is the daughter of lead; he also can handle the melody, years and five albums, the novelty of gird Edgar’s propulsive piano as she Seamus Begley, a fine exponent of West too, as he shows on “The Cordal Jig.” a Celtic band from Germany is long sings about the all-too-evident human Kerry music and song (and a member of Another medley displays a softer touch: over, which is only fair because Cara cost of religious fervor down through Téada and the duo with Oisín Mac Di- a slowed down, reworked version of the is just too good on its own terms to be the ages. A counterweight is the title armada, as polka “Farewell to Whiskey” joined to a mere curiosity. Over the course of its track, Walther’s contemplation on the mentioned Griffin’s “Old Town Waltz.” life, the band has cultivated a sort of inevitability of death and the need to e a r l i e r ) , Impressive as the instrumental aspect pan-European perspective to its music both acknowledge and move past it: a n d s h e of the album is, Ní Bheaglaoich’s singing that, while rooted in Irish and Scottish “Let the fear not get the better of you/ has clearly on four of the tracks is pure enchant- tradition, is not defined by it. Much like Show the devil there’s life in you still.” taken the ment, with three Gaelic songs from the Solas, Cara stakes out its own, unique [cara-music.com] family and West Kerry sean-nos tradition, including territory – most of all their material are Liam Merriman and Eoin regional leg- “An Buachchaillín Bán” – poet Éamonn original compositions – that, for all the O’Meachair, “The Birds Never acy to heart Ó Donnchadha’s vision of Irish freedom trad accouterments (fiddle, accordion, Cease” • This Waterford-based duo – in fact, embodied in a beautiful woman – and uilleann pipes, flute, whistles, bodhran) pairs one musician with strong cre- as she has “Cill Chais,” a lament for 16th-century has a very contemporary quality. dentials in the traditional Irish realm r e v e a l e d , heroine and defender of Catholics Mar- A big part of that has to do with Scot- (O’Meachair) and one whose songwrit- family and garet Butler, on which she is joined by tish co-lead vocalist Kim Edgar (the ing style tends to Americana influences music were a big boost during a particu- her father. sole non-German in the band), whose (Merriman). “The Birds Never Cease” larly difficult time in her life. Guitarist The fourth song is “The Sun Is Burn- piano playing is arguably Cara’s engine, has rather more Nashville – where Griffin is a London native who studied ing,” Ian Campbell’s famous anti-war whether driving along a set of tunes or the album was in fact recorded – than Irish music at the University of Limerick lament that has been covered by Luke skillfully accompanying herself on songs, Nenagh to it: Fiddle, five-string banjo and settled in West Kerry. “Cuisle,” their Kelly and Simon and Garfunkel, among along with the band’s other lead vocalist and double bass, played by musicians first release, is a thoroughly feel-good, en- many others. Although associated more – and its remaining co-founder – fiddler/ who’ve collaborated with the likes of ergetic, and graceful album that throws with the Cold War and the threat of accordionist Gudrun Walther. Hendrik Nanci Griffith, Ricky Skaggs, and John a spotlight on the West Kerry strain of wholesale nuclear annihilation, the song Morgenbrodt fortifies the melody with Hiatt, frequently accompany Merriman’s the venerable Sliabh Luachra tradition. – with its narrative of the sweetness of his outstanding uilleann pipes, flute and guitar and bodhran and O’Meachair’s Ní Bheaglaoich’s playing is nimble and everyday life suddenly visited by horror whistle, and Jürgen Treyz (guitar) and tenor banjo, mandolin, mandola and self-assured, and with a soulfulness to it, and destruction – retains an unsettling Rolf Wagels (bodhran) capably buttress whistles, and recognizable bluegrass even in the characteristic Sliabh Luachra relevance in this age of terrorism and the rhythm. riffs and licks often flit about the lyrics. polkas and slides – like on the opening mass shootings, and Ní Bheaglaoich’s A highlight of the album is unques- Merriman’s compositions range from medley (“Hare in the Corn,” “Sleamhnán tender delivery (with gentle, understated tionably “Little Musgrave,” a rendition on-the-road reveries (“Dead Man’s Trail,” Shémuis” and the duo’s own “Slippery accompaniment by Griffin) brings that popularized by the immortal Planxty; “Azure Eyes”) to observational inter- Cara’s adroitness in arrangements ludes (“Rain, Rain,” “Girl on a Train”) to (Treyz in particular here) is much in meditations on love fond or bittersweet evidence here, with an extensive pipes- (“Where Could You Be Now,” “Tapestry”). led interlude plus Walthers’ astutely It’s very much heart-on-the-sleeve stuff, regulated vocals heightening the dra- but not without depth, and some of the Handmade since 1925 matic tension. “Heroes” is an amalgam wordplay (like on “Tapestry”) is quite of different time signatures and rhythms: enjoyable. Merriman and O’Meachair two reels, a heavily accented highland also cover contemporary folk classics (some may call it a strathspey) and then like Richard Thompson’s “Crazy Man Mi- a slide – all played with precision and chael” and Tom Paxton’s “Can’t Help But power. “Land of the Midnight Sun” is Wonder Where I’m Bound” – a comple- Walther’s blissful excursion into Scandi- ment of sorts to “Where Could You Be navian music, while Treyz’s idyllic “The Now” – and, on the trad side, do a fine Naked Man in the Whirlpool” brings his take on “Streams of Bunclody” and a jig/ dobro-playing into the limelight, trading reel set (“The Heather Blazing/Darling off leads with piano, flute and accordion. Girl”), which showcases O’Meachair’s Wagels’ bodhran and Treyz’s guitar instrumental prowess. canter along with Morgenbrodt’s pipes It all makes for a light and delicate to open up “The Torrid Romance,” a trio 14 tracks, with plenty of charming of reels that has hints of Quebecois as vocal harmonies – nothing especially well as Scottish flavors to it. groundbreaking or memorable, but quite Folk music has, over the years, often pleasant to behold. [liamandeoin.com] bostonirish.com April 2016 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 15 The passion that is Irish step dancing Irish dance and music is participatory, and Ms. It’s difficult to say for sure how and where Irish Jordan wants everybody to get it. During the waltz seg- dance style originated. During the 17th, 18th, and ment of the program, audience members were invited 19th centuries, itinerant dance masters toured Ireland onto the stage to join in the teaching ancient dance forms as well as the latest dancing, a miniature group quadrilles from the continent. The dance masters, event known as a céilí that dressed in coattails and top hats, insisted on foot is embedded in the middle of positions that were the standard of French ballet. the performance. Dances were choreographed to configure complex It appears that, except spatial designs, and there were group patterns and for the dancer’s smile, there folk dancing. Modern Irish dancing inherits all of this. should be no movement Different dances are set to various time signatures. above a dancer’s hips. During The polka is 2/4 time; the waltz is 3/4 time; reels are competitive events known as 4/4 time; jigs are faster at 6/8 time; and the slip jig Feisanna [a festival of art], achieves an hypnotic effect with 9/8 time. There are this is among the finer points other types of Irish dance also, including set dances adjudicated by the scorekeep- and hornpipes. Long before Riverdance arrived, Irish ers. There are precise rules about best methods, but emigrants had already taken the art of Irish dancing within these rules there is room for innovation and with them everywhere they went. It was the Irish (and variety. Scottish and English) dancing traditions mixed with The idea that the arms will remain rigid by the sides African tribal dances that gave rise to the origin of is a unique detail, perhaps one of the most striking American tap dancing in the mid-1800s. aspects of Irish dancing. I once heard someone venture After the performance of “Little Gifts” had concluded, to guess that it had something to do with the Catholic I headed toward the exit and noticed a stack of DVDs Church and strictures against immodesty. Another for sale at the reception desk. I resisted the urge to legend has it that a door had been taken from the make a purchase but hesitated to move on because hinges and laid down to provide a hard surface for a little ditty was still ringing in my ears. I wondered dancing. Though a good sounding board, the door if the Irish dancers hadn’t tapped out a subliminal provided a minimum of performance space, which message in staccato rhythm: “Buy the D-V-D; Buy could be what accounts for the limited movement of the D-V-D; Buy the D-V-D.” extraneous limbs.

Lauren Milord, a resident of Jamaica Plain, per- forms in Kieran Jordan Dance company’s production of “Little Gifts” with set designs by Vincent Crotty. Maryellen Malloy Photography photo

By James Hobin Reporter Staff There are more than a few Dorchester natives who have childhood memories of long hours spent under- going instruction for Irish step dancing, an art form characterized by the sound of shoes striking the floor as a form of percussion. For some youngsters who have reached a certain age, the refusal to continue with these lessons constituted the first act of defiance against the authority of their well-meaning parents. The parents wanted to preserve an Irish tradition, the children just wanted to be American. During those times when dance crazes like the Twist, or the Funky Chicken were fashionable, Irish dancing seemed hopelessly outdated. A generation later, Riverdance came along and changed things. The whirlwind success of that Irish dance troupe came as a shock to those who believed that Irish dancing would never make it into the main- stream. Imagine how those same people felt when they saw the fortunes flowing to Michael Flatley and other Irish dancers who were making a splash on the world stage. While this “show” style of Irish dancing seems to have peaked, smaller, more intimate venues are becoming more popular. Irish dancing is a passion for those who keep it alive. Long-time Dorchester resident Kieran Jordan is a teacher and choreographer who started her own dance company in Boston 15 years ago. Ms. Jordan revives the solo dance, using old style footwork to create new jigs and reels. Devoted to showcasing new choreography that draws on the step dance tradition, Kieran Jordan Dance is a professional company that is specifically non-competitivesean nós. (meaning “old style” in Irish, a highly individualized improvisation that varies from person to person). Last weekend at Green Street Studios in Cambridge, Kieran Jordan Dance presented “Little Gifts,” an evening of Irish dancing with set designs by Kieran’s husband, Vincent Crotty, with music by The Vox Hunters. Inside the theater, the line between the seating area and the stage was blurred, allowing the audience to see the personalities of the dancers up front, and to feel how the dancers are connecting with the musicians. Kieran Jordan Dance comprises a group of eight women who have been dancing together for ten years. In the last week’s performance, young dancers from O’Riley Irish Dance were special guests. The dancers came on and off stage non-stop, like people casually dropping in and out of a living room. They danced solo and in pairs; they met in groups of four. They danced around each other and marched all over the stage, coming together only to fall away again. They used the simplest props, such as chairs and brooms. They contrasted solo versus synchronized stepping, and knocked out a flurry of sounds that seemed to have a structure like that of the interwo- ven strands that make up a textile fabric. The entire performance was about speed, economy of movement, precision – and wit. The grace of the dancers is matched by a raucous stomping that creates a noise resembling a Fourth of July fireworks display. The footwork grabs your attention, and while the dancers are pounding out the rhythm, you listen mesmerized, eager for the next beat. The sound is made by shoes that have fiberglass toes and heels. Instead of satin slippers, the step dancers wear dance shoes that look like farm tractors, and their feet flail about like fish flapping out of water. 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By Judy Enright through the Failte Ireland Special to the BIR tourist offices in Ireland. As we’ve said many TRAINS times in the past, Ireland’s Do you use Ireland’s tourism staff are abso- exceptional train service lutely tops at promoting when you’re there? And, their favorite country. if so, did you know that in Hats off to Tourism Ire- the 1966 commemoration land here – called Failte of the Easter Rising of Ireland there - for consis- 1916, Irish Rail renamed tently outstanding work 15 of its stations for the to publicize and share the executed leaders? many wonders of their Included were: Pearse small island. Station (after Padraig and WILD ATLANTIC William Pearse, formerly WAY Westland Row); Con- nolly Station (James Con- Several years ago, the Clonmacnoise in Shannonbridge, Athlone, County tourist body designated a Offaly is one of many attractions listed on Ireland’s nolly, formerly Amiens route along the west coast Ancient East tourist trail. Street); Heuston Station as the Wild Atlantic Way (Seán Heuston, formerly and pinpointed different Kingsbridge); Cork Kent types of attractions along Station (Thomas Kent); the way. The route, which Limerick Colbert Sta- runs for 1,600-plus miles tion (Con Colbert); Dun from the tip of Inishowen Laoghaire Mallin Station in Co. Donegal to Kinsale (Michael Mallin); Water- in Co. Cork, is reputed ford Plunkett Station (Jo- to be the longest defined seph Plunkett); Galway coastal route in the world. Ceannt Station (Eamonn Included along the Ceannt); Dundalk Clarke way are villages, ancient Station (Thomas Clarke); monuments, stunning Drogheda MacBride Sta- views, islands, beaches, tion (John MacBride); Gaeltachts (where Irish Sligo MacDiarmada Sta- is spoken and preserved), tion (Seán MacDiarma- accommodation and din- da); Bray Daly Station ing spots, and all kinds A foggy day at Clonmacnoise in County Offaly adds (Edward Daly); Wex- of other attractions. The Clonmacnoise, in County Offaly, was founded in even more charm to the ancient ruin. ford O’Hanrahan Station designation has increased 544 by St. Ciarán from Co. Roscommon. (Michael O’Hanrahan); Kilkenny MacDonagh tourist visits to the West which was crafted to be a challenge, given the Ireland is so stunning for Great Houses and gardens Station (Thomas Mac- and boosted the economy match and complement weather, roads (some- both of these races that to name a few – and can Donagh) and Tralee Case- immensely. the Wild Atlantic Way, times decorated with they’re worth attending highly recommend them. ment Station (Roger Case- It’s not that wonderful Minister of State for Tour- sheep or cows), terrain, just to see the countryside. No doubt the places we ment.) sights and sites haven’t ism and Sport Michael mud and more. Last This is the fourth year haven’t been are just as Irish Rail has also part- always existed along that Ring TD said Ireland’s spring, we watched a bi- for Clare Island’s 24km brilliant. nered with the Royal coast, it’s that too many Ancient East will focus on: cycle race through Mayo in adventure race which One particularly in- Irish Academy to enable visitors never traveled • Ancient Ireland – the pouring rain and cold. sounds challenging. Only teresting place to visit is commuters, tourists, and there, heading instead The Dawn of Civilization The riders looked com- a few places were avail- Clonmacnoise in Co. Of- visitors to learn more for the Ring of Kerry and (including the prehistoric pletely miserable as they able as of this writing. faly. They say that many about those who are me- other better-known areas. attractions of the Boyne passed but then we were For information, visit of the high kings of Tara morialized in their sta- So with that great suc- Valley in Newgrange in Connemara a few days clareislandadventures.ie. and Connacht were buried tions. Sixteen display cess under its belt, the and sites such as the later and the cyclists there Novices are welcome. there. The day we visited panels have been unveiled tourist board has desig- Brownshill Dolmen in Co. beamed in the warmth of There are a number of was rainy and foggy and, at Pearse, each of which nated a new route to be Carlow); the sunshine. other races taking place honestly, it was just right will also go on display at visited and explored – • Early Christian Ire- Speaking of Conne- across Ireland in May, for the place as we walked the station named after this one on the other side land (including sites mara, if you’re a run- including: The third round amidst the high crosses each leader around the of the country. A route such as Clonmacnoise, ner, how about taking of the Emerald Enduro and around long-deserted network. along east coast has been Glendalough, Mellifont part in the 15th Annual World Series interna- buildings on the grounds. The displays feature tabbed as “Ireland’s An- Abbey, Jerpoint Abbey, Connemarathon on Sun., tional mountain biking Another spectacular artist David Rooney’s por- cient East” and is billed St.Canice’s Cathedral, April 10? The race is billed challenge will be in the sight is the Rock of Cashel traits of leaders and infor- as 5,000 years of history and Holycross Abbey); as the biggest athletic Wicklow Hills from May in Co. Tipperary, which is mation about their lives, and heritage. The hope is • Medieval Ireland event in the West and 13-15, (biking.ie); Coast well worth a visit. taken from the Royal Irish to better acquaint visitors - including Kilkenny’s usually attracts more to Coast Multisport Race This “Ancient East” Academy’s “1916 - Por- with that region while also Medieval Mile, the Viking than 3,000 runners, who Across Ireland, May 14- initiative will hopefully traits and Lives” publica- boosting local economies Quarter in Waterford, can opt for the half, full, 15, a cross-border ad- soon become as successful tion. A code is included in with income and jobs. Hook Head Lighthouse, or ultra (39.3-mile) course. venture that begins in as the Wild Atlantic Way. each display so customers IRELAND’S ANCIENT Trim Castle, and the Rock In 2015, runners from 28 Enniscrone, Co. Sligo, Can’t wait to get over to can download for free the EAST of Cashel; countries participated in with participants cycling, the East Coast to explore book chapter dealing with So many outstanding • Anglo Ireland - in- this race. For more infor- paddling, and running, every step of the trail. that person. For more attractions are included cluding Ireland’s Great mation, visit connemara- to Newcastle, Co. Down, ADVENTURES information: irishrail.ie in this latest designation, Houses and Gardens as In the last 10 years, with thon.com or email info@ (26extreme.com) and the TRAVEL ranging from Newgrange well as sites such as the connemarathon.com. Clare Burren Marathon the worldwide focus on fit- Spring has arrived and the Boyne Valley, Dunbrody Famine Ship Then there’s the Tour Challenge on May 28, ness, Ireland has become a in Ireland: lambs have through the midlands and Wicklow Gaol (an de Conamara bicycle race (clareburrenmarathon- destination for adventure been born, flowers have via Kilkenny’s Medieval interactive jail museum.) (riders choose either 140 challenge.com racing and endurance bloomed. In short, this is mile to Waterford’s Vi- We’ve visited many of km or 80 km routes) on Many more adventures events of all types. There the most wonderful time king Quarter and Cork’s these attractions over the Sat., May 28, that starts and sporting events are are triathlons, cycling and of year to visit. Enjoy numerous cultural at- years – Newgrange, Clon- and finishes in Clifden, listed on the internet, on foot races, and many other your stay whenever and tractions. macnoise, Rock of Cashel, Co. Galway. The scenery Tourism Ireland’s web- competitions that test wherever you go. At the recent launch Hook Head Lighthouse strength and endurance. in this magnificent part of site (Ireland.com), and of the new designation, and many of Ireland’s Racing in Ireland can

Ireland is a popular destination for adventure racing and endurance events It’s easy enough to find your way around Clonmacnoise with its ruins of a of all types. This cycling race in Co. Mayo last year was just one of many such cathedral, seven churches, two round towers, three high crosses and the larg- events - most of which support a charity - held in that county and across the est collection of Early Christian graveslabs in Western Europe. country. Judy Enright photos Page 18 April 2016 BOSTON IRISH Reporter bostonirish.com BRETT’S BOSTON By Harry Brett Exclusive photos of Boston Irish people & events he Sligo Assocation of Bos- ton held its 8th annual Corn TBeef Dinner and Dance at Florian Hall in Dorchester on Sun., March 6.

Pictured are: 1.) Brian Healy, Mary Ward, Eddie Gallivan, Andy Healy; The Andy Healy 1. Band; 2.) Ellen Costello, Needham; Fr. Bren- dan Darcy, SMA Fathers; Sarah McCarrick, Needham; Margaret Cassidy, Needham; 3.) Matt McCarrick, Needham; Breeda Ryan, Waltham; 4.) Harry Brett, Hanson; Francis Jensen, Saugus; 5.) Ed Cassidy, Needham; Nathy Quinn, Brighton; 6.) Margaret Maher, Malden; Kathy Sullivan, Dedham; 7.) Eliza- beth Sweeney, Cillian Sweeney 1Yr, Seamus Healy BRA, Faela Sweeney 3Yr; Eamonn Sweeney, Weymouth; 8.) Mickey, Grace 8Mo; Audrey Feeney, Weymouth 9.) Bernie Reilly, Newton; 10.) Deirdre McCarrick, Cambridge; Christine McCarrick, Dorches- ter; 11.) Mike And Shiela Hart, Braintree; 2. Doc Walsh, Dorchester; 12.) Kevin Johnston, W. Roxbury; Siobhan Gallagher, Stoneham; Awardees and Jim Brett, Presenter.

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As I have pointed out before, the most commonly used verbs are usually EIRE the most “irregular” in all languages – and is true of both Irish and Scottish Gaelic although the second of these has eliminated the Present Tense and speaks only in the “Progressive” or “Continuous” form. Irish maintains a true pub “Present” or “Habitual” tense. This month we will study the verb ith /ee/ “eat” and its companion ól /awl/ “drink”. Ith is “regular” in the Habitual Present and Definite Past tenses: Why do we say, Habitual Present as in “He eats apples.” He may not have 795 Adams St. • Dorchester eaten any apples in several days but the speaker and listener both know that he will eat an apple given the opportunity, Itheann sé úllaí /EE-awn shey OO-lee/: “He eats apples”. “President’s Choice” Habitual Present: Ithim; Itheann tú, sé, sí, sibh, siad; but Ithimid, “we”. Definite Past as in “He ate apples” D’ith sé úllaí /DEE xhey OO-lee/: D’ith mé, tú, sé, sí, sibh, siad but D’itheamar. “we” Remember that the Definite Past Tense of verbs requires that they be Serving Lunch & Dinner lenited, made “softer”, by the insertion of the symbol –h- as in Tit /tit/ “fall” becomes Thit /hit/ “fell”. Since ith begins with a vowel, it follows the rule of “artificial lenition” by add a D’ on the front, Ith /ee/ “eat” becomes D’ith / Every day, dee/ or /jee/ “ate”. It is only in the Future Tense that ith is “irregular” (in the tenses we have had so far). Here the first syllable becomes Ios-, the –o- is “silent”, just to 7 days a week tell the reader that the –s- has the sound /s/ to separate it from the initial I-. This is followed by –-faidh /fy/ as in “He will eat apples” Iosfaidh sé ullaí / EES-fy shey OO-lee/. Irish Social Club of Boston, Inc. The verbal noun for ith simply adds an -e, so ith /ee/ becomes ithe /eee/ 119 Park Street, West Roxbury, MA 02132 617-327-7306 or 617-549-9812 -- stretch it out! An example is “Eating is good!” Is ithe maith /ISS eee mah/. Here are some common foods. Study these in order to do the exercise that Incorporated by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, June 27, 1945 follows: SUNDAYS 8-11 pm with $10 admission except where otherwise noted. “apple” ulla “the apples” na h-ullaí Socials every PUB NIGHTS: Doors open at 6:30 pm. Live music from 8-11 pm. “bread” aran Free Admission Email us at [email protected] “soup” anraith Sunday Evening “sandwich” creapalre at 8:00 pm SCHEDULE OF EVENTS “cheese” cáis “potatoes” prátai APRIL 2016 dance! A fabulous night of entertainment 1 Friday Audrey’s Race to end Alzeimer’s. Audrey is that shouldn’t be missed! To purchase tickets “herring/kipper” scadán running the Boston Marathon in honor and ($10 adults/$5 12 and under) before the “cookie” (“biscuit” in Ireland) briosca memory of her grandmother, Kay McIntyre. event, visit BrownPaperTickets.com/ event/2485177. Tickets a bit more at the door. 3 Sunday Fashionista and Foodie Fair. Runway For more information, please call fashion shows with veterans as models, food, Karen Mahoney at 617-325-8994. tastings, shopping and more. Proceeds to What would food do without drink? The verb ‘drink” is a perfectly “regular” benefit the ChefsT able Foundation. For more 17 Sunday Erin’s Melody with Margaret Dalton single syllable word, Ól /awl/ including a “broad vowel”’ This means that you information, please call Carol O’Connor at will see a “silent” letter inserted from time-to-time to keep the spelling rule [email protected], 24 Sunday Mossie Coughlin which says that a “broad” vowel be inserted. 3 Sunday Andy Healy 8 Friday Pub Night with Colm O’Brien Habitual Present: ólaim, ólann tú, sé, sí, sibh, siad, but ólaimid “we” 10 Sunday Easter Rising 100 Anniversary Definite Past: d’ól mé, tú, sé, sí, sibh, siad, but d’ólamar “we” Commemoration 4 pm until 6 pm. Call Sean Future: ólfaidh mé, tú, sé, sí, sibh, siad but ólfaimid “we” Folan at 857-719-6979 for more information. 10 Sunday Denis Curtin And what do we drink? You already had the words for “milk” bainne, “cof- 16 Saturday Highland Dance Boston Ceilidh! Enjoy this fee” caife, “tea” tae, and “water” uisce. Soft drinks usually go by their name special evening of Scottish culture, music and but with Irish word order. “Ginger Beer” is just . Recall the beoir sinséir Follow us on Twitter @irishsocialbos Follow us on Facebook: Irish Social Club of Boston words for “cup” cupán and a new word, “glass” gloine /GLOHN-yuh/. Subscribe Today to Boston’s Own Hometown Newspaper Now we can add the alcoholic beverages…

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