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WolfWalkers Book of Kells, The Ravine: Kilkenny Based Cartoon Saloon Sweeping Academy Award®, Golden Globe, BAFTA Nominations Inner View with Éabha is on page 10. which follows two weeks later, on May Editor’s Black 47’s Larry Kirwan’s new novel, 22nd. A Potato a Day Keeps Rockaway Blue, is a captivating read on Is it time for an Irish Unity Referen- Corner an Irish American families’ Post 9-11 dum? An Irish Mexican Fusion Dish? By John O’Brien, Jr. struggles with the loss of their cop son’s Does a potato a day keep the doctor the Doctor Away? life in the collapse of the tower, and away? What happened to the Mass By Dr. Fredrick Peters not broken down and fully absorbed by May 2021 Vol. 15 • Issue 5 Rich stews filled with dense carbohy- the body. Instead, it reaches the large intes- @Jobjr offers an excellent insider look at the Rock? Test your knowledge: Who are Í struggles and heartaches for a multiple the Patriots of Ireland? It’s a puzzle. Publisher & Editor John O’Brien Jr. drates and loaded with calories. When tine where it becomes a source of nutrients considering healthy food options, the for the beneficial bacteria in your gut. Re- first responder family. Is there anything better than live Design/Production Christine Hahn cuisine of Ireland may not seem plausible. search has linked resistant starch to many We are getting excited about the Irish music on St. Patrick’s Day? Will Website Rich Croft Columnists However, if prepared correctly, some of health benefits, including reducing insulin return of live events, with Riverfront Ireland lead the way on Electric Ve- Akron Irish Lisa O’Rourke the traditional Irish staples can actually be resistance, which, in turn, improves blood So Much An Eejit Abroad Conor Makem Irish Festival, Carbon Leaf, Dublin, hicles? Is there always a Donnybrook quite healthy! sugar control. The resistant starch in po- Pittsburgh, and Milwaukee Irish fests somewhere? Will the Irish language be At Home Abroad Regina Costello Behind the Hedge John O’Brien, Jr. Potatoes are a versatile root vegetable tatoes may also improve digestive health. Success! in new formats to comply with safety banned? What’s coming next month? Blowin’ In Susan Mangan found throughout Irish households. Pota- When resistant starch reaches the large for all, while we wrassle this covid out What happened on this day in Irish Cleveland Comhra Bob Carney toes are relatively cheap, easy to grow and intestine, it becomes food for beneficial gut ave you seen all the press the door. We will have much more on history? Books and Music reviews, Cleveland Irish Francis McGarry packed with a variety of nutrients. They bacteria. These bacteria digest it and turn that next month, with our 15th Annual Speak Irish lesson, opinion pieces, Me- Columbus Irish Molly Truex about Cartoon Saloon’s Cooking Up a Hooley Katie Gagne are an excellent source of many vitamins it into short-chain fatty acids. Resistant work? The Kilkenny based Festival Focus Issue. morials and Mother’s Day stories, plus Crossword Puzzle Linda Fulton Burke and minerals. However, their nutrition- starch from potatoes is mostly converted TURN KEY BED & BREAKFAST studioH has multiple Academy Award®, Last Month’s feature story on Irish topics and activities for the kids are just Fields of Glory Vincent Beach al content can vary depending on the into the short-chain fatty acid butyr- Golden Globe and BAFTA nomina- American actor (The West Wing) Me- some of the things you will find inside Illuminations J. Michael Finn variety and how they are prepared (frying ate — the preferred food source for gut Kids Craic Megan Lardie FOR SALE tions. We feature one of their works, lissa Fitzgerald was a big hit, and Part this month. Madigan Muses Marilyn Madigan potatoes adds more calories and fat than bacteria. Studies have shown that butyrate th WolfWatcher’s The Book of Kells II is within as well, as we speak more Outside, we have podcasts on the 7 Off Shelf/On This Day Terry Kenneally baking them). It’s also important to note can reduce inflammation in the colon, 47 Mentor Avenue, Painesville, OH 44077 Ravine on our cover this month. Their about her work with Justice for Vets. and 21st (iTunes and OhioIANews.com) Out of the Mailbag John O’Brien, Jr. the skin of the potatoes contains a great strengthen the colon’s defenses and reduce new online gallery will be a huge hit. Sports reignite, as Cleveland St. Pat’s and our opted-in only eBulletin arrives Speak Irish Bob Carney amount of the vitamins and minerals and the risk of colorectal cancer. 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2 OHIO IRISH AMERICAN NEWS We’ve Always Been Green MAY 2021 MAY 2021 WWW.OHIOIANEWS.COM OHIO IRISH AMERICAN NEWS 3 another, unconditionally. ivory like the smoothest shell that sits purchased a set of binoculars and a Blowin, In The path that leads to this rela- protected amid the sand. pocket guide to the birds of North Toledo Is There Anything Better Than Live Irish Music… By Susan Mangan tionship is long. It is fraught with the Interestingly, my younger cousin America. I love to flip through my Irish sharpness of razor shell clams. At the also had a large round strawberry mother’s book and read the notes she end of the sunset, we love and accept mark directly in the center of his scribbled in the margins. She would By Molly McHugh on St. Patrick’s Day? one another. I am most content with back. When we were children run- keep a running list of Indiana birds Matt Cassidy (bassist), Jim Burns (gui- our walks along the beach path. Here, ning through his Missouri farm, the that she and Dad spied over the years. @SueMangan tarist) and Robert McMahon (whistle) Í I point out the birds that soar above sun shone brightly, and our birth- Indeed, her spirit rises on the wings were already Ancient Order of Hiber- our heads and the animals that scurry marks blended joyously with the of the birds; a bit of this magic lives nians (AOH) members, and they had beneath our feet. flowers in the fields and the lily pads safely in my heart, assuring me of her Is there anything better than live played with Eric Hite (accordionist) and Life is filled with fascinations and in the ponds. I felt free on the farm, presence. Irish music…on St. Patrick’s Day…. Betsy Grafing (banjo) at other events Beyond the mysteries. Our imperfections appear playing amid the young calves and I like to think that my mother after a year of lockdown? For anyone around Toledo for many years. Robert to blend seamlessly with the wetlands the tall stalks of corn. At the time, walks beside me. I see her in the tilt reading this article, I will venture to and Eric had also previously teamed up guess the resounding answer is, NO! and the slowly fading colors of sand I did not travel to the Gulf; I spent of my daughter’s smile and in the pale playing Irish music as a duet. At that Sunset On March 17th here in Toledo, we and surf. holidays with family in the farmland color of my eyes. Her strength resides point, “We figured, since we were all were finally graced with live Irish Mu- Right now, I am looking out over As I stand barefoot in the ris- of southern Missouri. in my son’s arms when he gives me a Irish and musicians, we should be able sic again at the Maumee Bay Brewing to give it a go. Luckily, Matt had the a darkened ocean. The sun has just ing tide with my daughter and her Recently, my aunt sent me a packet much-needed hug. I sense her gentle- Company, by none other than Toledo’s set over the Gulf of Mexico. Pelicans friends, I am reminded of one of my of photos that I had never before seen. ness shining from my youngest son’s music for quite a few standard songs, own, “The Men from the Bog”! The band and we were able to get started then.” and white egrets have returned to the more distinguishing features, my In the image, I am a toddler in a dress eyes when he and his grandfather plays rollicking, toe-tapping pub songs wet grass along the beach pass. High birthmark. It is perfectly oval, quite the color of a blue June sky, my birth- laugh through a tale told for the hun- When I heard Robert speak of “giv- that energize their always large crowd ing it a go,” I felt a sense of warmth and above me, the Little Dipper is shining large, and the color of chocolate. mark set proudly between the lace dredth time. of listeners. The performance was bril- familiarity; it immediately brought me like a white flame. The day is over, It is a curiosity that elicited stares cuffs of my white bobby socks and the On my mother’s last day, she spoke liant, as they would say in Ireland. back to my days of living and going to and it was quite perfect. throughout my tender years. folds of my linen frock. My mother is of yoga, magic teas, and Ozark black- The Men from the Bog are an Irish school in Ireland. If there was ever a My daughter and her friends have As a child, I would close my eyes, reaching out her hand to steady me berries. These were her very last words folk band who mostly cover classic hits time where I may have been apprehen- arrived at an age where they prefer count to ten and will my spot to from falling or perhaps grounding to me, images really. Even as her body from the Dubliners and the Clancy sive about something, whether it be the company of my husband and me. disappear. I imagined that when I me to the earth on which she herself began to fold into itself beneath a Brothers & Tommy Makem, among going to a school function, meeting up Men From The Bog We laugh, drink, share food, and play opened my eyes and looked down at toddled and grew. lifetime of labor, toil, and love, her others. After the live session, I sat down with unknown classmates, or even de- card games. Mostly, we accept one my leg, it would be unmarked and Her smile captures a moment that spirit remained sturdy. A cement silo with band member Robert McMahon ciding if I should walk to class, know- they are a type of wetland that accumu- one to be sung in Irish, and “everyone is not a part of my collective mem- that could withstand great wind and a to learn more about the them. It just ing it may start to pour rain, my uncle, lates peat, which has been used to fuel is thankful for that.” ory, yet her love, unconditional and lighthouse that drew us to safe shores. so happens that Robert and I went to who I was living with, would always fires to heat homes for nearly a thou- I am thankful that Men from the Bog all-encompassing is palpable even When her parchment thin lids closed grade school together, but Men from encourage me by saying, “Ah sure look, sand years. It was not uncommon for decided to “give it a go” five years ago, from the stillness of the frame. My over her blue eyes, my mother knew the Bog were certainly not around at Mol, give it a go!” the men of the family in Ireland to reg- and were able to light up the stage with relationship with my mother grew that she loved well and fierce. that time! That’s all it took - four short words - ularly go out to the bog to cut the peat music that everyone can sing along to, with the green growth of silage At times, I am not sure that I will While talking with Robert, I found “Give it a go,” stated with Irish perspec- for the fires. While these Men from the and enjoy. pastures. She taught me to seek joy ever possess the strength of her spirit, two pieces of information interesting: tive and reassurance; I knew everything Bog may not be cutting peat, they know Check out Men from the Bog online 1) how the band came to be and 2) how in that which is imperfect and would but without doubt, I am graced with would work out just fine. Evidently how to ignite a spark. or email Robert at aohjohnpkellydivi- the band got its name. We will start When I asked about the set-list for [email protected].  always caution that “beauty is as a bit of magic; especially, when the Men from the Bog felt the same way! with how the band came to be first. that night in particular, Robert said, beauty does.” royal tern pauses in his sunset search So how did the band settle on the “We were created out of necessity name? Well, the first name they consid- “We try to play the sort of music that Get More to the Story After my mother died, I clung to for food and looks at me with earnest More pics, and larger print too! about five years ago,” says Robert. “The ered was “Bogmen,” but Robert thought most Irish fans of all ages will know nature, looking for signs that assured understanding, or when the snowy band that the Ancient Order of Hiber- and enjoy. He has only been asked for @www.ohioianews.com me that my mother was still with me, egret hops alongside me on my morn- “that didn’t sound quite right.” The nians booked for the St Patrick’s Day next variation was “Men from the Bog,” though she no longer walked on our ing beach walk. Festival had to pull out, so they needed ly Owned and Ope physical earth. Much like that little If I close my eyes and count to ten, and that stuck. I wonder, however, how Fami rated music.” Banjo Betsy feels about that name? I girl who believed that magic could I know that when I open them, my will have to ask her some day! erase my pain, I looked for that same tears will have receded like the tide, AN IRISH FESTIVAL WITH NO MUSIC Gormley’s Pub / The Irish Barber Interestingly, bogs in Ireland have magic to bring my mother back to and that the birds of dawn will con- How could you have an Irish festival GormleysPub.com / The IrishBarber.com with no Irish music! 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4 OHIO IRISH AMERICAN NEWS We’ve Always Been Green MAY 2021 MAY 2021 WWW.OHIOIANEWS.COM OHIO IRISH AMERICAN NEWS 5 and mackerel have provided sustenance million people worldwide, leaving a garrulous kids and an indecisive husband our mothers for helping us become And tho’ I grudge them not, I weary, May 5, 1981:Bobby Sands At Home for many a family over the centuries and painful void and irreplaceable loss in too debating whether his first drink upon Madigan the individuals we are in service to weary May 8, 1916:Eamonn Ceannt, Edward , continue to be gratefully consumed; it many families. My thoughts are of the arrival will be a Smithwicks or a Bulmer’s, our communities and our country. Of the long sorrow-And yet I have my Daly, Sean Heuston and Michael Abroad is a reminder of the Holy Water from survivors among us that may have a rocky is happily to turning into a soon to be Muses In thinking of Mother’s Day and the joy: Mallin By Regina Costello Baptism, the celebration and welcoming road ahead, as the long-term effects of this reality. By Marilyn Madigan Memorials we hold in May, the poem My sons were faithful, and they May 9, 1916: Thomas Kent of new souls to the world; an appreciation determined microbe continue to unfold, I expect the next adventure to Ireland to Mother by Padraic Pearse comes to fought.” May 12, 1916: James Connolly, Sean of this natural resource by Irish monks also come to mind. be most joyful, perhaps tearfully so, with mind. An excerpt: MacDiarmada 1,500 years ago, who upon learning about Good old Irish Catholic guilt is knock- spells of somber and poignant moments. I We remember the Heroes of Easter May 12, 1981: Francis Hughes distillation decided to apply the process to ing on my door today, bringing with it look forward to some quiet time to appre- “I do not grudge them: Lord, I do not Week every year on the Anniversaries May 21, 1981: Raymond McCreesh and distill whiskey instead of perfume. uncomfortable questions and a disturbing ciate my life, think about my parents and grudge of their executions. This year is the 40th Patsy O’Hara Interestingly, the beverage in the Irish mindset: “How do you get to be so lucky? family, the brutal times in Irish history My two strong sons that I have seen go Anniversary of the deaths of the Hun- July 8, 1981: Joe McDonnell “Go Gather by language is Uisce Beatha, which translates How did you manage to escape this? Why at the hands of both mother nature and May, the out ger Strikers. July 13, 1981: Martin Hurson into English as water of life. It has seeped do you deserve this vaccination while politics, and consider the survival of the To break their strength and die, they August 1, 1981: Kevin Lynch into many aspects of our lives; water is millions of others around the globe living country, our people and heritage as a tes- and a few, WE REMEMBER: August 2, 1981: Kieran Doherty the Humming part and parcel of who we are. in compromised conditions are still waiting tament to the human spirit of mankind. Month of In bloody protest for a glorious thing, May 3, 1916: Thomas Clarke, Thomas August 3, 1916: Roger Casement My love affair with water incorporates for the rollout?” The same can be said in a global fash- They shall be spoken of among their MacDonagh, and Padraic Pearse August 8, 1981: Thomas McElwee Sea” all the above and more. It is on my mind I try to hush this futile noise by re- ion about 2020. We witnessed a year of Memorials people, May 4, 1916: Joseph Mary Plunkett, August 20, 1981: Michael Devine. particularly so today, as I am scheduled to placing it with a more fruitful one of my turmoil both man and nature made. One The generations shall remember them, Michael O’Hanrahan and William Water is a recurring theme in Irish po- receive a much-anticipated Pfizer Covid immense gratitude for good luck, appre- can somewhat understand the natural di- During the month of May, we honor And call them blessed; Pearse Get More to the Story etry, literature, and life. Beyond its’ origin 19 Vaccine. A key ingredient of this vac- ciation of living in the best country in the sasters that occurred last year, from Covid our mothers and two major memorials: But I will speak their names to my own May 5, 1916: John MacBride More pics, and larger print too! in and necessity for survival, there are a cine is – yes, water. world in my comfortable home abroad, 19 to the 400+ events of hurricanes, floods Police Memorial Day on May 15th and heart @www.ohioianews.com multituade of reasons for its recurrence I am forever grateful to the monumen- and that I too am contributing to this and wildfires resulting in loss of life. Memorial Day on the last Monday of In the long nights; in the Irish saga. Our beloved country tal work and talent of researchers and battle by getting vaccinated. In doing so However, one cannot excuse the con- the month. I believe it is fitting that The little names that were familiar once hirty ears of is surrounded by this beautiful natural scientists around the world who worked collectively, the global collaboration of the tinuing fabricated disasters of the wrath of these events are remembered during Round my dead hearth. T Y resource, where it greets the fortress of collaboratively and solely to make this a work that created this vaccine will not be man to his fellow man, in the form of dis- the same month. Lord, thou art hard on mothers: Traditional Irish Music tall, jagged cliffs that forever protect our reality, in a ridiculously short amount of in vain. On a related note, those of you crimination and more, that also take away It is our Mothers that teach us about We suffer in their coming and their green fields. It greets our far away home time. I find myself in an emotional tur- hesitant to join this collaborative should life. Words and actions that are deliber- love and service to others. We thank going; with a thunderous welcome of crashing moil as this calendar entry greets my day check out the TEDx Hippos, measles & ately aimed at berating and hurting others waves, wild weather and an ever-changing with reflection. Thoughts of the tumul- smallpox, oh my! with Clevelander Mi- for nonsensical reasons can never be magnificent seascape. tuous past year that witnessed a deadly chelle Medina, M.D., who gives a defini- understood and should never be accepted. breakers on the shores of life, at home and The water’s bountiful gifts of plaice, cod virus that shockingly stole life from 2.8 tive argument for the necessity of vaccines If only a vaccine was at hand to obliterate Go Gather abroad.  for the human race. the ill for once and for all. The antidote Continued from previous page Sources consulted: Thoughts of family, friends, and things can only be found by reaching deep into The Song of the Happy Shepherd”. W.B. Yeats Irish that live beyond the ragged shores that human spirit of mankind. that we revisit for respite and grounding. A Short History of Irish Whiskey”. John Callely https://vk.ovg.ox.ac.uk/vk/vaccine-ingredients of booming waves on the west coast and Ireland, my home and your home, is The land of a thousand welcomes is https://news.google.com/covid19/map the humming sea elsewhere across the the foundation of who we are and how surrounded by a moat of water that The Role of Water in the Origin of Life and its Func- Emerald Isle, are also in my head, as they we think. While we are far from it, Ire- safeguards and protects all that we come tion in the Primitive Gene. W. Good. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The University of Leeds, have been sorely missed in the past twelve land lives in our hearts and minds. Our from. Like you, I cannot wait to cross it, England, 1972. Trip Advisors months. 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The My husband can have his Bulmer’s or Guinness. My drink of choice will be the National University of Ireland. Former Pubs have become the focal point of their Curator with the Irish American Archives communities, a place to celebrate life. That uisce beatha from Achill Island Distillery, is what we recreated here in Medina; we preferably a Mayo Mojito at the hands Society, former Executive Director of the took an old machine shop and gave it the of Seán McKay, a son of the Island, who Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument Commis- old world charm and warmth of Ireland’s continues the work of the Irish monks by sion and former Executive Coordinator of favorite Pubs. From the antiqued plaster distilling the only whiskey on the Irish the Northern Ohio Rose Centre. Director walls and tin ceiling to the hand finished Coffee Bar & Bakery on the Boards of the Mayo Society of oak woodwork and period light fixtures, Mini Donuts Rising Star islands. 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I daughter who is eighteen has discov- home, contributing to our commu- posted a picture holding it on Twitter, ered the show, and she’s in love with nities and our lives, being parents to and I started reading it. it. So many young people that I meet their children and children to their This is such a good book. I ordered in DC right now, so many younger parents; friends and teachers and The Many Stages of it for my friends and my mom and people when I used to walk around, soccer coaches and our neighbors. I everybody. I said, you know, I’m not in would come up and say, I’m here would love to see everyone have that Melissa Fitzgerald, a book club, but this makes me want to because of the West Wing; I’m doing chance. Part II start one. Then all of these people re- this work because of the West Wing. You knew Melissa Fitzgerald, the sponded on Twitter, including Connie, It inspired me to go into politics; it actor, and now, the Director, Ad- From West Wing to the Non-Profit saying, well if you do one, I’ll do it. inspired me to go into service. vancing Justice, still living a life of Justice for Vets, Irish Roots Fuel the Fire Connie said, “Well, if you’ll have What would you say are your passion and persuasion, on the world [To read Part I, pick up the print edition of the April Issue, or read it all online at me, I’ll stop by too.” Are you crazy? Of dreams or what your work aspira- stage, fighting for life changing jus-  www.OhioIANews.com] course, we will have you. tions? What would you hope to see tice for our veterans. So, we had a nice, big, book club – I long-term? think around 100 people came. We I would like to see a treatment The full interview could easily run five issues, but instead, the long You know Melissa Fitzgerald. Your mind immediately interviewed Connie for the book. She court be available for every single was just so great, so great. Personal, person who needs one throughout form can be found on our website: snaps to The West Wing when you see her face. The West Wing veteran, with no airs. She is just a genuinely this country. I would like to see some www.ohioianews.com, with much good person. of the things that work in treatment more text, pictures, insights and and now, Director, Advancing Justice, lives a life of passion and persua- for the courts and fighting for fund- Malina, any of them - Can you retweet You know Mary McCormack. She courts be applied throughout the LARGER Print. ing, is that we have a whole division this? It just gets a much, much, bigger and I are writing book, called, What’s justice system, treating people as Get More to the Story sion, whether on the West Wing stage as Carol Fitzpatrick, or on the that trains the court staff on how to do reach [that way]. Next? A Citizen’s Guide to the West individuals, seeing the hope and these court programs, how to adhere I believe you know Judge Joan Melissa Fitzgerald and More pics, and larger print too! Wing. It is about the ripple effects of Martin Sheen humanity in each and every person. @www.ohioianews.com world stage, fighting for life changing justice for our veterans. to best practices. People who adhere to Synenberg? the show, certainly on all of us, and [I’d like to see] evidenced based the model strictly do the best. When I came out there [to Cleve- What do you think of the West in every department, every single role, There are over 4,000 treatment land, Ohio], I was out for a couple of Wing following now, with so many they just really committed to excel- courts around the country. The days, and I spent quite a bit of time people still talking about it, being lence, and talented hardworking peo- National Association of Drug Court with Judge Synenberg; she’s really influenced by it, and make another ple who really wanted to put the best Professionals has faculty all over the wonderful, really wonderful. Com- See the Celebrating St. Greater The Lyrics round appearing on TV? Did you work that we all could together put out country. mitted, smart, great what she does; Patrick’s Day Cleveland of Irish Freedom have some idea? It was something spe- in the world. I feel very lucky. When I started working at Justice and really cares. She’s well known, of History, Traditions, Irish Directory Notes of cial. I knew it was something special I work with a group of people like for Vets, I called my castmates and I course, in Cleveland. and Activities A directory of Turbulent Times when I read the pilot script over a year that now in the job that I have; so said, nobody knows what these are; She is just such a personable, gen- Irish A Holiday Book performers, by John O’Brien, Jr. before they shot the pilot. My now ex hardworking, and really care about for Kids Restaurants, Pubs, hardly anyone has reported on them. uine person. Those are the kinds of Businesses & Tells the story and the history behind was auditioning for something; his putting our best work out in the world. Will you guys come together and do a people that I get to interact with, and I by John O’Brien Jr. Resources of and agent had given him the script from We know that the work that we all do couple of videos that really talk about am so lucky I got to sit in on her court. World for the Irish in and rebellious bard & ballad around Cleveland from the beginning that [and one from The West Wing]. together is impacting people’s lives. what we do? Everyone said I’m in; I’m I got to go to staffing meetings, where ! of Irish time. He gave them to me to read. I work for the National Association in; I’m in; I’m in. They show up for the interdisciplinary core team meets He asked what I thought. I said of Drug Court Professionals (NA- everything. prior to court time, to just discuss Sports Night was brilliant. I also said DCP). Justice for Vets is one of the We’ve had fundraisers they have each participant in the treatment court The West Wing is going to be the best divisions. In Advancing Justice, which come to; everything I’ve asked for program. They really care; they are show ever on TV. I still stand by that is the initiative that I head up now, one [they do]. They are the most giving, thorough; use the best, cutting-edge statement. of the main things that our organiza- generous group of people; it really is a treatment. First Generation Festival Fine Irish Aaron and the team that they built tion does, in addition to advocating family. We hold a national conference every A book of original poetry Legends: Pubs of Do you think your work with NA- year, the largest conference in the by John O’Brien, Jr. Songs and Stories Greater DCP is more successful because of world on the intersections of addic- by John O’Brien, Jr. Cleveland what you did in West Wing? tion, mental health, and the justice A biographical look A poster of great The support of The West Wing and system. I think last time we had close at the people who pubs where history made the music that was made and SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS Hollywood in general has certainly to 6,000 attendees for four days, hun- defines a people memories created. elevated the work that I’m doing now; dreds of hours of training. They take it is a bigger platform. Sometimes if the training that we do very seriously, Let them know you saw their ad in we have some important thing that we so I think she is just terrific. [NADCP] want to get out in the world, Most of the people that I get to inter- the Ohio Irish American News! I’ll ask Mary [McCormack] or Brad act with, they are looking longer term. [Whitford] or Richard [Schiff] or Alli- They are drawn to doing this kind of All Publications Are Available at: www.songsandstories.net son [Janney]or Janel [Maloney] or Josh work, as they really believe in it and An O’Bent (O’Brien Enterprises) & Author John O’Brien, Jr. website ✵ www.facebook.com/OhioIrishAmericanNews ✵ www.twitter.com/jobjr.

8 OHIO IRISH AMERICAN NEWS We’ve Always Been Green MAY 2021 MAY 2021 WWW.OHIOIANEWS.COM OHIO IRISH AMERICAN NEWS 9 ed, she left to pursue her solo career, “The album is greatly inspired by the wished it went on far longer. so worth it ….” We too often hurt in late 1989 after a jam in Paddy Out of the and is off to a splendid start, with her sea, and the feeling I get in those mo- Real characters and real experience the ones we love, just because we Reilly’s Pub in Manhattan. The band just released solo debut, Wildflower. ments after jumping in first thing in of how things work within the city, can’t get out of our own way. The has released thirteen CDs and have Mailbag Éabha continues the centuries old the morning. Each song represents my and the cops and fire so integral to brotherhood way of life plays an at performed over 2,000 shows. Kirwan By John O’Brien, Jr. Irish tradition of storytelling through passion for the earth, equality, the Irish the story of the Irish in New York is times detrimental part of everyone’s has carved a legacy in Irish American song, bringing her own modern con- language and the importance of unity, crafted and creates characters the actions. culture and is especially noted for temporary style to the art and seam- family and friendship.” reader will root for, even when they Breaking out of the lethargy of his passionate fight in his music and Í@Jobjr lessly blending English lyrics with her Rhythm of Earth ~ In Irish, Éabha screw up. great personal hurt and loss, Detec- written word for justice and human means Life. How fitting, true to her Kirwan traces a fictional tive Sargent Jimmy Murphy fights rights. Kirwan has also written and core; grace, elegance and a powerful multi-generational safety forces fam- to draw the love of his life, his wife, produced eleven plays and musicals. Ava Wildflower instrument in her vocals, of that ties to ilies’ journey through their struggles out too; he fights for his surviving The plays center around Irish history earth, and its joys. The warmth of both is with each other and situations be- younger son; widowed daughter in and politics. Five of the plays: Liver- by Éabha McMahon evident from this very first song. yond their control, trying to over- law, and grandson; and he fights the 2021 13 Tracks 41 Minutes. pool Fantasy; Days of Rage; Mister Wildflowers ~ “a song that will forever come great loss and heartache during brass who wish the legendary Jimmy Parnell; Blood; and Night in the Gar- Éabha (AYE-vah Mac-MA-hon) remind me of the women in my family. and after the terrorist attack in New would just let the mysteries of his den, are published in the book, Mad began her singing career in 1998, when, Particularly my grandmother. I am so York on 9-11. The story touches on so son’s’ death lie unresolved and undis- Angels. at the age of nine, she was chosen by close to her and as a child she would many points expected from a cata- turbed, even if the one stirring things He also writes a weekly column for Veritas to record an album for Beo go show me dried flowers that were so deli- strophic event, and so many of which up is the father of the dead hero. the Irish Echo. Deo, a children’s book. She then began cately kept between two sheets of grease will surprise readers and non-first I’ll say no more, beyond saying, Other Books by Larry Kirwan: singing in sean nós, a traditional, less Éabha McMahon proof paper in an old book. They were responders. Rockaway Blue is a great read, Highly Liverpool Fantasy so beautiful. She told me that she found Rockaway Blue is a well-told, emo- Recommended, and a Top Shelf Se- demonstrative, and unaccompanied Fairview Feis Ceoil five times. Rockin’ the Bronx them years after her mother had passed tional journey, marked with charac- lection.  style, taught by such singers as Moya Éabha joined Anúna in 2007, becom- Green Suede Shoes away. Her mother, my great grand- ters filled with good intentions, and Brennan, Máire Ní Choilm, Íde Mac ing the group’s youngest member at 16 Plays and musicals, including: mother would tell the story of the Rockaway Blue bad actions, regrets for the past and Kirwin’s Celtic Crush is a SiriusXM Mathúna, and Séamus Mac Mathúna. the age of sixteen. In 2008, she record- Hard Times wildflowers and I loved hearing about vows for the future. We all resolve to radio show he has hosted since 2005. At the age of fifteen, Éabha won the ed the PBS Holiday Special, “Anúna: By Larry Kirwan Rebel in the Soul how they ended up in this book.” do better; yet fear, physical, emotion- It airs each Sunday morning from Under18 All Ireland Oireachtais final. Christmas Memories”, released that ©2021 253 Pages. To find out more, see: Black47.com oft forgotten indigenous Call My Name ~ Probably my favorite al, or both, can cloud, delay or derail 9am-Noon on SiriusXM Channel From age thirteen to seventeen, she was year on DVD and CD. and on Facebook language that adds a poetic rhythm to song on Wildflower, the rhythm and Author, playwright, singer, song- intentions, seemingly so obvious to 710. “The Loft replays the show each the reigning Leinster champion in the Éabha joined Celtic Woman in July her songwriting. meaning are deeply connecting for me. writer, Black 47 Rocker, radio host* us outside, but reading the story. Tuesday evening at 9pm. Irish music competition Fleadh Ceoil. 2015, replacing Lisa Lambe in the Get More to the Story “I am making this album because it’s Heartbeats – “this song was written and journalist Larry Kirwan’s latest In many ways, it is a story of From Wexford, Kirwan From the ages of fourteen to eighteen, ensemble, and recorded seven CDs as a More pics, and larger print too! the most honest expression of who I am, during the lockdown. With so many book, Rockaway Blue, is a pure redemption; in many ways, readers formed Black 47 with Chris Byrne @www.ohioianews.com she was the Dublin champion in the member of Celtic Women. As 2019 end- what I stand for and my intentions for news stories covering stories about in- winner. I read it in two sittings, and will say, “stop, just tell her, it will be the world that we live in. I sing to heal, equality, discrimination and fear, it really and it heals me too. It is the purest form upset me to see how people can be so of emotion that I have ever experienced, cruel to one another. Éabha Mc Mahon Running away, why are we running away? TUESDAY so I want that in my life every day… It is I wanted to write a song that we can all Guests: Gavin Murphy, piano and key- 6pm-8pm: All Things Irish the greatest privilege to be able to make relate to. No matter who you are, where Continued from previous page boards; Bill Shanley, Guitars; Noel Eccles, music, and something that I want to do you are from, what you believe in, what I wanted to write lyrics that made a safe percussion; Liam Bradley, drums and WOBC-FM 91.5 w/Anita Lock for the rest of my life. colour your skin is, who you love, who space to reminisce and remember all of percussion; John O’Brien, Whistle. Irish “It was like a breath of fresh air going you identify as. No matter what you may the special moments that life offers us Wildflower is a musical journey to find SATURDAY back into studio after months of working believe is right of wrong, we are all just peace, in the night, and when retrospect every day.” 9am-11am: stonecoldbikini, from our homes. I have never been so heartbeats. Know that no matter what One More Day ~We must keep trying, overtakes us in our quiet moments. Being thankful to once again feel that feeling you stand for, love is the only universal fight one more day, for that is when we are drawn to the light, we sway with Éabha’s WRUW FM 91.1 w/Christine Hahn you get in the studio. The slight feeling of language. And I will forever stand for closest to our goal. songs, lending ourselves to being open, nerves mixed with lots of excitement and love and equality.” You Are Home ~ Be the Light, be the and then being able to find the connec- 10am-11am: Radio Johnson Brothers the wonderful anticipation of how the Seas Suas ~ “I wrote [this] when I vision, look not to the past, Sweet freedom tions we need. Irish Hour WKTL-FM 90.7 songs will develop after singing them. was away touring. I missed home and at last. At our most basic, we are so similar, in Most of the album was written in the my family and husband so much at the Native Call ~The earth often speaks to the quest for life, connection, a bit of light west of Ireland. I am so thankful to have time. I wanted to write a love song to all us, sometimes symbolically, sometimes that we all need, in trying times. Éabha SUNDAY been living there for that creative time of those who were at home and I wanted we just have to be patient, to listen to the is a songwriter who walks along with us, SATURDAY & SUNDAY Carbon Leaf because it is the most inspiring and sce- them to know that although they were with stories and experiences we have all 7am-9am: Sweeney Astray whispers around us. nic place that I have ever lived. I walked physically far away, they were never far Tell Me Now ~ Tell me now, Are you come through. Wildflower is a Top Shelf WCSB-FM 89.3 12-6pm ET/9am-3pm PT on SiriusXM the beaches every day for an hour and the from my heart. I love this song because Selection, and highly recommended.  lonely? Tell you something, so am I. 10am-12pm: Gerry Quinn’s Irish Hours Classic Vinyl, channel 26. June 10th @ 7:30pm sound of the waves crashing against the it really is who I am and my love for the Around the world, love endures, even For more than this review and the Inner shore centered me in a way that I have Irish language and our tradition.” View, see Éabha’s appearance on iIrish WHK-AM 1420 w/ Colleen $32 in advance | GA seating in pods | Very limited number of seats available. when we might not be in close proximity. not felt in years. When We Dream ~ We dream of true Runaway ~ This is not a leaving from Songs, Stories & Shenanigans Podcast27, Corrigan Day & Eddie Fitzpatrick iIrish: Songs, Stories The cold sea air allowed me to access a loves, that visit us in the night, and linger something, but rather of embracing the available on OhioIANews.com or on THE KENT STAGE mindful part of my soul which I hadn’t into the light. fear of things unknown, run away and do iTunes. www.avaworldmusic.com Face- 11:30am-1:30pm: Echoes of Erin & Shenanigans had time to tap into for a while. Now In the Quiet ~ “A song of reflection. 175 East Main Street, Downtown Kent them, try something new. Do one thing book and Twitter, and Patreon. WCWA-AM 1230 w/John Connolly Podcast posted every second Friday on listening back to my songs, I realise that A moment of quiet and leave for anyone that will scare you … It’s good for the soul. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-carbon-leaf-tickets-144729240053 so many of the ideas were born on those who has lost someone or something close Loud ~ The damage to our earth is near Get More to the Story 6pm- 7pm: Songs of Britain & Ireland WHKradio.com and OhioIANews.com beaches in Salthill and it will forever be a to them. In a world that is so fast paced, a point of no return. Still, we are not doing More pics, and larger print too! and archived forever! www.thekentstage.com or 330-677-5005 @ WCPN-FM 90.3 place full of magic. Continued on facing page enough. All of our land, it is drying out. www.ohioianews.com

10 OHIO IRISH AMERICAN NEWS We’ve Always Been Green MAY 2021 MAY 2021 WWW.OHIOIANEWS.COM OHIO IRISH AMERICAN NEWS 11 music by composer Bruno Coulais and Irish band Kíla, features the voices Ireland’s Five-Time Oscar Nominated Cartoon Saloon of Brendan Gleeson, Fionnula Flana- gan, David Rawle, Lisa Hannigan, Pat Launches a New E-Commerce Art Gallery Shortt and Jon Kenny. SONG OF THE SEA Creating an opportunity for ani- Academy Award-nominated Song of mation film enthusiasts everywhere, the Sea tells the story of Ben and his the four-time Academy Award-nom- little sister Saoirse – the last Seal-child inated animation studio, Cartoon – who embark on a fantastic journey Saloon, announced the launch of a across a fading world of ancient legend new e-commerce art gallery featuring and magic in an attempt to return to limited-edition framed prints from their home by the sea. The film takes a slate of their multiple award- inspiration from the mythological nominated and award-winning Selkies of Irish folklore, who live as animated films, including this year’s seals in the sea but become humans on Academy Award and Golden Globe- land. nominated “WolfWalkers,” along The Breadwinner with Annie Award winner and is a celebration of children–for Academy Award and Golden Globe- children, whatever their age, wherever nominated “The Breadwinner,” and they live. The movie tells the story of the Academy Award-nominated “Song 11-year-old Parvana, who gives up of the Sea,” and “The Secret of Kells.” her identity to provide for her family Brian Tyrrell, General Manager, and try to save her father’s life. Every Brand Development with Cartoon day is a challenge as Parvana tries to Saloon, stated: “The launch of our new bring home enough food and water to art gallery offers us a tremendous op- support her mother, sister and little portunity to share the magic of these brother. She meets a fellow girl in outstanding movies with fans around disguise called Shauzia, and together, the world. We are extremely proud of they form a bond that will give them our films, particularly with the most Sulayman and the Mountain (The Breadwinner) the strength to endure the war that 'Sulayman and the Mountain' is a lovingly illustrated piece depicting the young boys' quest to confront his foe. 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12 OHIO IRISH AMERICAN NEWS We’ve Always Been Green MAY 2021 MAY 2021 WWW.OHIOIANEWS.COM OHIO IRISH AMERICAN NEWS 13 Photo courtesy of Cleveland State University Archive and dice the meat into bite-size chunks Cooking Up or get thick slices from the deli and cut up). a Hooley ½ cup Shredded Irish Cheddar Cheese Home Sweet Home By Katie Gagne ½ cup Shredded Swiss Cheese 2 cups Coleslaw Mix By Dan Coughlin In his eulogy, Jim’s brother told 1/3 cup Dill Pickle Juice Here’s what I really missed during us how Jim and his wife Alberta got 1 cup Sour Cream the pandemic – saying goodbye to old together. They were both teaching 3 tbsp Ketchup friends and acquaintances who died. confraternity classes at St. Ignatius of 2 Dill Pickles – diced small Almost all wakes and funeral ser- Antioch Parish. In those days it was the 1 tsp Black Pepper vices were postponed. People died in name for religion classes for kids who 1 tsp Garlic Salt obscurity and they took their stories went to public school. Irish Mexican 1 tsp Season Salt with them. During my eighteen years It was no surprise that Alberta caught 1 tsp Kosher Salt writing sports at The Plain Dealer and Jim’s eye. Jim didn’t think that a class- Fusion 1 cup Diced Hash Brown Potatoes – later writing books, I heard many sto- room at St. Ignatius of Antioch grade fully cooked ries at funeral homes that later became school was an appropriate place to ask Irish Quesadillas ½ cup Green Salsa Verde newspaper columns and chapters in my Alberta for a date, but he did ask her for Cooking Spray books. her phone number. and Burritos Cook Potatoes until brown and crispy. Many years ago, I walked across the “She wrote it on the back of a holy Drain on a paper towel and set aside. You can roll them into a Burrito shape Guacamole adds an additional green street from The Plain Dealer building card,” Jim’s brother revealed. PLAYING WITH YOUR FOOD Combine Coleslaw Mix, Black Pepper, or fold over into a Quesadilla. flair. to St. Peter’s Catholic Church for the “No,” said Alberta, “I wrote it on the These days you see many recipes that Season Salt, Garlic Salt, and Pickle Juice For the Quesadilla, spray a baking Enjoy!  funeral service of a man named E. J. back of a bookmark that I picked up combine delicious ingredients that in a small bowl and let sit for several sheet with Cooking Spray and place the Kissell, a police reporter for The Plain off the desk. But it did have a picture of St. Peter’s Catholic Church, 1964 come from different cultures and culi- minutes. folded Tortilla on the tray and bake in Katie Gagne teaches English at Trinity Dealer. Kissell, a life-long bachelor, was Mary or Joseph on the front.” nary traditions. This recipe is a playful Chop up Corned Beef and Pickles and the over at 350* for approximately 5-6 High School in Garfield Heights. She is a very mysterious man. He worked the They wound up married for about but I also can find my way to Schulte & an Italian name. Her husband was blending of two tasty and simple styles shred any Cheeses if needed. minutes until cheeses melt and the Tor- also the owner of her in-home bakery late night shift out of the press room in sixty years. Mahon-Murphy on the East Side, and, Bob Randazzo, known popularly that when mixed together are a delight Mix Sour Cream, Ketchup, Pickles, tilla start to brown just slightly. Flip over Sassy’s Sweets and Oh So Much More. the old Central Police Station on Payne I walked out of St. Angela Merici as I just mentioned, Berkowitz-Kumin. as Bob Roberts, The Plain Dealer’s to the palate. and a dash of Garlic Salt in a bowl. With and cook for another two minutes. 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He was, after all, a soft- the serpentine line sometimes stretches Catholic High School. To say she was you can cook an actually corned beef slaw, and Potatoes on each Tortilla. This recipe makes 4 medium size Que- More pics, and larger print too! About twenty reporters and deskmen ball player in the Charlie Sheets Sunday from the casket, where the family lines beloved is an understatement; she was sadillas or Burritos or any combination of @www.ohioianews.com attended his funeral service - like me - morning League. up, and into the hallway where it dou- revered. the two. out of curiosity. Some of them walked After the service for another old friend bles up like the mazes at Cedar Point. I asked Kevin to put a number on CONWAY LAND TITLE COMPANY up to the microphone and shared an at Berkowitz, Kumin, Bookatz, a woman I began conversations in one direc- the mourners. anecdote. Among them was Dick Peery, walked up to me and introduced herself. tion and resumed them in the other “Thirteen hundred. Maybe 1,500,” 162 Main Street Painesville, OH 44077 who also covered the police beat. “I was the other woman,” she said. direction. I was collected several story he said. SUBSCRIBE! “The first two years I saw him walk- That snapped me to attention. She ideas. Furthermore, I enjoyed myself The line lasted for almost eight Makes ing around the police station, I thought went on to say that they had been boy- so much that after consoling the family hours. There were thirty years of Receive the Ohio Irish American a GREAT he was a detective,” said Peery, “and we friend and girlfriend for at least the last I went back out into the hallway and students, teachers and football and News in Your Mailbox! GIFT! worked for the same paper.” twenty years. My friend was in his sev- went through the line again. basketball coaches. I touched dozens Published 12 times yearly, the first of each month The last person who spoke was a enties, which made her age appropriate. I set my personal record for longest of bases. There wasn’t a gambler or woman we did not know. She said she She made no attempt to hide her line in May of 2018 at St. Mary of the horse player in the crowd. First Class Delivery: was Kissell’s “special” friend for thirty years, but that wasn’t necessary. She Assumption Church in Mentor. But it “Do you expect the same kind of One Year $36 Two Years $70 Three Years $100 years and told tender stories about him. was a good-looking woman. And here wasn’t in church and it wasn’t in the turnout?” I asked the Railbird. “But I always wondered,” she said, I thought his only interests were riding funeral home. Neither one was big “My wake will be from four o’clock Please start the subscription the month of: “if someday I would discover that he his Harley and running his business. enough. It was in the community room, to 4:15. Don’t be late,” he said. Name: had a wife and three kids in Garfield I don’t know why she told me. I guess about the size of the school gym. The Frankly, over the last half-century, Heights.” she had to tell somebody. Since we were line stretched from the far wall of the I’ve spent more time at funeral homes Address: It was the funniest line I have ever standing on the fringe of a group of community room out the door into the than at movie theaters. As a matter of heard at a funeral - and she was serious. family members, I was her go-to guy. parking lot and around two sides of the fact, I met my wife, Maddy, at a wake City: State: Zip: A few months ago, we stared down She told me she was a masseuse. She building until it reached Euclid Ave. at McGorray’s in Lakewood many the Corona virus and attended the gave me her card. “I’ve been a funeral director for twen- years ago. Yes, funeral homes are pref- Phone: ( ) funeral Mass for Jim Nieberding, an “Call me if I can do anything for you,” ty years and it was the longest line I’ve erable to singles bars in that regard, old friend who had everything good she said. ever seen,” said Kevin Coyne of McMa- which is a story for another time. E:mail going for him. His mother was a “No, I think I’ll get a motorcycle,” I hon-Coyne-Vitantonio Funeral Home. It’s been a tough pandemic. I missed (Fax: 440.352.9261) McDonough; he went to Cathedral said. “It was unbelievable. 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14 OHIO IRISH AMERICAN NEWS We’ve Always Been Green MAY 2021 MAY 2021 WWW.OHIOIANEWS.COM OHIO IRISH AMERICAN NEWS 15 in Dublin to promote Irish culture and main goal remains to reinstate the Irish Irish people have a long history of reject- Speak language. The result of that meeting was language as the common language of ing whatever others try to impose on us: Conradh na Gaeilge or the Irish League. Ireland, and to protect the language rights Norman conquest, Protestant Reforma- Medina Ancient Order of Hibernians 2021 Annual Beer Run Irish It’s members became teachers and in the Gaeltacht communities in Ireland tion, Act of Union, Guinness Light.” By Bob Carney organizers, leading to the Irish cultural and around the world. They also man- He noted that many revert to English Charity Event Benefits Three Local Charities revival. Books and learning materials age the Irish language site PEIG.ie and even after attending Irish immersion by Tony Manley services with compassionate care in a Christian Charity. [email protected].  were published and made available. an Irish language bookshop, An Siopa schools once beyond the school gates. The Medina County Ohio division unique setting that is open to resi- For more information regarding In 1906, their tireless work brought Leabhar. You can visit www.cnag.ie for O’Dwyer thinks if bilingual spaces were Í@BobCarneyGTR of the Ancient Order of Hibernians dents of all faiths. They also provide the Medina County Irish Brigade Get More to the Story about a bilingual program in the national more information. designated or people were encouraged to Irish Brigade Division in Medina a services program directed to the Division of the Ancient Order of More pics, and larger print too! school system. Newspapers and maga- In a March column in The Irish Ex- use words and phrases in their everyday County, Ohio announced the recip- Catholic clergy. Hibernians, contact Tony Manley: @www.ohioianews.com zines in Gaeilge were started to spread aminer, John O’Dwyer lamented about speech, it may help. If not, he offered this, ients of their 2021 Annual Beer Run The Ancient Order of Hibernians Ban the Irish the views of Conradh na Gaeilge and it’s the lack of use of Irish in Ireland after “I’m afraid we must invoke the nuclear Charity Event proceeds. Each of the (AOH) is America’s oldest Irish Cath- members. The printed word also helped becoming fluent in the language him- option and entirely ban the language. following organizations is receiving a olic Fraternal Organization, founded the language move beyond the oral tra- self. He thought it might be due to the That should ensure the rebellious Irish $200.00 check from the Irish Brigade: in May, 1836. The AOH can trace its Language? dition as many adult speakers learned to required study of the language and it’s psyche will thrill to the challenge of total  Birthcare of Medina County - a roots back to a series of similar soci- In the past, we have discussed ways to read and write in their native tongue. grammar in school. He said, “After all, mastery.” volunteer staffed agency that pro- eties that existed in Ireland for more incorporate our growing Irish vocabulary PÁDRAIG MAC PIARAIS vides emergency assistance and than 300 years. The Home of Fine into our everyday conversations. During Pádraig Mac Piarais (Patrick Pearse) Mise Éire support to families with infants and The Irish Brigade is Medina European & American Seachtain na Gaeilge (Irish Language was one of the most active members of Mise Éire young children in Medina County. County’s singular AOH division, Comfort Food Week) this past March, Conradh na Conradh na Gaeilge, and although the Feeding Medina County - creating and inaugurated its Annual Beer LIVE TUESDAY: Gaeilge (The Gaelic League) issued a Sine mé ná an Chailleach Bhéarra programs to educate, engage and lead Run several years ago as a recur- Tacos & Margaritas league was formed as a non-political enti- WEDNESDAY: MUSIC! statement encouraging the use of Irish ty, he saw it as an essential element of the Mór mo ghlóir: the Medina County community in ring fund-raising event. A full-size Wing Night THURSDAY: Burger Night among students in text messaging and Republican movement for an independent Mé a rug Cú Chulainn cróga. creating an environment where no commercial bus carries the boys and Daily Happy SUNDAY: Brunch, 9am-2pm social media. Many of us involved in the Ireland. Many of it’s members played key Mór mo náir: one goes hungry. They nourish our their friends to five area breweries to Hour Speak Irish Cleveland classes have been roles in the 1916 Rising and the War of Mo chlann féin a dhíol a máthair. community with essential programs sample their products and have a day HOURS Tues-Wed: 11:30am-10pm until 7pm! doing this as well. It is a good exercise and Thurs: 11:30am-10pm $2 Domestics, Independence. Michael Collins said the Mór mo phian: that put food on the table for chil- of comradery and fun. Historically, $ Fri-Sat: 11:30am-Midnight Sunday: 9am-9pm 4 Glass of will even help with spelling and sentence formation of Conradh na Gaeilge was the Bithnaimhde do mo shíorchiapadh. dren, families and seniors who are at the event has been a sellout, or near Wine structure. It may take a time or two for most important event in the nineteenth Mór mo bhrón: risk of hunger. sell out event, with proceeds going to 6757 Center Rd. (Route 303) Valley City, OH 44280 your phone to accept Irish words instead century in the history of Ireland. Regina Health Center - offers local organizations that demonstrate of trying to correct your spelling. Today, Conradh na Gaeilge has over D’éag an dream inar chuireas dóchas. quality, faith-based skilled nursing, the Ancient Order of Hibernian’s 330.483.1190 Conradh na Gaeilge was formed in two hundred branches worldwide, Mise Éire: assisted living and rehabilitation motto of Friendship, Unity and www.GandalfsPub.com • www.Facebook/Gandalf’sPub 1893 when Eoin Mac Néill invited Doug- running language courses and raising Uaigní mé ná an Chailleach Bhéarra. las Hyde and eight others to a meeting awareness about the language. Their Pádraic Pearse ON THIS DAY IN IRISH HISTORY - APRIL I am Ireland I am Ireland I am older than the old woman of Beare 2 May 1882 – The Kilmainham Martin McGuiness take office Treaty is signed by the British in a restored Northern Ireland Great my glory: government under William Evart Assembly. I who bore Cuchalainn, the brave. Gladstone and the Irish Nationalist 14 May 1893 – George “McIrish” Great my shame: leader Charles Stewart Parnell. McElroy is born in Donnybrook, My own children who sold their mother. It extended the terms of the 1881 County Dublin. He will become Great my pain: Second Land Bill, which addressed Ireland’s greatest WWI ace, with My irreconcilable enemy who harasses me continually. the issue of land arrears for Irish forty-seven victories. Great my sorrow: peasants. 15 May 2007 – Bertie Ahern became That crowd in whom I placed my trust, died. 3 May 1903 – Bing Crosby is born the first Taoiseach to address the I am Ireland in Tacoma, Washington, as Henry Westminster parliament. I am lonlier than the old woman of Beare. Lillis Crosby. 24 May 1928 – William Trevor 5 May 1981 – Death of Bobby Sands, (Cox), prolific and prize-winning the first republican prisoner to die short story writer and novelist, is Bob Carney is a student of Irish history and language and teaches of a hunger strike. born in Middletown, Co. Cork. the Speak Irish Cleveland class held every Tuesday at PJ McIntyre’s. 8 May 1567 – Shane O’Neill of Among the best known of his over He is also active in the Irish Wolfhounds and Irish dogs organizations Tyrone was defeated by Hugh forty works are Felicias Journey, in and around Cleveland. Wife Mary, hounds Morrighán and Rían and O’Donnell at the Battle of and The Story of Lucy Gault. terrier Doolin keep the house jumping. He can be reached at carney- Faretsmore, Co. Donegal. 29 May 1917 – Birth of John [email protected] 8 May 2007 – ‘Devolution Day’ in Fitzgerald Kennedy in Brookline, Northern Ireland. DUP Leader Massachusetts. Get More to the Story Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein Leader More pics, and larger print too! @www.ohioianews.com

16 OHIO IRISH AMERICAN NEWS We’ve Always Been Green MAY 2021 MAY 2021 WWW.OHIOIANEWS.COM OHIO IRISH AMERICAN NEWS 17 Donnybrook It Is Time For An Irish Unity Referendum One Hundredth Anniversary of the "We remain steadfast that there would be no new US/UK Free And every Cleveland Irish man and by Mark Guilfoyle following. Friday Agreement for these last 23 years, law in Kentucky. During 1991-95, he violently forced creation of the Six Coun- Trade Agreement if the GFA was impact- woman is fully aware of former Mayor The time has come to give the people of The Assembly that meets in Stormont we Americans have a stake in seeing the served as General Counsel to the Gover- ty Statelet known as Northern Ireland supporters of a secure ed by a hard, land border on the Island and Congressman Dennis John Patrick Ireland the opportunity to decide wheth- on the outskirts of Belfast is far removed Irish people have their say in a referen- nor, Secretary of the Governor’s Executive (1921-2021) has been “celebrated” by of Ireland, no solutions have bene agreed Kucinich’s pride in his Irish ancestry. But er to reunify the island. The Irish Gov- from the one that met one hundred dum. Is there anything more American Cabinet and State Budget Director in the  small groups of Unionist teenage gangs and prosperous upon. did you know that Councilman Basheer ernment should plan for and promote years ago. In the 2017 Assembly and than that? Commonwealth of Kentucky. throwing rocks and petrol bombs in Northern Ireland in Desperate for a Free Trade Agreement Jones’ Grandfather was a McClain from Irish Unity. The British Government 2020 Westminster elections, Pro-British April. The seams of the artificially created with the U.S., UK Prime Minister Boris Ireland as well? Perhaps more will be should set a date now for a Unity Referen- Unionist parties no longer have an elec- Mark Guilfoyle is President of the Get More to the Story dum, allowing time for debate over what toral majority. Friends of Sinn Féin USA. He practices More pics, and larger print too! Northern Ireland statelet are threadbare which all communities Johnson was left with only one choice, joining the race. ‘Tis shaping up to be a @www.ohioianews.com and fraying on its 100th birthday. that of the Irish Sea Border. The Unionist true Donnybrook. form a United Ireland will take. Second, census data show a clear Several factors have converged to have a voice and enjoy Community views this as “Boris’ Betray- One hundred years ago, the War of demographic trend of an increasing Na- confront the Unionist Community’s al” and are expressing their frustration Independence was raging in Ireland. tionalist electorate (that tends to support the gains of the SEN. SHERROD BROWN The British Government responded by Irish Unity) and a decreasing Unionist perceived birthright of entitlement and in the streets. Graffiti of “No Irish Sea SUPPORTS U.S. SENATE privilege: 1) Historic divisions between hard-won peace.” Border” are spray painted throughout imposing partition, which created a electorate (that tends to favor union with the Nationalist and Unionist commu- Orange neighborhoods. RESOLUTION 117 pro-British Unionist controlled state in the UK). This trend will intensify going nities. 2) Brexit. 3) Boris’ “Betrayal”. –President Biden President Biden, commenting on A bipartisan resolution has been the northeastern six counties. Eventually, forward. 4) Highest poverty rates in the E.U. 5) the situation in Belfast said: “We are introduced in the U.S. Senate by Re- the remaining twenty-six counties won Third, Brexit has accelerated the con- Northern Ireland Protocol. 6) failure to the Union, the reality is that the North- concerned by the violence in Northern publican Susan Collins of Maine and independence. Partition, the gerry-man- versation on the future. Britain imposed fully implement the Good Friday Accord. ern Ireland Protocol created a custom’s Ireland, and we join the British, Irish, Democrat Bob Menendez of New Jersey dered division of Ireland, spawned de- Brexit against the will of the people of the Sentiments in the Six Counties have border down the Irish Sea between the and Northern Irish leaders in their calls supporting “full implementation of cades of discrimination, state repression, North -- 56% of whom voted to remain in been aggravated in recent years after Island of Ireland and the Island of Great for calm. We remain steadfast supporters the Good Friday Agreement,” includ- and widespread conflict in the North. the European Union. Brexit is wreaking a majority of Northern Ireland voted Britain (England, Scotland & Wales). of a secure and prosperous Northern ing “action to resolve the injustices of In 1994, President Clinton approved havoc in Northern Ireland, but it can against Brexit, and yet London Tories Two choices existed: An unnatural, Ireland in which all communities have a past violence.” The Resolution aims to a visa for Sinn Féin President Gerry automatically rejoin the EU as part of a dragged the six counties out of the hard border on the Island of Ireland, voice and enjoy the gains of the hard-won support and protect the peace achieved Adams, despite fierce opposition from United Ireland. European Union earlier this year after an OR a natural sea border between the peace.” under the GFA, especially during these the British Government. That same year, The debate on a Unity Referendum is almost 50-year marriage. While promises two islands. Under pressure from the This 100th anniversary has seen some challenging times. This resolution Friends of Sinn Féin USA was established no longer a whispered conversation. It is were made to the Unionist Community E.U. leadership and a clear statement of the worst sectarian violence since the has been joined by over a dozen other to facilitate Americans hearing first-hand a democratic imperative. Even Unionist that Brexit would have no impact upon from U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi adoption of the Good Friday Agreement senators, including Ohio’s Sen. Sherrod from Sinn Féin leaders about efforts to leaders are recognizing the inevitability (GFA) in 1998; time will tell whether this Brown. achieve Irish Unity through peaceful and of a referendum. is a one-off hooliganism or does it por- Ohio’s junior senator, Rob Portman, democratic means. Some claim that the Unity Referendum tend for a long hot summer in the North has been requested to join the resolu- In 1995, the United States appointed will be destabilizing. Democracy is never of Ireland. tion, with no commitment as of the Senator George Mitchell as a special destabilizing. It is the denial of democra- time of this publication. Please contact envoy. Mitchell chaired negotiations that cy that is dangerous and destabilizing in IRISH CLEVELAND Sen. Brown’s office to thank him for his led to the signing of the Good Friday any society. This summer of 2021 marks the first support for the Irish Peace Process, and Agreement in 1998. Conflict and repres- Some say that now is not the time. open race for the Mayor of the City of please call Sen. Portman’s office to stand sion were replaced by peace and demo- But those same people do not offer an Cleveland in twenty years (2002 Jane with Peace in the North of Ireland and cratic politics. Henceforth, it would be alternative timeframe and refuse to Campbell election). In the likely crowded urge his joining of Senate Resolution up to the will of the people to determine acknowledge the scale of change that is race, several claim Irish ancestry. We 117.  their constitutional future. undeniably underway in Ireland. know well that Council President Kevin The Good Friday Agreement is a sig- Ironically, these Unity deniers include Kelley has a strong Irish Heritage and has Get More to the Story nificant American foreign policy success. the Irish Government, which refuses to used his leadership post to facilitate City More pics, and larger print too! We have skin in the game, and we have prepare for a Unity Referendum. This is support of the annual St. Patrick’s Day @www.ohioianews.com contributed mightily to peace in Ireland an unsustainable position, an abdication Parade. over the last 23 years. And this contri- of its constitutional obligation to promote bution has been bipartisan. Democrats Unity as the will of the Irish nation. and Republicans have acted in concert to Presently, leading Irish American orga- protect the Good Friday Agreement and nizations are calling on the Irish Govern- to prevent the imposition of a hard border ment to engage with the discussion and Aggressive across Ireland in the Brexit process. to plan for and promote Irish Unity, in OHIO Underpinning the Good Friday keeping with its Good Friday Agreement Creative. RUN Agreement is the fundamental demo- obligations and the imperative of the Successful. Jeff McGowan Memorial 5K cratic principle that it is up to the people constitution of Ireland. Patrick T. Murphy, Esq. to decide their constitutional future. 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18 OHIO IRISH AMERICAN NEWS We’ve Always Been Green MAY 2021 MAY 2021 WWW.OHIOIANEWS.COM OHIO IRISH AMERICAN NEWS 19 Women's Football Training at Impett Hurling 10v10 Scrimmage in Brecksville indoor and outdoor at the WSIA to ules as the summer times and days allow for increased spacing and social could change with sunlight and game distancing. Contact the club for tickets schedules. Gaelic Football and Hurling Tournament and advertising opportunities (www. Go raibh míle maith agaibh ClevelandGAA.com ). There will be (thanks y’all) to our readers and Comes to Cleveland May 8th some full days of GAA competition supporters. We need your help and Live Music and craic at Páirc na Naomh (the home involvement, but would most like eral teams from around the Midwest and ladies’ football) for a full GAA Day field at the WSIA) on June th5 and an- to share the fun of Irish sport and Taking the (Pittsburgh, Detroit, Buffalo); Chicago in Pittsburgh. The final Saturday in other in July. Cleveland community with you. Con- Live Sports (Aisling Gaels, McBrides, James Joyce); June, the 26th, will see a hurling blitz Fields of Glory YOUTH GAELIC FOOTBALL sider getting involved at any level. and Central (Milwaukee) divisions in Akron between Akron, Pittsburgh, Fáilte (welcome) to all. The Gaelic By Vincent Beach for the Memorial 7’s Tournament at Roc City, and Cleveland; the Buffalo AND HURLING Athletic Association is Ireland’s larg- Authentic the West Side Irish American Club Fenians travel to Albany as the Buffa- The Cleveland GAA youth summer th est sporting organization and a bit of Irish Fare (WSIA). There will be two field of play lo Na Fianna and Buffalo Ladies host program will begin Sunday June 7 at home for the Irish abroad here in the going from the late morning through Pittsburgh in football; and the Midwest the WSIA at 3PM for football, followed US of A. Beyond sports, the Associa- Men's Scrimmage at Edgewater Park the afternoon. Come out to enjoy the Division hosts a youth invitational by hurling at 4:15. All ages will be tion also promotes Irish music, song Have an Event Finally … some schedule games outdoors, competition, comradery, and tournament in Detroit. coached at the same time on different th and dance, and the Irish language and training sessions. Keep the faith, craic. Later in the month, May 29 , the CLEVELAND GAELIC FOOTBALL fields and the program will run weekly as an integral part of its objectives. keep diligent, keep fit. While all of new Buffalo Na Fianna club will travel throughout the summer. Please visit or Fundraiser? Cleveland has been awarded a Cleveland GAA is open to all who the adult teams were able to get out to Pittsburgh for their first divisional www.ClevelandGAA.com/youth for grant from the government of Ireland want to play competitive sports, meet in the month of April for championship match. registration and details. Host it in our beautiful (Department of Foreign Affairs and new people, and join an athletic, fit- training, the footballers Trade) through the Global Games ADULT MEN AND WOMEN ness-minded club for all ages. and hurlers are definite- JUNE MATCHUPS Akron travel to Pittsburgh Development Fund, a joint partnership Follow @ClevelandGaelic on Bridgie Ned’s ly looking forward to GAELIC FOOTBALL AND HURLING for hurling, Detroit match- with the GAA and DFAT’s Emigrant Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter competitive matches and Remember – new players are always up in Cincinnati for the I-75 Support Programme. They will use the for the 2020 activities for Men, Party Room! warmer weather. But, welcome and can join throughout classic, and Cleveland play funds to secure much needed equip- Women, and Youth, or, visit Cleve- before we get into the the summer. The men’s football team host to Buffalo Na Fianna and ment for the Memorial 7’s tournament. landGAA.com.  17119 Lorain Avenue two month look-ahead will continue training on Tuesdays the Buffalo Ladies for a double header Cleveland has secured several grants Cleveland, Ohio 44111 schedule, the Midwest GAA Players at Impett Field in Westpark and at the WSIA on the 5th. On the 12th, over the years to help develop the GAA Vincent Thomas Francis Xavier Beach and Supporters Association would on Thursdays at the WSIA – both 216.941.9311 Akron battles Cleveland in hurling at locally as a means to support the Irish is a proud Greater Clevelander and like to thank Annie O’Donnell for the starting at 6PM. The hurlers contin- pjmcintyres.com the WSIA and the Pittsburgh Banshees Diaspora, improve Irish networks, and emigrant of Michigan. He joined the St. years of service after matches in the ue on Sundays in Brecksville at the head north to play the Buffalo Ladies, strengthen Irish identity internation- Pat’s Gaelic Football Club in 1999 and, WSIA pub serving suds, spirits, and Stadium Drive field starting at 1PM, while the Upstate New York teams kick ally. May we all travel again soon to with much help, is the current caretaker smiles. Go raibh míle maith agat, good with some joint sessions being held off the season with Albany at Syracuse. Ireland in thanks. with Akron to increase game scenario of the Cleveland GAA. $ on yah, and enjoy the retirement. th 25 Chicken Dinner, Beer, Wine, Wash We support our Local Teams The 19 features Albany traveling to After the 7’s tournament, Cleveland drills. The Ladies’ will continue with $ Get More to the Story Own a Horse for 15 and Fundraising Cause Efforts. MAY TOURNAMENT Buffalo Fenians while the Cleveland St. Pat’s – St. Jarlath’s will jointly host twice a week sessions. Please visit Contact: Vincent at 216.209.5845 Saturday, 8th, the Cleveland Men – Pittsburgh rivalry is enjoyed across the annual Night at the Races on May the club website or contact the club More pics, and larger print too! or [email protected] Ask for Details! nd @www.ohioianews.com Kevin at 440.552.0472 or and Ladies’ football teams host sev- three codes (hurling, men’s football, 22 . This year’s event will be both directly to stay up to date on sched- [email protected]

20 OHIO IRISH AMERICAN NEWS We’ve Always Been Green MAY 2021 MAY 2021 WWW.OHIOIANEWS.COM OHIO IRISH AMERICAN NEWS 21 and smell the roses. In today’s world, it’s tendencies and challenged his meticu- Patrick Gibney in 1873 was “quite de- Act 1838 allowed person thought to the antiseptic smell of a hospital that Cleveland lous nature. Aunt Irene is optimistically mented and resembles more a monkey be a danger to themselves or others Terry From might be the thing to bring us to our Be Not Still anticipating his return to campus and than a human being.” Bridget Devaney committed to jail and/or the “lunatic senses. A vaccine is not a cure, but it Irish Derry that the new normal resembles in some in 1874 displayed a “head small and asylum.” Be not still heart of mine, can stop the virus from being deadly, By Terry Boyle By Francis McGarry way the old normal. ill shaped with a forehead narrow” In America, the first study of “in- Resist silence and beat your big drum, Loudly, and may prevent hospitalization. In one sense, this advancement is a cause for At least he can again interact with and perhaps more pertinent to her sanity” was in 1854 Massachusetts. Stomp, shout, scream a vibrant anthem, hope, but it’s not a certainty. others who appreciate the mechanics of placement, the use of profanity “in her Physicians reported, “one in ten are id- And, when hoarse with time We may have escaped death this time deformable soils and fracture mechan- native and adopted tongue.” Newspa- iots or at least no better. Three fourths ics. Aunt Irene is also old school and pers described the Irish as “wild Fran- of the remaining Irish importations, Let the chamber music of your soul echo around, but have we learned anything from it? Will we, like Scrooge, amend contributes most of Steven “in a funk” kenstein’s monsters” or “half-crazed are monomaniacs, being dupes of Through those life-giving arterial routes, our lives and find fulfillment in invest- From So to the winter in Cleveland, especially Fenian monkeys.” Catholic Priests.” Because ing in others, or we will face our demise since Lebron left. Aunt Irene likes the The monumental migration of That bias, in a more modern lexicon, Let me feel the swell of your rage, like Dickinson’s narrator unchanged? Cavs and has the ability to inject Ron the Irish to England coincided with continued 120 years later. Historians The key to what makes us different to Little Sleeping Harper into any conversation. exceptionally high rates of institution- noted that psychiatric treatment rates Deafen me in arias, tragic and sublime, I Could Not the indiscriminate, amoral, nature of After hanging up the phone with alization. Many were transferred from of Irish Americans far exceed other Play no requiem, nor dirge, while you throb, the virus is our ability to reason and and So Much her, I began to appreciate the effect the the workhouses and admitted in a poor ethnic groups. They concluded that Stop Pulsate, when the breath of God shakes contemplate. last year has had on folks and began state of physical health. In 1861, nearly was due to lack of social mobility. We, as human beings, can do re- to ponder how a historical event like nineteen percent of the population More recent scholarship shows this to Most people are familiar with Emily The very temple of your being. markable things to better our world. Reading the Famine would have on individuals. of Liverpool was Irish born, and they be hokum. Dickinson’s famous poem about death. There are countless examples of people It is not every day that I have the There are quite a few books on Irish comprised half of the asylum popula- There is more general scholarship The narrator’s sudden realization that Do not slow down when time races, who have unselfishly changed our life is short, and death is inescapable pleasure of entertaining my Aunt Irene. history that I have read and I struggle tion. As the influx of Famine immi- on immigration, culture and mental Keep from the great sleep that bewitches us all, societies for better. Motivated by love However, my cousin Steven texted the to recall discussions on mental health. grants lessened, the Irish percentage in health. It includes some of the bigger hammers home the central message to and concern, they have improved the live life to the fullest. It’s perhaps hard for Don’t stumble when loved ones’ lull and pause other day and that does not happen Emile Durkheim’s Suicide: A Study in the asylum did not. words I like to use and an adequate lot of their communities. Conditions in th us to think of living out our carpe diem every day either. Steven is her youngest Sociology and Louis Perez’s To Die in 19 century Newfoundland reported amount of over analysis. Those read- Pray for life, not subsistence, vigor and hope, hospitals, jails, schools etc. have been and is in school and has the tendency Cuba: Suicide and Society is all that over forty percent of its asylum popula- ings did not assist with the attempt to dreams while in the throes of a pandem- attributed to the work of individuals Stifle the anger inside your passionate breast, to overindulge in academics. Perhaps a came to mind. tion as Irish born. Nova Scotia reported empathize with the mental aspects of ic, but there is no better time for us to who have set themselves to leaving an common trait in the family, but a less Durkheim was required reading for nineteen percent of its institutionalized Famine, both for those who remained contemplate our mortality. Lap for lap, give time its lead but do not follow impression on this world long after Millions of people, worldwide, have Passively in its wake, they’ve gone. Some of them we will common focus. social sciences and Perez’s work dis- population was Irish born, compared in Ireland and those who migrated. died because of infection. We’ve watched He wants to be a structural engineer cussed how Cuban women, primarily, tothree3 percent of its general pop- The bias of the time increases the Ignore the diminishing road behind, look forward, remember, most of them we will not. politicians flounder, businesses go bust, My father was one of those people and is definitely smart enough to be a would publicly set themselves on fire. ulation. New South Wales witnessed difficulty of comprehension the singu- witnessed the best and worst of human- Face the finish line with the breath of God who will not doubt be forgotten in structural engineer. As Aunt Irene ob- My interest was more in general mental twenty-five of its patients as Irish born. lar issue. I do recall my great aunt Kay ity, and there’s been very little we could Still burning in your lungs. time, but who, as a recovered alcohol- serves, “The kid is a bit up tight.” When health and the Famine. In general, single males and females being called a “crazy Irish lady” and I do about any of it. The unseen virus has ic, changed the lives of many. Known he was much younger, he became aware Health at a Glance: Europe provided comprised about half the Irish admis- did find another great aunt who was in reminded us daily of how fragile life is. locally as the body snatcher, my father that some people enumerate the man- some data to juxtapose current and sions. the asylum in Pennsylvania for a few Do not let the youth make you feel a stranger With fear and wonder, we’ve seen how would take the worst alcoholics from ner in which they eliminate body waste. historical narratives. 2018 statistics, de- However, a greater comparative years. Sometimes anecdotal data is all this tiny, significant lifeform has resist- When you have never felt at home, the streets and deliver them to a rehab Steven expanded upon the simple one, void of Covid influenced cases, places percentage were widows. Each context you can trust. ed our best efforts to stop it, mutating Make your strangeness sublime, intricate and foreign, centre. He was not a young man when two, and composed a detailed list that Ireland with the lowest percentage of social bias had its role; the Irish were In the end, Steven will return to to optimize its survival. Covid-19, like Speak the language of tomorrow, not yesterday, he began his work, but his age was not a had, last I heard, surpassed 200. At least psychological distress symptoms. “degraded and had dirty habits.” “The analyzing statically determinate ourselves, is remarkably resourceful in deterrent. now he is focusing on engineering. Irish peasant, in his native country, has trusses and I will get my second shot. its ability to adapt to threats, and, like Do not let the courtesans of today make you disappear The pandemic has made those of us When I was in grad school at Univer- Prevalence of psychological a marked immunity from these fatal Then Aunt Irene and I can go back ourselves, fights for continuation. How- Into a pension, dignify you with platitudes, or bully you who are older or physically challenged sity of Chicago, I noticed similar stu- distress symptoms, 2018 forms of brain disorders.” to sipping whiskey on the porch and ever, unlike us, the virus is equitable in its reluctant to do much to put ourselves in dents. There were undergrads who had critiquing my uncle, with a more attacks. Into silent retreat, danger. However, now with an ever-in- never had a grad lower than an A who compassionate lens as he curses the Covid does not target a particular race, Never relinquish, nor resign to the last gasp creasing number of vaccinations, we could not deal with a B. My streak end- lawn.  creed, or gender. The virus is equally Dance through the creaks and aches of your bones are in a position to make a difference. indifferent to whether its victims are rich ed in the second grade, based on the E Until the breath of God parts the red sea before you. There are many charities who have to A conversion. You punch one janitor Francis McGarry holds undergradu- or poor, morally upright or reprehensible. suffered the loss of volunteers during It is without any moral compass. It is and that justifies a S- in conduct? I was ate degrees from Indiana University in the worst of the pandemic that are in never a fan of Cal Ripken, Jr. anyway. Anthropology, Education and History neither ruthless nor malignant. There is serious need of our help. When I re- University of Chicago students did and a Masters in Social Science from no conscience to appeal to, and it cannot realization that death is our final end can check for a man who refuses to ‘stop’ tired, I was determined to not to simply tend to suffer more mental health issues the University of Chicago. He is an be reasoned with. provide us with opportunities become and contemplate his existence, and, as let my life waste away. I was now free We deem it an enemy because it attacks compared to undergraduates, in my Not surprisingly, that refutes some Those common comments denote assistant principal and history teacher. better people. such, embodies Plato’s unexamined life to do more of what I valued. And, it th our defense system and threatens our that is not worth living. When finally, was with this thought that I wrote the experience. The University of Chicago “professional” opinions of the 19 Cen- the bias of the time and simultane- Francis is a past president of the Irish existence as a species. In just over a year, DICKENSON AND SCROOGE he is faced with his own gravestone, as following poem. has one of the highest suicide rates of tury. Those Irish immigrants admitted ously illustrate the fact that the Irish American Club East Side. He is the this new lifeform has radically changed Scrooge is perhaps one of the best ex- with Dickinson’s narrator is, the effect is If I were to add to it, I would write American universities. In general, sui- to asylum in Liverpool were ascribed immigrant was a foreigner. Cultural founder and past president of the Blue- th us in ways we could never have foreseen. amples of how one man when faced with palpable. The shock of having to face his ‘don’t let a pandemic stop you from cide is 10 in cause of death in the US, with a variety of degenerate behaviors change despite a varying degree of stone Division of the Ancient Order of nd We are more than ever faced with the his selfish life is given another chance to own final resting place is a last reprieve doing good.’ We have faced our mortal- yet 2 for college-aged students. and hereditary peculiarities, including familiarity caused stress. Hibernians. reality that we are expendable. do good. It is a heartwarming tale with for Scrooge, whereas for Dickinson’s ity and survived. Let us make the best Do not get me wrong; my cousin immorality, intemperance and violence. It is the comparison of behaviors Dickinson’s poem invites the reader a warning for us all, live for yourself and narrator it is too late. Scrooge is saved of it.  Steven is not there. However, it is no- It was believed that these traits were that denotes some as bizarre. It was Get More to the Story to ‘stop’ and think. When faced with the die alone. because he has been forced to stop and ticeable how the last year of lockdown denotable in the facial features of Irish not much better in Ireland under More pics, and larger print too! inevitably of death, we can make some Of course, Scrooge’s ghosts (past, Get More to the Story @www.ohioianews.com reckon with his selfishness. More pics, and larger print too! has exacerbated some of his control patients. English rule. The Dangerous Lunatic profound changes to our lives or not. The present and future) become a reality We have all heard the saying to stop @www.ohioianews.com

22 OHIO IRISH AMERICAN NEWS We’ve Always Been Green MAY 2021 MAY 2021 WWW.OHIOIANEWS.COM OHIO IRISH AMERICAN NEWS 23 matter of great danger. This was a result rocks were frequently slaughtered on the tographing Mass rocks. This is no easy of both Oliver Cromwell’s campaign mountainside.” feat, given that they are usually hidden Illuminations against the Irish, and the Penal Law of A traditional Irish hymn called “Were from sight and often difficult to find. West Side Irish American Club By J. Michael Finn 1695. You at the Rock” speaks to the remote- Bishop runs a website, www.findamass- rock.com Bishops were banished from Ireland and ness of the Mass as well as the need to , enabling members of the May 14 - New Barleycorn in Pavilion 6pm priests had to register with the govern- “stay silent as the day” about the site of public to share or request information (weather permitting) Food Available for purchase 5-7pm ment under penalty of death. Priest the Mass rock: about Mass rocks. She records GPS hunters were employed to arrest, and co-ordinates, but doesn’t publish them if May 22 - Night at the Races often execute, the unregistered priests. Did you go then to the grey rocks, they refer to private land. Info: Vincent 216-209-5845 or Kevin 440-552-0472 Mass rocks were used in Ireland from And behind a wind-swept crevice there, In these times, let us hope that the 1536 to 1829. Did you find Our Mary gently waiting, Irish Government listens to the Irish The Mass The English believed that the way to Our Lady, sweet and fair? bishop’s request and relaxes the Covid May 28 - Steve Mulloy Sr. Annual Reverse Raffle stamp out the Mass was to eliminate Did the sun shine gently round her, rules regarding in person religious Info: Brendan Mulloy 216-262-6496 or Anne Mulloy-Hodge (440) 623-9518 priests. But they soon found that these Making gold darts through her hair? services; otherwise a return to the Mass Rock brave men, though imprisoned, starved, And will you stay silent as the day rocks may be necessary.  In these times of Covid-19, things tortured and executed, were not so easily When the wind has left the air? in Ireland are eerily similar to those exterminated. When priests were barred J. Michael Finn is the Ohio State of 17th century Ireland. Currently, the from Ireland, they were forced to exile in By 1730, active persecution of Catho- Historian for the Ancient Order of Covid Level 5 restrictions regarding Europe. Young men wanting to train for lics tapered off and it became clear even Hibernians and Division Historian for PUB NOW OPEN religious activities in the Republic of the priesthood attended seminaries in to the most hardened Protestants that the Patrick Pearse Division in Colum- ON WEEKENDS! Ireland are: Public worship is forbidden; France, Italy, and Spain. These semi- laws to prevent the growth of “Popery” bus, Ohio. He is also Chairman of the Happy Hour Fridays 4:30-7pm, religious services must be held online; naries were specifically established to had been a resounding failure. Catholic Catholic Record Society for the Diocese Saturdays 1:00-6pm only up to tencan attend funerals; only provide training for the persecuted Irish glens, while others could be found in watched from the nearby hilltops to emancipation eventually came in 1829, of Columbus, Ohio. He writes on Irish up to six people can attend a wedding; Catholics. well-known landmarks like ruined forts. give timely warning of the approaching and the faithful finally were allowed to and Irish-American history; Ohio histo- 440.235.5868 DINNER & MUSIC and baptisms can only be celebrated in Showing great courage, these priests Many were near streams so footprints priest hunter and his guard of British use their Mass houses in peace. ry and Ohio Catholic history. You may GENERAL MEETING EVERY FRIDAY 5-7 exceptional circumstances, that is, if the returned to Ireland knowing full well could not be traced. soldiers. But sometimes the troops Today, Dr. Hilary Bishop seeks contact him at [email protected]. 3rd Thursday of every month Open to the public! Since 1931 person is in danger of death. that their lives would be continually These secret Mass sites were always came on them unawares, and the Mass Mass rocks in order to document their In March 2021, the Catholic bishops in grave danger. Back in Ireland, an subject to discovery. According to rock was splattered with his blood, and existence before the knowledge of their Get More to the Story 8559 Jennings Rd., Olmsted Twp., Ohio 44138 | wsia-club.org of Ireland appealed to the government underground network developed that historian Seamus MacManus, “While men, women and children caught in the locations is lost. 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24 OHIO IRISH AMERICAN NEWS We’ve Always Been Green MAY 2021 MAY 2021 WWW.OHIOIANEWS.COM OHIO IRISH AMERICAN NEWS 25 Photo courtesy: chargemap.com of one another?” is subsidizing electric vehi- twenty, he had been in several bands, pearance, he brought contemporary Cleveland Transitioning to electric powered cle growth in a number of Akron beginning with one called the Black vulnerability to his music too. One ' vehicles is not the complete answer in ways. A license for a fossil Eagles. By the time that Thin Lizzy of my favorite Thin Lizzy songs is Comhrá reducing carbon emissions. Transporta- fuel powered vehicle can Irish came into being, he had established “Dancing in the Moonlight”, there is By Bob Carney tion accounts for 17% of carbon emis- cost as much as $10,000, By Lisa O’ Rourke a few patterns that he never really something so Irish and sweet in the sions, manufacturing and producing for an EV, they give it to broke. There were always alcohol lyrics of that song, where he sings electricity are higher contributors. Of you. Policies to encourage fueled complications with girls and about going on a date, getting choc- @BobCarneyGTR Í transportation emissions, 47% comes businesses and developers bandmates that ended with some- olate on his pants at the movies and from automobiles, suv’s and motorcy- to include charging stations body walking out. staying out too late. cles. in real estate development The band walkouts and reunions It displays the charm that everyone In the U.S., the trucking and delivery and existing factories and alone are the stuff that could rival said that he had in buckets. Musical- industry is making a large investment in shopping centers have been Dancing in the any daytime TV plotline. Guitar ly, it has a kind of doowop, pop fla- Ireland’s EV electric vehicles. Amazon, FedEx, DHL implemented. players came and went and came vor, including a saxophone solo, was and even the U.S. Postal Service are The goal is to have 40% of Charging station in Sligo Moonlight back and went again in that band. not the norm at all. His song writing Imperative already purchasing EV’s as replacements all vehicle sales to be EV’s The two founding members of Thin deepened and matured; his interest are needed in their fleets of vehicles. by 2030; this will bring production costs about EV’s, aside from power from dirty The first time that I heard a Thin Lizzy, Phil and former Crumlin in poetry and writing became more Every major automotive manufacturer for EV’s and EV batteries down world- electricity, is the range of the vehicles. Lizzy song, it stopped me in my neighbor, drummer Brian Downey, evident; some of the lyrics that look In the early 1900s, before the ad- has begun to phase out the development wide. The benefits for air pollution, -hu The reality is very few people need to be teenage tracks. The guitar riffs and had a work ethic and dedication to very simple have another dimension, vent of the age of the automobile, a of fossil fuel powered vehicles. All are man health, climate change and national concerned. lyrics combined in pure rock and roll success for their band that put every- a timeless quality, when you take a walk down the street of any major city anticipating a shift in the methods used security are likely to be substantial According to The Central Statistics swagger that it still has today. “The thing else second. Rather than really critical look. A different example of could be a very unpleasant experience. to produce electricity. enough to offset the projected transition Office, the average journey is 13.7 km Boys are Back in Town “is a bona being abusive, it seems like there his maturity as a song writer is the Horse and ox manure was everywhere, Currently, two-thirds of the pow- cost of 0.1% of the nation’s gross domes- (about 8.5 miles). In Dublin it is lower, fide classic to the extent that it is a were not too many musicians who lovely ballad that he wrote for his puddles were not just water providing er used to generate electricity comes tic product every year. just 9.5 km. mandatory tune for boys making an could keep pace with their drive. daughter, “Sarah”, who was named an unwanted fragrance to the air. Many from fossil fuels: oil, coal and natural Ireland is the ideal climate, terrain, A KIA e-Niro has a range of 420km entrance, even if those boys weren’t The style of Thin Lizzy would be for his beloved grandmother. times an over-worked or sickly animal gas, with hydropower, nuclear and and size to become a leader in EV’s. The (261 miles) on a full charge, and as batter- even a bad thought when the song classed as hard-edged rock and roll, There is a joke that goes, “Why did that expired would be left in the street renewables making up the rest. When national imperative is to limit sales of ies and EV technology increases, so will was released in 1976. more bluesy than a lot of the flowery God invent whisky?” and the answer where it died, sometimes for days before zero carbon sources of electricity are new vehicles to electric by 2030. Last range. Scientists are experimenting with It’s one of those songs that en- indulgence of the seventies. The lack is, “To keep the Irish from ruling the it would be removed. available, EV’s will be a logical choice year, although a poor one for auto sales, sodium based batteries, which could be velopes everything in cool, at least of flowery pretense was also part of world.” It applies to Phil Lynott. He It’s no wonder the automobile was for anyone simply from an economic electric vehicle purchases rose, slightly more eco-friendly. Battery cost has seen for three minutes and twenty-two the bands visual appeal. died on January 4, 1986 at the ripe heralded as the answer to city pollution. perspective. over 4,000. Over half of them were in an 87% decrease since 2010, due tecno- seconds. The only thing that could Phil Lynott looked great on stage old age of thirty-five. His death was As the population and nation’s econo- If you’ve ever been to London or Co. Dublin. logical advances and demand. be cooler than the song is the band and he commanded it. He was a not directly from the abuse that he mies grew so did the number of autos. watched movies set there, you’re proba- The EV infrastructure is not as estab- One last note, as I was researching al- that brought that song into being, combination of street tough and gave his body, but the after affects, Today there are over a billion on the bly familiar with the iconic black taxis lished away from Dublin. Cork, as an ex- ternative fuel sources for automotive use, Thin Lizzy, led by Phil Lynott. It was gypsy. Their songs were economi- pneumonia and heart failure. In roads worldwide. there. They’re based on the Austin FX3 ample, had the second highest EV sales, I came across this statement on biofuels a surprise to me that they were Irish. Phil Lynott cal and full of punch, there were no 2005, a statue was officially dedicated Ninety-seven percent of all the scien- from the 1950s, the high ceiling in the with 388. Investment is determined by in a book by Howard J. Herzog entitled, This was pre-U2, and Ireland was all up adoring his grandmother. epics. Thin Lizzy seemed much more to him. The ceremony was attended tists in the world agree that our climate interior tall enough to accommodate a averages and is directly affected by Dub- Carbon Capture. “Because it is energy about traditional music and show- Phil was a mediocre student but working class and everyman than by his mother Philomena, and his is changing as a result of human activity. gentleman’s top hat. lin’s population density. intensive to grow and process the corn bands, especially outside Dublin. For always had an interest in poetry and their contemporaries. former bandmates. That his statue Alexander Von Humboldt warned of For nearly fifty years, the purpose Rural counties in the rest of Ire- used for biofuel under the US Ethanol Ireland’s first big rock group to have music. The black people that were in The metaphors of Phil Lynott’s stands outside of a bar, the Bruxelles man’s impact on the environment as built taxi was manufactured by The Lon- land are progressing, and options for Program, the biomass has a large carbon a black lead singer was another sur- Ireland at the time were primarily lyrics represented a different kind of Pub in Dublin, feels like a memorial early as 1798; he could not have envi- don Taxi Co. In 2018, the company was charging are being developed. Most footprint. Many studies show adding prise, flying in the face of all the silly students studying at Trinity College heroism too. The heroes and imag- and a warning combined. I would sioned the effects of the fossil fuel age in purchased by automotive giant Geely, a people will continue to do the majority corn ethanol to gasoline results in very Irish stereotypes. That was part of in Dublin. He later said that the ery that Phil drew upon were Celtic have loved to see what he did next.  manufacturing and transportation. Chinese manufacturer. They purchased of their charging at home, where it is the little, if any carbon reductions.” the point; the lead singer, Phil Lynott, students in his school were very naïve legends and the American television In 2019, fifty-one billion tons of Volvo in 2010; Lotus in 2017; and almost least costly and the most convenient, As travel opens up, I’m looking forward was used to being the odd man out. about black people and were more hero cowboys and anti-heroes. “The Lisa O’Rourke is an educator from greenhouse gases were released into 10% of Daimler, the company that man- provided there is access to power and to my next trip and drive along the Wild Phil was born to Philomena Lynott curious about him and his hair than Boys are Back in Town” has Amer- Akron. She has a BA in English and the atmosphere. 2020 is estimated to be ufactures Mercedes Benz, in 2018. parking, fairly simple if you have a home Atlantic Way in my own rented EV.  October 22, 1949. Being born to a anything else. ican roots. Phil also had a strong a Master’s in Reading/Elementa- about the same, even with a global pan- They rebranded The London Taxi Co. with a drive or off-street parking. Other single Irish mother and a black Ca- He did run into some prejudice interest in Irish mythology and tradi- ry Education. Lisa is a student of demic restricting manufacturing and as The London Electric Vehicle Com- options evolving include charging at Bob Carney is a student of Irish history ribbean father in Manchester in 1949 and name calling, but not as much tional music. everything Irish, primarily Gaeilge. transportation. pany. They are the only taxi that meets the workplace or destinations such as and language and teaches the Speak Irish was no small thing. In that society, as he may have encountered in other Both of those themes showed up She runs a Gaeilge study group at Worldwide, transportation is not London’s new clean air regulations supermarkets or hotels. Cleveland class held every Tuesday at PJ those factors were two strikes against places. What he did was take his repeatedly in the music of Thin Lizzy. the AOH/Mark Heffernan Division. the number one cause of emissions, requiring newly licensed taxis to be able ESB e cars, based in Dublin, has been McIntyre’s. He is also active in the Irish them all. Philomena was a Bohemi- difference and make it an asset. Their first hit, a rendition of “Whis- She is married to Dónal and has two although it is in America, just ahead of to drive thirty miles without releasing replacing existing standard AC chargers Wolfhounds and Irish dogs orginizations an spirit well ahead of her time. His It did not hurt him at all that he key in the Jar,” is the first rock and sons, Danny and Liam. Lisa enjoys producing electricity. In the U.S. and any pollutants. Across Europe there with DC fast chargers in towns across in and around Cleveland. Wife Mary, father was more of an artistic dandy was attractive and cultivated a differ- roll version of an Irish traditional art, reading, music, and travel. She some of the other advanced economic are more than two-hundred low emis- Ireland. They have installed new rapid hounds Morrighán and Rían and terrier and was not long on the scene. ent, arty look. People just assumed ballad that I know of, and plenty likes spending time with her dog, nations in the world, our carbon foot- sion zones that levy charges on heavily charging stations in Sligo, Tullamore, Doolin keep the house jumping. He can Philomena tried to raise her first that he could sing. In that area, have come along since. Thin Lizzy cats and fish. Lisa can be contacted print has stagnated or even decreased. polluting vehicles or outright bans them Clonmel, Drogheda, Ballina, Clifen, be reached at carneyspeakirish@gmail. born son but could not manage it he disappointed some, he was no opened the traditional music genre at [email protected]. Please send Almost all growth in emissions comes from certain areas. Tralee and other areas. These are pay com alone. So, Phil was sent to live with Smokey Robinson, but he developed to reinterpretation for all the Irish any Akron events to my email! from developing countries. In China, economic growth has to use, and the company considers all what became his mother in practice, his own distinctive style over time. bands that have followed, like The But climate change is a global crisis enabled more consumers to purchase requests for installation whenever a Get More to the Story his grandmother, Sarah. The Lynott’s As he grew into his teenage years, Pogues. Get More to the Story requiring a global solution. Recall that vehicles, increasing emissions in the business case can be made. More pics, and larger print too! lived in one of the tougher neighbor- Phil’s interest in music and girls grew Lynott was a man of contradiction. More pics, and larger print too! @www.ohioianews.com @www.ohioianews.com old Irish saying, “We live in the shadow very industrial country. The government One of the biggest concerns expressed hoods of Dublin, Crumlin. He grew simultaneously. Before he turned Despite a kind of hard-edge ap-

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