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More than 10,000 people attended the second annual Irish Heritage Festival at Adams Corner on Sun., Oct. 10. Ed Forry photo Boston Irish Honors Princess Grace Had a Thing About Drimurla By Judy Enright Special to the BIR The ancestral home of Grace Kelly, Oscar-winning American actress, fashion icon and ultimately princess of Monaco, doesn’t look like much at first glance. And, honestly, it’s really not much more now than the crumbling ruin of a two-room house where her grandfather, John Kelly, was born in 1857 in Drimur- la just outside Newport, Co. Mayo. In 1887, he left Ireland for Philadelphia, where he founded one of that city’s leading construc- tion companies and made his family’s fortune. Grace’s path through life eventually brought her back as royalty to the Newport This country lane from area in 1961 accompanied Newport to Castlebar, by her husband, Prince Co. Mayo, leads to the Rainier Grimaldi III of remains of the ances- Monaco. The couple stayed tral home of American at the elegant Newport film star Grace Kelly. The Hynes Family, Boston Irish Honors Award recipient. From left, Barry Hynes, Mark Gallagher, Rich- House and had tea with El- Judy Enright photo ard Hynes, Jack Hynes, Marie Hynes Gallagher, Barry Hynes and Susan Gallagher. len Mulchrone, who owned Margaret Brett Hastings photo the charming ancestral cottage that back then had a traditional thatched roof and was a viable dwelling. Grace reportedly bought the house and surround- Awardees are Feted at Gala Luncheon ing land for 7,500 Irish pounds from Mulchrone in Three prominent Irish-American families, a Con- life and times across the Atlantic helped shape their April 1976, planning to build a holiday home there. gressman, and an insurance executive received the lives in modern-day Massachusetts. She returned later that year, attended Mass in St, first Boston Irish Honors awards at a luncheon held The awards and the luncheon were sponsored by Patrick’s, shopped and had her hair done in Newport, on Thurs., Oct. 7, at the Boston Seaport Hotel. the Boston Irish Reporter, one of Boston Neighbor- and returned again in 1979 with Prince Rainier to Cited by the Boston Irish Reporter for their civic and hood News, Inc.’s four publications along with the see architectural plans for the holiday home. She told charitable endeavors in the spirit of the Irish were the Dorchester Reporter, The Mattapan Reporter, and The the local press that she would return in a few years Brett, Hynes, and Geraghty families, Congressman Boston Haitian Reporter. to see the home finished, but she died at the age of 52 Edward J. Markey, and Arbella Insurance Group Irish Reporter publisher Edward W. Forry presided on Sept. 14, 1982, when her car left a winding road in founder and CEO John F. Donohue. at the luncheon. SBLI president and CEO Robert K. the cliffs of Monaco. Local residents sent a wreath of The 350 luncheon guests listened as family represen- Sheridan was the event chairman, and the many-faceted wild flowers – picked around her ancestral home in tatives and honorees Donohue and Markey each spoke Dick Flavin was the master of ceremonies. Drimurla – to Monaco for the funeral. of how influences stretching back to their ancestors’ A report on the festivities begins on Page 6. (Continued on page 24) Page 2 November 2010 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com You are invited to an Opening Reception of an Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Vincent Crotty

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Flynn will be the principal speaker. He will be joined by Ireland’s Consul General to Boston, Michael Lonergan, and several AOH and LAOH national, state, and county Officers. Burke was a member of Division Eight, Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH), for over 40 years and served as an officer in various capacities on national, state and county boards as well as on the Division level. An enthusiastic supporter of Irish history and culture, he was instrumental in organizing and orchestrating annually Irish Heritage Month in the city of Law- rence. He was the founder and president of the Irish Foundation of Lawrence, Inc., and also the Irish Room and Hibernian Collection at the South Lawrence Branch Library, which houses one of the largest collections of Irish books, media, memo- rabilia and periodicals in the Northeast. A reception will follow the dedication at the Claddagh Pub and Restaurant, 300 Canal Street, Lawrence. *** A group of friends and officials gathered at South Boston’s Marine Park on October 14 for a ceremony to rename the On Nov. 4, Dorchester’s Notre Dame playground in memory of Michael Joyce, who was remembered as “an unsung hero” by admirers. Joyce, who died Montessori School at St. Christopher in 1989 at age 65, was an administrative assistant with the Massachusetts House of Representatives for more than Church will honor former Attorney 20 years. He was known for his tireless efforts in guiding new immigrants and others through bureaucratic mazes. General Robert H. Quinn and his wife One of the most respected members of Boston’s Irish community, Mr. Joyce received numerous awards and honors. Claudina with the School’s 11th Annual University College in Galway, Ireland, honored him with a Man of the Year nomination, and when the Greater Boston Seeds Planted: Harvest Begun Award. Irish Community saluted him on Michael Joyce Appreciation Day in May 1987, more than 1,100 people attended. In They are being honored for their “dedica- 2009, State Senator Jack Hart filed legislation to rename the state’s Marine Park Playground in honor of Mr. Joyce. tion to improving education, healthcare, “Mr. Joyce was an unsung hero at the State House because of his constant advocacy for those who could not advo- social services and housing for children cate for themselves,” said State Senator Jack Hart. “It is a wonderful tribute to his life to name this playground in and adults in Dorchester and greater his honor. It is also wonderful to see that our community will benefit with a newly renovated play ground because Boston.” The 6 p.m. dinner is set for of this great man.” Ed Forry photo the Venezia Waterfront Restaurant on Boston College Libraries, in collabo- years, National Hockey League players is underway to bring the hockey squads Ericsson Street in Dorchester’s Port of Northeastern University and UMass/ Norfolk neighborhood. ration with the Association of College visiting Ireland for scrimmage games & Research Libraries, NE Chapter have been met with growing crowds Lowell to Belfast to play a game at the *** 7,000-seat hockey arena in Belfast. The Eire Society of Boston is planning (Women’s Studies Interest Group), has wearing NHL and European Hockey announced a seminar -- “The Women of Federation jerseys, while street hockey The match is expected to be played on an event on Sun., Nov 7, at the James Columbus Day weekend (October 8 or Michael Curley home on the Jamaica the Cuala Press and the Irish Literary has given kids a chance to hone their Revival” – that will be held Nov. 8 at the skills without setting foot on the ice. 9). It will be a league-sanctioned game, Way. Featured speaker will be former bringing together two Hockey East Senate and UMass president William Burns Library on the BC campus. Pre- Comcast Sports New England has sentations will be offered by Dr. Robert taken an interest in Peace Through squads to inaugurate their 2011/2012 M Bulger, who authored a book about regular season. the late Mayor Curley last year. Other K. O’Neill, Librarian of the John J. Pucks and recently produced a half-hour Burns Library; Marjorie Howes, As- video program highlighting hockey’s Under NCAA rules, a college team details of the event were still incomplete can play no more than one game every at presstime. sociate Professor of English at Boston growing Irish fan base and the chal- College; Justine Sundaram, Reference lenges faced by youngsters looking to five years outside North America. Or- *** ganizers say they expect the match to “All of us have lost someone to the Librarian of the John J. Burns Library; experience the game. and Andrew Kuhn, doctoral candidate The IAHA, which formed in 2005, is become an annual event, with two dif- reality of life’s brevity,” Irish Pastoral ferent teams each year from among the Centre chaplain Fr. John McCarthy at Boston College. A complimentary the brainchild of former Boston Bruin continental breakfast will be served at P.J. Stock and IAHA executive direc- ten-team Hockey East league. says. “We would like to invite you to join *** us in prayer once again to remember the 9 a.m., with presentations beginning at tor John Cusack, who hope the games 10:30 prior to the talks. The seminar and will create strong Irish players and even Denise Miller, proprietor of the Clad- deceased ones of your family. We will dagh Connection in Bristol, RI, is hosting gather in a special way to commemorate breakfast are free of charge. Reserva- stronger bonds between the North and tions: [email protected] South. a “once in a lifetime event – three Irish the deceased members of the Irish and merchants are coming” to Bristol for one Irish-American community in our an- *** Cusack says there is still work to be More than 50 members and support- done, but is proud of what his organiza- day to show their wares. On Sun., Oct nual November Mass of Remembrance.” 31, from noon to 5 p.m. Miller will host Three masses are planned: Sun., Nov. ers of the Irish American Hockey Asso- tion has achieved. When one Catholic ciation (IAHA) crowded into McGreevy’s player was asked how he felt about his three Irish merchants: John Branigan, 7, at 10 a.m. in conjunction with the owner of Branigan Weavers; John Con- Parish Mass at St. Brendan’s Church in Bar in Boston on Oct. 19 to celebrate Northern teammates near the end of their Peace Through Pucks program, the television spot, his reply embodied dron, owner of Fado Jewelers, Ogham Dorchester; Mon., Nov. 15, at 7 p.m. at Jewelry, and John Christopher Designs; St. Elizabeth’s Hospital Chapel, Brigh- which gives youth hockey players from the IAHA’s mission. the North and South an opportunity to “I don’t care about religion or anything and Peter Collins owner of Mullingar ton; and Thurs., Nov. 18, at noon at the Pewter. Miller’s store is located at 259 IPC Senior Program outing at the Irish play scrimmage games together and look like that,” said the youngster. “A bud’s past the conflicts of older generations. a bud.” (View the video online at Irish- Thames St., Bristol. More details at Cultural Centre in Canton., thecladdaghconnection.com. “All your family and friends are “If you want to challenge generational hockey.com). hatred, you have to start with the kids,” – PAT TARANTINO *** welcome to join us to remember the The 26th Annual Benefit Dance to aid departed; to support the bereaved; and said Cusack, who also organizes camps stateside for visiting Irish players, runs After the success of last month’s visit the Holy Ghost Fathers and their mis- to renew ourselves in faith and hope,” sions will be held at the Irish Social Club, said Fr. McCarthy. “A special ceremony equipment drives and helped organize of the Boston Bruins to Belfast, there are youth leagues in Ireland. now plans for two local college teams to 119 Park St., West Roxbury, starting at will take place during the Mass. For 8 p.m. on Fri., Nov 5. There will be music this, we ask you to phone us at the Irish Ireland currently has one regulation- travel to Belfast next year to compete in sized hockey rink, in Dundock, but the the first-ever American college hockey by the Andy Healy Band, the Greene- Pastoral Centre (617-479-7404, Ext. 11) O’Leary School of Irish Dance, cash with the name(s) of the deceased whom scarcity of ice time has not stopped the game to be played in Europe. sport from gaining popularity. In recent The BIR has learned that planning bar, refreshments and raffles. Tickets you wish to remember.” are $10 and may be purchased at Most Precious Blood Rectory, Hyde Park, or at the door on the night of the dance. For more information, call Fr. Peter Nolan at Most Precious Blood Rectory (617-364-9500) or Cathy Coppinger (617-323-2800). *** Other events this month: Nov. 3 -- Charitable Irish Society’s Golden Key Awards, Boston College Club, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Honorees: Cora Flood, Thomas Hynes and Larry O’Toole. Tickets: charitableirishsociety.org. … Nov. 14 -- Annual Banquet, TIARA (The Irish Ancestral Research Association), noon, Wayside Inn, Sudbury. Speaker: Mary Pat Kelly, author of the book Galway Bay. Info: tiara.ie. … Nov. 18 – The American Ireland Fund’s Annual Bos- ton Dinner, Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel. Cocktails 6:30 p.m., dinner and dancing, 8 p.m. Info: 617-574-0720, Ambassador Anne Anderson, Ireland’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, was keynote speaker at an irlfunds.org October 26 luncheon at the Boston Harbor Hotel sponsored by the United Nations Association of Greater Boston. Pictured at the luncheon are John Cullinane and Diddy Cullinane, honorary chairs; Ambassador Anderson; and former State Senate and UMass president William M. Bulger. Ed Forry photo Page 4 November 2010 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Publisher’s Notebook Commentary For Governor: Angst and Hatred Continue to Roil Deval Patrick Everyday Life in Northern Ireland

By Ed Forry Call to Cut Catholic School Funding Case in Point Four years ago, this newspaper endorsed the can- By Joe Leary as a cost- cutting measure, forcing Catholic parents to didacy of Deval Patrick because of what we saw in Special to the BIR send their children to integrated State schools. This him: The promise of a transformational leader who Many Irish Americans express wonderment as to proposal, if endorsed by the current majority, will would bring change to state government. why, after all the progress towards peace and under- predictably cause a widening of the rupture between Four years later, we endorse his candidacy for a standing, Northern Ireland still the two sides and dramatically raise the possibilities more concrete reason: Because he has earned it. has sporadic violence and such of broad violence and civil unrest. difficulty in bringing Catholics and Why, then, is he suggesting such a course? Many Gov. Patrick has guided the feel that Robinson is playing to his hard right-wing Commonwealth through the worst Protestants together. The answer is found in the deep constituency without caring about the consequences economic crisis since the Great for the Catholics. He is trying to prove that he is tough Depression. He has done it with angst, ignorance, and even hatred that lies hidden beneath everyday and will not bend to the growing influence of the two poise, professionalism and with life in Northern Ireland. The most nationalist parties, Sinn Fein and the SDLP. a sense of purpose that has paid public evidence of this are the 98 – His political future is cloudy at best given his loss off: The Massachusetts economy and the number is growing – “peace in the Parliamentary election and his wife’s recent is now growing at twice the rate walls” spread throughout Belfast infidelities. He is trying to maintain his leadership of the rest of the nation. and beyond that are required by position, and every good Unionist knows the best way While unemployment remains Joe Leary popular demand to keep the two to do that is by Catholic-bashing. Paisley made a career high following the global financial sides from harming each other. Any of using the same strategy. Ed Forry meltdown of 2008, the Common- tourist visiting Belfast will be shocked by the ugliness But in this case, even Paisley disagrees with Rob- wealth has added jobs in the last and pervasiveness of these security walls. inson; he has been quoted in the Belfast Telegraph as six consecutive months and there are many other And this past month we were reminded once again saying now is not the time to change the educational encouraging signs that Massachusetts is positioned of the unknowing audacity of senior Protestant leader- system in place. to leap past most other states in job creation. None ship when Peter Robinson, the head of Paisley’s old In responding to Robinson’s remarks, Cardinal Sean of this is accidental. Patrick has shepherded Mas- Democratic Unionist Party and current government Brady, the leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland, sachusetts through the most severe crisis of the last leader of the assembly as First Minister, called for the said, “ Recent suggestions that schools in Northern 80 years and he has distinguished himself and his elimination of government funding for Catholic schools. Ireland should be forced into one single state system are a stark warning to all those who respect diversity administration in the process. The education of young people – regardless of religion -- is considered so important to the future and the rights of parents. It seems strange that people Even while managing a fiscal crisis of historic pro- in Northern Ireland are being told they should accept a portions, the governor has assembled an impressive of a successful nation that both Ireland and Britain (including Scotland and Wales) have for nearly 100 lower standard of rights and freedoms than they would list of accomplishments: have in Britain, Scotland, or the South of Ireland.” • On his watch, test scores for Massachusetts students years provided free education to its people. Now we have a Northern Ireland Protestant leader calling for The strong, secret underpinnings of Northern Ire- for reading surpassed every other state in the nation; the elimination of funding for Catholics. land society show themselves from time to time and • He pushed through important reforms in the way Robinson wants to deny Catholics educational funds for Irish Americans it is well to be attentive. the Commonwealth treats former prisoners who have done their time by re-writing our CORI laws, and that promises to help thousands of people overcome a major obstacle to employment and upward mobility; • He stood his ground against a powerful lobby to Paul Murphy’s Court is Adjourned support the creation of the nation’s first-ever off-shore By James W. Dolan We gathered for the seminar and the professor be- wind farm, Cape Wind, which will give our state a gan to lead the discussion. We quickly saw that Paul new edge in job creation and clean energy. Special to the Reporter Dorchester buried one of its favorite sons this week was in his element. As the professor was struggling in The list goes on and on. his efforts to provoke discussion, the normally quiet Deval Patrick has been accessible and present in when Judge Paul Murphy was laid to rest. A graduate of St. Mark’s School, BC High, Boston College, and judge took over. our communities in a way that no governor has been Harvard Law School and a Korean war veteran, Judge He became the discussion leader, pointing out in recent years. He has walked the streets, greeted Murphy had a long and distinguished career; first as themes, drawing comparisons, and probing the depths families touched by tragedy, and responded swiftly a state representative and then as First Justice of the in what was a brilliant discussion that ranged through and personally to appeals for help. West Roxbury District Court. literature, symbolism, philosophy, and theology. Even And he made it a personal priority to advocate Essentially shy and reserved, he nonetheless was the professor was impressed. – successfully – for important investments in our an effective politician who There was the true Paul Murphy – scholar and communities, including funding to help build-out new won the respect and admi- teacher. In another life, he could have been a phi- community health center facilities all across the Com- Off the Bench ration of his colleagues as losopher, theologian, or bishop. Perhaps he was more monwealth. We see the governor in our neighborhood much for his humility as comfortable in a world of ideas, a place more powerful -- he is a neighbor in Milton. Patrick is a regular at for his brilliant mind. and compelling than the often dry strictures of the law. local barber shops, restaurants, and stores – and not He became the House majority leader recognized He was a very wise and interesting man whose un- just when the cameras are there. He and his family widely for his loyalty, good advice, and sound judgment. derstanding of law, truth, and justice went far beyond are genuine members of our community. He has a Even after he became a judge, legislative leaders would the narrow confines of a law library. There were just personal rapport with leaders and everyday folks call upon him for advice and counsel. too many other interesting topics. When traveling alike, all of whom keep him tuned into the needs of Comfortable yet not entirely at home in the world on vacation, he frequented libraries and bookstores; the city’s residents. of politics, the five-term state representative from always at home in the life of the mind. Wards 16 and 17, was appointed to the bench by Gov. District Court judging is more like laboring in the Patrick has been much maligned by his opponents, vineyard than an academic pursuit. For years Paul who snidely call for voters to “Dump Deval” and give Frank Sargent. For this compassionate man, the move provided the opportunity to more directly affect the worked the vineyard in a busy court that was outdated up on “hope.” But this governor has brought out the and badly in need of repair. Finally, he had the op- best in people no matter their political affiliation. He lives of the many unfortunate souls that appeared before him daily. portunity to participate in the design and construction has been a steadfast, level-headed, and responsible More scholar than political activist, he, in his own of a new courthouse, which formally opened about 15 steward of the public trust in the face of daunting quiet way, tried to help people repair their broken years ago. responsibilities and a sometimes angry public. In lives. He learned Spanish so he could better address Tragically, he was seriously injured in an automobile short, Deval Patrick is the prototype of the sort of the problems of the many Hispanics he met on court accident shortly before the opening. After a long period person everyone should want to have in public service. business. of recovery, he was still not well enough to return to Deval Patrick deserves our respect. He deserves our For relaxation, Paul read widely. His lobby was the bench, and so he retired. For years afterward, he support. He deserves another term as our governor. filled with books on literature, history, philosophy, and could be seen walking around Dorchester and in various And we are proud to endorse his candidacy once again. theology. The scope of his knowledge and the depth of libraries, content among his beloved books. his insights became evident at a great books seminar A good and kind man with a brilliant mind has passed sponsored for judges by Brandeis University. on. May he forever enjoy the company of family and I was in a group of about twelve judges, including friends and the companionship of scholars like himself, Judge Murphy, that met with a professor at Brandeis full of lively discussion. University to discuss literary themes relating to truth All rise! Judge Paul Murphy’s session is now ad- Boston Irish and justice in an assigned reading program. Of the journed. books we were to read I can only remember a few: Billy James W. Dolan is a retired Dorchester District Court REPORTER Budd, Edge of Darkness, and Moby Dick. judge who now practices law. The Boston Irish Reporter is published monthly by: Boston Neighborhood News, Inc., Letter to the Editor 150 Mt. Vernon St., Suite 120, Dorchester, MA 02125 [email protected] www.bostonirish.com Mary C. Forry, President (1983-2004) A ‘yes’ for Irish Network Boston Edward W. Forry, Publisher Dear Boston Irish Reporter Readers, The Boston Irish Business Association is a member- Thomas F. Mulvoy Jr., Managing Editor On behalf of the Boston Irish Business Association, ship organization with a clear focus on business and the William P. 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By Bill O’Donnell not solely to children but, if it is priced especially cutting the wire and opening The Dalai Lama, the classic bete noir Irish Firm Key Rescue Player right, also year-round to Irish families the gates. That was just wrong.” of the Chinese government, is due to visit – There were many companies and abroad as a tangible, novel taste of home. There are currently only five mink Ireland next year. Maybe Robinson & countries that as- McAleese Says ‘No’ to NY Parade – farms operating in Ireland but these are McGuinness could cut a deal: Promise sisted in the near- Like Tom Menino in Boston and a num- expected to be gradually closed by 2012 to keep the Dalai Lama out of the North miraculous rescue ber of others in other venues have done, under an Irish government program. if the Chinese stop flooding Belfast with operation in the Irish President Mary McAleese has let Henhouses, Foxes, And Irish their bad butts. It can’t hurt to ask. tiny desert mining the New York St. Patrick’s Day Parade Banks -- The Anglo-Irish Bank was Reminder -- The memorial and cel- outpost in Chile, Committee know that she won’t be pa- one of the Big Three in Irish banking ebration of the life of the late artist & but none played rading nor serving as Grand Marshall along with Bank of Ireland and the Al- musician David O’Docherty is being a more significant this coming March. The presidential lied Irish Bank. It loaned out hundreds held at the Black Rose in Boston on role than a small staff issued the conventional “scheduling of millions of euros in mortgages and Sun., Nov. 14, upstairs at the Rose from S h a n n o n - b a s e d conflict” excuse but it is well known that development speculation loans virtually 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Irish engineering the Irish President has been a longtime free of any real government regulatory RANDOM CLIPPINGS firm. Mincon Ltd. supporter of gay rights and would not be control. Today the Anglo Irish Bank More than nine million people have Bill O’Donnell employs 52 work- involved in a parade that excluded their is the biggest debtor in Irish history, logged on to the internet to seek out ers at Shannon, participation. to the tune of at least $50 billion; the ancestors from the 1901 and 1911 census 130 world wide, and specializes in Following the gruesome rash of mur- Irish government has taken it over and archives announced recently. … John precision mining equipment. The Irish ders, assaults, and suicides involving nationalized it; and the rate payers, the Hume, in what should be a popular company supplied the drill that first gay and lesbian young people in recent tax-paying punters of Ireland, are on the choice even in unionist circles, has been broke through the underground cav- weeks, this is a moment in time, it seems hook for losses that will cost – in interest voted by the listeners/viewers of RTE ity that held the 33 miners. The drill, to me, to take an unequivocal stand alone !!! – more than $1.4 billion each as “the greatest person in the history of called a Mincon MX 5053, made the against discrimination of fellow human and every year through 2025. Ireland,” beating out Michael Collins, initial breakthrough to the miners beings based on their sexuality. How does a bank or any business ac- Mary Robinson, et al. … The photogenic and provided the first solid evidence National Front On Budget Not On cumulate in a few tigerish years debts Kylemore Abbey in Galway county has that they were trapped but alive when – It’s hard to pin down now who actu- that today threaten in very real terms closed the girls school there but the good the instrument was withdrawn with a ally scuttled the idea suggested by the the stability and future financial well nuns are now making and selling choco- hand-lettered message from the trapped Green Party of having the major Irish being of the Republic of Ireland ? We late products. … Three Democratic mem- miners below saying, “We are fine in political parties come together on the can scroll for a partial answer by looking bers of the Mass. Legislature, Charles the shelter.” national budget. It was a good idea for at the executive actions of the former Murphy, Eugene O’Flaherty and The Mincon drill was used a second about 36 hours, with Taoiseach Brian youthful wunderkind of Anglo, the Martin Walsh, have petitioned Hillary time to provide a critical 5.5-inch open- Cowen apparently signing on only to do bank’s former chief executive, David Clinton to include Donegal along with ing down through the rock to the miners a U-turn and then denying he had ever Drumm. He and Anglo Chairman Sean the six Northern counties in economic that was used to get food, medicine, and agreed to any such thing. The leaders Fitzpatrick and a board of compliant plans for the northern part of Ireland. a communication kit a half-mile under- of Fine Gael and Labour were at least stooges used Anglo as a piggy bank to Follow the money: Irish construction ground. That lifeline lasted for 70 days briefly on board but with both parties fund get-rich-quick schemes, grandiose companies are in Saudi Arabia hop- until all were rescued. looking for a political edge in the 2011 development plans, and speculative ing to grab some of the action there Joe Purcell, 44, a co-owner of Min- election, they quickly shuffled off follow- ventures that they hoped would catapult on infrastructure and public building con, told the world media following the ing the Fianna Fail minuet. a handful of well-connected banking development worth $35 billion. … Irish rescue, “We are very proud that a tool What clearly was missing in the sce- colleagues into billionaire status. All of nurses are emigrating in large numbers designed and made by us in Shannon nario was the courage displayed back this was accomplished under the noses with most of this year’s 1,600 grad RN’s made the crucial breakthrough in lo- in 1987 when Fine Gael leader Alan of lazy, unconcerned, and incompetent heading to the UK, Australia, US, and cating the men which led to the rescue. Dukes agreed to form a united political state inspectors. Canada hunting for jobs. … The hottest When I get home to Ennis tonight, I’ll front with Charles Haughey’s Fianna One of the more brazen schemes in- fashion accessory and trendsetter coming definitely pop a bottle of champagne.” A Fail government in an effort to resolve volved some $100 million borrowed by out of the North these days, they say, is happy ending with an Irish tag. the serious financial problems facing the chairman with Drumm’s knowledge the bowler hat. And we thought it was Irish Diaspora, No Voting Allowed Ireland at that time. and assent that remains unpaid. Each only on display at Triumphant Orange – Throughout the free world, more than Looking over the current political year Drumm and his board of directors Order walk-abouts. … The number of a hundred countries have some sort of landscape, it is clear, certainly in hind- agreed to erase Fitzpatrick’s $100 mil- ordinations in Ireland has dropped below arrangement for its citizens abroad to sight, that the Green’s John Gormley lion in borrowed debt and transfer it to those in England and Wales for the first participate in elections at home. Sadly and his move to find some all-party a friendly bank that would hide it until time in memory. The good news is that that roster of nations does not include the unity on a budget in today’s parlous Anglo’s annual audit was finished and the website CountMeOut.ie, which helps Republic of Ireland. With a presidential times was destined to be a non-starter. then put it back on Anglo’s books. Other disaffected Catholics, has suspended its election set to be held in Ireland this After all, careers and political futures Anglo directors enjoyed similar, ongoing services. … In the small change depart- coming year, the interest and intensity were at stake and there wasn’t an Alan access to the bank’s assets ment, Irish banks are repaying $140 mil- of Irish people living abroad holding Dukes in sight. Other millions are owed by the for- lion to customers they overcharged –and Irish citizenship has been steadily NOTABLE QUOTES mer CEO, but that’s a dry hole as Mr. it won’t be the first bank repayments. … growing. The voting rights ban also is “Ireland was an oligarchy full of Drumm now lives in Massachusetts, Unmarked graves of Irish soldiers who in effect for other Irish elections -- for one-man banks, while absentee board in a house in Wellesley after moving died after serving in the British Army the Dail, direct-election Senate seats, members looked on. It was a situation from his Chatham home on the Cape in the first two world wars will have and national referenda. particular to Ireland; something that (purchased in 2008 for $4.6 million). He headstones newly erected at Glasnevin A Sinn Fein representative speaking couldn’t happen in the UK.” has refused to return to Ireland to aid for Nov. 11. in London said, “Successive presidents -- Shane Ross, Irish senator, journal- in the investigation of how Anglo got The Belfast Telegraph, in a first, has such as Mary Robinson and Mary ist and author. cleaned out and has filed for bankruptcy hired an onbudsman or in Tel-speak a McAleese have been great ambassa- in a Bay State court. “Readers’ Editor” to handle complaints, dors, regularly visiting the Irish com- “The [Republican Party] has got to Embarrassed by press reports, comments, etc. … The newest novel by munity here in Britain. It is a scandal take a hard look at some of the posi- Drumm’s wife has finally stopped trying the literature Nobelist Mario Vargas that those same citizens have no say in tions they’ve been taking. We can’t be to get their Malahide home near Dublin Liosa of Peru is based on the life of Roger who the next president will be.” anti-immigration, for example. Because transferred and out of the reach of the Casement. … I don’t care what kind of The cautious Irish political establish- immigrants are fueling this country. bankruptcy court. Drumm has a pen- a shine Boston Police Commissioner Ed ment has been traditionally hesitant to Without immigrants we would be like sion from the Anglo Irish bank worth Davis puts on it; the BPD’s immigra- open up voting to an overseas wild- card Europe or Japan, with an aging popula- $7 million that he has been allowed to tion checks are counter productive and electorate that would consist of young, tion and no young people coming in to retain and he is using that to bargain a repudiation of the policy in place for liberal, and harder-to-control voters take care of it.” with Anglo to pay down his debt. Anglo over a quarter century with the Flynn than the conventional party constituents – Gen. Colin Powell, former Sec- has refused the deal. and Menino administrations. … As the at home. However, with modern com- retary of State and National Security Neither Fitzpatrick nor Drumm have father of a daughter, I would rather see munications and media access it would Adviser been indicted nor, of course, jailed, but some Tea-Bagger get elected to Congress seem the right thing to do. It is clearly Fitzpatrick, unlike Drumm, at least has than former Bad Cop Jeff Perry, who is long overdue for the political leaders and “I realize that to many people it is not remained in Ireland to face the music. running in the 10th against former Nor- the major parties in Ireland to show some as emotionally satisfying to discuss this Meanwhile Ireland has pledged to folk DA and Bill Bulger nemesis Bill spine and move forward on this issue. as to talk about the peace in 1995. This fully guarantee all Irish bank losses, Keating. … I’m glad someone said it: Teddy Bear Speaks Your Lan- is what peace is about —about giving the fulfilling a Fianna Fail-led government There’s no money out of Boston or New guage -- Adrian Devane and his wife people the chance to live responsible, promise that the people of Ireland will York or anywhere going to the misguided Karen in Galway have come up with a normal lives. ... This is also part of liv- have to ultimately make good on. Also, ex-patriot dissident/breakaways who simple idea that has been gaining mar- ing a peaceful life, facing the crisis and Ireland is more or less mandated to keep are killing security forces and bombing keting traction and could end up being facing it together.” its repayment pledge lest it be forced to cities in Ireland trying to convince a a toy store favorite with infants and – President Bill Clinton, speaking avoid financial collapse by seeking a Eu- peace-seeking constituency that no price toddlers (and also as an adult novelty) on the Irish economic woes at Derry’s ropean Union bailout, which would then is too high to pay for Irish unity. … The this Christmas season and beyond. The University of Ulster most likely trigger an EU demand (which former watchtower at Foxhill in South couple have come up with the world’s Northwest Under Invasion – There the EU is salivating to do) that Ireland Armagh’s so-called “Bandit country” was first Irish-speaking Teddy bear, which were no longboats, or fierce warriors in increase its lowest-in-the-EU corporate long a symbol of the Troubles with its its creators hope will promote the Irish armor with maces, but no matter how tax rate of 12.5 percent, putting it more roving overhead helicopters and nearby language. The Gaelic-speaking doll, you cut it, the Northwest had been in- in line with other EU countries. Not a army barracks. It has been dismantled nicknamed BB, has a child’s voice and vaded. The invaders were some 5,000 pretty picture! and is being readied for regeneration a 33-word vocabulary that focuses on farm minks that were released into the Chinese Butts Top Belfast Coun- as a tangible peace dividend. … The the Irish words for colors, numbers, Donegal wild by animal rights activists. terfeits – Cigarette smuggling is big nationalist Northern town of Newry, and shapes. The activists had broken into a mink business on the island of Ireland. Most a favorite market town of mine just up Devane, disappointed in the negative farm in southwest Donegal with wire smuggling operations are controlled by from Warrenpoint and the canal, has attitude towards the Irish language in cutters and “liberated” thousands of the former and present paramilitary gang now emulated Derry with some of its Ireland, felt that introducing the teddy coats-in-waiting as a protest against members who have eschewed patriotism own “no-go areas.” bear to younger children was a good keeping the critters in captivity. for street crime riches. The hot import Maybe I haven’t got into the spirit of place to encourage support of a wider The result was a mad scramble to try today in Belfast and areas in the North things, but I think it’s beyond silly to pay use of Irish. “I wanted to get back to to recapture the mink before they could are Chinese cigarettes. The packaging, big money, usually extra, to buy a shirt basics,” he says. imperil salmon spawning in the nearby carefully made to exactly duplicate or jacket with Guinness beer or a Harp As someone who spent time working Owenea and Glen Rivers. There was popular legal brands, is turned out in logo or some other boozy advertisement with young Irish would-be entrepre- also concern for the escaped mink and huge Chinese factories but the product imprinted on it. I always thought it was neurs, I think the Devanes have a winner for poultry and livestock in the coun- itself, the cigarettes, are unmistakably the advertiser that paid the medium on their hands if they can tie up with a tryside. “It is an act of terrorism,” said “Made in China”; they are bad smelling, to spread the word, not the other way reputable marketing and distributing mink farmer Connie Anderson, “It was foul, and instantly identified as inferior, around. Well, maybe there could be one agent. And it is a product that can appeal pure sabotage and totally uncalled for, but they are cheap and plentiful exception – the Red Sox. Page 6 November 2010 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com

The Boston Irish Honors 2010 Common Roots Gave Birth to a Labor of Love By Edward W. Forry themselves and their children in America. The Boston Irish Reporter Publisher tales are always inspiring, and in fact, never get In the fall of 1990, when my late dear wife old. And they are our stories – they tell who we Mary Casey Forry and I discussed the idea of are. publishing a newspaper about Irish Boston, we Today, twenty years later, the newspaper stands knew very little about Ireland, the land of our as one of the few remaining family-owned and- ancestors. operated publications in Boston and the New Mary’s mom and dad had come over in the England region. With our pledge to continue our 1930s – Mary Kate Kane from Mohill in Leitrim, tradition as the region’s leading chronicler of all Martin Casey from Carracastle in Mayo – and things Irish-American, we observe this important she had grown up hearing stories of the hard life milestone with this celebratory luncheon, and that had caused her grandparents to send their we proudly debut a new awards ceremony, youngest daughter to America. the “Boston Irish Honors.” My own grandmother, Hannah Crotty Forry, Consistent with our own heritage, and proud to was born in the 1860s in Waterford, and she be Americans with ancestral ties to Ireland, today arrived in Boston around 1890 with her sister we give recognition to and honor the stories of two who entered the Congregation of St. Joseph individuals and three families whose ancestors nuns, taking the name Sister Mary Flavia. I arrived from Ireland and worked to give better never knew her, and my grandmother passed on lives to their children and grandchildren. well before it ever occurred to me to learn about In planning for our anniversary, we reached her life in Ireland. out to our friends and business leaders in Boston, My wife’s family kept in touch with aunts, and formed a 40-member event committee, and uncles, and cousins by mail and the infrequent we reached out to the many Irish social and Madden, Laura Madden, Yawu Miller, phone calls. I knew only that there were some business groups in greater Boston. Barbara McDonough, Ann McGough, Michael distant relatives over there, in Waterford and In the 20 years since it was first printed McGonagle, Martin McGovern, Gavin Mears. Sligo. as an eight-page supplement to our flagship Bob Mitchell, Peggy Mullen, Tom Mulvoy, Fr. When the Boston Irish Reporter first was newspaper, the Dorchester Reporter, the BIR has Tom McDonnell, Denis O’Brien, Greg O’Brien, published, despite Boston’s status as “the most been a magnet for talented reporters, columnists, Jim O’Brien, Bill O’Donnell, Brian O’Donovan, Irish city in America,” there was no Boston- editors, photographers, salespeople, and Thomas O’Grady, Kieran O’Sullivan. based journal of news and information to report contributors— all of whom have helped to make Jim O’Sullivan, Mike Ryan, Neil Savage, on the growing local Irish diaspora. We took the this newspaper special. We thank them: Eileen Sheehan, James J. Smith, Dr. Philip Smith, opportunity to celebrate our own heritage while Peter Stevens, Bill Tonra, Patrick J. Walsh. beginning a journey of great discovery about Sue Asci, Carol Beggy, Harry Brett, Lauren Ireland and Irish America, with a special focus Byrne, Eoin Cannon, John Carroll, Ken Carty, Their steady and faithful contributions to our on the people we both knew best: the Boston James Casey, Jack Conboy, Robert Connolly. pages help to educate and inform me about the Irish. John Craig, Jim Cryan, James W. Dolan, many great values of Irish Bostonians. Also, And so it was in October 1990 that we first Denise Doherty, Jack Dunn, Judy Enright, Liam the support of our sponsors and all our guests printed the Boston Irish Reporter, with a mission & Pauline Ferrie, Cora Flood, John Philip Foley at this anniversary celebration helps sustain to “Tell the Stories of Boston’s Irish” … the Bill Forry, Mary Casey Forry, Maureen Forry, us in our commitment to continue to publish a lives of our neighbors, our friends, our families. Robert Furlong, Laura Griffin, Chris Harding, strong, vibrant, and independent journal of Irish- Collectively, they are the stories of the many Margaret Brett Hastings, Kieran Jordan, Herbert American culture for Boston and New England Irish-born people who braved the trans-Atlantic A. Kenny, Barbara Langis. for many years to come. journey to find freedom and prosperity for Joe Leary, Cormac MacConnell, Ed

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Worldwide at bostonirish.com All contents copyright © 2010 Boston Neighborhood News, Inc. The painting on our cover was created by BIR Observes Its 20th Boston’s own Vincent Crotty, who drew with Gala Event Introducing inspiration from a Bronze Age decorative Irish Family Honors The Boston Irish Reporter will observe its 20th an- disc discovered in County Derry in niversary on October 7 with a gala celebratory luncheon at the Seaport Hotel/World Trade Center in Boston. The newspaper was founded in October, 1990 by publisher Ed Forry and his late wife, Mary Casey Forry, who announced that the publication’s mission would be 1939. From a central spiral, three others to “Tell the Stories of Boston’s Irish.” The first issues of the BIR were contained as small supplements to the Dorchester Reporter, a weekly newspaper cov- uncoil to form slightly looser spirals ering the Dorchester and Mattapan communities. “In those years, de- spite Boston’s status as ‘the most Irish city in that end internally with bird heads. The America,’ there was no Boston-based journal of news and information to report on the burgeoning local Irish diaspora,” said book Ireland’s Treasures: 5000 Years of Forry. “Mary and I saw an opportunity to celebrate our own heritage, and we began a journey of great Joe Derrane recorded his new album in the house where he’s been living for more than 50 years. discovery telling the stories of our neighbors and our Sean Smith photo Artistic Expression describes the disc in family. The story of the many Irish-born people who braved the trans-Atlantic journey to find freedom and prosperity for themselves and their children in America The Music Master of Grove Lane is always inspiring, and in fact, never gets old.” The birthday luncheon is serving a second function. more detail: “More astounding than the It will feature the debut of a new annual event for the Joe Derrane Delivers BIR, the awarding of the Boston Irish Family Honors. “The Boston Irish Reporter is one of the region’s few remaining family-owned and-operated publica- from Heart and Hearth tions,” Forry said. “In saluting our own heritage, the remarkable precision of the lines is the newspaper will make presentations to two Boston By Sean Smith “It was not unusual for me to play a ballroom gig on Irish individuals for their special achievements in Special to the BiR a Thursday, a wedding on Friday night, two weddings public service and business, and to three exemplary “Grove Lane” is to Joe Derrane what “Abbey Road” on Saturday, a ballroom gig on Sunday — and then Irish families who share our common roots in Boston was to The Beatles. I’d get up Monday and go to work [at the MBTA]. She and Ireland.” No, you won’t hear Boston’s legendary accordion never complained.” method of execution — the painstaking The initial honorees are Congressman Edward Mar- player doing covers of “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” or Derrane unhesitatingly credits Anne’s presence key, Arbella Insurance CEO John Donohue (Profile, “Here Comes the Sun” on his new CD, which will be and support for his re-emergence in the Irish music Page 8), and the family honorees are the Bretts, the out this month. But as the Fab Four memorialized the scene, a story that has been widely told but remains Geraghtys, and the Hyneses. London recording studio’s influence on their music, so as fresh as ever: Son of Irish immigrants becomes a Derrane has likewise paid tribute to the place that has mainstay of Boston’s famous Irish dance halls in the grinding down of the undecorated surfaces had a significant impact on his vocation — and his life. 1940s and 50s, but after the scene begins to dry up is Located in Randolph, south of Boston, Grove Lane forced to forsake Irish music for pop music. Then in is the street the 80-year-old Derrane has called home 1994, a record company releases new versions of 78s for 51 years now, where he and his beloved, steadfast he’d recorded back in the day, rumors of his death or wife Anne, who died in 2008, raised their family. The incapacitation prove exaggerated, and he’s back doing of the metal until the design stands out house on Grove Lane also has borne witness to the gigs and introducing himself to new generations of ebb and flow of Derrane’s musical career, including Irish music lovers. its remarkable rebirth in the 1990s and continuation While “Grove Lane” does have its fond reminiscences to the present day. — with tributes to Anne, late Cape Breton fiddling So, appropriately enough, during the summer of master Jerry Holland, and Derrane’s mentor Tommy from it in a uniformly raised relief.” 2009 Grove Lane served as a recording studio for Der- Sullivan among the compositions included — there rane and his friend and accompanist, guitarist John also is a definitive move forward, something that has McGann. The two put together 12 tracks, showcasing characterized Derrane’s work for several years now. Derrane’s distinctive accordion style — marked by a “What I’ve been trying to do is to elevate the status penchant for expertly employed triplets and masterful of the accordion,” he explains. “It’s capable of a lot Crotty, a longtime friend and distant chord progressions and substitutions — through an more than some might think — even the trad-heads. assortment of jigs, reels, hornpipes and other tunes, I’m a great believer in stretching yourself beyond the seven of them composed by Derrane. limits of the instrument. So I think I’ve learned more The result is, quite literally, a homespun affair — since I started back up again in 1994 than in all the previous years.” cousin of Boston Irish Reporter publisher music that feels straight from heart and hearth, because it is, and has been for so long. That’s why “Grove Lane” Derrane puts his belief into action on the album’s has an obvious, and deeply felt, dedication. third track, a strikingly intricate tango he composed. “This one was for Anne,” said Derrane, interviewed “I wanted the use of full-bodied, right-hand chords and during one recent early autumn afternoon, of the the more extensive use of the accordion’s left-hand bass buttons,” he says of “Tango Derrane.” “But with the Ed Forry, was commissioned to create Longford-born woman to whom he was married for 53 years. “She was always there for me, she was the Irish button-accordion it’s all push-pull, which has its one who kept encouraging me to practice and play, she limitations. So I just decided to write a tango that fo- told me I could do it, even when I wasn’t sure I could. (Continued on page 15) this image just for this inaugural Boston inside Family Goes ‘Home’ Poetry and Grief: to the Isle of Myths James Joyce’s ‘Tilly’ Irish Honors event. Today’s honorees will the bir Page 6 Page 18 each receive a copy of the painting. The inaugural Boston Irish Reporter, August 1990 The latest Boston Irish Reporter October 2010 Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com November 2010 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 7 The 2010 Boston Irish Honorees photos by Margaret Brett Hastings

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Bob Sheridan, Ed Forry, Congressman Ed Markey, Dick Flavin. Peg Geraghty, Dedham; Eileen Nee, Walpole Rev. Tom Kennedy

Bob Sheridan, Ed Forry, Peg Brett McCobb, Dick Flavin. Bob Sheridan, Ed Forry, Jack Hynes, Dick Flavin.

Bob Sheridan, John Donohue, Ed Forry, Dick Flavin. Bob Sheridan, Ed Forry Ireland Consul General Michael Lonergan

Bob Sheridan, Ed Forry, Anne Geraghty, Dick Flavin.

Jim Brett, Bob Sheridan, Bill Brett

Maureen Forry The Cityview Room at the World Trade Center was filled to capacity. Ed Forry, BIR publisher; Congressman Ed Markey Page 8 November 2010 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com The Boston Irish Honors 2010 for Distinguished Public Service Edward J. Markey, U.S. Congressman By Kyle Cheney and Global Warming – died in the Senate when Special to the Reporter Democrats were unable to knit together a filibuster- Call it his “vanilla cake” moment. proof majority. Markey calls it a “historic loss.” Congressman Edward Markey, the Democrats’ “China is eating our breakfast in the renewable global warming guru and the Massachusetts energy field and they’re moving on to our lunch delegation’s elder statesman, has always traced and they will soon be eating our dinner as well,” his roots back to Waterville, a verdant Ireland he said. “There’s a two-million manufacturing job hamlet known for its golf and seafood. But it was opportunity that is being squandered because of the on a 1996 jaunt through the town, over tea and inability of the Senate.” He quickly added that he a slice of vanilla cake with a woman he’d never blames the gridlock on “the Oklahoma oil senators met before, that he realized just how deep those and the Kentucky coal senators” – conveniently roots extended. all Republicans. The woman, his mother’s cousin Nora, had Atop the committee climate change commit- welcomed Markey to her Waterville family farm. tee since 2007, Markey has called more than 70 Markey, breathless as he described the moment, hearings and briefings, according to his website, recalled how his own mother used to have a daily a process that contributed to the “first increase in slice of vanilla cake every day at 3 o’clock – a fuel economy standards in three decades.” habit he thought she picked up in America. Markey also watched as the Federal Commu- “I’m looking at this woman who looks just like Edward J. Markey: Takes on cutting edge issues. nication Commission pushed off a decision on my mother, she has the same hands as my mother, incumbents amid record unemployment, foreclo- another signature issue: prohibiting internet service the same face as my mother,” Markey said in an sure rates, and national debt. The amorphous Tea providers from speeding up the delivery of content interview, with disbelief in his voice. Party has injected an element of grassroots fury they favor and slowing down content they don’t, a For Markey, 64, a Bay State Congressman since into races that once seemed sure bets for establish- concept called “net neutrality.” Although the issue 1977, Ireland has been an omnipresent part of life, ment candidates. has been set aside for now, Markey said he believes but until 1996 it had been an indirect connection. But if you ask Markey, the forces behind this rules requiring net neutrality are inevitable. His mother, Christina Courtney, and his father, year’s election won’t spell the Democrats’ undoing. “I think that the future of our economy is tied John Markey, never discussed with Edward or his “I think the Tea Party movement … it’s the Alice to an internet that is chaotic, entrepreneurial as it brothers, John and Richard, the dozens of cousins, in Wonderland version of a tea party,” he said. “It has been over the last two decades,” he said. “I aunts, and uncles they left in Ireland. is detached from the reality of what caused the think that we will put on the books the rules that During that 1996 visit, along with his wife, economic problems that we have, which are the make it impossible for the broadband barons to Susan, Markey became the first of his American- ticking time bombs that the Bush administration extract tolls from nascent companies that have the born relatives to travel back and reconnect with left behind.” potential of becoming the new Googles, the new his forbears: the Markeys, Courtneys and Sullivans Republicans, who have sought with mixed suc- Microsofts and further transforming our country of County Kerry. cess to align themselves with the Tea Party, won’t and the planet.” Markey speaks with photographic precision retake the House of Representatives, Markey said Even amid economic and political turmoil at about his genealogy, rattling off names, dates with deadpanned certainty. With a mischievous home, Markey still manages to keep his eye on and details with a historian’s ease and taking on a inflection, he said the GOP has “gone from ‘Yes, the Emerald Isle. It was only recently, he said, pristine Irish brogue when he recounts interactions we can,’” – President Barack Obama’s motto – to that the North and the Republic, once wracked by with his relatives. His maternal grandparents – Pat- “Yes, Wic-can,” a swipe at Delaware Republican violence, connected their electricity grids. rick Courtney, a coal carrier, and Brigid Sullivan, Christine O’Donnell, a Tea Party-aligned candidate “That’s just one more bridge of peace that be- a maid – crossed the Atlantic in 1902, settling in who recently admitted to dabbling in witchcraft comes very difficult to ever tear down because Malden, he said. during college in the 1980s. of the dependence people have upon energy,” he Markey was born in Malden in 1946. “We will hold onto the House,” he declared. said. When he asked the Irish energy chief, Eamon “Today, I only live nine houses from the one my Markey’s bravado belies the deference that Ryan, why that bridge hadn’t been built before, mother and her four sisters and [my] grandmother some of his colleagues have shown the Tea Party, Markey said Ryan told him, “The IRA would blow and grandfather lived in,” he boasts. “My mother wary of winding up in its crosshairs. But Markey up the transmission lines.” constantly reminded us of how fortunate we were. may be uniquely positioned to take an aggres- Markey said he met with Ryan last week to My grandmother and grandfather had to leave sive posture. He holds an enormous $2,000-to-1 discuss the “Irish American Climate Project,” Ireland because of economic circumstances.” fundraising edge on his Republican opponent, an effort Markey spearheaded to highlight “the Markey graduated from Boston College in 1968 Gerry Dembrowski, and his district was one of potentially severe impact that climate change will and earned his law degree from the school in 1972. four in Massachusetts that supported Democrat have on fishing and farming and tourism and loss His great-grandfather on his father’s side, Thomas Martha Coakley over Republican Scott Brown of flora and fauna on the island of Ireland” and Markey, came to the United States in 1858, serv- in a January special election to succeed U.S. Sen. “prevent the Irish landscape from being changed, ing in the Union Army in the Civil War before Edward Kennedy. changed utterly in ways that would pain hearts of beginning a career in a Lawrence textile factory. Dembrowski, a Woburn chiropractor who threw the Irish people and the Irish Diaspora.” His grandfather, Patrick, followed Thomas into his hat in the gubernatorial ring before opting to “We agreed we were going to set up a summit the factory. run for Congress, has attempted to paint Markey in Dublin on energy, environment, and telecom Markey says his ancestors’ sacrifice informs his as a “career politician.” industries,” he said. public service. “He will continue to spend your money,” Dem- Markey barely knew his grandparents, who “The Greatest Generation were really the people browski says. “I will fight to cut waste and save passed away early in his life. But his parents were who left Ireland who left behind their mothers and your money.” a fixture in Malden throughout his life, earning fathers and sisters and brothers and never got to see But Markey barely acknowledged his opponent, accolades in the community as recently as last them again,” he said. “You should never compare expressing confidence that voters not only back year, when a community center was named in their anything to what they did. To a certain extent we him but the rest of the Massachusetts delegation honor. Markey, speaking as a proud son, recited all are fulfilling their obligation. as well. the lengthy proclamation that accompanied the “I try to keep faith with the countless Irish im- “There is no scenario under which the Mas- dedication of the center: migrants who came to the United States, who sachusetts Democratic Congressional delegation “Like so many Maldonians of their era, John and worked hard to improve their lives and harness is going to be anything other than very powerful. Christina Markey were members of the ‘Greatest the gift of educational opportunity to give each That would be my answer to any hypothetical,” Generation.’ They struggled through the Depres- succeeding generation a better life,” he continued. Markey said, comparing the delegation to the 2004 sion survived World War II and were among those “That tradition animates my legislative efforts to Boston Red Sox, a baseball powerhouse. who helped make Malden a wonderful, welcom- advance fairness, justice and opportunity for all Despite hefty Democratic majorities in the U.S. ing place to live. Christina Courtney Markey was Americans.” House and Senate, Markey’s agenda items met with president of the senior class at Girls Catholic High Those high ideals that carried Markey through decidedly mixed results, headlined by the failure School, the daughter of Irish immigrants to Mal- 17 terms in Congress will be put to the test this of a proposal to regulate carbon emissions and den. She aspired to attend college. Her mother’s November. He and his Democratic colleagues combat climate change. The bill, which Markey untimely death forced her to set aside her dreams. find themselves at the mercy of an unpredictable helped shepherd through the House – he chairs She dedicated herself to her own three sons, Ed, and seething electorate that has trained its fire on the Select Committee on Energy Independent John, and Richard Markey.” Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com November 2010 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 9 The Boston Irish Honors 2010 for Excellence in Business John F. Donohue, Arbella Insurance Group By Greg O’Brien “The opportunity to start a company intrigued Special to the BIR me,” says Donohue. “I realized there was a lot Brahmins need not apply: “Hard work will beat more to it than my impressions as a youth.” brains nine times out of ten!” That’s what John F. The name Arbella has its origin in the sailing Donohue’s father and the son’s longtime mentor, vessel, the Arbella, that carried the Massachusetts former Massachusetts Attorney General Francis Bay Charter from England to Boston, along with X. Bellotti, taught him early on. the city’s first white settlers. “Those on the ship The lesson took, though it’s a bonus when you came here to build a government and a city,” says have both, as Donohue, chairman of the board and Donohue. “The name was a natural association CEO of Arbella Insurance Group, demonstrates. for us as we set out to establish a new company “My father, John, always told me to put my head in Massachusetts.” down, work hard, and that will generate a lot of Over the years, the company has grown exponen- success; you don’t have to be the smartest guy tially, providing personal and business insurance out there,” says Donohue, also chairman of the in Massachusetts and Connecticut and business Irish Immigration Center’s Advisory Board and insurance in Rhode Island and New Hampshire. a recipient of the inaugural Boston Irish Honors With Donohue at the helm, Arbella has worked Award for distinguished public service to be pre- hard to break down the walls of a complex, sented October 7 at the Boston Irish Reporter’s corporate-speak industry that was portrayed laugh- 20th Anniversary luncheon at Boston’s Seaport ably years ago in a scene in Woody Allen’s iconic Hotel/World Trade Center. John F. Donohue: Follows the social gospel. movie, Bananas, where an individual’s sentence And Bellotti, Donohue’s former boss at the mariner. Guess he showed them! for alleged high crimes against a foreign govern- AG’s office, an Arbella founder, and now Arbella Growing up in Manchester, just outside Hart- ment was to spend time in the “sweat pit” with board vice chairman and regulatory legal counsel, ford, Donohue lived a parochial life with his only an insurance agent. advised him years ago, “If you work hard, you sibling, Ellen, a year and a half older. He attended “Insurance doesn’t have to be overly dense,” says can beat anyone.” St. James Elementary School and East Catholic Donohue. “Customer service, easy premium pay- Looking back, Donohue calls Bellotti “one of High School where he played intramural and ment options, and direct access to our independent the smartest, most compassionate, most humble town recreation sports and skied in winters. “My insurance agents is at the heart of the company. individuals that I’ve ever met.” parents were solid and hard working,” he says in “We are doing well in a challenging economy, he Those virtues clearly rubbed off. Today Dono- a wide-ranging interview with the Boston Irish adds. “Arbella always has taken a conservative hue—in addition to his duties overseeing one of Reporter. “They didn’t travel much and were very approach to investments. Most importantly, we the largest property casualty insurance companies supportive.” want to have the necessary resources available based in New England with 900 employees in four The Donohues taught their children compassion when customers need claims paid.” states, writing more than $650 million annually at a young age. “They were kind people, always For a man clearly consumed with work, Dono- in business and personal insurance—is CEO of reaching out to others,” says the son. “I remember hue has his priorities in check: family, community the Arbella Insurance Group Charitable Founda- my father going out of his way to support young involvement, and work in that order, and he excels tion, which donates generously to organizations black families moving into the neighborhood while at all. The father of the three sons—Mathew, 30, and causes in communities it serves, among them others shunned them. It was a life lesson. It taught who works in marketing at TomTom GPS navi- Project Bread’s Walk for Hunger and the Jimmy me a lot about respecting others.” gation systems; Kevin, 18, a senior at BC High; Fund. Donohue attended George Washington Univer- and Jack, 13, a seventh grader at the Jesuit school, In his community work at the Irish Immigra- sity in D.C., majoring in economics and history. Donohue met his wife, Frances (Robinson) when tion Center, Donohue advises the organization’s At GW, he was actively involved in social and she was a criminal prosecutor in the attorney gen- legendary executive director, Sister Lena Deevy, political issues de jour, volunteering for Ralph eral’s office. No crossing her at the dinner table, in her work of applying the social gospel at the Nader as one of his “Raiders.” Donohue helped Donohue says. non-profit agency that serves the varied interests establish DCPIRG (Public Interest Research In addition to many other affiliations, Donohue of the immigrant community from Ireland and at Group) at area college campuses—modeled after is active as a member of the Board of Greater large. The IIC also operates an innovative program organizations like MASSPIRG that advocate on Boston Legal Services, is a member of the Board in Northern Ireland to help bridge the gap between behalf of consumer protection, health, and envi- of Overseers for the YMCA of Greater Boston, Protestants and Catholics. ronmental causes. “We tried to hold businesses and serves as a member of the National Council When there is time, and Donohue always makes more accountable for telling the truth and com- for the Arts and Sciences for George Washington time for this endeavor, he mentors young men and municating more clearly about what their products University. He also has retained his legal stand- women entering an uncertain business world. “I could or couldn’t do.” ing as a member of the bar in Pennsylvania, the think it’s critical these days to help kids make Donohue also was actively involved in the anti- Federal District Court, and the US Court of Ap- good choices in all areas of their lives,” he says. Vietnam War movement. “I was strongly opposed peals (First Circuit). “I’m just returning a favor.” to Vietnam,” he says. “It was not our war. We But he focuses his passion on his work with the The mosaic of 58-year-old John F. Donohue’s life were supporting a propped up, corrupt Vietnam Irish Immigration Center, assisting with issues like comes stitched with resolve and critical thinking. government, and we should not have been sending affordable housing, legal questions and navigating A former assistant AG in the Consumer Protec- our men and women there to die.” the serpentine immigration system. tion Division and former chief of the Insurance Such passion became the cornerstone of Self-effacing at the core, Donohue is charac- Division before entering private law practice and Donohue’s personal and professional life. After teristically modest about his upcoming Boston then the insurance industry, Donohue has fought graduating from college, he attended the George Irish Honors Award. “Not sure how I made the vociferously in the field for consumer advocacy. Washington Law School, then worked as a poverty distinguished list, but I’m grateful for it,” he says. “My dad continually pressed me to do what’s right lawyer in a Pittsburgh legal service agency. He At the end of each day and throughout, Donohue and not care what other people think,” he says. moved to Boston to join the Bellotti AG Office, turns his attention to family. All the accomplish- But he didn’t always listen to his father, a sec- working first in consumer protection on arson ments and awards in the world don’t add up to his ond-generation Irish American with family roots and auto fraud cases, then as head of the Insur- responsibilities as a father, he says. “My central in Tipperary who worked as an Aetna Insurance ance Division. From 1985 to 1987, he was lead goal is to help my sons turn into good men,” he Company executive in Hartford. His mother, Do- counsel at various auto insurance rate hearings adds. “There are a lot of challenges in the world, ris (LaBalle), was a career woman in the 1960s, and administrative trials involving health and li- and my wife and I try to be there for our children. unusual for the day, breaking new ground in sales ability insurance. Helping children grow up today is to hold them in the insurance business with various Hartford After Bellotti left the AG’s office, Donohue accountable. It’s not a matter of trying to be their agencies. joined him at the Boston law firm of Mintz, Levin, best friend; it’s working to be their mentor and “Growing up I swore that I would never get into Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, PC., becoming providing them with a standard of measurement insurance,” he stresses. “I was adamant about not a partner in the firm and working with his mentor they can count on.” following in my parents’ footsteps. I was going to to secure special legislation to create the Arbella Enough said. Does anyone, including John go off and do other things. Insurance, I thought, Insurance Group, filling a void when the Kemper Francis Donohue, have a question as to how he was boring.” Group of Chicago pulled away from the Massachu- made the BIR’s Honors Award list. Well, we’ve all come full circle with many of our setts auto insurance market. Donohue ultimately Greg O’Brien is a regular contributor to the youthful opinions, and Donohue has circumnavi- became a founder of the company with Bellotti. Boston Irish Reporter. gated his earlier take on insurance like a seasoned Page 10 November 2010 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com The Boston Irish Honors 2010 Exemplary Boston Irish Family The Bretts: All About America By Jack Thomas In 1924, Mary Ann Brennan of the village of Achonry in County Sligo decided there was no work, no hope, and no serenity in Ireland, and so she crossed that tureen of tears, the Atlantic Ocean, to pursue her dream of peace, and prosperity in America. Fast forward to 1972. Mary Ann (Brennan) Brett of Dorchester – or, more precisely, Mary Ann Brett of St. Margaret’s Parish – leaves Boston, flies back to Ireland, steps off the plane at Shannon Airport and, for the first time in nearly half a century, fulfills the dream of many Irish Americans – she sets foot on Irish soil She is with her daughter, Peg, who was then 34 and who had just withdrawn from a convent after 14 years. Mary Ann Brett, 69 at the time, seems distracted, as they make their way through customs and baggage claim and into a rental car, where Peg is faced with the challenge of driving on the left side of the road and also using a steer- ing wheel on the right side of the car and a stick shift in her left hand. As they jerk their way out of Shannon Airport, Mary Ann Brett gazes out the window and across the Irish countryside, and then she turns to her daughter. “You know what, Peg?” she says. “There’s no place like America.” *** If the Hague in the Netherlands is the center of politics internationally, then Gerard’s in Dorches- ter’s Adams Village is the center of politics locally, a restaurant where the waitresses call you “Hon,” and they mean it. The Bretts in 2000: From left, Bill, Jim, Peg, the late Jack Harry, and Mary (seated). At a corner table, Harry Brett – the second of Photo by Patrick McNamara. six children of Mary Ann Brett – settles into a first-generation Irish immigrants. 1888, and my mother in 1903. Since my oldest chair, orders a coffee, dry wheat toast and what he Unable to provide details and dates, Harry shrugs brother Jack was born in 1934, we assume they calls a couple of fake eggs, scrambled, and then and urges that a call be made to his sister, Peg were married in 1932.” describes how his mother arrived in America as a McCobb of Weymouth, who works in the office As Harry explains, their father landed a job in 21-year-old colleen, put her Irish past behind her, of the state Treasurer and who insists on calling Salem, digging graves in a cemetery that, ironically, and in one generation, folded her family with six you back on her break. “We’re not allowed to use is the place where he himself would be buried. children into the American dream. state phones for personal calls,” she says. “He took care of boilers in factories, and he had Goodbye, Sligo, hello, Dorchester. When she does call back, she apologizes for a reputation as a drinker,” Harry confesses. “He “For my mother, at that time, when she was a girl, knowing not much more than her brother. drank every day, mostly beer, and put himself to there was nothing in Ireland. It was post-famine – “My parents didn’t talk much about this, you sleep with it.” it wasn’t like the 1840s famine, or anything, and know,” she says. “I remember growing up and The family settled in a three-decker north of it was post-revolution – when was that over, like not being allowed to say much about the Irish, Edward Everett Square. “We lived on St. Mar- 1919 or 1920? But she had grown up with all that, because my parents were in fear of being sent back garet Street. We went to St. Margaret’s School, and so did her older brothers, and you know, it to Ireland. I remember my mother saying that. My and naturally, we all made our sacraments at St. wasn’t fun. I remember my mother telling us this. mother was not yet a citizen of the United States Margaret’s Church. And my mother made us go “There was no future in Ireland, because there and she worried that they would find a reason to to church all the time, you know, sometimes in were no jobs,” he said, stirring black coffee. “She send her back. the morning before school.” had four brothers and it was they who sent her over Not that Mary Ann Brett was without her alle- It was there, in the flat onS t. Margaret’s Street, here. They were farmers and very poor, and the giance to the Irish cause, for as a 13-year-old girl, that Peg, at age 10, returned from school one day in family also owned a sand pit that helped them get she served the IRA, using her bicycle to courier 1950 to find her mother, in the kitchen, dancing in by, selling natural sand, and so people would come cash in her hometown of Ballymote. ecstasy, waving a sheet of paper and crooning, “I’m up with their cart and donkey and buy sand. I was “But my mother wanted us to be accepted as an American citizen, I’m an American citizen.” talking to a guy at the Eire pub one day not too Americans,” Peg says, “and that meant that we When Harry was 17, the family moved to Grant long ago and he told me that as a kid, he remem- were not to speak with an Irish accent, and we Street, off Dorchester Avenue, and in 1957, he bers going with his father or grandfather 60 years were not to mention Ireland, and we were to be enlisted in the Army, served in Germany, bought ago to buy sand at my family’s sand pit in Sligo just American, because my mother and father saw a camera and taught himself photography. Dis- “My mother went to school in Ireland, but that as the greatest gift. charged, he went to work in Boston’s garment probably not too far, and so what kind of a future “And don’t forget,” she continues, “by the time district as a cutter, and not once does he recall did she have? What could a girl in Ireland look my parents came over, Boston was the unfriendli- discrimination against the Irish. forward to? Taking care of the boys, cooking for est city to the Irish who, at that point, were mostly “Oh, God, no,” says Harry. “Nothing like them, washing for them, and not much more.” going to New York or Chicago or out West. Boston that. When I first went to work in the factories, Details are elusive. The family assumes Mary was hostile to the Irish, because in the eyes of the though, in the garment business, most of the work- Ann arrived at Ellis Island, lived in Philadelphia, Yankees, the Irish were rowdy and uneducated, ers were Italian, Jewish and Lebanese, and I was and somehow hooked up with Henry Brett, also and they were taking over in Boston, just like like, you know, the token Irish guy.” once of Sligo, who probably landed in Charlestown other nationalities that followed. An ethnic group At night, he pampered himself at a bar on Colum- sometime before Mary arrived at Ellis Island, the always resents the ethnic group that comes along bia Road, the M & G, where there was a weekly family assumes, then lived in Salem with a sister. after because that’s the one that takes he jobs.” talent night, often won by former state Senator There is a reason the story of the Brett family And so, the history of the Brett family begins William Bulger. That’s where Harry met Lucille, is pocked by forgotten dates, missing facts and with assumptions. “We assume they met in Sligo,” who worked at a bank, and they married in 1961. mislaid memories, for in America, Mary Ann says Peg. “Otherwise, they lived in different “She’s Irish,” says Harry, and then after a pause, Brett was determined to erase the Irish past and states, so how would they have come together in “ … well, partly Irish. Her father was French, to compose an American present. She discour- America? But however they got together, they but her mother was Irish, so I suppose you could aged her family even from talking about their were married in Salem. My father was born in say she’s Irish. She never got involved in French Irish heritage, lest a stranger learn the family was Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com November 2010 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 11 The Boston Irish Honors 2010

culture, and living around here these days, you know, you might as well be Irish, because, let’s admit it -- it’s easier.” So sublimated is the Irish experience for Harry that, when he is asked what it was like to grow up in an Irish neighborhood, he says: “To be honest, it was just like being an American. That was the only thing, really, you know?” Notwithstanding his mother’s efforts to Ameri- canize her six children, Harry had a bit of an Irish accent, although he didn’t know it. “When I first went to work, because of this slight accent, people assumed I came from Ireland, and when they’d ask where I was from, and I’d say Dorchester, they’d say, no, no, where were you from before that? But it was because of the neigh- borhood, you know – we had Irish people above us, and Irish people next door, and Irish people across the street. So I ended up with a bit of Irish accent, like the way that people in the North End might pick up an Italian accent.” The big break in his career came in 1975 when, after 20 years in the garment business, he was laid off, and the next day, he went to work for the rest of his life, doing what he loves, photography, free- lancing at weddings and parties and even working at the Globe for several months. The Bretts in 1976. Seated are Bill, mother Mary Ann, and Harry; standing are Jim, Peg, Mary, “But I was never nuts about newspaper work,” and Jack. Photo courtesy Brett Family. he says, “all the deadlines and accidents and crime stories, and especially having to get head shots and no electricity. Did I ever think about moving Jack, who lived in Scituate until his death last of people who were dead. You’d have to knock to Ireland? Oh, God, no. I went back again and month, Bill of Hingham, the news photographer, on a door late at night and ask the family for a they had running water and a tin roof, but it was Mary of Quincy, who works for the Boston Police photograph of their son who had been killed in still pretty primitive.” Department, and James, 60, of Savin Hill, who Vietnam, and they’d slam the door in your face. Harry has four children, Harry of Hanson, a caught the political bug that infects the Irish. He I like taking pictures, but I never liked that part plumber turned union officer; Mary Ellen of was elected to the Legislature in 1981, ran for of the job. Dorchester, director of South Shore Workforce mayor of Boston in 1993, and is now president of “Now my brother, Billy, he loves news,” said Development; William of Braintree, an archeolo- the New England Council, an alliance of business, Harry, referring to a retired Globe photographer gist, and Margaret of South Boston, a freelance academic and health institutions formed to promote and photo editor whose pictures still appear in photographer. economic growth and high quality of life in New a weekly feature called “Party Lines.” Bill just On trips to Ireland, because he did not like driving England. Mary Brett also has 17 grandchildren loved news, and he would have been a photogra- in the left lane, he would take along one or more and 15 great-grandchilden. pher without my influence. Don’t forget, he used of his children. “My wife didn’t fly at the time, so Harry is asked what he thinks about slurs against his paper-boy money to buy a camera and an old I took my son with me, and I let him drive. Next, I the Irish as drinkers. police radio. I didn’t influence him there.” took my daughter, and I let her drive. Then I took “Well, a lot of other people drink, too, you know. For 20 years, Harry has worked as photographer another daughter, and I let her drive. Then I took A lot of Europeans drink a lot. As if the French at the University of Massachusetts, and as he says, two daughters, and I let them drive.” don’t drink? But you know, the really successful unlike the newspaper business, there’s no crime. What draws him to Ireland? people, for the most part, don’t drink. So, it’s up “People are glad to see me. They shake hands, “I don’t know. It’s nice to know where you come to the individual.” offer food, offer a drink, and I love the work. And from, I guess, to find out what you’re all about. And what of jokes about the Irish? it’s one of the best schools in the country, a public As far as vacations, there are a lot of nicer places When Harry insists that he cannot ever remem- school, you know, for rich kids, poor people, ghetto to go with better restaurants, swimming pools, ber being offended by any slur, any cliché or any kids, everybody, and there was a recent survey and such. You kind of rough it in Ireland.” And joke about the Irish, he is given a test to see how that showed it was a very safe school, safer than then, in a reference to the restaurant where he was he will respond. Tufts and Harvard.” dining, he said, “Gerard’s would be a high-end Has he heard about the Irishman who loved his Harry went to Ireland for the first time in 1957 place in Ireland, you know? You go over there wife so much he nearly told her? and stayed at the house where his father had lived. and get a taste of it, and when you get home, you He laughs heartily, hand to his mouth. “I don’t think it had changed one bit from when like America more.” “That’s funny,” he says. “I’ll have to tell that my father had left 25 years earlier. It was pretty Mary Ann Brett, who died in 1981, had six one to my wife.” primitive – thatched roofs, with no running water children. In addition to Harry and Peg, they are Jack Brett left his mark by inspiring his family In an obituary published in The Boston Globe New England Council organization. four or five miles a day,’’ his sister said. “He was on Sept. 22, Bryan Marquard wrote of Jack “Our lives were shaped by the way Jackie lived a great, great walker and just a nice person, you Brett: “As if he knew his life could not be con- his life,’’ his sister, Peg Brett McCobb of Wey- know? Everybody knew him because he said hello fined by a mind that never grew out of child- mouth, told Marquard. “It seems like because of to everyone.’’ hood, he would go for long walks as a boy in him, everyone in the family has a soft spot for “I feel so grateful to have had him for a brother Dorchester, favoring routes with straight streets the underdog. Your heart goes out to people who because of the gift he gave all of us to be so close where he could gaze ahead, several blocks into are disadvantaged and you reach out to them. We together,’’ she told the Globe. “He would see things his future. do favors for people, but always with Jack in the that I wouldn’t see, and he would remind me of “Some leave their mark through work and back of our minds.’’ the simple things in life,’’ added Jim. “He was accomplishments; Mr. Brett left his by inspiring Bill Brett of Hingham (but really of Dorches- genuine, a very simple person in the sense of not his family, including his youngest brother, who ter), a well-known photographer whose work has having any of the qualities that most people have spent years in the Legislature championing the graced the pages of the Globe for five decades, like anger and jealousy. He had none of that.” causes of constituents whose political voices are always too pains to say that “Jack was the nucleus Jack Brett is buried next to his mother in Cedar often only a whisper.” who kept our family strong,” reported Marquard. Grove Cemetery in Dorchester, where beneath her The legislative reference was to Jack’s The family noted that Jack was able to run name on the gravestone is the inscription, “and brother Jim, who represented Dorchester at the errands and take rudimentary care of his needs her special son, John P. 1934 — 2010.’’ State House before becoming the head of the and that he loved being outside. “He would walk Page 12 November 2010 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com The Boston Irish Honors 2010 Exemplary Boston Irish Family The Geraghtys: Born to Be Givers By Jack Thomas On a peaceful Autumn afternoon, with sun shim- mering off a salt water pond outside the kitchen door of her summer home in Falmouth, the ever- charming Peg Geraghty, 83, sits at a round table graced by a single purple orchid, and along with her cousin, Anne Soraghan of Dover, she peels back a shroud of more than eight decades and talks in a soft voice about the honor and pride of her heritage and what it was like to have been Irish in Boston in the 20th Century. And what a life it has been – fully invested from girlhood in the colorful traditions of Ireland and utterly loyal to Irish nationalism in the struggle against England, and at the same time, resolutely faithful to her American homeland, where she married, raised three children, and, after a career as a teacher and the death of her husband, Tom, she became president of his company, passed it on to their children and managed to expand the family’s reputation for humanity, humility, philanthropy, and don’t forget the love of Ireland. First, there is no way to measure how many visitors and immigrants from Ireland have been helped by a gift of cash from the Geraghtys to tide The Geraghtys: Thomas Jr., Matriarch Margaret (“Peg”), Anne, and John. Below, the late them over, or perhaps by a job in their company Thomas Geraghty. Photos by Bill Brett, family archive. or at least by the opportunity, through the years, to put their weary feet under Peg Geraghty’s kitchen No Irish Need Apply. “It was that the Irish were table for her home-made meatloaf, pot roast or considered, you know, uneducated and all that pork chops and, don’t forget the Irish bread. sort of thing, and because you were Irish, people Second, there is no way to measure how much would not want to associate with you. It was all support, in sweat and money, she and her husband right, though, if you were the hired help.” and their three children have donated, through the Both women are eager to respond to a question years, to American schools, colleges, hospitals about good qualities of Irish people. and other institutions, and don’t forget the Irish “Oh, they have the gift of language,” says Peg Cultural Centre of New England. softly, and that gives her an opportunity to intro- “How much have we given? I’d rather not say,” duce her favorite subject, her husband Tom, who she answers, smiling, and then, after a pause: “The ran the family realty managing company, Geraghty truth is, I don’t remember.” Associates, until his death in 1985. With Peg Geraghty, we begin at the beginning, “My husband wrote poetry, and he had a folder late in the 19th Century, with a story about her of poetry in his home office,” says Peg. “Some father, Michael Cassidy, who was born in America nights, he’d come home from work, and I’d have in 1875, but went to Ireland, at age five, with his dinner ready, but he’d be so weary he’d say, ‘I’m mother to her ancestral home in Galway, in Moyc- going to my poetry folder, and not take calls. His ullen, on the road to Spiddal. Returning to America friends would telephone, and I’d say he’s reading about the other woman at the table, her cousin, at 18, he served 33 years in the Navy, beginning poetry, but I’ll put your name on the list, and they Anne Soraghan, who came from Ireland 60 years in the final days of theS panish American War and couldn’t believe there would be 17 names ahead ago and still clings to her brogue. “Our mothers lasting through submarine service in World War of them.” were sisters,” says Anne, “and I came to live with I, and even to a brief recall for service in World “He loved the language, words and poetry,” says Peg when I was 13, and was brought up in her War II. “During World War I,” says Peg, “those Anne, “and he found peace not just in Seamus home. At my wedding 38 years ago today, her submarines must have been like tin cans.” Heaney, but in Yeats, Thoreau, Longfellow, Omar husband, Tom, gave me away, a nice man and Peg’s mother, Anne Carr, came to America in the Khayyam, and a diversity of poets I can’t think quite handsome, too.” early 1920s, and like a lot of Irish girls in Boston, of off the bat.” So close are the two women that they know she worked for a Yankee family, as a cook at a “Other nights, what would happen,” continues one another’s stories, laugh at inside jokes, finish home in Pride’s Crossing, Beverly. “The Irish Peg, “is that we had tenants who were – well, one another’s sentences, and fill in the gaps when fellows would travel to meet the Irish girls, and helpless. They couldn’t get their key in the door, memory goes astray. After graduation from the on Sundays, my father would take the train to and so we’d have to run out to help, and he’d be school of Our Lady of Perpetual Help on Mission Beverly to visit my mother, and then they married out ‘til midnight, helping tenants.” Hill, instead of joining the Irish exodus to the South in 1924.” She was 29, and he was 49. As generous as he was gregarious, Tom would Shore, Anne headed west, and now lives with her Three years later, Margaret Geraghty was born in surprise his wife by bringing home entourages of husband, Jack, in Dover, once a Yankee enclave Jamaica Plain, not far from the Jamaicaway, where immigrants or visitors from Ireland, and in sum- and home to Saltonstalls. “Dover?” she says, with former Mayor James Michael Curley lived in a mer, he’d send them to Peg in Falmouth. an Irish guffaw. “Oh, they’re all Irish there now.” house with shamrocks in the shutters. As it was for “He’d call and say, ‘Oh, Peg, I told them to go Both women recall discrimination against the many Irish families in Boston in the middle of the down and see you, that you’d love to have them.’ Irish, including the label “narrowbacks,” a deroga- century, everybody on the street was Irish, so that Sometimes, as one group of three or four would tion to describe a child of Irish immigrants who after a while, anybody not Irish seemed deviant. leave, I’d clean up, change the beds and look out is considered too soft to do hard labor. “And everybody at the Parkman School was Irish, the window to see another group arriving.” “I was teaching at the MGH School of Nursing too,” Peg says, “except for one girl named Malouf, “Another thing about the qualities of the Irish,” from ’66 to ’84,” recalls Anne, “and the director of who felt very left out of everything.” says Anne, returning to her favorite topic, “I would nursing had a secretary named Miss Fitch, who was At age seven, Peg returned to Ireland with her say that in addition to the gift of gab, they have very Yankee-fied. She planned a trip to England parents for eight months, and in Connemara, she the gift of hospitality, like Tom. They’re generous for a royal event, and I said, ‘Well, Miss Fitch, was taught in second grade by the teacher who to their own and willing to help when they come I hope you have a wonderful time.’ She said, ‘I had taught her mother a generation earlier. Lest over from Ireland. Tom’s company employed 30, will if your people don’t disrupt us and try to kill you think of her as a scatterbrained second grader, and he put a lot of Irish people to work, and that us.’ She was obviously anti-Irish, and I was from from those lessons 77 years ago, she counts for you, made Boston welcoming for people from Ireland.” Ireland, and in her eyes, we weren’t supposed to one to 10, in Gaelic, now called Irish – “Aon, do, “He’d always hire Galway guys,” recalls Peg, go beyond the domestic help.” tri, ceathair, cuig, se, seacht, ocht, naoi, deich …” “and then we got a fellow named Eddie Barron For Anne, it wasn’t only the signs that said: Any story about Peg Geraghty is also a story who’d come over from Donegal, and Tom said Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com November 2010 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 13

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he could do brickwork and this and that. Then he After graduating in 1948 from Boston State hired more Donegal guys, and I said, ‘Whatever College, Peg taught in Medfield, Norwood, and happened to Galway?’ ” Hyde Park. A diabetic who needs insulin daily, she “There’s another quality of the Irish,” says admits to a few ailments, but nothing threatening. Anne, “the singing and dancing.” For the Irish of Nevertheless, her daughter, Anne, left her Rowes Boston, the playground in Boston was Hibernian Wharf condo two years ago to move in with Peg in Hall on Dudley Street, and Peg and Tom and Anne Dedham. “I don’t whether she was worried I’d fall assisted in its operation, from lining up bands to down the stairs or whether I’d get another fellow.” collecting tickets at the door. Peg no longer kneels every day to pray, but she “The Irish girls worked for Yankees or Jews, prays every day. “It was prayers that got me through domestic help,” says Anne. “Every Wednesday after Tom passed away, because in addition to night, they’d go to Mission Church for the Our losing him, I had the business to run. At the time, Lady of Perpetual Help novena, and then, Thursday we were responsible for 2,500 apartments and was their day off, so they’d shop at Filene’s Base- some commercial property and 120 condo loans ment. That night they’d take a trolley to Hibernian to manage, too, and only one of them defaulted. Hall, wearing something bought at Filene’s but no “I had worked with Tom all those years, but to Wonderbras,” she says with a laugh. “Irish girls inherit the responsibility for all that, and with three didn’t need ‘em. children in school: Anne was in her first year of “They had big bands there, and sometimes Tom law school, and Thomas in his third year of col- arranged for entertainers like Johnny Powell or lege and John was starting at Belmont Hill. How Carmel Quinn, and they played ‘The Stack of did I do all that? I prayed a lot. And you get calls Barley,’ ‘The Rose of Tralee,’ and ‘If You’re Irish, at 11 o’clock at night from tenants who can’t find Come Into the Parlor,’ and all the jigs and reels their key or they’re inebriated or the plumbing is and waltzes, and the Irish patriot songs about Kil- Margaret Cassidy on the day of her wedding backed up.” mainham Jail in Dublin, and about the guy from to Thomas Geraghty. And she worried about her employees, about Connemara who was brutalized by the British. “Now, what has happened since Ireland joined sending repairmen into dangerous neighborhoods You know how it is with the Irish, the wakes are the economic community,” continues Anne, “is at late hours. “A lot of our workers were young happy, the songs sad. that they’ve started up all kinds of culinary arts men with families, and look at what happened to “There was a habit with the Irish men while schools in Ireland, and they’re sending students the poor man delivering pizza.” they’re dancing,” says Anne. “The man’s hand abroad to study cooking in Spain, Africa, Switzer- “That’s the problem with not having the death may start out high on a girl’s back, but as the dance land and France, and some of the best meals you penalty,” interjects Anne. “They really should be went on, the hand would drop lower because, I get in Europe today, you get in Ireland.” strung up immediately, because they’re no good guess, it’s easier for the man to steer with the hand When it comes to defending the Irish and blast- to God or man.” down there, lower, isn’t it?” ing the British, the two women are like a tag-team If Tom could see his family today, he would take Alcohol was not served at the dances, although in a wrestling match. When one is out of breath, pride in the degrees his children earned, Anne from it was available at taverns within a block and the other takes over. Smith and Boston University Law School, Thomas sometimes on the first floor, where the Irish lads “About the famine,” says Anne, “the blight was from Suffolk and John from Boston College. would retreat for a pint and sometimes two. “Some on the potato not only in Ireland, but throughout He would take pleasure in scholarships in the would get a bit too much to drink,” says Peg, “and Europe, but you never heard of a famine in Italy or family name at the University of Massachusetts the police would come and take them up to the France or Germany, and why? There was no more and Thayer Academy. He would be pleased to see station. So Tom’s job, at the end of many nights, of a famine in Ireland than there was anywhere his daughter as head of her own acupuncture com- was to go to the police station and get them out, else in Europe. The problem was that the British pany on Broad Street in Boston and as president of so they wouldn’t have a record. But he was like were shipping food from Ireland to England. They the family business, alongside her brothers, both that, a very good man who did a lot of things for emptied their jails and put the prisoners in uniforms vice presidents. He would beam to know he has a lot of people.” to guard the routes to get the food from farms to seven grandchildren, six boys and a girl: Thomas “Oh, another quality about the Irish people,” ports for shipment out of Ireland. The Irish who III, Martin, Emmett, Grace, John Michael, James says Peg, “is their love of education.” could leave, left, and the others starved. And the Patrick, and Hugh Emmett, the “Hugh” inspired Asked about the cultural identity of the Irish Irish people who attacked the convoys were shot. by a daughter-in-law wife in memory of the Irish as heavy drinkers, both women mount a defense. The Irish couldn’t fish, either, because there was patriot, Hugh O’Neill, who led a resistance against “Well, in early Ireland, the main entertainment no wood to build boats. The British had denuded the British in the 16th Century. for men was to go to a pub. Now, the thing is – I the forests to build ships for themselves in Belfast. “When he was 16, John told me he was going to was a nurse educator – and there is a gene that’s The British wanted to take over the island, and marry an Irish girl,” says Peg, “and I almost fell in the Japanese, in American Indians, and in the this was a deliberate genocide of the Irish people.” over. I said, ‘Well, John, why would you marry Irish, so that they cannot metabolize the sugar in “We called it Gorta Mor,” says Peg, “the Great an Irish girl?’ And he said, ‘Because they have alcohol. So you find with the Irish that after two Hunger. more sense than the Americans.’ And do you know drinks, they look like they’ve had 10, and they’re In a 90-minute interview, only one question what? He ended up marrying a girl from Ireland, falling all over the place. And it’s toxic to the stymies the two women: What are the weaknesses from Kilkenny, and she’s very beautiful. brain. Well, in the old days, they didn’t know this, of the Irish people? “Tom was good to employees and good to ten- because this is a development of the past 10 years. They both hesitate. The silence is broken by ants and good to family,” says Anne, “and Peg has “And then, when the Irish would take animals Anne. “Weaknesses?” she says. “I never really continued the tradition, and every year she caters to the fair, it was customary that every time you thought about it. I guess they’re the same as any a pool party with an Irish band for all the tenants sold an animal, you took the buyer into a pub and other group.” She thinks hard, then repeats the word and their families. The company has been very bought him a drink, and a drink for yourself, while … “negatives” … then answers the query with a generous to an awful lot of people. It runs ads in you’re at it, to wish him luck. So, if you sell a lot of question in a tentative voice. “Maybe jealousies?” the Irish Reporter, and it’s generous to the church, animals, it was easy to get very drunk, you know.” and to the Irish Cultural Centre. She’s generous in But what of the folklore of the Irish appetite giving scholarships and donations to her college, for drinking? hospitals, her schools, hospitals, including the “The Irish have no more appetite for alcohol University of Massachusetts. By every measure, than anyone else,” says Anne. “The French with Peg Geraghty is a good woman.” wine and the Germans with beer drink every bit as On your way to the door, Anne recalls another much, but they don’t have the gene that shows it.” ballad sung at Hibernian dances. “It was about And while we’re on the negatives, what of the Kevin Barry,” she says, referring to the 18-year-old reputation that the Irish lack of imagination in rugby player hanged in 1920 for IRA activism, and cooking? to jog the memory of her guest, she sings a chorus: “Well, Ireland is not France,” says Anne. “Shoot me like an Irish soldier … Do not hang “And Irish women didn’t have the backround to me like a dog … For I fought to free old Ireland learn good cooking,” says Peg, “and they didn’t … On that still September morn.” have the equipment, like refrigeration. 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Having grown up in Dorchester in the ‘30s and ‘40s, in the Irish enclave of Lower Mills, he was schooled at St. Gregory’s, where it seemed that everybody was Irish. “Oh, there may have been an Italian or two,” he says, “but there were no Polish, no Blacks, no Asians, no Hispanics, and I grew up thinking I’m Irish and I guess everybody else is.” The nearest thing to an alien he encountered was the occasional Protestant. “I remember thinking that Protestants were strange, and although I wasn’t sure who they were, I knew they were not us.” One day when he was 12, Jack was walking along Washington Street, near what was then Newspaper Row, accompanied by his father, John B. Hynes, who, the son of immigrants from Galway and Cork, would serve three terms as mayor of Boston in the 1950s. “See that?” said his father, pointing to a store. “I remember not too long ago when there was a sign Jack Hynes and his namesake son, John B. Hynes III, an international real estate developer. in that window that said: Help Wanted – NINA.” Photo by Bill Brett. Jack asked what NINA meant, and his father He landed a job at the Boston & Albany Railroad journalism, and his stories sparkle with references answered sharply: “It means “No Irish Need Ap- and retired after 41 years with an ornate certificate to influential names. ply.’ ” Never having experienced prejudice, Jack for meritorious service. His son, John B. Hynes, “Jim Britt did play-by-play for the Braves and was incredulous. “You mean they wouldn’t hire born in 1898, became city clerk, and, in 1947, he Red Sox and anchored the 11 news during sum- Irish people?” “No,” said his father. “Absolutely filled in as mayor when James Michael Curley was mers, although he never bothered to report a story not.”For Jack Hynes, it was an early lesson in dis- imprisoned for mail fraud. As Thomas O’Connor or write a script. One night, he appeared on camera, crimination, and a warning that for the Irish, life writes in “Boston Irish: A Political History,” to not in tie and jacket, but in a white golf jersey. was more complicated than what he had known celebrate his return to City Hall, Curley arranged The managers were so furious you’d think he had at St. Gregory’s. for a brass band to play “Hail to the Chief,” and done the news naked. So, he was phased out, and *** he signed documents Hynes had courteously left in ’66, I started doing the news at 11.” From a corner table at Burger King just off for him. “I accomplished more in a day,” boasted Anchors were expected to cover news, too, and Route 6 in West Barnstable, you look up to see Curley, “than has been done in the five months of Jack’s partner was cameraman Jack Crowley, with an older gentleman walking across the room with my absence.” So irritated was Hynes that he ran whom he still socializes. “’I’d do the six, and we’d a small black coffee, and despite the passage of against Curley, defeating him in 1949, 1951 and cruise in his car with police and fire radios, and we years that have thinned and whitened his hair, and 1955. covered everything, the Boston Strangler, South despite the baseball cap and the white slacks and the Although Boston had been stagnant for years, Boston gang wars, great stuff. washed-out denim jacket with the collar up at the in a decade as mayor, Hynes presided over the “When ‘CVB moved to Needham, John Henning neck and the sleeves rolled up at the wrists, once opening of the Central Artery and Freedom Trail and I were co anchors. Our pictures on billboards he says hello in that familiar baritone, there’s no and establishment of the Boston Redevelopment said: ‘Henning and Hynes – That’s News.’ Ratings question that it’s Jack Hynes, who is every bit as Authority. He initiated a massive development that were high, and we owned the town till ‘72, when handsome and engaging at 81 as he was reporting, converted Back Bay rail yards into the Prudential [general manager] Bob Bennett called us in to say anchoring, and commenting on Boston television Center, a project that inspired decades of growth. they were making changes, that he had a problem for a half century, 1956 to 2006. From St. Gregory’s, his son Jack went to Boston with two white males, and that other stations were Do not assume that, in retirement, his interest College High School, considered by Jesuits to be going with male-female anchor desks. So, they split in news has waned, for once the handshake and a step along a blessed road to another Jesuit insti- us up and put me on with Natalie Jacobson, who greetings are out of the way, Hynes opens the tution, preferably Boston College or Holy Cross. was just a writer, but suddenly, she’s a co-anchor conversation with news that Tom Brady was in Jack opted for Notre Dame while fearing the wrath … Henning and I used to kid about the fact that automobile accident four hours earlier, and Hynes of the Jesuits. we had this great thing going, and they came in delivers the report with the detail and dispassion “The rector at BC High in the South End was and screwed it up.” that brought him respect as a newscaster. He names Father “Gus” Keane, and he’d be at the head of the To avoid night work, Hynes opted to anchor the intersection in the Back Bay where the acci- stairs, greeting boys, and asking seniors whether morning news, but in getting up at 3:30 a.m., he dent occurred, outlines which car was heading in they’d be going to BC or Holy Cross. One morn- was always exhausted. After 26 years at WCVB, what direction, recites the reports by eyewitnesses, ing, standing like a drill sergeant, he said to me: he moved to WLVI when that station inaugurated mentions where Gisele Bundchen was at the time, ‘So, Hynes, are you going, to BC or Holy Cross?” a 10 o’clock newscast and accepted the anchor job describes the extrication of one passenger from a I said, ‘Father, I’m going to Notre Dame.’ Well if without knowing the salary. “I’m so [expletive] battered car, and even speculates about what Pa- I had said Southern Methodist, he couldn’t have tired,” he told the manager, “I don’t care what triots Coach Bill Belichick might say at his press been more shocked. He turned around, walked off you pay me.” conference. “Brady wasn’t hurt,” Hynes concludes. and never spoke to me again. That’s part Irish, but As decades rolled by, the newsroom changed. “Maybe all that hair cushioned the blow.” it’s the Jesuit thing, too. I was leaving the fold.” “The people around me got younger and younger, Attending the Irish Reporter luncheon will be After Notre Dame and a hitch in the Marine and I could relate less and less to them. The clincher two sons, John B. III of Back Bay, a real estate Corps, Jack returned to work at a Notre Dame came at Channel 56. We had a producer, a college developer, Barry of South Boston, a real estate station, first radio, then television.S potting a help- graduate who had worked in TV for three years. broker; two daughters, Kelly McDermott of Med- wanted ad in Broadcast magazine, he recognized One night I alerted her that the next day was Dec. field, a fashion consultant, and Shauna Baler of a Boston telephone number, applied, and in 1956, 7, and that we should have the morning guy line up Dennis, a housewife, along with several of his 10 came home to Boston to work at WBZ radio with an interview with somebody who’d been at Pearl grandchildren, ages seven to 29. His wife of 41 Arch MacDonald, Streeter Stuart, and Art Amadon. Harbor. Honest to God, she said, ‘Pearl Harbor? years, Marie, died in 1998. Thanks to his experience at Notre Dame, when When was that?’ I said, ‘Right after the Battle of Between 1845 and 1850, more than a million WBZ introduced a weekend newscast, Jack won Gettysburg.’ She said, ‘Oh, yeah.’ I said, ‘You’ve people starved to death in Ireland, and more than the audition. “My competitors were radio guys got it confused with Pearl Jam, which is a rock a million fled Ireland, 100,000 of them arriving used to broadcasting with a hand cupped to the group.’ I knew then it was time for me to go, and in Boston to compassion and repugnance. Among ear, not in tie and jacket in front of a camera.” In after that, I just did weekends and commentaries.” those emigrating from Ireland in the mid-1800s 1957, he moved to what is now WCVB. As he watches the news today, Jack Hynes is was a 16-year-old boy named Bernard John Hynes, His conversation is an oral history of Boston like an old boxer, bobbing and weaving, wanting whose progeny would alter the history of Boston. Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com November 2010 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 17

The Boston Irish Honors 2010 to be back in the ring. “It annoys the hell out of me when they leave out salient facts. A month ago, I was watching NECN, and there’d been a boat fire. So, this gal anchor says: ‘A boat accident off Cape Cod saw the Coast Guard take seven people out of the water.’ Now, saying it was off Cape Cod is like saying it was off Maine. Where off Cape Cod? Hyannis? Nantucket? The who, what, when, where thing apparently is out of date.” His anger is roused by imprecations against the Irish, especially clichéd jokes about Leprechauns, drinking, and references to Notre Dame as the Fighting Irish. “God sakes, they still promote the fact that we’re the fighting Irish? Why does that endure? The odd thing is that people who made Notre Dame football were not Irish. Rockne was a Lutheran, for God’s sake. There may have been four or five Irishmen, but the rest were Polish, Lithuanian, and so forth. They were Catholic, and assumed to be Irish, and then ‘fighting’ was added in a derogatory way, the fighting Irish were Thomas J. Hynes, Jr., president Meredith & Drew, a real estate firm involved in sales, leasing, the dirty Irish.” and consulting. Bill Brett photo. After the emigration of the Hynes family from His conversation sparkles with anecdotes about fly-fishing. My father flew to New York several Ireland, the migration of the Hynes family from cops, firemen, gangsters, reprobates, scalawags times to negotiate with Prudential people, offering Boston was a familiar path from South Boston to and neer-do-wells, and the little known saga of tax breaks, but it wasn’t easy because there was Dorchester to Hingham and then to Chatham, where how Carney Hospital was built in Dorchester is opposition from First National Bank of Boston, he lives now. “It wasn’t an the Irish thing. It was an example. which urged clients not to invest in Boston. getting of congestion in the city, and the whole “When the Carney was in South Boston, it was He ends with an anecdote that reflects infighting suburban deal, your own place, a lawn to cut, the falling apart, and so, Cardinal Cushing called my among the Irish. beach and nobody living above you or below you.” father, when he was mayor, and asked if my father “My father worked hard on the Prudential project, Hingham proved to be as Yankee as South Boston could find some land in the city that could be used but by the time it was dedicated, he was no longer is Irish. “A pastor in Hingham told me that years to build a new Carney. My father said, ‘I got just mayor. A few days before the dedication, the head ago, when the Irish were fleeing to this country, a the space … we’ll carve off a piece of Dorchester of Prudential called my father and said he was boat with a dozen or more Irish immigrants hit a Park, and you can use that for the hospital.’ Try to looking forward to seeing my dad and wanted to shoal, and sank, and bodies were washing ashore get away with this today. You’d be indicted. But ensure they sat together. My father said, ‘Well, I in Hingham. So, what does Hingham do? They there wasn’t a whisper of complaint because no don’t know how to tell you this, but I didn’t get an bring horses and wagons down and put the bodies one knew anything about it.” invitation. [Mayor John F.] Collins didn’t invite on, but they wouldn’t allow them burial in Hing- Although the Irish were prospering politically by me.’ The head of Prudential was shocked, and he ham. Oh, no, they trucked them off to Weymouth the Fifties, the Yankees controlled Boston’s money told my father: ‘You come to the dedication and or someplace. It was ‘Get the Irish outta here.’” because they ran banks, law firms, newspapers, you sit next to me.’ “ Hynes is a member of Chatham’s Holy Redeemer and insurance companies. “The Irish ran service The assumption is that Collins did not want to parish, but his faith was shaken by the sex scandal, industries, clean-up crews, cops, firemen, teachers. share the limelight with his Hynes. “It’s odd because “The church keeps running out of feet to shoot “When my father was working on the Prudential when my father decided not to run for a fourth itself in. I now call myself an American Catholic, deal, on the dining room table at home, he’d spread term, he endorsed Collins. My father resigned because – what are we doing with Rome, anyway? out plans and describe how the rail yards would because – unlike the current mayor – he felt that I don’t think the Pope is infallible. I don’t think go, along with and Mechanics Hall, where they being mayor is not a lifetime job.” he ever was.” held the Sportsmen’s Show, with Ted Williams Tracking the Hyneses from 1885 In 1885, two teen-agers named Hynes, Bernard apartment on East Lenox Street in the South End residing in Dorchester. All the while he and his and his brother Tom, left the town of Loughrea in and marrying Anna Healy with whom he had five wife Marion were raising their five children, Jack, County Galway and landed in Boston where their children – Tom, John B., Mary, Jimmy, and Joe – Marie, Barry, Nancy, and Richard. descendants would make their marks prominently before his wife died in 1905. Tom and his wife Eleanor set up shop in West as the 20th Century played out. In a time when it still wasn’t easy for an Irish- Roxbury where their children John B., Ann, Tom, In time, Barney got a job with the Boston & Al- American to get a promising job in the private Kevin, and David grew up. bany Railroad (and stayed there 41 years) and Tom sector, a time, too, when an Irish family’s duty was Barney’s and Ann’s grandchildren and great- went to Harvard – as a groundskeeper, where his to make sure the boys were set up first,T om, John, children have spread their wings and carried the earnings allowed him eventually to buy a rooming and Joe found positions in civil service, at City Hynes name to prominence in military service, house on Massachusetts Avenue. Soon enough he Hall, the Parks department, and the court system. politics, real estate, and the media. All of which had the wherewithal to return to Loughrea, where It was John B. who achieved the highest in the is a long way from life in a tenement in Boston’s he bought a farm and a pub. civic realm, serving as Boston City Clerk and South End 115 years ago. But Barney stayed put, settling into a tenement then as mayor of Boston from 1950 to 1959 while BOSTON by Mayor John B. Hynes (circa 1950) DON’T YOU LOVE THIS CITY BY THE OPEN SEA, DON’T YOU LOVE THIS CITY WITH THE WIND’S IN THE EAST, DON’T YOU LOVE THIS CITY WHERE ROOTS GO DEEP, THIS CITY THAT MOTHERED THE HOME OF THE FREE? AND THE SMELL OF THE DEEP IS THE FREE MAN’S FEAST? IN THE SOIL OF THE LAND WHERE THE MARTYRS SLEEP? DON’T YOU LOVE THIS CITY WITH ITS WRINKLED BROW, DON’T YOU LOVE THIS CITY WITH ITS GALES AND SNOW, DON’T YOU LOVE THIS CITY BORN OF STRUGGLE AND STRIFE, AND ITS STREETS LAID OUT BY THE WANDERING COW? WITH ITS SUMMER WARMTH AND ITS AUTUMN GLOW? WHERE THE FALSE IS INTERRED AND TRUTH GIVEN LIFE? DON’T YOU LOVE THIS CITY WITH ITS SPIRES AND DOMES, DON’T YOU LOVE THIS CITY WHEN IT’S TREES SO BARE, DON’T YOU LOVE THIS CITY AND ITS GRAND OLD NAME, WITH ITS GILDED CROSSES AND ITS GODLY HOMES? ARE LACED IN BLOSSOMS FRAGRANT AND FAIR? THAT SWELLS THE HEART AS WE THINK OF ITS FAME? DON’T YOU LOVE THIS CITY WITH ITS CUSTOMS OLD, DON’T YOU LOVE THIS CITY WHERE KNOWLEDGE WAITS, DON’T YOU LOVE THIS CITY WHEREVER YOU ROAM, AND IT’S WISDOM TO KNOW THE DROSS FROM THE GOLD? FOR THOSE WHO WALK THROUGH ITS LIBRARY GATES? AND WHO IS NOT PROUD TO CALL IT HOME? DON’T YOU LOVE THIS CITY AND ITS BUNKER HILL, DON’T YOU LOVE THIS CITY AND THE THINGS WE PRIZE, FOR BOSTON IS BOSTON AND FOREVER SHE’LL STAND, AND IT’S AGE-OLD SHRINES OF GLORIOUS THRILL? THE PREACHER DAUNTLESS AND THE SCHOLAR WISE? A TOWER OF TRUTH IN A TRUTH-LOVING LAND. DON’T YOU LOVE THIS CITY, THE OLD AND THE NEW, DON’T YOU LOVE THIS CITY WHERE ART IS LONG, FOREVER SHE’LL STAND FOR ALL THAT IS JUST, WITH ITS GRIP ON THE THINGS THAT ARE LASTING AND TRUE? WITH ITS PRINCIPLES TRUE AND ITS FAITH SO STRONG? ‘TIL THE WORLD IS NO MORE AND ALL IS DUST. DON’T YOU LOVE THIS CITY WITH ITS AIR OF GRACE, DON’T YOU LOVE THIS CITY WHERE THE FLEETING YEARS, SO LOVE OLD BOSTON FROM HER HEAD TO HER TOES IT’S DELIGHT WITH BEAUTY AND DISGUST WITH THE BASE? HAVE LEFT A TRAIL THAT HEARTENS AND CHEERS? BE ONE OF HER GALLANTS, BE ONE OF HER BEAUX. DON’T YOU LOVE THIS CITY WHEN THE SHADOWS FALL, DON’T YOU LOVE THIS CITY WHERE THE COLOR BAN, BE ONE WHO WILL SHOUT IN TONES FIRM AND CLEAR, AND THE BIRDS WING HOME TO THE COMMON MALL? HAS LONG SINCE VANISHED LIKE THE SCHOOL RATTAN? SHE IS THE MOST GRACIOUS DAMSEL IN THE WHOLE HEMISPHERE. DON’T YOU LOVE THIS CITY WHEN THE DAWNING SUN, DON’T YOU LOVE THIS CITY WITH ITS MINGLED STRAINS, BURST FROM THE SEA WHERE THE CODFISH RUN? WHERE MEN ARE EQUAL AND WHERE HARMONY REIGNS? Page 18 November 2010 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com November 2010 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 19 Solas Awards to US Rep. Neal, Immigration Q & A Wainwright Bank’s Glassman Immigration By Isaac Ross Glassman. both a social entrepreneur The Awards dinner will Special to the BIR Richard Neal has served and civic leader. In 1984, host more than 500 at- Application For the last 17 years, in the House of Represen- he established the Glass- tendees. Registration will the Irish Immigration tatives since 1989 and is man Fellowship Fund at begin at 5:30 p.m., followed Center has hosted a dinner a ranking member of the Harvard Business School, by a dinner at 6:30. Guests Fees Change honoring leaders in our Ways and Means Commit- which provides inner city will have the opportunity community by recogniz- tee. He has been a proven public school students with to hear from each of our ing them with the Solas advocate for Irish concerns scholarship assistance. He distinguished award re- This Month Award, which takes its throughout his career, has also been an outspoken cipients. Tickets are $200. name from the Gaelic word participating in the peace advocate for bettering the Proceeds from the event Q. I have heard that the government’s fees for im- for “light.” The award process in Northern Ire- lives of immigrants. will allow the Irish Im- migration applications are going up again. Is this true, acknowledges the work of land and serving as Chair- This year, the Irish migration Center to con- and, if so, when do the new fees go into effect? those who strive to raise man of the Congressional Immigration Center is tinue offering high qual- the marginalized in our Friends of Ireland. He has pleased to introduce the ity services to Boston’s A. Yes, US Citizenship and Immigration Services society up out of the shad- been named as one of the Humanitarian Leadership immigrant community has announced that a new application fee schedule will ows. Past recipients have top 100 Irish Americans Award, which will be pre- including educational out- go into effect later this month, on Nov. 23. included the late Senator by Irish American maga- sented to two exceptional reach, job fairs, substance Most fees are going up. For example, the fee for Form Edward Kennedy, former zine and has received the people who have contrib- abuse counseling, and legal I-130, Petition for Alien Relative, will go from $355 to President Bill Clinton, and International Leadership uted significantly to the services. $420, and Form I-485, the application to adjust status Ireland President Mary Award from the American recovery work in Haiti. To learn about the ben- to permanent residence, increases from $930 to $985 McAleese. Ireland Fund. They are Sabine St. Lot, efits of becoming a sponsor (not including biometrics fees, which will increase from This year, the Solas Robert Glassman is co- Vice President of Business and how your contribution $80 to $85). On the other hand, the fee for Form N-400, Awards Dinner, scheduled founder and co-chairman Diversity at State Street can help the Irish Im- Application for Naturalization, remains the same at for Dec. 10 at the Boston of Wainwright Bank, a Corporation, and Marie migration Center, please $595 (also not including required biometrics fees). And Seaport Hotel, will honor company committed to St. Fleur, Director of In- contact Kathy Whelan- the fee for Form I-539, Application to Extend/Change two outstanding indi- social justice. He has tergovernmental Relations Giordano at 617-695-1554 Nonimmigrant Status, actually will be reduced from viduals, US Congressman been personally engaged for Boston Mayor Thomas or at kgiordano@iicenter. $300 to $290. Overall, most fees will be increasing Richard Neal and Robert in a number of efforts as Menino. org. around 10 percent-20 percent. Note that the new fees will apply to forms submit- ted on or after November 23. Applications submitted Matters Of Substance before that date will be subject to the current fees, no matter when the government takes action on the case. The Irish Immigration Center has put on its website Recovery: A Story of Thanksgiving a link to the full schedule of fee changes on uscis.gov. You can have a free, confidential consultation on this By Danielle Owen laughed it off saying that chaos with which we used sible. The Irish Immigra- or any other aspect of immigration law by visiting one “I never really thought everyone does things like to live in our house. I feel tion Center’s Community of the IIC’s weekly legal clinics. I was drinking too much. that – it’s normal. like I’m getting more out of Counseling and Education Disclaimer: These articles are published to inform All my friends drank the I felt it wasn’t normal life now and am amazed, Services offers counseling, generally, not to advise in individual cases. Areas of same and joked about and eventually… it took a too, at how much money free health clinics, job law are rapidly changing. US Citizenship and Im- the daft things we did. It while... I got some help. I I have because I’m not skill workshops, and other migration Services and the US Department of State wasn’t a good night if we tried to control it, but in the spending it out partying. resources to Irish immi- regularly amend regulations and alter processing and could remember it! One end, I had to stop drinking. There are days when I grants. Director Danielle filing procedures. 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It’s ludicrous the most eminent Irish music camps – such as to approach traditional fiddlers of the past two California’s Valley of the music as virtuosity. You decades. Surely it would Moon – that have sprang play the tunes too fast, be like departing a ban- up over the past decade. you lose the beauty.” quet after eating a few “I would describe Mar- The fact that a place hors d’oeuvres, or leaving tin as one of the deepest like Berklee, hitherto an Oscar-winning movie musicians in any idiom,” more famous for turning once the opening titles says Matt Glaser, artis- out classical, jazz, and had concluded. tic director of Berklee’s pop musicians, has now That’s more or less what American Roots Music become a wellspring for Berklee College of Music Program and a renowned traditional and roots student Emilio Arredondo fiddler himself. “He’s in music is tremendously thought would happen the mold of the great in- exciting for Hayes, who when he got together troverted poet, in that he sees this development as recently with Martin talks about the avowedly part of the overall growth HayHayes, who has lived spiritual intent of his in popularity Irish music in Hartford for five years, art. This is what makes has enjoyed in the past is known to most people him a great teacher as couple of decades. Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill in concert last month at Berklee College. as the master fiddler from well as a great musician. “It’s great to see the mu- Says Hayes of his long-time accompanist: “We’re very different. Dennis is an East Clare who has taken One student told me sic moving forward, and analytical, logical kind of thinker, and I’m entirely governed by feeling and the lyrical, slower-paced that Martin said to him, being accepted in a wider emotion. He fills the gaps.” playing style of his native ‘Don’t use your melody to part of the world,” says region and turned it into glorify your playing; use the soft-spoken Hayes. one genre in mind. They something to think about importance of melody but not only an art form but your playing to glorify the “To be sure, there’s some- might know a little of the as they continue their also the continual push- also a meditation on the melody.’ thing different going on Irish, but they’ve also exploration, a philosophy pull between tradition and primacy of melody in Irish “For Martin, the melody here: Most of these young explored, say, Scottish for playing the music that innovation in Irish music. music. In addition, he has is a deeply wonderful people at Berklee, or New or Cape Breton styles, or hopefully they can take to He, along with his long- cultivated a reputation thing you should revere,” England Conservatory, Appalachian, or bluegrass, heart.” time accompanist, guitar- as a teacher and men- adds Glaser. “He talks or the fiddle camps, don’t perhaps even some jazz. Hayes’s philosophy en- ist/mandolinist Dennis Ca- tor, especially to young about the ‘old guys’ who come to the music with So you have to give them compasses not only the (Continued on page 23) LEIGH BARRETT – Having A Dickens Of A Time at Lyric Stage By R. J. Donovan 19. While each part may by a sadistic headmaster. your eyes open) including observing other actors and I really love that. I Special to The BIR be attended individually Nicholas escapes, tak- Miss LaCreevy, an art- on stage, hanging out in think we need that right Lyric Stage Company of on different days, Lyric ing with him an orphan ist who runs a boarding the background and sort now. What struck me [in Boston is in the midst of is offering five “marathon named Smike, one of house in London. We spoke of looking on. The narra- the story] was borrowing tackling the biggest proj- days” when both Parts the school’s most abused just before the production tion has been a big focus. money to live beyond your ect in its 37-year history I and II are performed, young charges. The two opened. Here’s an edited (It’s) active storytelling means, and how cavalier – Charles Dickens’ s “The afternoon and evening, then embark on a series look at our conversation. to pull the audience into we all are about it – even Life And Adventures of with a dinner break in of adventures and interact BIR: So this is a fairly that world . . . It can be a then – until it breaks you. Nicholas Nickleby: Parts between. with an array of Dickens’s massive undertaking for little tricky, so we spent a And what do you do when I and II.” In the classic Victorian most colorful characters you all. good deal of time working it [does] breaks you? The Dickensian frenzy tale, young Nicholas Nick- as Nicholas tries to put LB: Fairly massive on that. BIR: His overall theme of heroes, villains, ec- leby, left penniless after his life and family back would be correct. BIR: Dickens was very of social injustice speaks centrics, and men of good the death of his father, together. BIR: The premise is specific in his intent for to our own time very heart calls for two dozen assumes responsibility A familiar face onstage that you are a company these characters, wasn’t strongly. actors playing more than for his mother and sister. at Lyric is Leigh Barrett, of actors presenting the he? LB: Absolutely. It’s still 150 roles spread out over He seeks help from his one of Boston’s busiest story of Nicholas Nickleby. LB: They aren’t your a very timely piece and I two full productions. Lyr- antagonistic uncle, who and most popular tal- And the actors often speak typical characters. When think it’s very appropriate ic is presenting the two hates Nicholas and sends ents. She plays three directly to the audience as you’re bad you’re just re- to be doing it right now. part epic in rotating rep- him off to teach in a hor- characters in the show they tell the story. ally, really bad. And when You think of the haves and ertory through December rific school for boys run (perhaps four if you keep LB: The [production you’re good, you’re really, the have-nots. It’s very style itself] has sort of really good. There’s very distinct, even now. become known as the little middle ground. He BIR: So whom did you ‘Nicholas Nickleby Theat- really wanted it, I think, play? rical Presentation’ – any to be a very clear mes- LB: I, like many of the County Donegal Association time you do a piece where sage to people. And I do company, play several dif- actors are on stage nar- think that people get that. ferent characters. I play is of Greater Boston rating their own actions, But he ends it with hope, (Continued on page 23) Honoring the 2010 Boston GAA Senior Football Champs EIRE Donegal Football Club pub November 6, 2010 Florian Hall 795 Adams St. • Dorchester Hallet Street, Dorchester, MA “President’s Choice” Dinner 7:15 p.m. Music by Erin’s Melody Serving Lunch & Dinner Tickets: JP Doherty, dinner chairman Phone 617-825-8769 Kathleen Callahan, president 617-623-3566 Every day, Or any officer Tickets $40.00 7 days a week Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com November 2010 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 21 usic the approach there’s no questioning Hart’s devotion to times by fiddlers Kevin Burke BIR M it. His versions of “As I Roved Out,” “The Lily of Tyrone” (yes, of Bothy Band fame) and and “Farewell to Nova Scotia” are classic raise-the- Brongaene Griffin, pianist Teresa roof affairs. Still, there’s a noticeable difference when Baker, multi-instrumentalists CD Review Hart sings his own English-language compositions, Mick Mulcrone and Quentin “You Can’t Leave Netcong After Seven” and “Their Cooper, and harpist Elizabeth By Sean Smith Sons Know Only Beer”: His natural, unadorned voice Nicholson, among others. Special to the BIR is perfectly fine, which might provoke the question, Possumato’s instrumental “Why doesn’t he use it more often?” sets draw upon both tried-and- Liam Hart, “Far From The Gaelic songs are lovely, and lovingly done, true traditional Irish material – like “Mulqueen’s” Home” – Anyone who has seen notably “An Cailin Alainn,” on which he’s joined on (titled “Kenny’s Favourite” here), “Boys of Tandragee,” or heard Liam Hart, whether in harmony vocals by Melissa Foley, and “Deaorai Thir “Tailor’s Thimble” and “Miss Langford’s”– and more concert or at sessions he co-leads an Fhia,” his rendition of a song by Tom a’ tSeoige latter-day compositions by Billy McComiskey (“The at Tommy Doyle’s in Harvard about Lettermullan Island — a sample of what Hart Controversial”), Vincent Broderick (“The Haunted Square, knows that he is one calls “Connemara Country Music,” and accessible even House”) and Junior Crehan (“The Little Stack of passionate guy when it comes to to non-Gaelic speakers. Oats”), to name a few, that fall readily into the ceili Irish music. And if the purpose Hart plays a mean Irish flute, too, as he shows on band bailiwick. But he’s not above going beyond the of a recording is to capture as the album’s instrumental tracks, some of which were genre, such as pairing a Jerry Holland tune with a much of the performer’s essence recorded live. His accompanists, including Sean Con- reel by Scottish pianist/accordionist Ronnie Cooper, and presence as possible, then “Far From Home” cer- nor (fiddle), Martin Butler (bodhran), Phil Harwood or a Breton dance tune with an Irish jig. tainly succeeds, because Hart’s passion fairly pours (mandolin) and Emerald Rae (baritone ukelele) serve Keeping with the informal, just-folks character of out of the speakers (or earphones, depending on one’s him very well throughout. the CD, Possumato cedes the spotlight for songs per- listening preference). formed by Mulcrone, who does a pleasant enough turn A New Jersey native who moved to Massachusetts Dan Possumato, “Pulling Out the Stops” – Dan on “Boys of Mullaghbawn,” “Welcome Paddy Home” several years ago, Hart has amassed an impressive Possumato is a well-traveled musician: The Pittsburgh and a refreshingly upbeat, roadhouse-style rendition collection of honors for his singing, in English as well native has had stays of varying duration in Germany, of “Hard Times Come Again No More.” (The other as in Irish. He also pens some of his own material, in Ireland, Alaska, and now, Portland, Ore. Along the song is a hushed a cappella “Molly Brannigan,” sung both languages -- his “Amhran Shandyston Mheiricea” way, he has taught himself to play one-row melodeon by Gerard McDonnell, a friend of Possumato’s who (which may be the first Gaelic song to pay tribute to in the push-and-draw style that evokes traditional play- died two years ago.) northern New Jersey) won second place in the New ers from past generations; he has drawn comparisons “Pulling Out the Stops” by and large achieves that Composed Song category of the 2007 Fleadh Ceoil na with the likes of Bobby Gardner and John J. Kimmel. tricky balance between polish and plain, creating a hEireann. “Pulling Out the Stops,” Possumato’s second CD, charmingly uncluttered, unhurried sound. Possumato Hart affects the full-on, dramatic Irish ballad style is full of amiable, down-to-earth musicianship that is not out to dazzle or awe, just to share a little of the (and the accent as well) for much of his singing, accom- genuinely fulfills the “sounds more like friends playing music and spirit he’s found, wherever he’s called home. panying himself on guitar, and whatever one thinks of together than an album” adage. He’s joined at various “Kisses,” a Film Directed by Lance Daly operator, a stranger who may be Bob Pre-teens Dylan and Kylie escape from Dylan, and a prostitute whose little bit their bleak, lifeless Dublin neighborhood of folk wisdom explains the significance to search for the boy’s older brother, who of the film’s title – the world at large is fled home two years earlier after being shown to be an unsettling, quite danger- overwhelmed by the chaotic, miserable ous place. The kids’ hold on childhood family life that has now pushed Dylan to innocence is tenuous as it is, and so they the breaking point. Kylie is, if anything, seem chillingly capable of developing more resolute than Dylan about leaving a tough, profane, emotional/spiritual her home – and, as is revealed later, has exoskeleton to help them navigate these a very good reason. potentially deadly waters. This 2008 feature, which made its The two young leads, Shane Curry and way to the US this year, filters the Kelly O’Neill, are generally equal to the (very) young-love-on-the-run escapism task here, although at times they seem theme of 1970s films like “Melody” and to be merely declaiming or reciting the “A Little Romance” through the gritty dialogue. But the chemistry between Shane Curry and Kelly O’Neill portray two runaways who find more than they realism of “Ratcatcher,” with a touch of them feels genuine and believable, bargained for when they go out on their own in Dublin. Roddy Doylesque dark humor; you can especially in the scenes where they are even detect a “Wizard of Oz“ reference in able to be kids, impulse-buying at a mall, the film‘s use of color. But unlike those or frolicking in a deserted skating rink. earlier movies, there are few illusions And at the end, you’re relieved they have of salvation or fulfillment here: While each other, whether as friends or lovers Queen of the Mountain Dylan and Kylie do encounter random or both, because clearly they won’t have episodes of kindness on their journey much else. – with a friendly river-dredging boat -- SEAN SMITH The Legend of Arthur’s Seat

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And on the [adding with an English advice of a Broadway mu- accent] ‘She paints por- sic director who was the traits in miniature.’ More accompanist of my teacher out of love than out of when they were in school, business, she paints the he suggested that I come portraits. back home and get some There’s a beautiful de- more experience if musical scription in the text of how theater was what I wanted she wakes up very early to do. And I did. And every in the morning because time I’d start to head off the light drives her to to New York, something the studio to paint. And would happen. I met my she’s really driven by husband doing a summer that. She’s a very kind stock show. Then we got hearted friend, one of the married. And when we first friends – perhaps the were heading off to New first friend – the Nicklebys York again, I got pregnant make when they get to with my first son – Nicho- London. las, ironically – and so BIR: From Lyric to we stayed and I just kept SpeakEasy to Stoneham getting work after work to New Rep to benefits to after work. Ultimately concerts, you’ve become that’s what I want to do. I a mainstay on Boston’s just want to do good work with good people. stages. Plus, you’re a na- Kate Nickleby (Elizabeth Rimar) and her uncle Ralph (Will Lyman) engage Miss LaCreevy (Leigh Bar- tive, aren’t you? BIR: And you’ve been very busy. rett) for a miniature portrait in “The Life And Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby: Parts I and II” at Lyric LB: I’m originally Stage Company. Mark S. Howard photo from Wakefield. I sang LB: I’m very lucky. in school. I was a viola BIR: I’m also told you roborate that. [Laughs] I My grandmother’s last daughter when he was 88 repertory through De- player. It was always have an interesting an- just don’t know. They all name was MacDonald. years old. cember 19 at Lyric Stage music, music, music. I cestry. left [Ireland] en masse And my great, great, great BIR: That’s resourceful. Company of Boston, 140 went to college to major LB: Well, I do. My and came to Canada first, grandfather – maybe one LB: It’s just amazing, Clarendon Street. Tickets: in voice performance. grandfather’s last name in the Muncton area, and more great – on the Mac- [aughing] thereby making 617-585-5678 or lyric- BIR: Where was that? was Budd. His father started a railroad – The Donald side was a powder me, I guess, eligible to be stage.com. LB: Baldwin-Wal- was first generation Budd Railroad. And then boy in the Revolutionary a DAR. lace College & Conserva- Irish. They always told they slowly trickled down War. He married his R. J. Donovan is pub- tory in Ohio. And I got us that he and his broth- here to the South Shore second wife when he was “The Life And Adven- lisher of OnStageBoston. there because my best ers were pirates. I cannot and settled in Abington in his 80’s and had three tures of Nicholas Nickleby: com. friend was auditioning. refute that. I cannot cor- and Holbrook. daughters. He had his last Parts I and II,” in rotating For Master Fiddler Hayes: Tune is What Counts – Always (Continued from page 20) a multi-influenced jazz- It’s pretty well understood chords that tend more to terms of how many times past,” he says, “but I’m also hill, have become famous rock band called Midnight that when you go to a shift than change. I’ll play a tune, or how far aware of playing the music (and, in some quarters, Court. Hayes-Cahill concert, you At times, each man ap- we’ll push it, that’s the mu- now in the real world. To controversial) for their “It was a period of open- go to listen; hand-clapping pears to be entirely within sic of the moment. That’s me, first, it’s music; and “deconstruction” of tunes, ended exploration,” he and foot-stomping along to his own world, but then when the feeling comes in.” second, it’s Irish music. in sets that can go on for says. “I just felt I needed to the music by the audience there’s a definitive transi- And for Hayes, “the If you get it around the 10, 15 or 20 minutes, ven- break out of where I was, is virtually non-existent, tion, whether to another feeling” is a critical link other way, you get involved turing variations in tone go and see what else I could except perhaps during the tune or to a more upbeat to the tradition in which in other things, like the and intensity as well as do, and rejuvenate myself. finale or encore (in the case tempo (or both), and they his musical character was culture and the history. the notes themselves, and “And what happened of the Berklee concert, a lock into eye contact. It formed, and to which he And that’s fine, but for me with occasional excursions was, I came all the way sprightly “Foxhunter’s often seems to be a pretty still feels very much con- I value the connection to into improvisation. back to the tradition.” Reel”). There’s an invita- intense staring contest, nected. the spirit and intention of “If innovation wasn’t So Hayes returned to tion – not quite a demand but now and then they “I’m very conscious of the the music.” part of traditional music, his roots with a renewed – for you to pay attention to exchange a slight smile as we’d still be banging rocks love for the music he had the way Hayes unfolds the they navigate the remain- PUZZLE SOLUTION FROM PAGE 25 together,” asserts Hayes. known growing up, and melody, sometimes with der of the tune, and the set “The traditional music we with two other important full bow strokes, some- of which it is part. heard in, say, the 1960s elements. One was the times letting his fingering Which raises the obvious and 1970s was a departure idea of experimenting do more of the work. Cahill, question: How much of from the traditional music with music, exploring the who uses a nylon-string what they do is planned, of the 1920s and 1930s, components, and putting instead of a steel-string and how much is left to which was a departure it all back together. guitar, will subtly under- chance? “Well, we do have from the music that came The other was fellow line Hayes’s playing with the tunes laid out in an before it. The question is, Midnight Court member gentle arpeggios and with order,” says Hayes. “But in does the music express the Cahill, with whom Hayes fundamentals, the spirit, had formed a personal as of the tradition?” well as musical rapport. Hayes grew up im- “Dennis has delved into mersed in tradition: His so many different kinds father P.J. was a found- of music, and it was plain ing member of the Tulla to see he had a great way Ceili Band and his uncle of accompanying Irish Paddy Canny was a fiddle music,” says Hayes. “The Large Format Printing player of stature. Hayes thing is, we’re very differ- started playing at the age ent. Dennis is an analyti- Billboards • Banners cal, logical kind of thinker, of 7, going on to earn six 1022 Morrissey Boulevard, Dorchester All-Ireland championships and I’m entirely governed before he was 19; he also by feeling and emotion. He 617-282-2100 regularly appeared with fills the gaps.” the Tulla Ceili Band. That intellectual-emo- carrolladvertising.com But he went through a tional balancing act is period of what might be a major feature of their called deconstruction him- live performances, as one self. 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Kitchen and next door is DROMOLAND Dominick Kelly’s Butcher SPECIALS Shop, where we often Want to book a very spe- stop to buy the famous, cial holiday gift for some- award-winning flavored one special? Take a look sausage and black and at Dromoland Castle’s white pudding. offerings. Dromoland is So, we decided last near Shannon Airport in spring to find out for our- Newmarket-on-Fergus, selves just exactly where Co. Clare, and was built her grandfather had lived. in the 16th century. The We drove out the R311 property includes more to a sign for Drumgoney than 410 acres of parkland Lough, better known as and a championship golf “Leg of Mutton Lake,” course as well as a spa, turned down a country golf and country club and lane and saw several ru- many traditional outdoor ins but couldn’t find the recreational opportuni- ties. holiday home that might These ruins are all that remain today of Grace Kelly’s ancestral home outside Newport, Co. Mayo. have been built by Grace A post-Christmas three- and her prince. We finally night break includes ac- stopped a woman who was search out the roots of the commodation starting at leaving her house and she film star Princess go away 420 euro per adult. The directed us to the first ruin disappointed. package is available from we had seen on the way in. “It is several years now Dec. 27-30 and includes One exterior wall of since local county coun- a full Irish breakfast and Grace’s ancestral home is cillor Frank Chambers one night’s dinner for two. now part of a paddock for mooted the idea of turning For those who want to the cows that graze the the cottage and the Kelly ring in the New Year in greenest of fields between connection with Newport Ireland, Dromoland has the house and lake. One into a tourist attraction. three great New Year’s end of the house holds Few would quibble with Eve specials. For more up part of the fence that the idea. The story of the information, visit dromo- contains the small herd. emigrant Kelly whose landcollection.ie The ruins are nothing grandchildren won fame TRAVEL to see or photograph now, on the silver screen and It is “off-season” and you but there is still a certain as Olympic athletes was can find great fares and mystique about that pile of the stuff of the American offers from many airlines rocks and the surrounding dream. Surely that ances- that service the Emerald area. We wondered wheth- tral cottage could be made Isle. Try aerlingus.com er the Rainier family still a tourism Mecca for those for direct Boston-Shannon owns the land and ruins? who came back across the and Boston-Dublin service It seems that a local devel- Atlantic?” and look at other US car- This is the view of farmland and a lake that John Kelly would have seen riers that fly to Ireland. opment association asked Healy added that “for from his home in Drimurla, near Newport, Co. Mayo, before he emigrated to permission to erect a me- whatever reason, Frank Philadelphia in 1887. ( Judy Enright photos) For details about what’s morial to Princess Grace Chambers’s suggestion going on in Ireland this on the land at Drimurla was never acted on. The CROSS OF CONG the fragment - long since month, visit discoverire- For the uninitiated, land.com/us/ and Princess Caroline, her Kelly cottage is now well Grace debuted in the film The Cross of Cong re- lost. That shrine is the daughter, said the family on its way to disappear- cently returned to Mayo Cross of Cong.” If you’re older than 66, 14 Hours, in a minor sup- take a look at the free would donate the cottage ing into the undergrowth. porting role, starred in for first time in 170 years For further details for restoration as well as The last surviving signs of and is on display at the Na- about the exhibit, visit Golden Trekker pass, High Noon, and appeared which gives you free train surrounding lands if they what was truly a unique in Mogambo, which won tional Museum of Ireland museum.ie/en/exhibition/ received an acceptable story of emigration and – Country Life, Turlough cross-of-cong.aspx travel all over the Repub- her an Oscar nomination lic of Ireland. For details, proposal. That was more its aftermath is about to and a Golden Globe for Park, Castlebar. The museum also has than 15 years ago. be wiped from the land- An e-mail from the a well-stocked museum call Tourism Ireland at Best Supporting Actress. 1-800-SHAMROCK or MAYO NEWS scape. Only in Fr. Mattie She won the Golden Globe Museum of Country Life shop with books and hand- REPORT McNeely’s gentle photo- says that The Cross of crafted gifts as well as a visit the Discover Ireland and Oscar for Best Actress website at least 48 hours We read an October graphs will survive the in a Leading Role of 1954 Cong is one of Ireland’s café with seasonal meals 2007 Mayo News column family home of Princess greatest treasures. “It was and yummy freshly-baked prior to your arrival in for The Country Girl and Ireland. online called “County Grace of Monaco. a gold record for the song created in 1123 to encase treats. View,” in which John “Whether it is too late to “True Love” from the a fragment of the True Healy writes that a Cas- do something to retrieve movie High Society. Cross that was brought tlebar photo exhibit by the tumbledown structure Grace and Prince Rain- to Ireland and displayed Fr. Mattie McNeely (who and to make it into the ier had three children: in different places around LEARN – TO – SKATE CLASSES died in September, 2010) tourism magnet it could be Princess Caroline, Prince the country. The medieval RECREATIONAL • FIGURE • HOCKEY SKATING SKILLS included some images is another day’s work. It is Albert, and Princess Annals of Tigernach re- BAY STATE SKATING SCHOOL Brookline Cambridge of the Kelly’s ancestral hardly for want of funding, Stéphanie. If you hap- cord that Tairdelbach Ua CHILDREN (41/2 up) & ADULTS As Featured on “Chronicle” Everett home. but more for lack of will, pen to be in Monaco, be Chonchobair (Turlough Hyde Park/Dedham “Forty years ago,” Healy that it should be left the sure to visit the Princess O’Conor), king of Con- p Medford ign U Over Newton/Brighton wrote, “Princess Grace way it is. Or maybe, the nacht and high king of S ! 40 Ye Grace Irish Library, which Now ars! Peabody and her husband, Prince name of Grace Kelly, the opened in 1984 and is just Ireland, asked for part Quincy Somerville Rainier, visited the small Rainier royal family, and a short walk from the of the Cross to be kept in South Boston cottage which her grand- the emigrant success no palace. The library holds Ireland. On his instruc- 781-890-8480 Waltham father, John Bernard longer holds the interest conferences, symposia, tions, a shrine was made West Roxbury www.BayStateSkatingSchool.org Weymouth Kelly, left for a new life it once did.” and film screenings and in Roscommon to house in Philadelphia. It was a We will certainly do focuses on all things Irish. visit that captured the at- further research when Monaco also observes St. tention of the world media, we return to Mayo in the Patrick’s Day with special the visit of the fairy tale spring. events and performances. Phillips Candy House actress-turned princess to fine chocolates since 1925 the ancestral home. “In 1976, the Rainier family purchased the old cottage and adjoining lands and prepared to construct a 2,000 square foot holiday home on the Billy Higgins 617-201-6077 site. But all of the plans came to naught with the death of Princess Grace in a road accident in 1982. The dream died, too. “Apart from one brief visit by Grace’s son, Prince Albert, the link to the Kel- All donations lovingly accepted lys has been forgotten. The cottage is derelict, and the visitors who still come to southillchildrensfund.com Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com November 2010 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 25 The Irish Language by Philip Mac AnGhabhann Celtic

Here are some review questions. How do you ask, Cross “What time is it?” “Where are you from?” “Who is it?” Words “What is that/this?” “Whose boat is this?” The Irish

Answers: crosswords are Cén t-am é? Cad as duit? a service of an Cé atá ann? or Cé hé sin? Cén atá an sin/an seo? Ireland-based Cé leis an mbad seo? website which We have been learning the “Wh- words” for provides Irish several months now. Do you know that you can literally teach yourself a new language by master- Family Coats of ing just a few simple questions? This system was developed by two European linguists. Peace Corps Arms by email. found this out many years ago when Volunteers faced the problem of learning a local language in You are invited addition to the National Language which they had been taught. to visit The so-called “Wh- words” are “Who?” or www. “Whose?, What?, Where?, When?, Why?, “How?” and “How much/many?” So far In Irish you bigwood.com/ have learned a number of these, all begin with C-, pronounced /k/, but just as in English some heraldry require a secondary word or alteration to convey meaning as Cé? /keh/ “Who?” but Cé leis? /keh leysh/ “Whose?” ©-bigwood.com Some of the basic questions are these: IRELAND IN CROSSWORDS To find the name of an object: Cén atá an seo / an sin? ACROSS 4. American company is initially the third I article Alternatively, “What is the name of that/this?” 1. Loud reference to English city of ‘dreaming spires’ indefinitely. (1.1.1.) Cén t-ainm atá air? /ken TAN-uhm TAH air? in Mayo town known for its woollen industry. (7) 5. Revolutionary takes a note from 3 down. (3) 4. Con rang up the ancient Irish lake island fort. (7) 6. Northern Region leaders take in frozen water, that’s “Who is he/she?” Cé atá ann? Both of these 8. After tea apparently, that is to say, secure with more agreeable. (5) help you to identify some one or some thing, even cord. (3) 7. Tag ran when laundered in Donegal lake with a the “doer” of an action (verb). 9. Nine at odds with natural consequence. (6) modern Celtic Cross where St. Colmcille was born . (6) 11. Owned that one was a victim of a trick commonly. (3) 8. Thus force tour around Dublin’s centre of justice “What is/are he/she/you doing? This tells you 12. Mark took the cars out. (4) which was shelled during the Civil War. (3,4,6) the verb. 13. Lied about being unemployed. (4) 10. Mine turned over at the extreme end. (3) Céan atá ar bun aige/aici/agat? 15. Quantity of land in Clare acreage. (4) 14. Six grin about maiden in a Megastore on the quays /ken TAH ahr boon EH-guh, EH-kuh, Ah-gat/ 16. Reverberating mountain nymph heard in Ballymote in Dublin. (6) choral production. (4) 17. All can come over to Kilkenny town where O’Carroll “How?”, Cá? /kah/ or Cad? /kahd/ , will tell you 17. No chip cooked for the Polish piano man. (6) and 800 men were slain in 1408 by the English. (6) the manner in which something is done. 19. Get ball Gary, it’s over in the small Kilkenny town 18. Curt rites will suffice as a criticism. (9) where Black Thomas was captured in 1600. (11) 20. Dry liner crumbles in Fermanagh village on the You have already learned, “How much? Cá 22. There’s nothing in the hairdressers’ becoming a upper Lough Erne near Trasna Island. (8) mhéad + Noun in Genitive Form. bar. (6) 21. Embargo at this time in Wexford old town, the first “How many?” is Cá mhéad + Noun Singu- 23. Ale, we hear, one for the last road? (4) corporation town built by the Normans. (6) lar – Cá mhéad carr? “How many cars?” This 24. High feature in Glencar church. (4) 25. With a circular base tapering to a point in Kilcor- formation is different from English as it requires 27. Put together or back to back to fix firmly in the mac on ice. (5) a singular instead of a plural noun. ground. (4) 26. Irish third level educational institution seen initially 29. “ —— bean rows will I have there, a hive for the included in art colleges. (1.1.1.) “When?” is expressed in much the same way, Cá honey bee.” Yeats. (4) 28. Nordic city referred to in Portnoo slogan. (4) huair? /kah HOOR/, literally “What hour?” but 30. “What charm can soothe her melancholy What — 30. In time past in Buncrana golfing. (3) can refer to any time in the past or future. You can wash her guilt away?” Goldsmith (3) 31. “ — towns that we believe and die in; it survives, A can ask or will hear, Cén uair? /ken OOR/ which 32. Sound head needed in West Cork village by the River way of happening, a mouth.” W.H. Auden - In Memory will have the same meaning – but don’t forget to Ilen and Roaring Water Bay west of Skibbereen. (6) of W.B. Yeats. (3) separate the two vowels of Cá or Cé from uair, 33. Fun commonly describing a substance that is nei- the first with h- the second with –n. Cá huair? ther solid nor liquid. (3) CROSSWORD SOLUTION ON PAGE 23 or Cén uair? 34. Lamp burner not up much in Leinster county town on slopes of Ballyguile hill where Captain Halpin of Cá huair a tharla sé? /ken OOR uh HAR-luh the ‘Great Eastern’, which layed the transatlantic shey/ “When did it happen?” cables, was born. (7) Irish Sayings … Tharla is the past tense of tarlaigh, “to hap- 35. Lose way to green in Longford village near Bal- Theres no need to fear the wind if your haystacks are pen.” lymahon where Leo Casey, the balladeer lived. (7) tied down. A trout in the pot is better than a salmon in the sea. In English we can use many of the “Wh- words” DOWN It’s better to bend than to break. as conjunctions” as in, “I saw him when he was at 1. Fade hair (anag.) Antrim N.E. extremity of Ireland A ship often sank beside the harbour the shop.” Similar to English “that” as a “pointing with view of Scotland, also known as Benmore. (4,4) Food is the “horse” of work. word” – “What is that” Cén atá an sin? but “that” 2. Open box he smashed led to him hating strangers. (9) Character is better than wealth. as a conjunction, “I hope that he comes soon.” 3. Peruse the book we hear, in a rush at the side of If you have a ship and a cargo, you’ll get the right wind. In Irish, however, these will be different words, the water. (4) “There is no luck except where there is discipline.” Cá huair as a question but nuair as a conjunction.

“Where?” is literally, “What place?”, Cén ait? ADVERTISEMENT /ken AWCHT/, again with an –n separating the two vowels.

We will keep working on these “Wh- words” for a while. Americans have largely lost the dif- Photography by ference between “What?” and “Which?” but Irish has not – so we will reserve “Which? and “Why?” for a future column. Image Photo Service Now, see if you can translate these sentence and phrases into Irish. 1.) “Where did it happen?” 2.) “How many girls?” 3.) “How much is a cup of tea?” • Weddings • Anniversaries 4.) “What is your name?” 5.) “Where is he from?” 6.) “It’s half past ten.” 7.) “Where is your boat?” • Banquets • Portraits Answers: 1.) Cén ait a tharla sé? 2.) Cá • Reunions mhéad cailín? 3.) Cá mhéad cupáin tae? 4.) Cá an t-ainm atá ort? 5.) Cad as dó? 6.) Tá • Groups • Families sé a leathuair eis a deich. 7.) Cén ait atá an mbad agat? • Special Occasions I hope that you remembered to eclipse “boat” above when you said, “the.” Bad is “a boat” but “the boat” is an mbad. Also, did you recall that (617) 291-6609 there is an “unwritten” vowel sound /uh/ between n and m in ainm? The official photographers of the Boston Irish Reporter Page 26 November 2010 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Thirty-Two Counties

Antrim: Residents of Glena- the nursing home holds the to complete the work. rm now have to travel the two ISO 9001 Quality Manage- Louth: The title of Supreme miles to Carnlough in order ment Standard, the ISO 14001 Cheese, awarded at the inau- to post a letter, following the Environmental Management gural Irish Cheese Awards at removal of the village’s post Standard, and the OHSAS the RDS in Dublin last month, box. The box had been set into 18001 Occupational Health and was given to the Bellingham the wall of the sub-post office Safety Standard. Last year the Blue cheese, made at the Glyde on Toberwine Street and its Rochfords added an extension Farm at Mansfieldstown in removal follows the closure of to the building and earlier this Castlebellingham. More than the sub-post office six months year opened the Clyda Suite for 100 cheeses were entered for ago following the resignation of dementia patients. the title and Peter Thomas the sub-postmaster. Respond- Derry: Restoration work of Glyde Farm welcomed the ing to complaints about the has been carried out recently award, commenting that it not sudden removal of the box, a at the Guildhall in Derry city only recognized the hard work Royal Mail spokesperson said and in the course of the work that went into producing the they were seeking planning a time capsule was uncovered. cheese, but it would also have permission for an alternative The capsule dates from the a positive effect on the Glyde venue for the post box. She also time that work started on the Farm brand. The Thomas fam- suggested that residents hand new city hall in August 1887 ily have been making the blue their letters to the postman for and contains a selection of cheese for the past ten years. posting. coins from the period, copies Mayo: Chairperson of Iom- Armagh: A partnership of newspapers and other docu- par Castlebar Therese Ruane comprising the Department of ments. The capsule was found is calling for the Town Council Social Development, the EU under the foundation stone of to consider the possibility of de- and Craigavon Borough Council the Guildhall and, according to veloping a walking and cycling will see major work carried out the head of museum services in link with the Great Western on the park in Portadown. The the city Roisin Doherty, the dis- Greenway. Her proposal would 7.2-million euro project will covery emphasizes the human see an initial trail established include a large children’s play side to the story of the building. to link Lough Lannagh and park, a garden trail that will Donegal: Art Parkinson Bilberry Lake, and Islandeady reflect the history of McGredy’s from Moville has landed a part in the first phase, while the Roses, and a lake. An entrance in the new television series second phase would see the feature will be the base for full- “Game of Thrones,” in which link extended to the Greenway. time park rangers whose func- he will act along with Sean Councillor Therese Ruane is tion will be to educate the public Bean. The series, based on the also hoping that trails can be on the amenities available. It is novels of George RR Martin, is developed in the one hundred expected that work will begin to be filmed in Belfast, Malta acres of woodland in Rehins on the twenty-seven acre site and Morocco, and the eight- Woods, in collaboration with once the tendering process is year-old from Moville was in Coillte. complete, and it is expected to competition with young actors countries. In a few weeks, Laois: A Portlaoise resident Meath: A report on a signifi- be completed within two years. from England and Scotland for work will begin on the construc- has become one of nine lucky cant earthwork discovered at Carlow: A survey carried the part. A pupil at Gaelscoil tion of some one hundred wood- winners of a promotion by Lidl Crewbane has been submitted out in Carlow town has found Cois Feabhail, Art had his own en chalets on Eyre Square and Ireland to mark the tenth an- to An Bord Pleanála as part of that more than ninety per cent trailer on the film set, complete the market, which is due to run niversary of its trading in this an objection to the route of the of those questioned claimed with a television and fridge. His for four weeks, is expected to country. Roderick Maforimbo, proposed N2 bypass running to have some level of Irish, mother, Movania, is an actress attract up to 300,000 shoppers a regular shopper at his local east of Slane. The discovery was while of the remainder more who runs her own drama school. to the city. Local hotels have branch of the supermarket, made by archaeologists from than half were born outside Down: A reunion was to be already put together ‘stay and found his Golden Ticket Scratch the Brú na Bóinne Research Ireland. “Survey on People’s held late last month for former shop’ packages for prospective Card in a box of cereal and when Project at the instigation of Experience and Opinions of colleagues of McCann’s bakery customers. The market, which he scratched it he found the former attorney general John the Irish Language in Carlow in Newry, at Newry and Mourne met with some opposition from three Lidl ten-year logos that Rogers, who lives close to the 2010” questioned three hundred Museum which is the former local traders, is being organized meant he had won 1,000 euro. site. Three years ago a souter- people in the town, which had site of the bakery. The bakery by the Galway City Business There are only nine tickets in rain was found at Crewbane, one of the earliest Gaelscoils in was run by five generations of Association. the entire country that will pay and it is now thought that the country. Gaelscoil Eoghain the family before being taken Kerry: A bottle found by out that sum so Roderick counts there is a second and possibly Ui Thuairisc opened almost over by Irwin’s in the 1990s gravedigger John Dennehy at himself very lucky. a third souterrain in the area. thirty years ago while the sec- and it features in a permanent the graveyard at Kilbonane, Leitrim: The official opening The earthwork averages four ondary school, Gaelcholaiste display at the museum. When Beaufort has now found a and blessing of the new gallery meters in height and extends Cheatharlach opened in 1990. restoration work was taking permanent place in the Kerry in St Mary’s Church in Drum- for twenty-three meters. Among those whose children place in the past decade a County Museum. John found reilly took place last month Monaghan: Eamon McEne- have been educated through number of artifacts were found, the bottle while tending his when Bishop Leo O’Reilly was aney from Castleblayney has Irish is Sarah Clarke, who is including a message from em- parents’ grave and realized it welcomed to the parish by par- been selected to become man- married to a Spaniard. ployees from sixty years ago, was very old. It bore the words ish priest of Carrigallen and ager of the county senior and un- Cavan: On loan from the and these will be on display at “JJ Harrington Steam Factory Drumreilly Father Denis Mur- der-21 GAA teams. Eamon, who National Museum of Ireland the reunion. Among those at- Tralee” and can be traced back ray. A large congregation was in is principal of St. Mary’s Boys and Armagh Public Library tending the event will be Peter to the factory, which produced attendance as Bishop O’Reilly National School, succeeds Sea- are two artifacts which are to McSherry and former manager gases for mineral waters, mak- blessed the new gallery, among mus McEnaney, better known be on display in Cavan County Gerry Murphy. ing it some 140 years old. It is them Sisters of Mercy from as Banty, who has held the post Museum for ten days. From the Dublin: Dave Grennan was presumed that the bottle was Ballinamore who had donated for the last six years. The new National Museum comes The about to go to bed when he brought to the cemetery as part the carved oak panelling on the manager has chosen as his co- Breac Maedoc, or St. Mogue’s decided to take one last look of the tradition of bringing holy front of the gallery and behind selectors Stephen McGinnity Shrine, a bronze case dating through the powerful telescope water to bless the graves. the altar. They had also donated from Drumhowan and Declan from the ninth century which he has installed in an observa- Kildare: When Joseph the sanctuary lamp. Following Smyth from Carrickmacross, originally housed the saint’s tory at his Raheny home. And Lynch, principal of Rathangan the Mass, refreshments were both former county players as is relics and which was kept at he has now recorded the most National School, arrived at the served in the community centre. Eamon himself. The trainer for Drumlane Abbey in the Middle significant discovery every school on his last day he was Limerick: Brid Frawley, who the teams will be Colin O’Hare. Ages. Legend has it that the Bell made by an Irish astronomer, a greeted by banners and flags is retiring after serving for 38 Offaly: As part of its fund- of St Mogue, the second item on supernova exploding star which to mark the occasion. Joseph, years as librarian at University raising campaign The Carers display, was given to him at his was the first to be discovered a Kerryman, has been teach- of Limerick, says she is look- Association organized a dance birth by St. Killian. Before being from Irish soil. The supernova, ing in the school for thirty-five ing forward to a new chapter event in Market Square in Tul- moved to the Armagh Public designated 2010IK, was official- years, twenty-two of them as in her life. Originally joining lamore next weekend hoping Libray it was kept on Mogue’s ly confirmed by international principal. For two hours dur- the college when it was the that hundreds would turn up Island for centuries. astronomy authorities, and ing the day the staff and pupils National Institute for Higher to dance to Michael Jackson’s Clare: A bottle thrown into software developer Dave and were joined by parents for the Education, Brid was one of “Thriller.” The event was part the sea off the coast of Florida his wife Carol opened a bottle cutting of a celebratory cake. those who took to the streets of a global world record attempt found its way to Clare where it of champagne to celebrate their Tributes were paid to him by to join the campaign to have for the largest simultaneous was picked up by a student on discovery. Michelle McComm of the par- the NIHE re-designated as a dance to the hit, and almost holiday in Kilbaha. The bottle Fermanagh: Although it was ents’ association and Maureen university. Originally from 300 people had pre-registered was found by Adam Flannery devastated by flooding almost a Hamilton, chairperson of the Newcastle West, Brid worked to take part in the Tullamore from Athlone who took it to local year ago, the leisure centre at board of management. with the county library until event, for which they were en- bar owner Bernie Keathing for the Share Centre in Lisnaskea Kilkenny: The 2011 All-Ire- her marriage when she had to couraged to dress up as zombies. help with opening it. There was reopened last month after major land and International Sheep leave her post as the marriage Rehearsals for the annual event a note inside to the effect that repair works had been carried Shearing Championships have ban was still in place. took place at Joe Lee’s bar on the bottle was part of an ocean- out. In last November’s floods, been confirmed for Cillin Hill in- Longford: last month saw Church Street. ography project and the Flan- when three months’ worth of door arena over the June Bank the launch in the County Roscommon: When a group nery family e-mailed the high rain fell in three weeks, Lough Holiday weekend next year. Library of a unique map com- of Pakistani workers were made school from which it had been Erne overflowed into the swim- Hosted by Clara GAA Club, the piled by two businessmen from redundant from Dawn Meats one of 150 bottles dispatched ming pool at the centre. Last event is expected to attract up Longford who have an interest in Ballaghaderreen they de- into the sea. It had taken the month’s official opening of the to 15,000 visitors from at home in historical maps. It has taken cided to use their time to start wine bottle more than a year to facility was carried out by Dame and overseas. The champion- Michael Lynch and Enda Flynn a cricket team and this year make the 3,700-mile journey. Mary Peters, though Assembly ships themselves will be run 18 months to compile their the team brought home the Cork: The Bridhaven Nurs- member Tommy Gallagher has alongside a family-focused map of some 900 townlands Connacht League title for the ing Home in Mallow has re- warned of further problems, program to include arts and in the county showing the dif- third consecutive year. This ceived a total of three quality since an adjacent caravan park crafts exhibitions, information ferent parishes, enlisting the is the first time this has been awards, the first nursing home was again under water over the seminars, music, entertain- help of Dublin cartographer achieved, with the club being in Ireland or Britain to achieve last few weeks. ment and artisan foods. Accord- Sean Moran. They also had to unbeaten in all twelve matches the distinction. Opened twenty- Galway: Galway city is to ing to event co-ordinator Marie work out what each townland this year. Club captain Sajjad one years ago and owned and have a Christmas market this Doyle the event is expected to name meant in both Irish and Hussein, who works as a bar- run for the past six years by year, similar to those held in give a 4-million euro boost to English, and were given a 5,000- ber in the town, says there are Paul and Maryclare Rochford, Germany and other European the local economy. euro grant by Foras na Gaeilge (Continued on page 27) Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com November 2010 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 27 News Direct From Ireland

From the Irish Emigrant the PSNI appear to have made management’s instructions, as First Minister in North significant arrests in the North. doing so will lead to the with- Calls For End to Funding for Ireland Today: Separately the Irish News drawal of travel privileges and Church Schools – Northern reports that a leading member possible dismissal. Soon after Ireland’s First Minister, Peter Worried About Jobs But Still of the Continuity IRA, who is the “work to rule” commenced, Robinson, has called for an suspected by his fellow repub- it was learned that Aer Lingus end to Government funding for licans of giving information to pilots had voted to take indus- Church schools, in other words Among Europe’s Happiest the PSNI in connection with trial action in a similar row over for Catholic schools, saying that A Eurostat survey on mental health has found that the Irish an attack on a PSNI trainee in rosters. Details of the pilots’ the five education boards should are among the happiest in Europe, with 79 percent saying Co. Fermanagh last November, proposed action were contained be replaced by one authority. He they were happy for most or all of the four weeks prior to be- has been taken into a garda in a trading statement in which went on to describe the current ing questioned. Irish people have the lowest level of physical witness protection scheme Aer Lingus upgraded its operat- education system as “a benign or emotional problems, are less likely than most to be tense along with his family. The ing profit while at the same time form of apartheid.” First to or depressed, and are among the most likely to feel calm and Ballyshannon man was being stating that this depended on respond was Dónal Flanagan, peaceful. Another statistic on job security suggests that the sought by dissident republican staff not disrupting operations chief executive of the Council for Irish should be depressed and worried. One Irish person in leaders following the arrest of with industrial action. Catholic Maintained Schools. three felt that their job was under threat, compared with one two senior members during the The high price of official He questioned Robinson’s tim- in six in Germany. Fermanagh incident. cars – Arising from written ing and motives, noting that Aberdeen academic seek- questions to the Dáil by Fine the comments were made, not ing returned emigrants Gael’s Simon Coveney concern- in an educational environment, of the 445 individual rooms will recovery in prices following the – Christina Noble of the geog- ing the cost of government cars but at the installation of a DUP include a drop-down bed for the traditional summer sales. raphy department in the Uni- and drivers, it has emerged that mayor in Castlereagh. use of a parent who needs to be New cars sales up 106 versity of Aberdeen is seeking over the past two years it has Bishop Donal McKeown, with his or her child. percent – New car sales in Irish emigrants who returned to cost 11-million euro to provide Auxiliary Bishop of Down and The choice of site has been September jumped by 106 the west coast of Ireland during Garda drivers and State cars to Connor, defended the right of controversial since it was an- percent when compared with the years of the Celtic Tiger. Ms a number of Government per- parents to choose a faith-based nounced over four years ago. September 2009 although the Noble’s study focuses on their sonnel. These include Cabinet education, a right he described While the team tasked with number of cars sold in Septem- experiences of returning and Ministers, the President, the as the “hallmark of a stable and choosing the location gave ac- ber of last year was the lowest the challenges involved in set- Chief Whip, Ceann Comhairle pluralist society.” Later Deputy cessibility as one of the reasons for the month since 1967. The tling back into the country, in and former taoisigh. Coveney, First Minister Martin McGuin- for its choice, others have been total sales in September of 4,683 order to have a clear picture of party transport spokesman, ness took issue with Robinson, arguing since that the streets was higher than in September the social and cultural impact said Fine Gael would introduce saying, “If Peter thinks taking around the Mater are usually 2008. Renault (752) was the of migration over the last 20 civilian drivers for State cars on the Catholic Church, the congested. most popular make, followed years. Anyone interested in apart from those used by the Catholic bishops and indeed Those opposed to the site by Toyota (681), Volkswagen volunteering for the study can Taoiseach and Minister for Jus- the Protestant churches for are willing to accept further (479), and Ford (432). contact Ms Noble at christina. tice, and would also encourage that matter and other interest delays in the opening of the Teenage births decline – [email protected] TDS to do their own driving. groups is a sensible route to go, I much-needed hospital and have Figures released by the Central Hunt defies ban on stag think that is a big mistake”. He promised to lodge objections Statistics Office show a decline hunting – Despite the recent G e o r g i n a C a m p b e l l urged him to seek consensus on with An Bord Pleanála. The in births to teenage mothers ban on stag hunting in this Award winners announced the future of education. matter isn’t helped by the me- over the same period last year. country the Ward Union Hunt –L’Ecrivain in Dublin has been Children’s Hospital to dia, which gives more exposure In the first quarter of 2009 3.1 has issued a list of fixtures for named Restaurant of the Year open in 2015 – Details of the to one dissenting retired pediat- percent of all births were to the season in the hope that a at the 2011 Georgina Campbell proposed National Children’s ric consultant than to the dean teenage mothers, while for the legal team engaged will be able Awards. Other major awards Hospital were released last of the faculty of pediatrics at same period this year the figure to find a loophole in the recent went to Henry Stone of Sha-Roe month at an event in the Grand the Royal College of Physicians was 2.8 percent. The figures legislation. The list of fixtures Bistro, Clonegal, Co. Carlow Canal Theatre. Work on the in Ireland who represents 140 also show an overall decline in has been forwarded to gardaí (Chef of the Year); Kelly’s Resort spectacular 16-storey building paediatricians. births, with 252 fewer babies by animal rights activists who Hotel, Rosslare, Co. Wexford on the Mater Hospital Campus The project is expected to cost being born during the quarter, hope to see the hunt officials (Hotel of the Year); and Harga- is expected to start late next 650-million euro. compared to 2009. The average prosecuted. However Ronan don’s, Sligo (Pub of the Year). year and to be completed in Inflation rate now 0.5% age of women giving birth in the Griffin, spokesman for the hunt, Wanted urgently: uille- late 2014. The debate on the – The Consumer Price Index first three months of this year, at insists that whatever course of ann pipe makers – Founding location, which should be long increased by 0.5 percent in the 31.4 years, has risen by almost action they take will be within member of The Chieftains Seán dead, is, however, continuing. year to September but there two months in comparison with Aer Lingus maintains Potts has warned of a shortage The hospital should open was a 0.1 percent decrease on the figure for the same period schedule despite ‘work to of uilleann pipe makers in this in early 2015, a year behind the previous month. The annual in 2009, while there has been a rule’ – Aer Lingus flights were country, with fewer than 20 left, schedule, but when it does open rate of inflation for Services similar rise in the average age operating normally in mid- while pipes are manufactured it will indeed be state of the art. was 2.1 percent, while Goods of women giving birth to their September despite the threats in Britain, the US, Canada, The top eight stories, in which decreased by 1.6 percent. Using first child which now stands at from the IMPACT union that France, and Germany. Address- the wards will be housed, is the EU Harmonised Index of 29.2 years. its cabin crew members would ing the Joint Committee on an elongated elegantly curved Consumer Prices (HICP), prices Gardaí uncover dissident revert to old rosters, which Tourism, Culture, Sport, Com- structure that will dominate were 1 percent lower than a year republican arms cache – included long meal breaks and munity, Equality and Gaeltacht the skyline of north Dublin; it ago and 0.2 percent lower than Gardaí dealt another blow to frequent rest days. IMPACT Affairs, Potts said that Irish will be taller than Liberty Hall. in August. The most significant dissident republicans by un- has also told its members not players may have to wait as long Much of the roof space, which monthly price decreases were in covering an arms cache during to accept assignments on the as seven years for their own set is at different levels across airfares and medical insurance, searches in Counties Louth and airline’s Madrid-Washington of pipes, with a backlog in orders the entire site, is given over to while the price of clothing and Meath last month. More arms DC service. It is not clear if valued at 7-million euro. gardens and play areas. Each footwear rose due to a further were found in Tallaght and any staff have refused to follow

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(Continued from page 26) Finucane, hostel manager, it is that the queen might come to John Wadding Byrne, Lee Gog- cared for by the prisoners. The members from aged thirteen to expected that tourists coming Lismore has been welcomed gins, David McCarthy, Sharon Spring Calf Appeal is run by sixty-four including Pakistanis, to see the village itself will also by Mayor Orla Russell, who McCormack, Glen McManus, Bóthar, a charity that specializ- some Irish and one Indian, and avail of the accommodation at said she would be welcome to Calum O’Neill, Shane O’Connor es in providing African families they practice in the local golf the hostel, while a number of Lismore just as any other visitor and Johnny Waters were mostly with the means of a livelihood club as they have no funds to third-level colleges have also would. Meanwhile Councillor employed in the construction and the heifers were donated secure their own grounds. expressed an interest in run- Bernard Leddy stressed the industry in Wexford and jobs to the charity. Under the same Sligo: Two men from Sligo ning courses in association with economic benefits to the town have disappeared in the last scheme the prisoners have town and one from Mullagh- the eco-village. of such a visit. year or so. The group had a already reared a large number more have completed their Tyrone: Glen Huey of Oak- Westmeath: When Norman going away party at the Danby of goats at the prison’s on-site 9,500-mile drive to Mongolia dene farm in Castlederg is lead- Thompson, originally from Lodge last weekend. farm and, according to prison which they undertook to raise ing the way in energy conserva- Mullingar, opened his front Wicklow: A total of twenty- governor Michael Lawton, the funds for North West Hospice. tion with the installation of a door in Washington last week seven heifers are on their way prisoners appreciate the oppor- Tom McGuinn and David wind turbine on his farm that he was rendered speechless by to needy families in Rwanda tunity to give something back Armstrong, along with Mul- can be seen for miles around. whom he found on the doorstep. after spending eighteen months to society. laghmore man Brendan Mc- The organic dairy farmer uses For standing there was his at Shelton Abbey Prison being Gowan, left Sligo early in July the energy provided by the younger brother Trevor, who in a Volkswagen Passat which turbine for the running of the was one of the winners of the was auctioned at the end of the farm, and supplies the surplus National Lottery Big Money journey and the money donated to the national grid. Glen plans Game TV show. Trevor had to a children’s orphanage in to install more of the huge tur- not seen his brother for sixteen Ireland’s Ulan Bator. The trio raised bines on his farm in the future, years, although he had been 8,500 euro for the hospice, some and has also received enquiries in the States on a number of of it by means of a raffle, with from other farmers in the area occasions, and this time he Weather Michael Coleman from Tawley so he expects others to follow had contacted Norman’s wife Reported Monday, October 25, 2010 winning the 1,000-euro prize. his example and erect their Michelle to warn her that he Tipperary: The hostel in own turbines. was on his way. The Mullingar It was a particularly pleasant week with plenty of sun- Cloughjordan, Ireland’s first Waterford: The proposed postman traveled to the US shine although it has turned colder with ice on the car eco-village, is almost complete visit to Ireland next year of with his wife Tara. and is due to open this month. Britain’s Queen Elizabeth may Wexford: Some 100 family windscreen on Wednesday morning for the first time since With thirty-two beds and ten well include at least a one-night members and friends gathered last winter. The only appreciable rain came on Friday. en suite rooms, it is hoped that stay in Lismore Castle. Owned at Clonard Church one day last We should wake up to another frost today but then it will the hostel will boost tourism in by the Duke of Devonshire, a month to say goodbye to a group turn milder, although wet and windy, for much of the the area by attracting groups close friend of the royal family, of friends who were catching PJ of walkers, cyclists, fisher- the castle is believed to be par- Walker’s bus en route to Dublin week. The frost could return on Friday night. men, and those interested in ticularly suited to the security Airport and a flight to Perth Latest Temperatures: watersports. According to Pat necessary for such a visit. Word in Australia. Darren Bergin, Day 10C (50F) Night 1C (34F) Page 28 November 2010 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com

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