Ifest Boston Will Showcase the ‘Best of Ireland’ at Seaport Venue First-Of-Its Kind Festival; Trade Center, Sept

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By Bill Forry BIR Editor IFest Boston — a three-day festival that will gather the “Best of Ireland” in the heart of the city’s Seaport district —will take place at Boston’s Seaport World Trade Center from Sept. 26 to Sept. 28. The first-of- its-kind event is expected to draw big crowds to the waterfront venue to showcase the best of Irish food and drink, top musicians, and enter- tainers— all in an effort Mayor Martin Walsh, IFest Boston founder Rachel Kelly and chef Barabara Lynch are key players in to draw more tourists bringing September’s three-day festival to the Seaport/World Trade Center on Boston’s waterfront. back to Ireland and re-energize cultural and business Photo by Dan Watkins ties between Boston and Ireland. The event, if successful, will likely be replicated in cities across the United States. Boston was the natu- ral choice for the launch, according to event organizer Walsh set for first official visit to Ireland Rachel Kelly. “IFest will be born and grow up in Boston,” Kelly By Bill Forry also on the schedule. He is vate visits with relatives “Rosmuc” on it, a nod to tentatively scheduled to at both the beginning and his family’s heritage. His said in an interview with the Irish Reporter. “It’s not Editor something I plan to do once and then move on. I’ve Confirming plans first leave Boston on Sept. 19. end of his trip. The jour- father John, who passed invested in Boston and this is where I want it to grow reported last spring, Bos- “The overall goal of this ney was initially planned away in 2010, was from and become an essential part of the calendar. As long ton Mayor Martin Walsh trip is to support Boston’s for the spring, but Walsh Carna. as Boston wants IFest, we will stay here.” says he will make a ten- economic development decided to wait until he From Tues., Sept. 23, The event is the brainchild of Kelly, a high-energy, day visit to his parents’ through building relation- was settled into office for through Fri., Sept. 26, the go-getting Dubliner who is a veteran events planner in homeland in September ships and strengthen- a longer period of time. mayor will visit Donegal, Ireland. In 2010, as the post-Tiger malaise burrowed – his first visit to Ireland ing our commercial and His mother Mary and Derry, Belfast, and Dublin into the country’s psyche, Kelly decided to fight the since his electoral vic- cultural link with Ire- his late father John are and meet with local elect- condition with a new idea —put Ireland’s best foot tory last November made land,” said Kate Norton, natives of Connemara, ed officials and business forward through an international event. him the city’s first Irish- a spokesperson for the although they didn’t meet leaders in each location. “There was a huge amount of negativity and depres- American mayor in two mayor told the Reporter. until both were living in On Sept. 26, he will head sion and decades. Walsh’s visit will The visit will certainly Boston and ran into each back to Galway and spend I just thought, ‘You know what? We have a huge have a heavy Galway ac- come with ceremonial other at a local dance hall. the weekend with family, amount to offer the world, and we still have a lot to cent, including a side trip trappings, including meet- Mary Walsh was born in then to return to Boston offer – and we’re going to celebrate it,” Kelly explained. to Connemara to see cous- ings with local officials. the village of Rosmuc, on Mon., Sept. 29. “If we could get the very best of all strains of our cul- ins, with stops in Donegal, But Walsh will also sched- and her son has a sign in Walsh’s campaign and Derry, Belfast, and Dublin ule “down-time” for pri- his office with the words (Continued on page 18) (Continued on page 15) An unforgettable trip to Calvary – via Sligo By Peter F. Stevens that cast, as Sligo priest deft use of place serving confessional, one of his BIR Staff “Father James,” Brendan every bit as vividly as in parishioners, a man sexu- “Calvary” is a darkly Gleeson delivers one of his memorable film debut, ally abused by a priest brilliant film that tackles the finest performances of “The Guard” (2011), which and anonymous to the emotional, cultural, and his stellar career. So, too, also starred Gleeson in a viewer, informs Father religious, and regional is- do Chris O’Dowd, Kelly knockout performance. James that the victim will sues on a cinematic canvas Reilly, Dylan Moran, “Calvary,” named for the enact his revenge upon both broad and insular. Aidan Gillen, and the rest hill on which Christ was the church by crucifying That may read oxymo- of the troupe. crucified, weaves the story Father James on a local ronic, but writer-director The wild, rugged beauty of Father James, a good strand in one week’s time. John Michael McDonagh of Ireland’s West Coast priest and good man who Father James tends to Director John Michael McDonagh directing “Cal- and a splendid cast pull loom large as the film’s has grappled with his own his parishioners with his vary”. off exactly that. Among backdrop, McDonagh’s demons. In the dark of the (Continued on page 11)

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By Ed Forry gone, one shoe and sock were off, lying in It was not my usual walk in the park. the mud nearby. Dazed and uncertain, I There I was, late on a Sunday afternoon picked myself up and stumbled back to in July, making my way in broad and the path to look for help. sunny daylight through the beautiful 27- Then, another realization: I was still acre park near my home in Lower Mills. alive! As usual, my thoughts were off in a I have long believed that my spiritual quiet reverie – as I approach my 70th self centers on the strength that has re- birthday, I no longer move swiftly, yet posed in me from the time of my Confirma- I remain committed to regular walks to tion, when, through the steady hands of forestall some of the downside effects Cardinal Cushing, the Holy Spirit found of aging. a home in my soul. That same spirit was Suddenly, and without any sort of with me in the park on Sunday, and saw Ed Forry Bill Forry photo warning, I felt an arm reach around me through those treacherous moments. my neck from behind. It seemed at first I am okay now; life will go on for me, Costello, who shared long waiting hours to be maybe a friend, horse-playing as and I will be more attentive for the ex- in the Carney Hospital emergency room, guys can do, with a sneak-up surprise. perience in the park, while encouraging and to the medical providers who saw But the grip was very strong, and it was others to be vigilant, too. My attacker, a me through. squeezing the air out of my lungs and the coward who used stealth and brute force to God bless Father Jack Ahern, that blood out of my head. This was no friend. shatter a 70-year-old man’s sense of well wondrously Christian pastor who mate- I tried to say “I can’t breathe,” but the being in a peaceful community place, isn’t rialized in my ER cubicle and watched grip was so strong, I couldn’t make a worth thinking about any more. Like all with me through the arduous wait for a sound to call out for help. For a second predators, this person has slipped back diagnosis. or two, my mind focused: Was this an into the shadows where criminal spirits A photo the next morning shows me assault by some external force, or was it thrive and humanity goes wanting. with Mayor Marty Walsh, who had “The Big One,” that sudden, fatal heart Anecdotally, I have heard that a man phoned during those hospital hours and attack the old man on “Sanford and Son” was seen lurking suspiciously in the park offered his support. The spirit of charity used to worry about. shortly before I came on the scene. Maybe and generosity certainly resides with In the light of hindsight, I now un- he was my assailant; who knows? our mayor. derstand that someone I never saw, But this bit of information is a reminder I have always believed that where who came from someplace behind me, that everyone needs to take care when there’s life, there is hope, and today I spotted an easy target for a robbery to, out and around and report suspicious or still have both. When I add to that a maybe, score money for a drug hit to get anti-social behavior to the authorities in family’s love, and friendships across our through the day. the interest of the common welfare. neighborhood and wonderful city, I count Ed Forry retraced his steps on a quiet Even now, I have no idea if it was a I am grateful to all who sent their myself blessed. path in Dorchester Park on Tuesday man or a woman, short or tall, a kid or prayers and messages of support and en- I was back in the park on Tuesday and evening. This is the same path on an adult. But for that brief moment in couragement to me and my family in the took a stroll down that very same path. It which Forry was accosted on Sunday time, I was an easy prey who, as the wake of the assault. The Holy Spirit was was gratifying to see so many families us- afternoon. Bill Forry photo chokehold squeezed tighter, was left, to present in all the words of support from ing the playground, including some of my friends – and strangers – through phone think, “Is this how it all ends?” own grandkids. Joggers and dog-walkers will join me tonight at the “bowl” on Ad- calls, visits and social network postings. Then I passed out. were around every bend. Neighbors ams Street for a free concert by a Motown I owe a special measure of gratitude When I regained consciousness, it was stopped to exchange greetings. A C-11 cover group, the Soul City Band. to my son Bill, who was truly my first as if I were waking up from an uneasy police cruiser rolled through quietly at You can imagine how happy I will be responder; to an amazing pair of Boston sleep. As I rolled around on the grass one point and then moved along. to be there- and I hope to see you there. and dirt, I realized I was lying outside, EMTs and the police officers from C-11 I’ll keep walking in Dot Park- as I hope in my neighborhood park. My wallet was who came quickly to the scene; to Della you will too. And friends and neighbors Fire Commissioner Finn takes office Sworn in at familiar firehouse Joseph E. Finn was sworn in as Boston’s 42nd Commissioner of the Boston Fire Depart- ment on July 28. Mayor Martin Walsh adminis- tered the oath of office inside the Dorchester firehouse where Finn’s father Paul, a World War Tommy Kelly and his dad Eddie sport new wiffles. II veteran, served as a Photo courtesy Kelly family fireman for two decades. “Deputy Chief Finn possesses a broad and More wiffles for TK: impressive understand- ing of the Boston Fire Department, including Aug. 4 ‘buzz-off’ at personnel, public safety, and administration,” said Mayor Walsh. “Chief Aidan’s Barber Shops Finn’s experience and Aidan’s Barber Shops in Dorchester have been doing leadership style, along Mayor Martin Walsh officially administered the oath of office to JosephE . Finn a brisk trade in wiffles this month. Always a seasonal with his commitment to on Monday morning at BFD Engine 20/ Ladder 27 on Neponset Avenue. Finn favorite, this year’s mid-summer boom is attributable diversity and fairness, is now the city’s 42nd Commissioner of the Boston Fire Department. Above, to a little boy from Neponset whose close-cropped hair will help move our Fire Finn signed a city register to make his appointment official. His wife, Susan, style was made out of medical necessity. Department into an even and Mayor Walsh looked on at left. Finn’s father Paul, a World War II veteran, Tommy Kelly, age 4, has been battling a tough cancer more successful era of was a fireman in Dorchester for his whole career and worked at the Neponset diagnosis since June. Two weeks ago, Tommy and his service to the people of firehouse for 20 years. Below, Finn addresses the assemblage. dad, Eddie, decided to get matching wiffles as a sign of Boston.” Mayor’s Office photos by Don Harney. solidarity for Tommy’s anticipated hair loss from his Finn earned plaudits cancer treatments. Once he posted it online, Eddie’s in March for his work the ranks of the de- shot of their matching wiffles went viral, especially as incident commander partment. Since 2005, among the legions of firefighters from around the at the fire that killed Deputy Chief Finn has country who have been monitoring Tommy’s battle. two firefighters in the served as a Division (Eddie Kelly is a nationally respected labor leader and Back Bay, a performance Commander, in charge president of the state’s leading firefighters union.) Walsh mentioned at of all administrative Heather Flynn, who owns and operates both Aidan’s a press conference on functions, fire ground locations, decided that she and her staff wanted to do Monday announcing the operations, hazardous something extra to show support for the Kelly family. appointment. The mayor materials, and technical She decided to plan a “Buzz-off for TK”— a day-long said he was inspired by rescue responses in Divi- event set for Monday, August 4, a day when the shops Finn’s leadership during sion One. would typically be closed for a day-off. the deadly fire and “could Finn was flanked by The event — initially set to be held at the shops— has not have asked for a bet- members of his family, now been relocated to Florian Hall to accommodate ter job interview” for the including his wife Susie, the larger crowd expected to take part in the buzz-off. commissioner position. daughter Kelsie, and All haircut proceeds and donations collected that day Finn, who served in two sons, one of whom, will go to support Tommy’s recovery. the United States Ma- Brandon, is a former All nine barbers from Aidan’s — plus a few other rine Corps from 1979 to Marine and a firefighter. volunteers from other salons— will pitch in to shave 1982, . Finn’s other son, Sean, heads at Florian from 7:30 a.m- 5 p.m. has been a member of is currently serving in Check out Aidan’s Facebook page or their website, the fire service since 1984 Afghanistan. aidansbarbershop.com. – Bill Forry and has risen through Page 4 August 2014 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Publisher’s Notebook Commentary Taking Introducing the Irish Legacy Society, care a way to keep on giving back to Ireland

By Joe Leary the world: a handover over the next several years of Special to the BIR of about $12 trillion from those born in the 1920s After 27 years in existence, the Irish American and 1930s to the so-called Baby Boomers. Partnership is announcing a new opportunity for Endowment funds are not new; they have been Patrick men and women of Irish heritage to give something a staple of American philanthropy for many years. back to the small island their ancestors left to come Harvard University has the largest educational to America. The creation of an Irish American endowment fund in the Partnership endowment fund named The Irish United States at approxi- Legacy Society will help preserve and strengthen mately $32 billion. Boston the Partnership and its ability to help Ireland well College, originally a school Patrick Schaler into the future. for poor immigrant Irish, The Partnership’s board of directors initiated the has grown its endowment fund by donating its first investment – a $300,000 very nicely to $1.8 billion, By Ed Forry contribution – earlier this year while also forming and it now ranks #41 in the An Irish bicyclist who suffered severed head injuries an investment committee, with three experienced country amongst universi- in a collision with a van on Cape Cod last summer directors appointed to manage the fund. ties. The archdiocese of has entered a second year of therapy, and his family Dictionaries define the word “legacy” differently. Boston calls its endowment is hopeful that he will one day resume a measure of The one that seems to apply here is this: “Something fund the Catholic Commu- independent life. that is handed down or remains from one genera- nity Fund. It is not very Patrick Schaler, a then- large, at approximately $28 tion to the next: a heritage or tradition. Something Joe Leary 23-year-old Trinity College received from an ancestor.” million, and the church’s Dublin graduatewas living Research shows that more than 80 percent of latest report indicates they and working at the Bramble planned gifts from estates to charities and institu- withdrew $1,664,633 last year, or about 5.8 percent, Inn in Brewster on a J-1 visa tions like universities, hospitals, and other orga- to support its work with schools, social services and on June 27, 2013 when the ac- nizations take the form of bequests in wills. With Parishes. cident happened. He suffered 401k and retirement savings at an all-time high, The Partnership’s Legacy Society contributors severe head trauma, and was planning for the distribution of even small estates will have the advantage of being able to direct the transported first to the ICU at is a prudent and very wise decision. earnings from their gifts to their own designated Cape Cod Hospital, and, later, There are so many state and federal tax consid- projects in Ireland as long as the proposals are by air ambulance to Beaumont erations that before a bequest is added to a will the consistent with the Partnership’s mission and are Hospital in Ireland, where he Partnership suggests that donors consult with their approved by the board of directors, remained in a coma. He was financial/ tax advisors. Taxes on unplanned estates The minimum gift requirement for such a desig- placed on a waiting list for the National Rehabilitation can be very high, especially with today’s popular nated gift is $10,000, which will generate at least Hospital (NRH) in Dún Laoghaire. 401k or 403b withdrawals deemed taxable as income. $500 each year and so be a gift that will keep on According to published reports in Ireland, when the An endowment fund can also have an enormously giving for all the years ahead. Imagine a small school family was told it would take another nine months to comforting effect on Partnership supporters. The in Western Ireland that today must have bake sales get a bed in the NRH, Pádraig was moved again, this idea that the Partnership plans to be around a long and numerous fundraising efforts in order to educate time to Germany, where he could receive early and time and can offer donors the option of providing their students being able to count on help from the intensive neuro-rehabilitation. a gift that will keep on giving well into the future United States. Imagine a Partnership endowment Both of Padraig’s parents are university-level edu- is very reassuring. An endowment is a fund that is fund of $20 million that will give a million dollars cators: his mother, Pat, is a lecturer at Dublin City restricted. Only the interest and earnings can be to Ireland’s schools in perpetuity. Imagine what College, and his father, Reinhard, is at the University spent, not the principal monies invested. The Part- that will do for Ireland’s future. of Limerick. He is a German native, and his son and nership investment policy, which has been added Ireland is a small country, by many standards two daughters have dual Irish/German citizenship. to its by-laws, allows only the interest or earnings insignificant on the world stage. Its population of 4.7 As a German citizen, the injured young man quali- to be sent to Ireland in a given year. And this is million people in the Republic and 1.8 million in the fies for coverage in a public hospital by that country’s limited to five percent of the fund to insure that the North ranks the country about 118th in the world. unlimited health care program, after paying a modest original funds will grow and provide for Ireland for Portugal, at 10.5 million, and the Netherlands, at insurance payment. years to come. This spendable amount requires the 16.8 million, are much larger. For all that, the key Reinhard Schaler said they moved his son out of vote of the board when it is allocated to Ireland. to Ireland’s future is the strength and education of Ireland out of desperation. “We realized that if he Opportunities for endowment funds to accumu- its people. A significant Irish American Partnership stayed in Beaumont he would get sicker or be further late additional principal seem exceptionally high in Endowment fund will surely have great impact on injured and we panicked,” he told Ireland’s online these times. According to the internet financial news the island of Ireland long into the future. news publication herald.ie. “Everyone knows about company “Business Insider,” we are on the verge Joe Leary is president and CEO of the Irish Ameri- the problems in the health sector (in Ireland), but of the greatest transfer of wealth in the history of can Partnership. if you have to struggle and fight for everything that you need, from toothbrushes to a head support for a wheelchair, it just drains you.” Herald.ie reported that Padraig, now 24, is making slow progress, and his father said he is making slow, Evolution surely is making us smarter; limited progress, including using a speech valve and moving his toes and tongue to respond to simple ques- tions. Herald.ie also reported that the family hopes but what about what makes us human? to open a care facility for people with acute acquired By James W. Dolan brain injuries in Dublin so that other families can The creative tension that maintained the balance avoid their struggle to find proper care. “The plan is to Special to the Reporter has been severely undermined. open the doors in January 2016,” said Schaler. “We’re Will evolution keep pace with the challenges we The difficulty of establishing a sensible energy calling it An tSaol, after an Irish language blog that face, or will inequality, global warming, population, policy in light of the threat of global warming is a Padraig set up when he was 15. We want to pick up and pollution overwhelm us? Right now it seems we perfect example of immediate gratification over- where our son left off.” are losing the battle. whelming the need to avoid, or at least minimize, a The continuing saga of the family’s struggles has There is ample evidence global disaster. Greed is now; it has a limited horizon. become national news across Ireland. It is said that that evolution is an ongoing Government is supposed to anticipate the future. the cost of the air ambulance transport from Ireland to process. The advances in We are smarter, but is there a corresponding Germany cost the family more than $15,000. The par- science, technology, and pro- development of our culture and sense of values? It ents make regular commutes to the German hospital duction over the last century is the old story of what we call “progress” carrying from their home in Dublin; the father has rented an are obvious. Some progress with it unanticipated consequences that generate apartment in Hamburg; and he does his teaching in is also evident in civil rights, new problems. The advantages of technology are online courses. Several fundraising efforts have been tolerance, and social justice. obvious; the damaging effects of the way we use it initiated to help defray expenses We are getting smarter, but are less apparent. The social network is good, but the A website, caringforpadraig.org, has been set up are we getting better? extent to which we are wedded to our devices is not. to provide a regular flow of information on the case, The evidence here is less The world’s established religions are either in de- and Reinhard Schaler blogs daily at hospi-tales.com. persuasive. We remain nial or in a struggle to reconcile traditional beliefs greedy, self absorbed, cor- with science. Christian theologians examine the reli- rupt, insensitive, suspicious, James W. Dolan ability of mankind’s “fall from grace” in the Adam & cruel, superficial, and inca- Eve allegory and the doctrine of original sin within the Boston Irish pable of selfless cooperation context of cosmic evolution. They search for reasons for the common good. Our government is dysfunc- other than atonement for the incarnation – Christ’s tional, the economy precarious, and money and power birth, death, and resurrection. REPORTER are in control. 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Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com August 2014 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 5 Point of View OF CASSOCKS, ROBES, AND KNOW NOTHINGS Recent Supreme Court decisions by five Catholic men give rise to a number of intriguing historical questions

By Peter F. Stevens Justice John Glover Roberts has liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor) Massachusetts legislative and BIR Staff a name that at one time would with alarm and horror. In the gubernatorial races looming, “They” might have wondered have sounded quite Protestant middle of the 19th century, the the Know Nothings had their whether five male judges sitting to the Know Nothings, but to- hate-infused Know-Nothing collective eye on higher office, on the United States Supreme day that is the name of a man Party seized power at the where they could enact laws Court of 2014 are wearing black who wears his Catholicism on ballot box. They loathed any- targeting foreigners and Catho- robes or cassocks. “They” were his black sleeve. The sight of thing Irish, anything Catholic, lics. They did grandly statewide, the Know-Nothing Party of the African-American Supreme anything immigrant, anything winning every congressional 1840s-1850s America, the driv- Court Justice Clarence Thomas they deemed “un-American.” seat, every constitutional of- ing force of a Nativist movement – a black jurist and a Catholic – The Nativist Movement had fice from governor on down, that loathed not only the Irish might well have sent the rabidly gathered steam in the 1840s, and full control of both houses and other immigrants, but also, anti-Papist Know Nothings into as rising waves of immigrants of the Legislature. Across the and especially, all things Roman apoplectic fits. – especially Irish Catholics – nation, the movement’s ranks Catholic. They feared that if too Justices Scalia and Alito, evoked long-held antipathy swelled to over a million in many Catholics flooded “Anglo Catholics both, would have towards anything smacking of 1854, their confidence leading America,” the pope would soon fueled another Nativist night- Rome (the papacy) and the “ould them to anoint themselves the be calling the shots in the United mare: Not only was an Irish- sod.” The men who joined Na- “American Party.” States on political, religious, Catholic “invasion” hitting tivist organizations throughout The ascendancy of the Know- cultural, and social matters. America’s shores, but here come the country viewed themselves Nothings proved mercurial. In Perhaps historical irony doesn’t waves of papists from Italy it- as “real Americans” – Anglo- 1856, the American Party ran fit the question neatly, but a self, home of the Vatican. Protestants. Millard Fillmore in the presi- historical playback does offer Conversely, the Supreme In Boston and elsewhere, dential election. The onset of food for thought: How would Court’s recent decisions that these groups operated at first the Civil War would shove the anti-Catholic Nativists of hint of dogmatic Catholicism in secret. Anti-foreigner, anti- the Know-Nothings into his- yesteryear grapple with the fact in entrenched and archaic at- Catholic activists formed secret tory’s backwaters. Still, their that some 160 years after their titudes toward women might groups, offering their support prejudice toward immigrants heyday high court justices who actually have appealed to Na- and votes to political candidates has sadly endured in various are both conservative and Ro- tivists, who staunchly believed who shared their views either political incarnations, as the man Catholic are laying down – as did most men of the era covertly or overtly. Members current immigration contro- the law of the land – literally so? – that a woman’s place was in swore an oath of secrecy, and versy reflects. One thing that would likely the home, having babies, and if they were asked about their No matter what, the vision of have them scratching their practicing obeisance to their views by anyone except a fellow five Catholic men pronouncing heads is that only one of the five husbands. Still, the specter of Nativist, they were instructed from on high what is and what justices has a surname synony- five male justices handing down dictates is exactly what the to answer, “I know nothing.” is not the “American Way” would mous with Nativist nightmares such landmark anti-abortion, Know Nothings feared. The movement attracted have baffled and infuriated the – a distinctly Irish moniker. anti-contraception decisions as One only has to look back many men in and around Bos- Know Nothings as much as the Justice Anthony McLeod Ken- the “Hobby Lobby Case” in a at the Know Nothing credo to ton, and in the spring of 1854, recent decisions of five male nedy has green in his bloodlines, manner that, depending upon hypothesize that they would the Know Nothings carried Catholic justices have enraged but what of the others? Chief one’s view, hints or screams of have viewed six Catholics on the elections in Boston, Salem, legions of American women. the most conservative Catholic Supreme Court (including the and other cities. With the fall Murray cites old anti-Irish bigotry amid immigration debate By Matt Murphy Rep. Cole called it “wonderful” to see and Michael Norton what she described as the “silent major- State House News Service ity” speaking out against the governor’s Emotions continue to run high over plan. Gov. Deval Patrick’s offer to temporarily “Our governor is trying to peddle this house children who illegally crossed the off as a crisis, and if you ask me the real border into the US, but Massachusetts crisis is that our veterans are going with- is no closer to getting an answer from out, our families, our American families, the Obama administration on whether are living in motels and out on the streets the federal government plans to take the because we don’t have enough resources state up on its offer. as it is to take care of the people that we “We don’t have very much informa- actually have an obligation to,” Cole said. tion about when, if at all, there will be A Boston Globe poll released on July a shelter for the kids here,” Patrick told 23 showed that 50 percent of residents reporters on Mon., July 28. support Patrick’s plan compared to 43 At times spilling into Beacon Street, percent opposed, within the 4.9 percent hundreds attended a “Stop the Invasion margin of error. Rally” over the weekend at the State Last week in an appearance on House against Patrick’s plan to tempo- MSNBC, Patrick expressed support rarily house up to 1,000 unaccompanied for broader immigration reform, but children who have crossed the border stressed that he has not proposed inte- from Central America and have been de- grating immigrant children into Mas- tained awaiting immigration processing. sachusetts society. “Our government sees no difference Without invoking the same influx of between law-abiding, freedom-loving, Irish to Boston that Murray referenced, taxpaying citizens and law-breaking Patrick also noted historical parallels to aliens,” said Mark Fisher, the Tea Party the debate. Republican running against Charlie “It’s not the first time in American his- Baker for the Republican gubernatorial tory that newcomers have been talked nomination. Senate President Therese Murray stands at the rostrum inside the Senate in about in terms like that and every time Fisher attended the rally on Saturday, March 2007. Gov. Deval Patrick is at right. AP Photo/Kevin Mingora over the course of a century and a half or so of fairly regular immigration, and hosted by conservative WRKO talk radio coming across the border has slowed as a question about what it is we do to shelter host Jeff Kuhner, along with Reps. Geoff some of that in waves, we’ve had to result of increased border security, rais- kids 17 to three years old, who are here endure all of that until we got to our Diehl (R-Whitman), Marc Lombardo ing questions about whether the federal alone, and I tried to make that distinc- (R-Billerica), Shaunna O’Connell (R- higher and better selves and we’ve been government will even need to transport tion,” Patrick told reporters. stronger as a nation as we’ve done so,” Taunton) and Leah Cole (R-Peabody). children to Massachusetts. Patrick said he understands the “We are told by our elected officials Patrick told MSNBC host Chris Hayes. “This may not even happen. We don’t concerns expressed by local officials in Rep. Lombardo harshly criticized that it is the moral thing to do to stand even know if this is a possibility. The Bourne and Chicopee, but stated that down, not uphold the law and allow law- the governor’s ability to care for chil- governor has just stepped out to the comments received by his office “are dren from Massachusetts, while Rep. breaking illegal immigrants into this federal government and said if you need running something like two- or three- country. They have it upside down,” the O’Connell ticked off statements made to we can take these kids for 35 to 45 to-one in favor and that, to me, reflects by the governor about the duration and Shrewsbury Republican said. days,” Murray said. what I understood about the sensibility But supporters of the plan, like Sen- cost of the shelter plan that she consid- A host of steps must still be taken by and the compassion of the people of the ers to be lies. ate President Therese Murray, have not the federal government before any final Commonwealth.” backed down. During a radio interview “Gov. Patrick says that this is a hu- decisions are made on whether to house “All local officials have been briefed, manitarian crisis and that’s why he must on July 24, Murray said she asked her migrant children in Massachusetts, in- but I think a lot of local officials are wor- staff to pull old cartoons from Boston act. Well for 16 months we watched how cluding on-site visits by the Department rying and some of that understandably, this governor treated Justina Pelletier. newspapers during the time of high Irish of Defense to determine the suitability of about what the impact will be on their immigration to Massachusetts. Gov. Patrick, you are no humanitarian,” either Joint Base Cape Cod or Westover local communities when there is none - Lombardo shouted to the crowd outside “Some of the same things that were Air Base in Chicopee. A final determi- none,” Patrick said. being said about the Irish coming here, the State House Saturday, a reference nation is also likely to be contingent Rep. Diehl called on attendees at the to the girl who was recently returned about disease and murderers and we on Congress approving the president’s Saturday rally to “vote out the people don’t want these kinds of people here to her parents’ custody after a struggle request for additional funding to deal that won’t stand by you, the taxpayer.” through the courts. “Gov. Patrick wants and we shouldn’t be breeding them are with the border “The federal government now is in- the same horrible things that are being to lecture us on compassion. Where “People have a point of view. Actually truding on our rights by allowing illegal was his compassion when DCF was in said about these children, and that’s some of the protests, much of what has immigrants to stay in our state when we what they are. They’re children,” Murray shambles and American children were been reported anyways, is about im- already can’t afford to handle what we’ve dying almost weekly under the custody told WATD-FM. migration reform and not the separate got,” Diehl said at the rally. Murray said the number of children of state government?” Page 6 August 2014 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com The ‘Collar’ and the ‘Badge’ in Bowdoin/Geneva Rev. (Doc) Conway, BPD Deputy Baston push safety on streets

By Tom Mulvoy as a threat to anyone in Associate Editor the neighborhood. They The young guys were tell me that I am the ‘Irish finished with their warm- priest who speaks Portu- ups on the basketball guese.’ I ask young people court at Ronan Park in if they are involved in any Dorchester and getting summer programs and try ready to choose sides for to encourage them to join a game. Small problem: something. Others I ask They only had nine play- if they have jobs. If I have ers on hand. “Hey, Pops, any leads, I try to pass on how about making it ten?” the information. I keep an one of the players said to updated list of possible an older man who was opportunities with me for standing nearby looking quick reference.” on. “Not me,’ said the ob- The northern end of server, whose thin, lanky Dorchester is rich in par- frame suggested that he ish real estate if not in might be able to do a few numbers of congregants. runs up and down the The Catholic churches court. “But thanks; you’re are close to each other – just going to have to make in the middle of the last do with what you have.” century there were five For Reverend Richard parishes serving their own “Doc” Conway, BC High, congregations and their Class of 1955, the invita- schools with little worries tion to join in a hoops about numbers of priests, scrimmage with young and all were within a good men from the neighbor- walk of one another. hood was an affirmation Today, it’s three priests that his Roman collar for three parishes. Rever- didn’t set him apart from end Jack Ahern, the pas- the street life of the par- tor of St. Peter, Holy Fam- Rev. Richard “Doc” Conway at home in St. Peter’s Church on Meetinghouse Hill. Below, out for a walk ily, and Blessed Mother ish he served, St. Peter’s with Boston Police Department Deputy Superintendent Nora Baston. Tom Kates Photography on Meetinghouse Hill, a Teresa, lives with the gathering place looking “retired” Doc Conway and out over Boston Harbor another priest of Haitian that is rich in historical background, Reverend fetch extending back to Jacques McGuffie, in the the founding of Dorchester rectory at St. Ambrose by the Puritans in 1630. down Adams Street in A bastion of three- nearby Fields Corner. decker Roman Catholi- “I have no idea of the cism over most of the number of families in 20th century that has each parish,” says Con- seen its population shift way. People are moving in the last 40 years as constantly and often go the mostly working-class to different parishes at Irish who had sustained different times. Holy Fam- it began to move out and ily in Uphams Corner is ethnic minorities – Afri- English, Hispanic, some can Americans, Hispan- Haitian, and very small ics, Vietnamese, Cape in numbers. Hardly any Verdeans – moved in, English is spoken at Mass. 142-year-old St. Peter’s Blessed Mother Teresa parish has been confront- is mainly English with ed in recent decades with probably 2,000 families. violence and street crime St. Peter’s is English and as the transition firmed Portuguese and would be up and its church-going larger, but most families congregation, some 25,000 do not fill out a census strong as recently as the form.” early 1960s, dwindled to As he is talking, a young 1,000 or so regular par- man comes into the shop ticipants 50 years later. and stops at the table But transitions like the where he greets “Doc” one that has transformed effusively. He is Evandro not only St. Peter’s but Carvalho, an attorney also several other close-by is different. Students go job, not simply a spiritual a sort of news exchange program in the gym at St. who came to the United Dorchester parishes into to many different schools advisor. agent for the families in- Peter’s Teen Center. The States from Cape Verde communities of ethnic all over the city. The best “He is indefatigable, volved. Then “One morn- priest believed that only when he was 15. On this diversity rarely solidify; thing for me to do here that’s what he is,” she ing, we were at Bromley good things could come of day, the final vote is being change just keeps on com- is to walk around the says. “I think of us as a Heath Housing project getting teens and officers held in a special election ing. And it’s that change neighborhoods, say hello team – The Collar and in the Roxbury/Jamaica to gather for a common for state representative in that “Doc” Conway and his to people on their porches The Badge – two people Plain neighborhood and sporting purpose. the district and Carvalho fellow clerics – Catholic, or their front steps, stop by coming together to en- “Doc” had in his hands a “The kids attitude is assured of gaining the Protestant, urban fun- the playgrounds to watch gage peace from different list of the fourth-graders changes toward the police seat after winning the damentalists, to name some basketball or soccer, angles while we walk up who were living there. He when they’re all in there primary several weeks three – are working day and after a while people and down the streets in said he wanted to see how working together,” Doc before. The two banter for and night to fashion into begin to talk to you.” the early evenings and many of them had enrolled later told the Dorchester a bit in English and Portu- a positive and uplifting Although retired, “Doc” weekends when people at nearby Nativity Prep, Reporter, adding that guese before the politician spirit that residents of the Conway spends two to are out and about. And the Jesuits’ no-tuition some of the young folks leaves to see if he can get Bowdoin Street/Geneva three nights a week out it’s not only me; Captain middle school in Jamaica had for the first time some more voters to go to Avenue neighborhood (so walking the streets with [Richard] Sexton, the Plain, knowing that the expressed interest in join- the polls to affirm his win. named for the east-west, Deputy Superintendent commander of this police number was minimal if ing the force when they For his part, Reverend north south axis streets Nora Baston of the Boston district, comes out and not nil. So a “priest and grew up. The program in- “Doc” Conway has a lot that intersect at the west Police Department. Their joins “Doc,” as do other a cop,” as one mother put volves both boys and girls, yet to do beyond the day. end of Bowdoin Street) can work together is a partner- officers and clerics from it, spent the next hour thanks in part, to Deputy “What drives me,” he embrace as a promise for ship with the community time to time.” or so knocking on doors Baston believing that girls says, “is that I have the the future. to improve quality of life But please don’t think talking to parents about could benefit just as much opportunity with the help “Over the years I have and reduce the violence of him as a provincial type the opportunities for their as the boys from boxing. of many others to see some always found it important on some of the toughest locally, interested only in preteens at a great school “Creating connections of these kids succeed in life to get out of the office and streets in Boston. “Father Bowdoin/Geneva, Baston they could get to easily. and letting the kids know because they have learned try to be present with Doc is being far too modest adds. “My job means I Wow – that’s Reverend you care and are going to to make the right choices.” people,” says Conway in telling you that all he visit all the neighborhoods Conway for you!” be there for them, that is With that, he heads down over coffee and toast at does is walk the streets,” regularly and guess who The deputy isn’t fin- what we are doing out here the street; there’s more Ashley’s Breakfast Shop says Baston. “There’s so asks if he can go along ished. “Did he talk about in the community,” Baston talking and listening to do on Bowdoin Street. “In much more to the daily life with me? We’ve been over the boxing nights?” He remarked on the success of before the day is finished. most parishes where I and charitable work of this at Franklin Field several hadn’t, but others had. A the boxing program. This article was origi- have served, this involved truly remarkable human times recently, and we few years back, Reverend Back at Ashley’s, Father nally published in the sports teams and attend- being.” Baston heads up have visited church meet- Conway enlisted the help Conway reflects on his summer issue of “BC High ing high school games so the Neighborhood Watch ings in Roxbury. And he of local boxer-turned-DEA life at 76. “I have, unfor- Today,” the alumni maga- the young people and their Unit citywide as she press- somehow also finds the agent Paul Doyle, actor tunately, celebrated the zine published by Bos- parents get to see you es for more all-around time by himself to stop Mark Wahlberg, and sev- funerals of many in this ton College High School and eventually you cre- community engagement in at the jails to check on eral Boston Police officers neighborhood who have (bchigh.edu/news/pub- ate connections with the and she considers Father the prisoners from the assigned to the Safe Street died by violence. I don’t lications). families. But Dorchester Conway her partner on the neighborhood, acting as program to begin a boxing think that I am perceived Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com August 2014 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 7 Boston Irish Reporter’s Here & There

By Bill O’Donnell In the years since he left Boston, Rogers has spent Irish government’s Department of Arts, Geneal- First-Ever Minister for the Diaspora – Enda long, fruitful years as ambassador to Zambia, as a key ogy and the Gaeltacht, was established to provide Kenny’s coalition government has answered the member of Ireland’s United Nations Team in New information to people who were born or married in hopes and aspirations of the Irish living abroad by York, and most recently as chief of Ireland’s widely Ireland regarding birth and marriage certificates appointing to the cabinet the first minister of state acclaimed foreign aid program. As he was departing for their family history research. Last month Irish for the diaspora. The new position has been the for his new Asian post, Foreign Affairs quoted from Genealogy had to temporarily close down its internet goal of the overseas Irish for decades, and is viewed a Brookings Institute report that cited Ireland’s site because family data about personal facts used largely as an ombudsman post for the Irish abroad Aid Program for International Development, led by for online banking and similar transactions, mother’s and an activist voice for voting rights and immigra- Ambassador-designate Rogers, as the “outstanding maiden name, etc. were mistakenly coupled with tion reform. aid program among the 31 international donors older family history, which allowed casual viewers The new minister is Jimmy Deenihan, former across the globe.” to see personal contemporary information that could minister for the arts, who as- New Boston Branch of Solas Nua – This all- be used for identity theft. sumed his new post following encompassing organization focusing on contemporary Most of the data on the website is, as one official the recent cabinet reshuffle. Irish arts that was begun in Washington, DC, by noted, “mostly about dead people,” but current de- He will be closely watched by Dublin native Linda Murray, has recently opened tails are a decided worry re identity theft, one of the the overseas Irish, especially a branch in Somerville, at the Burren on Elm Street, fastest-growing crimes in Ireland and America. Ad- young people who have lob- Davis Square, to be exact. Its interests range from justments are being made on the government site to bied loudly for the vote in Irish theatre, but also film, music, literature, dance, and exclude personal contemporary information, and keep national elections. However, a the visual arts. the Irish Genealogy data safe and free from identity spokesman for the Taoiseach, Solas Nua’s producer and guiding light is Jason theft, while keeping it available to ancestor hunters. in reacting to a question about McCool, who came to Boston to work on a PhD in Wise Words from A Wise Woman – Nuala voting rights that other coun- music at Boston University and stayed to open a re- O’Loan, Baroness O’Loan, the first police ombuds- tries have implemented, said, gional Solas Nua in the exciting Davis Square area as man in Northern Ireland (1999-2007), is one of the “No concrete plans are even on one of greater Boston’s newest theatre efforts. Early most honored women in Irish public life. A solicitor the agenda yet.” theatrical projects have involved play readings on the and law professor, she was the police ombudsman Bill O’Donnell The Irish in Britain or- fourth Monday of the month in the back room of the during the time when by statute the Royal Ulster ganization, which has long Burren. This past month, Solas Nua in Somerville had Constabulary (RUC) became the Police Service campaigned for a minister for diaspora in the govern- two readings: “Buddhist of Castleknock” and “Noah Northern Ireland (PSNI). She is controversial at ment, has said that there is much work to be done and the Tower Flower,” a play set in Ballymun, a times but respected always for her independence and by the precedent-setting minister of state to engage working-class Dublin neighborhood. integrity. The following is excerpted from an OpEd the Irish living in Britain. Kenny, in making the ap- McCool, a native of Brockton, and a multi-talented column by Baroness O’Loan that appeared in The pointment of Deenihan, described the new position actor and musician, has appeared in New York, Wash- Irish Catholic on July 10: as “an important role in connecting with the huge ington, and at the Kennedy Center. All are welcome “We have had so many attempts – healing through Irish Diaspora throughout the world.” to this new arts adventure by Solas Nua in Somervile. remembering. The Eames-Bradley Report, the recent Sounds in The Irish Marketplace – A County For details the website is solasnua.org/boston. Haass talks all came to approximately the same Kerry restaurant owner has taken the hard road in Tony O’Reilly: Not A Happy Ending – An conclusion: That we need multiple solutions which trying to tame his noisy customers, many of whom international rugby Hall of Famer, a hugely suc- recognize pain, which allow stories to be told, which are American tourists who visit Peter’s Place in Wa- cessful business mogul with breathtaking stakes provide support for those whose terrible injuries terville. The restaurant posted a sign banning new in publishing, retail, oil & gas exploration, crystal, were life changing and who have not been properly customers with bad habits. The notice, prominent in newspapers, and a myriad other stunning totems looked after by the state. We need support for their front of the Ring of Kerry business, loudly proclaims: of wealth and power. Sir Anthony O’Reilly had it carers too, and we need an independent investigative “No bus/coach tours or loud Americans. Thank you.” all as he conquered the mercantile world in Ireland, process which will bring before the law those who can The sign, blasted as offensive by both tourists and the United States, the United Kingdom, and beyond. be made accountable, and will tell as much as can local business owners, is a turn-off for many visitors Ireland’s first billionaire reigned confidently over all be told about all the other deaths of the Troubles, no and also has many of the restaurant’s neighbors up he surveyed. matter what embarrassment or inconvenience that in arms for scaring away their customers and giving On the few occasions I have been in the same room may cause to anyone or any government. Waterville a bad name. My initial observation is that with him, I couldn’t escape the relentless certainty “The problem that those who want to close down the ban is a strange way to build a business. On sec- that I was in the presence of a handsome, charming, the past do not seem to understand is that for many ond thought, I admire the owner for choosing respect extremely gifted, and capable personality who had of those who have suffered grievous wrong, and have and civility over loudmouth boors. I have always been dealt in nothing but triumphs all his life. Failure been affected by the most serious crimes, what hap- appalled when in line to pay a bill or change money had never even remotely shadowed this Dublin-born pened remains part of the present ...” in Ireland to hear some green-bedecked Yank crudely prince. How well I remember the headline: “Heinz RANDOM CLIPPINGS ask the clerk “How much is that in real money?” Like CEO Highest Paid Executive in the World,” as The Tall Ships will be sailing back to Northern many who travel would agree, such cringe-inducing one celebrated journal reminded its readers about Ireland a year from now with an additional 30 new behavior today is much less frequent than it was some O’Reilly’s ascendancy. vessels in the Parade of Sail. … Rupert Murdoch, 30 or 40 years ago, but it has no place for guests in Flash forward: Tony O’Reilly today, a few months already notorious for “Fox Make Believe” and hacking a welcoming country. past his 78th birthday, is being haunted by his credi- private phones for news, will be the undisputed king Where Have All the Magdalene Victims gone? tors in the Irish courts for millions of dollars he no of US media if his $75 billion bid for Time Warner – Despite the belief that the overwhelming majority longer has. His regal mansion estate in Kildare and goes through. He would then control 40 percent of of Magdalene abuse victims live in Britain, only 67 other properties have been sold off to satisfy the banks. the cable market. … Former Irish President Mary laundry survivors have come forward to claim com- His homes in Pittsburgh, the Bahamas, France, and Robinson has been newly named as the UN special pensation. Thus far almost $11 million in compensa- Dublin are gone, as are his holdings in Waterford envoy for climate change. … Ireland, like the US, is tion has gone to 357 survivors, most living outside Crystal, the Independent Newspaper empire, and reporting laser beam hits on planes. The latest was Britain, and only 20 percent to survivors living there. countless other once-blessed O’Reilly enterprises. on an air ambulance carrying a very sick new-born. It is widely believed that the majority of Magdalene But along the way I want to remember the man … A public commemoration for the hunger strikers women left Ireland and now live in Britain. who had it all and gave much of it away, even as he will be held in Derrylin, Co. Fermanagh on Aug. 3. In the past the Irish Women Survivors Network has fought to retain his ownership of the Independent … Five great golf courses that are not Lahinch or claimed that many survivors, certainly at least 500, paper. The media prince at bay and ultimately ruined. Ballybunion: Donabate, Dublin; Carne Golf Links, should be filing compensation claims. The survivors Most of all I would like to remember Tony O’Reilly Co. Mayo; Carlow Golf Club; Little Island, Cork; and network further claims that hundreds of Irish women as the man who, maybe above all others, made the Scrabo Golf Club, Newtownards, Co. Down. … The in Britain are choosing not to seek compensation Ireland Fund possible. In between his legendary Irish government has 400-600 openings for clerical that they deserve because they have never told their giving to universities, libraries, his O’Reilly Founda- help. Pay is $14.87 an hour and the application of- families about their years in the laundry. tion, and on and on, there was the Ireland Fund, an fice is flooded. … Limerick City, long troubled by The organizers of the compensation program also idea now some forty years old that O’Reilly helped the local criminal underworld, finds gun crime is at said that “the problem is that they are too afraid”. make a reality with his philanthropy and faith in historically low level and gang warfare way down. … And others are unwilling to discuss their Magdalene what such an enterprise could do. And through all Virgin Airlines is set to open its Belfast-to-Orlando years, citing family alienation, among other reasons. his glorious wins, he never forgot he was Irish, Brit route next June. … The nonpartisan Congressional The maximum lump sum compensation payment for title or not. He lived mainly in Ireland and, ironically, Budget Office predicts that federal spending on health Magdalene survivors who were in a laundry for four his downfall was centered amidst the wreckage of care will continue to decline in the coming decades. years or more is $68,000. his Irish holdings. … Every summer the Irish Drinks Industry Group Anyone reading this who has an aunt, or a cousin, I don’t know about you, but I’m for cutting Tony alerts the public that pubs are closing, citing 1,000 or other female family relative living in Britain who O’Reilly some slack, some compassion, and maybe a pubs shut down (many due to excise taxes) since 2007. could have been a victim, should talk to those relatives bit of comfort for his senior years. All to often and A few Cabinet veterans were pre-empted in the and urge them to contact the IWSSN, the survivors (admit it) all too easily, we derive some perverse scent recent reshuffle. Gone areTaniste Eamon Gilmore, network, to seek what in the US is correctly called of pleasure when a Big Kahuna falls. Not for me, not Pat Rabbitte, and Ruairi Quinn. … Ireland was damages. this time. I wish him, amidst the debris that is his in a two-week-long media frenzy when negotiations New Honors for Former Boston Diplomat – life today, a bit of the old Irish good luck. Lots of it. broke down and Garth Brooks, refusing five dates, Those of you out there who were involved with the The Clerical World at Odds – My daughter just pulled out of his planned Croke Park concerts. … Aer Irish Consulate in Boston in the 1980s will likely finished a course in Reiki, a stress-resistant program Lingus moved into its new terminal at Heathrow in remember the vice consul during part of that tumul- that, I’m told, helps individuals to reduce tension, London, a timely short-cut now for its passengers in tuous decade. Brendan Roger, who along with his to find peace of mind, and to see life as easier on there. … A national campaign is being conducted by colleague and friend, Irish Consul General Patrick several fronts. concerned Irish postal workers organizing protests Curran, were two of the most effective and popular My daughter is a good person, a great mother, to what they fear is the impending closure of some representatives ever for the Irish government in bright, active, and a giving, team-player type. But 550 mostly rural post offices across Ireland. … The Boston. Both ran the Boston Marathon; they brought she is also not on the side of the angels, at least ac- annual Jimmy Fund radio-telethon on NESN and young boxers from the poorest streets of Limerick to cording to Father Padraig O’Baoill, a parish priest WEEI radio is set for Tuesday & Wednesday, Aug.19 compete in Boston; they reached out to Father Joe and in Donegal. She recently became a Reiki master and, and 20, to raise money for kids with cancer and other similar charities; and they worked long hours with according to the good reverend, Reiki, along with Tai major health problems. You can follow it on Facebook the Irish in Boston and at home to build significant, chi and yoga, are things “we should refrain from taking and Twitter. Dig deep, fellows & gals. … Poor Peggy lasting bridges between our two countries. Those part in.” Or to quote, “As followers of Jesus Christ Noonan, held hostage by the Wall Street Journal as strong ties exist and thrive to this day. we should not partake in deeds that go against our she muses over her bankrupt conspiracy theories. The Curran, a native of Waterford County, is retired, religion. Therefore, you should not take part in yoga, latest accuses President Obama of using children and Rogers, of Dundalk and now a veteran of the tai chi or Reiki. Do not put your soul in jeopardy for as “pawns,” allowing the border kid invasion to force Irish Foreign Affairs Department, is embarking this the sake of these contemptible things.” immigration reform. Sure, Peggy, that will work. … month on a new diplomatic mission – as Ireland’s Supposedly, the assessments above reflect church That Enda Kenny has a great sense of humor. In Ambassador to Thailand and Myanmar, formerly teachings. Oops! Flunked theology again, I guess. his recent cabinet reshuffle he namedJoe McHugh Burma. His most recent claim to fame, at least in this Hidden Risk in Family Roots – Most genealogi- the new junior Minister for the Gaeltacht. The sole columnist’s corner, was his “lucky charm” extended cal websites provide rich veins of information and qualification for the job is the appointee should be an visit to Boston in 2004 when he helped celebrate the connections that help us unearth the precious data Irish speaker. You guessed it: Joe is not! Red Sox win of their first World Series in 86 years. about our ancestors. Irish genealogy, created by the Page 8 August 2014 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Immigration Q & A Irish International Immigrant Center Overstaying your visit An agency accredited by US Department of Justice 100 Franklin Street, Boston, MA 02110 to the US – bad idea Telephone (617) 542-7654 Fax (617) 542-7655 Website:iiicenter.org Email: [email protected] Q. I came to the US for a visit under the Visa Waiver Program and was given permission to stay here for 90 IIIC to celebrate 25th anniversary Councillor Josh Zakim tions) and thus pose a days. I was thinking of staying on for a while longer filed the Trust Act bill, threat to US society. Un- and maybe getting a job to support myself here. I heard at October Solas Gala honoring stating “The spirit of der the current system, that staying past the 90-day limit could result in a bar unity the Trust Act seeks when people are arrested, on my reentry to the US in the future. Is this true? Sister Deevy and Richard E. Holbrook to promote not only serves their fingerprints are run A. If you entered the US on the Visa Waiver Program, the interests of immi- through an ICE database. as most visitors from the 37 eligible countries do today, On Oct. 30, 2014 the promote solidarity, peace, Irish International Im- and justice are global in grants, but also enhances If it is determined that you normally are given up to 90 days to remain in this the efficacy of law enforce- they are in the country country – but you are not allowed to work here during migrant Center will hold scale, benefitting people its annual Solas Awards in Ireland, Haiti, Uganda, ment by breaking down illegally, ICE can require that time. If you overstay this 90-day period by 180 barriers to cooperation local authorities to hold days to one year, you face a three-year bar from reen- Celebration at the Boston and beyond. Park Plaza Hotel. Named In his role as chair- and allowing police to them until their agents tering the US. Overstaying the 90-day period by more devote their resources arrive to take them into than one year subjects you to a ten-year reentry bar. from the Gaelic word for man and CEO of Eastern “light,” the Solas Awards Bank, Richard Holbrook to pursuing real crimi- custody. Do not misinterpret the 180 days as any kind of nals rather than using Under the proposed “grace” period that allows you to remain in the US recognize the good work oversees a company that of inspirational leaders is a leader in corporate so- our limited resources to bill being considered by beyond the 90 days granted under the Visa Waiver detain members of our the City Council, people Program. Any period of overstay at all may affect your dedicated to the IIIC’s cial responsibility. With vision. This year, the IIIC a strong commitment community.” Under his released by the courts ability to reenter the US at a later date. plan, the city will no lon- would not be handed over Aside from the problem of the three- and ten-year will present awards to to giving back, Eastern Sister Lena Deevy, LSA, Bank has been a tre- ger pay to jail them for to immigration authori- reentry bars, if you overstay a visit under the Visa US Immigration and Cus- ties unless the person Waiver Program even by a few days you no longer would and Richard E. Holbrook. mendous supporter of We are also honored to IIIC’s work for a decade toms Enforcement (ICE). was deemed a danger to be allowed to reenter under that program in the future. Similarly, Mayor Martin the community or already Instead you would have to make a formal application announce that Massachu- and shares IIIC’s com- setts State Senator Linda mitment to diversity and J. Walsh declared on June had a felony conviction. for the B-2 visitor’s visa at the nearest US Embassy, 25 that he would sign a Records show that half which requires a fee and can take considerable time. Dorcena Forry will lead inclusion. us as event emcee. Proceeds from the 2014 city ordinance prohibit- of those classified by ICE You can expect close scrutiny of your application, and if ing Boston police from as “criminal deportees” you have a compelling reason for a prior brief overstay, We are thrilled to be Solas Awards Celebration recognizing Sister Lena support the IIIC’s legal, detaining undocumented since 2008 were individu- you should include evidence of it with your application. immigrants for possible als whose most serious Holders of visitor’s visas usually are admitted for up and Mr. Holbrook as we wellness, and education continue to celebrate the programs for immigrants deportation, unless they conviction was illegal to six months and may, before the expiration of the have been convicted of a entry or a traffic violation. visa, apply for an extension if they have a good reason IIIC’s milestone 25th an- from Ireland and around niversary, given all they the world, and learn- serious crime. More importantly, Se- for wanting to stay longer in the US. The Trust Act is in cure Communities hin- Employment in the US, either while in status under have done to make IIIC’s ing exchange programs services possible over the promoting reconciliation response to the “Secure ders law enforcement. the Visa Waiver Program, while here on a visitor’s Communities” deporta- A national study by the visa, or during an overstay, is another issue. People years. and economic recovery in Sister Lena, IIIC’s Ex- Ireland. For more infor- tion program whose im- University of Illinois temporarily in the US are not allowed to have em- plementation Gov. Deval Chicago found that nearly ployment without specific authorization from the US ecutive Director Emerita, mation or to reserve your worked tirelessly to pro- seat today, contact Mary Patrick sought to prevent half of the immigrants government, either with a work visa (such as H-1B), or in 2011. The objective of surveyed were less likely with an Employment Authorization Document issued, mote the welfare of im- at 617-695-1554. migrants during her 24 ••• Secure Communities is to to call police if witness to for example, while an application for adjustment of remove non-citizens who or victim of a crime out of status to permanent residence is pending. If you do years of leadership at the Understanding Bos- IIIC and continues her ton’s “Trust Act” – On have committed crimes fear of inquiry into their work here without authorization, that is considered (other than minor viola- immigr visa fraud by the US immigration authorities, and you efforts today. Her work to June 27 Boston City render yourself inadmissible to the US in the future in almost all circumstances. Note, finally, that the 90-day Visa Waiver period of admission to the US normally cannot be extended. Only Matters Of Substance in extreme situations where you could document the reason with compelling evidence would you be granted an extension. An example of such a situation would Common Myths about Grief be hospitalization in the US following an accident or serious illness. By Danielle Owen allowing those left behind counseling, and other If you have questions about this or any other aspect IIIC Staff to go through their own tools to find our way to a of immigration law, you can have a free, confidential Losing someone we love process of grief in their “new normal.” consultation at one of our weekly legal clinics. Re- is devastating; whether own ways, without the Dr. Jordan highlights member: It is far better to get legal advice before death is sudden or ex- shame and guilt of unre- some of the following com- taking a step that might have lifelong consequences pected, it hurts. There alistic “myths” about how mon myths people have for you, rather than acting first and then trying to fix is no one way to grieve; we “should” grieve imped- about grief including: a situation that may well have no solution. grief is as unique as the ing our natural progress Myth 1: Grief hap- Disclaimer: These articles are published to inform individual left behind. towards recovery. Let me pens in stages: Actually, generally, not to advise in individual cases. US Citi- In my work with families be clear, no matter how grief is experienced in zenship and Immigration Services and the US Depart- and friends who are deal- we lose someone we love “waves” or in a cyclical ment of State frequently amend regulations and alter ing with grief I find myself (through illness, accident way; having “good days” processing and filing procedures. For legal advice seek referring to the wonderful or suicide), our world is or “not-so-good” days be- the assistance of IIIC immigration legal staff. work of Dr. John Jordan, never the same. ing used to describe the a clinician and author Dr. Jordan shares a experience. Danielle Bowles with years of experience helpful image about how Myth 2: Grief is the ily members and friends supporting families liv- living with grief is like same for everyone can be enough. For oth- ing with grief. He speaks carrying a boulder. We (men, women, chil- ers however, especially often about how helpful can’t ever really “put it dren): In fact, grief is for immigrants away it is when we challenge down” but we do what very individual so try to from home, the grieving the “myths” our society we can to make our backs avoid comparing your process can become a traditionally holds about stronger and manage experience of grief with much more complicated FOLEY LAW OFFICES, P.C. the process of grieving, carrying it better. We others journey. If the person use support, self-care, Myth 3: Time will they lost died suddenly heal all wounds – It Attorney John Philip Foley (heart attack, accident, should take about a suicide), there is a chance Permanent Residency & Citizenship • Family & Business year: The truth is, differ- that “traumatic grief” Immigration • Labor Certification & Temporary Visas ent aspects of grief take could occur, especially ALL Nationalities & AILA Members different amounts of time if the death is viewed as Myth 4: Time heals random and/or prevent- Are you interested in becoming a U.S. Citizen? all wounds – just wait able. “Traumatic” deaths it out: Instead, grief like these can leave those Let the expert staff at the Irish International Immigrant Center involves active self-care, help you. Register for citizenship classes at the Irish who are grieving to be at International Immigrant Center to prepare for the citizenship efforts to adapt and to a much greater risk of IRISH INTERNATIONAL IMMIGRANT CENTER exam and interview. learn new skills – all of “complicated mourning,” IMMIGRATION LEGAL ASSISTANCE which takes a lot of time. a condition that leaves the September 11th—October 16th Waiting till it “passes” mourner with a delayed The Irish International Immigrant Center provides free legal Thursdays 1:00 - 3:00 pm OR 6:00 - 8:00 pm is not helpful. Get help or incomplete adaptation support and representation to the Irish immigrant community. Weekly $30 Course Fee when you need it. legal clinics where you can receive a free and confidential consultation with to the loss. staff and volunteer attorneys are held throughout the Greater Boston area. For more information, call Sarah at (617) 542-7654 ext. 36 Myth 5: Grief in- These kinds of losses For information, call us at (617) 542-7654. or visit the Center between 9:00 — 5:00. volves saying goodbye are the ones that often and achieving “resolu- Irish International Immigrant Center require counseling and Upcoming Clinic Schedule 100 Franklin St., Lower Level 1 tion” of your grief: The Boston, MA 02110 professional help. If you reality for us all is, when Monday, August 11th Enter at 201 Devonshire Street are having difficulty find- Green Briar Pub, 304 Washington Street, Brighton we lose someone, we keep Made possible by the MA Office of Refugees and ing a suitable resource for Immigrants and the GBCI collaborative created by the that relationship bond th yourself or a friend/loved Tuesday, August 19 Fish Family Foundation. even though they are no IIIC, 100 Franklin St. Lower Level, Downtown one, please don’t hesitate Boston longer with us. We may to call me, Danielle Owen, Entrance is at 201 Devonshire Street go to their grave, “chat” in confidence, at 617-542- to them, or imagine the Tuesday, August 26th 7654, Ext. 14 or email The South Boston Laboure Center loved one’s response to an [email protected] for 275 West Broadway, South Boston event or situation. further information on For many, being able support or referrals. to lean on other fam- Phone: 617.542.7654 | Fax: 617.542.7655 | www.iiicenter.org 100 FRANKLIN STREET, LL-1, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02110 | TEL 617-542-7654 | WWW.IIICENTER.ORG Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com August 2014 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 9 BIR BUSINESS ROUND UP Governor signs convention center expansion bill

By Gintautas Dumcius Boston), the legislation’s bill-signing that the fund State House co-sponsors. took in about $100 mil- News Service The expansion’s sup- lion last year and some The Massachusetts porters say the legisla- of the fund was used for Convention Center Au- tion will aid Boston in land acquisition and other thority, which oversees claiming a larger share of purposes. The bill allows the sprawling convention the convention industry, the authority to issue debt and exhibition center while critics argue the bill against future collections in South Boston, will be depends on rosy revenue into the fund. able to go ahead with a projections and exempts The Pioneer Institute, $1 billion expansion of the the authority from some through former Inspector center, under a bill signed public records requests. General Greg Sullivan, The bill (H 4308) funds asked Patrick to veto the by Gov. Deval Patrick on Governor Patrick handed a pen to MCCA Executive Director Jim Rooney after July 29. The proposed the expansion through bill, saying the revenue the existing convention projections were “unre- signing a bill into law that will allow for a $1 billion expansion of the BCEC in expansion, totaling 1.3 South Boston. Shown from lefty are: Michelle Shell, chair of the MCCA Board million square feet, will center fund. alistic” and could lead The fund, which has to statewide taxes being of Directors, Rep. Nick Collins, Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry, and Jim Rooney. add a second ballroom Photo courtesy MCCA as well as more meeting roughly $120 million, used to cover the shortfall. spaces. was created in 1997 and Sullivan added that the by the Ethics Commission, tion of entities that the still FOIA my travel and The bill-signing was receives tourism and bill exempts the authority the attorney general’s authority does business my expense if they want also attended by Sen. hospitality fees and taxes. from the public records office, and the inspector with, and the information to,” he said referring to Linda Dorcena Forry James Rooney, the head law in “dangerous” ways. general’s office. Rooney has to meet a “very high the Freedom of Informa- (D-Dorchester) and Rep. of the convention center Rooney disagreed and said the bill seeks to pro- standard” to be considered tion Act. “And they do Nick Collins (D-South authority, said after the said the bill was reviewed tect proprietary informa- protected. “People can regularly.” South Boston pub owners plan Neponset restaurant The owners of She- will serve basic Ameri- Conway said. Some “re- nanigans in South Bos- can fare for lunch and ally, really run down ton have bought an old dinner at 367 Neponset buildings” could soon be party-supply store on Ave. replaced by condos or get Neponset Avenue and Conway said Adam- upgraded, she said. The plan to turn it into a son and co-owner Mark two paid $300,000 for full-service restaurant Cummings are making the liquor license from with a similar theme an investment in a neigh- a Brighton restaurant. and menu. At a Boston borhood on the cusp of They had originally Licensing Board hearing revitalization, one that is sought permission to on July 23, co-owner Paul ripe for a good restaurant stay open until 2 a.m., Adamson and attorney to anchor it. but agreed to roll that Carolyn Conway said “This is a neighbor- back to 1 a.m. after talk- the new restaurant, to hood that is starting to ing to nearby residents. be called the Dorchester, really come into its own,” Brett tapped again to serve on US disabilities panel James T. Brett, the Brett, a Dorchester President & CEO of the resident, has served as New England Council, the President & CEO has been re-appointed by of the New England President Obama to serve Council, a non-partisan on the President’s Com- business organization mittee for People with representing businesses Intellectual Disabilities throughout the six New (PCPID). Brett previ- England states, since ously served on PCIPD 1996. Prior to joining the from 2002 to 2006 and Council, he served in the served a two-year terms Massachusetts House of as the committee’s chair- Representatives for over man from 2011 to 2013. 15 years. “I am honored and The mission of the humbled to have been President’s Committee selected by President for People with Intel- Obama to once again lectual Disabilities is to serve on the President’s provide advice and as- Committee for People James T. Brett sistance to the President with Intellectual Dis- of the United States and abilities,” said Brett. members of the commit- the Secretary of Health “Advocacy for people with tee to offer guidance and and Human Services on a intellectual disabilities is advice to the President broad range of topics that a cause that is near and how we can continue to impact people with intel- dear to my heart, and I create opportunities for lectual disabilities and look forward to the oppor- people with intellectual the field of Intellectual tunity to work with other disabilities.” Disabilities.

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Wild Atlantic Way

T he road isn’t going to rise up to meet you all the way over there in America, you know.

If you’re looking for one good reason to come home to Ireland this year, we’ll give you a million. That’s the record number of visitors who came from the U.S. during the year of The Gathering. And the wonderful festivals, music and sporting events are still going strong in 2014. So make plans today to visit the friends and family you’ve missed and we’re fairly certain the road will rise up to meet you along the way.

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TOURISM IRELAND DIMENSIONS Publication: Boston Irish Reporter Page Trim: 10" x 16" Supplied by: Tengo Two, S.L. Barcelona, Spain Publish Date: Feb , 2014 Bleed: 10.25" x 16.25" Tel: 011 [34] 652 081 624 Materials Date: Feb 24, 2014 Live Area: 9" x 15" eMail: [email protected] Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com August 2014 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 11 An unforgettable trip to Calvary – via Sligo (Continued from page 1) ber of genres into “Calvary,” but customary dedication as the at its core, the film focuses upon “day of Calvary” draws ever a remote corner that has been nearer. McDonagh’s biting, as harmed by the huge issue incisive dialogue, deft pacing, of clerical abuse as any large and magnificent cinematog- urban parish. raphy dare the audience to A. The fact that abuse is the avert their eyes or cover their centerpiece of all that happens ears – but the viewer can’t. in the story does invariably Bursts of gallows humor and make the film something of the inexorable flow of the story a horror film. Still, I didn’t will not allow watchers to turn want to be heavy-handed. I away. McDonagh’s storytelling worked to process clerical abuse skills keep one guessing who obliquely – I want the audience the revenge-minded parishio- to be looking at the impact of ner is, giving the film a genu- abuse, rather than what has ine sense of mystery and even literally happened. It [the film] crime noir. Is the damaged, is invariably a mystery to all twisted killer-to-be the rau- but Father James. The villain cous butcher (Chris O’Dowd), is also a victim. In a very real who appears to be always one sense, the movie is a victim- step from explosive behavior; impact statement, but done in a the haughty, tightly wrapped way that does not stumble into “local squire” (Dylan Moran) cinematic porn in terms of vio- appears a likely candidate at lence. I tried to make the villain times; so, too, does the utterly sympathetic – to show how he screwed-up local doctor (Aiden ever got to a point of planning Gillen), who fills his nose with to crucify a priest. What makes cocaine in the bathroom of the Kelly Reilly as “Fiona” and Brendan Glesson as “Father James Lavelle” in “Calvary.” Father James so remarkable is local pub and carps about his his innate understanding that life. Then again, as Father Donagh and Gleeson continue of black and white. Of course, “Ryan’s Daughter” – he was he must absorb it... James visits parishioners in to collaborate on future films. things are rarely so black and simply brilliant. Q. This question is for both whitewashed cottages perched After a private screening of white, as we learn through life. Q. The landscape of the film of you. What would you most along the wild Sligo landscape, “Calvary,” John Michael Mc- Father James has battled ad- is so resonant, and its inhabit- like movie goers to take away the viewer wonders if one of sev- Donagh and Brendan Gleeson diction and his own faith, but ants are hardly the stuff of the from “Calvary” at film’s end and eral other embittered, seething sat down to discuss the film as John’s [McDonagh’s] script friendly, smiling hagiography upon later reflection? souls might be the one readying with the BIR: captures, Father James is a many Americans have of Ire- A. Gleeson: That there is Father James’s cross. Q. In playing the role of good man and priest despite land’s West. still a good to be had with the I will not even hint at the Father James, did you feel his doubts and flaws. He is a A. The landscape is so im- Church. I’m looking at my film’s climax. All I’ll say is any weight of not veering flesh and blood human being portant, I believe, to any film parents, and how a Christian that “Calvary” is a film that one into stereotypes with some of who genuinely strives to serve that strives to be memorable. Brother in particular had a should run, not walk, to see. On the memorable portrayals of his parishioners as best he can. Sligo is beautiful, but there can huge positive influence in my every level, it succeeds splen- priests on screen? That and the core faith that al- be a harsh beauty that fills not own life. About Father James, I didly and unforgettably. While A. I tried to keep the con- lows him to cope with the fact only the land, sky, and sea, but want people to understand he’s the Academy will certainly not nection to the character more that a man wants to crucify a harshness that fills many of not a pussy – he strives for good- listen to me, if I had a vote, I’d personal. Some of the past him for the sins of the church the people who live there. The ness, even though he pays for nominate Gleeson for his tour- portrayals of priests are dated, at large are what I worked to landscape is the frame for all it. McDonagh: I want people de-force as Father James as he so I didn’t give those much re- portray. that the characters do and ex- to think about basic questions confronts his own Calvary with flection. What I tried to do was Of course, one has to give perience. The past and present of humanity. I believe there is courage, dignity, and a human- delve into my own connection to a nod to some of the timeless are all so muddled. Still, even an existential spiritual point ity and understanding that is the Church and priests from my performances of Montgom- the smallest sky on film can be the film makes: Forgiveness mesmerizing and haunting. childhood. Back then, every- ery Clift in “I Confess” and universal. is highly underrated. One can only hope that Mc- thing was taught in such terms certainly Trevor Howard in Q. You have blended a num-

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Page 12 August 2014 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Boston irish Boston Irish Arts, Entertainment, Reporter Travel & More On tap for August, music-wise Irish fests at Music Circus, Melody Tent, and much more By Sean Smith Special to the BIR The South Shore Music Circus in Cohasset will hold its first-ever Irish music festival on Aug. 21, featuring renowned fiddler Eileen Ivers and her world-music band Immigrant Soul, along with The Fighting James- ons and Celtica: Pipes Rock. Doors open at 6 p.m., and the concert begins at 7 p.m. “As everyone knows, there is such a huge Irish population in this area,” says Deanna Lohnes, who is marketing director for the South Shore Music Circus and its sister venue, the Cape Cod Melody Tent in Hyannis, where the festival will take place on Aug. 22. “The Irish/Celtic events we’ve featured in the past have all sold out, so we thought it would be fun to try something a little different, and have a festival atmosphere.” The Fighting Jamesons, above, Eileen Ivers & Immigrant Soul, at right, and Celtica, below: The Pipes Grammy winner Ivers is a familiar, and popular, highlight the South Shore Music Circus’ first-ever Irish festival on August 21. personality to Irish-Celtic music fans in the Boston area, known in particular for her work on the origi- p.m. For directions to the Peabody Institute Library, nal “Riverdance” production and her appearances see www.peabodylibrary.org. – including this year * * * – at the Boston Irish Club Passim in Harvard Square will feature a Festival. Growing split bill on Aug. 27 with Scottish-style fiddler Katie up in the Bronx, McNally and the duo of Liz Simmons and Hannah she found herself Sanders. A native of Westford, McNally has performed drawn to the many and recorded with the fiddle ensemble Childsplay, different strains of and toured with Carlos Nunez; she released her debut music she heard and album “Flourish” last year. Simmons is a member of integrated them with Long Time Courting – which McNally joined last year her Irish traditional – a local all-female quartet playing neo-traditional background. The Im- Irish, Scottish and American music, and also plays migrant Soul ensem- with acoustic folk string-band Annalivia. Several years ble is an outgrowth ago, Simmons joined up with Sanders – an English of Ivers’s interest in native who, like Simmons, grew up in a musical family other genres, espe- – to present a repertoire of Irish, English and Celtic- cially those of South Americana material, as well as contemporary-original America and Africa. songs, with a harmonic blend of voices and guitars. T h e s i x - p i e c e Although Sanders moved back to England in 2012, Fighting Jamesons she and Simmons have maintained their partnership. play classic Irish Admission to the concert, which begins at 8 p.m., songs in the high- is $15, $13 for members of Passim. For reservations energy, aggressive and other information, see clubpassim.org/club/katie- rock style of the Drop- mcnally-and-hannah-sanders-liz-simmons. kick Murphys and Earlier in the month, on Aug. 16, Club Passim will Young Dubliners – host a concert of musicians – including McNally – who The duo of Liz Simmons, left, both of whom they’ve are teaching at this year’s Boston Harbor Scottish and Hannah Sanders will shared the stage with Fiddle School [scottishfiddleschool.org]. Other faculty reunite for a concert that – mustering fiddle, at the school this year include Scottish-born fiddlers also features fiddler Katie banjo and accordion Douglas Lawrence and Ronan Martin, as well as lo- McNally, at Club Passim on alongside electric gui- cal favorites Hanneke Cassel and Barbara McOwen August 27. tar, bass and drums. (fiddles), Mike Block (cello), Beth Murray (piano) and Celtica: Pipes Rock, Eamon Sefton (guitar). See passim.org for details. with members from Scotland and Austria as well as the US, brings the power and presence of Highland bagpipes to its rock-band persona. Also on the bill, notes Lohnes, will be some local color, with the Haley School of Irish Dance from Whitman and the Highland Light Scottish Pipe Band of Cape Cod. “We’re hoping this will be an annual event,” she says. “There’s definitely a bit more of a rock edge to this festival than some of the others, but plenty for everyone to enjoy. It’ll be a great summer’s night.” For information on the festival and on South Shore Music Circus, see themusiccircus.org; the website for the Cape Cod Melody Tent is melodytent.org. * * * Meanwhile, up on the North Shore, uilleann piper Joey Abarta will perform on Aug. 14 as part of the Peabody Institute Library’s Courtyard Concert Series spotlighting Greater Boston area musicians. A native of Los Angeles who moved to Boston in 2010, Abarta is acknowledged as one of the great young pipers around; in addition to his solo performances, Abarta tours with Mick Moloney and the group The Green Fields of America, teaches at Comhaltas’ Boston Mu- sic School, and organizes various traditional music concerts and events. On Aug. 28, the series will present Molly Pinto Madigan, whose songs draw on, or originate from, Irish and other folk traditions. Among other events and venues, Madigan has appeared at Boston’s Celtic Music Fest, as has Abarta. All concerts in the series are free and begin at 6 Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com August 2014 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 13 Sharon Shannon shows set at Burren, Cultural Centre Sharon Shannon has played one of those right-place-at- with the likes of The Waterboys, the-right-time kind of things. Christy Moore, Jackson Browne, Steve came to Galway a lot, Frankie Gavin, Michael Mc- which is where I live now, and Goldrick, Sinead O’Connor, would hang out and play at the and the RTE Concert Orchestra, sessions, and that was how we among others, while taking her became friends. He just fell in masterful Irish accordion play- love with the place, he’d stay for ing (not to mention fiddle and months at a time, and he wrote whistle) on excursions through a number of songs, including Appalachian, country, rock, hip- that one. So he got a bunch of hop, reggae and Portuguese mu- us – myself, my sister Mary, sic. She has performed for Bill Jim [Murray], Liz and Yvonne Clinton and Lech Walesa, and Kane – to play with him, and the appeared in a charming music arrangement we came to was video frolicking with her dogs. we would all have use of that This month, the Clare native track; so that’s how it wound up will be stopping in the Boston on his album and on “Diamond area for shows on Aug. 6 and Mountain Sessions.” 7 at The Burren in Somerville At first, you know, nobody re- as part of the pub’s Backroom ally paid it much attention. But series, and on Aug. 8 at the Irish several years later it showed up Cultural Centre of New England on TV and in a film or two, and in Canton. She recently spoke Mundy and I did our version, with the BIR’s Sean Smith. and it’s just become a massive Q. Sharon, what memories success. It’s hard to say why and impressions do you have these things happen the way of Boston? they do. A. I first came to Boston when Q. You might also say “Gal- I was 14, playing with a band way Girl” is a symbol for the called Disirt Tola. It was the Irish-American roots music first time I was in America, my we’ve been seeing over the past whole family was with me, and several years, what with Tim we had such a lovely, warm O’Brien, Grada, The Unwanted, welcome in Boston, and made a the Cherish the Ladies “Coun- lot of friends. So I’ve had a long try Crossroads” album, and so association with a number of on. How did you find yourself people there, especially includ- drawn to it? ing [Burren owners] Tommy and A. Well, of course, American Louise McCarthy. country music is massively Q. You’ll be accompanied popular in Ireland, and my on this visit by guitarist Jim friends and I listened to a lot of Murray and keyboardist Alan it growing up – Larry Cunning- Connor, is that right? ham, Big Tom, and the like. And A. Yes, I’ve been playing with from a young age, when we’d be Jim for about 15 years now, and playing in the local pubs, you’d he’s been on my albums; he’s a just get used to playing for a set wonderful guy and it’s always a Sharon Shannon: “If I hear a melody I like, it doesn’t matter to me where it comes from – it dance one minute, and then in treat to play with him. Alan and can be from anywhere in the world – I just enjoy trying it out and seeing how it fits with what the next having a singer come I have been performing as a duo I do.” Sean Smith photo up and do a country song that for only a couple of years now, reels or putting a reggae backing point for women in Irish music continues to be. It was great people would dance to. and we’ve had standing ovations to a set of Irish tunes. in general. How do you see it? having young people in their I just find that playing along all over the place because he’s A. I think it was very, very A. It’s interesting – usually, 20s tell us that they’d grown with the American, old-timey such an incredible man for the important to have that base if you’re donating a track to an up listening to “A Woman’s and country music feels very keyboards. I haven’t worked of tradition, and to be rooted album for a charitable cause or Heart,” and now they’re mad comfortable, and in some re- a lot with keyboard players, in it. The way I look at it, the the like, you tend to forget about into the music. spects it’s similar to Irish music. except in a “big-band” setting, other music I bring in is a sort it, and just hope maybe you did Q. And then there’s “Galway So it all works very well. but I just loved his sound – he’s of decoration. If I hear a melody some good. Well, the success of Girl”: You didn’t write it, and Q. Any upcoming or ongoing great with the jigs and reels. I like, it doesn’t matter to me “A Woman’s Heart” just took us you didn’t sing it on the re- projects you’d like to mention? We’ll be doing mostly stuff where it comes from – it can be all by surprise, and was a big, cording of the song – that was A. There’ll be a live DVD I’m from the albums, and a few new from anywhere in the world – I powerful boost to all of us. We Steve Earle in both cases [the going to do with Alan, which bits and pieces. It’ll all be well- just enjoy trying it out and see- were able to go out and do much recording of “Galway Girl” ap- we’ll be recording in Galway. rehearsed and tight. I can’t wait ing how it fits with what I do. bigger gigs, and reach a much peared on Earle’s 2000 album I don’t know if it’ll be ready in for American audiences to hear Q. Looking at your career, cer- wider audience, than we did “Transcendental Blues” and in time for the US tour, but it’ll be all three of us together. tainly one important highlight before. So the traditional music 2001 on “The Diamond Moun- coming along soon. Aside from Q. You grew up in Clare, would be your participation fans who’d been listening to me tain Sessions,” which featured that, well, there’s bits and pieces which we all know is such a in “A Woman’s Heart” [a 1992 were now being joined by other Shannon and special guests; of a project on the horizon, but hotbed for Irish traditional mu- compilation album featuring people who weren’t familiar Shannon later collaborated with no hard ideas yet. We’ll see how sic, and you got started on Irish Irish female performers Dolores with the tradition. Irish singer-songwriter Mundy it turns out. accordion when you were, what, Keane, Mary Black, Frances And you know, there’s still on a cover of it]. Yet it’s unques- For information on Sharon eight years old? But it seems Black, Eleanor McEvoy, Maura a lot of interest in “A Woman’s tionably one of the most popular Shannon’s performances at The like from the get-go, you took an O’Connell, and Shannon]. I Heart.” We did a 20-year re- things you’ve done. What’s the Burren and the Irish Cultural interest in exploring other music think a lot of people look on union concert in 2012, and we story behind “Galway Girl”? Centre of New England, see bur- traditions and genres, whether that album as a real turning were surprised at how popular it A. I guess you could call it ren.com and irishculture.org. it was playing French-Canadian O’Malley remains From Broadway to Boston Common a New Englander By R. J. Donovan “I love it here so much” was making a living as A.R.T] was almost like go- Special to the BIR she said after a recent a professional actor. So ing from a classical ballet The Broadway actress rehearsal. “If I felt I could that barrier to acceptance or classical violin world to Kerry O’Malley is current- make a full time career was already gone. We being put in a jazz band ly spending her evenings here as an actor, I would knew someone who was or a modern dance troupe. on Boston Common ap- do it in a heartbeat . . . really doing it.” I went from something pearing as Olivia in Com- My parents are in New A pivotal career decision that was rigid and struc- monwealth Shakespeare Hampshire and my sis- came at Duke Univer- tured to something that Company’s production of ter is in Framingham. I sity. She had enrolled made you force yourself “Twelfth Night.” have an aunt in Rhode as a Navy ROTC candi- to imagine your creativity Directed by Steven Mal- Island. Aunts and cousins date. But she had also in a different way. It was er, the Bard’s classic com- on the Cape. Everybody’s been cast in a musical on the right place for me at edy of love in disguise runs very close and I feel so campus that clashed with the time.” through August 10. All supported here. So many her first sailing week- Today, her Broadway performances are free and good friends.” (Sister of end. The theater won out. credits range from “Into open the public. the actor-writer-producer It was another turn of The Woods” and “Bil- Although the Nashua, Mike O’Malley, she also Broadway actress and Nashua native Kerry O’Malley. luck when she interned ly Elliot” to “Promises, NH, native left New Eng- remains a diehard Boston with designer Richard Promises” and “Finian’s land long ago to build an en- sports fan.) stuff in Boston. ‘Annie’ Havens. “My first show Riddell on a pre-Broad- Rainbow.” She has also viable career on stage and Having so much family and ‘Peter Pan.’ We would with them was ‘H.M.S. way run of “A Walk in had recurring roles on a screen, Boston remains a in the area turns out to be go to ‘The Nutcracker.’ Pinafore.’ We were ambi- the Woods” playing at number of iconic cable se- constant in both her per- a great perk for business. I remember hounding tious, right?” At Mount Duke. Riddell would go ries including “Boardwalk sonal life and her perfor- “My parents say, if you my parents to take me St. Mary’s school, she on to head the respected Empire,” ”Shameless,” mance schedule. She has cast an O’Malley, you’re to ‘Shear Madness’ and joined the drama club. A.R.T Institute at Har- “Brotherhood” and “Those returned again and again guaranteed you’re gonna ‘Forbidden Broadway,’ of Kerry’s aunt, Regina vard. She had already Who Kill,” among others. to star in “White Christ- sell out,” she said with a course.” O’Malley, had attended read a lot of Robert Brus- The diversity of her ac- mas” at The Citi Wang, laugh. She began singing in Boston Conservatory be- tein’s writings and was complishments has been appear in “Kiss Me Kate” The stage was an early the folk group at her local fore going on to establish a drawn to study there. a combination of planning at the Hatch Shell, study at influence in Kerry’s life. church. “Remember Folk career in New York. This “It was a really great and opportunity. “I’ve Harvard’s A.R.T. Institute “My parents loved going to Mass?” she said. Then made a career of her own time for me,” she said, “be- been very consciously and play the Berkshire the theater,” she said. “We it was on to Kids Into appear viable. “We had cause my training at Duke attempting to choose the Theatre Festival. went to all the Broadway Drama, a Nashua the- an example of someone in had been very rigid. [The ater group led by Robert the family, someone who (Continued on page 15) Page 14 August 2014 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com

CD Reviews stalwarts, “Hard Times Come Again No More” and Ralph McTell’s “Clare By Sean Smith Feargal Sharkey, Bob Geldof and Dexy’s to Here.” Jennifer Shelton Licko, “A Thou- Midnight Runners. All well and (generally) good, but there sand Curses Upon Love” • Licko, a It’s hard not to regard “A Thousand are also some passages on the CD that native North Carolinian, is a singer- Curses Upon Love” as a sampler, instead manifest a rather bland, soppy, pop- songwriter who has extensive grounding of an album with a unifying vision. There country-gospel sort of sound, like on in Irish and Scottish music and culture, are two superb renditions of puirt-a-beul, venerable Jimmy McCarthy’s “Song of and sings in Gaelic as well as English. or Gaelic mouth music, “Mile Marbhph- the Singing Horseman” (whose biblical- She has shared the stage with the duo saig Air A’Ghaol” and “Sithadaibh Bhala- literary allusions lose too much ground of Alasdair Frasier and Natalie Haas, chaibh,” with an electronica-type groove here to the piano-and-strings arrange- and her touring band has included New set against acoustic instruments. There ment); “Fickle Breezes,” co-authored by York fiddler Dylan Foley (a member of are a couple of entries in what might be Noble; and a Licko-Noble piece, “Nollaig The Yanks; see related story elsewhere called Celtic-contemporary crossover Na mBan,” which has an interesting in this edition), so she does have trad- territory: Dougie MacLean’s “Turning premise – memorializing the “Women’s folk credentials. This, her fifth album, Away” has an appropriately dark, fore- Christmas” tradition in which men take actually first came out in 2008, but is boding glint to it, while at the polar op- on domestic duties while women do the now being re-released nationally; a major posite is John Spillane’s luminous “The socializing and celebrating – and an Licko certainly has a voice made for presence is keyboardist, producer and Moon Going Home” – both boast some appealingly anthem-like chorus, but the concert hall, though; perhaps that’s arranger Bob Noble, who has played winning vocal arrangements. And there suffers from intrusive keyboards and the best place to first encounter her. with Cliff Richard, Joan Armatrading, are two tried-and-true pub/coffeehouse percussion. Yanks connect with panache: ‘Haymaker’ CD packs punch By Sean Smith – one for each of the CDs at the same time he has a Special to the BIR – delivered by fellow New style all his own.” The word “haymaker” Yorkers the Murphy Beds Dukes, in fact, is inte- is known in pugilistic (Jefferson Hamer and gral to what is arguably parlance as the punch to Eamon O’Leary). the highlight instrumen- end all punches, the one The stylistic references tal track, a barndance and that produces a knockout. on “Haymaker” evoke reels medley which con- In an agricultural context, early Irish dance hall and cludes the first CD: This however, “haymaker” re- late-20th century folk re- one has Alderson playing fers to an important tran- vival, and a healthy dollop a deft bit of saxophone sition stage, in this case of “New York Irish,” but alongside the fiddle and the process of preparing the end result is all Yanks, accordion, and it’s all ab- new-mown hay to make through and through. solute, pure fun (Earnest’s it ready for consumption. Although the band is guitar almost sounds like Either definition would geographically centered a ukulele). seem to be appropriate in on the Big Apple, The The presence of the considering “Haymaker,” Yanks have a strong fol- Murphy Beds – who were the new double CD by the lowing in Greater Boston, enthusiastically received New York City-based tra- not least which because of at last month’s New Bed- ditional Irish American Gurney – who attended ford Folk Festival – on Harvard and later lived the songs “One Morning quartet The Yanks (it’s The Yanks: (L-R) Isaac Alderson, Dylan Foley, Dan Gurney and Sean Earnest. also the title of a reel that for a spell in Cambridge in May” and “Adieu My appears on the last track – and Earnest, a much-in- Lovely Nancy” definitely of CD 1). demand backer who has they might try things dif- got from the Kickstarter March,” and Alderson and fills the bill in adding The Yanks’ second re- appeared in concert locally ferently next time. made it possible. We knew Earnest do credit to the those textures to which lease, supported via a with Liz Hanley and Kyle “The timing for that we wanted more textures, jig “Paidin O’Rafferty’s” Gurney refers. The inter- Kickstarter campaign, Carey, among others. The first CD was a bit rushed, more variety this time as Foley supplies some play of O’Leary’s bouzouki “Haymaker” reveals a group also played its first and we were sorting out around, and having Josh sustained bowing to great with Hamer’s guitar and band that has grown gig at Harvard Square’s arrangements on the fly. and Jefferson and Eamon effect; and the three mel- mandolin makes for a steadily since its germi- Club Passim and later Now, I am not about to join us worked out really ody instruments adroitly mesmerizing latticework nation a couple of years performed at The Burren bash that album; I don’t well. There was a terrific kick off the “Gander in the behind their splendid ago – their debut album, to mark the release of its feel it’s inferior or any- atmosphere during the Pratie Hole” set (climaxed vocal duets, which serve which wound up being first CD. thing like that. But I think studio sessions, thanks by the titular jig, with a to underscore the Irish nominated for an Irish One important thing the vibe was, ‘OK, we’ve in great part to our co- downright cool rare third (O’Leary) and American Music Award, came out to understand about The done this. Now, what kind producers Sean Keegan part credited to Tommy (Hamer) character of only last year – and dur- Yanks: As is the case with of band do we want to be? – who worked with us on Potts). their partnership. The ing this maturation phase many Irish/Celtic outfits, What do we want to sound the first album – and Josh, Dukes shows up on two tracks illustrate The the band has clearly its members have a num- like?’ as well as Glenn Barratt, “every head-banging track Yanks’ skill at accompa- been thoughtful about the ber of musical activities “With some time to who did the recording and on the album,” as Ear- nying songs, as well as sound it cultivates. or other commitments, think and prepare, and to mixing. This project was nest puts it, boosting the belting out tunes – “Lovely And yes, “Haymaker” which means that the involve other people and satisfying in many ways.” rhythm on tracks like Nancy,” for example, is – energetic, buoyant and time they actually spend diversify the sound, we Yet the band was almost the “Corney Is Coming” enriched by a harmonized ambitious – definitely together, as The Yanks, were able to settle into the too successful for its own reel medley and “Shane whistle duet from Alder- packs that metaphorical tends to be relatively groove we wanted. And in good, as Earnest reveals: O’Neill’s March.” He also son and Foley, as Ear- punch. The immensely short. So last July, when recording ‘Haymaker’ we “Near the end of the week supplies bodhran to Ear- nest’s guitar fills out the talented core of Dan Gur- a window of opportunity moved away from trying we were in the studio, nest’s guitar solo (with fretted-string spectrum. ney (accordion), Dylan to record their initial CD to emulate others, and not Glenn said, ‘You know, dubbed bouzouki accom- Fittingly, The Yanks Foley (fiddle, whistle), appeared – at the Black- worrying about whether you’re not going to be able paniment) on “Headwood played a special concert Sean Earnest (guitar, thorn Inn in the Catskills, we fit the ‘absolutely tra- fit all these tracks on one Crossing.” to celebrate the release of bouzouki) and Isaac Al- around the time of the ditional’ label – which we disc.’ I don’t think any of “Josh was a big help “Haymaker” at the Black- derson (uilleann pipes, annual Irish Arts Week don’t. All the questions, us had thought we’d need to us on the first album: thorn on July 18, almost flute, whistle, sax) is both – they knew they’d better basically, were answered to cull the recordings. How He kept us pumped up, exactly a year after their tight and propulsive, their take advantage of it, even in the crucible of that week would we choose which and did some valuable recording session there ranks bolstered here by though they were still of recording.” sets to leave off, and what problem solving,” says for the first CD – an ap- the contributions of Josh taking root as a band. To Says Gurney, “We saw would we do with them Earnest. “So there was propriate bookend to an Dukes (drums, bodhran). be sure, nobody – least of a chance for a bigger proj- – put them on another no question we wanted eventful past 12 months. And in the midst of the all the band – complained ect, and access to a great album at some point in him for ‘Haymaker,’ and “When we were envi- reels, jigs, hornpipes and about the outcome, but as studio [Morning Star the future, whenever that this time we wanted to sioning doing another al- other superb instrumen- Earnest explains, he and Studios in East Norriton, might be? We finally just include him in a musical bum, I think we wondered tal sets are two songs his mates felt that maybe Pa.], and the support we decided to release every- role. He does some great if we could catch lightning thing in one fell swoop; it stuff, using brushes on the again,” says Earnest. “We was truer to the spirit of drums jazz-style, playing were hopeful, but not cer- the project.” some light snare and then tain, of success, so to see Listeners will be grate- going full-on with the bass how it’s panned out is very ful for that decision. There drum. It’s definitely a gratifying.” is no fodder among the 22 homage to ceili bands, but tracks; every one belongs. Whenever the four Yanks EIRE are playing together in full force – such as on the lat- ter two jigs in the “Brian O’Lynn” set, or the “Morn- pub ing Star” reel set – it’s a faith-affirmed-in-the- future-of-Irish-tradition 795 Adams St. • Dorchester moment. But the band definitely shows more of an incli- nation this time around “President’s Choice” to break off into pairs or trios: Alderson and Foley sound particularly spot-on in their duets, such as on Serving Lunch & Dinner “Hanley’s Tweed” midway through the very first track or the lovely “Felix’s Every day, Waltz” (with sublime flute harmony by Alderson); Gurney and Foley propel 7 days a week the brisk “Shane O’Neill’s Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com August 2014 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 15 O’Malley remains From Broadway to Boston Common a New Englander (Continued from page 13) really is a mixture. I’ve in the right place at the in this O’Malley family to great grandmother proved before they’re gone.’ There next project based on been really lucky.” right time with the right be born in America. to be the one surviving are so many great stories the opposite of what I’ve As to television? “My skills – as long as they Her mother’s McGuire daughter. When the wom- and they’re not being told. previously done. If I do a TV career, has, in a large keep telling stories about heritage is traced to Lim- an was asked in an oral There’s so much I want to musical, I try not to follow part, been based on my Irish Americans.” erick, via the Barretts family history how she know.” that with a musical. I try ethnicity and cultural In a similar vein, she’s and Connors. Her dealt with such tragedy, R. J. Donovan is edi- to do a play or a TV show. eritage. ‘Brotherhood’ is become addicted to re- great-great grandfather, Kerry remembers, “She tor and publisher of on- And then after I’ve done a an Irish American fam- searching her genealogy. John Connors, fought for said, ‘I would go into the stageboston.com. TV show for a while, I try ily. I’m an Irish American (She’s named for County the Union during the Civil fields and scream.’ It just *** to do a comedy.” on ‘Shameless.’ ‘Board- Kerry, after all.) She’s War, was injured at the makes your hair stand “Twelfth Night,” Com- “That makes it sound walk Empire,’ I played an learned that her great Wilderness, and received up.” monwealth Shakespeare like there’s a lot of choice Irish American. I’ve been grandfather, Anthony a pension for his service. She heartily encourages Company’s Free Shake- in the matter,” she said. really lucky that people O’Malley, arrived in the The Barretts had nine others interested in their speare On The Com- “Quite frankly, you au- want to watch stories US in 1901 on the USS children. They lost one heritage to quiz older rela- mon, through Aug. 10, on dition for what’s avail- about Irish Americans,” Ivernia. His wife Bridget child in infancy and would tives about family history Boston Common at the able. But I’ve turned she said with another was pregnant, which see six others die in a diph- while they still have the Parkman Bandstand. In- down auditioning for laugh. “It’s been my bread meant that Kerry’s grand- theria epidemic. Their opportunity. “I keep say- formation: 617-426-0863 things that I felt were too and butter. That’s been father, also named An- father dug all the graves ing to my friends, ‘Ask or commshakes.org. close to what I just did. It just sheer luck, being thony, would be the first for his little ones. Kerry’s your family. Ask them IFest Boston will feature the ‘Best of Ireland’ at Seaport venue (Continued from page 1) being introduced into the include Paddy Moloney of potential in IFest to give event, but the early bird ture – the music, the arts, business community, the the Chieftains, who will be the food and drink sector prices are in effect now on culinary, sports – and get more I spoke to people I one of the headlining mu- a platform.” the festival’s website, if- all the best people in one became convinced that sical acts that will perform Tourism Ireland – the estboston.com. VIP pack- place to celebrate, maybe Boston is where it should on four stages throughout country’s travel and lei- ages, which offer access to we can give back pride and be, because Boston is an the venue, including a sure board – is also a an exclusive lounge, start hope to ourselves.” extension of Ireland and massive outdoor seisuin supporter of IFest Boston at $95. Next month, Boston’s vice versa. Boston stands planned on the World and Ireland’s leading With just two months Seaport district will be- together and that’s how we Trade Center’s concourse. politician – An Taoiseach remaining until the big come the proving ground have now pulled ourselves In addition to Lynch Enda Kenny – has also weekend, Kelly is reluc- for whether Kelly’s vision up as well. The spirit is and Boston-based chefs, lent his vocal support to tant to look beyond the is ready for prime time the same.” Kelly says that more than the effort, appearing in inaugural IFest. But her in the States. She picked Kelly’s investment in 30 food and drink purvey- promotional photos. business plan does call Boston, and specifically the city goes beyond the ors will be flying in from “ T h e T a o s c i e c h for similar events to be the Seaport/World Trade inaugural festival itself. Ireland. They’ll be joined launched it in May and staged in other American Center, as the first venue The company that she by 70 buyers from around is very excited because cities. After IFest Boston because of the “unbeliev- created to run the IFest is the United States with the it’s a statement that we is wrapped, she and her able welcome” she re- headquartered in Boston, thought that companies are back and we’re strong team will step back and ceived from the city’s busi- although it also keeps of- will find Irish goods to im- and resilient,” said Kelly. review its success with an ness and political leaders fices in Dublin. port into America. Making One-day tickets for IF- eye towards replicating it when she first arrived in “It wouldn’t be happen- such connections is why est Boston start at $45 – in places like Chicago and Boston three years ago to ing without the support of the Irish government’s an early-bird fee that will New York. pitch the idea. Mayor Walsh,” said Kelly. Food Board – Bord Bia – include general admission “I’m so focused on get- “I absolutely fell in love “And chef Barbara Lynch has helped to underwrite access to live entertain- ting this one right. It’s been Rachel Kelly with this city,” said Kelly. has been just an incredible IFest Boston. ment, cooking demonstra- three years in the making “The Seaport/WTC got in ambassador for the event. “Bord Bia got the vision tions, a food hall with bars and incredibly challeng- It’s the first, so it’s hard behind us and the team She’s lined up some of straight away,” explains featuring Guinness and ing and much harder work to predict what’s going to there gave us their full Boston’s finest chefs to be Kelly. “America is such Jameson, and big screen than I imagined,” said happen next. We need to support. That was the a part of the event.” an incredible market and documentary and sports Kelly. “We will sit with make sure we execute it in first building block and Other key players in there’s such potential still action. Ticket prices will our stakeholders and say, the best way possible and the festival presentation there. They could see that go up closer to the actual ‘Okay, how did that go? then we’ll review.”

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By Sophie Gayter of seasoned veterans and of the net beyond helpless signing on a free transfer Strootman, but Roma Roma manager Rudi Special to the BIR inexperienced rookies. goalkeeper Brad Jones. from Chelsea FC. Then 10 still had plenty of talent Garcia was also pleased On July 23, Liverpool It was a physical, tight, Prior to Borriello’s win- minutes into the second on display. with his side’s perfor- FC and AS Roma played tense game of few chances ner, both teams spurned half, Liverpool’s Phillippe Attacking midfielder mance, after seeing them an exhibition match in that looked to be heading excellent chances to take Coutinho set up Rickie Adem Ljajic and new sign- snatch a winning goal in front of a sold- out crowd for a penalty shoot-out, be- the lead either side of Lambert with a perfectly ing Juan Manuel Iturbe, the dying seconds. He was at Fenway Park. With fore a second half stoppage half time. First, Roma weighted through ball, but an exciting Argentinian especially pleased by the both teams returning to time header from Marco captain Francesco Totti Lambert’s fine left-footed forward who joined the performances of some of the UEFA Champions Borriello took a wicked skewed a shot wide after strike was well saved by club a few weeks prior to his younger players who League in the fall, both deflection off ofL iverpool an energetic run and cut Roma goalkeeper Lukasz the match, both started came on toward the end managers took the oppor- substitute Daniel Agger back by Ashley Cole, a Skorupski. alongside Totti and im- of the second half. “Both tunity to field a mixture and nestled in the back new left back recruit after For Liverpool, there was pressed the crowd with teams played with young no captain Steven Ger- some nifty footwork and players,” said Garcia rard, Daniel Sturridge, or clever passing. through a translator. “I new signings Lazar Mar- In his post-match con- am quite happy with the kovic, and Adam Lallana ference, Liverpool man- development we had.” on display, as all had only ager Brendan Rodgers Both Roma and Liv- just returned to full train- said he was pleased with erpool have a number of ing a few days prior. But his side’s performance, de- other games left on their Liverpool’s Bostonian fan spite the result. Particu- tour of the United States base was given a chance larly impressive was the before heading back to to see new signing Rickie performance of Phillippe begin a grueling domestic Lambert, who has taken Coutinho, who showed and European campaign on the club’s legendary Brazil exactly what they in August, but Liverpool’s number 9 jersey, and had been missing by Rodgers gave every indi- Emre Can, a new mid- omitting him from their cation that this is not the field recruit from Bayern 23-man World Cup squad last time fans would see Leverkusen in Germany. in a virtuoso display at those famous red shirts Perhaps the biggest Fenway. run out onto the Fenway cheer of the night came “Coutinho is the brain in grass. from the Roma fans who our team,” said Rodgers. “It’s the second time in were ecstatic to see club “Coutinho is the continu- the last couple of years captain Francesco Totti in ity player. He might not (we’ve played at Fenway),” the team as the starting score many goals, but he’s he said. “It was a great line ups were called out. a wonderful reference for atmosphere. The support Still missing from action the team. He’s the one that was great. I think it was after World Cup duty and gets the team ticking. He’s for both – fantastic. For injury, respectively, were a fantastic talent for such a preseason game, it was star midfielders Dan- a young player.” a very, very good game.” iele De Rossi and Kevin Irish Social Club of Boston, Inc. 119 Park Street, West Roxbury, MA 02132 617-327-7306 or 617-549-9812 Incorporated by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, June 27, 1945 All held on SUNDAYS at 8 pm with $10 admission except where otherwise noted. Doors open at 6:30 pm for PUB NIGHTS: Socials every live music from 8-11 pm. Admission free Sunday Evening at 8:00 pm SCHEDULE OF EVENTS AUGUST 31 Sunday – Traditions 3 Sunday – Silver Spears Serving breakfast, lunch 9 Saturday – Pub Night SEPTEMBER 2014 with Colm O’Brien. 7 Sunday – Fintan Stanley & dinner every day of the week FREE ADMISSION 13 Saturday – The Druids – 10 Sunday – Noel Henry’s Direct from Ireland. Kitchen open nightly Irish Show Band Admission $10 15 Friday – Pub Night with 14 Sunday – Noel Henry until 10:45 p.m. Ireland. FREE ADMISSION 17 Sunday – Erin’s Melody with Margaret Dalton GERARD’S ADAMS CORNER 23 Saturday – Pub Night with 772 - 776 Adams Street Paul Kinneally and Tim Keohane. FREE ADMISSION Dorchester, MA 02124 24 Sunday – Dennis Curtin

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By Judy Enright a wide range of tropical Glengarriff. Special to the BIR plants could be grown OTHER ISLANDS Every year, the Irish there. They were right. The tourist board Tourist Board chooses a The Bryces initially writes, “Wild, rugged special theme to promote planned a mansion and and beautiful, Ireland’s the many plusses of this extensive garden on the islands have captured stunning country. One island so they commis- the imagination for thou- year, the focus was on sioned the eminent Eng- sands of years. Prehis- spas, spa treatments, and lish architect Harold toric settlers, early Chris- places that offered spa Ainsworth Peto to design tian monks, Vikings, packages. Last year it was them but, while he de- pirates, farmers, and “The Gathering,” and this signed and engineered fishermen have all put year, the emphasis is on the gardens, the mansion down roots here, building “The Wild Atlantic Way,” was never built. Instead, communities whose ruins a recommended driving the Bryces built an expan- stick like bones from the route that skims along sive cottage where they landscape.” Today, these the glorious Western sea- entertained many notable islands “are alive with board for 1,600 miles from guests, including George …regattas, lively ceilis, the Inishowen Peninsula Bernard Shaw. buzzing pubs, burgeoning in Donegal to Kinsale in Peto created a formal foodie scenes and year- Co. Cork. architectural garden with round activities.” Several years ago, the an Italian teahouse and Islands where there is tourist board promoted pavilion, formal pool, and overnight accommoda- the country’s offshore is- Grecian temple. After the tion include: Arranmore, lands. Some are uninhab- death of John in 1923, Tory, and Island Roy (all ited, rugged, and remote, Violet further developed in Donegal); Achill, Clare, An Irish bee savors the nectar from a bloom on Garinish Island in West Cork. but brilliant for walkers the gardens, and in 1932, Inishturk (all in Co. and hikers, bird watch- their son, Roland, took Mayo); Inishbofin and the ers, and nature buffs; over and continued add- three Aran Islands (all in others, like Ireland’s larg- ing plants from all over Co. Galway); Bere, Cape est islands – Achill in Co. the world under the Clear, Heir, Sherkin (all Mayo, and Valentia, in guidance of Murdo Mack- in Co. Cork); and Rathlin Co. Kerry – are accessible enzie, a noted Scottish in Co. Antrim, Northern by road, populated, and a gardener. Ireland. magnet for tourists. When Roland died in You can find water We thought the island 1953, the island was transport readily avail- promotion was excellent bequeathed to the Irish able for day trips to because so many visitors people and its care en- Inishbofin in Co. Done- drive around or take trusted to Ireland’s Of- gal as well as Inishfree coach tours but never fice of Public Works. and Gola, also in Done- venture out to see the Mackenzie continued to gal; Inishbiggle in Co. islands, and that’s a real oversee the gardens until Mayo, Ceantar na Oile- shame. he retired in 1971. an, (a group of islands) GARINISH If you have an interest in Connemara; Long, One especially colorful in gardens and the bril- Whiddy, Dursey and Ga- and lovely island – and a liant color of specimen rinish, Co. Cork, and the great place to see in bloom flowers, bushes, trees, Blaskets and Skelligs in - is Garinish (also called and complementary ar- Co. Kerry. Ilnacullin) in Glengarriff chitecture, this island is SKELLIG MICHAEL Harbor, Co. Cork. The not to be missed. There Skellig Michael, eight 37-acre island is easily is an admission fee and miles off the coast of reached by boat and fer- Garinish is open until Oc- southwest Co. Kerry, is a A specimen from the beautiful, lush gardens on Garinish Island in Bantry Bay. ries and private charters tober. Facilities include UNESCO World Heritage Judy Enright photos are available around the toilets and a coffee shop Site with a 1,000-year- harbor. A highlight for with light snacks. old stairway leading to culture, and the extraor- Christian period. In more Houses of Parliament, me was watching seals For more information, a small cluster of huts, dinary literary legacy left recent times the first and billiard tables, in- basking lazily on warm, visit heritageireland.ie, oratories, chapel, and behind. We thoroughly transatlantic cable was cluding those made for sunny rocks as we ferried glengarriff.ie, or look for stone crosses. Access enjoyed the exhibitions, laid by the world’s largest the Duke of Wellington out to Garinish. other websites. If you are depends on weather and audio-visual presenta- ship, The Great Eastern, and Queen Victoria. John Annan Bryce, in the area Aug. 22-24, be visitors are advised to tions and artwork there. in 1865, connecting Val- There are numerous ac- MP, and his wife, Violet, sure to stop by The Arts bring water and wear VALENTIA ISLAND entia with Newfoundland commodations on Valen- bought the island from Glengarriff’s inaugural protective clothing. There I love the sense of (and London and Europe tia - B&Bs, self-catering, the British War Office festival. You might be are no facilities and walk- humor displayed by the with America.) A dramat- and hostels - and there are in 1910 and created the lucky enough to spot ing is the only option with writer of this description ic recent discovery is the restaurants, pubs, and a magical island that has screen legend Maureen some degree of fitness of Valentia on the island’s ‘Tetrapod Trackway’ - 150 heritage center. Valentia endured long past their O’Hara there. O’Hara, required to negotiate the informative website, (val- footprints showing the is accessible by road over lifetimes. The Bryces a Dublin native, starred stairway. See the website entiaisland.ie): “Apart path of a prehistoric di- a bridge from Portmagee, were convinced that, with in “The Quiet Man” with skelligexperience.com for from the Google thing nosaur that came ashore Co. Kerry, and by car its sheltered location and John Wayne, and is said details and stop by the on the Interweb, we can on Valentia between 350 ferry (from April to Oc- the warm Gulf Stream, to have a holiday home in Skellig Experience visitor also be located easily million and 370 million tober) from Renard Point, center on Valentia Island from the air – there is a years ago. Cahersiveen. The ferry to learn more. small island to the east of If you’re traveling with crossing takes five min- Next to Skellig Michael us called ‘Ireland.’ They kids and other animal utes and is a continuous are Little Skellig (home have airports, ports and lovers, be sure to take in shuttle ferry that oper- to more than 30,000 pair motorways that will all the Hillside Haven Pet ates every ten minutes, of gannets) and Puffin help in getting you here. Farm’s rare breeds of seven days a week (April Island (of international The natives on that island poultry, pigs, miniature to October) from 7:45 a.m. importance, according to (Ireland) are, in the main, ponies, and donkeys, to 9:30 p.m. and Sundays, BirdWatch Ireland, for friendly, and will direct among others. And, don’t 9 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. In July its seabird colonies, “most you to us grudgingly.’” miss the island’s slate and August, the last ferry notably Puffins (5,000- Valentia Island has quarry that opened in is at 10 p.m. 10,000), Manx Shearwa- many Megalithic monu- 1816 and has been a There is a lot to be seen ters (20,000) and Storm ments, standing stones, working quarry off and and enjoyed on Ireland’s Petrels. There are also cairns, and wedge tombs, on since. The quarry pro- islands. Do take a look several hundred pairs of along with remains of bee- vided slate for the Paris and enjoy Ireland when- nesting Razorbills, Guil- hive huts from the early Opera House, London’s ever and wherever you go. lemots, and Kittiwakes.” THE BLASKETS If you’re driving around the Dingle peninsula, a stop at the Blasket Center in Dunquin, is well worth Handmade since 1925 the time and small admis- sion fee. The Center tells the story of families who lived on the remote Blaskets until their evacuation in 1953 and highlights traditional island life, the subsistence fishing and farming, modes of work and transport, home life, housing, and entertain- ment. The Center details the community’s struggle for Lovely Garinish Island (also known as Ilnacullin) existence, language, and in Glengarriff Harbor on the Beara Peninsula, West Cork. 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By Ken Thomas and ity in the state Senate and of the children, saying it To be sure, O’Malley campaign next month Thomas Beaumont party officials here said would “send them back to is not the only Democrat in Iowa for Rep. Bruce Associated Press the governor’s willingness certain death.” Obama’s extending feelers in the Braley, who is seeking DES MOINES, Iowa — to wade into local races team pushed back, leak- politically active state. Harkin’s seat. Martin O’Malley’s latest was appreciated — and ing a phone call in which Clinton, who placed a Hart, the state sena- foray into Iowa began, duly noted. the governor asked the disappointing third in the tor and one of O’Malley’s appropriately, in a place “Helping out legislative White House not to have 2008 caucus, recorded a beneficiaries this week- called Clinton. races is a really smart children brought to a humorous tribute to re- end, said she has never The Maryland governor strategy. It’s an easy Maryland facility. tiring Sen. Tom Harkin met the governor before is filling the void in Iowa, way to come out and In Nebraska, O’Malley that aired at the state or spoken to him — his New Hampshire and be helpful,” said Norm stood firm, telling Demo- party convention dinner. staff reached out about beyond during the early Sterzenbach, a former crats: “I believe in Ameri- Ready for Hillary, an the fundraiser. She said stages of the 2016 presi- executive director of the can generosity and the unaffiliated organization her husband’s aunt lives dential race, campaigning Iowa Democratic Party. compassion of our people. laying the groundwork for in Maryland, admires his for fellow Democrats and He noted that O’Malley We do not turn our back a Clinton campaign, has record and urged her to making personal appeals got his political start in on innocent children who been active in Iowa and get to know him. But like while former Secretary Iowa, as a field organizer arrive at our doorstep flee- Democrats are buzzing many Iowans, that’s the of State Hillary Rodham for Gary Hart’s 1984 ing death.” about whether Hillary extent of her knowledge Clinton remains the pro- presidential campaign in O’Malley’s stance has Clinton _ or the former for now. hibitive — if yet unde- eastern Iowa. won support within Lati- president — will appear “I really don’t think clared — favorite. O’Malley’s fundraising no groups and has marked at Harkin’s annual steak many people know any- In the summer before and campaign travel has a contrast with Clinton. fry in September, his last thing about him. I think November’s mid-term coincided with a policy She said at a televised as a senator. he’s a pretty new name to elections, Clinton’s domi- fight with the Obama forum that she felt the Biden, who headlined a lot of people,” Hart said. nant position in a hypo- Martin O’Malley administration on the children needed to be the steak fry last year, “That’s probably why he’s thetical field has limited stream of unaccompanied reunited with their fami- notably dropped by a coming — he wants to Democrats’ activities in of fundraising appear- immigrant children from lies but the U.S. needed Washington hotel in May change that.” early presidential voting ances for Hatch in Iowa Central America over to make clear that “just to greet a group of Iowans Thomas reported from states even while an ambi- last month, along with a the Mexican border. He because your child gets attending the Greater Washington. Associated tious slate of Republicans speech at the state party recently criticized a White across the border doesn’t Des Moines Partnership Press writer Catherine descend. Active Demo- convention. Iowa Demo- House proposal that could mean your child gets to meeting. Minnesota Sen. Lucey contributed from crats here say O’Malley crats hold a narrow major- expedite the deportation stay.” Amy Klobuchar plans to Des Moines. has become an exception, cultivating relationships and developing a reputa- tion as a loyal foot soldier for the party. “He’s doing more than The Irish Cultural Centre proudly presents anybody else,’’ said Mike Gronstal, the Iowa Sen- ate Democratic leader. “Others have indicated they are interested in Sharon Shannon doing some things. But we haven’t seen it yet.’’ He declined to name the Friday August 8 other Democrats who have inquired. O’Malley is laying the groundwork for a 8:00pm presidential campaign whether or not Clinton runs, although it remains unclear if he will chal- In Concert lenge the popular former first lady. O’Malley was the second governor to Tickets Available at endorse Clinton’s presi- dential campaign in 2007 and maintains ties to former President Bill www.IrishCulture.org Clinton, who brought the then-Baltimore mayor to Northern Ireland on a presidential delegation $25 per person trip in 2000 and appeared in an ad for O’Malley dur- ing his first campaign for governor. Join us in the ICC Pub As his second term in Maryland ends, O’Malley before the Concert. has visited New Hamp- shire twice since Novem- ber and raised money for Gov. Maggie Hassan, Pub Opens at 6pm Sen. Jeanne Shaheen — a fellow alumnus of Gary Hart’s presidential campaigns — and Rep. Annie Kuster. In South Carolina, O’Malley has held events for Vincent Sheheen, who is chal- lenging GOP Gov. Nikki Haley, and Bakari Sellers, who is running for lieuten- ant governor. O’Malley returned to Iowa on Saturday, where “Sharon is an utterly talented he headlined a fundraiser for state Sen. Rita Hart star with a genuine humility that in Clinton, a town on the banks of the Mississippi hooks you the moment her fingers River, and another event begin to move … A concert you in North Liberty for Kevin Kinney, a Johnson County won’t want to miss” sheriff’s deputy seeking an open state Senate seat. ~ A Dublin review After a Saturday night speech in Omaha to help the Nebraska Democrat- ic Party, O’Malley was joining with Democratic Irish Cultural Centre of New England gubernatorial candidate Jack Hatch, who is chal- lenging Republican Gov. 200 New Boston Drive, Canton, MA 02021 Terry Branstad, for fund- raisers in western Iowa on Sunday and a canvassing 781-821-8291 | www.IrishCulture.org kickoff in Sioux City. 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