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Atlantic Steps, which takes the stage on the final day of the Boston Irish Festival, showcases the story of Irish dance. Table is set for ICC’s Irish Festival By Sean Smith competitions, an Irish bread An Coimisiun, North American its sometimes gritty, sometimes among the cast of Atlantic Special to the BIR baking contest, children and Feis Commission and NAFC saucy, sometimes angry, always Steps, an international-touring Performances by Eileen Ivers family amusements, genealogy New England Region President loud’n proud version of Irish adaptation by Brian Cunning- & Immigrant Soul, Black 47, consultations, and appearances Pat Watkins. rock, flavored with folk as well ham of the Irish show “Fuaim and Atlantic Steps highlight by authors of books related to Kicking off the festival on as reggae, jazz, and hip-hop to Chonamara,” which chronicles this year’s Boston Irish Festival, Irish and Irish-American his- Friday evening, June 7, at 8 create an unabashed working- the story of sean-nos, Ireland’s which will take place June 7-9 tory, culture and literature. o’clock, will be Grammy win- class urban sound. Fronted by oldest dance form, portrayed at the Irish Cultural Centre of This year also will see the ner and nine-time all-Ireland lead singer, writer and guid- through the music, song, dance, New England in Canton. inaugural Boston Irish Festival fiddle champion Eileen Ivers, ing spirit Larry Kirwan, their and energy of the Connemara The traditional fiddle-accordi- Feis, a partnership with Liam whose resume includes appear- songs explore the social and region. The production will be on duo of Oisin Mac Diarmada Harney, founder and owner ances with the Boston Pops, The political, as well as the personal, staged at 2 p.m. on Sunday, and Seamus Begley and Celtic- of the Walpole-based Harney Chieftains, Sting, and Paula whether musing on the tragedy June 9. pop Canadian band Searson also Academy of Irish Dance. The Cole, and stints with Cherish of Michael Collins, expressing Oisin Mac Diarmada and are on the bill. Irish dance competition will the Ladies and “Riverdance.” outrage over the Iraq War and Seamus Begley are members In addition, the annual festi- take place on five stages all Ivers will be performing with the world financial crisis, or of Téada, one of the best tra- val will include its customary day on Sat., June 8, beginning her Immigrant Soul ensemble, recounting the craziest wedding ditional bands to emerge from roster of local and regional at 8:30 a.m. Participants of a blending of Celtic, pop and ever. Black 47 will play at the Ireland this century, and are music and dance acts, as well all ages and experience levels world music instruments and festival on Saturday at a time acclaimed musicians in their as various events and activi- are welcome. The Boston Irish influences. to be announced. own right. They will appear at ties, among them a 5K road Festival Feis is registered, sanc- For almost 25 years, New Boston-area dancers Kieran 11 a.m. on June 8. race, Irish football and hurling tioned and governed by rules of York City’s Black 47 has played Jordan and Jackie O’Riley are (Continued on page 11) Renaissance man: Seeing to an uncle’s Suffolk’s McCarthy memorial by the sea If they handed out frequent On Jan. 25, 1917, the passenger ship SS Laurentic, car- flier miles for an extended re- rying 475 passengers and crew, and 43 tons of gold ingots, sume, Jim McCarthy would was maneuvering in Ireland’s Lough Swilley, a glacial fjord fly free, first class, the rest in County Donegal between the Inishowen and the Fanad of his life. Instead, the presi- peninsulas, when it struck two German mines. It sank in dent of Suffolk University is less than one hour, and 354 souls perished. flying high in the academic In late May, the Boston philanthropist John Cullinane world. To say that he is a made an emotional voyage to Donegal to visit the site of Renaissance man in a time the sinking those many years ago. It was a trip he had long of multiple challenges is to hoped to make to pay a memorial tribute to an uncle he never Emotional Return: From left, Irish News editor Noel Doran, Frank Costello, Irish American businessman John J. Cul- say that Isaac Newton could knew, Walter Fitzgerald, a Royal Navy seaman who went linane, and Irish News chairman Jim Fitzpatrick outside the count. down with his ship that day. newspaper’s offices in Donegall Street, Belfast. See Publisher’s Notes, Page 4 Hugh Russell photo Profile, Page 8 When you need a mortgage... Your dream home... you need Mt. Washington Bank. We’ve made our home nancing process so smooth, our applications is in the palm of your hand so easy and our turnaround so quick, the only think you need to worry about is what mover to hire.

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A Haitian-American, voters who have been her con- Dorcena Forry will take a seat stituents since 2005 when she in the 40-member Senate that entered the Legislature as a has long been held by Irish- representative. “I will now carry State Senator-elect Linda Dorcena Forry spoke during her victory party on May 28 in Lower American men, such as William our work to the state Senate and Mills. At right are her 99-year-old grandmother, Marianne Mathurin, and her mother Annie Bulger, Stephen Lynch, and I cannot wait to get started,” Dorcena. Photo by Mike Deehan she said. Jack Hart. side polling locations, often next For his part, Ureneck held lins the election. conceded to Dorcena Forry. Dorcena Forry, a Dorchester In the counts from various to signature-gatherers seeking his Election Night party at the It took an overnight, but Democrat defeated Joseph Ure- bellwether precincts, Collins won voters who could sign mayoral Blarney Stone in Fields Corner. Collins elected not to pursue a neck, a Dorchester Republican, Florian Hall, 647 votes to 376 nomination papers. “It was quite a funereal event,” recount, issuing a statement of on an Election Day that was votes, according to the unofficial At one point, all three contend- he quipped during a phone inter- concession. marked by low turnout in the dis- tally. But at a double-precinct at ers converged on Florian Hall, view the next morning. He said The electoral back and forth trict, which includes Dorchester, the Chittick School, which has home to two crucial Dorchester he hoped Dorcena Forry would on Tuesday night made for some South Boston, Mattapan, and a become a major location on the precincts, to greet voters. take a look at some of the fathers’ jittery moments, although the portion of Hyde Park. Mattapan/Hyde Park line and Dorcena Forry was elected to rights issues he concentrated on Dorcena Forry camp says it According to the unofficial a leading indicator for perfor- the state House of Representa- during the campaign. never got truly rattled, knowing tally of all 77 precincts on the mance in communities of color, tives in a 2005 special election to “I hope she’ll take them to that its figures pointing to a win city’s Elections Department’s Dorcena Forry won, 714 votes to replace Rep. Thomas Finneran, heart and take a look at it and in the end were on target. website, Dorcena Forry piled Collins’s 50. Dorcena Forry also a Mattapan Democrat and either get rid of these laws or The candidate entered her up 7,858 votes, or just under won the double precinct at the the speaker of the House. The seriously revise them,” he said, election night party at the Phil- 82 percent of the total, while Groveland Community Center mother of four (two boys and referring to statutes dealing lips Old Colony House to the Ureneck picked up 1,486 votes. off River Street in Mattapan, two girls), she is married to BIR with domestic violence. Fugees’ “Ready or Not” and at There were 274 write-in ballots. 586 votes to Collins’s 75. editor Bill Forry. Ureneck said he would have about 10 o’clock called the win She declared victory at her Overshadowed by another Dorcena Forry’s ascension to fared better in the election if the for herself. After the Associated Election Night party at the special election on the ballot – the state Senate, where she will turnout in South Boston had Press had retracted its call for Ledge restaurant in Lower five people jockeyed to succeed be replacing Jack Hart, a South been higher and more people Collins, and the unofficial tally Mills where family, friends, and former US Sen. John Kerry in Boston Democrat who left the had been aware of the election. of the 77 precincts had been supporters packed the venue’s Democratic and Republican upper body earlier this year to “Many people came by the polls posted, she credited her get- function room and spilled out primaries on the same Tuesday take a job with a law firm, means and said they didn’t know there out-the-vote organization for the onto the adjacent patio. After primary – and a compelling early another special election will have was an election,” he said. close-run win. greeting and thanking sup- mayoral campaign in Boston, to be scheduled, this one to fill Dorcena Forry’s easy victory “We were in the community, porters, Dorcena Forry took the state Senate campaign was her 12th Suffolk House seat. came a month after she won a we were on the ground,” she said. the microphone and pledged under-covered by Boston’s two Four names are already circu- three-way Democratic primary “We had people at every poll.” to be open to all constituents daily newspapers. The April 15 lating: Dan Cullinane, a former by 378 votes. Two South Boston At the Blarney Stone, where when serving as their senator. bombings at the Boston Mara- City Hall and State House aide Democrats, state Rep. Nick Col- Collins supporters were hav- “I want you to know I am going thon, their aftermath, and a from the Cedar Grove neigh- lins and blogger Maureen Dahill, ing their primary night party, to work hard because I am from blizzard in February also steered borhood; Stephanie Everett, a came in second and third, respec- City Councillor Frank Baker’s a lineage of hard workers,” she the headlines away from the former aide to state Sen. Sonia tively. Ureneck ran unopposed brother James said the race was said while flanked by her par- state campaign. Chang-Diaz; Mary Tuitt, an aide in the Republican primary. unlikely to be over on Tuesday ents, Andre and Annie Dorcena, The three Democratic state to state Rep. Gloria Fox; and Dorcena Forry hardly flinched night. Collins later joined his and her 99-year-old grandmoth- Senate candidates and their sur- Carlotta Williams of Hyde Park. in the mid-evening hours of April supporters at the restaurant. er, Marianne Mathurin. rogates crisscrossed the district Reporter staff members Gin- 30 as the Boston Globe and the “We’re not going to have any- Dorcena Forry said that while throughout the campaign, and tautas Dumcius and Tom Mulvoy Associated Press were report- thing for you tonight, unfortu- her various constituents may not especially on primary election and correspondent Mike Deehan ing that Collins would win the nately,” he said. agree with her on every issue, she But in the morning, Collins day as their supporters stood out- compiled this report. will be an active listener and will Democratic nomination. bring viewpoints to the table to Despite those calls by the make common sense solutions. local media, all the ballots in “I say thank you from the bottom 77 precincts had not yet been of my heart. Tonight is a shared counted, and when the unofficial victory and I want to thank results were posted a few hours everyone who played a part,” later, it was Dorcena Forry who she said, citing her labor sup- was on top. porters for helping to organize The final results from the the campaign and donors for city Election Department gave helping her build what she called Dorcena Forry 10,214 votes, the “best financed” campaign of Collins 9,836, and Dahill 1,593, the election. suggesting strongly that the The senator-elect was accom- latter’s participation in the panied to the front of the room campaign might have cost Col-

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MB New Branch Chkg Ad 8.5x10.indd 1 5/23/13 4:19 PM Page 4 June 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Publisher’s Notebook Commentary Remembering Delivering hopeful change an uncle lost to both Dublin and Belfast with his ship Information technology training for the By Ed Forry At the turn of the 19th century, a British steamship company, White Star Line, operated passenger service Irish unemployed and underemployed between Liverpool and Canada. In 1908 the company launched the two largest ships By Joe Leary have joined Peter’s board of directors helping with job built at that time for the service – the SS Megantic and Special to the BIR placements and obtaining funding grants. SS Laurentic. The Laurentic was the fastest ship yet This is a bit of a personal story for me – testimony Irish American Partnership donors have provided built for the trans-Atlantic crossings, sailing regularly to the help that Irish America has provided to the grants to FIT over the past three years. FIT employs between Liverpool and Quebec City. most severely disadvantaged areas of Dublin and the 18 in Dublin and 8 in Belfast. They are also active in At the onset of the Great War, rest of Ireland. Limerick and Cork. the Laurentic was commissioned Social planners 50-60 years ago built huge apart- Their work is quite straightforward. Through ad- in Montreal as a troop transport ment buildings to shelter vertising, special promotions and “word of mouth” for the Canadian Expeditionary those who were unable to in affected communities, the program offers testing, Force, and began service as a purchase homes for them- individual counseling, training, and job placement to merchant cruiser in 1915. selves. As a social experi- all who come to their doors On Jan. 25, 1917, the ship was ment they turned out to be The program has tested and trained and found jobs in Ireland’s Lough Swilley, a disasters. Many of us will for 12,500, with 9,700 still in their upgraded jobs or glacial fjord in County Donegal remember the “Columbia better since the beginning of the FIT program. Impor- between the Inishowen and the Point” project here in Boston tantly, FIT continues monitoring and counseling for Fanad peninsulas, when it struck two German mines. as a well-intended answer each participant. Moving from being a kitchen helper The ship was carrying 475 passengers and crew, and to low income housing. It no or waitress to a supervisory position in a major com- 43 tons of gold ingots. It sank in less than one hour, longer exists. pany is not easy and FIT makes sure it can be helpful and 354 souls perished. In Dublin, Ireland, the wherever needed. In late May, Boston philanthropist John Cullinane city fathers also built many Here is what two of their clients think of the program: made an emotional voyage to Donegal to visit the site such high rise buildings to Carol Fitzpatrick, Programmer, Allied Irish Bank: where the ship sank those many years ago. It was a house low income families. “After six months on a FIT course in Whitehall trip he had long hoped to make, to pay a memorial Joe Leary One such cluster, called College. I was offered a work placement with AIB. It tribute to an uncle he never knew, Walter Fitzgerald, a “Ballymun,” was located on was a great experience working there. I got on really Royal Navy seaman who went down with the ship that the way to and from the airport. The Irish American well in my department and found that I enjoyed the day. Cullinane, who carried a photo of his lost uncle Partnership had just started in 1988 when I traveled work I was doing. It felt great getting out of bed in with him to the site, told the Irish News newspaper to the Ballymun Job Center run by a Jesuit priest, Fr. the mornings to do a job that I liked. The best part of in an interview: John Sweeney. Over the next few years Partnership last year was that I was made permanent with AIB. I “Walter was my mother’s brother. The picture shows donors provided the Job Center with a number of grants now not only have a job, I have a career and a future him seated at left with two of his friends from Ballyma- to help the residents obtain employment. to look forward to as well.” caw, which is just outside Dunmore East on the ocean One of the staffers there was a young man in his Paul Murray, User Account Manager, Siemens: off Waterford, a very beautiful place, It’s incredible to early 20’s named Peter Davitt. Peter was a resident of “When I took the FIT course it set me off in a com- think that this townland, effectively a crossroads, lost Ballymun, an enthusiastic, high-energy, hard-working pletely new direction. Working for a big company like three of its sons on the SS Laurentic.” classic example of what can be done with a life starting Siemens is way above anything I ever imagined when His plan was to take a boat out onto the lough and in such circumstances. I started the Business Through Computers course. It hold a brief memorial service for his uncle, laying a Like Columbia Point, Ballymun is gone now, the really has changed my life, literally” wreath on the waters near the sunken ship. “It was last of the huge apartment buildings having been torn In the last two years FIT has moved its services into quite emotional and touching,” he said in the interview. down and replaced by far better housing. the most disadvantaged areas of East and West Belfast. “We went out on a small dingy to the spot where the But Peter is still at it 25 years later, now as president Peter has met with Northern Ireland leadership and Laurentic had gone down and we could actually see the of an extremely successful all Ireland organization various community and neighborhood representatives ship on a sonar image. I must say it was immensely called FIT – Fast Track to Information Technology. to explain their programs. This will be a rewarding touching.” Peter’s organization focuses on the lower income, per- effort with even a modest amount of success. These In a later e-mail to the BIR, Cullinane said he “had an haps less educated, segments of Ireland’s population areas have unusually high unemployment, especially incredibly good trip on multiple fronts to NI. However, seeking out those motivated to improve their lives by for young people, a specific target group for FIT. primary reason for going was to lay wreath over my learning information and communication technologies. It is a valuable example of across the border coop- uncle’s ship, the SS Laurentic lost off Lough Swilley FIT is helping to develop Ireland’s highly skilled work eration. in WW I after hitting German mines. force, offering talented and well-trained employees Last August, the Irish American Partnership Board “It was quite an emotional experience particularly to new and foreign businesses that come to Ireland, of Directors met Peter and several members of the FIT because our little fishing boat had sonar and you could thereby reducing unemployment and providing more staff at their offices in Dublin on an evaluation mission. see the ship. Also, the captain’s grandfather actually fulfilled lives to those who might have previously lived Peter travelled to Boston in May, visiting Boston heard the explosion. Neither of these did I expect. in such a place as Ballymun. College and attending meetings to obtain new ideas “I thought we would FIT also works with many American companies with on how FIT can better help marginalized workers in be laying a wreath in the subsidiaries in Ireland. Microsoft, Hewlett , and Fidel- Ireland. general area. Michael ity are a few examples. Several corporate executives We wish him well. O’Heaney, a South Boston guy, arranged the trip and joined me along with Off the Bench Frank Costello and Mike’s assistant, Kathryn Moody (maiden name), a true as- set. Donegal is a wild and beautiful place.” The value of accommodation Cullinane was a special economic advisor to Bel- By James W. Dolan Anger is usually unproductive no matter how much fast during the Clinton Special to the Reporter better you think you will feel if you let it out. We in- Mr. Cullinane’s uncle Wal- administration, and was I refer not to the residen- variably say things when we are angry that we later ter Fitzgerald, left, with founder of a “Friends of tial kind of accommodations regret. It is the response to a crisis and not the crisis two other Royal Navy Belfast” group, a business of which we are all familiar itself that fuels the confrontation. seamen. network promoting social but the adjustments one Knowing when not to engage is important. Knowing and business ties between must make to the inevitable when not to become involved in a war is a lot easier the US, Canada, and Northern Ireland. During his vicissitudes one experiences than getting out after it has begun. Over the years, I visit last month to Belfast, he gave a lecture at Queen’s navigating the rolling swells have learned not to engage in unproductive exchanges. Universty entitled “The economics of conflict resolu- that sometimes threaten I simply choose not to do so at that level. tions: Northern Ireland and the Clinton peace efforts.” life’s equilibrium. Accommodation involves the ability to look beyond the Adapting to such currents immediate to a larger, more important goal. Within a requires patience, self- family, it’s looking beyond the argument to the damage control, tolerance, under- protracted disagreements will do to relationships. In Boston Irish standing, and the capacity government, it’s placing the common good over partisan to overlook annoyances. By political dysfunction. “overlook” I do not mean Our culture has become more contentious. Being The BostonREPORTER Irish Reporter is published monthly by: James W. Dolan “ignore” but to look beyond assertive, firm, and independent are today’s values, Boston Neighborhood News, Inc., the immediate irritation to replacing compassion, humility, restraint, civility, 150 Mt. 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The Boston Irish Reporter is not liable for errors appearing in advertisements beyond your skin but are unlikely to change is not giving up James W. Dolan is a retired Dorchester District Court the cost of the space occupied by the error. The right is reserved by The Boston Irish Reporter to edit, reject, or cut any copy without notice. but giving in to a higher impulse – peacemaking. judge who now practices law. Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com June 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 5 ‘Let go, let fly, forget. You’ve listened long enough’ Following are excerpts taken from the commencement address given by Mr. Enda Kenny TD, Prime Minister of Ireland, at Boston College on May 20:

As leader of the people of Ireland, Munitir na hEire- ann, I’m honored to speak here today and be admitted to the distinguished ranks of the alumni of Boston College. Your invitation signals the enduring kindness and affection between our peoples. It symbolizes the bond of ‘hope and history’ between two nations either side of the Atlantic. In St Patrick’s Week, I travelled across America, leaving an icy New York, for a rain-soaked Seattle. I felt right at home. Not only because both cities shared Ireland’s propensity for sleet, but because everywhere I went, there and in between, the love and concern for Ireland, and the Irish people, were palpable. Today, the Irish story is writ large across America right to Capitol Hill. The hands roughened in Irish soil, were leathered in your mines, your scaffolding, your bridges, your railroads. Over the generations, our farmers-turned-laborers saw to it that their children went from the schoolhouse and the firehouse, right to the White House itself. Many here today are descended from men and women who saw potato blight bring fear and hunger, then starvation, emigration. Sometimes in our Irish Summer, in between showers, our weather-forecasters issue a potato-blight warning on the radio. Even now, for us as a nation, it goes in deep. We remember who we were in those dark years. In your kind invitation to me, know that you honor all the generations of Irish people. On such a proud day, in such glorious company, God indeed, is in His heaven. And I thank him that the sky has not fallen in. You have chosen well for your Commencement cer- emony. A special Jesuit day, for a great Jesuit event. Because on this day, 492 years ago, at the Battle of Pamplona, a French cannonball shattered the leg of a Irissh Prime Minister Enda Kenny at Boston College on May 20. Photo courtesy Boston College young Spanish nobleman –Inigo de Recalde de Loyola. The treatment of his injuries proved more damaging When Senator Kennedy made his address it was just Klein Blue. But one day ‘the grey ghost of loss will get than the missile itself. If he lived today, Inigo might seven months since a tired-and-tiny woman felt what into you.’ Fear will pick the lock of your happiness, be launching a malpractice suit for several million she called “ the strength of the ancestors” and refused strut across your life. When it does, you will turn to dollars. Luckily for you, he did something altogether to give up her seat on the bus, in Montgomery, Ala- what you learned so well, so deeply, here at Boston more sensible. He began a journey of reflection and bama. That single act would admit a people to liberty College. Those lessons of love, friendship, compassion, self-discovery. A journey that saw him abandon the and the name Rosa Parks to history. community, loyalty. Today, you sit beside each other, world of knights and power, of homage and fealty to Today, you are the Obama generation, of Jesuit Ivy. in happiness, great joy. One day, you may cross cities, devote himself to the life of the spirit through The As graduates of this distinguished, Catholic university, time zones, oceans, to sit beside each other again, in Imitation of Christ. He became, in his own words, a you share with the class of 1956, not just privilege, very different circumstances. As you do, make sure to Pilgrim. His work ever-after undertaken Ad Majorem but heritage. You share that deep and abiding sense pack this old advice. That it matters less what happens Dei Gloriam for the greater Glory of God. of compassion, humility, responsibility. to us, than how we deal with it. That, in life, we can Today, that radical idea echoes across the centuries, I was hungry and you fed me. I was in prison and allow our experience to strengthen us or diminish us. to sustain this distinguished university in its Christian you visited me. I was broken and you comforted me. The choice is ours. As graduates of Boston College, I sensibility, and to inspire you, its newest graduates, as Inspired with that confidence, here today, are men know what yours will be. you start out on the next phase of your own journey. and women who will go on to be leaders of corpora- In this city, strength is your default position. The Today then is a day to celebrate. It’s a day to be tions, communities, countries. You will lead, rooted in hurt of the Boston Marathon attack is still palpable, thankful. Thankful for the professors, tutors, friends the values of your families, your faith and this great but the people of this great city have responded with who supported you and encouraged you. Thankful university. their usual courage, dignity, and compassion. for the opportunity to graduate from a university so Those, privileged to lead this, or any other democracy, Equally, in its proud history, America has always pre-eminent in the life of America and its people. But will do so not as Catholic or Protestant or dissenter, but chosen strength. We saw it, when horror showed up on above all, it’s a day to be thankful for your parents, as men and women guided by and beholden to nothing a regular work day, out of the blue of a September sky. your step-parents, those who have been as good-as- but the law, the Constitution and above all, the people. We saw it when Hurricane Sandy roared across Breezy parents, and your grandparents. All the people. Of all faiths. And none. You will do so Point. But by choosing strength, today, Breezy Point To them, I say look at what you did. You made these without fear or favor because your God, your personal stirs to life. Today Old Glory flies proud and strong young men and women. You made them with your faith, will sustain you. Constant, immutable, they are, there. Not as a symbol of defiance in the debris, but as love, exhaustion, exasperation, imagination. Today, and will always be, with you. Keep them close and you a symbol of hope and victory, streaming on porches, you might feel as if you blinked, only to find your child will never face your public decisions, your challenges, and from the highest windows here, grown, radiant. Their newly-minted degrees im- your difficulties, alone. By choosing strength, today, Freedom does indeed posters in a life where a whole five-minutes ago, you But being left alone, for even five minutes, is highly reign. Towering 1, 776 feet over history, adversity and yourselves, were the font of all knowledge: unlikely in your 24/7, always-on world. In your tender that gritty tribe on the Hudson. The first to respond, How bees buzz? If we can see the wind ? How come lifetime that same world dismantled a wall, disbanded the last to resist. air is invisible ? Why is Green? What does it taste like? a secret police, tore down an Iron Curtain. As it did, And so to you, graduates of Boston College, respond- As a Dad, I know that for us, these are areas of both an era of Cold War, casual murder and impeccable op- ing to your new call, in your new life. Today, the sun natural brilliance and acquired expertise. pression, melted away in a heat wave of imagination shines on you. The Fibonacci numbers all add up. To- Today then, as your newly-graduated son or daugh- and defiance. Scaling the wall of history, those former day, the future you long imagined is here. I urge you to ter, crosses the lawn, You might find yourself catch- East Berliners, found freedom everywhere: in the lens take possession and quickly. Because to you and your ing your breathing at the turn of the head, a fleeting of international news crews, sweaty hugs, shared beers, generation the torch has been passed. You are young expression, that you know has its origins deep in bananas, chocolate, and later, BMWs. America. And while in our world, we might astonish generations, histories, secrets long past. But today, Today we celebrate the birthday of what for some ourselves, to hunt and even find the God particle, to those very generations are exhaling long and proud was the ultimate symbol of freedom. On May 20 1873, look to set up outposts on Mars, as human, our needs and deep. Because, today, they have been proved right. Mr. Levi Strauss and Mr. Jacob Davis picked up US are fragile as ever – food, water, air. Compassion, peace, Today, their descendants and yours are living proof of Patent No. 139, 121 and ‘blue-jeans were born’. love, hope. Soon, graduates we must leave those needs, the power of their imagining. Freedom was in the air. And that air smelled and our planet, our future in your hands. In imagining a better future, they founded this uni- tasted good, until some in lazy, arrogance continued I have every faith in you. versity. Imagination made them blind, insolent to the to ‘plug in, zone out’. Last week carbon dioxide was So, congratulations class of 2013, on this Boston fact that it would take so many generations, so many recorded at 400 parts per million, the highest CO2 College’s Sesquicentennial. Be successful, be well, be lives, to make the single life, the singular achievement, level in human history. Yes it is not right that this and happy. Above all, be yourselves. Live long and deep of each of these graduates. past generations did not protect our home, our planet, and comfortably in your own skin. And as you do, know To those generations, whether in the chaos of im- as they should and expect you now to fix it. But fix it that from this day, like the rivers that have carved migration, or the grip of a poverty that was ruthless you must, we must for the sake of your children, your their way across this great country, so will your lives, and ecumenical the sense of when this success might grandchildren who deserve to know and feel that Nature your endeavors, your achievements carve their way happen, was largely immaterial. What mattered was is something to be loved, not to be feared. into the story of America. that they dared to imagine it would. On this May ‘Planet Earth is blue’ but ’there is everything you ‘Go beyond what’s reliable’. Look out beyond America. morning, here on Chestnut Hill, it does. can do.’ Be unlimited in your vision. See what respect and It’s 57 years since the then senator for Massachusetts And do it you will, through the power of your imagi- understanding can do for us. We who are merely an John Fitzgerald Kennedy, came here to ‘the Jesuit Ivy’ nation. For Einstein imagination was everything. The episode in the story of humanity. and reminded an earlier generation of Boston College preview to life’s coming attractions. Graduates, this is your time. Be not afraid. graduates of the value of politics, the challenge of public But today, as our warm seas rise and our ice melts, Today, then, you have reached what we call in Irish service. It was 13 June 1956. In the Middle East the imagination has become less about ‘preview’, more Ceann Scríbe. Turas amháin déanta, turas eile ás bhúr last British soldiers were leaving Suez. about ‘prerequisite.’ It is found in the everyday. gcomhair amach. One journey completed, another di- Across America, Long Tall Sally and The Wayward As World War II raged across Europe, in Italy, a little rectly ahead. As you end and begin those journeys, I Wind were playing on the radio. It would be three whole girl was painting pictures. Under a blue-and-yellow wish you Godspeed, fair winds and gift you the advice months before The Ed Sullivan Show would ‘bridge portrait of a man with crazy hair and pipe, she wrote: of our Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney. the generation gap’, save the morals of America and “This is Uncle Robert’s cousin. His name is Albert ‘When they make the circle wide, it’s time to swim out make ‘the worrying gyrations’ of a young man from Einstein. In America he works as a scientist. When on your own and fill the element with signatures on Memphis almost ‘mainstream.’ he comes here he goes on the swing.” your own frequency, echo soundings, searches, probes, For the Kennedy graduates, apples were things Graduates buy one tomorrow. Take to the air. Be- allurements elver-gleams in the dark of the whole sea’. we offered the teacher, some of us in hope, more in cause it is you, and the swing-set manufacturers, who Today then Let go, let fly, forget. You’ve listened desperation. Twitter involved birds that, generally, could save the world. long enough. Now strike your note. weren’t blue. Man had yet to set foot on the Moon. But to do that you must first be able to save yourselves. For yourselves, your families and this, the United The Big Man keeping tabs on us up there in the sky. Today, and rightly, you imagine your future in no-less States of America. Commander Hadfield had yet to walk upon the Earth. radiant colors than saffron, magenta, International Thank you. Page 6 June 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com

Point of View About blights – the natural, and the man-made By Peter F. Stevens respect. As is his toughness. In political terms, how- BIR Staff ever, he is showing himself to be thin-skinned and not Recently, scientists announced the discovery of the ready for prime time as a US Senator. Gomez’s team actual strain of potato blight that unleashed the Great runs ads with the tag line “Dirty Ed Markey.” What Famine, An Gorta Mor. The natural villain behind at next? “Markey’s mother wears Army boots?” In short, least a million deaths from starvation or disease and the ads appear to be stitched together by “pros” with the Irish Diaspora of the mid-1800s was “HERB-1,” all the wit and bite of teenage boys. the name that that an international team of molecular Gomez has every right to challenge Markey on his biologists has give to the lethal blight. record, his long stint in DC, his delay in releasing The onset of HERB-1, though not its biological taxes, and other pertinent issues. Markey, whether identity, came in the summer of 1846. A County Cork Gomez likes it or not, has every right to go at his op- farmer noted that same summer: “A mist rose up out ponent’s skimpy political portfolio, the murky historical of the sea….When the fog lifted, you could begin to house deduction on his Cohasset home, his support of see the potato stalks lying over as if the life was gone assault-gun ownership, and, yes, his own words in the out of them. And that was the beginning of the great Ed Markey Gabriel Gomez anti-Obama ad. To this point – thank God this race ends at the end trouble and the famine that destroyed Ireland.” early 1800s and spread from Mexico to Irish ports by of the month – Gomez’s campaign seems to read as Until now, scientists knew that “the great trouble” summer 1845. follows: Vote for me because I’m a former Seal, a pilot, lay with a Phytophthora infestans strain that ravaged The recent invocation of the term “pond scum” by a hugely successful businessman, and a new face who Ireland’s potato beds from 1845 to 1852, but the exact Republican US Senate hopeful Gabriel Gomez (hope- doesn’t have to answer directly any questions about strain’s identity eluded biologists for nearly 170 years. less, in this scribe’s opinion) is in no way equivocal my views on contraception or my stance on the contro- “We have finally discovered the identity of the exact to the Great Famine, but his words do offer a sorry versial Blount Bill. I’m just asking all you little ladies strain that caused all this havoc,” Hernán Burbano, a example of the mouth blight that passes for political out there to trust me on issues that concern you. I’ll researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Developmen- discourse these days. Gomez hurled the phrase at his keep you safe, and Markey won’t – pay no attention tal Biology in Germany, revealed to media worldwide. opponent, Representative Ed Markey, in response to to Markey’s work in the wake of 9/11 to ensure that Famine scholars long believed that the US-1 Phy- a Markey ad pointing out that Gomez, a former Navy all airline baggage is inspected. tophthora strain spread from the United States to Seal, had berated President Obama with fellow Seals That’s simply not enough. Gomez has roughly one Ireland and devastated every county, but through in a right-wing attack ad claiming that Obama dissed month to make his case for change. Perhaps he’ll DNA analysis of eleven mid-1800s samples of blighted the Seal team that nailed Osama Bin Laden. He took reveal his stances on all issues during the debates. potato leaves from Ireland, the UK, Europe, and North too much credit, Gomez and company railed. No matter If he simply attacks his opponent and offers no real America that were preserved in botanical collections what one thinks of the president, no order from him, political core on the issues that matter, say hello to in London and Munich, scientists discovered that a no rightful justice dispensed to Bin Laden. Gomez Senator Ed Markey. Even if Gomez does discuss his previously unknown strain had ravaged Ireland. huffed that Markey had no right to “link” him to the bona-fide beliefs – other than love of country, family, Dispensing with the long-held view that the United terrorist. Perhaps Gomez has forgotten that no one and business – any more references to “pond scum” States was the source of the blight in Ireland, the forced him to appear in that right-wing ad. and “Dirty Ed Markey” will not attract the widespread study asserts that Phytophthora infestans originated Gomez does possess a compelling personal story, and support he needs in a deep Blue state to even make a in Mexico’s Toluca Valley. HERB-1 developed in the his service as a Seal and pilot is worthy of everyone’s dent at the polls. Reading Joyce Reading À Paris By Thomas O’Grady the narrative strategy that he labeled “soliloquy” can on. Anyway he can’t make fun of me after this. I’m Special to the BIR be disorienting. Remembering my own first time going to have a splendid time. Now why is the stair I am sitting on the terrace of a café in Paris—in reading the novel—around 35 years ago—I realize carpet turned up at the corner here? A grey patch Place de la Contrascarpe, to be exact. In 1921, when now how acquaintance with the relative simplicity on the line of upward red, on the red strip looping James Joyce was putting the finishing touches on of Dujardin’s narrative would have prepared me for up from step to step. Second storey; the door on the Ulysses, he lived just around the corner, in a flat the relative density of Joyce’s movement between left. Office. I only hope he hasn’t gone; no chance loaned to him by French author Valery Larbaud on the inner and the outer lives of his three major of running him to earth if he has.” a courtyard at number 71, rue Cardinal Lemoine. characters, Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom, and The concrete and the abstract. The factual and the What better place to thumb through the French Molly Bloom. conditional. The observational and conjectural. The novel that purportedly gave Joyce the idea for what Even a few sentences early in Dujardin’s novel can banal and the meaningful. The past, the present, is known as “the interior monologue,” the predomi- provide the reader of Ulysses with keys to unlock the future. Even this brief passage illuminates how nant narrative strategy of Ulysses? According to the more advanced technique of Joyce’s narrative. Joyce’s deployment of the interior monologue will his preeminent biographer, Richard Ellmann, Joyce A good example is a scene on the second page of operate in Ulysses. Of course, as Dujardin himself picked up Les lauriers sont coupés by Édouard Du- We’ll to the Woods No More, where Dujardin has his admitted in Le Monologue Intérieur, a little book he jardin at a railway kiosk in Paris in 1903—and the protagonist Daniel Prince arrive at the workplace of wrote in 1931 in gratitude for Joyce’s acknowledging rest is literary history: “in later life, no matter how a friend with whom he hopes to spend the evening. him as an influence, Joyce found a way to convey a diligently the critics worked to demonstrate that he This is a very simple premise, but what Dujardin similar texture to the consciousness of his charac- had borrowed the interior monologue from Freud, attempts to convey—and this is what Joyce emulates ters without the awkward self-consciousness that Joyce always made it a point of honor that he had a dozen or so years later when he begins to write Dujardin’s Daniel Prince sometimes expresses. Does it from Dujardin.” Ulysses—is the way that his character’s mind, like anyone really think “the first steps” when beginning Originally published in 1888, Dujardin’s novel has the mind of real person, does not operate in the to ascend stairs? Joyce might have finessed this by been translated into English by Stuart Gilbert as strictly linear fashion that conventional “realistic” letting his readers know the ascent had begun by We’ll to the Woods No More—and I am thinking of fiction tends to present. having Leopold Bloom stumble or by having Stephen how helpful a basic familiarity with this book would Indeed, he shows us how even an act as ordinary Dedalus wax philosophical on how the steps proceed be for readers engaging with Ulysses. In his preface as ascending a stairs involves much more than the nacheinander (one after another) as he does in the to a reissue of the novel in French in 1924, Valery act itself. Taking us with his protagonist step by “Proteus” episode of Ulysses. Larbaud quotes Joyce explaining his admiration for step (literally and figuratively), Dujardin records Still, the basic concept behind Joyce’s narrative how “the reader finds himself established, from the both the range and the depth of Daniel Prince’s strategy is evident in Dujardin’s novel, though first lines, in the thought of the principal person- wondering and worrying about whether his friend other differences ultimately challenge the reader age, and the uninterrupted unrolling (‘déroulement will still be at the office: “The stairs; the first steps. of Ulysses. Some of those differences relate to the ininterrompu’) of that thought, replacing the usual Supposing he has left early; he sometimes does; but very nature of Joyce’s characters who embody the form of narrative, conveys to us what this person- I have got to tell him the story of my day. The first three principal centers of consciousness in the novel. age is doing or what is happening to him.” Espe- landing: wide, bright staircase; windows. He’s a Late in the novel, Joyce himself makes a clinical cially for first-time readers ofUlysses , that “damned fine fellow, friend of mine; I have told him all about distinction between Stephen Dedalus and Leopold monster-novel” as Joyce himself once referred to it, my love-affair. Another pleasant evening coming Bloom: “What two temperaments did they individu- ally represent? The scientific. The artistic.” Bloom is the “scientific” one, as his inner engagement with the outer world is fueled by empirical observation Looking to buy and curiosity. In fact, within a page or so of being Burials in introduced to Bloom, the reader of Ulysses can rec- Massachusetts ognize in his attentiveness to his cat the distinctive in the way that Bloom’s mind works: “Mr Bloom watched or Ireland curiously, kindly the lithe black form. Clean to see: the gloss of her sleek hide, the white button under Boston Area? the butt of her tail, the green flashing eyes. He bent down to her, his hands on his knees. . . . He watched Or perhaps your looking for the bristles shining wirily in the weak light as she Gormley that getaway out in the Berkshires. (Continued next page) Funeral Home AUTO BODY REPAIRS (617) 825-1760 Jack Conboy (617) 825-2594 617-323-8600 FAX (617) 825-7937 Exclusive Buyers Agent 781-799-7706 2055 Centre Street [email protected] Free Pick-Up & Delivery Service West Roxbury, MA From the Berkshires to Boston 150 Centre Street www.Gormleyfuneral.com Reliability • Integrity • Trust Dorchester, MA 02124 Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com June 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 7 tipped three times and licked lightly. Wonder is it boot. Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust: coloured signs. my arms around him yes and drew him down to true if you clip them they can’t mouse after. Why? Limits of the diaphane. But he adds: in bodies. Then me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and They shine in the dark.” Bloom is utterly wrong he was aware of them bodies before of them coloured. his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I about most of his assumptions regarding felines— How? By knocking his sconce against them, sure. will Yes.” In this episode Joyce deploys “stream of but that is exactly what Joyce intends to convey by Go easy. Bald he was and a millionaire, maestro di consciousness” as his narrative method—essentially inscribing his character’s thought process: most of color che sanno.” But if the reader can recognize that interior monologue without any filtering intrusion us are wrong in most of our casual musings, and we the final phrase, in Italian, is Dante’s description of on the part of the author. It is simply one more proceed through life accordingly. Aristotle—“master of those who know”—and then variation on the technique that Joyce recognized the As the “artistic” one, Stephen Dedalus presents re-reads the passage, it can be paraphrased simply promise of in Dujardin’s Les lauriers sont coupés. a more densely packed challenge to the reader of enough as Stephen’s musing on the challenges a After the publication of Ulysses in 1922, Joyce Ulysses, as his mind is filled with both the raw mate- literary artist faces when attempting to inscribe and Dujardin exchanged compliments and tributes, rial and the mechanisms of his literary ambitions. the complexity of human experience as described each praising the other over their literary achieve- “Dubliners,” Joyce has Stephen think in the “Aeolus” by Aristotle (and others). ments involving “le monologue intérieur.” Privately, episode, an overt allusion to Joyce’s own landmark And after that, Molly Bloom’s musings in the though, Joyce acknowledged, in a letter to his pa- collection of short stories—the sort of writing that “Penelope” episode—eight “sentences” that weave tron Harriet Weaver, that he was giving Dujardin his quasi-autobiographical character might aspire and unweave themselves over the final thirty-five “cake for bread.” Reading Dujardin in Joyce’s old to write: “On now. Dare it. Let there be life.” That pages of the novel—might seem like a walk on the quartier, I feel that both writers go down well with example is easy. Not so easy, at first, is the opening Hill of Howth. That is where the episode ends, with a café allongé. of the “Proteus” episode: “Ineluctable modality of Molly remembering Leopold’s proposal of marriage Thomas O’Grady is Director of Irish Studies at the the visible: at least that if no more, thought through sixteen years earlier: “and then I asked him with my University of Massachusetts Boston. In the Spring my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would of 2013 he was a Visiting Scholar at the American seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put University of Paris.

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Profile Suffolk U. President McCarthy fills role of a Renaissance man in challenging times

By Greg O’Brien Special to the BIR If they handed out frequent flier miles for an extended resume, Jim McCarthy would fly free, first class, the rest of his life. Instead, the president of Suffolk Univer- sity is flying high in the academic world. To say that he is a Renaissance man is to say that Isaac Newton could count. The numbers indeed add up for McCarthy – five senior posts at some of the most prestigious schools in the East and in Europe. Before Suffolk, he was provost and senior vice president at Baruch College of the City of New York; dean of the School of Health and Human Services at the University of New Hampshire; director of Columbia University’s Heilbrunn Center for Popu- lation and Family Health and a Columbia School of Public Health professor; director of the Johns Hopkins Population Center and a professor in the School of Public Health; a research analyst at Princeton where he received his doctorate in sociology; an analyst at the International Statistical Institute of London; and a visiting professor at venerable Trinity College in Dublin, founded in 1592 if you’re counting. McCarthy has conducted research in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, and throughout Europe, and has been published widely on community, adolescent, and reproductive health issues. “I guess you could say I moved around a lot,” Mc- Carthy conceded in an interview with the Boston Irish Reporter. “I never wanted to be an academic.” Perhaps it’s more accurate to say that weighty academic circles were following his orbit. McCarthy, a second-generation Irish American, breaks the ethnic mold for stereotypes, and yet he epitomizes Eire—passionate, a man of letters, politi- cally astute, gregarious, and yet you can’t put him in a box. The walls would shatter. “There’s a lot of variety among us Irish Americans,” he said. “You might be surprised.” Not if you know McCarthy. His civic involvements For Suffolk President Jim McCarthy, the numbers indeed add up. Photo courtesy Suffolk University range from a tenure on the National Board of Direc- tors of Planned Parenthood Federation of America; of his sisters are nuns. Mary is principal of parochial University named him the school’s ninth president. to serving as board chairman of the non-profit Alan Mercy High School in Middletown, Ct., and Patricia With its 9,000 students, the private research university Guttmacher Institute that works to advance reproduc- is president of the US Province of the Congregation of in downtown Boston is a place of high achievement, tive health, including abortion rights; to chairman of Notre Dame. His younger brother Tom is a Waterbury mentoring relationships, and the development of strong the Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Team stockbroker. community ties. In 1906, the Boston attorney Gleason of the New Hampshire Citizens’ Health Initiative—a Higher education was a cornerstone in the McCarthy Archer Sr. founded the school as an evening law school mouthful of a title, but defining in McCarthy’s eclectic household even though McCarthy’s father, a kind man to provide working class first- and second-generation nature. and a facile story teller, had to quit school in the ninth immigrants an opportunity to compete with the Boston Education has been the cornerstone of his life. grade to help the family after his father died. And his elite. Over the years the school established a college The Irish Voice named him among the top 100 Irish- mother dropped out of high school to work in a brass of arts and sciences and a business school that is now Americans in high education in the United States for factory. “My father,” McCarthy says,” was a scrawny ranked among the top 50 business programs in the 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. The year 2013 doesn’t look kid. He couldn’t work in a factory, so he became a country while becoming home to notable scholars, to be a luckless year. messenger and a clerk.” prominent lawyers, politicians, and business men All this from a guy who early on didn’t want Years later, the message that rang throughout the and women. to teach. But like Saul on the road to Damascus, Mc- McCarthy house was: “Get your college degree!” Suffolk University, with its classrooms in the Carthy had his conversion. After attending St. Margaret’s grammar school, pri- heart of downtown Boston, is unique among other McCarthy, 63 and so on the outside lip of the Baby vate Fairfield Prep, then Sacred Heart High School in major Boston universities in that the school is on the Boomer generation, paints a word picture of growing Waterbury, McCarthy enrolled at the Jesuits’ College of Freedom Trail, its campus green the historic Boston up in Dorchester. But he didn’t. He was born and the Holy Cross where he majored in sociology. He was Common and the contiguous Public Garden. On Pa- raised in Waterbury, Connecticut. In the 1950s and an “A” student, not much on sports, involved in student triots Day 2013, though, its location proved a mixed 60s, Waterbury was as similar in spirit and culture government, school plays, the school paper, and the blessing. More than fifty of the university’s students to Dorchester as Gallivan Boulevard is to Savin Hill. Spanish club. The jocks might have thought he was a were at the Boston Marathon finish line. One Suffolk Waterbury at the time was one of the first American geek, but McCarthy, never at a loss for words, hit his alumnus was seriously injured in the horrific bombing stops on the road from verdant County Kerry. The stride socially and his intellect exceeded the collective and a family member of another alumnus was killed. fertile green rolling terrain reminded immigrants – brainpower of a high school football defensive line. “Clearly there is no innocence today,” says McCar- particularly the McCarthys, Flahertys, Creans, and “I had a passion for public policy, research and thy, who understands the fabric of life as much as Kennedys, branches of a paternal and maternal family analysis,” he says. he does statistics. That’s an understatement from a tree – of home. All four of Jim McCarthy’s grandparents, The path for him was serpentine, yet on point. After Baby Boomer who grew up in a day when “Leave It who lived a short distance from one another in County graduation from Holy Cross, he earned a master’s To Beaver,” and “Father Knows Best,” were the media Kerry, came to Waterbury. His father, John, and his degree in sociology from Indiana University, then his staples, to be replaced in recent years by “Die Hard,” mother, Mary (Flaherty), “the sweetest person on the doctorate in sociology from Princeton after which he “Bullet To The Head,” and “Collateral Damage.” face of the earth,” were first generation. His mother’s remained at Princeton as an analyst in the Office of “Yet I am optimistic for these students today,” Mc- family hailed from Camp, a narrow crossroads on the Population Research. Two years later, he was hired Carthy adds. “They have the same hopes, dreams, seaward end of Glen Fas and west of the Slieve Mish at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health where he and aspirations as we did growing up. They just face mountain range, not far from majestic Dingle and the stayed for nine years, taught his first class, and from greater challenges, and a more complex, troubling Ring of Kerry. His dad’s family came from a nearby which he took a sabbatical to the International Sta- and dangerous world. Our job here is to focus on the village that no longer exists, its reality as fleeting as tistical Institute in London as a consultant researcher positive, and keep them on goal.” the Irish mist. for the World Fertility Survey. At Hopkins, he met his Suffolk has a man in the driver’s seat who knows “You won’t find it on the map now,” says McCarthy. wife-to- be, Lebanese-born Magda Ghanma, who had how to stay on goal. “Teaching is a passion for me,” “But the impression lives on.” earned a doctorate in public health. The couple has says the man who never wanted to teach, yet teaches What lives on in Waterbury are the legacy and scores three daughters: Christina, a finance officer at Colum- every day, often in the classrooms at Suffolk. of cousins with links to the Ould Sod. On McCarthy’s bia University, and twins, Katherine, an admissions Some 2,300 years ago, Aristotle declared that knowl- maternal side, his grandfather, Patrick Flaherty, grew counselor at City University in New York, and Patricia, edge is power. A student of history, McCarthy walks up on the north side of Tralee Bay; he was an office a project manager at a Baltimore health care system. that walk and talks that talk every day. worker and “a bit of a politician.” His maternal grand- Achievement is the engine that drives McCarthy, who mother, Mary Crean, grew up in Camp. On his paternal taught at Columbia University for 13 years, lectured Greg O’Brien, a regular Boston Irish Reporter con- side, his grandfather John was a factory worker outside at Dublin’s Trinity College as a visiting academic in tributor, is president of Stony Brook Group, a publishing Camp who married Mary Kennedy from Castle Gregory the Department of Community Health and General and political/communications consulting firm. He is down the road. “My father’s father and my mother’s Practice, then on to tenures at University of New the author/editor of several books and contributes often mother attended the same school together,” he said. Hampshire and New York’s Baruch College. to regional and national publications. In all ways, the McCarthys are typically Irish: two So it came as no surprise last year when Suffolk

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By Bill O’Donnell conscience of our lost wartime generations, faithful this year of The Gathering, slated to bring thousands EU May Force Voting For Expatriates – As it and persistent and a remarkable spokeswoman for from North America, the United Kingdom, and Europe, currently stands, Ireland is just one of six European those who often had no one else to speak for them. She there will be the conventional reunions of many of the Union countries that exclude their citizens abroad from turned her widowhood into advocacy of the highest Gaelic clans and a new Irish Family History Centre in voting in home elections. There has been continuing but order. She left us at 72. RIP. Dublin. The O’Neill and Kelly clans are coming, and ineffective pressure from young Irish living overseas *** a Gallagher clan gathering will attempt to break the to be allowed to vote in national elections, but that Gabby Giffords was a three-term Arizona congress- world record by assembling 5,000 Gallaghers together may soon be changing. Some top officials in Ireland woman from Tucson who was seriously wounded by a in County Donegal. and the EU are proposing legislation that would make deranged gunman in a shooting in her district in Janu- One of the more intriguing family reunions of 2013 all members of the Union eligible to vote in elections ary of 2011. Her recovery has been heroic but she chose took place last month as members of the Ned Kelly in their home countries, and to resign in 2012 because of the effects of the attack. clan gathered in Co. Tipperary to focus on their family Ireland would be ready. Last month Gabby and her retired astronaut husband, memories and to hear the Kelly clan’s chief recorder, European commissioner Mark Kelly, came to the JFK Library & Museum Aidan Kelly, present an analysis of the Kelly Y-DNA Viviane Reding and Inde- where she received the Profiles in Courage Award Study, a closer look at the genetic links of the male line pendent MEP Marion Harkin from Caroline Kennedy for her courage, continuing of the family. There will be descendants of the celebrated are working on legislation to service to her country, and her advocacy in support of outlaw and folk hero who was born in Australia in reach out to ex-pats. Harkin background checks and reasonable guidelines for gun 1854 to an Irish convict father, John “Red” Kelly. sees such a move as a way of owners. Gabby is a courageous reminder that there His son Ned was captured and hanged in Melbourne establishing contact with the are many ways to serve. in 1880 for his crimes Irish abroad. Some 300,000 *** On hand last month for the Kelly clan gathering were people have left Ireland during Angelina Jolie is rich and famous and known to some 200 Kelly family members from Britain, Austra- the current economic crisis. millions for her films and her charitable work. Now she lia, America, and Ireland, and one from Guatemala. Although the goal of any new is known, too, and by her own statements, as the carrier One of the event organizers, Mary Kelly, said, “While voting legislation would be of a faulty inherited gene, BRCA1, which dramatically there is no denying that Ned Kelly was a notorious Bill O’Donnell to eventually allow the Irish increases the probability of her contracting breast and criminal, to some he was considered a hero who was out-of-country to vote in all ovarian cancer. Her mother, also with the BRCA1 gene, fighting oppression. But the purpose of our event is not national elections such as for Dáil Éireann deputies, died young and Angelina decided to change the script to condone his reputation but to share the importance eligibility initially to vote in Irish Seanad elections for her six children by becoming surgically pro-active of genetics in tracing family connections and enable would be seen as a first step. so that she could be there for them, if possible. There Kelly family members from across the world to meet Baptism Of Fire for Denis McDonough – When is much nobility and grace in Angelina’s going public and discuss their common ancestry.” the late Don Regan was reflecting on the time he spent in a private matter in a New York Times opinion piece in the 1980s as White House chief of staff to President that told of her preventive double mastectomy. One An Appalling Sense Of Entitlement – I met the Ronald Reagan, he said that the job of cleaning up woman’s courage in sharing her story could mean the Fine Gael Taoiseach John Bruton in the mid-1990s after presidential messes was much like that of the difference between life and death for many thousands during a St. Patrick’s Day event in the White House chief pooper scooper following the elephants at the end of women. that entrepreneur and Cullinet founder John Cul- of a circus parade. That job description is one that the Good News/Bad News on Ireland’s Bridges – A linane, a Friend of Bill (President Bill Clinton), had newest chief of staff in the Obama White House, Denis new bridge being built over the Liffey in Dublin will link organized. It was the annual ‘grab & click’ photo op McDonough, 44, likely can identify with. Marlborough Street on the north side with Hawkins with Clinton and Bruton, then the prime minister. It McDonough’s grandparents emigrated from Galway Street on the south. It will be completed later this year was a dandy affair. Plenty of familiar faces, big-foot and Cork, with his mother’s parents being O’Mahonys but the buzz surrounding the new span is all about the media types, good vittles, a segment of the Marine from Cork. McDonough’s mother and father lived in contest to find a name for the bridge. Already some Corps Band playing in the East Room, and the chance South Boston in their early married years but moved 10,000 nominations/submissions have been received. to say a swift hello and get a photo of the leaders of to Minnesota, where the new chief of staff was born. The criteria for selecting the name are the following: Ireland and the US. A well-liked top White House staffer during Obama’s If named for a person, that person must have been born In the years since, Bruton has had several high profile first term, McDonough, who is only a few months into in, or at least lived in, the city and have had “strong positions at very good salaries. Sometimes life after his new position, has three separate crises to contend and/or enduring connections with the city”; politics can be beautiful. So I was a tad taken aback with at once: the Benghazi attack that killed four at if named for an event, it will have to have occurred when I spied a story in the Irish Independent in May our embassy there (and what some see as a cover-up); at least 20 years previously, or be of “extraordinary that had a jolting headline: “Former Taoiseach Urges the IRS targeting of right wing tax-exempt groups; and long-lasting consequences to the city.” Public to Tighten Their Belts.” Now belt-tightening is and the debacle and resulting outrage at the Justice Among the names nominated are: James Connolly; a constant companion, a grinding shadow of the work- Department’s fishing expedition involving the Associ- Lady Augusta Gregory; Frank Duff of the Legion of ing people of Ireland. Irish punters are paying dearly ated Press telephone records. Mary; the late independent TD Tony Gregory; Oscar for the freewheeling and virtually unregulated rogue It would not be stretching reality to suggest that Wilde; WB Yeats; Jonathan Swift; the author James lending practices of Ireland’s runaway banks. More Obama’s historic legacy may well depend on how Plunkett; Bram Stoker; and the Abbey Theatre. I’m gratuitous advice from the John Brutons of this world convincingly Denis McDonough and his team defend for Tony Gregory. who have” friends,” and invariably land on their feet, and answer the crescendo of political attacks from Re- On a less encouraging note is the recent news that we can do without. publicans as well as some unhappy Democrats looking the Narrow Water bridge linking the north Co. Louth Incidentally, Mr. Bruton is doing his belt-tightening towards re-election. and south Co. Down border region is in political trouble. with a hefty pension from the Republic of Ireland and Cardinal-BC Invitation Clash disappointing The bridge, downwater from Newry and across from his income as a well- paid lobbyist for the Irish Finan- – No matter which side of the controversy you stand Warrenpoint and a historic crossing point at Carlingford cial Service Centre. I don’t know what the IFSC gig is on, the one inescapable conclusion, it seems to me, Lough, would spark a north-south economic regenera- paying him (six figures, part time, theExaminer says) is that it’s a sadly disappointing episode that likely tion and cross-border reconciliation. but his pension check, courtesy of Ireland’s ratepayers, should never have happened, but certainly not with The fly in the ointment is that despite some 80 percent is slightly more than $15,000 each and every month (or the attendent media explosion we have witnessed. of the bridge funding approved and in place and broad $181,782 annually) for services rendered, one presumes. Cardinal Sean O’Malley, Boston College, and Irish political support, there is a growing possibility that the Look it up under S for shame in the OED. Taoiseach Enda Kenny are all well-intentioned and Northern Ireland Department of Finance, under the RANDOM CLIPPINGS capable, and all three are trying to fulfill their duties disagreeable Minister Sammy Wilson, is slowing down Not so fast. It was originally reported that the peace responsibly. Having said that, the most egregious the project with an eye towards delaying it to death, walls would start coming down shortly. A second take bone in the throat for Kenny and the Irish is the over- as one local resident in Louth suggested. It is hoped by by the powers at Stormont now figure it will take ten the-top comment in the cardinal’s widely distributed business people on both shores that something might years to get them down. … The Duke of Kent grabbed statement that described the Irish leader’s role in the be done to give a push to Wilson, never an enthusiast a bit of history when he became the first royal to pay abortion issue back in Ireland, to wit: “Mr. Kenny is for anything helpful to border counties in the south. tribute to the men and women who fought and died aggressively promoting abortion legislation.” The proposed site of the bridge is the scene of one of the in the 1916 Easter Rising. … Paul Bew, a unionist The truth about Kenny’s role involves a pregnant deadliest attacks during the Troubles: in August 1979, author and intellectual, says the Good Friday Agree- woman’s ‘misadventure’ death, the virtual paralysis of the IRA killed 18 British soldiers there. On a personal ment “is flawed and elitist” but it will not be derailed the entire Irish medical profession, and a badly writ- basis, I spent many days in the Omeath-Warrenpoint by dissidents or the 1916 centennial commemoration. ten 1992 Irish Supreme Court judgment that screams area, at Newry, Flagstaff, and the Coolee Peninsula … President Obama will visit Belfast before the for clarity. Within that context, Enda Kenny is very region. It is one of the truly grand scenic areas along G8 Summit opens next month; it’s called a “whistle- reluctantly trying to fashion a resolution that respects the border and a connecting bridge would be warmly stop” tour. … Allied Irish Bank got bailed out by the the rights of a mother and her unborn child. The car- greeted by the local residents. Irish government but won’t consider letting the city dinal’s statement is hugely unfair to a decent man, a of Galway use the Lynch Castle for a municipal art leader who is working to bring a degree of clarity and Did You Know That … gay marriage is now legal centre. … Integrated education is getting closer in compassion to an equitable and humane resolution. in 13 countries on five continents and 12 states in the the North but nothing flashy or too soon because it As to the taoiseach’s commencement address and United States? Foreign countries that have approved might undermine religious divisions which underpin degree conferral at Boston College that the cardinal same-sex marriages include Argentina, Belgium, political parties. … Trina Vargo of the US-Ireland boycotted, some in the press, citing unnamed Irish Canada, Denmark, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Alliance is telling applicants to get their paper work government sources, have suggested that there was Portugal, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Uruguay and in because no firm answers until late summer earliest. a quiet agreement to handle Kenny’s BC appearance France, the latest country to go legal. … The people of Belfast remembered Bobby Sands on in a sensitive way that would have avoided a public the 32d anniversary of his death. … Almost half of all confrontation between Kenny, BC, and the archdio- No Apologies For Low Corporate Tax Rate – The births in Northern Ireland last year were to unmarried cese. It would, those Irish Voice government sources Irish Minister for jobs, Richard Bruton, is saying that parents. … The justly celebrated Linen Hall Library say, have had the cardinal absent but avoid the public Ireland “makes no apology” for the low- tax-rate regime is marking its 225th anniversary. A wonderful, living confrontation. It wouldn’t be a first. that attracts multi-national corporations like Google monument to unfettered thought and opinion. … Early Whether that scenario is accurate or not, the taoise- and Apple to headquarter on the green isle. The Irish last month, the Police Service of Northern Ireland ach’s scathing 2011 broadside against the Vatican over government points out that Ireland has long been a (PSNI) began making plans to take possession of the its lack of action in response to Catholic Church cleri- low-tax regime and it needs to create employment, and Boston College interview tapes. … Maureen O’Hara cal abuse and the resultant interruption of diplomatic international companies employ over 150,000 people was having more than her share of heartache back relations between Ireland and the Vatican famously in Ireland. “We want to have a regime where taxes in Glengariff, Co. Cork, so now she is in the US, at a underlined the unresolved dispute between official on profits are low, taxes on employment are low, and care center in Idaho where her grandson lives. … The Ireland and the Curia, after decades of cordial relations. companies can come here to start and grow businesses, last time I looked there were 16 candidates to succeed Three Women – For over 40 years Maureen Dunn so we make no apology for that.” Boston Mayor Tom Menino. Maybe eight at most are was the single most visible advocate for our MIA/ While the pressure from the EU is intensifying re- serious or semi-serious candidates. Tommy seems to POW military defenders who never came home from garding Ireland’s low 12.5 percent corporate tax rate have two favorites, Rob Consalvo and Charlotte war. Her husband was a young pilot in the Vietnam and firms like Apple, Google and Amazon are being Golar Richie. … And a special shout-out to an old War who was shot down in 1968 over the South China more closely scrutinized by sovereign countries losing friend and fellow Eire Society board member, Attorney Sea. Maureen went to festivals, fairs, and gatherings tax revenue to Ireland and elsewhere, it appears that Lenahan O’Connell. For many out there Lenahan throughout Greater Boston and New England over the Ireland has been in a spirited defense of its low rates was practicing terrific law before you were born. The years to tell her story and to remind listeners of those and will continue to meet challenges head on. great man is just turning 100, and he deserves every who were Missing In Action or Prisoners of War and good year he has had and more. their families. Maureen never gave up; she was the A Different Kind Of Family Reunion – During Page 10 June 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Irish International Immigrant Center Immigration Q & A An agency accredited by US Department of Justice The Waiting Game: 100 Franklin Street, Boston, MA 02110 Immigration processing Telephone (617) 542-7654 Fax (617) 542-7655 Q. I’m planning to file an application with US Citi- Website:iiicenter.org Email: [email protected] zenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to adjust my status to that of legal permanent resident, based on my marriage to a US citizen. I understand that this can Wider Horizons Profile: Gemma Harte of Dublin take a long time, and I heard that there is a way to pay a special fee to get an application on the fast track. Is By Sean Hansen ing them with essential staff.” Gemma was grate- this true? “Beyonce hasn’t got skills and practical work ful for the chance to work A. Currently the USCIS offers what it calls “premium a patch on them,” says experience to apply when with a community-based processing” for a $1,225 fee only with regard to certain Gemma Harte, reflect- they return home. The youth organization here employment-based visa petitions. Other applications, ing on the singers she course is supported by the in the US, as back in Ire- such as those to adjust immigration status based on had heard during a trip International Fund for land she is unable by law certain family relationships, are processed on a first- to Morningstar Baptist Ireland, which “promotes to work with kids until come, first-served basis. Processing times vary with Church in Mattapan. “It economic and social ad- she is 25. “We’ll really the type of application and the particulars of individual was brilliant, so exciting vance, and encourages miss her, the kids, all the cases. Adjustment of status cases based on marriage to for a service.” The Dub- contact, dialogue and staff, we’d love to have her a US citizen, for example, have been taking on average liner was here in Boston reconciliation between again,” said Civill. around three to four months from the date of filing to on the Springboard Wider nationalists and union- Gemma has been liv- the adjustment interview in the USCIS Boston regional Horizons program, which ists throughout Ireland.” ing with Sandy Mendez office. Applications for naturalization have generally brings young adults be- Gemma spent her six in Roxbury along with been taking a little longer. tween the ages of 18 and weeks in Boston working fellow intern Jolene Red- USCIS does provide what it calls “expedited process- 28 to Boston and places with Hyde Square Task dington. “I love them,” ing” for no extra fee in cases where its “expedite criteria” them in six-week commu- Force, a community after says Gemma. “They’re have been met. USCIS stresses very strongly that it will nity service internships. school program in Jamai- so nice, I couldn’t ask for expedite processing only when there is, for example, an The program is facili- ca Plain. Her responsibili- anyone better. It’s tough “extreme emergent situation,” or the likelihood of “severe tated in America by the ties included helping kids to leave.” She talks about financial loss,” or a humanitarian situation. Our experi- Irish International Im- with homework, using being at home in her Dud- Gemma Harte: On ence is that USCIS means what it says about its strict migrant Center, which her artistic skills to deco- ley Square neighborhood: the job with the Hyde criteria for accelerated processing, and such requests are arranges work place- rate signs, and coming up “I love all the public art, Square Task Force. granted rarely. Still, cases do arise when the agency will ments, host families, with imaginative ways to the colorful buildings, Photo courtesy IIIC accept an accelerated processing request. If you think entertain the children, and the expression of you may have such a case, let us know, and we can help and social activities. Its dearly, the hanging out purpose is to foster mu- such as presenting a show culture. It’s very open.” you to evaluate your chances. and telling about her pet When she returns to on the Common, working Here are some other points about case processing: tual understanding and with kids in Hyde Square, reconciliation between tarantulas! “She’s been Dublin, Gemma hopes to Applicants can track the processing of pending cases awesome,” says Barbara take up her former role as and spending time at the with USCIS online at uscis.gov or by calling the agency’s Protestant and Catholic IIIC. Her final take on the communities in North- Civill, her supervisor. a disco teacher, working customer service center at 1-800-375-5283. When check- city: “I love Boston. It’s a ing case status, have the application receipt number and ern Ireland and Ireland. “She jumped right in, with animals, or prepar- took work really seri- ing to become a youth place where you have to other documentation from USCIS ready. In addition, it strives to try to be bored!” Make sure that USCIS has current address informa- improve participants’ ously, worked creatively, worker when she turns and got along with other 25. She will miss Boston tion for mailing notices of action and other important employability by provid- communications to applicants. Address changes can be submitted online; this should be taken care of as soon as an applicant moves to a new residence. We have seen numerous instances where applicants wonder why they Matters Of Substance have not heard from USCIS for many months, when it turns out that mail from the agency was returned as undeliverable. Celebrating recovery in our families IIC also provides on its website current average pro- diction. They all want to who remains ill with ad- didn’t make the problem cessing times for different types of applications filed at know how best to help the diction, does not recover. start, and you can’t make various USCIS offices and processing centers, so ap- young person in their care So what messages can it stop – and you can’t plicants can determine whether their applications are who has been impacted we share with the child “make” anyone use alco- taking longer than usual. We note, however, that the by the substance abuse of impacted by a loved one’s hol or drugs! average times given have in some instances been out of this parent/caregiver. No addiction? The National Associa- date, with the actual processing times being somewhat one wants to believe that Sharing your feelings is tion of Children of Alco- faster or slower. children are impacted, not being mean or disloyal holics (nacoa.org) shares Processing and individual case status information for but the research, and our to your family. “The Seven C’s,” a tool to the types of applications filed with the State Depart- own work with families, When you talk to some- help young people under- ment at the national Visa Center (NVC) can be obtained clearly indicates that one you trust, you begin stand that they are not by e-mailing NVC at [email protected] (preferred they are very much af- to feel better and feel less responsible for their par- method) with the case number and other particulars, or fected. Though the great alone. ents’ problems. Children by telephoning NVC at 603-334-0700. For applications news is that by giving When you live with need to know that it is in process at a particular US Consulate abroad, visit the By Danielle Owen our children some clear alcoholic/drug addicted not their fault when their State Department’s web site at state.gov and follow the relevant links to the web site for that Consulate. (Each IIIC Staff messages and allowing parents, feeling afraid parents drink too much Consular office has its own web site, and processing and Recently, we have seen them to chat about their and alone is normal. It or abuse drugs, and that contact procedures vary somewhat from office to office.) an increase in calls from feelings about this “taboo” they cannot control their is confusing to hate the Keep in mind that processing times refer to the amount parents, grandparents, or forbidden topic in their disease of alcoholism at parents’ behavior. They and caregivers of children of time it takes the government agency to get to a par- families, recovery for the the same time that you can be shown that there ticular application that is actionable when filed. This who have loved ones liv- whole family is possible love your alcoholic parent. are ways they can learn ing with alcohol/drug ad- is different from the waiting time, for example, for visa – even if the loved one, Remember to have fun! to deal with their parents’ numbers to become available in categories other than Sometimes children with alcoholism or drug use. immediate relatives of US citizens. The waiting time alcoholic families worry I didn’t cause it in such cases can extend to many years under current so much that they forget I can’t cure it law, based on the limited number of visas that Congress how to be “just a kid.” I can’t control it provides each year. Find a way to let yourself I can help take care of IIIC can assist with case status and processing time have fun. myself by communicat- inquiries. If you have questions about this or any other Don’tride in a car ing my feelings, making aspect of immigration law, visit one of our weekly legal FOLEY LAW OFFICES, P.C. when the driver has been healthy choices, and cel- clinics for a free, confidential consultation. drinking if you can avoid ebrating me! Attorney John Philip Foley Disclaimer: These articles are published to inform it. It is not safe. Please Please join us on June generally, not to advise in individual cases. Permanent Residency & Citizenship • Family & Business help protect your child 4 and June 18 for a “Cele- US Citizenship and Immigration Services and the US Immigration • Labor Certification & Temporary Visas from having to ride with bration of Hope and Heal- Department of State frequently amend regulations and ALL Nationalities & AILA Members someone who has been ing for Family Members alter processing and filing procedures. For legal advice drinking. affected by Substance seek the assistance of an immigration lawyer or an ac- You have no control Abuse” with video and credited IIIC immigration specialist. over the drinking. You refreshments from 5:15 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the IIIC offers assistance with Laboure Center, 275 West Broadway, South Boston, the US Citizenship process Phillips Candy House MA 02127. The group is If you have been a Legal Permanent Resident for the past 4 years and 9 months or longer or are married to a fine chocolates since 1925 led by Maureen McGlame, M. Ed., LADC1, LCSW, US citizen for the past 2 years and 9 months or longer, Director of COASA, who you may be eligible to apply for US citizenship. You may have a lot of questions about US naturalization has 35 years of experience including the processing time, the application fee, and working with children and perhaps some other issues that have been bothering you, families. or you may be looking for help preparing for the exam. Please call Danielle at Consider receiving help from the experienced staff at the IIIC (617-542-7654, the Irish International Immigrant Center. Ext.14 or dowen@iicenter. IIIC staff can help guide you through the entire process org) if you have any ques- from the initial stages to completion of the application tions about this event or or a citizenship preparation course. Staff are available about recovery in families. at weekly legal clinics throughout the city of Boston and Change is always possible at monthly citizenship clinics in our downtown offices. – We can help! We also offer a six-week citizenship class to prepare for Danielle Owen is the the exam. For complete information, please visit our IIIC’s Director of Wellness website at iiicenter.org or call 617-542-7654. & Education Services. In collaboration with the Greater Boston Citizenship Initiative Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com June 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 11 All systems are go (Continued from page 1) Searson, which per- forms June 8 at 7 p.m., is spearheaded by sisters Boston Irish Festival Schedule 2013 Erin, Heather and Colleen Searson, who play a vari- ety of instruments — they Friday, June 7 are especially noted for 5:00pm Volunteers arrive their Ottawa Valley-style fiddling — and are all 6:00pm Festival Opens for Concert only expert step dancers. Only Grafton Street vendors, food vendors Other acts slated for the festival as of press time and bars are open. include Philadelphia’s 7:00pm American Rogues concert classic Irish pub band The Shantys; the family band 9:00pm Eileen Ivers and Immigrant Soul concert The Rebel Kellys; local 11:00pm Concert ends favorites Devri, Erin’s 11:00pm Festival closes Guild, and The Auld Lo- cals; the trad/contempo- rary Tom Lanigan Band from Rhode Island; and The Ivy Leaf and Corvus, Saturday, June 8 two Boston-based bands 7:30am Volunteers arrive playing a strongly tradi- tional Irish instrumental 8:30am Boston Irish Festival Feis opens/competition and vocal music repertoire begins: Liam Harney Academy and style. [Performer updates are available at 11:00am Festival opens – all activities bostonirishfestival.info] 2:00pm Redhead World Record Attempt Photo An always-popular fea- ture of the festival is the 3:00pm Irish Youth Sports League game/clinic tent manned by Boston’s 4:00pm Tug of War competition 4-6pm Reynolds-Hanafin-Cooley branch of the worldwide 4:15pm Boston GAA games Irish music and cultural Eileen Ivers & Immigrant Soul will kick off the 2013 6:00pm Boston Irish Festival Feis ends organization Comhaltas Boston Irish Festival. Below, dancing by Kieran Ceoltóirí Éireann. The Jordan and Atlantic Steps is on tap. 7:00pm Searson concert Comhaltas stage offers 9:00pm Black 47 concert virtually non-stop tra- ditional Irish music and 11:00pm Festival closes dance all day June 8 and 9. Once again, the festi- val’s Grafton Street Mar- ketplace will be chock full Sunday, June 9 of Irish and local crafts, 7:30am Road race registration begins artwork, jewelry, knit wear, apparel, pottery, 9:00am Road race begins ornaments and more. The 10:00am Post-race Party in Main Tent “Kids Village” features children/family activities 11:00am Festival Opens such as free face painting, 11:00am Irish Mass/Irish Breakfast amusement rides, field games, arts and crafts, 12:00noon Dart Competition begins music, Irish dancers, 12:00noon Boston GAA games (from 12noon to 6:00pm) Gaelic games, and Irish wolfhounds and setters. 1:00pm Irish Bread Baking competition collection begins And for festivalgoers 2:00pm Atlantic Steps performance with hair of a certain hue, once again there’ll 4:00pm Tug of War competition: Semi Finals and Finals be an opportunity to set a 4:00pm Irish Bread Baking competition world’s record for the larg- est number of redheads winners announced in one area. A photo will 6:00pm Festival ends be taken on Saturday at 2 p.m. as the Festival at- tempts to beat last year’s Art tent, Language tent, Comhaltas tent, Tea House, Irish total of more than 300 Setters and Wolfhound Dogs tent, Genealogy tent, Irish redheads. All information about Authors, Kids Village, Hayrides, and more all weekend long. the 2013 event is available at bostonirishfestival.info.

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By Sean Smith part of The Burren Back- Special to the BIR room series at the popular A New York City-based Somerville pub and music Irish band called The mecca. [Boston area na- Yanks might seem a tough tive fiddler-vocalist Liz sell in the hub of Red Sox Hanley will open.] Nation, but Bostonians The Burren concert will shouldn’t leap to conclu- be notable in a couple of sions: As fiddler Dylan ways. It will mark the Foley explains, he and his recent release of their mates did not choose the dynamic 14-track debut moniker as a tribute to a CD, and also serve as certain baseball team. a homecoming of sorts: “ ‘Yanks’ are what the Despite their association Irish call obnoxious Amer- with New York City, Bos- icans, and we are Ameri- ton – or more specifically cans playing Irish music,” Cambridge’s Club Pas- says Foley. “And we are sim – was the site of the obnoxious – sometimes.” group’s first bona fide gig Fortunately, Foley and last year. The Yanks play at The Burren in Somerville later this month. Jimmy O’Kelly photo In fact, that Passim his fellow Yanks — Dan well as Boston-based sing- in duo or trio format. we sat down in front of the eration (ranging through Gurney (accordion), Isaac concert was somewhat of a rare event given how er-songwriter Kyle Carey; Similarly, the CD rep- microphones.” the 20s to 30 years old), Alderson (uilleann pipes, Alderson has performed resented another conver- So how do they pull this with kindred, though flute) and Sean Earnest relatively little The Yanks actually appear together as part of the “Celtic gence at the right time, the off? It helps, obviously, not necessarily identical, (guitar, bouzouki) — have Crossroads” show, and quartet doing the record- that all four are accom- tastes and ideas relating far more of a reputation on stage because of their various other pursuits. with Runa, Comas and as ing in three days at the site plished, well-regarded to Irish traditional music. for sterling musicianship part of a trio with Keith of the Catskills Irish Arts musicians in their own Most of all, each of The than boorishness. And on Earnest, for instance, has toured with acts like Murphy and Sam Amidon, Week in upstate New York right – with numerous Yanks will tell you – lit- June 19, they’ll be show- among numerous other – their arrangements put All Ireland titles to their erally – they just really, casing their individual Teada, The Paul McKenna Band and McPeake, as collaborations. Members together, according to credits – and that they’re really like playing with and collective talents as also have played together Earnest, “minutes before all of about the same gen- (Continued on page 17) Revels’ summer fundraiser hails all things Irish Building on the enthusiasm generated from last December’s sold-out Irish-themed “Christmas Revels,” Revels’ annual summer fundraiser will continue the party on Saturday, June 15, at 8 p.m., with “Midsummer Night Revels: A Summer Solstice Soiree.” The Ireland-flavored celebration will take place at the Holy Trinity Armenian Church, 145 Brattle Street in Cambridge. The evening will be hosted by Revels’ Artistic Director Paddy Swanson and Music Direc- tor George Emien. Entertainment will feature: Lindsay and Brian O’Donovan (host Tir Na Theatre’s Colin Hamell portrays more than 20 characters in “Jimmy Titanic,” playing June 19 - of WGBH-FM’s popu- 31 at New Repertory Theatre in Watertown. Michael and Suz Karchmer photo lar “Celtic Sojourn” and a former Revels board member); step dancers Colin Hamell explores Harper Mills and “Lord Harper Mills, who com- of the Dance” cast mem- peted at the 2013 World ber Kevin McCormack Irish Dancing Champi- from the O’Shea-Chaplin onships, will make an lost dreams of The Titanic Academy of Irish Dance; appearance during the These two points play journey of Jimmy Boylan but wasn’t sure what Cieran Nagle, founding “Midsummer Night Rev- By R. J. Donovan a pivotal role in the Tir and Tommy Mackey, two form it should take. Says member of the Three els: A Summer Solstice Special To The BIR Na Theatre production proud, young, Belfast Hamell: “He came up with Irish Tenors, with his Soiree.” From Hollywood to of the new play, “Jimmy shipyard workers aboard a very original slant. Half wife, dynamic violinist Titanic,” being presented the ship’s ill-fated voyage. the play is set in Heaven Broadway, the world has and fiddler Tara Novak; guitarist Owen Morrison, long romanticized the by New Repertory Theatre Colin Hamell, Tir Na’s and half the play is set sinking of the Titanic. in Watertown June 19 to Producing Artistic Direc- in Belfast. And it talks who coincidentally is married to Revels Founder Further, the story of the 30. Directed by Carmel tor, portrays more than 20 about how important the John Langstaff’s grandniece, Meredith Langstaff; 1912 tragedy has focused O’Reilly, the production characters in the one-man shipbuilding industry was and more. In addition to a Silent Auction, a festive strongly on the ship be- had its world premiere show, including Jimmy, for northern Ireland. One Dessert Buffet and a Cash Bar, guests will enjoy ing a luxury liner that last fall at the Origin Irish Tommy, God, the Angel of the big reasons the Eng- poetry by W. B. Yeats, an original Irish Blessing, took to its watery grave Theatre Festival in New Gabrielle, Titanic passen- lish held on and fought and a mini-version of the Strawboy Mummers Play, a fairly well-to-do list of York. Following a run gers and crew, St. Peter, to hold on to the north of which has its origins in County Fermanagh. passengers. in Philadelphia, “Jimmy John Jacob Astor, Belfast Ireland was because they Tickets to the event are $35. Benefactor Tickets, What many people don’t Titanic” made its Irish Mayor R. J. McMordie, had a great shipbuilding priced at $100 per person, also include a 6 p.m. pre- realize is that the Titanic debut in Donegal in April. and more. and textile industry. It – the largest ship in the By Belfast journalist- It was Hamell himself was very important to soiree’ reception showcasing hearty hors d’oeuvres world at the time – was turned-playwright Ber- who had the idea for a them, in the scheme of and fine wines. (The location for the Benefactor’s designed to transport nard McMullan, the play play about the Titanic. He economics, to have that.” Reception will be provided following purchase of emigrants. And, that it is set 100 years after discussed it with McMul- He continued, “The tickets.) For information and tickets, call 617-972- was built in the shipyards the disaster in the north lan, who subsequently reality was, the Titanic 8300 ext. 29 or visit www.revels.org. of Belfast. Atlantic, revisiting the agreed to write the piece (Continued on page 15) – R. J. Donovan Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com June 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 15 First-ever Feile Cheoil in area is all set for June 22 in Melrose

By Sean Smith see the weekend as a ton also is a way remem- playing and interpersonal Special to the BIR means to continue ber Larry and to continue skills. Most of all, you’re The Boston Comhaltas strengthening its music the tradition he held so sharing time with other Ceoltóirí Éireann (CCE) education programs, but dear and worked so hard people who love the music Music School is launch- also to broaden ties among to promote and preserve. as much as you do, so it’s ing the first-ever Féile Irish musicians — partic- This is the centerpiece of an ideal setting in which Cheoil Boston this month ularly younger ones — as the initiatives we are un- to form friendships.” in hopes of establishing an well as Irish music fans dertaking in continuing to Sean Clohessy, who is annual celebration of the in Boston and elsewhere. build up the music school.” coordinating the competi- “It’s a way to build com- While Coyne and the tion part of the Féile with “The performance itself “This is a great learning Boston area’s traditional is the culmination of all curve for us all, and there’s Irish music heritage. munity,” says Lisa Coyne, other organizers empha- Cara Frankowicz, says the Boston Comhaltas size the fun-for-all-ages it’s understandable for of this work — and at the no doubt that something The June 22 event, end of the day an appre- we didn’t expect will hit which will take place at School executive direc- aspect of the Féile, they musicians at most any tor, who is organizing the note its potential as an level to be daunted at ciation and recognition of us. However, everyone the First United Method- both the hard work and has been really encour- ist Church in Melrose, will Reynolds Memorial Ceili important growth experi- the prospect of perform- with Reynolds-Hanafin- ence for young musicians. ing in front of family and the performance is what aging, and we just really include adjudicated com- makes for the best experi- hope that we can pull off petitions, workshops, ses- Cooley branch president The competitions provide friends, let alone experts Tara Lynch. “The competi- a tangible goal and focus, and adjudicators. That’s ence, I believe.” something that gives sions, entertainment, and While the Boston area everyone a good day out. more. As a special prelude tions will involve children they say, but of even more why it’s critical, he says, and adults not only from importance is the opportu- for participants and spec- is renowned for its Irish We wanted to really try to the Féile Cheoil Boston, music and dance activity, and bring something that the school will host the Greater Boston, but else- nity to socialize with peers tators alike to take a long where in Massachusetts and to enjoy playing music view of a competition like and has hosted numerous was specifically organized inaugural Larry Reynolds major events — including around our community Memorial Ceili on June and New England. We in a far more informal the Féile and the prepara- want people to enjoy setting. tion that goes into it. the recent Irish World of musicians and their 21, at 7:30 p.m. at the Dancing Championships families, and hopefully Sons of Italy in Waltham, spending time together, “The session is the “The whole process, not perhaps make new friends foundation of Irish mu- only the competition day — something like the Féile this will be something we in honor of the school’s is largely uncharted terri- can also build on.” co-founder and guiding in the process, and hope- sic,” says Coyne. “That’s itself, is an important part fully learn a few things to where you become an of the experience, and tory, says Clohessy, who For information and spirit, Larry Reynolds, adds that he and his fellow updates on the Féile Cheoil who died last fall. help them become better active participant in the constructive encourage- musicians or to gain more tradition and culture of ment all along the way will co-organizers are trying to Boston, see http://www. Organizers with the anticipate, and prepare ccebostonmusicschool.org. CCE’s local Reynolds- insight into Irish music. Irish music, where you really bring everything to “The Féile Cheoil Bos- develop critical listening, fruition,” says Clohessy. for, as many contingencies Hanafin-Cooley branch as possible. Colin Hamell explores lost dreams of The Titanic (Continued from page 14) those with wicked humor. was very important, and The conceit of such cav- the heart of the shipyards alcade being presented was very important, to as a one-man show is the people who lived in inspired.” Belfast. Sixteen thousand The Irish premiere was people worked at the especially meaningful for shipyard.” Hamell. “The developer of Although many of the the Belfast Titanic Visi- characters are based tors Center owns a castle on real people, Jimmy called Solis Lough Eske and Tommy are fiction- in Donegal. And he had al. Hamell said they’re a Titanic themed weekend just “two guys, two best [planned], so he invited friends, who worked to- me to do the show there. gether on the building It was one of the greatest of it and sailed together. weekends ever. Fabulous. One is from the South, Beautiful weather, great one is from the North. crowds. It was unbeliev- But it doesn’t really speak ably well received. The to the whole Protestant- people from the Belfast Catholic thing at all. . . Arts Festival came over. . Everyone thinks of the I’ve now been invited to beautiful grand staircase come back and do it in that was destroyed, all October in Belfast, which the cutlery, all the chan- is where Bernard is from deliers. John Astor went . . . So it’s really taken on down. But there were a life.” also Jimmy Boylans and R. J. Donovan is Edi- Tommy Mackeys . . . their tor and Publisher of on- stories were, in effect, a lot stageboston.com. more tragic because they *** had a real connection to Tir Na Theatre’s “Jim- Belfast and a real connec- Tir Na Theatre’s Colin Hamell portrays more than 20 characters in “Jimmy Titanic,” playing June 19 - my Titanic,” June 19-30, tion to the boat.” 31 at New Repertory Theatre in Watertown. Michael and Suz Karchmer photo at New Repertory The- The play also questions atre, Arsenal Center for the world’s continuing “The Titanic was meant to more and more over here show. One New York pletely original point of the Arts, 321 Arsenal obsession with the ship. be the greatest ship of all by Americans. And I see review called “Jimmy Ti- view . . . Colin Hamell has Street in Waltham. BIR “The Titanic was very time, and the next thing it. We kind of look to find tanic” remarkable, adding the energy and passion of readers can save $5 per special for the people who they’ve hit an iceberg. All the dark humor in these that it . . . “manages to a holy roller evangelist . ticket when using the code built it and the people who the first class passengers things. I don’t know why entertain, inform, move, . . Scenes that make one “titanic” online at newrep. worked and sailed on it,” are giving it to God. And that is. Is it because his- and comment from a com- shudder are balanced by org or 617-923-8487. Hamell said. “But why I play God as a chain- torically, so much stuff is it so special for other smoking inner city Dublin happened to us over the people?” guy – (kind of) a gangster. years [that] it’s ingrained? The character of Jimmy And he’s basically taking That, as a way of surviv- becomes very protective no responsibility for the ing, you have to just find of the tragedy and chal- iceberg.” the brighter side of it?” lenges the fascination di- “I particularly like part Proving the point, he rectly with the audience. of the Heaven scenes said he was recently Hamell says Jimmy asks, where I play [both] God speaking to his mother EIRE “Why are you all here? and the Archangel Ga- back home. “Everyone in You’re all here because brielle. . . Basically, it’s Ireland talks about how of something about the a conversation between bad the economy is. This Titanic. Well, you know, them. . . Gabrielle’s on person’s not working, that pub I worked on the Titanic. the take, so as people ar- person’s not working. My I helped build it. I sailed rive to Heaven, he takes mother’s telling me this it. It’s my experience. all the money and watches cousin’s lost his job and 795 Adams St. • Dorchester Why don’t you all go do off them at the gate. And no one can get money your own thing. Find out he has to split the take from the bank. And then what it really feels like with God. I just really she says, ‘But you know to experience something liked the way the scenes Colin, we always say to “President’s Choice” really, really, special once worked out.” He said the ourselves – at least we’re in your own lives.” humor provides a neces- not from Greece.’” The play also blends in sary change of tone at just Despite the sometimes Serving Lunch & Dinner humor to balance the trag- the right time in the play. precarious nature of the edy, especially in a scene Addressing the ability theater, Hamell, who where the passengers of the Irish to look for hails from Navan, County begin to arrive in Heaven. contrary humor amidst Meath, is cautiously op- Every day, “All the first class pas- tragedy, he said, “I get timistic about what the sengers [are] completely that pointed out to me future may hold for the disgruntled,” Hamell said. 7 days a week Page 16 June 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com CD Review memorable trio, Chicago-based bohola. setesdalsfele, a 10-string instrument that is a hybrid of The instrumental sets encompass some vener- a violin and Scandinavian fiddle – and “The Well Below able session favorites like “Snug in a Blanket” and By Sean Smith the Valley,” which if anything has a darker character “Tom Billy’s Jig” (“Everyone knows ‘Tom Billy’s’ jig,” than “Miles Weatherhill,” featuring a relentless multi- Special to the BIR reads the liner note. “Everyone”) and also include tracked bouzouki rhythm and Knowles’ appropriately Pat Broaders, Liz Knowles & Kieran O’Hare, several entries from the great five-volume Breandán ominous bowing. “Open the Door for Three” • Three stalwart, well- Breathnach collection of tunes, three of them grouped respected members of the American Irish music scene “Open the Door for Three” is a most welcome entrance. into the “Grand Gates of Annesbrooke” reel medley join the suddenly abundant roster of hot Irish trios (“O’Shaughnessy’s,” which ends the set, is a particularly – which includes The Teatotallers (Kevin Crawford, Niamh Ní Charra, “Cuz: A Tribute to Terry ‘Cuz’ splendid affair with O’Hare doubling on whistle and Martin Hayes and John Doyle) and Winifred Horan- Teahan”• Tricky things, tribute albums. It’s perfectly pipes). Knowles’ knack for composition is featured with Mick McAuley-Colm O Caoimh – and the result is a fine to record a bunch of material associated with the her tenderly delivered air “The Gift of Falling,” and happy one indeed. band/musician/composer in question, down tools, and an additional part she supplied to the album’s titular F i d d l e r L i z call it a day. But can you convey something of the sub- tune, a leisurely-paced major/minor jig collected from K n o w l e s h a s ject’s personality, the qualities that distinguished him/ Munster in the 19th century. brought her clas- her/them, not only as a musician but also as a living, Broaders, meanwhile, gives himself a pretty high sical violin back- breathing person degree of difficulty with two of the album’s four songs. ground to tradi- – especially if the For “Beeswing” – easily one of Richard Thompson’s most tional music terri- subject may not deeply-felt, lump-in-the-throat creations, about that tory with aplomb, have the historical love affair you knew couldn’t work but were compelled as a member of footprint and ca- to see through nonetheless – Broaders generally lets Cherish the La- chet of, say, a Tur- the lyrics do the work, instead of seeking to emulate dies, the String lough O’Carolan or the emotional texture of Thompson’s vocals, and with Sisters, and the Michael Coleman? a recurring sympathetic riff from Knowles, he pulls “Riverdance” mu- N i a m h N í it off just fine. By contrast, “Miles Weatherhill” is a sical cast, as well Charra, an award- 19th-century broadside ballad from Yorkshire brought as solo and in col- winning fiddle, to life in the late 1970s by legendary singer-guitarist laboration with, among others, husband Kieran O’Hare, concertina player, Nic Jones, a made-for-tabloid true story of thwarted a masterful player of pipes, whistles, flute who has and singer from love and unspeakable revenge; Broaders and crew proven equally adept as an arranger of traditional Killarney, has superbly evoke, but do not overplay, the undercurrent music. Their melodic might is supported, artfully and done precisely that in this 13-track homage to Kerry of passion and dread throughout the verses. gracefully, by Pat Broaders, whose bouzouki accom- native and longtime Chicago resident “Cuz” Teahan The two other songs are tried-and-true traditional, paniment and singing were a key facet of yet another – concertina and accordion player, composer, mentor “High Germany” – given urgency by Knowles’ use of a and role model for many, including Ní Charra, who as a young girl met him in person only once (for all of 10 minutes) but has carried him in her heart and memory ever since. One of her most prized possessions is a cassette tape Teahan – who died in 1989 – made for her after their encounter, an hour of tunes from the Sliabh Luachra tradition (many of which taught to him by Padraig O’Keeffe, another tribute-worthy figure) or his own hand, a few song excerpts, and all manner of information, insight and advice. That tape serves not only as a thematic but occasion- ally a literal point of reference throughout “Cuz,” as Ní Charra includes excerpts of his playing and singing (some of the latter decidedly PG-13) from the recording amidst the tracks, which include estimable contribu- tors like Liz Carroll, Seamus Begley, Jimmy Keane, Donogh Hennessy, and Mick Moloney. As befitting a tribute from one Kerry musician to another, there are plenty of polkas and slides, including marvelous Teahan originals like “Dave Kennedy’s Gift,” “Mary Shea’s Promise to Her Dog” and “Mickey Chewing Bubblegum,” Ní Charra’s indispensible liner notes offering context and explanation for the titles as well as the tunes themselves. Yes, “Cuz” is a studio recording, with polished, pro- fessional performances and arrangements, but this is no clinically academic exercise in traditional music preservation; it’s a lovingly rendered portrait of a man and his legacy, right down to the embroidery (another of Teahan’s talents) that forms part of the cover design. The closing medley of slides brings forth the spirit of fun, and even irreverence, that’s supposed to animate this music, with Begley’s robust singing of “The Hair Fell Off My Coconut.” Cuz would be proud. (Ní Charra, incidentally, is donating the cassette Teahan made for her to The Irish Traditional Music Archive, at itma.ie.)

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(Continued from page 15) the polished, elaborate more enthusiastic about Charlie” along with “The one another. ensemble style of Irish the pipes, so I wound up Lady on the Island”; and “We’re all on similar music that has emerged in focusing on the tradition Earnest shows his dexter- pages, in terms of what the past couple of decades, through Seamus Ennis ity in flatpicking a pair type of traditional music as exemplified by the likes and Robbie Hannon. of slides on guitar, “An we like, and how we want of, say, Solas or Lunasa “I think there was a time Seanduine Dóite” and to play it,” says Alderson. – for whom, just to be when people were looking “Micho Russell’s.” “I think the process of clear, The Yanks have the at what was going to be In fact, it is Earnest’s recording our CD reflects utmost respect (Lunasa’s ‘the new thing’ in Irish accompaniment that gives that: With some bands, do- Kevin Crawford is equally music, but it seems like The Yanks a further dis- ing an album might take a laudatory of them; he has now the movement is to tinctiveness. He builds on long time before everyone been quoted as calling focus on the roots of Irish the standard I-IV-V/mi- is happy with what they’ve The Yanks “the next Irish music, to go to the sources nor-VII-VI chord progres- done; in our case, it took American dream team.”). and appreciate the way it sions with imaginative but three days.” “Irish music is at its best used to be played. So in not overly conspicuous “We all have our indi- when it’s more informal,” that vein, we bring a mix voicings, all the while vidual styles and angles, says Gurney. “We like to of spontaneity and pre- keeping the rhythm in- of course,” says Gurney, have a certain roughness planning to our approach.” tact. He’s also not afraid to who lived in the Boston in our sound, that ‘as-it- As evidenced on their go out on a limb occasion- area for several years. happens’ vibe.” CD, The Yanks do favor ally, as he demonstrates The Yanks are (L-R) Dylan Foley, Dan Gurney, Isaac “But because we go back so “There is, obviously, a straightforward arrange- on “Jenny’s Welcome,” Alderson and Sean Earnest. far, we’re very comfortable difference between music ments in which the three his bouzouki backing to with one another – no one that’s being danced to, and melody instruments play Alderson’s pipes expertly that was closest to what ease their way without of us has to be ‘the leader.’ ” music that’s being listened in unison; there is little creating and then dispel- the regulators on Isaac’s a hitch into the Am/C Gurney and Foley, in to,” says Earnest. “We’ve in the way of harmony ling tension. pipes do. It’s a bit of a reel “Return to Camden fact, first met as school all had experience play- or counterpoint. During In doing so, Earnest high-wire act, sometimes Town.” And there’s the kids: They grew up in ing in group settings of some of the sets, one or both blends with and – but that’s part of the stately hornpipe set, “The roughly the same part of some kind or another that two members may take enhances the work of enjoyment of playing tra- Stack of Barley” merging upstate New York, and involve arrangements. It’s the lead – Gurney plays his melody-playing col- ditional music.” into “Scott Skinner’s,” showed up at many of the a matter of how you can “The Green Fields of leagues – all part of strik- “I really like what Sean which Foley’s fiddle then same sessions, competi- engage the audience, and Woodford” with Earnest ing that elusive balance in did,” says Alderson. “The kick-starts into a reel. tions, festivals and other have that give-and-take. to introduce a medley of making all-instrumental tune can sound pretty bi- The Yanks exude a cer- events – particularly the Playing together the way jigs, for example, while Irish music a pleasurable zarre in spots, but I think tain confidence not only gatherings organized by we do, with some structure Foley and Alderson team listening experience. he really caught the mood about their musicianship legendary Father Charlie but not an abundance of it, up at the start on “The “There are some ac- and tone just right, and but also about their musi- Coen. As Foley notes, feels natural for us.” Gooseberry Bush” before companists who look to definitely helps to drive cal identity. As Earnest when he and Gurney came Alderson – who at 30 is Gurney and Earnest join establish a groove within it along.” puts it, “Our overarching up with the idea of putting the oldest Yank (“I’m also them, and segue into a which the melody players Most of all, The Yanks ethos is, we’re Irish musi- a band together, “the first the shortest,” he quips) – splendid take on “Nine play,” says Earnest. “I more than fulfill the ul- cians but not necessarily names we came up with sees the band’s style, and Pint Coggie.” go about it from another timate criteria for a trad Irish. Being centered in were Sean and Isaac.” his own experience with Each Yank also gets a way. I try to come up with Irish band: They play New York, we’re a very “We’d all be playing mu- Irish/Celtic music, as re- “spotlight” set: Foley on chords and sequences that good tunes, and they play urban, transatlantic kind sic anyway,” says Gurney, flecting perhaps a general the gorgeously rendered replicate as closely as them well. Listen to them of band, and we have all “so making it official just trend toward exploring air “Séan Ó Duibhir A’ possible what’s happen- gallop through “House of kinds of influences and in- made a lot of sense.” the tradition in greater Ghleanna,” followed by a ing melodically. I embel- Hamill,” a three-part reel terests, many of which we Gurney’s comment is a depth. “I didn’t come to the pair of reels, Sean Ryan’s lish and complement the by Ed Reavy that seems share. And the main thing revealing one: Consum- music the way the other “Trip to Nenagh” and then melody without getting in locked into a relentless is, we just like playing mate performers they three did, where they were “Miss Langford’s”; Gurney the way, and leave Dan, melodic sequence for the music with each other.” may be, there’s a decided encouraged at an early essays a robust D-modal Dylan and Isaac some first two parts, then sud- For information on June informality to The Yanks’ age via competitions and jig, “Up and Away in the flexibility. denly, thrillingly, breaks 19 The Yanks-Liz Hanley approach as a band, one sessions and so forth. I Morning,” that goes into “On ‘Jenny’s Welcome,’ out of it. Or listen to them concert at The Burren, see that’s a matter of phi- was introduced in my “Charlie Mulvihill’s”; Al- for instance, I came up traverse the majestic, burren.com. losophy as much as prac- teens to groups like Solas derson tackles the vener- with something rhythmi- intriguing “Jackie Daly’s ticality. It contrasts with and Lunasa, but I became able “Jenny’s Welcome to cally and harmonically Barndance,” and then

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Y Ryan Kelly & Neil Byrne - Acoustic by Candlelight In addition to the electrifying nightly Celtic Thunder shows, the lads will be George Donaldson - Folk Favourites CM performing their own personal shows… Keith Harkin, solo gig; Ryan Kelly & Neil Emmet Cahill & Colm Keegan with guest Rebecca Harkin Byrne, Acoustic by Candlelight; George Donaldson, Folk Favourites; Emmet MY Deirdre Shannon Cahill & Colm Keegan with guest Rebecca Harkin and Deidre Shannon CY Sandra O'Hara (formerly of Celtic Woman). Every guest will have the opportunity to have a

CMY The Celtic Thunder Band - Traditional Music photo with the cast and receive autographs Goitse - Traditional Irish Band K Gaelic Rhythm - Dance Show What’s more, the Celtic Thunder Band will be performing as will the traditional Irish band Goitse. Our own Belinda Murphy, choreographer and dancer in the original Riverdance, will be introducing her new Irish Dance show, Celtic Rhythm. Belinda will also teach you to dance and show you how to join in the fun at our Ceili Night! Sandra O’Hara, a world famous Psychic Medium, will be offering an evening spiritual session. The ship’s bar will be transformed into THE authentic Celtic Thunder pub and the menu hand selected by the lads.

SO JOIN US NOVEMBER 2-7, 2013 FOR THE CELTIC THUNDER CRUISE. Special rates are still available. Visit celticthundercruise.com or call toll TOLL- FREE US free 855.5CELTIC (855.523-5842) 888.5235842 888.5CELTIC WWW.CELTICTHUNDERCRUISE.COM Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com June 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 19 BC’s Connolly awarded Ellis Island medal of honor plishments, winning nu- merous competitions and receiving various awards and other tributes. His achievements include a record 10 All-Ireland fiddle championships, selection by Irish America magazine as one of the top 100 Irish Americans, “Traditional Musician of the Year” honors from the Irish Echo, and induc- tion into the worldwide Irish cultural organiza- tion Comhaltas Ceoltoírí Éireann’s Hall of Fame. At BC, Connolly found- ed and directed the Gaelic Roots Summer School and Arts Festival and its suc- cessor, the Gaelic Roots Music, Song, Dance, Con- cert and Lecture Series — renowned for bringing some of the most notable traditional musicians Seamus Connolly to campus for concerts, Seamus Connolly, the ties, their nation, and the workshops and other Sullivan Artist-in-Resi- world. Past Ellis Island public events. In addition dence at Boston College Medal of Honor recipients to his contributions as and director of the uni- include six presidents of fiddle player, organizer versity’s Irish Studies the United States, Nobel and scholar, Connolly music programs, receive Prize winners, athletes, has helped promote Irish the Ellis Island Medal of and leaders of industry, music as a teacher and Honor from the National artists and others whose mentor to untold numbers Ethnic Coalition of Or- work has made a lasting of budding musicians, at ganizations (NECO) on impact on humanity. BC and elsewhere. May 11 in recognition of Actress Mia Farrow, “I am honored and his distinguished career recording artist Dionne humbled by this award, as one of the world’s most Warwick, Surgeon Gen- especially when I see the respected master Irish eral Regina M. Benja- list of previous recipients,” musicians. min, MD, and US Rep. said Connolly. “Through The Ellis Island Medals Peter King (R-NY) joined the years, I have had of Honor annually pays Connolly as this year’s the kind assistance and tribute to the ancestry honorees. support of so many dear groups that comprise Connolly — who em- friends, in the US, Ireland America’s unique cultural migrated from his native and many other places. I mosaic. The medals are Killaloe in County Clare accept this honor on behalf presented on Ellis Island to the US in 1976 and of all the great musicians, to American citizens for joined the BC faculty in singers and dancers I’ve their outstanding contri- 1990 — has cultivated a known, and from whom butions to their communi- decades-long list of accom- I’ve learned so much.”

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109 HIGH STREET, BOSTON MA 02110 Page 20 June 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com BRETT’S BOSTON By Harry Brett Exclusive photos of Boston Irish people & events

The John F Kennedy Library and Museum in Dorchester is hosting a series of events this year to commemorate the final year of JFK’s presidency. On May 18, the JFK Foundation hosted a dinner with guest of honor, Taoiseach Enda Kenny, in memo- rial to the June 1963 visit of Kennedy and his family to New Ross, the homeland of the Kennedy family. The moving evening featured a brief film of that historic visit. Photographer Harry Brett was on hand at 1. the reception with photos of some of the 500 guests.

1.) Msgr. Liam Bergin, Boston College; Mary and William Bulger, So. Boston;, Fr. Robert Casey. St. Brigid/Gate of Heaven Parishes, So. Boston; 2.) Mary Regan, Galway, Tom Gal- lagher, IIC President; 3.) Anne Aaron, Arling- ton; Frank Rigg, Carlisle; 4.) Paul Buckley and Marian Walsh, W. Roxbury; 5.) Matt and Margaret Power, W. Roxbury; 6.) Frances and Jim Carmody, Milton; 7.) Dr. Steve Freidberg, Liz Shannon; Jamaica Plain; Brenda and Tom Byrne, Reading; Debra and Art Rosen- 2. 3. thal, Wellesley; 8.) Andy Tarsy, Bridget Sam- burg, Cambridge; UMassPresident Robert Caret, Boston; 9.) Paul Breen, Brookline; Mrie and Jim O’Malley, No. Andover; 10.) Tim and Djamila Fitzgerald, Cambridge; 11.) Ed, Mau- reen, Linda and Bill Forry; 12.) Carol and Pat- rick Binns; Carol Kopelman, Moroccan Vice Consul General; 13.) Frances Gallagher, Need- ham; Mike McCarron, Milton; Siobhan Galla- gher, Stoneham.

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12. 13. Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com June 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 21 Traveling People Where to go in Ireland? There’s much to choose from By Judy Enright Co. Mayo, to celebrate Special to the BIR the Greenway Gourmet Want to know where to Trail’s second birthday. go when you visit Ireland? The hotel is a former Well, check out recom- Great Southern (only the mendations from some façade was preserved in of the Irish who voted for renovations) and was a the best place to vacation pivotal spot along the in Ireland. Great Western Railway The Irish Times news- that ran from 1895 to 1937 paper recently announced from Westport to Achill 25 locations shortlisted Island. The hotel closed by their panel of judges in 1990, about 60 years from 1,400 nominations after the railway, but was submitted since March. purchased and completely The judges, most of whom renovated in 2003. are in some aspect of tour- In July, 2010, thanks ism, will choose an overall to great cooperation from winner. landowners along the The top 25 included 42km trail, The Great four islands (Achill, Inis W e s t e r n G r e e n w a y Meain, Inishbofin and opened. The trail is the Valentia), the River Shan- longest of its kind in non, two picturesque West Ireland and immediately Cork spots (the Beara pen- became immensely popu- insula and Gougane Barra lar with runners, walkers, Lake), a few beaches cyclists, and now with (Caherdaniel and Der- “foodies.” rynane in Kerry, Dunmore The Gourmet Greenway East in Co. Waterford, Poulnabrone Dolmen in the Burren is a must see for those visiting Ballyvaughan, one of 25 locations was organized by the Gweedore in Donegal, shortlisted by judges of The Irish Times newspaper’s “Best Place to Holiday in Ireland” competition. Mulranny Park Hotel to Rosslare Strand in Co. encourage visitors to ex- Wexford, and Strandhill plore local food and learn in Sligo) and, of course, how that food is produced. Dingle and Dublin City, For more information perennial favorites for visit mulrannyparkhotel. tourists. ie/gourmet-greenway. Also listed were Cork EVENTS and Londonderry. The From now through the gourmet capital of Ire- end of August, you can land – Kinsale – made the tour the amazing Doolin list too as did: Killarney; Cave and also take in Loop Head peninsula, a show called “Sense of Co. Clare; Louisburgh in Ireland in Song and Story” Mayo; Boyle in Roscom- with Gerry Howard and mon and Ballyvaughan Kate Daly. In conjunction in Co. Clare, at the edge with Tourism Ireland’s of the spectacular Burren. Gathering, the shows In addition to Derry are offered June 6, 13, City, Cushendall in Ant- 20 and 27, and weekly rim and the Lakelands of in July and August. For Co. Fermanagh, got the more information, visit nod for Northern Ireland. doolincave.ie. It would be difficult in- Ballinrobe’s races are deed to sort through that on and Tuesday, June list and pick a favorite 25, is Ladies Day at the since there are so many Co. Mayo track. Races are beautiful, fun places to ex- also set for July 22 and perience on this island. No 23, August 12 and 27 and doubt, travelers will find Sept. 24. For more, visit their own favorite places. Inishbofin, one of four islands off the Irish coast shortlisted by readers of The Irish Times newspaper ballinroberacecourse.ie. TOURIST NUMBERS as among the best places to vacation in Ireland. Judy Enright photos Looking for a night out It’s hard to say whether in the Shannon area? it’s Tourism Ireland’s through June 14, Tuesday coast in Rossaveal, Co. gage, freight or anything Tola organic goat cheese How about a Medieval advertising of The Gath- to Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Galway. Costelloe was … we might want to take and The Burren Smoke- banquet at Bunratty (res- ering 2013 or just the re- and Saturday, 10 a.m. to formerly the estate of J. or consign by air. At Sa- house. Every Monday ervations required for alization that Ireland is a 5 p.m. Bruce Ismay, chairman moa Air, we will do our until the end of October, all) Dunguaire Castle in fabulous place to vacation, The artists all had ca- of the White Star Line, best to ensure that every they and 20 other area Kinvara or Knappogue but recent figures show reers before focusing on owners of the Titanic. passenger is afforded the food producers will stage near Quin. There’s also a that there was a 40 per- their art. Zofia is “over Ismay was on the Ti- same level of comfort and an event celebrating the traditional Irish night at cent increase in overseas 97” and does embroidery, tanic’s maiden voyage but travel throughout their region’s landscape, pro- the corn barn in Bunratty visitors this year for St. Renata and Benita are survived because of his flying experience. We duce and traditions. Folk Park at 7 (reserva- Patrick’s Day. Research painters. The exhibit decision to step into the want to bring back Air Lots of highlights are tions also required.) Also showed that one in four is dedicated to Hilton, small lifeboat reserved Travel as an enjoyable ex- planned including star- check out the Irish House (26 percent) came from a painter who died in for women and children. perience, where you, and gazing and barbecue Party in Dublin for a good the US and about one in 2012, “and to all artists He was officially exoner- your baggage will always at the Cliffs of Moher night out. three (29 percent) came who emerge later in their ated later but was much travel together. No more and food safaris. For Enjoy Ireland whenever from Britain, France, and lives.” vilified on both sides of the excess fees are charged more information, visit and wherever you go. For Germany. Euro spent by For more information Atlantic and retreated to and no more discrimina- burrenecotourism.com/ the best deals on air and holidaymakers during visit thedock.ie or email Costelloe Lodge with his tion, because as we know: food-dining. land packages, visit your March events more than to [email protected] family where he died in a kilo is a kilo is a kilo.” There was also a din- favorite travel agent or doubled since three years PROPERTY SALES 1937. His widow stayed Samoa Air flies Britten ing event recently at the shop online. ago. Interesting to see that for a few more years before Norman (BN2A) series Mulranny Park Hotel, Tourism pundits say 5-star Glenlo Abbey Hotel, returning to London. and Cessna (172) aircraft, Ireland is again “in vogue” on about 140 acres outside Costelloe Lodge was “both of which have a PUZZLE SOLUTION FROM PAGE 22 with Americans and that Galway City, is on the famed for salmon fishing proven track record with visitor numbers from market. No price is listed. and Ismay is said to have reliability and safety and North America are up 17 The hotel, where First taken 300 salmon in a are well suited to flight percent. Recent surveys Lady Hillary Rodham single season in the late conditions experienced in have shown that Ireland Clinton stayed May 11 and 1920s. Samoa and the South is more competitive now 12, 1999, is in receiver- EXCESS BAGGAGE Pacific.” pricewise than it has been ship as are so many other We read in an April Hopefully, Aer Lingus in more than a decade and properties in Ireland due 3 edition of The Irish will not get onto this idea that’s never bad! “Every to the economy. Mrs. Clin- Times that Samoa Air or more than a few of us little helps,” as they say ton received an Honorary has become the first to will be packing a whole at Tesco. Doctorate in Law from charge passengers based lot lighter and seriously ART SHOW National University of on how much they weigh dieting well in advance of AT THE DOCK Ireland – Galway and was plus their baggage. New our flights. If you are in the area, made a Freeman of the rates range from about BURREN FOOD do stop by The Dock City of Galway, an honor $1 to $4.16 per kilogram TRAIL Gallery in Carrick-on- previously bestowed on (1 kilogram is 2.2 pounds.) There’s much to recom- Shannon, Co. Leitrim, US Presidents John F. The airline’s website mend the Burren but the for a brilliant art show Kennedy and Ronald says this is a “world first” latest plus is the Burren called “Emerging Artists” Reagan. and is the fairest system Food Trail, organized by featuring the work of Zofia Also for sale with its con- for paying to carry any- the Burren and Cliffs Malanowska, Hilton Mill- tents was Costelloe Lodge, thing by air. “The world is of Moher Geopark and er, Renata Mooney and a 10,000 square-foot luxu- now aware that charging the Burren Ecotourism Benita Stoney. Admission rious villa on about 12 by weight is the fairest Network. is free and the show runs acres at the confluence of way of paying for carriage, Some of the participants the Casla river and the whether it’s people, bag- include the wonderful St. Page 22 June 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com The Irish Language by Philip Mac AnGhabhann Celtic Did you realize that the Sears-Roebuck brand ross name “Kenmore” is Irish – Ceann Mór, “Great C Number One” or “Top of the Line”. Ceann litrally means “head” but can be used in many ways, perhaps ords the widest variety of translations of nouns in the W whole Irish language. The Irish In counting ordinal numbers, “first”, “second”, “third”, and so on, “first” isan chead cheann. Any crosswords are Irish dictionary will give you translations for ceann as “head”, “first”, “roof”, “end”, “after” and many a service of an more. Chéad means “each” so an chéad cheann, Ireland-based “first” is literally “the one at the head of the line.” website which It is time again both to review and to introduce some new material. Do you remember how to make provides Irish comparisons – comparative and superlative? Sure you do. Fore we review these we will introduce one Family Coats of other which we shall call equative because both “things” or “persons” being compared are “equal.” Arms by email. Equative comparisons in English use the You are invited structure “as … as”. An example is “Nora is as big as Mary.” In other words, they are equal in size. The to visit Irish adjective goes between chomh /huh/ and le. In Irish this sentence is Tá Nóra chomh mór le www. Máirí /tah NOH-ruh huh moor leh MAH-ree/. Here the adjective is always in its basic “dictionary” bigwood.com/ form even when comparing two nouns that you know are both feminine. heraldry If you want to say something like, “Nora is as big as you” (Really, “Nora is as big as you are” in proper English but we’ll stick with colloquial American.) Then you have to combine le with a personal pro- ©-bigwood.com noun, In this case tú, “you”– Tá Nóra chomh mór IRELAND IN CROSSWORDS leat /tah NOH-ruh huh moor let/. ACROSS 7. Piety no jabber. (anag.) famous Thomastown, Co, 1. Circa Ruskin or thereabouts in busy Waterford/ Kilkenny, monastic ruin founded in 1158 by Donagh Adjectives that begin with a vowel must prefix Tipperary town, once the seat of the Ormondes. (7-2-4) MacGillpatrick, King of Ossory. (8,5) an h to keep the chomh /huh/ from combining with 9. See Da about things having got less difficult. (5) 8. E.g. sorry cat leg is broken in Kerry village near to the descriptive word — chomh hard le /huh hard 10. Vote received with zero latitude apparently. (4) Magharee isles between Brandon and Tralee Bays. (13) leh/, “as tall as” and chomh hálainn le /huh HAH- 12. “Yes, of course, we all know —— Livia. Tell me all. 11. No man out, six put up in rolling heights between leen leh/ , “as beautiful as.” Tell me now. “ Joyce (4) Mayo and Sligo, south of Enniscrone. (2,9) 13. Port Laoise xylophone with hidden erotic mean- 16. Comes to earth, in Shannon, maybe? (5) Here is something new. How to say, ”mine”, ing. (4) 17. This came up about note, what a vision. (5) “yours” and so on. 14. Cap in bits so lose one’s cool in the manner of a 18. Given a start, this cat would be very tiny and Greek god. (5) elemental. (3) In the case of Comparatives one can say “Your 15. A Caledonian racecourse? No, it’s English, and 19. Ring north east for the number. (3) room is as big as my room” Tá do sheomra chomh Royal in June! (5) 20. Antacid confused as in game. (8) mór le mo sheomra. Or you can simply say, “Your 16. A soil erosion in Irish county whose chief town was 23. Unmarried, like 19 down. (6) room is as big as mine” Tá do sheomra chomh once called Maryborough. (5) 26. Prophet is in Fairyhouse erroneously. (4) le mó cheannsa. Here mo cheannsa – with the 19. It happened on a single occasion in the past in 27. Is including small back number; they are charged addition of the emphatic suffix –sa - is almost un- Dungannon certainly. (4) in Delphi on Sunday. (4) translateable. The closest one can come is “my thing” 20. Nutmeg to nun sent astray in Cavan village near 30. I am in ancient Rome as a result of addition. (3) which is finally translated as “mine.” Lough Sheelin and the O’Reilly’s Ross Castle. (5,6) 21. They work together and mince meat (in the Aer CROSSWORD SOLUTION ON PAGE 21 So, here is something new. How to say, ”mine”, Lingus company?) (4) “yours” and so on. 22. Southern cattle fair is well turned out. (5) 24. Get together and have cake before church, shortly. “mine” mo cheannsa “ours” ar gceannsa (5) “your” do cheannsa “yours” bhur gceannsa 25. Hold on tightly to a hundred fish. (5) Irish Sayings “his” a cheannsa “theirs” a gceannsa 26. Pins up the tailor’s cut. (4) “hers” a ceannsa 28. Cardinal seen in Castlerea street. (4) Theres no need to fear the wind if your haystacks are 29. Different pose taken over the counter in Mexico. (4) tied down. Some speakers will put an –n on the ending of 30. Rag us about getting a sweetener. (5) A trout in the pot is better than a salmon in the sea. “his”, a cheansan. Bhur,“Your – plural”, is usually 31. Tall members in wrangle to see Pretender who was It’s better to bend than to break. shortened to ‘ur /oor/ -- ‘ur gceannsa. Notice that crowned Edward VI in Dublin in 1487. (7,6) A ship often sank beside the harbour the regular rules for Possessive Pronouns apply Food is the “horse” of work. here – “my”, “your”, and “his” lenite (aspirate) most DOWN Character is better than wealth. initial consonants except l-, n-, and r-. “Hers” does 2. Give permission to appear in Tyrrellspass enter- If you have a ship and a cargo, you’ll get the right wind. not. All the plurals all “eclipise” initial consonants. tainment. (6) “There is no luck except where there is discipline.” This will vary depending on the word and the place 3. Made free of right before 499 in Cahir, ideally. (3) There are no strangers: Only friends we have yet to meet. but for ceann in rapid speech and in written Irish 4. Headland to pace around. (4) When you are right no one remembers; when you are the following is essential: 5. “There is —— one thing in the world worse than be- wrong no one forgets. ing talked about, and that is not being talked about.” A good start is half the work. ceann sounds like /Kyawn/ Oscar Wilde (4) God’s help is nearer than the door. ceannsa /KyAWN-suh/ 6. “The ———— and the beautiful have no enemy but A closed hand only gets a clenched fist. cheann sounds like /Hyawn/ time.” Yeats (of Eva Gore Booth and Con Markiewicz.) It’s better to be sure, than to be lost. cheannsa /HyAWN-suh (8) gceann sounds like /Gyawn/ gceannsa /GyAWN-suh/ ADVERTISEMENT Now you can make “equative comparisons”, we will move on to comparisons that are “not equal”. You will recall these but for new readers we must review. Photography by To form the comparative and superlative in Irish, simply use the structures: Comparative: nĺos + Adjective in Comparative Form: Image Photo Service Tá mo mhac níos aidre do cheanna. “My son is taller than yours.” Superlative: le + Adjective in Comparative Form: • Weddings • Anniversaries Tá mo mhac le airde. “My son is the tallest.” • Banquets • Portraits A reminder: the –o- in níos is there to remind • Reunions you that the -s is to be pronounced /s/ but not /sh/. Níos is /nees/. • Groups • Families Similarly, when Irish adds an –e to ard, it changes the pronunciation of the –d- to a /j/. Therefore, Irish • Special Occasions spelling reminds you of this “right up fronT’ by insert- ing a “silent –i- to remind you of this. In the next column we will review the formation of adjectives (617) 291-6609 in the Comparative/Superlative Forms. We will also review the irregular adjectives that that you already have and give you a few more. The official photographers of the Boston Irish Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com June 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 23 DOT DAY ’13 COMPLETE GUIDE TO SUNDAY’S PARADE • JUNE 2 • 1 P.M. Official Dorchester Day Parade Roster This roster is printed as an informational guide only. The parade line up is subject to change by the committee at any time.

ADVANCE UNIT Adaeze Wogu & Anna Nguyen Dorchester Collegiate Academy Boston Fire Department 2013 Essay Competition Winners - Mayoral Candidate - City Councilor Robert Consalvo Boston Emergency Medical Services Richard Tran & Jeanelle Hernandez Nigerian American Community Organization Inc. Brewster Ambulance Mrs. Massachusetts - Janelle Woods-McNish Carney Hospital McCall Ambulance State Championship Basketball Team - Fields Corner Main Street Eascare Ambulance Richard J. Murphy School Century 21 - Cahill Associates Boston Gaelic Fire Brigade City Councilor At-Large Ayanna Pressley CHIEF MARSHAL’S DIVISION Boston Fire Museum Kenny School Marching Band Mayor Thomas M. 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Region 5 All Dorchester Sports League (ADSL) Vietnamese American Community of MA Mayoral Candidate - City Councilor Felix Arroyo Dorchester Avenue Donuts Inc. - Dunkin Donuts Westbrook Drum Corps Estrellas Tropicales Dorchester Community Food Co-op 2013 Mayor of Dorchester - Kelly Butts Vietnamese American Initiative for Development MA State Senator-Elect Linda Dorcena Forry Spartans Drum & Bugle Corps (Viet Aid) Trinidad & Tobago Social Club of Boston Inc. 2013 Little Miss Dorchester - Rachel Christopher Mayoral Candidate - City Councilor John Connolly Dorchester Board of Trade 2013 Young Miss Dorchester - Adrianna Bravo Worcester Brass Band James Massone / The Voice - H. Levenbaum Insurance 2013 Artist Competition Winners - Let’s Get Ready Mayoral Candidate - State Representative Marty Walsh Firehouse Dixie Meeting House Hill Reunion Dorchester Recycling Coalition Standish Village Assisted Living Happy Dorchester Day Mayoral Candidate - District Attorney Dan Conley Uncle Sam Jazz Band DotOut from the Dorchester Day Parade Committee Uphams Corner Health Center / Elder Service Plan This year we honor as our Chief Marshal all former Chief Marshals from 1963-2012 State Representative - Nick Collins We also congratulate our 2013 Black Diamond Dance and Twirl Mayor of Dorchester Kelly Butts Veterans for Peace Empowerment Christian Church Patsy’s Clowns Saint Brendan Color Guard Vietnamese American Small Business Assn. of MA (VASBAM) Dorchester Lacrosse Adrianna Bravo Kelly Butts Rachel Christopher 3RD DIVISION City Council At-Large Candidate - Annissa Essaibi-George Little Miss Dorchester - Rachel Christopher New Liberty Jazz Band Young Miss Dorchester - Adrianna Bravo Big Sister Assn. of Greater Boston Essay Contest Winner - Richard Tran - Neighborhood House Charter School & Big Brother Big Sister Found. 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