Stamford St. Patrick’s Day Parade
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Friday, March 1, 2019 2019 Parade Grand Marshal Polly O’Brien Morrow
Polly is the adopted daughter of John Robert and Brigid Hume O’Brien. She came home to her new family on St. Patrick’s Day. Since finding her birth families in Germany and Norway, Polly likes to say, “I’m half German, half Norwegian, and ALL IRISH!” Her parents set an example that strongly influenced her interest in community service and her earliest volunteer efforts included working with the Girl Scouts, the Long Island Sound Task the Stamford Bartlett Arboretum. Force (now known as Save the She has received multiple awards Sound) and as a “big sister” in the for her charitable work, including Friends of Youth Program offered the Stamford Advocate by Family & Children’s Services Community Leader of the Year (now Family Centers). Award, the City of Stamford Polly is the Program Manager Citizen of the Year Award, in for Global Corporate Citizenship addition to many more. and Philanthropy for Pitney Bowes. Polly is a graduate of She serves as vice president of the Stamford (now Trinity) Catholic Pitney Bowes Foundation and the High School. She earned her Pitney Bowes Relief Fund. She bachelor’s degree from Wells manages the company’s global College, a paralegal degree from volunteer programs and employee the University of Bridgeport giving campaign, as well as the School of Law, and an M.B.A. in Foundation’s direct grant-making. Finance from the University of She has volunteered her time and Connecticut. efforts to various charitable Polly lives in the Glenbrook organizations, including the neighborhood of Stamford with Volunteer Center of Southwestern her husband Robert, their amazing Connecticut (now part of the daughters Kristin and Kaitlyn, too United Way of Western many cats and a very-patient dog Connecticut), the National Council named Tucker. They are grateful on Workplace Volunteerism of the members of the Congregational Points of Light Foundation, and Church of New Canaan. Grand Marshal’s Dinner
Program
Processional Entry Greenwich Pipe Band
Welcome Timothy McGuinness Dinner Chairman & Master of Ceremonies
National Anthems Tom Ormond
Invocation/Benediction Rev. Dr. Stephen Chapin Garner
Dinner
Entertainment Anam Cara School of Irish Dance
Introduction of Grand Marshal Michael Patrick Feighan Chairman, Parade Committee
Remarks Carl Shanahan Sheila McCaffrey
Presentation of Grand Marshal Sash 2017 Grand Marshal Robert Emmett Callahan
Remarks Grand Marshal Polly O’Brien Morrow 24th Annual Stamford St. Patrick’s Day Parade
Saturday, March 2, 2019 12 noon Stamford Downtown Rain or Shine
Stamford St. Patrick's Day Parade Irish National Anthem Amhán na bhFiann
Seo dhibh a cháirde duan oglaidh We’ll sing a song, a soldier’s song Caithréimeach, br’oghmhar, ceolmhar. With cheering, rousing chorus ár dteinte cnámh go buacach táid, As round our blazing fires we throng, `S an spéir go min réaltógach. The starry heavens o’er us; Is fionmhar faobhrach sinn chun gleo Impatient for the coming fight, ’S go tiúnmhar glé roimh tigheacht do’n ló, And as we wait the mornings light Fa ciúnas chaoimh na h-oidhche ar seol, here in the silence of the night Seo libh, cana’dh amhrán na bhFiann. We’ll chant a soldier’s song.
CURFA: CHORUS: Cois banta réidhe, ar árdaibh sléibhe. In valley green or towering crag Ba bhuadhach ár rinnsear romhainn, Our fathers fought before us, Ag lámhach go tréan fá’n sár- bhrat séin And conquered ‘neath the same old flag Tá thuas sa ghaoith go seolta; That’s floating o’er us, Ba dhúthchas riamh d’ár gcine cháidh We’re children of a fighting race Gan iompáil riar ó imirt áir, That never yet has known disgrace, ’Siubhal mar iad i gcoinnibh rámhaid And as we march the foe to face, Seo libh, canaidh amhrán na bhFiann. We’ll chant a soldier’s song.
CURFA: CHORUS: A buidhean nach fann d’fuil Ghaoidheal is Gall Sons of the Gael! Men of the Pale! Sinn breacadh lae na saoirse, The Long watched day is breaking; Tá sgéimhle ‘s sgannradh’ gcroidhthibh namhad, The serried ranks of Innisfail Roimh ranngaibh laochra ár dt’re; Shall set the tyrant quaking. ár dteinte is tréith gan spréach anois, Our camp fires now are burning low; Sin luinne ghlé san spéir anoir, See in the east a silvery glow, ’S an b’odhbha i raon na bpiléar agaibh: Out yonder waits the saxon foe, Seo libh, canaidh amhrán na bhFiann. So chant a soldier’s song. END
CURFA: CHORUS: Sinne Fianna Fáil, Soldiers are we Atá fá gheall ag Éirinn, whose lives are pledged to Ireland Buidhean dár sluagh tar rúinn do ráinig Some have come from a land beyond the wave, chughainn: Sworn to be free, Fámho’dh bhe’rh saor, no more our ancient sireland Sean-t’r ár sinnsear feasta Shall shelter the despot or the slave; N’ fágfar fá’n t’orán ná fa’n tráil; tonight we man the Bearna Baoghal Anocht a theigeamh sa bhearna baoghail, In Erin’s cause, Le gean ar Gaedh’ chun báis nó saoghail, come woe or weal; Le gunna sgréach: Fá lamhach na piléar. ‘Mid cannon’s roar and rifle’s peal Seo Libh canaidh amhrán na bhFiann. We’ll chant a soldier’s song.
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The Cingari Family A Brief History of the Irish in Stamford by Michael Patrick Feighan, Chairman to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Stamford St. Patrick’s Day Parade, March 8, 2o15
“Just imported from Dublin in the Brig Darby, A Parcel of Irish Servants, both men + women, to be sold cheap by Israel Boardman, at Stamford” Connecticut Gazette, January 5, 1764.
Few note that this was the lot of the Irish in the 18th century, that English Lords kidnapped Irishmen and sold them into slavery in the colonies. This anti-Irish sentiment was also anti-Catholic. In order to own property or to have a vote in the Colony of Connecticut, one had to swear a public oath denouncing the Catholic Church and her tenets. The celebration of Mass was prohibited by law, as was the presence of priests. As the independence movement grew and the idea of men being created equal, endowed with inalienable Rights...Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness took hold,this atmosphere began to wither.
Before 184o, the population of Stamford was less than 4,ooo. It was just a sleepy village, although it did have a thriving economy: 21 general stores, 12 shoemaker shops, 4 carpenter shops, 3 iron-rolling mills. There were copper and tin ware factories; a gristmill, tannery, carriage maker, silversmith, millinery, a bakery, leather shop, 3 lumberyards and a coal yard.
The early Irish were the immigrant worker of the day and were the first immigrant group in Stamford. Many came to help build the canals and railroads of the country. The railroad industry brought its first train to stop in Stamford in 1848 and in 1849 Stamford became a stop on the railroad line between New York City and New Haven. By 185o, Stamford’s population was 5,ooo and a large part of that was Irish. With the Potato Famine in Ireland, a large number left looking for a better life. The railroad allowed them to come to Stamford from the ports of Boston and New York to work in the mills and factories.
By 186o the population of Stamford was over 7,ooo and the census reveals that by 187o, 28% of the adult males had been born in Ireland. As the community blossomed, the Irish immigrants settled into tenements built along the rail lines. The first ethnic enclave “Dublin” was by the old railroad roundhouse just east of the canal. Just west of the Mill River became another Irish enclave “Kerrytown.” In the Cove area around the Stamford Manufacturing Company (also known as Cove Mills), boarding houses were built and the need for more housing was apparent. George Hoyt built blocks of apartments in “Hoytville,” the Cottage-Pacific Street back area of Atlantic Square.
The Irish were also employed at the Rippowam Iron Works, the Stillwater & Roxbury Iron Mills, the Stamford Gas Light Company and Hoyt, Getman & Judd. Yale & Town Lock Manufacturing Company, built in 1869, was to provide the primary place of employment for Stamford’s Irish as well as later ethnic groups.
Central to the Irish was their Church. The first Mass celebrated in Stamford was in 1842, at the house of Patrick Drew for the three resident Catholic families. As the congregation swelled, to 2oo in 1848, there was the need for a “real” church building. In 187o, monies were raised and the present Atlantic Street site was purchased for St. John’s Church. Work on the site began in 1871. Work on the basement was completed by 1875 and the first Mass was celebrated on Thanksgiving Day, 1875. Parishioners numbered around 3oo. The church was completed and dedicated on May 3o, 1886.
Politics played a large roll for Irish immigrants. This too, was a struggle for equality and representation. The Know-Nothing Party, formed in Connecticut in 1853, had as its goal, the prevention of Irish-American political participation and office holding.
The platform of the party standard-bearer, William T. Minor, Governor of Connecticut in 1855 and 1856 was: 1. To protect every American citizen in the legan and proper exercise of all his civil and religious rights and privileges; 2. To resist the insidious policy of the Church of Rome, and all other foreign influences against our republican institutions; 3, To place in all offices of honor, trust or profit...none but native-born Protestant citizens; and 4. To protect, preserve and uphold the union of these states and the Constitution of the same. (Curran, Thomas J, 1975 Xenophobia and Immigration, Boston: Twayne Publishers)
But the Irish were not to be deterred. Men with names like Duffy, Hanrahan, Rogers, Bolster, Ennis managed to get elected to local and State offices. The election of attorney William Bohannan, of Dublin (the city, not the neighborhood), as mayor of Stamford in 1897 set the Irish Democratic team in motion. We have had a few Irish mayors since then; not to mention several Governors.
This brings us to the present.
The Basilica of Saint John the Evangelist, Parish History The Ferguson Library, Stamford Though the Centuries – 18oo’s The Stamford Historical Society, The Irish in Stamford Claudia Tinnin Dalton, The Immigrant Dynamic in a New England Town: The Irish Catholics of Stamford, Ct from 1848-19oo Claudia Tinnin Dalton, A Significant Minority: The Irish Catholic Influx into Stamford, CT. 1977 Congratulations to Grand Marshal Polly O’Brien Morrow
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The earliest known Irish surname is O’Clery (O Cleirigh); it’s the earliest known because it was written that the lord of Aidhne, Tigherneach Ua Cleirigh, died in County Galway back in the year 916 A.D. In fact, that Irish name may actually be the earliest surname recorded in all of Europe. Until about the 1oth century in Ireland, surnames were not passed down from generation to generation. Instead, surnames were patronymic, or based on someone’s father’s name. A person was identified by his given name plus “mac,” meaning “son of,” followed by his father’s name. For instance, Brian mac Colum was Brian, son of Colum. Brian’s son might be Finnian mac Brian (Finnian, son of Brian). The female form of “mac” is “nic,” shortened from the Irish iníon mhic. Alternatively, the prefix “o” was sometimes used in place of “mac” and meant “grandson of” or “descended from.” If Colum was well known, his grandson might have gone by the name Finnian O Colum. There were no fixed surnames, so a surname changed every generation or two. That can make tracing your family tree a bit more complicated! But even without hereditary surnames, those names still hold clues. For example, that person named O’Clery or O Cleirigh (or Ua Cleirigh) was the grandson or descendant of someone named Cleirigh. (“Ua” was an earlier\form of “O.”) It was around the 11oos, as the population was increasing, that people in the upper social classes started taking hereditary surnames (those that remain fixed over the generations); others didn’t need surnames, or even get around to them, until the 15oos. Another strong influence on Irish names came with the Norman invasion of 1169, when a lot of Anglo-French names came marching into Ireland (this, too, is when the Latin-derived prefix “Fitz,” meaning “son of,” first came into Irish names). It’s from this influence that some of the names we now consider Irish — Costello, Power, Burke, and others — first entered the scene. And in the 15oos, the influence of the English was beginning to make itself felt in Ireland. Ireland was experiencing religious persecution and invasions, and many changes came to the island — including the changing of Irish names, steadily but surely over the ensuing years, into ones that sounded more English. An example of this was the common Irish surname Mac Gabhann, which meant “son of a smith.” Some Mac Gabhanns, living in County Cavan, had their name translated to Smith and it remained that way. Others outside that area resisted, but the spelling became anglicized and they became Mac/McGowans. This was very common. Also, in many cases the prefixes Mac and O were done away with. Many surnames originated as occupational or descriptive names. That earliest known name, O Cleirigh (O’Clery), was someone descended from a clerk; Mac an Bhaird (Ward) was son of a bard; and Mac Labhrain (MacCloran) was son of a spokesman. Descriptive names were names that described the first person to take them. The first person with the name Dubh (Duff) (“black” or “dark”) was probably dark featured. Other descriptive surnames include Bane (“white”), Crone (“brown”), and Lawder (“strong”). Irish toponymic surnames, deriving from a place where the original name bearer once lived, are rare. They include Ardagh, Athy, Bray, Kelly, Sutton, and a few others.
The most common Irish surnames in Ireland haven’t changed much for a century. Here are 10 of them:
1. Murphy — The Anglicized version of the Irish surname Ó Murchadha and Mac Murchadha, meaning “sea warrior.”
2. Kelly — The origin of this Irish name is uncertain. An Anglicized version of the Irish name Ó Ceallaigh, it can describe a warrior or mean “white-headed,” “frequenting churches,” or “descendant of Ceallach.”
3. O’Sullivan — (Ó Súileabháin or Ó Súilleabháin in Irish). In 1890, 90 percent of the O’Sullivans were estimated to be in Munster. Many people agree that the basic surname means “eye,” but they do not agree whether the rest of the name means “one-eyed,” “hawk-eyed,” “black-eyed,” or something else.
4. Walsh — This name came to Ireland via British soldiers during the Norman invasion of Ireland and means “from Wales.” It’s derived from Breathnach or Brannagh.
5. Smith — This surname does not necessarily suggest English ancestry, as some think; often the surname was derived from Gabhann (which means “smith”).
6. O’Brien — This name came down from Brian Boru (941-1o14) who was king of Munster; his descendants took the name Ó Briain.
7. Byrne (also Byrnes; O’Byrne) — from the Irish name Ó Broin (“raven”; also, descendant of Bran); this dates to the ancient Celtic chieftain Bran mac Máelmórda, a King of Leinster in the 11th century.
8. Ryan — This name has various possible origins: from the Gaelic Ó Riagháin (grandson or descendant of Rían) or Ó Maoilriain (grandson/descendant of Maoil- riaghain) or Ó Ruaidhín (grandson/descendant of the little red one). Or it may be a simplification of the name Mulryan. It means “little king.”
9. O’Connor — From Ó Conchobhair (grandson or descendant of Conchobhar; “lover of hounds”).
1o. O’Neill — Anglicized from the Gaelic Ua Néill (grandson or descendant of Niall). The name is connected with meanings including “vehement” and “cham- pion.” The main O’Niall family is descended from the historic “Niall of the Nine Hostages.”
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