July 2014 Boston’s hometown VOL. 25 #7 journal of Irish culture. $1.50 Worldwide at All contents copyright © 2014 Boston Neighborhood News, Inc. bostonirish.com At last, a US ambassador for Ireland St. Louis lawyer Kevin O’Malley From Wire Services A Missouri lawyer has been nominated to be the next US ambassador to Ireland. The selection of Kevin O’Malley comes after an unusually long wait by the White House of some 18 months to make the call on the diplomatic post. A prominent trial lawyer in St. Louis and a second- generation Irish American (his grandfather came to the US from Mayo), O’Malley has 35 years of experience in litigation, “specializing in medical negligence cases, federal The Banshee Bar on Dorchester Avenue has become home base for the Boston chapter of the American white collar criminal de- Outlaws, a club that supports the US soccer team now making a run at the World Cup. Above, the scene fense and product liability in the Banshee on June 26 as the US took on Germany in a first round match. defense,” noted the Irish Photo by Bill Forry Times. A prominent community leader in St Louis, he is a Dorchester pub is World Cup Central former officer in the United Kevin O’Malley States Army Reserve and By Jacob Aguiar or even no TVs. But that served as a federal prosecutor for 10 years the US Special to the Reporter The Banshee is the ‘go-to’ quickly changed because Department of Justice and as assistant US attorney Pandemnonium reigned of the lure of sports. in St Louis. He also teaches law at the Washington inside The Banshee Pub place for for US supporters “I love football myself”, University School of Law. O’Malley studied for the on Dorchester Avenue said Butler. “When we priesthood for a time and is a prominent parishioner last month as the United handshakes and concilia- been from Day One,” said got started here we saw in the Catholic diocese in St Louis. States defeated Ghana, tory embraces as images of Banshee manager and co- a lot small kids playing The appointment has to be confirmed by the Democrat- 2-1, in World Cup tour- their vanquished country- owner Ray Butler. When football in the park. We controlled US Senate. nament play. Strangers men flashed on the bar’s he and partner Michael realized there was a niche The longest delay in the appointment of a US ambas- hugged, women were ten flatscreens. Vaughan re-invented the here of people who would sador to Ireland previously was 13 months, recorded hoisted onto shoulders, “We want to be a foot- old Vaughn’s bar 17 years want to watch football so in the mid-1930s during the presidency of Franklin D. and splashes of beer ball pub for everybody. ago, they envisioned a we started showing all the Roosevelt. Senior figures in the Irish-American com- sprayed the room. That is what we have classic Irish pub, with few games from the club to the munity had criticized the delay in appointing a new A small contingent of international level.” envoy, with Democratic congressman Joe Crowley of New York City being the most recent prominent indi- Ghana supporters on site ‘Football’ returns to Fenway (Page 16) (Continued on page 16) were offered heartfelt vidual to voice concern. During the visit of Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams to Washington in May, Crowley called for the Obama ad- ministration to be more engaged in the Northern Irish ‘More Irish than peace process by appointing a US ambassador as soon as possible to have a presence in Dublin. The Irish Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ireland,’ Milton Eamon Gilmore, welcomed the announcement, ac- cording to the Times. “I am delighted that President Obama has announced his decision to nominate Mr hails Celtic heritage O’Malley as the next US Ambassador to Ireland,” said By Jacob Aguiar Book of World Records. Gilmore. “This reflects the commitment which he gave Special to the Reporter “I hear Milton is more to the Taoiseach at their St. Patrick’s Day meeting in The town of Milton Irish than Ireland itself,” Milton Police Chief Richard Wells, Linda Lee Washington DC. took time on June 22 to joked Gavin. He and his Sheridan, co-chair of “We Are Milton,” and Milton “It is important that there be a resident US ambas- celebrate its strong Irish band flew in from Ireland Selectman Dennis Keohane. Jacob Aguiar photo sador here, to reflect the extraordinary strength and roots by presenting a the night before the event. depth of the relationship that exists between our two The sun shone out of a parents and grandparents “It was great! Hope- countries.” Celtic Music festival head- who themselves enjoyed fully it will become a lined by internationally clear blue sky over Gover- nor Hutchinson Field atop the sun and the sounds of regular thing,” said Matt recognized Frankie Gavin the local musicians in the Carey, a drummer for and his band DeDannan. Milton Hill for the Sunday Much ado in Canton afternoon event. Scores of Celtic style: The Fenian The Fenian Sons. The Gavin has been cited as Sons, Erin’s Melody, Cat festival was the result of as Festival-makers “the world’s fastest fid- children ran about playing under the watchful eye of and the Moon, and Devri, a six-week collaborative dler: by the Guinness featuring Pauline Wells. (Continued on page 15) strut stuff (Page 12)

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By Bill Forry wider Boston community Tommy will very likely BIR Editor – as the news was shared need radiation treatment Tommy Kelly is four over the weekend. Eddie, to shrink the cancer. years old. This week, the who has become a na- It is all enough to lay rest of his kindergarten tional champion of union low the mightiest men classmates from Saint firefighters, grew up in and women, let alone a John Paul II Catholic the shadow of St. Ann’s little boy. But the Kellys, Academy in Neponset brick tower on Neponset as many have noted in are where they should be: Avenue. His mom, Katy, thousands and thousands enjoying their first full is a legend in her own of posts online, are made days of summer vacation right – most recently for of the toughest stock at the sands of Tenean and her selfless dedication to imaginable. The most Nantasket or planning for Team MR8, the marathon common sentiment— “If a week or two down the squad that has raised anyone can beat this, it’s Cape with their families. over $1.25 million for a Kelly”— might sound Tommy has just re- the Martin W. Richard like a trite slogan. It’s turned home after a gru- Foundation. The Kellys anything but in this case. eling three-week stint in are deeply respected, the The Kellys’ story has the hospital, where he’ll consummate Boston Irish gone viral, particularly probably spend a good family whose life revolves among the huge network stretch of his summer as around service to God, of America’s firefighting well. country, neighbors. and law enforcement com- Tommy Kelly and his mom Katy got a surprise visit from Spiderman during Earlier in June, Tommy Last Tuesday, the tight- munities. Firehouses in his recent stay at Children’s Hospital. Photo courtesy Kelly family fell violently ill. His par- knit St. Ann’s parish com- New York City and Texas ents – Katy and Eddie munity gathered to rally and all around the country book. Last week, she contact with anyone who grateful for the support Kelly – rushed him to Chil- around Kate and Eddie have sent along heart- shared some good news. may be sick. So don’t take we have received from dren’s Hospital. Within a and young Tommy. An felt salutes to Tommy: Testing has confirmed offense if we see you out around the world and our day or so they were given overflow crowd packed the Some have added him to what they’d hoped for: and about but just wave own Parish!” the diagnosis: Their boy pews of the church to pray their daily roster boards Tommy’s tumor is a kind hello,” Eddie wrote. “Be- It’ll be a tough summer has cancer in his kidneys. the rosary on the eve of or voted to make him an that can be removed in ing a tough little guy, for Tommy Kelly and his Stage four. It may have Tommy’s first operation. honorary member of their many cases. A few days Tommy doesn’t appreciate clan— including his big spread beyond there. The post-operation news, department. A Facebook later, he reported, Tommy sympathy. He just wants sister. But it’s times like He needs surgery— and Eddie later shared to his page dedicated to Tommy was back in his own bed at to be treated like any other these that remind us why maybe chemo or other ag- friends on social media, – “Fight Like TK” – is lit home in Dorchester. rambunctious soon to be 5 we live here. Our com- gressive treatments— to was mixed. The kind of up around the clock with “We are coming into a year old. Which is refresh- munity stands tall and save his life. tumor Tommy had was prayers, photos, and signs period where Tommy’s ing! Thank you for your supports its own. Tommy It is impossible to over- treatable, the doctors of support. treatment has made him prayers, they are working! Kelly and his family knew state the wave of shock think. But it was not some- Edzo Kelly has been susceptible to viruses and Please keep them coming that already, better than and compassion that thing they could simply keeping everyone up to infection, so the Docs have for all sick kids here and most in fact. Right now, swept through Neponset remove. They’ll need to speed on his son’s battle asked us to limit contact everywhere!” it’s time to show them that – and then across the get more tests back— and from day one via Face- and have positively no “We will forever be we get it, too. Playground in Southie to memorialize Michael Joyce Mary was stunned to In 2011, the Legislature By Jeanette Origel hear about what he did passed a bill to rename Special to the Reporter for the community. After part of the Marine Park Moving to a new city his passing, his friends in to be named the Michael is difficult enough. Mov- Dorchester felt he should Joyce Memorial Play- ing overseas can be even be remembered after all ground. harder. he had done. “It is a place where on But for the immigrants “I didn’t feel it was ap- the weekends I used to go. who came to Boston dur- propriate for me to initiate It was a big deal for us to ing the 1960s through the this, so for this group to go to Castle Island, we 1980s, getting accustomed reach out to me, it was didn’t have a car growing to the new place was made extraordinary,” said Joyce up,” said Joyce Morris of much easier thanks to the Morris. Over the past 11 the playground’s location. late Michael Joyce, who years, the Friends of Mi- “They were all hard had himself moved to Bos- chael Joyce searched for working, committed to ton from Connemara, Co. public parks that might making a better life for Galway, Ireland in 1949. work for a memorial to Mi- their families. A lot of Joyce lived in Dorches- chael. Finally they were them depended on them- ter’s St. Margaret’s parish given the opportunity to selves and always kept until he lost a four-year take their plans to Marine their culture.” battle with cancer in 1989 City and state leaders broke ground at the Michael Joyce Memorial Playground Park in South Boston, lo- The Friends of Michael at the age of 66. This year in South Boston’s Marine Park on July 19. Photo courtesy DCR cated on the corner of Far- Joyce plan to have new will mark the 25th an- ragut Road and William J. equipment, all handicap niversary of his passing After moving to Bos- four Speakers including Day Boulevard, where a accessible, a new toddler and a playground in South ton, he got his first job at Robert Quinn, David Bart- bandstand is located. The lot enclosed, foam under- Boston’s Marine Park Purcell’s Restaurant on ley, Thomas McGee, and playground, which has neath the swings and plat- —re-named in Joyce’s School Street in downtown George Keverian. not been updated for over ings, while keeping some memory in 2011— is being Boston. There, Joyce met a It was during this time, 20 years, is not handicap of its original structures. renovated this summer. lot of people from the city Joyce became the go-to accessible, something the “The goal just became Officials held a ceremo- and state, building what guy for many elected of- Friends of Michael Joyce to have this done for the nial ground-breaking at would become a great ficials to resolve immigra- are planning on changing. kids and families this the new playground on network of people who re- tion issues, according to Over the years they summer,” said Joyce Mor- July 17. spected and trusted him. his daughter, Mary Joyce fundraised through 5K ris. “The opportunity to Growing up in Ireland, He also worked at a Morris. Run/Walks along the do this is just a win- win. Joyce enlisted in the Irish courthouse at night and “He was able to ac- beach that raised $60,000, It’s a wonderful way to Army and took up the eventually in the 1960s complish extraordinary as well as raffling Jus- remember an extraordi- sport of boxing. As a sol- went to work in the House things helping people tin Bieber tickets and nary, highly respected, dier, he won titles like the speaker’s office dealing with immigration,” Morris participating in opening hardworking modest man Battalion Championship, with immigration issues recalls. “Michael Joyce Michael Joyce night for the Red Sox and and have this in our city, the All- Army Lightweight and helping immigrants never asked a person’s Bruins, both bringing in not just for the neighbor- Championship, and the with every issue they race, color, or creed, he When a more than 2,000 people showed up to his $9,000. They also had a hood of South Boston, but coveted Lightweight Box- faced. Working in the would only ask ‘How can runner, Jennifer Scully, the neighborhood beyond, ing Championship of Con- State House for two de- I help.’ My father never funeral with wonderful stories about her father, participate in the Boston we can’t believe we’re get- naught. cades, he worked for talked about what he did.” Marathon raising $5,000. ting there.”

The Boston College High School Concert/Chamber Choir, led by Choir Director Dr. Marina Rozenberg, returned recently from a concert tour in Ireland. While in Ireland the boys visited Trinity College and the famous Book of Kells Exhibition; the exhibit of medieval and Viking Dublin; the Powerscourt House and Gardens; and Croke Park Stadium. As one student described the trip “we sang everywhere from airport terminals, to museums, street corners and hotel lobbies. There was a lot of singing!” This year, the traveling choir comprised 28 students, BC High faculty member Gene Holmes, BC High parent Mr. David Vargo and the choir’s pianist Mrs. Derelyn Kahler of Hanover. Also with the group were Michael Brennan, BC High vice principal/student Affairs, and seven other enthusiastic “choir parents.” This photo, courtesy of BC High, was taken during the concert after the April 20 Easter Sunday liturgy at St. Kevin’s Parish Church in Glendalough. Page 4 July 2014 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Publisher’s Notebook Commentary ‘Lucky to be alive’ July in Belfast often means marching not always a cliche to taunt; where is Unionist leadership? By Ed Forry By Joe Leary the resulting fear in the Protestant community that This past April, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell was on Special to the BIR their control of life in the city has gone. According vacation with his brother Michael in the British Virgin The month of July marks the most difficult time of to a BBC news report in early April of this year, the Islands when his taxi van was hit in a head-on crash. the year for Belfast, Northern Ireland’s capital city. Catholic population in Belfast is young and has risen Both sustained serious injuries. It is in the seventh month that the Protestant com- to 49 percent of the total. The Protestant population, In his first telecast since the accident, he gave a poi- munity, led by the notorious older and passing away, has dropped to 42 percent. gnant telling of his story since Orange Order, annually renews The remaining nine percent comprises immigrant that day, saying he felt “lucky the famous “marching season,” populations or those with no fixed religion. to be alive.” His words articulate sending loud and boisterous One of the first results of the new majorities on the his profound sense of gratitude bands and Orange Order mem- Belfast City Council has been the election of Catholic to all who helped. Here are some bers matching into Catholic mayors. Another was the controversial vote by the of those words: communities where they pass Council limiting the occasions when the British flag “I want to talk about cry- in front of Catholic churches. is to be flown over City Hall, a move that generated ing, because I’m also going to The leaders of the Orange violent year-long riots all over Northern Ireland. talk about some things that have group claim the right of tradi- There are two other major impacts due to these made me cry. And I might have tion to justify the marches, changes. First, the Protestant men of violence have to pause once or twice when I do which almost always create turned their anger and violence on the small immigrant that. So, I just want you to be Joe Leary violence and mayhem on both population and second, the revelation of the apparent forewarned, because what could sides of the divide in the North. incompetence and almost supportive bumbling of the be more shocking than an anchorman crying? The first Policemen, too, are hurt, and the cost of security around Unionist Protestant Leader, Peter Robinson, now the commandment of television is, anchormen don’t cry, the marches is enormous. The marchers scream insults First Minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly. which is why I will never be and will never feel like a at Catholics who are standing in front of their homes Frequent violent attacks have been made on immi- real anchorman. as the bands play and sing songs of bigotry. Last year, grant homes and families and they are continuing on “You know, of all the advantages a boy can have growing when a band stopped, some of its members urinated a daily basis. Protestant men living in disadvantaged up there’s nothing quite like a heroic big brother. And on the steps of St. Patrick’s Church in Belfast. poor areas are known for their illiteracy rates, so it may Michael O’Donnell’s three little brothers have always Nearly 16 years after the 1998 Good Friday agree- be difficult for them to understand how such assaults had that advantage every day of our lives. ment was signed and endorsed by the electorates in the can injure all of Belfast, even their own areas. Signs “Michael saw the crash coming and yelled something, North and the South of Ireland, these marches continue have been hung on immigrant houses proclaiming a billionth of a second before the noise started. I was to flaunt Protestant superiority over Catholics in the “Locals Only.” Some of the houses have been trashed looking down at a map on my iPhone. And so, it was the North. But it often goes beyond simple flaunting. A with baseball bats and large hammers in what seems deafening noise that told me we were in a collision. The video from London has just been released showing a a manifestation of the perpetrators’ growing paranoia. noise seemed to go on forever. I couldn’t see anything in young couple having sex on the altar of Good Shep- First Minister Robinson has stated he sees nothing the darkness except the light of the radio in the center herd Catholic Church on the Ormeau Road in Belfast. wrong with these signs. of the dashboard in front of me. And as the front end of The priest who gave permission for use of the church In another instance, an Ian Paisley follower who is that taxi was being crushed that radio just kept moving naively thought the filmmakers were going to use the a Presbyterian minister recently attacked Muslims closer and closer and closer to me. And I had what felt like altar for a music video. The parishioners are deeply in the most bitter language. Robinson agreed with a very long time to think about dying and what a stupid offended, of course. the minister until others in leadership forced him to way to die this was, and to think about my daughter. Not all Protestants approve of the taunting. The apologize. Such a back-and-forth seems to be an indi- “And then the radio suddenly stopped moving. And overwhelming majority do not want to return to the cation of a dysfunctional leadership at the top of the the noise stopped. And I wasn’t dead. I could see. And days of violence but there is a significant minority that Unionist/Protestant political party. I could hear. And I could move my hands and my arms thinks that street parades, street protests, and riots As we approach July, this is a good time for those of worked. I wasn’t dead. I was lucky to be alive. That are not only their right but also that they are required us here in Boston to send our best good wishes to all cliche, lucky to be alive, was suddenly so true to me, so to protect their way of life. the people of Northern Ireland. There are many kind profound. It was such a warm feeling. But Belfast is undergoing dramatic change, some and hard-working people in Belfast on all sides who, “We should all feel it all the time but a lot of us don’t, of it good and some of it very bad. The main cause of hopefully, will one day be able to put all this disrup- until we get this close to the end. I had a couple of near- the change is the surge in the Catholic population and tion behind them. death experiences in my teens and 20s, a motorcycle, that kind of thing. But I was too young to learn the lesson. But at 7:45 p.m. on April 12, 2014, I finally got When compromise is seen as hypocrisy, it. Lucky to be alive.” The brothers were transported buy air ambulance to hospitals in Boston and New York, and both underwent governance by democracy is impossible several surgeries. “Living among the medical community as I did for By James W. Dolan impede. Cooperation is viewed as a sign of weakness weeks was a huge revelation to me. I’d never been hospi- Special to the Reporter by the ideologues. talized before. I had never seen the extraordinary daily There was a time in Washington when politics was Congress is becoming a theater of the absurd – a kindness and heroism of nurses up close. I had never the means to an end. The end was governing. The messy dysfunctional reality show – where the players’ biggest depended on them. process of politics was applied to gain office and then fear is that they will be cancelled and have to return “For weeks, I was completely dependent on them. I to develop and secure passage of to a life of obscurity. Egos have crippled the institution had only one real day and night of pain in the hospital legislation that reflected a public upon which we all depend. after surgery, and it was a giant order of magnitude. policy consensus. There was time when we could look to Congress for The worst pain I have ever experienced. It is actually Politics was the dark side of profiles in courage. There were some who would risk an ordeal that many post-surgical patients go through good governance. Its tools were the unpopular vote – a career-ending act – to serve the and I cannot get into the details now, because it is just influence, cajoling, trade-offs, common good. There were others, less courageous but too gross, trust me. I’m not kidding about that. And if favors, intimidation, patronage still effective, who would make a deal. Either way, the you’ve been through it, you know what I’m talking about. and pork that often produced institution functioned. “A nurse named John Frank Ellis got me through that good results when applied to a The purists subscribe to the New Hampshire motto: night. It was in its way as hard a night for John as it noble purpose. It was the means “Live Free or Die.” There is no middle ground. In softer was for me. I’ve never been more dependent on anyone to achieve the enactment of the terms: “It’s my way or the highway.” What they overlook in my adulthood and never been more grateful. Constitution and laws that have is that freedom can be defined differently. What I con- “The next time when John came back on duty, I gave James W. Dolan made this a prosperous and sider freedom for myself and others may include health him a thank you note in a sealed envelope, with some compassionate nation. care, immigration reform, and gun control; others feel cash in it. A lot of cash in it. A token of my indescribable The process of achieving a sensible compromise is differently. Freedom is relative but death is absolute. gratitude. John took the envelope, the sealed envelope, not always pretty. It often involves give-and-take that I propose a motto for Congress: “Live Free and Let’s he left the room, a few minutes later he came back in if exposed to the light of day would reflect badly on Talk About It” or “Don’t Tread on the Common Good.” The and he said my thanks was all that mattered to him, participants, who could do things in private that, if options should never be so stark and self-centered that and he handed me back the money. And he told me that revealed, would harm them politically. reasonable people cannot come to a sensible compromise. it was against his personal ethics and against hospital With the level of scrutiny the media now apply, such “Give Us Liberty and the Wisdom to Understand and policy to accept gifts like that. “I had no idea. I had no “deals” are more likely to be exposed, and do harm to Achieve It” might be a good start, but it would require idea I’d crossed a line. This was all new to me. So, you one or more of those involved. an awful big license plate. can tip people who clean your room in hotels but you Ironically, more partisanship and resulting gridlock James W. Dolan is a retired Dorchester District Court can’t tip nurses, I didn’t know that. Great nurses don’t may be an unintended consequence of the level of at- judge who now practices law. do it for the money. Yes, they care about and they rely tention the media bring to the process. Rather than on their paychecks, but they couldn’t do the work they concerning themselves with “doing the right thing,” do, the great nurses couldn’t do that, they couldn’t do politicians are more apt to play to their constituents for it the way they do it, if the motivation didn’t come from fear of revealing their involvement in the confusion and Boston Irish the goodness of their hearts. disorder that so often is an integral part of governance. “The nurse who spent the most time with me in New Strict adherence to ideology is to compromise what REPORTER York is Shannon Lawrence. Our shared name was less virginity is to marriage. You can’t have both. The purists The Boston Irish Reporter is published monthly by: interesting to me than her first name, Shannon. As an back home have little sympathy for, or understanding Boston Neighborhood News, Inc., Irish-American kid growing up in a place like Boston, of, what governing in a democracy entails. For them, 150 Mt. Vernon St., Suite 120, Dorchester, MA 02125 I developed an ear for the ethnicity in every name. On compromise is hypocrisy – a sell-out of inviolable core [email protected] www.bostonirish.com our first day together I asked Shannon how she got an values. That attitude is more consistent with autocratic Mary C. Forry, President (1983-2004) Irish first name. rule. Democracy requires the balancing of interests, and Edward W. Forry, Publisher “She said her father was wounded in World War II reaching compromise is precisely that; it’s not only how Thomas F. Mulvoy Jr., Managing Editor and was sent to a hospital in England for treatment. The we govern, but how we live. William P. Forry, Editor nurses there literally did not want to touch the black Now that has all changed. Politics has become the Peter F. Stevens, Contributing Editor soldiers in that hospital. Then an Irish nurse came along end game. Doing whatever it takes to stay in office is News Room: (617) 436-1222 and took good care of Shannon’s father. The Irish nurse’s paramount. Survival is the goal. In an age of hyper- Ads : (617) 436-1222 name was Shannon. transparency, the way to do that is to malign and dis- Fax: (617) 825-5516 [email protected] My nurse Shannon has spent her life sharing the same credit the opposition. Not just the policies and programs On The Web at www.bostonirish.com healing kindness and grace that her father’s nurse did. being advanced by opponents, but their character, Date of Next Issue: August, 2014 “And on my last day in New York -- I told Shannon that intelligence, credibility, and honesty. Deadline for Next Issue: Monday July 21 at 2 p.m. if I had another daughter, I would name her Shannon.” Form now overwhelms substance, the means obstructs Published monthly in the first week of each month. (The video of Lawrence O’Donnell’s comments can be the end, and governance is stymied. 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By Peter F. Stevens al senators in Washington. The Levin (Sen. Carl Levin the wait will be until 2019 or 2020, the move reflects BIR Staff of Michiganm) Bill – the Stop Corporate Inversions just how far Northern Ireland and Irish golf overall The deal is completely legal. Medical-device titan Act of 2014 – currently has only twenty co-sponsors, has advanced in the past decade or so. Medtronic will soon complete a $42.9 billion deal to showing the stranglehold that corporations have upon With such Northern Irish stars as Rory McIlroy, gobble up Massachusetts-based outfit Covidien. The bought-and-sold legislators. The bill’s proponents claim Graeme McDowell, and “graybeard” Darren Clarke swollen pact benefits Ireland’s economy, pays off big that removing the inversion loophole would bring in having joined the Republic’s Padraig Harrington as for two companies’ executives and stockholders, and some additional $20 billion in tax revenue. major champions and reportedly pushing R&A officials will purportedly allow Medtronic to pump some $10 The deal’s impact upon Massachusetts is ironclad: to give the Emerald Isle its golfing due. R&AS head billion into research and development in the US. The large layoffs in Mansfield because of “overlap” with honcho Peter Dawson told the media, “We couldn’t be deal, however, contains one aspect that raises ques- similar departments in Minneapolis. That is the price more excited about bringing the Open back here to tions about the continuing offshore tactics of American of any merger, and in full disclosure, one of my fam- one of the world’s truly great links courses. There is a companies finding ways to set up shop overseas to ily members will likely be among the corporate cuts rich heritage here. It will give the game here and the wriggle out of paying taxes here in the States. in Mansfield. whole region huge exposure.” Before the local Chamber of Commerce comes at Thanks to inversion, Medtronic has found its pro- Only one British Open has been held in Ireland, and it me with torches and pitchforks, please bear in mind verbial, legal, low-tax pot-o’-gold in Dublin. One hopes happened at Royal Portrush in 1951. All of the island’s that no one is saying there is anything illegal about that Senators Levin, Elizabeth Warren, and others hopes rested with “Whistling” Fred Daly, who had the massive deal. Still, as Richard Ainsworth, the will continue to push for closer scrutiny of such “buy- become the first Irish player to win a major, the 1947 director of Boston University’s graduate tax program, outs.” Fair and free commerce should be the standard British Open, at Hoylake, and the only “green” major told the Boston Globe on June 17, Medtronic is taking both here and in Ireland – not corporate freebies for champion until Harrington many years later. Daly full – legal – advantage of an “inversion,” a buyout Medtronic and other recipients of inversion welfare. had learned and honed his stellar game at Portrush. in which the normal process is “flipped.” It just so For their part, Medtronic executives dismiss any The homegrown champ fell short. The victor at Por- happens that while Covidien’s US headquarters is in contentions that Covidien’s Irish address played trush was Max Faulkner, one of the more colorful golf Mansfield, Massachusetts, where virtually all of the anything but a minor role in the deal. The company characters of the era. According to one account, the company’s corporate staff works, the outfit possesses asserts that its “Irish reincorporation” will only bring a notoriously cocky Faulkner, before heading onto the an “Irish address.” For tax purposes, Covidien is based “slight benefit.” Sounds like Medtronic’s Minneapolis Northern Irish links for the 1951 Open’s final round, in Dublin. Of the company’s approximately 38,000 em- crowd already has a profound understanding of blarney. signed several autographs in the following fashion: ployees, some 1,500 work in the Dublin “headquarters.” ••• “Max Faulkner, Open Champion.” Medtronic is headquartered in Minneapolis, but thanks Turning from greed to green, so to speak, welcome He had ample reason for confidence, having bested to “inversion,” Medtronic will be “reincorporated” in news for Irish and Irish-American golf lovers arrived harsh winds to card 71, 70, and 71 headed into the Ireland and subject only to the requirements of the with the Royal & Ancient’s (R&A’s) recent announce- last day. In that final round, he had to ward off a Irish tax code for foreign companies – a gargantuan ment that for the first time in more than six decades, strong challenge from Argentina’s Antonio Cerda, but and sweet savings for the company. the British Open will be held outside of England and Cerda’s six-shot blow-up on Portrush’s devilish par-3 Said Ainsworth of the deal: “If I did this thing straight- Scotland. The fitting venue will be none other than 14th helped clinch a two-stroke victory for Faulkner. forward, then Covidien would live in Minneapolis, but one of Northern Ireland’s most venerable links – Royal One suspects that in 2019 or 2020, a glut of “Irish we don’t want that. So we do it the other way around, Portrush. Medtronics” executives and entourages will flock to so we have the small fish [Covidien] eating the big fish The last time that the British Open championship Portrush, given the “long-standing” Irish roots of the [Medtronic]. It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.” was staged outside England and Scotland was in 1951 company. Inversion buyouts have caught the attention of sever- – at the same Northern Irish seaside tract. Although Eire Society cites O’Donovan’s ‘authenticity, artistry’ The Eire Society of Boston presented its annual Gold hundred men, women, and children who suffered a Medal Award to the well-known radio host and musi- sad, painful, lonely death at a quarantine station in a cian Brian O’Donovan at a reception and dinner on harbor 3,000 miles away from home. Thurs., June 12, at the Neighborhood Club of Quincy. “Fate has always had a hand in Irish history and it’s He and his wife Lindsay live in Cambridge. They have worth pondering what this Patrick Sullivan and the four children: Aoife, 31, Ciaran, 29, Aidan, 27, and other Sullivans might have become had they actually Fionnualam 21. made it to the Promised Land, which shimmered just Following are the text of the citation honoring a man five miles in the distance on the shores of America. who has spent the past four decades promoting Irish “Marcus Garvey, the Jamaican political leader of traditional music and other Celtic music in the New the early 20th century, said: “A people without the England region and excerpts from his remarks: knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is “Boston and America have benefited enormously like a tree without roots.” from the spirit of adventure that has propelled scores The Eire Society – all of you as curators of this proud of young men and women tour shores. They have legacy we have as Irish – have kept this knowledge enriched our culture, enlivened our talent base, and alive in the area for over 70 years. As you heard me touched our communal soul with the full- throated say, I am just the messenger, maybe a curator. In so vigor of the newly arrived. many ways, you are also the messengers, the keepers “Our Eire Society honoree, Brian O’Donovan, has of the flame. traveled that uncertain route, trod that path of striv- “But in 2014, the Irish culture we celebrate is not ing and attainment. We have been the beneficiaries. backward. It is not inward- looking. Nor is it academic, “From Clonakilty in West Cork he came fortuitously to be dusted off now and then and analyzed. Our lit- to Boston three decades ago to organize, entertain, and erature – drama, poetry, fiction – is known the world enlighten: a joyously welcome amalgam of authentic- over and a new crop of writers like Colm Toibin, Emma ity and artistry. Donoghue, Colm McGann, and Ann Enright continue “O’ Donovan has leapt from success to success in two to make impact in such an Irish way. Our visual arts, notable and demanding careers. For a dozen years film and video, our actors, like Michael Fassbender, and Brian held vital leadership positions for Kraft Sports Colin Farrell, Irish singers with names like Samantah ranging from chief operating officer, Stadium GM, vice Mumba, and Laura Izibor, indicate just where we are president of the Patriots, to COO of New England’s in the home country, pulsing at the edge of Europe. Major League Soccer franchise, the Revolution. “No, our Ireland, our Irishness is open and invitational “Heeding his heart, Brian extended his universe as and celebratory. It is in all of its forms, a narrative on the longtime host of WGBH’s popular weekly Celtic Eire Society Gold Medal awardee Brian O’Donovan who we are and where we have come from and a celebra- Sojourn, and on stage, he has operated in full flight as and Consul General Brendan Ó Caollaí. Additional tion of our being there, of our being here in America. Its entrepreneur, performer, producer, talent scout, and photos on page 19. Ed Forry photo language is about sharing. A traditional session in a musical tour guide, enthralling a generation of music kitchen or a pub, a festival in a field, a history lecture, lovers. His Christmas shows, now in their second of the best places to live. a book reading , a short story re-discovered, a chorus decade, are a sparkling, multifaceted addition to the “But it’s at times like these, we need to remember of a song, a smile, a welcome, a poem from your child- NewEngland holiday season that reflect splendidly who we are and how we came to be, so Irish and proudly hood, a remembered proverb from your mother, a cup on its creator.” American. of tea with a friend in the old china.” ••• “In his book “Irish Boston,” Michael Quinlan recounts ••• Brian O’Donovan: Thank you so much for having the story of two Irish immigrants, each named Patrick “There is a poem I have become very fond of from a me here tonight. It is truly and I mean this, honestly, Sullivan, who left their homes in the year 1847 and poet who deserves to be read far more widely than he an honor for me to stand here in this beautiful place, took passage to Boston. One of them flourished here; is: Michael Coady, a retired teacher from Carrick on and to look and see so many familiar faces, I am genu- the other perished. Suir. He captures so much of my sentiments on the inely humbled. “The Sullivan who survived had boarded the Unicorn subject of music, its position as a balance in a broken “And that humility comes from a variety of sources in London in July 1847, and sailed into Boston that world: but chief amongst them is that I feel this honor tonight August. His only skill was dancing, so he set up a dance is really for Irish culture itself, and for me, yes, I accept academy (to teach the girls and boys of his adopted Though there are torturers in the world, it, but only as a simple messenger, maybe a curator, if city). He married Swiss immigrant Adrienne List, a There are also musicians. you will, but just one such curator/messenger/advocate classically trained pianist, and they settled on Ben- Though, at this moment, for a culture that is powerful, and enduring, and tran- nett Street in the South End, where the New England Men are screaming in prisons, scending of commercialism or faddishness. Medical Center is today. There are jazzmen raising storms “A culture that has survived the very real human “The other Patrick Sullivan spent his final days on Of sensuous celebration, challenges of famine, dislocation, brutal discrimination, this earth quarantined at Deer Island in Boston Har- And orchestras releasing forced emigration, prejudice in the new land – right bor. He died on Nov. 11, 1847, at age 33. He was the Glories of the Spirit. here in America, right here in Boston – and the uphill 260th Irish immigrant to have died at the quarantine Though the image of God struggle to assimilate. hospital after its opening on May 29 of that year. He Is everywhere defiled, “And yet, here we are tonight in our beautiful sur- was one of nine Sullivans who died on the island be- A man in West Clare roundings in Quincy not far from where Abigail Adams tween June and December 1847. Is playing the concertina, looked on with her family as Charlestown erupted in “In September 1856 Sullivan the dancer and his Swiss The Sistine Choir is levitating the flames of revolution on June 17, 1775. Did she or wife had a son whom they named Louis. He went on to Under the dome of St. Peter’s, her husband John envision at that point in history, that become the nation’s foremost architect and is regarded And a drunk man on the road almost 250 years later, the Irish would have played as the Father of American Architecture. Is singing, for no reason. such pivotal roles in creating what I believe strongly “But the Patrick Sullivan who languished on Deer is one of the greatest cities in the world, certainly one Island is also part of our history. He was one of several Page 6 July 2014 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com BRETT’S BOSTON By Harry Brett Exclusive photos of Boston Irish people & events

The 2014 Thomas S. Durant, MD, Golf Tourna- ment was held June 16 at the Oyster Harbors Club in Osterville. The event honors the late Dr. Durant, a beloved MGH physician and humanitarian, and benefits the Thomas S. Durant Fellowship for Refugee Medicine program at the MGH Center for Global Health. Directed by MGH primary care physician Laurence Ronan, MD, the Durant 1. Fellowship offers health care providers a unique opportunity to travel abroad to serve refugee and displaced populations. This year’s event was very successful. The fundraising golf tournament was created in 1996 by Bill Reilly, a good friend of Dr. Durant’s. “This tournament is more than just about golf and raising money,” says Reilly. “It has soul; it is an extension of all that is good and great about the MGH. It is about people, caring, sacrifice, service and so much more.” Reilly and MGH Dr. Larry Ronan co-chaired the tourney, and it was organized by Mary McAleer, vice president of the Irish American Partnership.

1.) Richard McManus, Bob White, Tom Finneran and David Brown; 2.) Phil Jones, Wayne Dupont, Ken Evans and Frank Bonanno; 3.) Peter Dalton; 4.) Dr. Peter Slavin, MGH President; 5.) Dick Flavin, Billy Reilly, Bill Devin; 6.) Mary McAleer; 7.) Tony Athanas; 8.)Ed Buck, Pat Mooney, Bobby 2. Caparella, Pat Stapleton, Don Lopez, Michael Caparella; 9.) Dr. Andrew Warshaw, Dr. Larry Ronan ; 10.) Zoe Reilly, Colleen Reilly ; 11.) Syl- via Hutter, Barbara Doyle, Cynthia Marr and Dan Cook; 12.) The pros: Matt Baran, Liz Gudas, Chris Catena, Head Pro Sean Edmonds; 13.) Des Heathwood and Carl Martignetti.

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By Bill O’Donnell of sharing Cantor’s fate. Re-election for many of our sending out the WH chief of staff Denis McDonough Shared Schools In NI: A Dramatic Shift – The national elected officials has replaced or reduced in- to be warm and friendly with reporters, assuring them push by Northern Ireland’s political leaders to promote tegrity and conscience. Take the one-seventy a year that Ireland and the peace process in the North was a “shared education” between Protestants and Catholics and the perks and hide. continuing priority of President Obama. will radically change the face of secondary education Ryanair’s Chief Turns Charming –The CEO of McDonough, with his fresh face and certified Irish in the North. The move, to be phased in, will affect Ryanair, Michael O’Leary, is apparently looking roots, said all the right things and told the assembled mainstream schools, students, and facilities in a now for love to go along with his famous lower fares. The Irish beat writers that O’Malley “is a close personal divided educational system that is badly in need of airline that some people love to hate did some internal friend of the president,” which presumably copper- reform. The aim of this bold government initiative is soul-searching and found that the public didn’t like fastened the ambassador-designate as the choice de to break down decades-old, deep-rooted sectarian divi- the airline for its add-on baggage fees and other anti- jour of the Obama White House. However, don’t hold sions that have seriously undermined a full realization consumer tactics, and also that they liked O’Leary even your breath waiting for an answer to why it took so of good relations between the two Christian traditions. less. Adding fire to the airline’s stern practices was a long (the longest vacancy in the country’s history) to Emphasizing the serious warning to O’Leary from shareholders. name our newest envoy to Ireland. intent of the government to The market research highlighted Ryanair’s short- Guildford Four ‘Victim’ Gerry Conlon is Dead act decisively on the educa- comings and suggested some remedies that are now – Gerry Conlon, 60, who served 14 years for a 1974 tion front is the encouraging becoming standard at the airline. Forgotten is the idea bombing in England, has died. His life after being announcement that the effort to charge for restroom use, and in its place there are now exonerated and freed from prison in 1989 was largely will have the solid financial sup- various discounts for parents traveling with children a tortured existence as he was haunted by his prison port of the government, which and a softer policy on family seating together. Also, years, suffering two breakdowns, continual nightmares, has endorsed the move with a there is now a range of customer-friendly upgrades, a suicide attempt, and addiction to drugs and alcohol. start-up investment package of including more allocated seating, easier booking, less The jailing of Conlon and the other members of the $40 million, with more to come onerous airport check-in fees, and a free second carry- Guildford Four is considered the biggest miscarriage as needed. on bag. We’ll have to wait for the annual balance sheet of justice in British legal history. Eleven years after The action to promote reform to see if redemption works for O’Leary and his airline. Conlon’s release, Prime Minister Tony Blair became in the schools, now segregated Padraig O’Malley, On The March For Peace the first senior politician to apologize to the Guildford Bill O’Donnell and administered separately – Every once in a while it renews my faith in people Four. within the province, is no slam when I get random updates about Padraig O’Malley, Peter Robinson Should Go, Says Newsletter dunk. Life in a divided society that is underpinned by who holds the Moakley Seat at UMass Boston’s Mc- – The Belfast Newsletter, the oldest continuously religion – and by “peace walls” – where residents rarely Cormack Institute. O’Malley, a friend since our days operated newspaper in the world printed in English socialize with those of another religion has nurtured 25 years ago working together with Boston Ireland and a respected, conservative publication representing a lingering distrust that is an obstacle to long-term Ventures, is an academic who has traded his syllabus members of the Unionist/Protestant population in the peace and stability. for a well-worn passport and a bulging Rolodex. His North, has called for the departure of First Minister of Parents from Catholic and Protestant homes often quest now and for many years: Peace. the North, Peter Robinson. He and Martin McGuin- share fears that bringing children together will mean In the intervening years, or at least for a large chunk ness are the administrative leaders of the government. the lessening of their religious bonds; and with that of that quarter-century, Padraig has been on the move The Newsletter cited Robinson’s failures, including his there are deep parental concerns about corrupting with his ‘Forum for Cities in Transition’ that has led inability to placate the flag protestors, his U-turn on dogma influencing young minds. Experience elsewhere him to foreign ports of call including, among others, the Maze/museum, his bad relationship with McGuin- does not support that belief. Northern Ireland, Iraq, Kosovo and Nigeria. He con- ness, a series of public polls that reflects a growing Recent studies have clearly shown that the vast tinues through interminable bureaucratic delays and lack of confidence in Stormont and the Executive, a majority of schools are segregated. The research found hardscrabble challenges to put a shoulder to the task of downturn electorally, and the increasing attacks on that almost half of the North’s schoolchildren were be- showing us how one man can truly make a difference. Robinson by credible sources in the North. Those flaws ing taught in schools where 95 percent or more of the During the past five years Padraig has traveled, just scratch the surface. students were of the same religion. The study, which cajoled, challenged and put together against long It seems to this observer that, as the Newsletter says looked at the 2011-2012 school year, showed that 180 odds a series of conferences and face-to-face meetings forthrightly, “Peter Robinson has already hung on too schools had no Protestant students and that another between cities and their leaders in efforts to wrest long.” Amen! 111 schools taught no Catholic children. results that move enemies and ideas closer to peace. RANDOM CLIPPINGS The early mandate of shared schools would encour- Throughout his journey Padraig has been followed and Congratulations to Colette & Mike Quinlin who are age shared classes, facilities, teachers, and buildings, a filmed by the award-winning independent filmmaker celebrating their 15th anniversary as the nation’s only practical beginning that supporters hope will eventually James Demo, who founded Central Square Films in cultural tourism organization specifically promoting lead to fully integrated schools. Cambridge. Demo, whose film has the working title of Irish culture, history, and heritage. Look for BITA’s Centenary Planning for The Rising Under Way “The Peacemaker,” has hundreds of hours of film on Travel & Cultural Guide available free at Irish venues, – The Irish government has kicked off initial planning O’Malley and his work with cities in conflict. Demo pubs, gift shops, museums. … Golfer Rory McIlroy for the celebration that will mark a seminal moment told me in a telephone interview that he is 90 percent finally dropped the other shoe, telling us that he will in Irish history. The event is to be a lengthy rollout of finished filming and now is editing the nearly finished represent Ireland in the 2016 Olympics. … Conserva- events and remembrances of the revolutionary lead- product. Demo expects to have the film ready for show- tives (aka Tea Partyers) aren’t excited by new US House ers and soldiers who confronted the British in April of ing next year. In the meantime, he will be traveling majority leader Kevin McCarthy, but they have been 1916. But as it goes so often with many such historical once more with O’Malley, this time to Belfast in the finessed by tradition and the returning speaker,John celebrations, there are a number of interested parties early fall to do more filming of Padraig at work, as Boehner. … Ireland has been cited by industry leaders who are determined to be officially and properly rec- always, for peace. as one of the best countries for entrepreneurial activ- ognized and able to speak out. Fulton Sheen Gets High Ratings at Vatican – ity in Europe. … Dublin-based scientists are working It has only lately been announced by Jimmy The sainthood cause of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen on developing a universal cure for (are you ready?) – Deenihan, the Irish Minister for the Arts, Heritage is in full regalia and moving forward following recom- snakebite . … The wood to make hurleys, ash, is being & Gaeltacht, that the descendants of the participants mendations from a panel of theologians who recently imported from Queen Elizabeth’s Sandringham forest. in 1916 have been publicly invited to the celebration. met at the Vatican. Our younger readers may not recall The royals reportedly are happy at the GAA connection. There had been some talk among the relatives of the Sheen, who died 35 years ago. Yet in his heyday, with They are starting to disappear under a strong sales 1916 heroes that they had heard little or nothing from his colorful nationally televised program, “Life is Worth assault, but Galway homes are still a bargain. As are the commemorative committee and were considering Living,” the then-monsignor was the golden voice of homes in Mayo, Clare, and Longford. … John Malone, boycotting the government events. However, soon 1950’s TV, with ratings that sometimes challenged a cable billionaire, was outbid for the Mount Juliet golf after came Minister Deenihan with a dose of damage the competing TV comedy show starring Milton Berle. resort by a 35-year old UCD grad. … Tip’s son was in a control. He said that he wants to see as many of the Following the panel of theologians, a second panel recent June issue of the Inishowen News praising Tip descendants and relatives as possible attend and par- consisting of seven doctors further studied the late O’Neill Diaspora Award winner Therese Murray, ticipate in the celebration. “Throughout the planning,” archbishop’s possible miracle and found that the sur- the president of the Massachusetts Senate. … Border he said, “I have been impressed with the interest and vival of a newborn child had no natural explanation. shopping in places like Co. Donegal are a bonanza to commitment of the family members and their wish to Now, the quest for sainthood for Sheen will be reviewed local retailers, largely due to sterling customers flock- be closely involved in the upcoming commemorations. by the cardinals and bishops who are members of the ing south for bargains and good weather. … Taking few I ask all to contact the department. The relatives and Congregation of Saints’ Causes. After that, evidence chances the Irish Finance Dept. has hired a crack legal descendants should be involved.” Questions raised, of the miracle will be presented to Pope Francis and if team to fight any problems affecting Apple’s favorable case closed! he affirms that the miracle occurred through Sheen’s tax rate. … The Museum of Newport (RI) Irish history America Works: Faces Of Excellence – The intervention, the late New York archbishop could then is located on Lower Thames St. in the city center and Boston Globe (June 15) has earned a shout-out for be declared “Blessed.” A second miracle would be needed is open Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, noon to five, the feature story and photographs of “Boston’s Faces for canonization, and no timetable has been set for that. through Oct. 26. … The troubled Irish Health Service of Excellence.” The newspaper has done this before, Mystery surrounds Jackie K’s College Reposi- paid out $350,000 in agency fees to fill a $150,000 job. highlighting Boston high school valedictorians who tory – The mysterious disappearance and the later The math is a bit skewed but sad. No wonder the Health made it to the top of their class by hard work, caring return to All Hallows College in Dublin of the Jackie Dept. is under siege. parents ,and teachers. The stories and bios tug at the Kennedy letters to Father Joe Leonard are just the WGBH Radio will add an hour to the Jim Braude heart, as they probably should. tip of the iceberg regarding valuable stolen and lost & Margery Eagan show (11 a.m. to 2 p.m.) in Sep- Of the 40 valedictorians in this year’s salute there artifacts at the college. tember. … The Irish manufacturing sector grew for a are 18 foreign-born students (45 percent) from a vari- In the months before the existence of the letters 12th straight month. … The world has more million- ety of locales ranging from Haiti to Vietnam. Most all exchanged by Kennedy and Leonard became public aires than ever before, with 16.3 million households are going on to college and many who continue their information, there was a series of probable thefts, most and $152 trillion in wealth, up almost 15% in just education here will bring their skills and learning home likely by an insider, at All Hallows that has Garda and one year. Inequality reigns. If you hadn’t noticed. … later to help their people there. Others will stay here church officials bewildered. According to an Irish rare Ireland is on the march economically and Standard & in America and contribute to the health and advance- book expert, the college archives had been “plundered Poor’s has restored the country’s A rating, with more to ment of their adopted country. for years.” A number of books and etchings and small come if they can get the budget deficit below 3 percent. I wonder if any of the diehard opponents of compre- paintings had disappeared but many were returned … Independent Councillor Christy Burke has been hensive immigration reform have ever looked closely at when the missing material came into focus as the elected Lord Mayor of Dublin. He is a former Sinn Fein what immigration has done in so many ways to benefit “Jackie letters” became a media news item. member. … Peter Robinson may be off his medications this nation of ours. Just recently, the voters in a con- A sad sidebar to the contretemps at All Hollows is with his odd remarks insulting Muslims. Ian Pais- gressional district in Virginia ousted House Majority that there will be no sale or auction windfall of the ley’s son, who succeeded his father as Minister of the Leader Eric Cantor in a primary election. His sin, now-famous letters. But they may be the subject of Free Presbyterian Church, called the First Minister as charged by his opponent and his TV ad campaign, negotiations between the college and the Kennedy a “condescending ignoramus.” Wow! … Channel 2’s was that Cantor was for “amnesty” for undocumented family. Following the collapse of any notion of a sale Greater Boston host, Emily Rooney, first chair there aliens living here. Whether Cantor was for or against of the letters, All Hollows began winding down its for 18 years, will step back, just focusing on the Friday amnesty, the very hint that he might be was enough operations and announced it is closing. edition of Beat The Press. … The French economist and to defeat the second ranking leader in the House. Top Obama Aide Reassures Irish – The unusual best selling author of “Capital in the 21st Century,” Cantor’s surprise trouncing combined with the thou- 18-month delay by the Obama administration in nam- says that “a progressive wealth tax would be the ideal sands of children from Latin America now crowding ing a new ambassador to Ireland and its reporting by solution to resolving global wealth inequality.” … There through Mexico and into the southern US is the death the Irish and American media apparently caught the are several ongoing probes into the babies buried in a knell this year for any political moves to reform and eye of the White House last month. The sometime mass grave in Tuam, the latest having been ordered regulate immigration. The Republican leadership besieged White House quickly backed up the appoint- by the Justice Minister. It is being carried out by the and many of the members are conflicted and afraid ment of Missouri lawyer Kevin O’Malley to Dublin by Garda, Ireland’s national police. Page 8 July 2014 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Irish International Immigrant Center Immigration Q & A An agency accredited by US Department of Justice I just got my 100 Franklin Street, Boston, MA 02110 Telephone (617) 542-7654 Fax (617) 542-7655 Green Card; Website:iiicenter.org Email: [email protected] Jason Wall: J-1 IWT participant profile Now What? Q. I have just been granted permanent resident After only a few minutes Business Centers while Jason was on a bit of a status in the US. Can you give a summary of my rights at One Stop Business on holiday in Boston last time crunch after landing and responsibilities regarding such issues as travel Centers in Woburn, it is summer, and after inter- the position to get his visa abroad, reentering the US, losing my green card, and obvious that Jason Wall viewing with them, he was paperwork processed. He registering for service in the armed forces? has found a home. His offered a position to start credits Jude Clarke, Pro- A. With your permanent resident status (‘green colleagues speak nothing in the fall. gram Manager for the J-1 card”), you can live and work legally anywhere in but high praise and from “My experience so far IWT program, with mak- the US. You can petition US Citizenship and Im- the easy way they all joke has been really good,” ing the process smooth migration Services (USCIS) for green cards for your with one another, I can tell Jason said. “I’ve learned and hassle-free. spouse and unmarried children. Generally, after he is part of the family. loads from working here, “I cannot say enough living here for four years and nine months (two years Jason is in the United so much more than I ever good things about Jude. and nine months if your status is based on the fact States on the J-1 Irish learned in university.” He was so helpful; he that your spouse is a US citizen and you are still liv- Work and Travel visa An avid rower, Jason took the time to answer Jason Wall: “I’ve learned ing in marital union with him/her), you can apply to program, a twelve-month is involved with a local my questions and was loads from working become a US citizen. internship visa sponsored rowing club, and can be genuinely interested in here.” You can travel outside the US whenever you like. by the Irish International found out on the water me going to Boston.” for Thanksgiving at his You must have your green card, along with a valid Immigrant Center. He three mornings a week. Not only is Jason gain- foreign passport, with you to present to US Customs decided to leave Ireland He is clearly enjoying his ing valuable career skills, house,” Jason recalled. “Driving for eight hours and Border Protection (CBP) when you reenter the for the year to gain ex- life in Boston. “I haven’t but he is also getting a US. You should keep a record of the dates each time perience for his future even gotten homesick,” complete cultural expe- is an experience.” His least favorite thing you leave and return (backed up if possible with travel career. With the aid of he said, “and I was quite rience from his time in documents such as airline tickets and boarding cards), a family connection, he happy coming back [to the the US. “I went with a so far? The Massachusetts drivers. and it is important always to reenter the US legally got plugged into One Stop US] from Christmas.” friend to Philadelphia by using a CBP border checkpoint, including brief trips over the border to Canada and Mexico. When you travel abroad you must be careful not to Matters Of Substance “abandon” your residence in the US. If you want to leave for more than 12 months you must get a “reen- try permit” from USCIS before you leave or CBP will Self–Care in the face of Tragedy presume that you have abandoned your status and With all the recent support, to reach out. If is easy to isolate or with- 3. Maintain good sleep may not readmit you. A reentry permit is granted news coverage reporting you have questions, need draw from our network of hygiene: Traumatic at the discretion of USCIS for specific purposes, on the growing pressure further resources or would friends and family. But events often disrupt our for example, going abroad to attend university, or on the Irish government like to arrange a time to in a time of crisis, these sleep. Some people report going to your original home country to take care of to hold a full historical chat with our counselor support networks are nightmares or find that an elderly or ill parent. Also, if you leave for more inquiry into the deaths Danielle, e-mail her at more important than ever. nights are harder for than six months but less than a year, you are not of almost 800 children in [email protected] or Reach out to those who them. Try to maintain automatically presumed to have abandoned your US a mother and baby home call 617-542-7654, Ext.14. can support you, make regular sleep routines and permanent residence, but you can face scrutiny on in Tuam, Co. Galway, If this media attention plans to see friends and get eight hours of sleep this issue from CBP when you return. It is important between the 1920s and is triggering a traumatic stay connected – in person a night. Stay away from to consult with us at IIIC or with your immigration the 1960s, we thought it response for you, we would or on the phone. And re- caffeine in the evening. lawyer before taking a trip out of the US lasting more might be helpful to share first encourage you to member, that it is okay to Recent studies support than six months. some resources. avoid (for now, until your take time out for yourself turning off all electron- Even if you have a green card, the immigration It is possible all this symptoms ease) reading to rest and recharge. ics – televisions, phones, authorities can prevent you from reentering the US, media attention may be articles and visiting web- 2. Engage in health- and computers – at least or deport you if you are in this country, if you commit triggering for those who sites describing the evi- promoting behaviors: one hour before bedtime. certain acts or crimes. Certain offenses that may have links to this or other dence discovered or reading Exercise several times 4. Find balance in your not seem very serious could be viewed as grounds state/religious institu- people’s comments. The a week and try to main- life: During a crisis people for deportation, or they could keep you from being tions or were adopted Riverside Trauma Center tain a healthy diet. Our often report excessive readmitted if you leave the US, or from obtaining from them. Some may here in Massachusetts has healthy routines and good behaviors – working too US citizenship. If you are charged with a crime, it be experiencing anxiety, a wonderful fact sheet with eating habits disappear much, eating too much, is essential that you consult an immigration lawyer anger or a re-occurrence of practical suggestions on during emergencies, so sleeping too much, and as well as a lawyer specializing in criminal cases, as depression or other PTSD how to take care of yourself we need to find ways to even drinking too much. the law involving the effect of criminal offenses on in the event of a traumatic symptoms as a result. carve out time to go for a Avoid excessively watch- immigration issues is extremely complex. event, which for some read- If you are a male at least 18 years old and under Please know there are re- ing these news reports may walk, swim, or whatever ing television (or website/ sources in Ireland and in experience it as. exercise you enjoy. 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By Bill Forry tion and asset management of Editor investment-quality multifamily A who’s who of Boston busi- communities.” ness leaders— with a heavy Synergy continues to control dose of Irish-American heav- other key properties along Mor- ies – packed the city’s newest rissey Boulevard, including the hot-spot near Faneuil Hall last Shaw’s supermarket and the week. The opening of Bostonia Greater Boston Media Company Public House – located in the buildings. The “Residences at Board of Trade Building on Morrissey Boulevard” project State Street – was hailed as has been framed as the first a “elegant renewal of a classic phase in a 20-year redevelop- Boston meeting space.” The ment effort along the roadway, restaurant and bar replaces the which will now include the Irish pub Kitty O’Shea’s, but is disposition of the Globe prop- bigger and American-themed. erty, which is currently being Partners in the venture include marketed for sale by owner Irish-American development John Henry, who purchased titan Dave Greaney of Synergy the newspaper company and its Investment & Development, holdings last year. Michael Vaughn, co-owner of Greaney said Criterion’s prior The Banshee and president of development experience and Nauset Strategies, and John “commitment to executing the Fitzgerald, the operating part- plan consistent with what we ner and a veteran of the city’s presented to the neighborhood hospitality industry. and the city was a significant “Our objective is to create an factor in our decision to award establishment that celebrates them the deal. We will continue the history, traditions and to be large stakeholders on Mor- people of Boston, said Fitzger- rissey Boulevard and we have a ald, the former operations vested interest in the successful manager of the Somers Group. completion of this project,” said “We recognize that Bostonians Greaney. “We are confident that are increasingly seeking out the new ownership team will refined yet relaxed offerings. I deliver a first-class product to come from a place where a true the neighborhood.” public house is about more than The exterior of Bostonia Public House on State Street. just food and drink. It’s about ••• community – a place where friends can socialize after work, Longtime Boston builder visitors can pull up a stool and Michael O’Malley has a new feel at home, and people come venture that is targeting a together to create memories.” condominium development in Designed by HGTV Host and Dorchester’s Lower Mills sec- Food Network Designer Taniya tion as a first project. O’Malley Nayak, Bostonia serves locally- and his partner, John Sambucci, inspired cuisine and beverages intend to buy and redevelop in a space that “integrates rustic five parcels along Washington elements with polished modern Street, including the former accents”— including throwback Molloy’s Funeral Home prop- maps and the iconic seal of the erty. city. For more on Bostonian, O’Malley and Sambucci’s new please visit bostoniapubli- company – City Point Develop- chouse.com. ment – is expected to pay over $3 million for the land, according to ••• sources familiar with the deal. In a series of meetings recently Syngery, the development with abutters, plans emerged for firm owned and operated by a six-story residential building Dave Greaney, has sold the with 50-plus units. O’Malley rights to one of its key de- has since agreed to re-design velopment projects next to the proposed building to address JFK-UMass MBTA station in height and density concerns Dorchester. The “Residences on raised by neighbors. Morrissey Boulevard” project— “We’re going to re-design the which received the go-ahead building and get back to the com- from the Boston Redevelopment munity in the next two weeks,” Authority in 2013, will be a five- Michael Vaughn and Dave O’Malley told the Reporter. “You story, $50 million apartment Greaney, left, are part of the will have a fabulous area to live complex next to the transit investment team behind Bos- with shops in the front and we hub near the Boston Globe. tonia Public House on State won’t overbuild it. I will stay Last month, Greaney told the Street. Above, John Fitzger- involved even after we sell the Reporter that Synergy would ald, the operating partner at condos,” O’Malley said, adding sell the property and project Bostonia Public House. that he plans to keep owner- rights to Criterion Development ship of any commercial space Partners, a Waltham-based designed in the new plans. company that specializes in Contact Bill Forry at bforry@ the “development, construc- dotnews.com. Irish, British consuls, BC fellows discuss issues confronting Ireland As the rapprochement ics covered were Diversion and around Boston during in Northern Ireland con- and Early Engagement a month-long fellowship tinues to evolve, scenes with Youth; Enforcement on the American practices Got Irish Ancestry? unimaginable before 1998 and Police Services for of good governance and continue to unfold. In late Youth Offenders; and the the rule of law. Our team at Oak Ancestry May, a conference held at Justice System for At- The focus of the discus- the Beacon Hill home of Risk Youth. Each group sion was “specific and ef- British Consul General offered insights from their fective policies aiming to can help you uncover your Susie Kitchens offered a experiences, knowledge of encourage at risk young profound reminder of just US policy on these issues, people to cooperate with Irish roots with professional how much has changed. and a comparison of both one another and engage Consul General Kitchens Irish and Northern Irish with political and eco- genealogical research! and Irish Consul Gen- policy and practices on nomic institutions.” The eral Breandan O Caollai these issues. At the end, consulates, as well as the hosted a symposium with the discussion turned Irish Institute of Boston BC’s Irish Institute and its into a question and an- College, are continuing to “The future Contact us today at 2014 Rule of Law fellows swer session reflecting on promote cooperation and on May 27. shared futures. understanding among the needs roots www.OakAncestry.ie The professional fel- The professionals hailed United States, Ireland, lows and interns of the from law enforcement, and the United Kingdom. to grow” for a free assessment! Irish Institute broke into youth justice, and the – PETER F. STEVENS three sub-groups for the law to engage with their discussion. The three top- American counterparts in Page 10 July 2014 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com

Wild Atlantic Way

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

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

Find out more at Ireland.com

TOURISM IRELAND DIMENSIONS Publication: Boston Irish Reporter Page Trim: 10" x 16" Supplied by: Tengo Two, S.L. Barcelona, Spain Publish Date: Feb , 2014 Bleed: 10.25" x 16.25" Tel: 011 [34] 652 081 624 Materials Date: Feb 24, 2014 Live Area: 9" x 15" eMail: [email protected] Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com July 2014 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 11 Boston irish Boston Irish Arts, Entertainment, Reporter Travel & More Much ado as festival makers strut stuff By Sean Smith “It’s just the best time, Special to the BIR meeting up with everyone Dancers small, tall, and and seeing what they do,” in between swarmed the said Gilmore. “And it’s like Irish Cultural Centre of you all speak the same New England campus language,” added Mus- June 14 for the second sari. “You just do Irish Boston Irish Festival dance and no one minds. Feis, a day of Irish step Not like when you’re with dance competitions that your friends at the grocery attracted some 450 par- store; it kind of freaks ticipants of various ages people out.” and levels from across the Wait, you do Irish danc- Northeast, as well as from ing in grocery stores? “Um, Toronto, South Carolina, sometimes,” said Mussari, and even New Zealand. bursting into laughter Co-organized with the along with Gilmore. Harney Academy of Irish Elsewhere, 10-year- Dancing, the Feis was the old Maeve McCann of third of three consecutive Hanover and 11-year-old weekend Boston Irish Fes- Weymouth resident Me- tival events celebrating gan Siegfried, along with popular Irish pursuits at their respective mothers, the Canton-based ICCNE, Nancy and Maria, enjoyed which is marking its 25th some cool drinks while anniversary. On May 31, waiting for the results of the festival featured a day their competition to be of sporting events – no- posted. Both girls have tably hurling and Gaelic a few years of experience football – and children’s in Irish dance, and taking activities. The middle por- part in a feis definitely tion of the festival, June ranks as a high point. 6-7, showcased top-line “You go to your class Irish/Celtic acts Black every week, you really 47, The Screaming Or- focus, and then you come phans, and Eileen Ivers here and make your hard & Immigrant Soul, as work pay off,” said Megan. Kathleen Parks and Ricky Mier of the band Cat and the Moon share a duet during the Boston Irish Maeve said the feis can well as numerous musi- Festival music weekend. Sean Smith photo cal performers from the serve as an extra dose of Greater Boston area and development: “The judges elsewhere in the region. of younger dancers found ing yellow “Caution” tape wait while the adjudica- Grace Mussari, of Bridge- will tell you the areas Misty, murky weather the temptation of the cen- as dividers), and competi- tors tabulated scores and water, went through her where you need improve- greeted the Feis, and a ter’s playground facilities tors – sometimes in groups the next pair of dancers paces wearing rain boots, ment, like crossing your steady, 45-minute drizzle irresistible. of three or four – did their took the stage; at the ring trading off with her friend feet or pointing your toes. at mid-day posed a poten- The day’s competitions routines, then cleared the of a small bell, the previ- Grace Gilmore, a Kings- It’s very helpful.” tial threat to the styled took place in two tents, area hurriedly for the ous competitors departed ton native. The two talked Rockland resident Kris- hair and make-up sported the “Grades Stage” on next. It was less crowded and the next round would about the pre-feis regimen ten Gallagher, an Irish by some of the competitors. the ICCNE patio, and the at the Championship begin. they follow – involving step dancer as a child, But most of those present, “Championship Stage” Stage, with dancers main- As they awaited their crunches, sit-ups, lots of watched her nine-year-old being pretty experienced about 50 yards or so away ly competing in pairs, but category, a pair of 12-year- stretching, yoga and “lis- daughter Mairead stretch in matters of feis, seemed on the grass. The dance adjudicators kept things old Graces carved out a tening to powerful music” out and warm up. “We’ve unperturbed by the damp floor in the packed Grades moving along briskly: One little practice space on a – and avidly agreed that a made some wonderful and focused on the task at Stage was divided into pair would complete their smaller patio outside the feis, as Mussari put it, “is friends through Irish hand – although a number four separate sections (us- routine, bow, stand and ICCNE main building. a whole different world.” (Continued on page 12) He’s immersed Pendragon, at age 30: in history and Still making the arts scene distinctions By Sean Smith By R. J. Donovan Mike accepted the posi- Special to the BIR Place, as well as time, Special to the BIR tion at New Rep where For a relatively young he is currently working counts for a lot with the guy, Michael Duncan on marketing a fall season Celtic band Pendragon, Smith has developed an that kicks off with the mu- which is celebrating its unusually deep under- sical “Closer Than Ever,” 30th anniversary year. Al- standing of history. He followed by productions though based in northern also has a passion for the of Stephen Sondheim’s Rhode Island, the quintet performing arts. Happily, “Assassins,” Tennessee is as much rooted in Mas- the Westford native has Williams’s “The Milk sachusetts and the rest found a unique way to Train Doesn’t Stop Here of New England through satisfy both interests. Anymore,” the world pre- its repertoire, which re- Most days you’ll find him miere of Robert Brustein’s flects the Irish, Scottish, at New Repertory Theatre “King of the Schnorrers” French-Canadian, and in Watertown where he and more. other Celtic traditions, serves as marketing and Early in his career he and interpolates original public relations direc- worked as an actor and material inspired by the tor. However, when the director. Now having a lives and experiences of Michael Duncan Smith, Marketing and Public Relations Director at New immigrants who have weekend arrives, he can two-and-a-half-year-old Repertory Theatre. often be found portraying daughter at home, he settled in the region over a Colonial Minuteman – remains focused on arts the centuries. an experience he describes administration. Here’s through high school and tor . . . I probably wouldn’t Q. Your time at Boston Geography is a strong as “living history.” a condensed look at our into college. be in this profession if it Playwrights’ was a learn- influence on Pendragon His interest in theater conversation. Q. I hear the two of wasn’t for this gentleman. ing experience in more in other respects, too. You began early. At UMass Q. Your interest in the you crossed paths again It was a really interesting ways than one. won’t see them embarking Dartmouth, he was vice arts began very early. several years later? cycle. The next year, we A. After college I was on any world or national president of his theater A. My high school A. It’s a very interesting produced his play, “Five looking for work in town. tours, and while in the group. After graduation, (Westford Academy) had a relationship with him . . . Down, One Across,” so it I applied pretty much ev- past they’ve occasionally he joined the staff at Bos- really great theater arts He showed up at Boston came full circle. He helped erywhere. I had an inter- ventured to New York ton Playwrights’ Theatre, program. It’s still run by Playwrights’ Theatre. He me discover theater and view at The Huntington City, Pennsylvania, and later moving on to Boston the same guy, Michael was (at BU) to get his MFA see how beneficial it was . . . I applied for a job at Virginia, and appeared Center for the Arts. Towers. He was really in playwriting. So he was to be in theater. And then New Rep – this is going at Harvard Square’s Club Several months ago, instrumental in getting a graduate student while I helped market and pro- back eight or nine years Passim or the Bread and me to pursue theater I was marketing coordina- duce his show. (Continued on page 12) (Continued on page 13) Page 12 July 2014 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com

Mairead Gallagher, 9, of Rockland stretches out prior to competing at the Feis. At the height of competition in the Grades Stage tent. Much ado as festival makers strut stuff (Continued from page 11) Loo-ra-Loo-ral.” Gobshites, Erin’s Guild, performances. For Louise, dancing, and I really like By contrast, mere yards The Auld Locals, The Tom a Detroit native now living the confidence it gives the away at the Celtic Pa- Lanigan Band, and mem- in Dorchester, the festival kids,” she said. tio Tent stage, Cat and bers of Boston’s Reynolds- is a more recent discovery: Asked what she liked the Moon – a quartet of Hanafin-Cooley branch of “I’m here for the crafts, the about dancing, Mairead Berklee College of Music Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éire- good food, and I like to see had a simple answer: students – played high- ann, who hosted a ceili. the people who come out.” “Everything.” energy instrumentals At the edge of Emerald Two other relative fes- Everything? All the that fused Irish/Celtic, Field, a contingent of tival newcomers were practice, the long hours, bluegrass and jazz styles, Irish wolfhounds relaxed Dedham residents Karen the aches and pains? “Ev- as fiddler Kathleen Parks in the shade, seemingly Kelly and daughter Ju- erything,” she repeated, and five-string banjoist oblivious to the stares lie, who were strolling with emphasis. Ricky Mier traded licks of children, and not a through Grafton Street. * * * with one another, as few adults, amazed at “I love looking through the The Saturday previ- well as bassist Charles the dogs’ enormous stat- Irish jewelry,” said Karen. ous to the Feis had seen Berthoud and guitar- ure. Some festival-goers “This is just a great place a picture-perfect early ist Eamon Sefton (who browsed the merchandise to hang around and enjoy summer day for the fes- fondly recalled attending of vendors in the Grafton yourself for the day.” tival’s music weekend. the festival as a child). Street tent, or opted for High on Julie’s list of Saturday’s schedule in- Clearly enlivened by the light refreshments in the things she’s enjoyed dur- cluded some 12 hours of atmosphere, a clutch of Tea House tent. ing her few visits to the live music, concentrated toddlers used the tent’s At the latter location, a festival was joining in the in three locations. In the dance floor to demonstrate pair of friends who gave “Redheads Photo,” an at- center’s main function their considerable skills in their names as “Thelma tempt to gather the largest room, Erin’s Melody of- romping and scampering. and Louise” talked about number of redheads in one fered a veritable songbook Meanwhile, underneath their different takes on the place – although it was not of sentimental favorites, the mid-day sun at the festival. Thelma, of Mil- in this year’s schedule. and singer Margaret Dal- Emerald Field Stage, the ton, said her experience Patting her stomach, Julie ton smiled at the audience trio Inchicore (Derrick Ke- Margaret Dalton and Erin’s™ Melody perform at dates back to the period – expecting in November – and asked, “Will you sing ane, Tom Miller and Da- the Boston Irish Festival on June 7. when the festival took said, “Hopefully, if they do for me?” before launching mon Leibert) entertained Sean Smith photos place at Stonehill College the photo next year, we’ll into a medley with the the audience with “Some (it moved to ICCNE in the have another redhead to likes of “When Irish Eyes Say the Devil’s Dead” and val crowd-pleasers. Other Yokeshire, Step About 1990s), and her daughter bolster the ranks.” Are Smiling” and “Too-ra- other tried-and-true festi- performers on Saturday Boston, Norman Payne, took part in step dance included Alfie O’Shea, The Jolly Tinkers, The Immersed in history and the arts (Continued from page 11) garet LaRue in Milwau- having him tell me how there were thousands now. Didn’t get that job kee” by Wesley Savick. I much he loved it. That and thousands of people. . . . It wasn’t looking great loved that show. It came was really great. And I said, how do I get a . . . and then Boston Play- about right in 2008 when Q. So how did you get in- better view? And my wife wrights’ Theatre came up . everything went sour and volved in Colonial battle actually said, you should . . and it worked out. I was theater was a luxury good reenactments. join the Minutemen. there for seven seasons. and nobody came to see it. A. My wife and I moved Q. Do you portray an BPT is part of Boston But we all just loved it. to Lexington about four actual solider? University, and they have That was a real standout years ago. I had been to A. With the Lexington a great master’s program for me. the Battle Green reen- Minutemen, we portray . . . So I started taking And I worked with How- actment years ago when somebody who was at classes and ended up with ard Zinn on “Daughter my grandfather took me, that first battle of the a master’s degree in arts of Venus.” We did that probably when I was 13, American revolution. I administration. co-production with Suf- and I loved it. He had a play a character called Q. Boston Playwrights folk University. He was great love of history and Ebenezer Bowman who the most gentlemanly really instilled that in me. lived in Lexington. He Michael Duncan Smith, Marketing and Public Rela- is known for innovative tions Director at New Repertory Theatre. creativity. Favorite mo- individual. Everything When I got my undergrad, was on the Battle Green ments? you hear about Howard I focused in English and at the age of 17 . . . He that part of town, which the President. history. So when I moved A. One of them that Zinn is exactly true. He was at the Battle of Fort at the time was called Q. And the other side of really stands out – and it was this gentle man who to Lexington, we would go Ticonderoga in ’77. Then Cambridge Farms. your heritage is French? to the Battle Green reen- got not very favorable had such compassion. I he left the Army, went to Q. Your love of history A. Yes, my Acadian reviews – was “Miss Mar- remember designing the actment at 5:30 a.m. The Harvard, got his law de- has also led to revela- ancestors. They were poster for the show and view was terrible because gree and moved to Penn- tions about your personal some of the first French sylvania and became the ancestry. settlers, going back into first practicing lawyer A. It’s a natural pro- the early 17th century, RI’s Kevin Doyle is awarded in Luzerne County. This gression for someone who in Port Royal – what is all character research loves history to want to is now Nova Scotia . . . that we do ourselves. know their own history (With a laugh) Everyone’s National Heritage Fellowship Not dissimilar to how an . . . (My) Irish side goes descended from Char- actors would learn about through my paternal lemagne . . . (The links) Kevin Doyle, who has RI, has been a step dancer Atlantic steps. a character they’re por- shared his Irish step for more than five decades, With ancestral roots in grandmother (born and are a little muddled, but traying. raised in Medford) – she they’re there. dance talents throughout and his excellence in Roscommon and Long- Q. Were you assigned Massachusetts and New American-style tap dance ford, Doyle – who earned a was Irish to Irish, Mc- R. J. Donovan is Edi- Bowman or did you select Donaugh and Sullivan. tor and Publisher of on- England, has won a 2014 as well has earned him Folk Arts Fellowship last him? National Heritage Fellow- further acclaim through- year from the Rhode Is- They’re from Co. Sli- stageboston.com. A. I selected him. There go. The Sullivans go back ••• ship from the National out his career. In recent land State Council on the was a list of open char- Endowment for the Arts. years, he has performed Arts – has passed along to New Hampshire. My For information on New acters, and in my part of great-great-great grand- Repertory Theatre at the The fellowships recognize as a member of the Rhode his dance legacy to many Lexington we vote at the individuals for their artis- Island Celtic band Pen- students – including his father, Jeremiah Sul- Arsenal Center for the Bowman school . . . It’s livan, was in the fourth Arts, 321 Arsenal Street tic excellence and efforts dragon, and appeared in daughter Shannon, who called Bowman School to conserve America’s productions of “A Christ- has become an Irish dance NH Infantry during the in Watertown, call 617- because Bowman lived Civil War. He named his 923-8487 or visit newrep. culture for future genera- mas Celtic Sojourn” and as teacher herself. in East Lexington. (The tions. part of the international – SEAN SMITH son Jeremiah Lincoln Sul- org. Bowmans) were actually livan, presumably after Doyle, from Barrington, Irish dance ensemble one of the first families in Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com July 2014 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 13 Irish Harp Orchestra facing a very busy summer

By Sean Smith a harpist, notes NEIHO experience for all of us.” Special to the BIR founder and director Re- NEIHO also will pres- It’s shaping up as an gina Delaney. ent concerts on its own eventful summer for the “We’ve received some during the visit to Ireland, New England Irish Harp help already, which is Delaney adds: “We’ll have Orchestra (NEIHO), a marvelous,” says Delaney, opportunities to showcase popular act that has per- who teaches at the music our own repertoire and formed at many Greater school of Boston’s Com- style, and give people a Boston area Irish and haltas Celtóirí Éireann taste of the American Celtic events. The six- branch. “For 10 of us to brand of Irish harp play- year-old group is in the go to Ireland, the cost will ing.” midst of raising funds to be about $35,000; we’re While NEIHO has two attend next month’s pres- hoping to raise half that CDs to its credit – a live tigious Brian Boru Harp amount and cover the album recorded in Ports- Festival in Ireland, while other half ourselves. This mouth, NH, and “The a subset of NEIHO – the is definitely our most am- First Star,” a collection of New England Irish Harp bitious undertaking, but traditional Celtic Christ- Ensemble – is putting the it’s very exciting.” mas tunes – the NE Irish finishing touches on its NEIHO, whose 15 mem- Harp Ensemble, com- first CD. bers span six decades prised of Delany and five NEIHO will present in age – and include an other NEIHO members, is a concert on July 13 at 87-year-old former Marine The New England Irish Harp Orchestra has been invited to perform as part close to releasing its debut the Aisling Gallery in who only began playing of a major Irish music festival in Limerick next month. recording – “Hopefully in Hingham, proceeds from harp six years ago – has time to bring with us to Ire- which will go to defray appeared at the Irish Con- Ireland but with influenc- tradition. A highlight of band, and several guest land,” says Delaney. The the costs of attending the nections and ICONS festi- es from American as well the festival will be the performers. ensemble has recorded festival, which is taking vals, Féile Cheoil Boston, as other Celtic traditions. performances of “Brian “Preparing for ‘Lion of 15 tracks so far, and final place in Limerick and com- the Kennedy Library, the The Brian Boru Harp Boru, Lion of Ireland,” a Ireland’ has been a lot of edits and other last details memorates the 1,000th Community Music Center Festival [brianborumil- new Harbison composition work,” says Delaney. “The are in process, she says. anniversary of the death of Boston, and the New lennium.com] is being that recounts the story piece is something quite For information on the of legendary High King of England Folk Festival organized by Delaney’s of Boru in music, song, different than what we’re New England Irish Harp Ireland Brian Boru – who, Association, among other former teacher, Janet and narration, featuring used to, what with the Orchestra, including the in addition to his leader- places. The orchestra Harbison, a renowned NEIHO and other visiting orchestral setting – this group’s July 13 benefit ship qualities, also was performs dance tunes, airs composer, arranger, and harp ensembles as well as isn’t just jigs and reels. So concert in Hingham, see known for his talents as and ballads, mainly from scholar in the Irish harp an orchestra, choir, pipe it’s been a great learning neiho.org. Pendragon, at age 30: Still making distinctions (Continued from page 11) Matt and Shannon Hea- Roses Festival in Law- ton, Robbie O’Connell, rence, as well as the New Dervish, Kathleen Guil- Bedford Folk Festival, day and Laurel Martin, they’re far more inclined Solas and bohola – and now to do gigs in their that’s just the Irish/Celtic Blackstone Valley home performers. Its offering of base. music and dance classes To be sure, band mem- include Irish fiddle and bers’ “other” jobs and step dance. family considerations are All of this progress a major reason they stay seemed more than a little in their stomping grounds. unlikely back in the day, But as co-founder Russell according to Gusetti, who Gusetti explains, Pen- remembers the skepti- dragon sees its territorial cism Pendragon used to tendencies not as a con- encounter: “We’d hear, straint, but as a source of ‘Why are you singing strength and nurturing. about this place? The “If we had tried to push river’s dirty, the mills are it, we certainly could have closing, the area’s going wound up performing at downhill.’ But we’d give concerts and festivals in the background and the many different places,” history, try to help them says Gusetti, who plays see things in a different guitar and concertina. light. “But some years ago, we “Now, the story’s agreed, ‘Look, let’s not kill changed, and for the ourselves. We don’t want better. The river’s been to have to be concerned cleaned up significantly, about making money as the heron is returning, Pendragon. We want this and the area has an iden- to be fun.’ So you go to the tity it didn’t a generation rooms you love to play in, ago – just to have people do the shows you’re really referring to ‘the Black- psyched to do, be with stone Valley’ is a major Pendragon, L-R: Bob Drouin, John Kane, Mary Lee Partington, Russell Gusetti and Kevin Doyle. people you enjoy playing step.” Pendragon is, ultimate- for. And this is an area and traditional songs gradually building up a did, you remembered it as timeless, and universal.” to which we feel a strong ly, about making music, “The Water Is Wide” folk/traditional repertoire being filthy, because the That the new CD was says Gusetti, but making connection, so why not and “Handsome Molly” that would be the basis for river turned the color of recorded in BRT is no focus on it?” connections between past and Robert Burns’ “The the band. But as Gusetti the dyes from the textile small circumstance, since and present is definitely Last month, Pendragon Birks of Aberfeldy,” sung tells it, Pendragon really mills. But there is such a the theater is an impor- celebrated its three-de- a valued part of their by Mary Lee Partington took off a few years later, huge story underneath all tant component in Pen- work. “Mary Lee wrote a cade mark with a per- with guest appearances when it began performing that which we felt should, dragon’s story, symbolic formance to close out the song about Deer Island by ex-Pendragoners Doug songs by Partington (and and could, be told. Mary not only of the band’s con- in Boston Harbor, which Blackstone River Theatre Brunelle and Ken Lyon; others by regional song- Lee is such a wonder- nection to the Blackstone Summer Solstice Festival in the 19th century was Partington also showcases writers like Jon Campbell, ful songwriter, and she Valley but also the area’s a landing point for Irish in Cumberland, RI. In her history-based song- whose “Restless Waters” delved into the history of rejuvenation. About 20 anticipation of the event, immigrants fleeing the writing with “Through the appears on the new CD) the textile mills and the years ago, Gusetti and potato famine, and sev- which Gusetti helps orga- Glass Darkly” and “Man- that drew on Blackstone other elements of life in Drouin spearheaded an nize, this past spring the eral hundred of them died chester Mulespinner.” Valley history. the Blackstone Valley. effort to relocate the old there. When we’ve per- band released its first live Supplying rhythm along Pendragon’s music was “For example, ‘Man- BRT from its longtime CD, which was recorded formed it, we’ve always with Gusetti is percus- used for a video project, chester Mulespinner’ re- Central Falls site (where had someone coming up to at the Blackstone River sionist Kevin Doyle, whose “Along the Blackstone,” fers to the fact that Eng- for nearly a year it hosted a Theatre (BRT) last Sep- us and saying, ‘You know, step dancing – familiar to which won awards for lish as well as Irish worked numerous Celtic, folk and I’ve lived in Boston all tember. local audiences who’ve public service in education in the mills around here, acoustic music events) to The 13-track album my life, and I never knew seen him at “Christmas from the New England Ca- so there’s a special link an abandoned historic about that.’ features classic instru- Celtic Sojourn” and BC- ble Television Association between the two peoples, building in Cumberland, mentals – “The Humours “Above all, we want MFest – is a highlight of and has aired nationally which perhaps many over- and to make the theater a our audience to have a of Tulla/Star of Munster,” any Pendragon show. on the History Channel. look. ‘Through the Glass nonprofit cultural center “The Battering Ram/ good time and enjoy the Contrary to what one “There was no point in Darkly’ is a Civil War era for the music, dance and music. But we love it if Roaring Barmaid/Johnny might expect, Pendragon us trying to tell the story song, and conveys the ter- folk arts traditions of the O’Leary’s,” “The Gravel people learn something, did not originate from a of Ireland or Scotland; rible sense of loss felt by Blackstone Valley. about the area and those Walk,” “Sean Ryan’s Pol- pub session somewhere we thought it would be so many in the Blackstone The roster of acts that ka” among them – led who lived and worked in the Ocean State: It interesting to tell the Valley – as elsewhere – have appeared at the here in past generations. by Bob Drouin (fiddle, started when Gusetti met story once it moved here, from that conflict. theater, in its old and new bouzouki, low whistle) They may wind up learn- Drouin and Partington to New England – which “As we know, the great incarnations, includes ing a little something and John Kane (flute, in a madrigal singing was the legacy we all grew thing about folk music Cherish the Ladies, Tom- whistles), joined by former about themselves in the class, and the trio began up with,” he says. “Thing is that it doesn’t matter my Makem, Martin Hayes process.” member Phil Edmonds performing at renaissance is, if you grew up along what the time period of a and Dennis Cahill, Aine on accordion and whistle, fairs and similar events, the Blackstone when we song is – the emotions are Minogue, Karan Casey, Page 14 July 2014 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com

CD Reviews criticism; it’s a long and not undistinguished practice). By Sean Smith That includes the opening Special to the BIR track, “His Bride I’ll Be,” which Ashley Davis, “Night Travels” • Davis has had quite the journey – and not just borrows the melody of “Silver in geographical terms – since she left her native Kansas 20 years ago: Her stops Dagger” and in some ways have included Nashville, New York City, and the University of Limerick. Along the comes across as an epilogue way, she has earned a master’s degree in traditional Irish music, charmed the likes to that archetypal night visit- of author Colum McCann and Irish Times writer Sean O’Driscoll, and cultivated ing song; Sara Watkins of the friendships and collaborations with such Irish music worthies as Moya Brennan, band Nickel Creek shares lead John Doyle and Eileen Ivers – all of whom appear on this CD, her fourth. Oh, and vocals, and serves perhaps as she has produced some pretty intriguing and quite distinctive music, blending alternate narrator, to help Irish-Scottish tradition with her own take on Americana/roots. Davis piece the story together. Davis avoids a lot of obvious accoutrements and qualities that often character- In the same vein is “Barbara ize the Celtic-American fusion genre. For starters, there’s her voice: no affected Allen,” on which Davis is joined Irish accent or phrasing, yet quite clearly influenced by the dramatic presence and by Doyle in an essentially regalness of Moya Brennan and Loreena McKennitt. The central instrument in unchanged – although some- “Night Travels,” meanwhile, is the Irish harp of Cormac De Barra; other instru- what truncated – imagining ments are in evidence – guitar, mandolin, octave mandolin, banjo, dobro, flute, of the classic died-for-love accordion – but the spare arrangements emphasize the pairing of Davis and De ballad; quibble about their Barra. It makes for a haunting, agile sound that seems ancient and exotic yet composer credits if you must, familiar, as if Clannad had been transplanted from Donegal to the Appalachians. but the fact is that Davis and Doyle sound exquisite together. And her gorgeous The songs of “Night Travels” involve or suggest dreams of waking as well as duet with Brennan, “Beside You Near,” utilizes a minimal, almost fragmentary nighttime, and how these might intersect, especially when it comes to the matter meter and narrative structure that, while not tied to a specific traditional song, of love. All but one, “The Blackest Crow,” credit Davis as composer or co-author, certainly has all the trappings (the O’Carolan-like motif supplied by De Barra is although a few are largely rewritten or tweaked from tradition (not meant as a another fine touch). Other highlights include an English-Gaelic hybrid in 3/4 time, “I Follow You (Leanain Thú)”; Ivers’s bravura appearance on “With You Tonight”; and the title track, which captures the album’s theme in a tale showcasing the seductive pow- For Sale in Ireland ers of music and night, interpolating the reel “The Queen of May” in the process. In addition to the aforementioned notable guest appearances, Davis is aided by A rare opportunity to purchase lake- a host of other accompanists, including fiddlers Máire Breatnach and Pat Mangan, side property ready for residential accordionist Buddy Connolly, octave mandolinist Joe Pickett and particularly multi-instrumentalist Gawain Matthews, who produced the album with Davis. development. This beautiful 84.3 “Night Travels” may be immersed in the stuff of dreams, but by no means will acre (34.12 hectares) property is it put you to sleep. located in Derrykillew, Ballyshan- Sharon Corr, “The Same Sun” • The second solo album for Corr, best known non, Co Donegal and rolls down into as a member of the very successful eponymous Irish folk-rock-pop band she headed up with siblings Andrea, Caroline, and Jim. Here, the emphasis is far more on the Keenaghan Lough. pop than the rock or folk. The songs, all of which were written or co-written by Corr, Located just outside of Ballyshan- are by and large unabashedly, straightforwardly romantic and/or lovelorn, and – as non on a beautiful hillside. The Corr has explained in interviews – aspire to evoke the honeyed sound of songwrit- top of the property offers beautiful ers of yesteryear like Burt Bacharach, The Carpenters, and Dusty Springfield. views of the surrounding rural coun- tect has suggested it may be possible The “retro” feel comes through in, for example, “Raindrops,” with the tinkly lounge piano notes alongside her vocals on the refrain, or the French horn and try side. The bottom of the property, to get up to 3 more home sites ap- strings that massage “Take a Minute,” or the reverb-heavy guitar chops in “Upon closest to the lake, contains some proved. Public water supply cold be an Ocean.” But tracks like “Edge of Nowhere” and “You Say” – with their simpler mature trees and shrubbery, ideal for ran to the lands or there is abundant arrangements that focus on Corr’s fine backing ensemble of guitarist Val McCal- construction sites. room for private wells to be sunk. lum, bassist Davey Faragher, and drummer Pete Thomas – and particularly the If interested you can view the prop- album’s last track, the piano-and-vocal ballad “Christmas Night,” bring more im- The property has been surveyed by mediacy to the emotions Corr seeks to convey. land architects who have mapped 5 erty on Daft.ie. If you have addition- And that’s no small thing, because the songs seem less about the glory of love home sites that could receive Plan- al questions regarding the property than its various incarnations of pain: “Anger raging from the skies/Tears like ning Permission for the building of please email me danielmulhern@ knives upon my face again” (“Raindrops”); “…as I turn to leave/I see that look you cottages. In addition, a land archi- yahoo.com. know/you cannot hide/Every time we say good-bye” (“Take a Minute”); “Summer’s gone/Packed up and done/You moving on/Where you belong” (“Upon an Ocean”). At other points, Corr muses on the general state of missing or lost connections, like “Edge of Nowhere” – a first line like “Streaming motel neon lights/ That fall across this road tonight” is a dead giveaway – or “The Runaround,” its infectiously bouncy personal- ity juxtaposed against less- than-sanguine meditations on human behavior. 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Next year Town Selectman Dennis also provided the beer for I predict it will be bigger Keohane, Milton Police the occasion. “Today is a and that there will be a Chief Richard Wells, and celebration of Milton, a dance floor,” she said. the members of the non- celebration of our Celtic Linda Lee Sheridan profit organization “We roots, and Celtic roots and Brian Kelly, co-chairs are Milton.” The event outside of Milton,” said of the group “We Are was funded by donations Keohane. Milton,” explained that from selectman Keohane, Angela and George the festival arose from Chief Wells, the Copeland Coulter fall into the “out- Milton’s 350th anniver- Foundation, and other side of Milton” category, sary celebration in 2011, institutions such as Curry but there they were enjoy- a year-long event that College, The Briar Group, ing the festivities with was punctuated by a fire- and Fallon Ambulance insiders and outsiders works display that drew Service. alike. “We are both from such a large crowd that “We decided on a full Ireland, born and reared, the organizers decided to day of Irish music because but we have been ad- have an annual celebra- Milton has deep Celtic opted by this wonderful tion. But last year they roots,” said Keohane, who country,” said Angela, felt that something was was born in Ireland and who lived in Dorches- missing. “We felt a void is the first foreign-born ter before relocating to and wanted to do some- member of the board of Florida. They were in the thing else to build some selectmen. Curry Col- area visiting family and community in Milton and so we created today’s fes- tival”, said Sheridan. “We wanted to draw a large crowd and so we thought an event focused on Irish culture would be great,” added Kelly. Tom and Anne Feeney Above, taking it all in on Celtic Sunday on Hutchinson Field. Below, checking of South Boston certainly things out with the Fireman’s Auxiliary unit. Jacob Aguiar photos came to Sunday’s event to celebrate their Irish roots. “We are here for the music we love, the Irish music and we do some Irish dancing, so we love to listen to it. It’s a beau- tiful day and it is a great day to be out,” Tom said. Angela and George Coulter enjoyed the day. Bay State woman a finalist in Rose of Tralee Festival Portlaoise, Ireland, at the Massachusetts and Alas- Rose of Tralee Regional ka. In May 2013, I gradu- Festival last month. 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By Sophie Gayter Gerrard, whose calami- the beginning of the 2013- Special to the Reporter tous slip against Chelsea 2014 season where they “Football” comes home FC in the final stages of went on a seven match to Fenway Park this last season ultimately cost win streak. After a mid- month as Liverpool Foot- Liverpool a potential 19th season dip in form, Roma ball Club returns to take title, and striker Daniel still managed to finish a on AS Roma on Wed., July Sturridge, who scored 21 very respectable second 23 at 7:30 p.m. A Fenway league goals last season place behind eventual Sports Group press re- to propel Liverpool into a winners Juventus, and lease stated that the game second place finish in the like Liverpool will be ea- would “feature two of the league, their highest since gerly anticipating a return most prominent clubs in the 2008-2009 season. to the UEFA Champions European football- both Fans could also catch League in the fall. of whom have significant a first glimpse of latest With both clubs gearing New England fan bases squad additions, Rickie up for the start of their do- and ties to the Boston Lambert, a forward and mestic seasons in August, area—setting the stage lifelong Liverpool sup- and with many players for an exciting re-match porter who joined the club coming back from a gruel- at America’s Most Beloved in June from Southamp- ing summer of World Cup ton, and Emre Can, an action, this friendly match Ballpark.” Liverpool FC and AS Roma last played at Fenway Park in the summer of 2012. Founded in 1892, Liver- exciting 20 year-old mid- will be a perfect appetizer fielder who joins the club The teams return to Boston for a match on July 23. pool is one of the world’s Photo by John Powell/Liverpool FC/Getty Images for what fans can expect oldest and best supported after a spell in Germany to see from their clubs in football clubs, having won with Bayern Leverkusen. Italy in June, FIFA, world be back on the pitch is best defensive midfielders the upcoming season. It is 18 English league titles, One player almost cer- soccer’s governing body, November 1. in Europe. also a rematch of a game and five European Cups, tain to miss the match is banned Suarez for nine In the other locker room, One of the most famous played between the two among many other ac- star Uruguayan forward international matches AS Roma fans will likely teams in Italian foot- on July 25, 2012, where a colades in its illustrious Luis Suarez. After video with Uruguay and for see club legends Francesco ball, three time Series Michael Bradley inspired history. cameras caught Suarez four months from “any Totti, who continues to A winners Roma will be Roma team defeated Liv- Many Boston-based Liv- biting the shoulder of football-related activity.” captain the team at the hoping to have a similar erpool 2-1. Tickets are on erpool fans will be hoping Italian defender Giorgio For Liverpool, that means age of 37, and Daniele De performance at Fenway sale now at the Red Sox to see club captain Steven Chiellini in Uruguay’s the earliest Suarez could Rossi, arguably one of the to the ones they had at official website. World Cup match with The Banshee pub in Dorchester is World Cup Central (Continued from page 1) the World Cup games. be involved.” whose signature logo is so close by,” he said. event. Thus began a tradition “If the US wasn’t in this Said American Outlaws is now emblazoned on It was all hands on *** that made the Banshee tournament right now we founding member Garrett the front window of The deck on Sunday for the The Banshee, which of- the “go to” place for soccer would still be busy with Quinn, a Boston-based Banshee— aren’t going Banshee’s wait staff and fers an excellent, full menu fans well before the 2010 all the other teams. But political reporter, “The anywhere. doormen as the crowd of breakfast, lunch and World Cup frenzy took without a doubt with the Banshee has been ground “We have been going to swelled for the US match. dinner, is located at 934 hold. That attention to US doing well, the Ameri- zero for us because it was The Banshee for several They were prompt and Dorchester Avenue, just the soccer community has cans blow everyone else one of a few bars that years now. They took us friendly despite the rush south of Columbia Road. paid off now that interest out of the water when it would show the US games in when others wouldn’t. as lifelong soccer fans in the US national team come to attendance for with the sound up. Now They would accommodate mingled with first- timers has broadened. On Mon- us,” said Butler. “We host bars all over are knocking us for the smaller matches and Ghana supporters day, an article in USA To- the Boston chapter of the down our door to get us to when others wouldn’t.” without animosity. When day heralded the Banshee American Outlaws US hang out at their place.” The Banshee is also the US scored its winning as one of the best places in national support team Quinn says that the home base for many sup- goal late in the second the United States to watch who are great people to American Outlaws — porters who don’t sport half, the two-story build- the red, white and blue. ing seemed to shake. As Over the din of Monday’s the final seconds ticked raucous crowd, one of away, the roof shook to the the Ghana fans shouted sounds of leaping, hugging about having cheered on and high-fiving fans. the team at The Banshee Quinn summed it up for months. “Been here all neatly: “If you are looking Anne Costello’s Under the time every part of the to get into the game and be 14 camogie team just English Premier league with a group of passionate won the All Ireland Feile here! We come here every fans, you should join us (Festival) of Camogie by Saturday and Sunday for at The Banshee. We are beating a much-fancied all the weekend games. there to help explain the team from County Meath This is a family bar!” nuances of the game, and in the final last month in Another American soc- you’re just going to have Derry. Anne, who is mar- cer fan, a member of the ried to Frank Costello, a a good time.” political player and civic Outlaws, credits The In fact, the Banshee is a activist in Boston in the Banshee with being the good time year-round, long 1980s and 1990s, played driving force behind his fi- after the soccer lights in for several years for the ancee’s decision to move in Brazil. It’s a home-away- Emerald Isle Camogie with him. “I’m a Dorches- from-home for Green Bay Club in Boston during ter resident. I teach at an Packers fans and a choice that time and headed unnamed Catholic school venue for fans of Irish up the North American on Morrissey Boulevard. I sporting matches of all League. A native of Co. have been here for over 40 stripes. It’s also become Clare, she and Frank US games and countless a favored stop for fans of have four sons – Owen, other sporting events. My pub trivia, as Savin Hill Emmett, Conor, and fiancee only moved in with native Joe O’Malley runs a Ronan – all playing Gael- me because The Banshee popular Wednesday night ic games in Co. Down.

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But, changes specific responsibility Newport House and Blue can also be credited to the for the food sector, said, Bicycle Tearooms, both country’s many visitors “We’re the envy of a lot in Newport, Achill Moun- who demand the best, to of counties. Innovation tain Lamb and Achill the Irish who travel widely in food is huge now and Island Sea Salt on Achill and bring home creative Mayo is internationally Island, Marlene’s Choco- ideas from everywhere, recognized for having late Haven in Westport, and to the influx of foreign- great food producers.” and Rua and Café Rua in ers living in Ireland. Madigan said the Gour- Castlebar. Frequent travelers will met Greenway has been Be sure to stop by the note the many changes, “hugely successful” and Mulranny Park for a meal subtle and otherwise. the hotel gets calls nearly or overnight if you’re in GREAT FOOD daily from suppliers who Mayo this summer. It is I often mention the want to be included. “This truly a jewel in the village improvement in Irish concept grabs people’s of Mulranny. food because meals there The lovely Mulranny Park Hotel in Mulranny, Co. Mayo, was the site recently imagination,” he said, HAPPENINGS were once so predictable, for a seven-course gourmet dinner celebrating the Gourmet Greenway and “and everyone who comes There is so much to do in plain, and not very tasty. its artisan food producers. to the dinner loves it. It’s Ireland now that summer All of that has changed. been 100 percent success- is in full tilt! See Ireland. Delicious, wholesome, ful.” He said there is a com, Tourism Ireland’s ex- and nourishing meals can possibility that another cellent website, for events now be ordered in pubs gourmet dinner will be and information. and restaurants almost scheduled for the autumn. • The Museum of Coun- everywhere. THE MENU try Life in Castlebar, Co. Food and food service So, what was on this Mayo, has an interest- is important enough to fabulous menu? To start, ing exhibit through next the Irish economy to have each table featured hotel Easter called “Preserv- inspired the University baker Helen’s homemade ing the Peace: Policing College Dublin’s (UCD) bread as well as Café on the Island of Ireland: Michael Smurfit Gradu- Rua’s Dilisk, Achill Is- 1814-2014.” The exhibi- ate Business School to land Sea Salt Bread, pots tion focuses on organized launch a degree program of Café de Paris butter policing in Ireland over for those planning to enter (which Chamila made 200 years. the food industry. Simon at his home), black olive • The West Cork Cham- Coveney, minister for tapenade and basil, and ber Music Festival wel- Agriculture, Food and the sundried tomato pesto. comes nearly 100 perform- Marine, was quoted in the First course was Croagh ers to Bantry from through Irish press as saying, “The Patrick Seafood’s Clew July 5. See westcorkmusic. agri-food and drink sector Bay Black Mussels gar- ie for more information. is a driver of economic nished with asparagus • A half-marathon and growth in Ireland. Food The Great Western Greenway is the longest walking and cycling trail in and green pea veloute 10K run on Achill Island and drink companies in Ireland and winds through the hills and dales between Westport and Achill with a hint of white truffle July 5, benefits the Chil- this indigenous industry Island in Co. Mayo. Judy Enright photos oil. Next came Padraig dren’s Medical and Re- employ some 50,000 peo- Gannon’s native oysters search Foundation at Our ple and achieved close to There are many, many tism by fire” for 37-year- Westport. and Gerry Hassett’s bar- Lady’s Hospital, Dublin. 10 billion euro in exports excellent eateries all over old head chef, Chamila John Magee, senior becue salmon, served with See achillmarathon.com. to 160 countries in 2013.” Ireland and you should Mananwatta, who had enterprise development brown crab, avocado and • Foynes/Shannon 75th We have enjoyed many have no trouble finding been working at the hotel officer of Mayo’s Local buttermilk pannacotta, Anniversary Air Show will outstanding meals in great food wherever you as second chef for about Enterprise Office, said, wasabi and chervil aioli, take to the sky on July 5 Ireland over the last 15 are. seven years but took over “Mayo is an amazing and cucumber ceviche. and 6. See flyingboatmu- years – especially along GOURMET DINNER the top job just one month place to do business.” He Next, to cleanse diners’ seum.com for details. the West Coast where I recently attended the before the big dinner. described the Great West- palates, came a “Slushy” • Christy Moore with you can visit all sorts of 4th annual Gourmet Gre- “I knew what I was do- ern Greenway (an off-road of Mulranny mint and Declan Sinnott will per- restaurants while you’re enway dinner at the lovely ing (from having worked at cycling and walking trail watermelon with a hint form at the Castlecourt traveling the Wild At- 41-bedroom Mulranny the hotel),” Chamila said, from Westport to Achill of Grand Marnier. Then Hotel in Westport, Co. lantic Way, Ireland’s Park Hotel in Mulranny, “but it was a challenge Island) as “an amazing there was pan-seared Mayo, on Thurs., July 17. first long-distance tour- Co. Mayo, (mulranny- and pretty hard work.” He example of what can hap- Curran Blue Sea Trout See Christymoore.com for ing route that runs along parkhotel.ie) and you’d credited his team of six ad- pen when people start to and glazed pork belly details. the coast from Donegal to have to travel far to find ditional chefs and Helen, work together.” and, finally, Kelly’s Sea- • The European Jug- West Cork. food as good, as well pre- the hotel’s baker, for the He praised the coopera- spray lamb with Celtic gling Convention will be I wholeheartedly rec- pared, or as beautifully dinner’s great success. “I tion of local landowners crust, lamb and Clew held from July 19 to July ommend eating out at presented. Each elegant really enjoyed working (who allowed the Green- Bay seaweed sausage, 27 in Millstreet, Co. Cork. Nancy’s in Ardara and course was locally sourced with them and I couldn’t way to pass across their sweet bread fritters and Billed as the world’s larg- Kitty Kelly’s in Killy- and enhanced by specially have done it with just my property) and said the Chamila’s black pudding est festival of juggling and begs, both Co. Donegal; selected wine from Wines two hands. Greenway “is an abso- polenta. Dessert was circus skills, the event Newport House, Kelly’s Direct. To promote the “Everything was local lutely stunning success Strawberry Bavarios with promises world-class per- Kitchen, and Grainne culinary event, the hotel and homemade using story that became the champagne jelly, basil formers, master classes Uaile in Newport, Rua and offered a very good value modern cooking tech- tapestry and allowed syrup and Murrevagh in all juggling disciplines, Café Rua in Castlebar, 99-euro overnight pack- niques,” he said. The other things to happen, honey ice cream followed parades, games, and spe- An Port Mór in Westport, age that included the din- black pudding polenta, like the Gourmet Gre- by Carrowholly cheeses cial events. Healy’s in Pontoon, all in ner as well as breakfast. he added, was his own enway.” Both showed with A Taste of Days Gone Enjoy Ireland whenever Co. Mayo; Renvyle House Mulranny Park general creation. “I love to cre- what can be done, Magee By’s homemade chutney. you visit and be sure to Hotel on the Renvyle manager Dermot Madi- ate. You have to cook said, “when you join the It was truly a meal fit for check online for airfare Peninsula, Lough Inagh gan and Suzanne O’Brien with your heart – it’s not dots and unlock the hid- royalty and doesn’t sound and ground deals available Lodge Hotel in Recess, of sales and marketing about throwing food on den potential.” He added much like the traditional during the summer. O’Dowd’s in Roundstone, created the Gourmet Gre- the table. You need to be Mitchell’s in Clifden, all in enway dinner concept and focused. Every customer Connemara (Co. Galway); have had great success, is important to me.” Linnane’s Lobster Bar in selling out every year. Chamila said his in- New Quay, Wild Honey Tables were assigned terest in cooking was Inn in Lisdoonvarna, Gre- in the Nephin Restau- influenced by his mother’s Handmade since 1925 gan’s Castle and Burren rant, overlooking Clew curry. Before Ireland, he Fine Wine and Food, both Bay with distant moun- studied in Ceylon Hotel in Ballyvaughan, Fitzpat- tains as a backdrop. The School and worked in rick’s Eatery in the Hotel room was packed for this the Dubai Hilton and he Doolin, Roadford House 90-seat, sold-out dinner laughed when he added restaurant in Doolin, all and the evening start- that he learned to make in Co. Clare. Those are ed with servers passing Irish Stew in Sri Lanka. just my favorites on the canapés – incorporating WORLD CLASS West Coast. Kelly’s Butcher’s Black Prior to the meal being Fish in Irish restau- Pudding (Newport) and served, several speakers rants is outstanding, es- Gerry Hassett’s (Achill Is- pointed out that Mayo is pecially salmon (cooked or land) smoked salmon – as “a world class place to do smoked) and cod. Foodies guests chatted and sipped business” as evidenced by also rave about Irish lamb Clew Bay Brewery Ale or the presence there of “the and beef. I don’t happen to Prosecco. largest Coca-Cola plant eat either but have heard According to Madigan, on the planet” and Botox praise from other diners. the dinner was a “bap- maker Allergan Inc. in Page 18 July 2014 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com The Irish Language by Philip Mac AnGhabhann Celtic

Fáilte do’n Bhealtaine ! “Welcome to May!”, the first month of the traditional Celtic calendar – Cross although almost all Irish now begin the year with “January”. In the past several months we learned that Irish Words uses the word “The” in front of a great many more nations than English does. Irish uses “The” in front The Irish of nations such as France, Norway, and Spain. “Ireland” has two names. The “Official” name that crosswords are you see on government documents is Éire, /EH-ruh/. Colloqually, “Ireland” is Éirinn /EH-ruhn/ using a service of an what linguists call the “diminutive”, an ending that makes something “nearer and dearer” or “smaller” Ireland-based as in Cáit “Kate” and Cáitlin “Katie.” Diminutives in Irish are always end in -(a)in and website which may be attached to nouns and even some adjec- tives. Seán, “John”, can become Seánain. Johnny”. provides Irish Sometimes diminutives can become a part of the word such as caipín “cap” A small amount” may be Family Coats of referred to as beagán /BEY-kuhn/. Recall that an “Irishman” or “woman” is Éirean- Arms by email. nach /EH-ruhn-ahk/; the plural is Éireannaí /EH- ruhn-ee/. The language is Gaeilge /GAHL-guh/. It You are invited is “Irish” not “Gaelic”. Gaelic is reserved for Gaeilge na hAlbain, “Scottish Gaelic.” to visit “England” is Sasana /SAH-suh-nuh/ , an “English person” a Sasanach and the English language is Bé- www. arla/BER-luh/ . :Scotland” is Albain /AH-luh-buhn/ , a Scottish person is Albanach /AHL-uh-buhn-ahk/ bigwood.com/ and, while the vast majority speak Béarla, there are still many whose home language is Gaielge na heraldry hAlban. “Wales” requires “The” - “The Little Britain”, An Bhreatain Bheag /uh VREH-tuhn veyk/. A “Welsh- man” is a Breatnach /BREHT-nahk/ and they speak ©-bigwood.com Bhreatanais /VREH-tuh-eesh/. IRELAND IN CROSSWORDS Again, here is a listing of other places, peoples, and languages. The Irish for “language” is teanga ACROSS 9. We’ve lent Beth’s version to Connemara’s high /CHEHN-guh/ , “tongue”. The ending –(n)ach is 1. Melon clan’s joy. (anag.) Scottish leader of the Irish dozen. (3,6,4) equivalent to English “man” as in “Scotsman”. Lan- Citizen Army during the Easter Rising of 1916. (5,8) 11. Lad ride in tune about the Republican aspiration guages usually end in –is, equivalent to English 10. “Surely mortal — is a broomstick!” Swift (3) for 32 altogether. (6,7) “ish” and pronounced roughly the same as they are 12. Ed, she is confused, but pays attention. (5) 14. Wives torn in bits in Fermanagh agricultural centre English “loan words.” 13. On edge right before 999. (3) where Necarne castle is. (11) Place: People: Language 15. Wear this in the kitchen or pan will tip over. (5) 19. Question: did the ropes get tangled back in Killure Europe Eoraip eorapach 16. Poetic before being included in Clogher edition. (3) so perfectly? (5) France An Fhrainic Francach 17. Having had an inclination in a Rathkeale ante- 20. “Better build schoolrooms for the boy than —— and Fhraincis chamber. (5) gibbets for the man.” Eliza Cook. (5) Spain An Spáinn Spáinneach 18. By all means sway about. (3) 22. Lots dance out east about Ireland’s nearest neigh- Spáinnis 19. Nice P.R. about the heir to the throne. (6) bour. (8) Germany An Ghearmáin Gearmánach Ghearmáinis 21. He gets skill to turn to the Kerry rocky islands 9 23. I.e. lark about in Derry angling centre in the Bann Russia An Rúis Rúsisenach miles off Valentia with an old monastic settlement. (3,8) valley. (6) Rúisis 24. These boxes would be for Plato’s mentor if so 24. Customer puts in fifty one to an American penny. (6) Netherlands An Ollain Ollanach prefixed. (6) 27. Pat’s a mess when it comes to foreign food. (5) Ollainnis 25. Golfer’s shout in secluded Westmeath village near 28. Fierce man-eating giant, therefore Roman retreats Norway An Iorua Ioruach Castlepollard, with numerous ancient crosses. (4) from Mayo green environment. (4) Ioruais 26. Second class stream yields a first rate sea fish! (5) 29. Apparently, colonels give a clue to what General Asia An Áise Áiseach 28. “Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do gen- McAuliffe said in reply to the Germans who demanded teanga Áiseach erally discover everybody’s face but their —.” Swift. (3) his surrender in 1944. (4) Japan An tSeapáin Seapánach 30. Get a tender back in Thurles running. (5) Seapánais 31. Large ox-antelope appears when gun is broken. (3) CROSSWORD SOLUTION ON PAGE 15 China An tSín Síneach 32. Is pan enough to take to the country? (5) Sínis 34. Old hated irregular in Ireland got his out in the America Meiriceá Meiriceánach sun. (3) Béarla 35. Seal led saints over to the offshore Wexford bird Canada Ceanada Ceanadach sanctuary where Bagenal Harvey was captured. (6,7) Irish Sayings Béarla agus Fhraincis “Youth does not mind where it sets its foot.” Irish cannot handle an initial /j/ or /ch/ sound so DOWN “Both your friend and your enemy think you will they both become /s/ as French “Jean” (“John”) became 2. Purple quartz found in mast they dismantled. (8) Séan and “China” becames Sín. never die.” Here are some words and phrases that I told you 3. “We are all born —. Some remain so.” Beckett. (3) “The well fed does not understand the lean.” would be used in future columns: 4. “Eschew evil and do good: seek peace and —— it.” “He who comes with a story to you brings two away Irregular forms of Abair “Speak!” – Deirim, deir, Psalm 34 verse 13 (5) from you” 5. See you apparently in the matter of the way to treat deirimid (Present), dúirt (Past), déarfaidh (Fu- “Quiet people are well able to look after themselves.” bacon. (4) ture). In addition a new noun caint /kant/ “speech” “A friends eye is a good mirror.” and cainteoir, /KANT-er/ “speaker”. This is the 6. “Yet malice never was his aim; He lashed the vice source of the English word “cant”, a term used to but spared the ——.” “It is the good horse that draws its own cart.” describe a slang used by some to exclude non-cant Swift (his own epitaph) (4) “A lock is better than suspicion.” speakers. 7. Guru seen in Kincora clearly. (6) “Two thirds of the work is the semblance.” Other words or phrases used are “learn” or “learn- 8. Run lag out of large Armagh linen town near Lough “He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed ing” foghlaim, “go on a holiday” ag dul ar saoire / Neagh where George Russell, (AE), was born. (6) until midday.” SEE-ruh/, ‘business trip” turas. To “go on a visit” is tabhair cuairt – tabhair , “give” is used idiomati- cally and is an irregular verb which you had some ADVERTISEMENT time ago. In the Present it is tugaim, tugann, and tugaimid; in the Past it is thug and thugamar, and the Future it is tabharfaidh and tabharfaimid. See if you can write these in Irish: (1.) “Do you speak Irish?” (2.) “I speak English but I speak a little Photography by Irish now.” (3.) “I will go to Spain tomorrow.” (4.) “Oh, will you go on a business trip or a vacation.” (5.) “Do you speak Spanish?” (6.) “Yes. I speak Spanish and French.” (7.) “How much is that cup?” (8.) “We Image Photo Service Canadians speak English and French.” (9.) “Patrick will go to Norway for a vacation.” (10.) “Didn’t he go to Asia at New Years.” (11.) “Does he speak any • Weddings • Anniversaries Japanese or Chinese languages?” (12.) “He has a little Japanese but he doesn’t speak any Chinese.” (13.) “He goes at three o’clock.” (14.) “Who is at the door?” • Banquets • Portraits Answers: (1.) A bhfuil Gaeilge agat? (2.) Tá Béarla agam ach tá beagan Gaeilge agam anois. • Reunions (3.) Beidh mé ag dul don Spáinn amarach. (4.) Oh, an bhfuil sé ag dul ar turas no saoire? (5.) • Groups • Families A bhfuil Spáinnis agat? (6.) Tá Spáinnis agus Fhraincis agam. (7.) Cén mhéad an cupa sin? (8.) Deirimid Cheanadaí Béarla agus Fhraincis. • Special Occasions (9.) Beidh Padruig ag dul saoire ar an Iorna. (10.) Nach thug sé don an Áise ag an bliana úr? (11.) An deir sé teanga Seapánach no Síneach? (12.) Tá beagán Seapánach air nach tá Síneach (617) 291-6609 air. (13.) Tiochfaidh sé anns trí o’clog. (14.) Cén atá ag an dorus? The official photographers of the Boston Irish Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com July 2014 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 19

Each year, the Eire Society of Boston honors individuals who exem- plify the best of Irish culture and ideals. The society awarded its 2014 Gold Medal to Brian O’Donovan at a June 12 banquet at the Neighbor- hood Club of Quincy. In photo at left, O’Donovan is pictured with his wife. Lindsay O’Donovan (l) and Mary Casey of Cambridge. Photo below. pictured are Congresswoman Niki Tsongas, Lindsay and Brian O’Donovan, Ireland Consul General Breandán Ó Caollaí, Eire Society president Ed Duffy and Seamus Mulligan. (Eire Society photos courtesy Connell Gal- lagher.)

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