Vol. 1, Issue 1 March 2020 BostonIrish.com

Parade-goers enjoyed the sights and sounds of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade along Broadway in South in 2019. This year’s parade in Southie starts at 1 p.m. on Sunday, March 15. See more on Page 2. Photo by Steven Senne/AP

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“We’ve had the fastest growing econ had the fastest growing “We’ve Mulhall also noted that the Irish peo “And the good news is that in our re near “full employment, with an unem an with employment, “full near Ambassador Daniel Mulhall Ambassador Daniel 4.5 percent. ployment rate around omy in Europe for the last five years,” the ambassador said. “The prognosis highly positive.” is for the future the ple have embraced the fact that global economy and their membership joined in in the EU – which Ireland 1974 – has been a major success. cent election, we had a number of can anti-immigra an on stood who didates send them all know, You tion platform. And back and pull up the drawbridge. than 2 per none of them got any more cent of the vote. So, people in Ireland with the idea of our be comfortable are open to the world, ing a global country, exporting all over the world, import So ing ideas, technologies, and people. that’s a very positive kind of situation that we find ourselves in.”

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Ambassador Daniel Mulhall, Ire Daniel Mulhall, Ambassador Mulhall, a Co. Waterford native who Mulhall, a Co. Waterford “It’s taking place. There will be a be will There place. taking “It’s has been Ireland’s envoy to the US the to envoy Ireland’s been has who diplomat seasoned a is 2017, since to was formerly Dublin’s top emissary of and Berlin. He was a part sue invitations yesterday, which said in sue invitations yesterday, honor of ‘An have to wait and see.” iseach. But I have no idea who he or she iseach. But I have no idea who he or is will be,” Mulhall said. “So, I had to ton. The subject of his 30-minute talk Brex Conversation on was billed as “A it,” but the veteran statesman covered a range of topics, including uncertainty the at Ireland will represent who about the traditional St. Patrick’s Day visit to . drawal agreement with the European with the European drawal agreement everyone,” for Union “spells trouble to renege were particularly if London between border” on its pledge for “no the North.Mulhall’s the Republic and by came at a luncheon hosted remarks the Sullivan & law Worcester firm and at the the Consulate General of Ireland Boston College Club in downtown Bos can leaders gathered in Boston on Tues on Boston in gathered leaders can day (Feb. 25) that recent “noise” about possibly seeking the with or amend its to walk away from land’s top diplomat in the United land’s top diplomat of Irish-Ameri States, told an audience British wavering on border plan ‘spells trouble,’ says Irish envoy to US to Irish envoy says ‘spells trouble,’ plan border on wavering British Page 8 Boston Irish March, 2020 Online at BostonIrish.com up there thatsays‘In Memory ofJohn on ParkStreet. West Roxbury, and installed in the club president oftheIrishSocialClubin been purchased by Richard Gormley, graced thefunctionroom atDoyle’shas when century the storied pub 19th first opened the – that from all wood – original mirror and backsplash bar The March without theholidayrevelry onsite: first this for news of bit good venerable gatheringplace,there isa For thoselamentingthelossof part ofthecity’spoliticallandscape. beloved a was Doyle’s years, 137 over setting formanyanelectionvictoryparty The swallow. to Bostonians many for Jamaica Plain last year was a toughpill mainstay pubandrestaurant Doyle’sin its waytotheIrishSocialClub A littlesectionofDoyle’s finds now history, anold-styleBostonIrish and Congressman JoeKennedyIII between incumbentUSSen.EdMarkey By MaureenForrySorrell oe Grly “hr i a plaque a is “There Gormley: Noted historical the of shuttering The With the first head-to-head debate head-to-head first the With By PeterF.Stevens Good health,goodluck,andhappiness Paid for and Authorized by J.The Committee toElectMartin Walsh Markey vs.Kennedy: A bare-knuckle Irishbrawl For eachpetalontheshamrock This bringsawishyourway- Mayor Martin J. WalshMayor Martin For todayandeveryday. Go mbeannaiDiaduit (May GodBless You) Boston Scenes among others. event Admission to that and theBoston Police Gaelic Column, the FenianSons dancing andmusicby celebration on March 17 featuring Irish Patrick’s Day Breakfast and day-long Social Club willbethrowing ahugeSt. Honey Fitz. Kennedy III,agreat-great grandsonof remarks from Congressman Joseph P. Irish thattherededication willinclude Banquet. Heproudly tells Boston Roscommon Association’s St Patrick’s on March 14 during the Annual County to rededicate the structure attheclub tables and chairs from Doyle’s. He plans Doyle’s wasbuilt.” when 1880s the from woodwork fancy dedicated it and it’s a big mirror with his by grandson, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. 1988 He in dedicated was which Fitzgerald Kennedy’– Honey Fitz– whether Kennedyis displaying his about divided are many that finds one progressive “creds.” as bothcandidateshaveequally is shapingupasagenerationalclash, This one unfolding. is fight political If you can’t make it to the banquet, the If youcan’tmakeittothebanquet, Gormley said he also purchased some In talking with anumberofvoters, In talking is $25. ClubmemberBillSmithispicturedattheIrishSocialin WestRoxbury. information aboutclubevents, visit more For 617-327-7777. calling by can bereserved inadvanceonly compelling urgency forthechallenge any well wonderabout voters might a genteel,“lace-curtain”profession. clan. were, andare, rightthatpoliticsisnot the of posture political York are evidenceofthebare-knuckle transplant from Massachusetts toNew successful Senate campaign as a the US Senate and Bobby Kennedy’s for run winning, and first, Kennedy’s turn indeference tootherDemocrats. that there isnorule aboutwaitingone’s that Kennedyiscorrect inhisassertion opportunism. Others, however, believe office-seeking of sense acute family’s Tickets for the Roscommon Banquet Roscommon the Ticketsfor Markey supporters and undecided Teddy that reflects History

They Boston IrishReporterstaff. Maureen ForrySorrellisamemberofthe irishsocialclubofboston.org. Irish political“donnybrook.” Sounds like aclassic Massachusetts vestiges of party or personal loyalty. any “trumps” race The voters. to case and Markey. Bothare pleadingtheir Kennedy dwell inboth duty public exception ofthe2020campaign. on issuesthenandnow—withthe Kennedys the in stepwith been voters. Ironically, Markeyhasalways Markey and more in stepwith under-40 is three-plusthan decadesyounger change—he time foragenerational by Kennedy, who isarguing thatit’s (1st PublishedFeb20atBostonIrish.com) Of course,ambitionandasenseof Boston Irish March, 2020 Online at BostonIrish.com Page 9 . Our annual . st 781-821-8291 www.irishculture.org 200 New Boseton Drive., Canton, MA 200 New Boseton Drive., Canton, St. Patrick’s Month at the ICC at the Month Patrick’s St. Kids St. Patrick’s Day celebration usually fills the place (March 14).We have full day of entertainment on March 17! We have a wide variety of events and activities on offer at the ICC, from weekly Irish from the ICC, at events and activities on offer have a wide variety of We language on March 21 demonstrations and music classes to craft history, The Irish Cultural Centre located in Canton, MA is a mecca for touring Irish musicians, is a mecca for The Irish Cultural Centre located in Canton, MA American dancers and emerging artists. It is also a solid home base for Irish and Irish musicians in the US. Page 10 Boston Irish March, 2020 Online at BostonIrish.com of the Hon. John E. Fenton Citizenship of theHon.JohnE.Fenton Award at Patrick’s DayDinnerDanceonSat.,March 7,2020. Saint Annual 149th 8’s Division at presented be will as theIrishmanof Year. Bothoftheseawards Cushing Award been selectedastherecipient ofthe has Casey J. Rev.Christopher The Awards:2020 its Order ofHibernianshasannouncedtherecipients of Division 8 AOH Lawrence announces2020awardees Larry F. Giordano will be fetedas the recipient The Rev. James T. O’Reilly OSA Division 8 Ancient 234 CopelandStreet, Unit225|Quincy, 617-479-0075|Fax:617-479-0071 MA02169 |Office: Over 50 Years Of Experience Of Years 50 Over Ken through andfinancialplanning services securities,investmentadvisory Lloyd&BrianO'Sullivan are registeredrepresentativesof andoffers MMLInvestors LLC, Services, MemberSIPC Sit down catered dinner of and corned cabbage beef with dessert Annual St. Patrick’s Day Banquet Association Special GuestRep.JosephKennedy Entertainment by Margaret Dalton and Erin’s Melody Saturday, March 14,5-9pm tickets must purchased be inadvance and MarkJ. Alaimo hasbeenselected John “HoneyFitz”Fitzgerald 119 Park St, West Roxbury Senator EdwardKennedy Boston Irish Social Club Boston Irish Social by (617)327-7777 calling originally dedicatedby will rededicatethebar (www.sipc.org). Address: Supervisory 101 Federal Street,Suite800, Boston,MA 02110. Tel: 617.439.4389. CRN202106-249997 $45 per person, $45 per in honorof Co. Roscommon Association Richard Gormley, President Thomas Craven, Treasurer Richard Cardinal AOH Order ofHibernians from 1944to1970. this belovedprelatewho wasarchbishop ofBoston Lawrence area whoemulatesthecharacteristics of award Cushing has beenpresented toan individualintheGreater Cardinal the years 46 past the For of Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish in Methuen. children ofthelateCorneliusandMaryCasey, ispastor on Fri.,March 13. Division 8’s 51st Annual Day Luncheon Father Casey, aLawrence nativeandoneofseven AIF, LUTCF, CLTC, Senior Partner [email protected] Kenneth Lloyd Brian W. O’Sullivan Representative, andaMethuen PoliceOfficer. Commissioner of PublicSafety, MethuenState Air Force, MethuenCity Councillor, Massachusetts state and community in many capacities –the US wealth management. field of public accounting, family officethe advisory,in and worked has years 15 inSouth over for and Lawrence, CPAs LCW of officer operating chief the CFP, ChFC, CLU,Senior Partner [email protected] Larry Giordano of Methuenhas served his country, Mr. Alaimo at present serves as a principal and Boston Irish March, 2020 Online at BostonIrish.com Page 11 - at the - OF HI Lawrence Public Library, Sargent Auditorium, Sargent Lawrence Public Library, @ 2 pm 51 Lawrence St., Lawrence, MA Presented by Division 8 (FREE) – Handicap Accessible MONTH IRISH HERITAGE IS SPONSORED BY THE ANCIENT ORDER BERNIANS DIVISION 8 and DIVISION 8 LAOH Irish Heritage Month is supported in part by a grant from the Lawrence Cultural Council, a is supported which local agency by the Mas agency. Cultural a state Council, sachusetts Membershipinformation on AOH please For PO Box Organizer, write to: Division 8 AOH 1407, Lawrence, MA 01842 or e-mail our organizer @ [email protected] Sunday, March 22, 2020 Sunday, AND TERRI KELLEY JOIN PIANIST AN DONELAN FOR BILL VOCALIST CELTIC OF PROGRAM NEW ALL GAELIC ANCIENT MELODIES - FROM SONGS - CURRENT TO AIRES March25, 2020 Wednesday, March 25, 2020 - LAWRENCE Wednesday, Lawrence South - LIBRARY PUBLIC MA: Branch, 135 Parker Street, Lawrence, OPEN HOUSE 10:30 am – 12 Noon Showcase – Sponsored and DVD’s of Irish Books, CD’s Accessible by Division 8 (FREE) – Handicap March 28, 2020 Saturday, at Lawrence IRISH FILM FESTIVAL 1 Jackson Center, Visitors Heritage State Park St, Lawrence @ 10 am Sponsored by Division 8 AOH Accessible (FREE) – Handicap March 31, 2020 Tuesday, CLOSES “The Irish of EXHIBIT Massachusetts – The Final Chapter” at Center, Visitors Lawrence Heritage State Park 1 Jackson St, Lawrence (FREE) – Handicap Accessible WHITE consider donating consider Please @ 1 PARADE DAY PATRICKS SAINT Heritage, Charity and Community” Charity Heritage, A Genealogical Quest to Solve an Illegal Genealogical Quest A Records, Adoption Mystery Using DNA, Old State and Irish Luck” - at Lawrence Heritage 1 Jackson St., Lawrence, Center, Visitors Park @ 2 pm (FREE) - MA Accessible Handicap LAWRENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY - South LIBRARY PUBLIC LAWRENCE Lawrence Branch, 135 Parker Street, Lawrence, MA: OPEN HOUSE 10:30 am – 1 pm - and DVD’s Showcase of Irish Books, CD’s Sponsored by Division 8 (FREE) – Handicap Accessible Saturday, March 14, 2020 Saturday, pm – For more information please contact [email protected] March 15, 2020 Sunday, – 2020 15, March Sunday, JOSEPH with – LECTURE FUND Blanchette will BLANCHETTE – Mr. from Shanty discuss his book, “The View Pond” - at Lawrence Heritage State Park 1 Jackson St., Lawrence, MA Center, Visitors @ 2 pm (FREE) - Handicap Accessible March 18, 2020 Wednesday, Wednesday, March11, 2020 Wednesday, HUNGER MONTH AOH NATIONAL DRIVE: FOOD March 2020 13, Friday, DAY PATRICK’S SAINT ANNUAL 51st In, One Market LUNCHEON at the Reliefs’ Corned Beef Traditional Street, Lawrence, MA by entertainment with Cabbage Dinner and the Silver Spears Irish Show Band at NOON. of the Honorable John E. 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The key question is whether this election centrist is a blip or not subscribe toallofitspoliciesandare deeplytroubled bysomeundeniably politicians, suchasEoinÓ Broin, PearseDohertyand LouiseO’Reilly. its of only not leadership capable president,the Mary Lou McDonald, but also to a new cadre of articulate, thoughtful to part large in down is This housing. and todobetteratpromoting economicactivityinthe othercitiesandregions. an aside,thispointstotheneedforcountrybecome lessfocusedonthecapital two good incomes. The price of housing is particularly out of hand in Dublin. As a mortgage,iscurrently beyondthereach ofmanyyoungfamilies,eventhosewith the CelticTiger years. during was it than 2020 in higher is home rentinga of cost The unprecedented. economic crisis. The present numbers of homeless men, women and children are harbour justifiablegrievances. abound. Itisalwaysatthetopoflistforasegment oftheelectoratewho frightening storiesaboutelderlyandsickpeoplewaiting forhourstobeseen excellent doctors,nursesandothersinthehealthserviceproviding once great care, Cowen Brian Taoiseach former what infamously called“Angola”withoutmuchsuccess. Although there are many tackle to sought have politicians cast ballots. they as concern primary their was immigration that indicated percent 1 mere a narrative, election” “Trump…Brexit…Irishgeneral the to blow another in And feature. not did unity Irish issue; top their as percent 1 just by cited was Brexit and healthwere, byanoverwhelmingmargin, thebiggestissuesinelection. reunification. Fine GaeltomitigatethedamageofBrexit had little,ifanything,todowithIrish undertaken byVaradkar, foreign affairs ministerSimonCoveneyandothersin couldn’t be more different, ideologically and otherwise, to Sinn Féin. The efforts Taoiseachthe short, party In his and broadbrush. same the with Féin Sinn and culture of his Fine Gael party would chortle at Moore’s attempt to paint them nasty game?” that in players qualified best the Féin, Sinn to turn not why politics, republic’s away afterall.So,ifBrit-bashingisagaintheapproved mainstream sportinthe jersey of . It turned out that virulent nationalism had not gone , forgets hismodernising,liberalstanceandputsontheoldgreen analysis. win inIreland” –maybethemostegregious exampleofthiswoefullymisguided Larry provisional IRA anditslegacyofviolence,waswelcomedinfrom thecoldby fringes untilrelatively recently andhasbeenscornedforitsconnectiontothe TDs (members of parliament) respectively. But Sinn Féin, 35 which operated and on 38 the elected Gael, Fine and Fáil Fianna here, politics of beasts big historic in Ireland. employed by pundits to describe the outcome of February 8th’s general election A seismicIrishgeneralelectionresult: What’s next? Many of those who voted for the party in February did so for the first time, would and care health around up grown has that anger the on capitalised Féin Sinn And buyingahome,giventhatwarybankshavemade italottoughertoobtain Housing, however, hasbecomeaseriousproblem asIreland emerged from the Access tohealthcare haslongbeenaserious issueinIreland. Severalimpressive Meanwhile, back on planet earth, an Anyone remotely familiarwithLeoVardkar’s personaandoutlookorwiththe “Then, along comes Brexit and in 2017 the new Irish Taoiseach (prime minister), Charles Moore’s columnin theDailyTelegraph – “How we all helped Sinn Féin All 160 seats in Dáil Éireann (Irish parliament) were up for grabs. The two The grabs. for up were parliament) (Irish Éireann Dáil in seats 160 All terms all were These system. the to shock A revolution. A earthquake. An By LarryDonnelly right oncontinentalEurope. the Trump presidency, Brexit and the rise of the far to the33 electorate andissending37ofitsrepresentatives the populist and nativist mood which has facilitated the populistandnativistmoodwhichhasfacilitated political centre hadheld, has atlastsuccumbedto perhaps theonecountryinwestwhere the absurd. The prevalent take seems to be that these assessmentshave,forthemostpart,been Ireland, why theIrishpeoplevotedastheydid.Frankly, erable speculationintheinternationalmediaasto constituencies, isamazing. elected, withmostofthosetoppingthepollintheir werethem of 37 That time. this candidates 42 ran only Féin local Sinn such, As 2019 elections. European and the in and inthe election poorly presidential 2018 performed The party days. final In theimmediateaftermath,there wasconsid No onesawthiscominguntilthecampaign’s rd Irish Times exit poll revealed that housing Dáil. Community Comment - Twitter at@LarryPDonnelly. contributor on politics,currentaffairsand lawinIrelandandtheUS. Followhimon in the School of Law at the National University of Ireland, and a regular media in Irelandfornearly20years. HeisalectureranddirectorofClinicalLegalEducation the wakeofatruly seismicelection. and scale of the change. Stay tuned for further extraordinary developments in Irish politics has definitely changed, even if we can’t yet foresee the exact nature and culturally,historically not ideologically, though in only game the may be town. and istheleastlikelyscenario. probably would be joined by more aspirants from within their own ranks – want that either independent or party affiliated TDs – except those from Sinn Féin, who exhausting campaignandunpredictable exercise indemocracyisnotsomething Green Partyorasecondelectioniftheyfailtoreach anagreement. Another costly, the and Gael Fine Fáíl, Fianna of coalition unthinkable previously a next: come of regular politicalparties.” a “legitimising of partners murderous sectariancampaign”and“operatingoutsidethedemocraticnorms putative his accused he which in speech fiery idea a the in on water cold poured Martin, Micheál leader, its but government, in be to needs TDs cobbled together.more Fianna Fáíl seemed open initially or to coalescing with Sinn Féin 80 of majority A formation. government of process parties nowtobejoinedbyathird large partyontheleft? ster House,Dublin,Thursday,Feb.20,2020. Sinn Fein Leader MaryLou McDonald, center, with party lawmakers,arrivesatLein- at LeinsterHouse,Dublin,Thursday,Feb.20,2020. Fianna FailleaderMicheálMartin,center,withpartylawmakers,speaks to themedia Larry Donnelly,whogrewup inEastMilton,isanattorneywhohaslivedandworked The marriage of the two long-time foes, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, so divergent At thetimeofwriting,then,there seemtobetwopossibilitiesforwhatwill Confronting what may be the new reality has been to the fore in the post-election Brian Lawless/PAviaAP Brian Lawless/PAviaAP Boston Irish March, 2020 Online at BostonIrish.com Page 13

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On one such trip, several months before I was to I was trip, several months before On one such my reaction, Stunned then, I still cannot recall they and with modest resources, Against odds, wonderful they became parenthood, After Their names were Robert and Mary Flynn, also how mind – never everyone of they kept track How Martin McGovern lives in Mashpee. His article is Fears of a return to The notwithstanding, Troubles That America’s brings 2020 matters election back to house I visited after sleeping off jet lag, and I’d see jet lag, and I’d I visited after sleeping off house them daily. Gran, by then a widow in Massachusetts, be married guard. of marriage, caught me off after six decades wedding Granddad’s As we chatted, she produced ring, saying she’d like me to have it. but I have worn that band of gold for 30 years of me of my marriage to my wife, Helene. It reminds what they symbolizes and embrace grandparents’ house small a in children 14 raising together: achieved decades. toughest economic during some of Ireland’s made ends meet, held things and always with good hearts. their responsibilities, together, fulfilled of aunts, uncles, cousins, and neighbors stream A their house – the hub of extended passed through family life. not just to me, but to a small army grandparents, and, indeed, great-grandchildren. of grandchildren He was a cook in the Irish known as Bob and Maisie. army and she a housewife. they did so much for so many of us – I will never they had talents beyond Humble to their core, know. giants. their own imagination. In my book, they were published first was it where Times, Cod Cape the of courtesy on Sept. 8, 2019. a pronounced say. say. a pronounced dreams of a united Ireland appear a long way off at off appear a long way of a united Ireland dreams of Telegraph poll took the pulse recent A voters best. of percent 29 mere a North: the in unification any would support a united Ireland; 52 percent are dead intends to pressure set against it. Sinn Fein, however, to hold a poll or referendum the British government on unification within five years. looms as a major political presence milestone, Sinn Fein Belfast. in both Dublin and Sinn Fein many voters gave for supporting the reasons and economic healthcare, issues of homelessness, were disparity and displacement. Cockburn aptly notes: lucky: after trying “Sinn Fein...has also been extremely an international and failing to make Irish partition issue for almost a century, the border automatically did so by potentially turning the Brexit vote in 2016 between the UK and into an international frontier on which to the EU. Sinn Fein chose the right issues it was also the campaign in the general election, but almost accidental beneficiary of disillusionment with has been traditional parties, and that disillusionment in elections across leading to these parties’ shock defeat the world.” will unleash and the impact that those of Irish lineage upon Donald Trump’s continued occupancy of 1600 Avenue. Pennsylvania category of Irish and 44 million voters fall into the Americans, and in Trump’s 2016 to Irish Central, in the according triumph, somewhere, electoral-college vote their cast Americans Irish of percent 51 of vicinity ousted, is for with Trump, some or 39 percent term for Hillary second Clinton. a wins Trump Donald Whether have American voters will a case can be made that Irish Still, and on That chord is an

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If ever there has been a year in which “elections have has been a year If ever there Fein stumbled Sinn Cockburn asserts: “In Ireland, star rising Fein’s Sinn that worry who those are There Community Comment Community After university I came to America in 1979, and Loving Gran,” with a She signed her letters “Your Johnson’s antipathy for European Union, and Sinn for European Johnson’s antipathy for “One Ireland” determination Fein’s long-professed the status quo, but also threaten have not only shaken to shatter it. nations up in all three rearing are consequences,” they beyond. and 2020 of far so day every of the status quo. appeal to nationalism and a rejection first at it potency whose 24.5 formula political to winning 9.5 a on from vote the of share its raised but underrated last local council elections per cent between disastrous nine months May and the triumphant general election may prospects political party’s the in change The later. them to be have been astonishing, but nobody believes vote.” a flash in the pan protest between the Republic border” of a “hard and the return Troubles. The reignite could Ireland Northern and presidential presidential election brought Donald Trump and his of a rebirth to power on promises legions red-hatted of factories, coal mines, and steel mills; on a wall keep to “outsiders” from swarming all 50 states; religious racism, nationalism, a platform of nativism, bigotry, and ethnic division. fueled Brexit issues—minus the literal wall—similarly and the rise of Boris Johnson. Ireland-Northern the on wall a that suggest did Trump an idea as his “vision” for was as viable border Ireland Leaders in Dublin and Belfast the US-Mexican border. the very notion alike quickly and emphatically derided of tone-deafness Trump’s and ignorance in regard to Troubles. The foothold in Irish politics to an unprecedented surged does share a common America’s chord with 2016 and unfolding 2020 elections and Brexit. Maisie and Bob had missed the younger aunts and uncles, his children, and higher education by a few years, of Irish expansion for what had eluded them. he wanted me to be ready communicator, with Gran as the my grandparents, a member of the Dublin As followed my journey. her Catholic from working class, she took strength with. In her shaky to be reckoned a force was faith and especially when I battled regularly, hand, she wrote to get in me reminding prayers and sending cancer, a performer of miracles. Anthony, touch with St. few X kisses, but occasionally she’d impishly write “Granny Cool.” On trips home, theirs was the first

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By Peter F. Stevens By Martin McGovern Trouble looms on both sides of the pond in 2020 in the pond of sides on both looms Trouble Controversy and common threads roil US, Ireland, and alike Ireland and Northern US, Ireland, roil threads and common Controversy Brexit, Sinn Fein’s stunning success in Ireland’s success in Ireland’s stunning Sinn Fein’s Brexit, If 2016 was the year in which Donald Trump shattered shattered Trump Donald which in year the was 2016 If Most weeks I ran an errand for Granddad, who was banter between Reading us. there Fortunately, “troubles” the and 1973 in Europe entered Ireland As I was Distracted by the Soviet terror, footage of razorlike Gran had knocks, hard of school the From did not have the BBC2 channel, Because my parents For Irish America, the , and Northand Ireland, Republictheof America, ForIrish

Journalist and historian Patrick Cockburn, in a recent in a recent Journalist and historian Patrick Cockburn, The mode of kicking should ring familiar to Irish that underpin Along with the economic disparities vision households, aunts and uncles had missed their aunts and uncles had missed vision households, – not a popular decision! favorite programs bed. enjoyed a Guinness and a cheese sandwich before his empties to the local pub, I returned On Saturdays, cherished I supply to him. fresh a lugged home and pop about reading me press that task, though he’d papers he deemed too frivolous for a serious university candidate. obituaries, “There’s more people he’d wink and say, that humor, giving up smoking and drinking.” With But my capable pressure. his concern wasn’t real raged in the North, I was lost in teenage heartache. grandparents’ in my took refuge that I so much So house one night to watch a BBC2 documentary about Joseph Stalin. surprised when Gran sidled up beside me. Hand soft in and said, “Never mind, she leaned on my shoulder, fish in the sea.” more are chuck, there she gave me the spark intuition and, in a few words, her for my teenage self desperately wanted. I loved my love who understood my grandfather, I did it, as to attend university. of history and desire viewing schedule usual his grandfather disrupted my single-tele of the age In the documentary. see could I so election, and the looming U.S. elections threaten to looming U.S. elections threaten election, and the each nation’s status quo. upend what was once ern Ireland, 2020 will prove a momentous, even epochal a momentous, even 2020 will prove ern Ireland, year. According to an array of Irish political pundits and to an array of Irish political pundits According anger that drove analysts, the very economic angst and blue-collar voters to push to Trump narrow electoral and Wisconsin triumphs in Pennsylvania, Michigan, have fueled Sinn Fein’s sudden ascent. Counterpoint piece, labeled Sinn Fein’s feat as “Ireland’s elite.” moment when left-out voters turn on the Brexit noted: “People County journalist Christy Parker provided Fein and Sinn government wanted to kick the the shoe to do the kicking.” Whether one calls it Americans. Americans—to all in Ireland, “grievance” in the States or “begrudgery” the “one percent” the issue is the massive gap between alike. America and Ireland in lot the of rest the and hearing are Cockburn, Parker said, “Every people trying to some new shocking story about the homeless in the country.” somewhere food banks live off with “elites” and various versions so much frustration of “drain the swamp” on both sides of the proverbial election outcomes pond, the common and controversial marked a public embrace in the US, the UK, and Ireland nationalism. rank even pronounced, of Boris Again,” Chief Brexiteer Great America of “Make every political norm known to Americans, then Sinn Americans, then Sinn every political norm known to same category. Fein’s victory at the polls stand in the Page 14 Boston Irish March, 2020 Online at BostonIrish.com throughout evening. the bar and hors d’oeuvres We host an also open will guests, and more! dancing and cheer, special be There Irish music,will Boston, MA 374 Commonwealth Avenue Harvard of Club Boston inside fab the 6:00 p.m. -9:00p.m. Friday, March 13th Consulate, held on be will partnership with Irish the members only event, in This much anticipated Day Party 2020 St. Patrick’s from all of of Canton. at us Bank NMLS #408169. Member FDIC. MemberDIF. L Have Patrick’s fun afestive, St. Day friends and with – family á F S To amember www.irishnetworkboston.net/membership/ visit: become héiLe ona d P uit ádraig www.ibankcanton.com ! 888.828.1690

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Though I bluegrass andother American musicperformers,but listened NY, which featured notonly Appalachian, old-timey, I beganattendinganannual folkfestivalnear Albany, the ClancyBrothers andIrishRovers.Earlyinmyteens, traditional: , Pete Seeger, The Weavers, but my parents’ eclectictastes,whichincludedfolkand also Gaelic song(withEnglishtranslation). in myhighschoolyearbook,Iusedanexcerptfrom a a fadaoverthe“a,”andtoaccompanymyseniorphoto while, asateenagerwhenIwrote mynameIincluded name orwondered whyIdidn’tspellit“Shawn.”Fora to Ireland, where nobody ever mispronounced my first childhoodvisits memorable Ihadtwo ofthis and because held dearly. MyfatherlovedIrishhistoryandculture, denying the English and Scots family ties my mother to say I strongly identified as Irish, though by no means paternal my grandfather, butthespecificsare murky(longstory). via comes supposedly blood Irish The side. English andScottish,yes,from mymother’s Yankees, Mets,Knicks,Rangers,GiantsandJets. in me,evenwhilemychildhoodpeersfavored the Red Sox,CelticsandPatriots,allegiancesheinculcated expressed his affinity for Boston in part by rootingtheir timehere, relatively shortthoughitwas.Myfather for the were vague,Ialwayshadthesensemyparents valued connection toBoston.Whilemyownmemoriesofit in Greater Bostonsincethen. exception of twoyears spent inWorcester, I’ve remained the with and degree, undergraduate my up finish to 1981 in returned I childhood. early very in years few on myfirstBIRassignment. remains asdynamicandvibrantwhenI embarked about Boston’sIrishmusicscene,whichtomymind on itbecausethisisalsoachancetosaysomethings an opportunityI’dhankered for, butI’mtakinghimup thoughts aboutthisjobandwhatitentails. Again, not supportive andencouraging–invitedmetoshare some Boston IrishPublisherEdForryhasbeencontinually know, itstillfeelsright. became open-endedIoptedtokeepworking. And you something aboutitfeltright,sowhenthatopportunity still have, a full-time job that I find quite fulfilling. But imagined, orevenconsidered –Ialready had,and anyway, stillonthejob. just keeponkeepingon. decided nottoreturn tothepaperafterall,soIcould Several weekslater, Susanwrote backtosayshehad be sized2xinchesat300dpi”)andwishedmeluck. information (“graphicsforthealbumreviews should gave me some potential story ideas as well as practical Irish Reporter, where shecovered music and arts. She I could spellherjustforafewmonthsattheBoston if asking Lindsay Gedutis Susan writer/musician h ros f y neet n rs msc tm from stem music Irish in interest my of roots The Whatever thefactsofmyancestralbackground, it’sfair I don’thaveparticularlysolidIrishancestry, either. a felt I adulthood, early and childhood Through I’m notfrom Boston,althoughI did livehere fora with along who – Mulvoy Tom editor My Writing for wle er ltr hr w ae Wl, here Well, are. we here later, years Twelve Early in 2008, I got an e-mail from friend and fellow It allstartedinnocentlyenough. feeling linkedtoBoston BIR By SeanSmith From anearlyage, was an opportunity I’d never I am, BIR/ Sean Smithatplayandwork. Rory Coyneat the2014FéileCheoilBoston. and generations, oneinstrument.John Gannon,left, Two photo shootinJamaicaPlain,2006. Seamus Connolly withJimmyHoganduringamusicians’ Essay Sean Smithphoto Joni Lohrphoto music scene. and –asI’dheard –hometo alivelyfolkandtraditional one whichhousedsomeofmyfavoritesportsteams, for doingso:livinginacityI’dlongadmired from afar, in Bostonpresented itself, I hadallkindsofmotivation and devotion. commitment my cemented scene music folk/trad the A yearspentintheUKandIreland literallystudying with my acoustic guitar, and went all folk, the time. Teisco-Del Rey electric guitar, added a mandolin to go delusions I had of beinga rock ‘nroller, retired my , , . I put aside whatever , Hand Five Band, Bothy The Dannan, De Jones, other discoveries: MartinCarthy, BoysoftheLough,Nic to led This created. they music contemporary and folk/traditional between intersection fascinating like SteeleyeSpanandFairportConvention,the the music.Iwastremendously impressed withbands and theBritishIslesthatIreally becameinvestedin That’s justhow itis. will I Tom,think ofsomeoneorsomething Ishould’vementioned. and Ed to draft this sending of minutes omit, overlookorneglectsome. Undoubtedly, within of the Irish music community here, I will inevitably events andmilestonesthat shapedmyimpressions been so many individuals, organizations, places, have There be: may it though ineffectual annoyingly Scandinavian orBulgarianmusiccommunities,too). all (I’msure I’dhaveobservedthesamethingin – Boston being a big enough village to accommodate like those of English morris dancing or Scottish music of course, occurred This, in other deaths. folk/trad circles departures, I frequented, childbirths, marriages, always behavewell.Butthemusicwenton,through philosophical andartisticdifferences. Nordidpeople were all doing, clashes of temperament and personality, and Transfigured Night. pubs aswellcoffeehouses likePassim,the Nameless a local ceilidh; or, if you aspired to perform, there were the sessions,butyoucouldalsoaccompanydancersat could playcasuallywithfriendsandacquaintancesat stances andvenuesinwhichtoengagethemusic. You feel rightathome. kind gentlemannamedLarryReynoldswhomadeyou along withtheoldermusicians,amongthemavery clothed –were warmlywelcomedandinvitedtoplay fellow my 20-somethings andI­ where Watertown, in Ceóltoíri gathering Comhaltas Éireann monthly the or parties, house the Village CoachHouseandKinvaraPub,various all ofus,butyetweeachhadaclaimtoit. this was a thing worth doing, something bigger than the nextsongortune.Underlyingitall was theideathat where, who would get the first round, who would lead rites andritualsthatwentonatsuchevents–whosat amenities, little the parties; and concerts sessions, at I was experiencing itonaregular basis: thefamiliar faces abroad whenIhauntedthe Londonfolkclubs,andnow encountered. I’dgottenataste ofthisduringmyyear easily, butIknowofnootherword todescribewhatI So when the idea of finishing up my college degree college my up finishing of idea the when So revival thefolk onto waswhenIstumbled It inIreland After beingrelatively inactive, music-wise,fora At thispoint,Ifeelobligedtooffer adisclaimer, Naturally, there were disagreements aboutwhatwe Boston provided anassortmentofcontexts, circum I happily made the rounds of sessions in places like very around tossed gets “community” word The The sessionsscene: Music, rites,rituals – scruffy-haired andscruffy- - Boston Irish March, 2020 Online at BostonIrish.com Page 17 About my choices About my for what to review for what Finally, some thoughts on how I choose what to write I choose what to thoughts on how some Finally, Obviously, I focus on local angles: People who have a local angles: People who on I focus Obviously, a stop for many renowned Boston, of course, is Greater The complicated part is, what do I mean when I say me, To all of that is fair game, even if we’re talking so with some I sometimes use the term “Celtic.” I do my vantage point, conversations about And from are. you wherever Lindsay, Gedutis Susan Thanks, Sean Smith can be reached at [email protected]. /Boston Irish. BIR/Boston Irish. about for connection to Greater Boston or Eastern Massachusetts Boston or Eastern connection to Greater place taking events or example; for resident, or native as dimensions of which the exact geographic in “the area,” fluid. tend to be admittedly these folks in our midst, Who are touring performers. however briefly? Interviewing them is an opportunity their chosen vocation and how to get them to talk about to it – and in the time and energy and why they devote than just names they become more hopefully, process, on posters, album covers and websites. Ireland”? from I write about “Irish music”? Is it “music Irish? How Irish, someone who’s Music played by almost the music evokes, subtly or exactly? Perhaps – the land, the something of Ireland imperceptibly, from – even if it didn’t emanate culture people, history, someone with Irish ancestry. or come from Ireland, context, in a larger Maybe the music locates Ireland other with stories and experiences shared through peoples and cultures. which constitutes strictly about traditional Irish music, the bulk of my coverage. Traditional music, Irish other trapped in aspic, otherwise, does not stand still, remain by, or influenced is and influences, It changing. never jazz – as well as other – classical, pop, rock, music traditions. has long provoked the word because I know trepidation, and about its historical appropriateness arguments than a few by more shared I’m also of the view, accuracy. a brand name, others, that “Celtic” has morphed into productions ensembles, events, to affixed easily too all a point But “Celtic” can at least provide and products. of reference, however imperfect, perhaps sufficiently enough to begin or guide a conversation. Irish music – or Celtic music, or whatever-in-heck and important, as almost – are use to want name you as pleasurable, as the music itself. I plan frequently of them. on having many more Sean Smith photo Sean Smith photo Essay The author, left, with friends/bandmates Tom Kagan and Margy Rydynski outside the Village Coach House, c. 1985. the Village Coach House, c. Margy Rydynski outside Tom Kagan and The author, left, with friends/bandmates and John Doyle in concert during the 2007 the during concert John Doyle in Carroll and Liz ICONS Festival at the Irish Cultural Center of New in Canton. Joe Derrane at his home in Randolph, 2010. Joe Derrane at his home in Randolph, as musicians, as young fiddlers are taking on Change moves in, and sets off anxiety I find encouragement in observing the many young or former current I think about other friends who are The supply of these young people may not be There’s There’s been a goodly amount of anxiety about the I’m not going to get into analysis and predictions. There were other key actors, of somewhat more recent recent more somewhat of actors, key other were There There was change, too: not exactly surprising teachers and organizers – for it all to come crashing teachers and organizers yourself a favor and do mean “long”: Do down. (And I at the Hall: You Susan Lindsay’s wonderful “See read Boston’s Golden Era of Irish Music and Dance,” or talk he’s with the Irish Echo’s Dan Neely about the research anecdotal also There’s Boston.) in music Irish on done waning if, for is hardly evidence that the interest attendance at annual example, you look at the robust events like “Christmas Celtic Sojourn” and BCMFest. here people – elementary to high school age – around friend fiddler active in traditional music and dance, whether who are one of think I styles. other or Scottish, Irish, first I career: music her in established well now mine, of in high school, got to know her when she was barely looking to mentors for inspiration and guidance, until one day she became a mentor herself, especially to a group of pre-teen/tween fiddlers – and not now, too those many years later, for the next wave of even younger musicians. that role teachers at the Boston Comhaltas music school (a local a few of and the kids they’ve taught. Perhaps treasure), their students will get good enough to make it all the (lest we forget, All-Ireland way to the Undoubtedly, year). last qualified teens Boston-area four others will decide at some point that playing the music learn who others still be will there Then them. for not is enough to enjoy themselves and entwine the music into we see be the regulars long they’ll their lives – before at this or that session. running be to seem don’t certainly we but inexhaustible, the kids who have around And being out of them. it out, who make thefigured music their own, is a big why writing about Irish music in this town is reason such a pleasure. Boston Irish music scene in recent years, what with the Boston Irish music scene in recent occurring closing of some beloved venues or regularly famous Briar Pub and its justly events, notably the Green plentiful about weekly session. Discussions have been may be at work, what social, economic or other factors to come – and and how these might play out in the years like as a result. what the Irish music scene might look time imagining the imminent people I’ll just say I have a hard many Too Boston. in music Irish/Celtic of demise – long too for hard too worked have good chunk of the ’90s, I made my way back to find the scene, and indeed, in the Irish music continuity music; to still listen of the area: folk and traditional community larger or play, to places and musicians of plenty like Comhaltas, and entities venerable organizations Royal Scottish and Song Society, the Country Dance Revels, Pinewoods, NEFFA, Country Dance Society, Arts Center the Folk American Club and the Canadian in keeping the music and of New England, invaluable dance alive and accessible. like Brian O’ and his “A vintage at that time, Celtic Sojourn” on WGBH, The Burren, and festival, that helped spark and College’s Gaelic Roots Boston – not to mention the Boston Irish Reporter, interest nurture my predecessors of course, whose contributors included and Susan Gedutis Lindsay. Kieran Jordan given the constant influx of young people (or at least various in Boston’s people younger than me), enrolled unique the area’s colleges and universities or drawn by Berklee, encouraged and characteristics. Students from and Anger, Glaser and Darol by the likes of Matt inspired to be everywhere, New England Conservatory seemed bands – cool playing at sessions or forming incredibly at a time – with fresh, or more sometimes two or three on folk/trad music. takes inspired Page 18 Boston Irish March, 2020 Online at BostonIrish.com been activeinotheraspects of music: TellWhich glyphs Tale.”the has Casey jazz, and R&B and 2018’s “Hiero- her owncompositionsandincorporated “Two More Hours,” which consisted of released seven solo , including beforeout onherown.Shehas striking Casey recorded three albums with Solas jazz aswelltraditionalIrishmusic, background thatincludes classical and at 7:30p.m. 18 March on band her with Backroom the pasttwodecades,performsat one ofthemore popularIrishsingersof sleeve approach to music has made her a giftedsingerandaccompanist. bouzouki), a (guitar,member of The Straw Ivy Leaf, is styles; dance sean-nós draws onthemusicalityofolder, of theRisingStepIrishdancecompany, as a musician; McGowan, a co-founder well as composer/arranger a as music traditional, classical,andcontemporary has explored connectionsbetween (Continued frompage2) , whose heart-on-her- THE BOSTON IRISHCALENDAROF CELTIC MUSIC AND DANCE A Waterford nativewitha 25 BREATHTAKING YEARS Arts &Entertainment Thyme,” the immensely popular song popular immensely the Thyme,” the firsttorecord “Wild Mountain were They memorable: and numerous are ‘60s and 1950s the of revival folk century, andtheircontributionstothe traditional musicgoesbacknearlya in presence family’s p.m. McPeake 7:30 The at 25 March on Backroom folk revival, from theverybeginnings oftheIrish band NightTree. founding member of the multi-genre a was and Childsplay ensemble fiddle James was a memberof Boston-based Horan, Dan Foster, and Alden Robinson; with premier fiddlers including Winifred collaborations: Faiellahasperformed songs andhavebeenactiveinvarious and NewEnglandtraditionaltunes for Casey. Bothgrew up playingIrish Faiella andMcKinleyJameswillopen traditional andfolkmusic. balance forfemaleperformersinIrish aimed at achievingfairness and gender She co-founded FairPlé, an organization A bandwithalegacyextending New England guitar-cello duo 800-982-2787 MARCH 31-APRIL5 McPeake will beatthe Dan folk music–includingastintinCrooked experience in Irish/Celtic and American musical portfolio includes considerable Sanders Theatre at 8 p.m. O’Donovan’s 12, with her“SongsandStrings”showin March on grounds stomping old native Day activitiesthere.) Burren’sdetails onthe get St.Patrick’s (Youburren.com/music.html. also can about theBurren Backroom series, goto styles. with more contemporary rhythms and has longbeenpartofthefamilyheritage music that sion) –mixesthetraditional and PaulHughes(vocals,guitar, percus - (fiddle), Forde Mairead (songwriter), whistles) and including Paula McPeake direction ofFrancisMcPeakeIV(pipes, as “McPeake,”thegroup –underthe and beganplayingagain.Nowknown in 1971, the band reformed in the 1980s of inactivityfollowingFrancis’s death piper.also alegendary After aperiod credited toFrancisMcPeake,whowas Gam-inn Boston-area Grammy-winning • For tickets and other information ONE WORLDWIDE PHENOMENON Aoife O’Donovan isbackinher Aoife she performs the songcycle “Bull Frogs as be accompanied by astringquartet “Songs andStrings,”O’Donovanwill Roots Song,“CallMyName.”For a GrammythisyearforBest American Watkins andSarahJarosz), whichwon part of the trioI’m With Her (with Sara album “In the Magic Hour” and as songwriter, asevidenced by hersolo eloquent confident, a as emerged has Still – andinmore recent yearsshe Aoife O’Donovan Boston Irish March, 2020 Online at BostonIrish.com Page 19 passim. (Continued on page 20) Also performing at the NEFFA Preview are Zornitsa, are Preview the NEFFA at performing Also tightly-knit propulsive, Talisk, a Scottish trio whose to go details, other and information ticket For org. band – its current line-up is Lindsay Straw (bouzouki, Straw (bouzouki, line-up is Lindsay current band – its (fiddle, English Aromin Armand vocals), guitar, (accordion, Accardi Dan vocals, whistle), concertina, (concertina, Gagliardi Benedict and concertina) fiddle, beyond – has expanded vocals, tenor guitar) , dance music to survey the in traditional Irish its roots folk music, American Anglo-Celtic and wider world of catalog of sea shanties, work adding in a wide-ranging ballads. In addition to performing, songs and narrative in the Irish session scene, active are Ivy Leaf members as well as Boston. in Providence the men from of orchestra and a Bulgarian chorus and Klezmer trio Wandering Laughter. Boston area, Irish music elements has earned blend of Scottish and public acclaim, will critical and them widespread make a return to the club on March 24 at 8 p.m. The Amini between Mohsen chemistry enthralling melodic by bolstered is (fiddle) Keenan Hayley and (concertina) a creating canny guitar-playing, Armstrong’s Graeme maintaining while tradition beyond pushes that sound Folk 2 Radio BBC the include honors Talisk’s it. to ties Alba the BBC from Year Folk Band of the and Award ; Amini also was the for 2018. BBC Year Musician of the Awards’ Radio 2 Folk - , a Canadian quartet that has champi quartet that has , a Canadian The Fretless • - Liu events, see tickets.rockport on Shalin For more , a stalwart of traditional music in traditional music of stalwart a Leaf, The Ivy oned the “chambergrass” folk-string ensemble sound, ensemble sound, folk-string “chambergrass” oned the on March Square in Harvard will be at Club Passim 15 at 7 p.m. Fiddle and viola players Freeman, Trent and Ben Plotnick, and cellist Eric Karrnnel Sawitsky, harmonic, and structured the rhythmic, explore Wright, other bluegrass and old-timey, arrangement of Celtic, string chamber a of essence the in styles folk/traditional descriptive phrase “chambergrass.” quartet, hence the The band, and chambergrass Berklee College itself, were and Wright connection: Freeman fellow has with Fretless a The founded Boston and students, Music of was Ivonne Hernandez, who Berklee acquaintance active in the Instrumental Boston for music scene. Award The Juno band’s 2017 album a won Nest” “Bird’s “Live and their follow-up release, Year, Album of the traditional Art Farm” – which focused on the at the new a praised; highly was – repertoire its of part Irish is in the works. recording that Passim’s “NEFFA New England, will be part of Club acts showcasing bill triple a 17, March on Preview” are appearing at the 76th New England Folk Festival Association, which takes place April 24-26 at Acton Boxborough High School. Since forming in 2009, the tunes, to name a few. tunes, to music.org/events. - returns returns Arts & Entertainment Arts See celebrityseries.org/productions/aoife-o-don • In what has become practically an annual (and On March 21 at 8 p.m., Shalin Liu will host the Teddy Abrams, as well as a retrospective of traditional, Kittel and with Jeremy which she created Croon,” of retrospective a as well as Abrams, Teddy songs. and original contemporary ovan for tickets and information. ovan for Ladies the rite, Cherish anticipated) greatly at the Shalin Boston area, Greater once again to the Liu Performance Center in Rockport on March 5 at 8 p.m. Originally formed in 1985 as a concert series has Irish musicians, the showcasing female group proved to be a mainstay in of traditional the interpretations scene for its excellent Irish/Celtic music as a launch pad for distinguished tunes and songs and Eileen Ivers, Winifred Clancy, Aoife performers like Fitzgerald. Cherish Bridget and Horan, Cathie Ryan, and Madden Joanie by co-founders led is the Ladies Mary Coogan; members current also include Mirella Connolly and Deirdre Grainne Murphy, Murray, Kathleen Boyle. Boston native, – who has Black A Mari Black Trio. appeared locally at The Burren Backroom series and that include credentials distinguished – has BCMFest fiddling competition championships in Scottish and includes Canadian Maritime traditions. Her repertoire American also not only Irish and Scottish traditions but swing tangos, and even classic Argentine folk music, Page 20 Boston Irish March, 2020 Online at BostonIrish.com (Continued frompage19) violin legend Stéphane Grappelli to Northumbrian to Grappelli Stéphane legend violin fromlist ofcollaboratorsranging a lengthy with jazz and Lough, the of Boys The of member a as soloist, performed throughout theUK and beyond bothas a has Newman native English technique; harp Irish Irish celebrated music family, iswidelyhailedasaninnovator ofthe a from Chathasaigh, Ní albums. compositions, far andwide whilerecording seven jazz, baroque ,andbluegrass,alongwithoriginal Newman have taken theirblend of traditional Irish, Street. Since teaming up in 1987, Ní Chathasaigh and auditorium, locatedonBC’sBrightonCampusoff Lake 19 at 6:30 p.m. in the Theology and Ministry Library part ofBoston College’s Gaelic Roots series on March Chathasaigh andChrisNewmanwillperformas became theHighKings’newestmember. the classic ballad repertoire. Last fall, Paul O’Brien idiom – and even from other genres – withsome of two liveDVDs,combiningmodernsongsinthefolk four studio albums and twolivealbums, release extensively throughout theUSandEurope, record Brothers and . The band went on to Clancy the as bands throughsuch tour 60s and 1950s the during swept intopopularity Irish balladstylethat forces in 2007,theirsound deriving from the classic with otherfoundingmemberMartinFurey, joined Clancy, BrianDunphy,andDarren Holden,along Finbarr musicians and Vocalists p.m. 8 at 7 March ballad group, at Berklee Performance Center on Irish 21st-century a of epitome the The High Kings, atirishculture.org. festivities,isavailable Patrick’s Day It Guy.” shows, and Boston Comedy Festival for his first two one-man film, won awards at the HBO Aspen Comedy Festival Flynn, aveteranoftelevision,stand-upcomedy, and suburbs ofConnecticut. to “lace-curtainIrish”inthe of hisfamily’sprogress from blue-collarimmigrants Irish Catholic, steelworkerroots and relates thestory based onFlynn’s life andrelationship withhistough, one-man play “Fear of Heights” at when 8 p.m. The 21 show Marchis on ICC of theiTunes, Amazon, andWorld Billboard Charts. top the reached Home,” of “Thinking album, recent a DVD of his PBS special of the same name; his most and Moment” the Is “This CD the released he 2010, an original member of Celtic Thunder. Going solo in was Byrom 14, age at album first his recorded who p.m. Anative 8 Dublin at remember) not might you case in 17, (March Day Patrick’s St. on center the at by three-part harmony. traditional andcontemporaryfolksongsanimated songs toclassic tunesoftheIrish Atlantic coastto together diverseelementsinitssound,from sean-nos bring They shows. traveling other in involved been Ladies two yearsago atCelticConnections and has Conall’s brotherCherish the Seamus,meanwhile,playedwith Dance”; the of “Rhythm extravaganza, has ConallFlaherty, whoalso appeared inanother “Celtic Legends”internationalstageproduction, as performance experience:Bolgerhastoured withthe comes from Ardmore whistle) in Connemara, and boasts substantial flute, (vocals, Flaherty Conall bodhran) and harp, (vocals, Flaherty Séamus guitar), (vocals, Bolger Ciarán of trio youthful The 8. March at 7:30p.m. p.m., andaconcertof“CelticFavorites”beginning 6 at workshop language Irish an lead will – forum secondary schools,andlaunchedanonlineinstruction career asateacher–he’staughtatperformingartsand “other” an has who Keegan, 3. March on Thunder, a visitbyColmKeegan,formermemberofCeltic Canton hasafewspecialeventsthismonth,including Te apgia do f spouses of duo harp/guitar The • Tickets are atetix.com/ticket/p/2583779. by show a present will Beverly in Cabot The • Information fortheseevents,aswelltheICC’sSt. There will be a different sort of performance at the Another Celtic Thunder alum, hosts ICC The in England New of Centre Cultural Irish •The “Around the Kitchen Table” and “The Go for High Time for a 4 p.m. matinee on Kevin Flynnpresents his Paul Byrom Arts &Entertainment Máire Ní , willbe Connemara trioHighTimeappearsattheIrishCulturalCenterofNewEnglandinCantononMarch8. pop/rock. Celtic-influenced of discussions in overlooked often will beafond,andenlightening, salutetoagroup “Too-Rye-Ay”singles. it and say albums organizers ‘80s 1970s/early late band’s the from cuts deep and of two different Dexysera, spotlighting smash hits Elk City, whowillperformtwosetsinthe wardrobe of Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, The Dambuilders, and the 1980s”) -- of GreatestSongs “100 VH1’s in On, Eileen”(No. 18 night Runners --knownintheUSfortheirhit“Come Ay,” a tributetoIrishpunk-soulsensationDexysMid- on March 12 when the City Winery hosts, inspired them. influences – song andinstrumental compositions,aswell as the its will emphasizeitsfemalemembersandspotlight is set torelease a newalbum,“Good Water,” that as well as instrumental prowess. This year, the band with The Chieftains that showcased the band’s dancing including theirmemorable“GaelForce” appearance has beenfeatured inthree PBStelevisionspecials, more than half a million copies worldwide – Leahy to theirstudioandliverecordings –whichhavesold their high-energy musicandperformances.Inaddition national and cultural legaciestheyproclaim through Ontario familywithIrishandCapeBreton ancestry– Live series.Leahy’smembersare allsiblingsfrom an on March 6 at 8 p.m., presented through the folk-roots bands, willbeat theCityWinery ofBoston Global Arts Heart,” premiering thisyear. Nesbitt willbepartofanewmusicalspecial,“Celtic the LondonRoyal Academy. PBSrecently announced Cork School of Music under CorneliaZanidache and National Youth Orchestra of Ireland, she studied at All-Ireland fiddleCIT, champion and past member of the 2017 that featured 13 members of her family. A former demonstrated on her “Devil’s BitSession” album in comes from animpressiveas she musicalheritage, Nesbitt p.m. 5 at Lynn15 Marchthe on Auditorium for CelticWoman, willplaywithhertrioensembleat Mercedes Sosa. singer Argentine to Tickell Kathryn virtuoso pipes Go to citywinery.com/boston for tickets and other Nostalgia andmemorablemusicwillbeintheair • Tickets, information atlynnauditorium.com. • Go tobc.edu/irishforinformation. Leahy, oneofCanada’smostesteemedprogressive , the capering, cavorting violinist Máiréad Nesbitt,thecapering,cavortingviolinist rock, choral, country, classical – that have at 8 p.m. The show will feature members “Too-Rye- mrc. re diso; pc i aalbe n a on available first-come, first-servedbasis. is space admission; Free America. longing for home – and longing tofeelathome in through songsand poemsofwork,humor, protest, story ofIrishimmigrantsin Bostonwillberecounted The a.m. 10:30 at 9 March on The IrishinBoston” St. Patrick’sDayseasonwith“Celebrate!CelticBells: brary.org/morrillcalendar. ments inspired bythemodernIrishfolkrevival. latter-daywith session Irish arrange- and influences dynamic combines the spontaneityandspiritof free-reed/fretted-stringTheir scene. music local the guitar, bouzouki, bodhran)have long beenactivein vocals, bouzouki, mandolin, Levy,tenor banjo; Sean Steve Smith, vocals, whistle; concertina, Peterson, (Emily members band’s The p.m. 3 at 29 March on concert attheMorrillMemorial Library inNorwood album, “10,000DaysLikeThese,”in2018. folk and even pop. Low Lily released its firstEngland and , toencompasscontemporary full-length traditions, andtheir American descendantsinNew tastes andinterests havelongrangedbeyondthose experience inIrishandotherCelticmusic.Buttheir Brattleboro –havesolidbackgrounds andextensive in reside now and Massachusetts, Boston/Eastern Greater in lived once whom of all – vocals) (fiddle, (guitar, piano, vocals), and Lissa Schneckenburger Flynn Cohen(guitar, mandolin,vocals),LizSimmons Readings’ Ivy Chord Coffeehouse on March 21 at 8 p.m. Bedford FolkFestival,amongothers. Burren Sojourn”shows,the Celtic Backroom andNew and appearancesattheSt.Patrick’sDayChristmas England through hiscriticallyacclaimed recordings own family,a solidfollowinginNew Byrnehasbuilt fromsongs ofhishomeland,and tradition song the tenor voiceandsensitiveempathetictreatment of Wakefield on March 7 at 8 p.m. Renowned for his rich Matthew Byrnevisits the Linden Tree Coffeehouse in information. Compiled bySean Smith Go tojfklibrary.org forfurtherdetails. •The JFK Library will offer an historical take on the For informationandregistration, seenorwoodli- • Greater Boston-based trio Details atuureading.org/concerts. • The “roots-and-branches” trio See lindentreecoffeehouse.org singer traditional and folk Newfoundland • plays afree plays Corvus Ceol for information. Conor McCarthyphoto Low Lilyplaysat Boston Irish March, 2020 Online at BostonIrish.com Page 21 - - “These women were totally villainized, and suffered suffered and villainized, totally were women “These Recent decades have seen the forming of an increas Recent decades have seen the forming with male suicide has had a huge problem “Ireland “The People” Young confronts the issue of suicide or to “I didn’t write the song to be depressing, show Day” “Livelong on tracks instrumental Two by traditional music and how it fascinated “We’re “The Pride of Petravore,” meanwhile, is Lankum Information on Lankum’s US tour, including links to buy alcoholics, prostitutes and free-thinkers “beyond the free-thinkers and alcoholics, prostitutes who made up the Wrens society” pale of respectable by the author Rose Doyle in of Curragh, as described uses “Friends Indeed.” Ian Lynch her historical novel as a metaphor Day for Wren Ireland’s chilling imagery of by the authorities mistreatment Curragh’s of the Wrens and townspeople: “The is wren a small bird/Though derided/Wherever is form woe/Her much for blamed she goes.” they tried to form a func says Daragh. “But greatly,” tioning community among themselves, sharing chores sharing chores tioning community among themselves, and food, looking after each other’s Again, children. hear about.” it’s an example of the history you don’t these unsavory ingly nationwide conversation about and the abuse and neglect history, chapters in Ireland’s populations, as of its vulnerable and marginalized sex clergy and Laundry Magdalene the by personified adds to the discussion with scandals. Daragh Lynch People,” the latest “The in Young a series of Lankum social ,and mental originals that speak to the economic, bearing the health challenges faced by a generation malaise. post-Celtic Tiger of Ireland’s brunt their own lives – the ratio of men to women who take example, for , “In says. he significant,” very is river in hopes the volunteers to patrol they’ve recruited doing harm to themselves.” of keeping people from in the years very long first forget/Four lines: “Oh,soon thenot daythey’ll theyday found him swinging/A ago/It can’t be over yet.” But something happens as it comes to the the song continues, particularly when – it C major to minor A from the key shifts where chorus, becomes an anthem, a call to think deeply about human sing: “When the and his bandmates as Lynch fragility, is young people dance/They do not dance forever/It the softest of feathers.” written in sand/With “It’s saying, ‘Look, life people,” says Lynch. lecture got, you’ve whom and what appreciate so fleeting, is of one another.’” and just try to take care – which yet another side to Lankum. “Bear Creek” to “Ode original, band brooding a from a segue is tunes, fiddle American two of medley a is – Lullaby” old-timey the for touch fine a shows MacDiarmada and style; Peat’s prowess on the bayan with its formidable bass – also is Russian accordion – the hulking on display. travels,” says Lynch. “The music doesn’t have any – it morphs and changes as it for borders respect moves along to suit the places it ends up. Of course, on the development of Irish music had a big effect American music has this , but pulse and backbeat we love.” traditional , it’s A at its most outrageous. also known as the melody for the song – alternately a French, called “Eileen Oge” – written by Percy about an phrases aligned comically of full ballad the tune galumphs along courtship. Here, improbable of a bowed string bass and a thumped to the rhythm “Jaws” and the gait piano, evoking the theme from leads while Ian Lynch of Frankenstein’s monster, the melody on a pair of tin whistles taped together; wildly crashes into the end, a trombone the toward along with other odd noises – among proceedings, notes, the sound of MacDiarmada them, Lynch stand into a gong. smashing a microphone tickets, is available at the band’s website, lankumdublin.com. “It’s a natural progression from our earlier albums,” from “It’s a natural progression say “Livelong does Day not is “dark,” To however, “It’s not that we’ve never done ‘fast’ songs, but our The version of “Wild Rover” Lankum plays is says Lynch. backstory,” “It’s got a very interesting Appalachian an of “Katie Cruel,” Most renditions The lot of women viewed as outcast also lies at says Lynch. “We’ve always had musical interests that interests always had musical “We’ve says Lynch. type of ambient-sound extend to modern, electronic, the advice and help of our producer and with textures, with us for John ‘Spud’ Murphy – who has worked here.” pushed them forward a long time – we really are there sure, be To “depressing.” is it mean facto ipso – which again, is some powerful emotions in play here through but – music folk/traditional of point the rather to consider the its arrangements Lankum invites you explains. fuller meanings in the songs, as Lynch deeper, a sound feeling is, slowing things down and creating that brings about a kind of meditative state can make time attuned to the song, and spend more people more listening to the words.” foot-stomping pub than the rowdy, quite different favorite, and not just because of its minor key: Peat’s and spine-tingling lead vocals help locate the regret bravado apparent the underneath lurking loss of sense of the song’s narrator; you end up really hoping his son. While the band their prodigal will forgive parents as the source singer Donal Drogheda credits for this variant, their indispensable album liner notes trace the song back to the 17th century. ‘broadside’ English pro-temperance a as rewrite it find a basically “You’ll it’s but century, 19th early the in song of an even earlier song that was the common ancestor North even England, , Ireland, in versions for familiar America. But the version most people are this speak to the grief and sorrow with doesn’t really feels for having wasted his life.” so-called wild rover American Revolution, tend the song said to date from to be up-tempo, highlighting the verbal intricacies in its chorus: “If I was where I would be/Then where I’d I be am not/Here I am where I must be/Where the goes Lankum Again, cannot.” I be, would I as a lament from emphasizing the song opposite way, her to a a woman whose questionable past has brought that looks equally auguring a future present, sorrowful mention song the for notes liner band’s The pessimistic. “Licht Bob’s Lassie,” makes that its Scottish relative, raising the is a sex worker, clear that the protagonist specter of exploitation only hinted at in “Katie Cruel.” Peat’s commanding voice sits us squarely Once more, in the midst of the narrator’s despair. – in this case, the the heart of “Hunting the Wren” unmarried mothers, harvest workers, ex-convicts, Lankum’s most recent album, “The Livelong Day,” has “The album, most recent Lankum’s assortment of musical the spotlight on their unique turned influences and styles. - - Arts & Entertainment Arts By Sean Smith

The tour was a foundational experience for Lankum, Lankum, for experience foundational a was tour The vocalist-gui “It all seemed to go very well,” recalls Last year at this time, the award-winning Irish folk the award-winning Last year at this time, “After the gig had been booked, we did a little “After the gig had been booked, Boston with a March to Greater Lankum returns the reflects Day” “Livelong importantly, More Summing up Lankum’s philosophy in this regard, Much listen. challenging a be can Day” Livelong “The The concert at Club Passim proved especially an opportunity to see how its idiosyncratic blend of an opportunity to see how its idiosyncratic music and Traveler street, Irish as well as ballads, Irish work, and American folk tradition, original hall songs, influences music-based electronic and acoustic varied had caught on in the US. quartet Lankum had recently finished its first-ever tour first-ever its finished recently had Lankum quartet a stop in Cambridge where of the US, which included Square’s the band played to a full house in Harvard Club Passim. research and we learned all about Passim, its history research an definitely was there play to able Being lore. its and so many people turned out and the fact that honor, made it all the better.” 5 concert at Great Scott in Allston (they’ll also be at March Northampton on in Hall Horse Music Iron the last than them with buzz a of more even carrying 10), Day,” Livelong “The album, third their to thanks year, released late last year. The album affirms Lankum’s self-titled “folk in its self-deprecatingly, assuredness the edges and not around rough identity, miscreants” experimentation. or bold lacking for irreverence for the populist element of folk regard band’s strong attention its and contemporary – or traditional music – to the “common” people, particularly those at the hence the inclusion of traditional songs margins: and two band Rover” and “Katie Cruel,” like “Wild originals, “The People” Young – which Lynch wrote and suicide in the wake of concerns about depression Ian’s “Hunting youth — and brother among Ireland’s tragic story of the Wrens by the true, inspired the Wren,” of Curragh, a 19th-century community of women. traditional Irish singer points to the renowned Lynch history; the write power in “Those quote, Harte’s Franke write the He adds: “If you look songs.” those who suffer of traditional songs and ballads, into the background many that came about as forms of protest, are there he airing grievances about injustice and inequality,” kind of history through can learn a different says. “You these kinds of songs: what it was like to be a woman, to work to the be jobs. hard poor, Those often are the they’ve and our attention, have captured songs that also served as models or inspiration for the songs that we’ve written.” the haunting dark tone, has been made of its overarching vocal harmonies, the slow and deliberate pacing on most tracks, the bleakly apocalyptic soundscapes with squeezeboxes, strings and from ample use of drones and other enigmatic reverberations. keyboards, Diarmada (fiddle, viola, other stringed instruments). Diarmada (fiddle, viola, other stringed

tarist-keyboardist Daragh Lynch, who founded the Daragh Lynch, tarist-keyboardist — with his band – originally known as Lynched Ian (vocals, , concertina, whistle) brother that this was very aware were several years ago. “We weren’t certainly we and America, into foray first our on seemed definitely people But it. about complacent with the music.” board who also and his bandmates, meaningful for Lynch bayan accordion, include Radie Peat (vocals, concertina, and Cormac Mac harmonium and other keyboards) in Allston on March 5 on March Allston in Quartet plays Great Scott Great Quartet plays attention to those who are living close to the edge to close living are who to those attention Lankum’s ‘The Livelong Day’ highlights band’s highlights Day’ Livelong ‘The Lankum’s Page 22 Boston Irish March, 2020 Online at BostonIrish.com dearly lovedentriesintheIrishtradcanon,sourced byGarveyfrom theesti familiar,areCocks These Crowing.”Are“The yet and Out” Roved I “As at go Jane” and“HeatherDowntheMoor.” compositions, bothinspired bylongstanding ritualsandancientbeliefs–the exemplary. bum’s two Gaelic songs, “Seán Bán” and “Mo Cheallaichín Fionn,” is similarly Garvey whocanprovide theproper care andattention.Hertreatment oftheal song is,quitesimply, agoodsong,andit’sanevenbetteronewithsingerlike Squad, andshe–thebanddothemplentyofjustice.Sometimesagood Voiceand Band Bothy the Tunneyto Paddy and Stewart Rosie of likes mable flute. to shifts Wynne as tune second the on piano on rhythm the up takes – John andJacinta’ssonPaddy–oneofsixspecialguestmusiciansonthealbum whistle and churn away to subtle backing and lovely chording by Jacinta McEvoy,fiddle and then variety: some has Fair,” the from Coming Clinking a Got “Kitty flings, of medley their finish, to start from all-hands-to-the-fore basic is course oftheIrishfolkrevival. Sowhilethe“MonasteradenSet,”apairofreels, listic innovations,especiallyinarrangements,thathavetakenholdoverthe equally elegant,winsome,andforceful aswhenappropriate. Rowe’s” isgorgeous). Rachel GarveysingsinEnglishandGaelic, her voice and splendidlyversatileguitar(herintro andbackingontheslowreel “Jack release “PrideoftheWest” –withMcEvoy’swifeJacintasupplyingconcertina McEvoy John (fiddle, mandolin) – who made and a favorable impression with whistle) their 2007 (flute, Wynne John between rapport the around is core its Coleman, , and, more recently, Mossie Martin) and Connaught/Roscommon tradition (which has given us, among others, Michael ament – with which they invest the music. Gatehouse is oriented to the North temper and spirit – qualities invaluable yet indefinable those also but sicians, proficiency technical masterful first: its as appeal same the mu ries the among Oh yes, the songs: In addition to “Queen Jane” and “Heather,”and Jane” “Queen to addition a In has songs: Garvey the yes, Oh h abm iihs aporaey nuh wt to oe JohnMcEvoy more two with enough, appropriately finishes, album The Gatehouse is obviously steeped in tradition but also very cognizant of sty Gatehouse, “Heather Down the Moor” • Moor” the Down “Heather Gatehouse, Our priority is assisting individuals remain in their home in a safe and comfortable manner. comfortable and asafe home in their in remain individuals assisting Our is priority We employ a wide range of medical staff RN’s, medical including LPN’s,We rangeof CNA’swide a employ and Therapists. In addition to Boston, we provide services to surrounding cities andtowns. cities tosurrounding services weprovide toBoston, In addition All personnel are licensed/certified as well as insured andbonded. insured as well as licensed/certified are personnel All is Boston, Massachusetts’ Boston, Care is Home private premiere Agency. Now HiringNow ExperiencedRN’s, LPN’s and CNA’s. and staffed by carefully selected and screened personnel. screened and and staffed selected by carefully Our professional services are highly personalized arehighly services Our professional for a complementary initial consultation initial for acomplementary [email protected] Please call call Please www.CurtinHomeCare.com Pleaseemailresume to: CHC Home Care, Inc. Home Care, CHC By SeanSmith 617 CD Reviews - 307

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Well, here we Dog LongRoad”retro cent release of his “Old last month,withthere the sang praises of space This • and theShortofIt” linn.ie] Down theMoor.” [gael- throughout “Heather of affability tobefound in that,andit’sthekind delightfully elemental something There’s ers. tues andhealingpow possessed special vir in thehollowsofstone idea thatwatergathered Healing Stone,” comesfrom the “The latter, html] [andyirvine.com/disc/Mozaik-disc-new.produces. pictureit sum-of-its-parts carefully arrangedandassembled individualpiecesand thegreater-than-the- be overlooked.Likeitsnamesake artform,Mozaikcanbeadmired forbothits and theShortofIt,”artistry ofLunny, Parov andvanderZalm shouldnot of anangel.” in thelinernotes,“wasrough, ranfaster than anybody else, and had the voice chagioglou byhergrandmother whoasayoungwoman,Kechagioglouwrites cappella Carpenter” and–inanindicationoftheband’srespect forher–doesana a settingofpoembyNapoleonLapathiotis,duets with Molskyon“MyLittle gioglou’s warm,engagingvocals.She’salsofeatured on“LikeaSoftBreeze,” Kecha complements arrangement the of poverty.sensitivity and delicacy The lated, for the most part, into English) thatpresents as a parable on wealth and mance of “The Song of the Nightingale,” a traditional song from Thrace (trans Irvine andthebandtreat thesongwithagentlepoignancy. powerful taleofforbiddenromance, lyricsfullofintense,vividemotions,yet ple of new verses and adapteda melody by UK musician Chris Algar. 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European Balkan/Eastern with involvement his to integral so was life is particularlyappropriate totheMozaikrepertoire, sincethisperiodofIrvine’s Michael McGoldrickandPaddyGlackin),butthiswasitsearlierincarnation.It Lunny,(with Doyle, Island John Usher’s of part as 2017 recordedin he album youthful travels in Eastern Europe, “As Good As It Gets.” The song was on the his from memoirs of series his eternity.”in of another chains also There’s“the – who,asIrvinerelates, forallhisincredible featsmostdesired toescapefrom mark historicalbiographies,thistimeoftheenigmatic,tragicHarryHoudini Zalm duetonwhistlesthathasaSouth American tinttoit. from England, “The Coast song of Peru,” the start whaling of which features a Parov-vangraphic der rather a up offers Irvine Foxhunter’s.” “The reel Irish Black Hills Waltz” and “The Red Steer,” the latter at times resembling that great “The tunes, Virginia,”fiddle “Old of and pair penter” a on forth holds Molsky In addition to fine renditions of traditional American songs “My Little Car Little “My songs American traditional of renditions fine to addition In orchestra:small a up make play guys these instruments of variety sheer The Mozaik, “TheLong However one might laud Kechagioglou, Irvine and Molsky on “The Long “The on Molsky and Irvine Kechagioglou, laud might one However Which setsthestagefornexttrack,Kechagioglou’s outstandingperfor But thereal gemis“Rainbow’MidtheWillows,” Irvine’stakeonanOzark Irvine’s excellent songwritingisspotlighted here, too, with one of his trade solo tocloseoutthealbum:“Neratzoula,”asongpassed along to Ke ------Boston Irish March, 2020 Online at BostonIrish.com Page 23 - - - “Everyone who’s worked with “Everyone who’s worked with For ticket information and other details “Ashley was a pleasure to work “Ashley was a pleasure Murphy has been a familiar figure “It’s no secret that I’ve been enchanted that I’ve been enchanted “It’s no secret female featured the Smith-Wallace, McCormack, who started dancing at gaging guitar style, and clear, resonant resonant gaging guitar style, and clear, drawn from singing – with a repertoire his native Newfoundland as well as French and Irish, Scottish, English, flair masterful a as well as – traditions for arrangements. and his creativity Keith has admired leadership,” says O’Donovan. “He just ties it all up with a splendid bow.” about “A St. Patrick’s Day Celtic Sojourn,” go to wgbh.org/celtic. national competitions, including first at Championships and the All-Ireland the World Championships in ceili/figure dancing. He started his professional of the with ’s “Lord career Dance,” and after performing in Lon he End and on Broadway, don’s West in “” landed a coveted role in 2017. with in ‘Christmas Celtic Sojourn,’ her wings and now she gets to spread for this year’sas choreographer ‘St. Patrick’s Day Celtic Sojourn,’” says is an Ashley, O’Donovan. “Kevin, like accomplished dancer extraordinarily stage.” big the to used definitely is and in the Boston/New England folk three of part better the for scene music with (along co-founder a as decades, the of Tracy) Becky fiddler the wife, his trio Nightingale, an groundbreaking performers, accompanist for numerous including fiddlers like Brian Conway and Hanneke Cassel, or a soloist. To all his musical enterprises, Murphy savvy and en brings a rhythmically music and history to several apprentices, apprentices, history to several and music of the session in New furthering the art England. glad and we’re by the uilleann pipes, to have a brilliant young musician like on Torrin hand for this year,” says O’Donovan. dancer in last year’s Christmas “A at the studied Sojourn” production, Celtic Academy Smith-Houlihan Irish of Norwood and was the World the Step Dancing Champion in 2004 – female ever to win American youngest the world title at that time; she went on gold world medals in to garner two more City, York New to Moving 2009. and 2005 expanded her portfolio Smith-Wallace to include ballet, tap, jazz, hip-hop, and Her stage credits musical dance theater. “Peter Pan,” Side Story,” include “West Line,” “Guys and Dolls” and Chorus “A “Pippin.” She also was the female lead dancer on the national tour of “Rockin’ Road to Dublin,” a nationally touring fusion show. Irish-rock the age of five for the O’Shea-Chaplin Dance in Boston, of Irish Academy as a record has an equally impressive the competitive dancer: He placed in top five at multiple national and inter - - WGBH photo Among their other activities, Fedders activities, other their Among Ryan, who in addition to uilleann who in addition to uilleann Ryan, “It’s remarkable how Laura and how Laura and “It’s remarkable one as acknowledged widely is Stevens “Chris’s musicianship is just outstand ing, and we’re especially looking forward especially looking forward ing, and we’re marvelous the of part as him having to ensemble that will be playing during the says O’Brien. show,” pipes plays flute and whistle, has won five All-Ireland medals, including first place as the slow airs champion on pipes. He has taught at the Boston Comhaltas music school for a number of years, and New the Southern grants from received Apprenticeship Arts Traditional England to support his teaching of Irish Program en and Gourley are part of the occasional en and Gourley are also Gourley Clouds; the in Ship quartet plays in a duo with uilleann piper Joey Abarta, and Feddersen in the old-timey Nickels. trio Wooden tradition fiddle twin the capture Nathan such a raw brilliance to it,” – there’s says O’Donovan. “They also are very thoughtful and articulate about what they play and how they play it, which suits looking to our format very well: We’re illuminate the music tradition and invite people to think about its nuances.” and Irish-style accordion of the foremost Although concertina players in the US. based in Maine – he was named a master a fellowship by musician and awarded Arts Commission – he has the state’s connections to the Greater numerous performing at events and Boston area, Irish the Dorchester as such venues Burren The BCMFest, Festival, Heritage and the Boston College Gaelic Backroom, Roots series, and teaching at Boston’s Comhaltas Gang, Press Ceoltóirí The of Éireann member a music is He school. albums, and three which has released showcased his talents on recently more Finley Caitlin fiddler with trio a in piano Will player pipes uilleann and flute and Woodson that recorded the CD Glory Reel.” “The “Clare is a fascinating sort of singer, is a fascinating sort of singer, “Clare Arriving in Boston several years ago Celtic Sojourn maestro Brian O’Donovan. Celtic Sojourn maestro Brian O’Donovan. gospel, bluegrass, and swing, but has gospel, bluegrass, and swing, but the tradition of her never strayed far from One of her home. childhood, and current, has involved delving projects most recent of traditional recordings into archival seán-nos singing of her native Iveragh, for funding granted been has she and activities related and teaching research the music. passing on and preserving to a coveted grant supported by Last year, went she Ireland, Culture from award on an extensive tour of the US, giving concerts and also holding seán-nos showcase recordings two Her workshops. her wide-ranging musical interests: King and Redd of Pee Wee covers from Stewart’s “The Tennessee Waltz” and to Again” Win “You Williams’s Hank traditionalcontemporarysongsand Irish Child),” Fairy (The Si Leanbh “An as such “Boys Of Barr Na Sigerson Clifford’s Sráide” and “The Road from Killorglin to Cahersiveen.” steeped as she is in folk tradition and tradition,” vocal Gaelic the especially the possessing “yet also O’Donovan, says dexterity and color of a voice with strong She’s with us as a traditional jazz roots. to have someone but it’s amazing singer, with all those influences and chops.” within a few months of one another, Feddersen and Gourley – already well-acquainted with one another from – quickly gatherings musical various became stalwarts in the local Irish scene, whether at sessions, ceilis, or concerts. Their fiddling, as spotlighted 2015 in their album “Life Is All American what they call “the represents Checkered,” style of Irish music”: an amalgam of the over developed that influences and styles York time in places like Boston, New strong else , and wherever City, Irish music communities have thrived – that traditions of the regional offshoots but also dependent originated in Ireland, it. playing who’s player individual the on - - Arts & Entertainment Arts By Sean Smith

A welcome fixture in the annual March March annual the in fixture welcome A Joining the lineup this year are The In his customary role as emcee, as emcee, In his customary role Massachusetts,in up grew who Hamer, ongoing or recent Both have numerous just riveting, and Eamon are “Jefferson has sung in South Kerry, from Horgan, festivities, “A St. Patrick’s Day Celtic festivities, “A Sojourn” this returns month for its 13th with ties to year of featuring performers as well as othersBoston and New England from further afield.The show will stop Liu Performance at Rockport’s Shalin Center (March 11), Hanover Theatre in Northampton the 12), (March Worcester Academy of Music 13), (March Sanders Theatre in Cambridge (March 14), and 15). (March Beverly’s Cabot Theatre Murphy Beds – the duo of Jefferson – Irish-born O’Leary Eamon and Hamer fiddle Boston-based Horgan, Clare singer duo Nathan Gourley and Laura Fedder ist-pianist Keith Murphy. and interlocutor will be Brian narrator, which of the show, O’Donovan, creator Celtic is based on his WGBH-FM “A Sojourn” program. paths crossed and Dublin native O’Leary ago, decade a than more City York New in and began performing as The Murphy Accompanying Beds a few years later. bouzouki, and themselves on guitar, known for their mandolin, the two are elaborate, deceptively yet laid-back quietly mesmerizing arrangements of American, Irish, traditional songs from Scottish, and English folk traditions, and their own compositions. reflected The are interests Murphy wide-ranging Beds’ in their 2012 album, which traditional singers like material from includes Arkansas’ Donegal’s Lillis O’Laoire, Almeda Riddle, and classic song of , and from collections, like that of Francis Child or ’s Songs of the People, and W.T. by composition 19th-century a even “Her Bright and J.E. Carpenter, Wrighton Smile Haunts Me Still.” collaborations of note: Hamer’s “Child Ballad” album with Grammy-winning won Mitchell Anais singer-songwriter a BBC Radio 2 Folk has played with John Doyle and Nuala Award; Immigrant The O’Leary in and Alt The as Kennedy Band, an Irish-American old-timey project. with those vocal harmonies and close, them,” says around curling strings O’Donovan. “There’s an authenticity about them in terms of their selection of traditions, and the different songs from they show them.” care including jazz (which a variety of genres, she studied at the University of ), sen, Maine accordion and concertina concertina and accordion Maine sen, player Chris Stevens, uilleann piper Torrin Ryan and, as featured native Boston-area and choreographer, dancer and dancer Kevin Ashley Smith-Wallace, be the Also on hand will McCormack. guitarist-vocal director, music show’s

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Their contribution can the Chest- on “Under be heard nut Tree” as well as Nally.” “Simon elaborate recording studio elaborate recording in,” laughs I’ve ever been so lovely to Egan. “But it was in the morn be in that space, es, especially when you’ve got es, especially when A-level accommodations.” first as performer, along with Solas, and then also as music – has been a revela director get to tion, Egan notes. “You ton with, a work and know, musicians –some of great times people you might not ing before we all had to get ing before You for the next show. ready circumstanc make the best of tre chusetts chusetts , Massa , massa al center for the arts alier Thea ynn Center Fl Burlington, Vermont Chev medford capit concord As it turned out, he had As it turned out, - produc Celtic Sojourn” mas an- up bringing tion wound to component other important as 2018, in Late Bright.” “Early had begun project the album he’d been to coalesce, one tune tinkering sticking in with kept wondered, his mind. What, he like with a would it sound where – and string quartet could he find a string quartet? to look no farther than the Celtic Sojourn” “Christmas which year, that line-up for included The Fretless, a has cham- nadian quartet that Ca- pioned the “chambergrass” folk-string ensemble sound. enough, And serendipitously Maeve Gilchrist, the “Sojourn” was assistant music director, Egan a masterful arranger. worked with The Fretless and - a re Gilchrist, then organized - - Arts & Entertainment Arts Egan points to “Two Little “So ‘Two Little Ducks’ is a to Orwell,” mean- “Welcome - “After a while I had to re as music di- Egan’s tenure about that trip I took the other trip I took the other about that ends says Egan. “What day,” up happening is that into something myself tapping I find I’m feeling or experiencing, or around simply noodling I’m and I on banjo or mandolin, it leads. just follow it to where what with smartphone And we’ve practically technology, studio in got a mini-recording can quickly our pockets, so I mo- those easily preserve and them.” ments and work with or Ducks,” his sumptuously nate mandolin lead accom nate mandolin lead panied at close quarters by guitar and Marshall’s Sanna’s bouzouki, as a good example can of how time and memory incite a brainstorm. When he was in his teens, Egan began playing with – an outstanding fretted-string himself – and would musician large, often sample Moloney’s collection, which varied record mandolin. included baroque tangible manifestation of that of lis- experience – the process tening to something different attempt- and getting inspired, it – seeping ing to learn from sure never I’m blood. into my that sort of experience where might pop out again; I of wonder what else is hiding kind back there.” while, actually owes its origi- nal inspiration to listening to singer-songwriter Argentine - accord Molina, Juana Rosario ing to Egan, who for a while carried around a sound file la- beled “Molina” on his smart- the idea. phone to preserve The tune is a particularly apt showcase for Egan’s innova- tive use of nylon-string guitar, which goes back quite some he As he explains, years ago. that was loaned an instrument a tenor guitar only resembled with double strings. He tuned it like the tenor banjo but, he because of its resonance, used it for slower pieces and began experimenting with fin- ger-picking. I had but turn it to its owner, with the sound fallen in love - and the possibilities it afford ed me. So, that got me think- out there ing about what was but might similar that was have an even richer sound. That search brought me to the to say hard It’s nylon guitar. who or what influencedplaying on it: my a nylon-string guitar but used way than I was in a different thinking about. I think I really it like a banjo – approached that had two extra but a banjo strings.” for the annual “Christ- rector - - - - Well, yes and no: While a yes and no: While Well, it is hap- a lot of “Honestly, the al- of some At a glance, But while many an artist is “There’s nothing pre-or lowing year, he released his his released he lowing year, first solo album, “When Juni- six featured which Sleeps,” per title (the of his compositions - “Broth in appeared track also ers McMullen”). That was long time ago, and one pretty a that Egan might get the idea a massive was building up in his ideas tune inventory of them. to unleash waiting head, on couple of the compositions go back aways Bright” “Early he says, of origin, in terms over these most took shape - he relo past few years since But the met- cated to Vermont. aphorical soil in which these has been nour tunes grew far longer, enriched and ished many sources. and from penstance and being open to you,” what’s going on around explains Egan, who was an four champion on All-Ireland by the instruments different time he was 14. “I’ve always been intrigued by the possibil- to ities of what can be brought Irish music, how things can fit Over the years, I’ve together. been fortunate to have a lot of playing opportunities born of expand- that have music Irish ed to include other kinds of get You in other arenas. music, out of your comfort zone, per haps, and then you take that with experience back home you.” track titles bespeak a bum’s setting like the one in rural which Egan lives now: “Ear ly Bright,” “Simon Nally Hunt the Buck,” “Two Little the Chestnut “Under Ducks,” a simi- And there’s Street.” larly pastoral quality to some of the tunes: on “Early Bright,” for board The solo key- up example, might summon sun morning the of an image passing appearing through clouds; “Welcome to Orwell,” which builds on a nifty nylon guitar duet be- guitar-rhythm could Sanna, and tween Egan pas- easily suggest a leisurely “Si- road; country a along sage bou- mon Nally” – Marshall’s zouki interlacing with Egan’s put mandolin – can perhaps eye in a blooming your mind’s on (Other musicians meadow. the album include Egan’s So- las colleague Moira Smiley on and Joe Phillips on accordion double bass.) influenced by his or her envi- not al- inspiration is ronment, says straightforward, ways so Egan. – not do about what I dained like I look out a window and write a tune think, ‘Oh, I’ll or I about that cloud in the sky,’ I’ll compose something decide Page 26 Boston Irish March, 2020 Online at BostonIrish.com Alien Passengers,enforced lawsrequiring shipmasters In mid-May,Council formedaCommitteeon theCity anti-immigrant nativismamongalarmedBostonians. institutions and threatened public health while stoking across the Atlantic. Their numbers overwhelmed City contracted aboard the ‘coffin ships’ that brought them arrived afflicted with “Ship Fever” – lice-borntyphus – penniless, desperate,andclothedinrags.Hundreds Famine refugees landinginBoston, many ofthem them, sometimeswithviolence. humiliated and stealingjobs.Nativistmobspublicly saw theimmigrantsasunderpricinglabormarkets classes working native while work, find to enough asylums. Rapaciousemployersexploitedthoselucky disproportionately occupyingworkhouses, jails, and the poorest classes,sufferingrates, and highmortality and inNewEnglandfactorytowns.Most populated America. Thousands sought new beginnings in Boston abandoned Ireland’s ramshackle economy for North emigration. prolonging it,effectively escalatingdeathand mass starved the Irish people, by first creating scarcity, then into alingeringfamine.Governmentpolicyessentially ideology thatallowed food exports turned acrop crisis parsimony, prejudice, and a doctrinaire laissez-faire ineptitude, instead, starvation; preventedmass have their only food source. The Empire’s resources could at subsistence level. The potato blight then destroyed dustries, leavinganexpanding rural population to exist Parliament inLondondevastatedemerging Irishin- population. 19th-century resource thathelpedsustainEngland’sindustrializing “Ejectment of Irish Tenantry”,IllustratedLondon News,. 1801, Ireland remained times. Theoretically part of the United Kingdom since endemic poverty, violence,andwarlastingintorecent propriated landandwealth,thereby breeding misrule, an ‘ascendancy’ class, alien inraceandreligion, ex- on DeerIslandinBostonHarbor. in theNewWorld onlytoperishwhileinquarantine childrenGreat ofthe who soughtdeliverance Hunger This monument commemorates the men, women, and and thousands more ontheshores oftheirdestination. plagues they fled:thousands during Atlantic crossings, emigrated, andmanyofthemperishedfrom the million 2 Another 1852. and 1845 and between starvation disease of die people million 1.5 estimated pig n sme o 14 sw huad of thousands saw 1847 of summer and Spring people million a nearly 1845, and 1815 Between Ireland was England’s first colony.first England’s Irelandwas centuries, Over –sawan An GortaMór–Ireland’s ‘Great Hunger’ From EconomicImmigrantstoFamineRefugees Deer IslandGreatHungerMemorial In theharbor, atestamenttoAnGortaMór Historical Background a de factocolony, anagricultural legislated Tariffs Deer Island’s Great Hunger Memorial y the by r Mrat hmef We te pdmc finally epidemic the When himself. sacrificing Moriarty staff, Dr. hospital attacked also had which patients; nearly 300 had died, some 200 from typhus, 6; MaryConnolly, 1;MaryFlaherty, 2. the first three patients to die on the island:island.” There, Maryhospital steward James Nelson, Turner buried the northwestcornerofmostnortherlyhillon Moriarty’s care. A burialground was located “near with “malignant diseases” and transferred themtoDr. afflicted were passengers which determined Port Physician Jerome Von Crowninshield Smith to secure bondsindemnifyingtheCityfortheircare. paupers amongthepassengersandrequired captains Bailey, the City’s Alien Passengers Inspector, identified immediately beganarrivingattheislandwhere Calvin and supportstaff. Vessels packedwithfaminerefugees Moriarty and a team of fifty dedicated doctors, nurses, on May 29, 1847, under the supervision of Dr. Joseph Construction stillinprogress, thehospitalopened of Bostonbuiltitsquarantinecompoundindays. sick. a quarantinehospitalonDeerIslandfortheimmigrant to underwrite care forforeign paupers, andestablished Boston MayorMartyWalshspoketoagatheringofsome600atthededicationDeerIslandIrishMemorial. By the year’s end,thehospitalhadtreated 2,034 By theyear’s Speedily adaptingexistingbuildings,thecity Deer IslandHospital “The DayAfter theEjectment”,Illustrated London News.

war, famine,andexile. world. From this island, they cryoutfor an end to exploitation inIreland, in America, andacross the colonial of crimes the to Together,attest 1670s. they ment ontheislandduringKingPhilip’sWar confine- in starved Native Americans, peaceful with soil this share They lie. victims Famine these where Cross marks as hallowed the ground of Deer Island This ground. hallowed signified has heritage, Irish over poor people. profit private and power political prioritized of acatastrophegovernment policythat inducedby Memorial commemorates these immigrantvictims Famine Great Island Deer The misrule. imperial and 1850, innocent victims of colonialism, racial 1847- prejudice, of years Famine the in island this on perished throughout theGreat Hungerand beyond. service impoverished and disease-stricken immigrants hospital totheHouseofIndustry, whichcontinuedto the entrusted Council City the 1848, late in subsided Text composedbyJohnMcColgan Since ancient times, the CelticCross, an icon of Eight hundred and fifty men, women, and children Deer Island’sGreatHungerLegacy Photo courtesyBillBrett Courtesy ,Getty Images in the Boston Irish March, 2020 Online at BostonIrish.com Page 27

800 Columbia 800 Columbia , MassConvention @ /MassConvention massconvention.com Brunch Special Guests Road, Dorchester Father Joe White Joe Father Father John Unni John Father Mayor Martin Walsh Mayor Governor Charlie Baker Governor Please come and celebrate and come Please Congressman Stephen Lynch Connie Sullivan, In Memoriam Connie Sullivan, Master of Cerremonies – Dan Rea Master of Cerremonies – Dan All proceeds to benefit Mary Ann Brett Food Pantry Food All proceeds to benefit Mary Ann Brett Dr. Larry Ronan and Jim Brett Co-Chairs Larry Dr. 2020 Dorchester Hall of Fame Inductees Hall of Fame Dorchester 2020 St. Teresa of Calcutta Parish Hall of Calcutta Parish St. Teresa Dorchester’s 14th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Day Patrick’s Annual St. 14th Dorchester’s Saturday, March 14, 2020, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 9:30 a.m. 14, 2020, March Saturday,

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series of hexagonal shapes— is “in- is hexagonal shapes— of series on the by the Giant’s Causeway spired stones natural… north coast of Ireland, cooling by ago years million 60 formed lava.” years “In recent demand,” said Millar. that path has grown thickets, Legal obstacles, bureaucratic more difficult. the obstruct even physical barriers path to legal status and citizenship. Together with our public and private undaunted in navigat- partners, we are ing those challenges, and we remain pathways to new steadfast in creating beginnings.” im- Irish of a new wave of demands migrants to Boston, the original Irish its has broadened Immigration Centre client base over the de- and mission cades.

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Name means ‘path’ in Irish ‘path’ Name means DAVID M. GIBBONS DAVID DIRECTOR EXECUTIVE from the MCCA. to our friends andneighbors, Happy St. Patrick’s Day Patrick’s St. Happy Slainte! By Bill Forry Immigration center rolls rolls center Immigration out its new brand: ‘Rian’ brand: its new out One of New England’s most cel- One of New England’s The Irish International Immigrant “Ree-Ann, the word Pronounced Ronnie Rian’s executive director, The new logo— which includes a ebrated Irish institutions has a new ebrated Irish institutions on heavily that leans brand and name while carving a “pathway” its roots into the future. its new name – Rian Center announced Immigrant Center – on Feb. 26. means “path”in the . new no- explained that the Millar, the dual purpose of serves menclature Irish roots honoring the organization’s our inclusive mission “while reflecting refugee of empowering immigrant and families on the path to opportunity, for all.” and a better future safety, Page 28 Boston Irish March, 2020 Online at BostonIrish.com the city. Neitherwaseverbuilt. (AP) estuary anda lush“garden bridge”inthemiddle of Thames River the in airport Island” “Boris a touted big projects. World Warrecord II.Johnson hasamixedtrack with bombs dumpedbyBritain’s defenseministryafter deep andtheseabedholds thousands of unexploded Scotland, is about 28 miles. The water is up Larne in NorthernIrelandbetween in andPortpatrick to 1,000 feet bridge, routesa likely for most the narrowest;of one its at miles 12 is distance The difficult. be would Sea pounds” ($20billion). times, and claimed it would “only cost about 15 billion of England.Hehasmentionedthebridgeideaseveral regions outsidetheeconomically dominant southeast from theEuropean Union.Healso hasvowedtoboost parts oftheU.K.inwakeBritain’sdivisive exit to buildmajornewinfrastructure tobetterconnect Prime MinisterBoris Johnson. Johnson has promised by floated been has that idea audacious an Ireland, between Scotland andNorthern of abridge feasibility Scotland, No.Ireland UK: Bridgecouldlink Ireland’s rugby matchesagainstItalypostponedduetovirus celebration forBritishandIrishalike. of day a as 17 March established have descent Irish of population large a Trojanof the efforts - market visitor celebrated incountriessuchasRussiaandJapan. Caribbean island of Montserrat. Nowadays it is also but less obviously Franceand Argentina andeventhe obviously theUnitedStates,Canadaand Australia, old traditions ofcelebratingSt.Patrick’sDaywere to reinforceis popularity. Among thecountrieswithcenturies- continued have influence or descendants throughoutevery country theworldwhere Irish the IrisheverySt.Patrick’sDay. in theinterveningcenturiesandwhichare rekindled in reverence, aweandaffection inwhichhehasbeenheld and legends of the countrysays something ofthe therefore inevitable.Buthisprominence inthetraditions become aChristiannation. had century,Ireland 15th the of end the By incredible. success as aChristianmissionaryseemsallthemore perhaps from theoddtraveleroradventurer. conquerors ofBritainhadnotventured thisfar–apart ruins dominatedthelandscape.EvenRoman provincial kings.Eeriedolmen monumentsandancient five by might iron with ruled island, the across groups known country. WarringCelts were scattered intribal century AD, he faced an uncertainfuture inalittle- had beenstartedbyothermissionariesbefore him. work the 462 if year thereaboutseven the or - to AD up converting Irelandover nearly30years, toChristianity rugby officials. Irish HealthMinisterSimonHarris,whometwith was alsopostponed. following day women’s gamethe includes England,,ScotlandandWales. A March 7,partofannualrugbycompetition thatalso about thespreading virus inEurope. Dublin was postponed on Feb. 26 because of concerns s ao o Lno bten 08 n 21 he 2016 and 2008 between London of mayor As But engineerssayspanningthedeepandstormyIrish the studying seriously is government British The By JillLawless,AssociatedPress In Britain-Ireland’s closest neighbor anditsbiggest nearly in celebrated now is Patrick St. of Feast The Perhaps Patrick’selevation intosainthood was Against thisbackdrop, St. Patrick’sphenomenal 5th the in Ireland in foot set Patrick St. When Who was St. Patrick? The decision to postpone the matches came from came matches the postpone to decision The on Ireland at play to scheduled were Italians The Ireland’s SixNationsrugbymatch againstItalyin The who,what,andwhenoftheSt.Patrickstory The man largely responsible for ••• A St.Patrick’s Story remember aboutPatrickis thathewasnotIrish.In tangible evidenceofhisauthenticity. is authentic. A written document, his Confession, is centuries withlegendandmake-believe,hisexistence about hislifehavebeenfreely mingledoverthe this instruction.” with comply to happy is IRFU The Health. Public of matches should not proceed, in the interests of Emergency team has determined that the series advised, formally, thattheNationalPublicHealth Football Unionsaid in astatement.“We were then health inrelation tothecoronavirus,” the Irish Rugby supportive ofthegovernments’needtoprotect public Friday peace accord. (AP) tion of “cease-fire babies” raised after the 1998 Good in NorthernIreland andthestruggles ofthegenera - growingwho hadwrittenpowerfully about upgay , in which more than 3,500 people died. region stillscarred bydecades of violenceknownas and istoappearincourtagainonFeb.27. the courthouse before thehearing.Hewas denied bail picking upcasingsfrom thebulletsthatkilledMcKee. at Magistrates’ Court thathis client was accused of McKee byaccidentwhilefiringatpolice. ern Ireland’s peace process, said itsmembers shot IRA, asmallparamilitarygroup thatopposes North- New The 2019. in April killed was she when Derry the gunmantojustice.” involved andtheyare stillseeking“evidence tobring although police say they believeseveral people were year.Paul McIntyre hasbeencharged withmurder, involving Irish Republican Army dissidents last of LyraMcKee, ajournalistshotdeadduringriot in NorthernIreland in connection withthekilling Where didhecomefrom? facts the if definitely, even Most then? real Washe Man in court over killing of N Ireland journalist Lyra McKee “At theoutsetwemade it clearthattheIRFUwas McKee was a increasingly influential journalist influential increasingly a was McKee McKee’s killing causedwidespread shockina Supporters of McIntyre scuffled with police outside McIntyre’s lawyer, DerwinHarvey, told ahearing in rioting anti-police observing was 29, McKee, 13 Feb. on court in appeared man 52-year-old A An importantthingto in DerryonFeb. 13,2020. of journalistLyraMcKee, murder the with charged donderry Magistrates’ Court, where heisappearing Supporters ofPaul McIntyre protest outside Lon- made. (AP) was postpone to decision the before RTE told Harris considerations, allother andbeyond above health public many, itisimportanttomake decisionsinrelation but to infection and11 deathslinkedtothedisease. Europe, with more than 300 people diagnosed with can berescheduled. n mp f oa Bian Te ae f i brh is birth his of date commonly givenascirca 389 AD. The Britain. Roman of on map name any such no is there but Taberniae, Bannavem to hisfatherowningaholdingnearthevillageof nobody knows.Patrickhimselfrefers inhiswritings British, evenifhewasofRomanparentage. fact hewaswhatnowadaysatleastwouldbecalled likely. are more inclined to think of Strathclyde as being more came from Gloucestershire. Modernscholarshowever, along theSevernValley, whichcouldalsomeanthathe that Patrickoriginallycamefrom SouthWales, probably those days.Hence,ithastraditionallybeenassumed were giventoraidingthewesterncoastofBritainin Mountain inCounty Antrim. Irishpiratechieftains working asaherdsman forsixyearsonSlemish King, NialloftheNineHostages,andsoldintoslavery, named Succat,hewascaptured inaraidbytheIrish left off. where aprevious missionaryBishop,Palladius,had Patricius, hewassentbythePopetoIreland totakeup ordained apriest.In432 AD, nowabishopnamed the monasteryof Auxerre, nearParis,andlaterwas studied tobecomeaChristianandmissionaryat missionary. As aresult, hewenttoFrance,somesay, Ireland called tohimreturn tothatcountryasaChristian of Voice The it, In importance. monumental According toPatrick,he hadanotherdream of ship inadream -andmadehiswaybacktoBritain. Milchu -legendhasitthathewastoldofawaiting six years,Patrickmanagedtoescapefrom hismaster, “I know(itwill)causeagreat disappointmentto Italy hasthehighestnumberofcases of thevirus in matches the when about talks plan officials Rugby How did he first arrive in Ireland? in arrive first he did How honest, be originate? 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• Reunions • Weddings Weddings • • Special Occasions • Groups • Families • Groups • Portraits • Anniversaries • Banquets • Harry Brett Margaret Brett Hastings Brett Margaret Photography by The official photographers of the Boston Irish Reporter (617) 291-6609 Image Photo Service Oh, and there was also the matter of religion that the matter of religion was also there Oh, and led Speaker 1916, Indians, the with season first his In The big is darn and pretty graveyard plenty scary, the 50 grand they got from Cleveland, which they did. they which Cleveland, from got they grand 50 the who was reportedly into the trade. Speaker, factored a member of the Ku Klux Klan back home in Texas, during his Red Sox years, anti-Catholic was virulently And since in the clubhouse. which caused a schism years 100 itself city the was as was, base fan Boston’s he was, despite his great Irish Catholic, ago, largely talent, deemed expendable. Things have a way Once he settled in Cleveland, working out, though. of an married and with, fell in love met, Speaker she – changed him. It - that is to say, Irish-Catholic girl. change, but Catholics in toward Not only did his attitude player black first the became Doby Larry when also, Jackie after months few a only League American the Dodgers, his in with the Brooklyn Robinson broke was none other personal coach and biggest booster Speaker. than former KKK member Tris American League in batting (.386), hits, the doubles, But the Red Sox repeated and slugging percentage. Series champions. So there. as World And I’m past it. but I’m still whistlin’ on my way Mookie Betts thinking that maybe, just maybe, losing like it feels sure isn’t the end of the world after all. It is, though, doesn’t it?

The point is that in the aftermath of the Seattle courtesy Exhibit B in our whistling tour is provided which Rodriguez agreed to restructure his contract, to restructure which Rodriguez agreed disallowed the but the players union stepped in and to a pay cut, soarrangement, claiming that it amounted and in swooped then Yankees The dead. was deal the A-Rod, complete with his baggage of PEDs scooped up soon came to light. Rodriguez ended that and untruths distraction to up as a terrible (and terribly expensive) in tatters. his own reputation and with Yankees, the on that one. did the Sox dodge a bullet Boy, Alex Rodriguez walk, they thrived. Mariners letting wake the in Sox Red the with happen could same The pray. of the Mookie deal ; we hope, and we of a my life-long pal Samway, Red Tim Sox devotee which I guess and student of the team’s history, me reminded Tim tissue. scar emotional his explains the outfielder young terrific another of day other the then went on to win a World Red Sox traded away, than a century more without him. It happened Series compiled had Speaker Tris happened. it but true, ago, a .337 batting average in seven-plus seasons with the of one of the earned the reputation Sox and had already just had He time. all of outfielders defensive greatest contributing a was money Mookie, with As 28. turned pirating started had League Federal upstart The factor. American Leagues and the National players from in 1914, and in order to protect their investment in the Speaker, Red Sox doubled his salary to $18,000. the Sox When the Federal League folded a year later, had it $9,000 the to back contract Speaker’s cut to tried so resisted, Speaker originally been. Needless to say, off shipped was he began, season 1916 the before just infielder and Jones Sam Sad pitcher for Cleveland to Fred Thomas, plus $50,000 in cash. Speaker refused of $10,000 over fork to agreed Sox the until report to Mookie Betts now playing on the other coast. Mookie Betts now playing on the other - Funeral Home Funeral Sports www.GormleyFuneral.com Gormley By Dick Flavin By Dick

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The Red Sox loss of Mookie Betts might not the to evidence anecdotal have I and it, said I’ve There. Rodri Alex was player that and 2001 was year The T If you’re worried about the double whammy aspect worried If you’re A-Rod signed with And what of that huge contract Burials in Massachusetts Burials in Massachusetts or Ireland 617-323-8600 2055 Centre Street MA Roxbury, West mean end of the world. was another 20 years ago there back me up. Less than left his agency, in the age of free young player who, big the to him brought had that the one original team, anything, even better than Mookie. leagues. He was, if had he of at-bats same number the In approximately (.309 now does Mookie than average batting higher a to .301), many more home runs (189 (133 bases stolen more to even he and 476), 139), to (595 RBIs more to 126). Like Mookie, he was a defensive whiz at his position. And at age 25, he was even younger than which is 27. Mookie is now, as the attempt to stay cheerful in a dire situation. Well, situation. Well, cheerful in a dire as the attempt to stay you ready? Are to blow. up and ready I’m all puckered of losing both Mookie and David Price, consider this: of losing both Mookie and David Price, free A-Rod’s before years half a and two just 1998, In the Mariners dealt the best lefthander in agency, rather deadline at the trading baseball, Randy Johnson, In 2000, without agency. free than lose him through and as a wild card, Johnson, they made the playoffs in 2001, without both Johnson and A-Rod, they set the all- time for record wins. Those are the only two history that the Mariners have times in their entire in the post-season. appeared was it decided Texas seasons three After Rangers? the too rich for their blood and started actively shopping him around. The first takers were none other than in deals of package a together put They Sox. Red the guez. He left the Seattle Mariners to sign a massive guez. He left the Seattle Mariners to Rangers. Texas the with contract million $252 10-year, the loss you might ask, did the Mariners survive How, Keep in of the best young player of the generation? had never been any link mind that at this time there A-Rod and performance enhancing made between Mariners the him, without season first their In drugs. for victories American League record set an all-time That’s 116-46. at finishing season, regular the during too-good- their in had Sox Red the than wins more 8 the them, for Unfortunately 2018. of season to-be-true Mariano Jeter, of Derek Yankees Mariners ran into the American League in the Rivera, and Bernie Williams made it to the Championship Series and so never Series. World Whistling past the graveyard on Mookie exit on Mookie graveyard past the Whistling Page 30 Boston Irish March, 2020 Online at BostonIrish.com To Ireland’s BlueBookyoushouldturn Looking for atouchofgraciousliving? family. 14th generationofthe Fearne representsthe year old daughter wife Colette,whose her sonDJandhis She’s picturedwith owner oftheproperty. is the12thgeneration Susan Kellette (left) Enniscoe House’s other obviousthingwasinvolvingthe and the veryobviousthingwas tourism enough todoseriousfarming. So of theplace. very fewpeople cominginandout people workinghere andthere were at it. At thattime,there were veryfew early 1980s, and I decided to “This said. she was not interested in staying here,” but, asthingsworkedout,mybrother take overtherunning ofthehouse, welcome gueststothemainhouse. their daughterliveontheestateand DJ Kellett, and hiswifeColette hospitality business.Nowshe,herson never plannedtohaveacareer inthe Trinityand at Dublin history College the property tooneofhiscommanders. 1650s when Oliver Cromwell granted has owned theestate,dating back tothe that family the of generation 12th the guests at the door. She’s a member of in Ballina,Co.Mayo an 18thcenturymanor Enniscoe House, last year: afford. Here’s areport ontwovisits them andtheunique experiencesthey four ofthese properties, Irecommend modern-day life.Havingstayednowat decompressing from thepace of hiking, somegolf.It’sreally about a variety of outdoor activities: fishing, preserved, maintained,and featuring in glorious old grand estates, all experience of livingand sleeping these graciousspotsaffords a unique across the island. A visittoone of hotels, andrestaurants locatedall of selectedIrishcountryhouses, of a collectiondescriptivelistings Tees bt f ad et bt not but left, land of bit a “There’s “I supposeIhadneverintendedto Born Susan Nicholson, she studied meetsherOwner Susan Kellett Ireland’s BlueBookisajointventure

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- us to do … There were 11 For more information about the Blue “We noticed that people were “We in Failte Ire “So one of the directors land at the time said, ‘You know, you know, land at the time said, ‘You guys should get together and form an constantly association ‘cause you’re And we dealing with yourselves.’ a marketing point looked at it from of view that it would be a very good thing for and we were starting off properties all on that same cycle that tourists one of the And probably used to do. best ways to form an association is supplying a service when you’re it’s and for a demand that is there growing. I believe there are over 50 within the Blue Book at properties that on all again, And moment. the or group the main circle route, circle key focal points.” -blue-book. see Association, Book ie. coming to us from other hotels and coming to us from the same names, hearing we were the same locations several times. talking to them, And when we were we would make advanced bookings. So somebody would arrive to us going we’re ‘Okay, and they’d say, to go on a bit further north. Can And somewhere?’ you recommend the hotels to the south of us were being asked the same questions and a we always wanted to recommend similar to ourselves. property

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one of the first and first the of one people come to property. property. That’s the Book of Kells. But after Kells. But Book of was It’s very selective on the hotels hotels the on selective very It’s they’re when in confidence “The “The Blue Book Association, Cashel House Cashel. Connemara. Co Galway e: [email protected] w:cahselhouse.ie t: +353 (095) 31001 ing the bookings of the reservations. ing the bookings of the reservations. of booking.com the advent “With and all of the online travel agencies, choice lot more an awful have people traveling in Ireland when they’re and they can now make last-minute bookings, that sort of thing. But we find that when most people they have a much Ireland, around travel to go. better informed idea of where “The first time land, they generally cover the main – focal points like the Cliffs key areas the or Moher of and they’ve toured, they’ve been here the second time they come back, they of where zone in on certain areas And that’s where they want to be. Connemara and the west of Ireland does very well, because people would quieter rural, want to go to the more that have not been changed areas areas, tourism. People on that much from visits generally their second and third graduate to do so, and we get more seasoned travelers, if you will. Brian tells about the roots of the Ireland Blue Book: a founding member of, which we’re is a very well-known Irish hotels It association. best as the be ranked still would it Ireland. can be chosen to be that and properties an individual of the association: whole ethos really of a similar to have similar properties standard. The people can kind have of

see what he locations just locations rare rare trees. The only a handful of very woodland walks and was no gate. was There a three other three parents parents first purchased the There There are out to the left “He built an orchard because he kept trying to in case so that we have that rose. would be able to get to grow. and put hand side of the property that sort plum trees, in apple trees, And then they had gifted a of thing. that is of a rosebush wedding present take very good We to this day. still here care of it; we’ve actually transplanted or two into rare azaleas, and azaleas, and have a lot of rare “We we as of Rhododendrons hundreds have 26 acres of gardens. The plantings go back far as as 1840. It was many we when years the property we purchased after garden the secret that in realized there are some the of Society Horticultural Royal and UK have come over to Ireland they have catalogued and geotagged the trees. them in the whole British Isles. was named because garden secret The when my house, there completely walled section and that’s trees.” rare he kept the where

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them. in Ireland. in wedding present as they were. The which put Cashel and another property up inup property another and looking at both properties; finger-keen gardener in gardens are going to go on to be to go on going to are the gardens from and my “My father is from Manager Brian McEvilly spoke spoke Brian McEvilly Manager “The house was a Cashel House manager Brian McEvilly(left) was born and brought up at the property in Conne- mara. Ray Toorley. an Offaly man, met his wife there and has been for some 40 mainstay a years. Clifden, just outside mother is from When here. about 30 minutes drive from looking they came to Cashel, they were to convert it a property to purchase into a hotel. They were both hoteliers Athlone. So a hotel in and they had run property this and Mayo became available to purchase they were at the deciding factor was the gardens the hotel. They were exceptionally then. even back well maintained And back in those days, there were were And back in those days, there on importing and very little restrictions gentleman the So plants. exporting to do a lot of dealings internationally, he Asia, and especially with India and would bring in exotic plants to see what because he knew in Ireland would grow that the climate on the west coast with than lot warmer was a Stream the Gulf So a lot of what he of Ireland. the rest in never made it, but a good brought few plants did. So we have quite a simply here growing plants few rare ad a huge attraction, which was a great that vantage over the other properties Plus it was very looking for. they were close to her parents. “So my mother, a very keen gardener, a very keen gardener, “So my mother, said village. It consisted village. It consisted “Cashel is a tiny old house, and next back then of this owned by door was an old property And then a church. Guinness’s, (and) was a local shop which was a there post office or hardware shop, one of And these all-in-one kind of units. a very would have been then there community. small rural grew up in the “I grew about the property: house. This was my family in by my parents it was purchased home, 1967. They opened the hotel in 1968 DeGaulle stay and we had Charles in May of 1969, were, it as map’ the ‘on Cashel House, located Cashel House, between in Connemara and Clifden. Roundstone when it was built and the gardens were were when it was built and the gardens not as substantial mountain actually ran right down by would the side of the hotel. So there have been just green fields. And each the generation that has purchased has a house or owned the property green Page 32 Boston Irish March, 2020 Online at BostonIrish.com Down (where hisgraveislocated),Inch Abbey (where ated withSt.Patrick’slife,includingtheCathedralof eat attheGarden Café. excellent craftshop while there andstopforabiteto experience. Besure tovisittheCentre’s artgalleryand and legacyininteractivegalleriesattheIMAX Dublin orBelfastCityCenters. Ireland can still visitbytakingabusor train from the in car a rent don’t who Those Belfast. from minutes Airport (where carrental40 and about isavailable) world’s onlypermanentexhibitionaboutthesaint. in Centre Patrick Saint Downpatrick, Co.Down,NorthernIreland –the The at is concluded have and perhaps oneofthebestplacestoseewhatthey and myth. or accuracy,it’s alwaysfuntohearIrishlegend but there several?It’shard toanswerwithgreat certainty Ireland’s patron saint? Was he just one man or were ST. PATRICK later thatrock thelocalpubs. religious ceremonies before orafterandgatherings traditional andcolorfulparades,oftencoupledwith south, citiesandtownsorganize theirmarchers forthe pomp andcircumstance. From easttowest,north at celebrating holidays such as March 17 with all due songs, stories,andparadeshere andalloverIreland. comes thepleasure ofcelebratingSt.Patrickwithlively bidding snow, ice,andcoldfarewell foranotheryear, as they say, back. And along with breaks winter’s March, thatmostwelcome precursor of springwhich, of delightsontheislandIreland The Saint’s monthoffersaplethora There are many sites near the Centre that are associ Patrick’s life you canlearnabout At Downpatrick, Dublin from drive two-hour a just is Centre The Scholars havedonecenturiesofresearch onPatrick everyone honorsas that So, whowasthisSt.Patrick masters are and parade good a enjoy do Irish The Strike upthebandand let thecelebrationbegin!It’s By JudyEnright Traveling People - Ireland, hasconductedanindependentevaluationthat with 88 percent hailing from outside Northern countries 145 Ireland.than morefrom visitors million 6 than this wonderfulattraction,whichhaswelcomedmore see and Belfast Titanic the to north continue to sure TITANIC first church at Saul (where Patrick died on March 17). the legendofsnakeswaswritten),andIreland’s Poulnabrone Dolmen intheBurren you’re when isamust see inCo. Clare. Jackie Henry, aseniorpartneratDeloitteNorthern After youhavewalkedinSt.Patrick’sfootsteps,be and stageentertainer. landscape painter, sketch writer, poet,banjoplayer, he wasalsoaneditor,songs, but concert promoter, songs. French isperhaps bestknownforhishumorous Dublin, where hedevelopedhistalentforwriting Trinityin at programCollege degree engineering an began he 1872, In England. and Ireland in educated Percy French wasborninCo.Roscommonand that Jan. 24 marked the 100th anniversary of his death. also and Mourne” of Mountains “The song beautiful PERCY FRENCH Dublin. See visitdublin.com and Ireland.com for more. the program offers hundreds ofevents throughout the and Department ofCulture,and theGaeltacht, Heritage, Council City Dublin Ireland), Tourism of food events,familyfun,andmore. spoken word, andliterature aswell astours,trails, to the holiday itself. There’s music, performance, art, with activity over five days and nights from March 13 bursts city capital The right? one, No Day? Patrick’s DUBLIN Derrymoreand manyothers. House,MountStewart, properties preserved by The National Trust, including and Dunluce Castle as well as the manyotherhistoric Causeway, theGiant’s visit Carrick-a-Rederope bridge, its openingin2012. single investmentandmostambitiousproject since and NorthernIreland.” spectacle thatwillcontinuetodrivevisitorsBelfast Refreshment Program, weaimtodeliveraworld-class refreshment program, adding,“through ourGallery re-invest three million pounds sterling intoagallery the company’s chiefexecutive,hasoutlinedplansto driver fortourisminNorthernIreland, Judith Owens, pounds sterlingforthelocaleconomy. he said showed the exhibit had generated 319 million A painter, musician,composer, andsinger, William If youare aPercy French fan,yousurelyknow his arm Irish (the Ireland Fáilte by funded Principally Who canforget DublinwhentalkingaboutSt. An aside: Whileyouare in the North,besure toalso biggest Belfast’s Titanic be will work gallery The Saying that Titanic Belfast is committed to being a key Judy Enright photo Enright Judy Boston Irish March, 2020 Online at BostonIrish.com Page 33 on this on Hidden GemsHidden ••• and Ann O’Brien O’Brien Ann and Discover Ireland’s Ireland’s Discover Small-Group Tour Small-Group with Richie Gormley 2020

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Offaly. like Clonmacnoise Offaly. in Co. monasteries ancient many of one Visit forward, not least in helping not least to save the forward, to need plants flowering that pollinators survive. In most of the high-nature-value it argues, Ireland, farmland across agri-environmental ‘the income from is a lifeline in keeping farmers schemes farming.’” MINDFUL SELF COMPASSION yourself? Check out Caitriona nic treat 22-24 March Ghiollaphadraig’s program Hotel Inagh Lodge at beautiful Lough in Connemara, Co. Galway. 7 p.m. The dinner. Mindful, Self-Com- passion session will be introduced Viney discussed the EU award of of discussed the EU award Viney by received gratefully was award “The “This costly program, for birds that “The column brought pertinent recorded he has in winter, “Even in And biodiversity indeed. yes, “So the however, Nature,’ “ ‘Farming for and hopes, as evidenced by the excerpt evidenced as and hopes, below from his Feb. 1 column I the column, After reading pollinators. about wanted to immediately visit this farmer and see what he has accomplished. the cost toward four million euro some on program conservation five-year a of Donegal and farmland. The “is to save our summer aim, he wrote, to corncrakes, all but extinct as migrants Europe western in declining and Ireland Russia in millions in but still breeding and Kazakhstan. the NPWS (National Parks and Wildlife management land Service), whose with farmers, include the plans, agreed planting with tall native of meadows vegetation to give corncrakes cover for their breeding. neither “keystone” for their habitat are with planetary loss, nor threatened seemed a fair example of the challenge to species which in choosing conservation to save. Cuinneagáin, Ó Feargal from comment pioneered has who farmer a young ten grassy the corncrake for sowing unit of (metric hectares windswept and of the Mullet Peninsula in measurement) of richly mixed Co. Mayo. His meadows native herbs and wild flowers, while cover, primarily managed for corncrake have attracted a striking variety of birds Cuinneagáin, Ó lists skylark,’ ‘breeding – bunting, reed pipit, snipe, ‘meadow grasshopper warbler, sedge warbler, stonechat, wheatear and chough’ geese, twite, golden barnacle and greylag the summer And plover and curlew. foot of yellow rattle, bird’s profusion food to clover offers and red trefoil yellow bumblebee, the rare the great pollinator that now survives only in parts of the west. elaboration of plants beyond the careful the familiar nettles and yellow iris, of the it is the deliberate restoration meadows that used to be, full of insects of seeds and nectar in summer and spires in winter. movement for which Ó Cuinneagáin’s that ‘the plan insists showpiece, is farm is not a step back in time’ but a way Traveling People Traveling Judy Enright photos - the environmen I have long admired Like many of his fellow artists, he Like many of his fellow artists, he In January 1920, French, then 65, Stop into almost any pub anywhere in Ireland in Ireland anywhere pub almost any into Stop music. traditional great to listen and Looking for active adventure while you’re in while you’re Lookingadventure active for water many so The countryoffers Ireland? activitiessports like other and cycling, hill walking more. much and Cliffs of Moher in Co. Clare are Ireland’s top attraction. attraction. top Ireland’s are in Moher Clare Co. of Cliffs MICHAEL VINEY writing and art work of tally focused editions in the Saturday Viney Michael with touch in so is He Times. Irish The of issues many its him, around the world spent holidays on Achill Island in Co. spent holidays on drew and 1900s early the during Mayo “Island for the poem inspiration there or “In Exile.” He also of my Dreams,” while painted a number of watercolors there. became ill while performing in and died of pneumonia in Formby, England. His grave is in the churchyard Formby, Parish Church, St. Luke’s of Merseyside. Page 34 Boston Irish March, 2020 Online at BostonIrish.com set for Friday, Oct.30 Irish Honorsluncheon cestral Irishhomeland,” said Ed Forry, a deep connectiontoourcommon an- and life; in station or birth of place com- of sense passion forallpeoplenomattertheir a Bostonians; fellow qualities of the Irish: Devotion to our its successorpublication,BostonIrish. Boston Irish Reporternewspaperand the through 1990 since Irish Boston’s ny thathasbeentellingthestoriesof ly ownedandoperatedmediacompa- Neighborhood News, Inc., the private- Forry family, which founded Boston our heritagehere andinIreland. doing so,exemplifytheverybestof have distinguishedthemselvesand,in celebrate individuals and familieswho politics, philanthropy, andtheartsto venes hundreds ofleadersinbusiness, Each year, theBostonIrishHonorscon- lence inourBostonIrishcommunity. premier celebrationofexcel- the year’s seeks nomineesforwhathasbecome 2020, attheSeaportBostonHotel— ors luncheon— set for Friday, Oct. 30, “Our honorees represent thebest the by conceived was event The Hon- Irish Boston annual 11th The Irish Honors Feeney, andtheBrett family. Markey, Richard Neal,Brendan &Greg Senator PaulGKirkJr, USSen.Ed Conway, Jim & Mary(Cahill)Judge, Martin Walsh, Rev. Richard “Doc” Past honorees haveincluded Mayor John Drew, and GraceCotterRegan. M. 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Kennedy and keynotespeakerwillbe Ambassador reception at 6 p.m. The night’s honoree at the SeaportHotelbeginningwitha held be will dinner, annual 283rd Street tolayamemorialwreath. to theIrishFamineMemorial on School meeting, Societymemberswillproceed the following Immediately for 2020-21. members board and officers the Athenaeum onBeaconStreet andelect for theirannualmeetingattheBoston of theCharitableIrishSocietygather when Day on membersSt. Patrick’s Prior tothat,heserved for 27yearsin Society’s the event, public main The a.m. 10 at begin will program The former Societypresident. and Honduras. immigrants from Ireland, Haiti,Nigeria, it has inrecent yearsgiventimelyaidto program, Key Silver its Through adjusting toanewcityandenvironment. as they face the multiplechallengesof newly arrivedimmigrantstoBoston Society has provided assistance to should bemadebyMarch 10. Reservations 228-4445. 617 call or org er questions,visitcharitableirishsociety. for 2020. Achievement Award the Society’sLife award atthedinner, pick upyetanother Award, Mr. Burns will Distinguished Service as thePresidential orary degrees aswell A recipient of 15 hon- Submitted by Catherine B.Shannon, byCatherine Submitted Irish Charitable the years, 283 For - andoth tickets For informationabout Amb. Burns Boston Irish March, 2020 Online at BostonIrish.com Page 35 Founded by Marion and Maurice and Maurice Founded by Marion Malloy was first inspired seeing by “While I was building companies he teamed up with part- there, From the perfect for looking were “We Katie Trojano is a Reporter staff writer. food truck that has trundled down the down trundled that has truck food Roxbury and for of Dorchester streets decades. Hill in 1982, M&M is Geo Lambert, who by their grandson, now operated ten years ago. took over the business The brewery-based restaurant will be the business’s first brick-and-mortar operation. that community of sense strong the space for and provide create breweries when he was in , Germany. live in Dorchester, thought, ‘I globally I my why can’t I do something local for came out of that, community?’ It really I had that ‘aha’ moment in Munich,” said Malloy. and Lee Travis Charbonneau, Todd ners to co-found the company. Holly Irgens to do world-class place in Dorchester a space manufacturing, but also create and come the community could where “ I’ve never said Malloy, enjoy beer,” neighbors, my of all see I been happier. I’m part of my community and that is the thing that is just so magical to me.” March 19-22, 2020 March irishfilmfestival.com “When the tap room opened up up opened “When the tap room of the much to Malloy, According aspect the communal love “People trying to incorporate really “We’re of out operate will which BBQ, M&M in early April 2019. April in early years ago, and we kind three-and-a-half get people could we then that if knew of going to we were to Dorchester to come but amazing had nothing expand. We and from the community, support from Boston,” he said. all the towns around came expansion the for inspiration out of feedback that the DBCo directly their customers and from heard staff neighbors. hearing people and we were of it here, if they could say that it would be great deck was more or if there get food here, space outdoors. Sitting outside on Mass. in the summer is fun, but if it could Ave be a couple floorsup, overlooking the lot A would that be much better? city, Dorchester are of us that work here said ‘Let’s just do it,’” and we residents said Malloy. is is all about-- which what a brewery using our own and community the local community reflect to want We resources. partner that our restaurant so much so ribs.” M&M is Geo from standby local a is DBco, at level floor the a that made its name selling ribs from Somerville Theatre, Davis Square Davis Theatre, Somerville

“Now we’re about a nine to ten about a nine to ten “Now we’re The team at Dorchester Brewing Co. facility and public tap room has experi- facility and public tap room customers drawing success, great enced Boston, and Greater Dorchester, from to its craft-beer bar and the state around Ave. on Massachusetts brewery which taproom, foot square thousand said Malloy. is kind of crazy,” of has always had expansion in the back their minds. Malloy said that the team it when for open intentionally left space they began initial building in 2016. A team little over a year ago, the DBCo started thinking seriously about what for kind of build out would work best began construction the community and Gathering for a good time at Dorchester Brewing Co. - A Dorchester Scene A Dorchester

year anniversary 20 Dorchester Brewing Co. opens rooftop expansion expansion rooftop opens Co. Brewing Dorchester By Katie Trojano By Katie Dorchester Brewing Co. (DBCo) Co. (DBCo) Brewing Dorchester something “Our goal was to create The new second-floor adds 4,200 brewing the 2016, in opening its Since rang in the new year with an opening rang in the new year brand-new expandedcelebration of their “Hopser rooftop featuring a taproom, of views with sweeping vatory” space dollar million $4 The skyline. Boston the build-out added roughly 8,000 square which facility, Ave. feet to their Mass performance area, now includes a new space occupied by M&M restaurant gaming area. BBQ, and an enhanced long thought really we so special, about what we wanted to and hard build,” explained DBCo’s CEO and “We “keg-washer” Matt Malloy. chief the didn’t want to just keep up with we wanted to create other breweries, unique and really something that was have,” he told that Boston didn’t really the Reporter. feet, utilizing the property’s square a glassed-in beer hall space with roof outdoor by a wrap-around surrounded deck with beautiful city views. the rooftop glass encasing surrounding The and to look designed is tasting room and includes function as a greenhouse wood furnishings and a fireplace. Page 36 Boston Irish March, 2020 Online at BostonIrish.com Titanic Belfast Titanic IS… THE HEART HOME IS WHERE They sayThey you should always listen to you it’s and heart, you telling to come home. promisesand made to stay connected. one hundred thousand welcomes, memories prompted, are acquaintances rekindled to cozy corners where laughter to rises the roof. There, abackdrop against of Ireland’s from the fast-paced because iscalling, Listen carefully Ireland beat city of the Titanic friends. to And with the legendary buzz of pub. the . To the chatter feasts and of family shared Home to the hum of festivals. notes To of the thrilling Find your way home at