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Dec 2014 Shamrock Leaf 261 Cape Breton Rd., Irishtown, NB E1H 1W7 Miramichi hero named Email:[email protected] Ambassador to Ireland Page 31 Editor: LINDA EVANS VOLUME NO. 57 – Winter 2014/15 2 Shamrock Leaf Winter 2014/15 Inside This Issue: Letters to the Editor………..... …...4 A visit to Partridge Island …….…..5 Passing of Willie McKenna……….7 ICCA Chap. News……….8, 16, 30 Artist Vincent Crotty…….....…......9 Ian Paisley dies at 88……….…....10 Archbishop Patrick Riordan…......12 A Song of Grosse Ile…. …….......14 Nelson Doyle Dancers …………..15 Catholic church records online ….18 Provincial Archives Website ..…..19 Advertising Rates for the Shamrock Leaf ($CAN): The Charles Stewart Parnell …….20 Business card size……………………………..$25 NB poet James Hogg ……...….....21 1/4 page………………………………………..$45 An Irish stamp album ……….......24 1/2 page………………………………………..$60 Comhaltas Induction ceremony….26 Front Page Banner……………………………..$100 Full page……………………………………….$100 Logic puzzle ………………….…27 Full Page Back Cover………………………….$200 Dr. Murphy saves fever victims ..28 Advertising requests should be given to an ICCA member in your area Feature– Ambassador appointed...31 or sent to: [email protected] Guinness recipes ………………...34 Does anyone know? …………….36 Bits & Pieces ………....……..…..37 Hugh McMonagle - Sussex Vale..38 Stamp stories contest ……….…...39 Fredericton’s new Irish Room ......40 New Ireland, Maine …...………...42 Ireland tops ‘good country’ list ....43 Katherine Angelina Hughes …….44 From the bookshelf ……………..46 ISSN 1928-3296 The Shamrock Leaf is a publication of the Irish Canadian Cultural Association of New Brunswick (ICCANB). All materials contained herein are copyrighted to either the ICCANB or the individual contributors/authors and, as such, may not be copied or otherwise used for any other purpose without written permission from the copyright holder. The Shamrock Leaf is published twice a year—June and December. Designed by ICCANB; Printed by TC Transcon- tinental Printing, P.E.I. Deadlines for submission are April 15th and October 15th respectively. Anyone wishing to submit to an issue should contact the Editor at: [email protected] or by regular mail to: Editor, ICCANB, 261 Cape Breton Rd., Irishtown, NB E1H 1W7 Canada Winter 2014/15 Shamrock Leaf 3 issue but again I must reiterate that to bring the history of Partridge Is- the publication is only as good as the land to the forefront and here we are number of contributed articles and/or almost thirty years later with that goal ideas for articles that come from our incomplete. New initiatives to that chapters and membership. We strug- end are worth supporting by each and gled to fill the pages this time out. every one of us. Both levels of gov- We know that you all have some ernment should be inundated with great ideas - and you don’t have to pleas regarding the importance of always submit an article – a simple Partridge Island and its role in our idea can bring us news that we may story. have missed and we welcome all sug- And finally, we postponed our gestions. print date as soon as we heard that Saying that, we are still proud our new Canadian Ambassador to of this issue, and thankful for the Ireland was Kevin Vickers, with roots pieces, ideas and suggestions that you in Miramichi, NB. Marilyn has put have all submitted. Keep them com- together a great piece on Ambassador Yes, this issue is late but we ing! Vickers and it is a very good read. hope you will all forgive us. Illness I never fail to learn something in November and the overwhelming new about our history and culture as Linda Evans demands of Christmas in December we go through the process of selec- Downtown Irishtown meant that we had to move this publi- tion. I am still frustrated that so cation into January… and here it is much of our history is being lost be- Email: finally! fore we get ‘the story’ told. One of [email protected] We have worked hard on this our first goals as an association was The President’s Message 2014 has been quite a year indeed. the stage near the entrance and the There are three items that I would like food court and the emcee graciously to address: The Irish Festival, the mentioned us at every opportunity. Celtic Affairs Committee and our new In a packed room on the opening Ambassador to Ireland. Thursday night of the festival I had a After digesting the full value this good ten minutes to update, inform year's thirty-first Irish festival, I real- and acknowledge our accomplish- ize how overwhelming change can ments; most importantly the great affect the previous tried and true. progress and the Celtic Affairs Com- While many festivals struggle, the mittee's success in lobbying the pro- Irish festival stepped it up. Yes folks vincial government for formal recog- change is good. After declining num- nition and policy changes. close bilateral relations between Can- bers in the previous decade, the In January of this year we were ada and Ireland in the years ahead. change of venue transcended to one of thrilled to hear that Miramichi's own We congratulate Kevin and wish him the best festivals ever. Kevin Vickers was appointed as the every success in his new role. The festival is a very important Canadian ambassador to Ireland. Kev- As we go forward we should be event for Miramichi, New Brunswick in has often attended the Festival and, proud of what has been accomplished. and the Irish. The ICCA's contribu- as one of his first roles as ambassador, tion there and our activities around we are very excited to hear that he Sincerely yours, the province have contributed greatly will be attending Canada’s 32nd Irish to the economy and tourism. Festival on the Miramichi. As a Cana- - Keith Vickers At the festival the ICCA tent was dian with family on both sides hailing ICCANB President conveniently located to the right of from Ireland he will serve to deepen [email protected] 4 Shamrock Leaf Winter 2014/15 Letters to the Editor Dear Editor: Dear Editor: I am the grandson of Jarvis Ring Blakeney of Petitcodiac, NB. On the ICCA website is mentioned a book The A clipping was found in Leva Lillian Campbell’s me- Blakeney Family of Pioneers in Salisbury Parish, mentos from WWII. He was the brother of Father Westmorland County, NB by J.E. Humphreys. I am Eugene O’Leary of Richibucto, Kent Co. ..the clip- very interested in learning more of this book if anyone ping reads “Dies Overseas” FO Joseph M. O’Leary, has any information. R.C.A.F., son of George O’Leary, Richibucto, word of whose death of illness in Northern Ireland has been Laurence D Sears received by his family. F.O. O’Leary, 24 years of age, 1528 Raynolds St joined the air force early in the war. He served two El Paso, Texas, 799903 years as navigator on flying boats on the Pacific Patrol off British Columbia, and last August he was trans- ferred to the North Atlantic Patrol, flying out of Northern Ireland.” Dear Editor: Dollena Warren Giguère Just skimmed the new a shamrock Leaf. Very impres- Gatineau, QC sive...you've done a great job! Ed. Note: This relates to the article on the O’Leary Joan Meade family in the last issue. He was the son of George via email O’Leary and Nell Lanigan. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR should be sent to: [email protected] or by regular mail to Editor, ICCANB, 261 Cape Breton Rd., Irishtown, NB E1H 1W7 Canada Due to space limitations, not all letters are guaranteed to be printed. Matthew Guirke emigrated from Ireland with his family in 1850. Once in the US, he travelled extensively throughout the country, but never really settled anywhere until he came to the Los Angeles, California area. He named his homestead in memory of the place he once called home – Hol- lywood, County Wicklow. Eventually a small village developed on the spot and soon after Guirke’s death in 1901, the fast growing village of Hollywood, California had become a municipality and we all know what happened there after that… It is true that there are no snakes in Ireland and they may never have been native to Ireland in the first place. The story of St Patrick driving them out of Ireland is only a myth. Because snakes were considered evil, they were symbolically used by well-meaning monks centuries later to describe how the patron saint of Ireland freed the is- land of evil, old pagan ways and replaced those beliefs with Christianity. Winter 2014/15 Shamrock Leaf 5 A visit to Partridge Island A prelude to future possibilities? By Terry Mullin I did it! I actually set foot on tures. winter day and night as the inhab- Partridge Island, situated in the Now anyone who knows me itants huddled to stay warm. magnificent Bay of Fundy just knows that I am of a long line of Imagining the moans and the minutes off shore from our fair city, Irish descent on both sides of the coughs, I heard one mother tell her Saint John. This has been a long- family so my initial interest was time wish of mine since I arrived in from the Irish immigrant perspec- coughing child to “Whist”, a word Saint John in the late 1960’s. There tive. It was from this perspective my own mother used frequently to was a time when we could scoot that I set out to explore this jewel of quiet us. We continued on the over the breakwater. Time and age a national historic site.
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