October 2015 Boston’s hometown VOL. 26 #10 journal of Irish culture. $1.50 Worldwide at All contents copyright © 2015 Boston Neighborhood News, Inc. bostonirish.com Boston Irish Honors to hail seven who salute their heritage The city’s top police- exemplary Boston Irish Margaret Stapleton, man, a leading media family. The Evans clan of who rose through the executive, and a pioneer- South Boston has excelled ranks of John Hancock ing philanthropist will in law enforcement, the Insurance and Financial be the honorees at this fire service, and business Services to become a vice- month’s Boston Irish Hon- while inspiring new gen- president before her re- ors luncheon, the season’s erations of Bostonians to tirement, will be honored premier celebration of be engaged citizens. for her remarkable career Irish-American achieve- Michael Sheehan, the in business and her gener- ment in Massachusetts. chief executive officer of osity as a philanthropist, The luncheon, which the Boston Globe, plays a particularly with respect serves as the silver an- key role in the continuing to the Pine Street Inn. niversary celebration for journalistic excellence of The 35-member lun- Michael Sheehan William Evans Margaret Stapleton the Boston Irish Reporter, the region’s most impor- cheon committee is CEO, Boston Globe Police Commissioner, Boston Executive, Philanthropist will be held at the Seaport tant media enterprise. chaired by Jim Brett, erator will be Boston Red lies who share our heritage take place on Fri., Oct. 23, Boston Hotel on Oct. 23. A veteran of advertising president of the New Sox “poet laureate” Dick in Boston and Ireland,” at 11:45 a.m. at the Sea- Boston Police Commis- and enterprise across the England Council. Serving Flavin. explained Ed Forry, the port Hotel/Boston World sioner William Evans state, Sheehan is helping as honorary chairs are “This inspiring luncheon founder and publisher of Trade Center. For tick- and his brothers Paul, to make possible a new US Sen. Edward Markey allows us to recognize and the Boston Irish Reporter. ets, call 617-436-1222 or John, Thomas, and James model of newspaper jour- and Boston Mayor Marty celebrate exemplary Irish The 6th annual Boston email bostonirishhonors@ will be recognized as an nalism within the city. Walsh. The program mod- individuals and their fami- Irish Honors luncheon will bostonirish.com. Plans in place for Boston-Cork flights beginning next May

By Ed Forry be operated under Nor- BIR Publisher wegian’s Irish subsidiary, A budget-priced Eu- Norwegian Air Interna- ropean airline has an- tional Ltd (NAI), and form nounced plans to begin part of the airline’s plans non-stop transatlantic for continued expansion service from Boston to in the UK and Ireland. Cork, with flights ex- The company said a Cork pected to begin next May. to New York service is Norwegian Air Shuttle planned to launch in 2017. (NAS), Europe’s third Said Kjos: “Norwegian largest low-cost airline, is leading the way in of- says it will launch the new fering affordable transat- direct “low-cost” transat- lantic travel and with the lantic services from Cork new generation aircraft to Boston, making the (Continued on page 16) route the only transatlan- tic operation from Cork Airport. A new Cork to Water meters Barcelona route will also be launched, the company for Irish homes: said in a press release late last month. a strong dissent The Green-O’Leary School of Irish Dancing aloft during 2014’s Dorchester Irish Heritage Festival. Plans for the new routes Liam Ferrie, of Menlo, were confirmed in a let- Ireland, a longtime con- ter from Norwegian CEO tributor to the Boston Irish Bjorn Kjos to Ireland’s Reporter, offers this report Dot’s Irish Heritage Festival offers Minister for Transport, on the much-discussed Tourism and Sport, Pas- domestic water situation chal Donohoe. “This is on the island: dose of culture, family connections only the beginning of our “Now that we have water plans for new routes in Ire- By Sean Smith Páidí Walsh & Friends, meters in Menlo it seems Sat., Oct. 11, from 11 to 6, land,” Kjos said, adding, appropriate that I should Special to the Reporter Liam Hart & Frankie “but our expansion relies become more public in The Irish-American McDonagh, Colleen White on the US Department duo Celtic Font will be at Florian Hall, McKeon Post & Sean Smith, and the explaining just how bad a of Transportation (DoT) decision it was to install among the performers dance devotees in Greater Spears, Fenian Sons, trio of Maidhc Newell, finally approving Norwe- at this year’s Dorchester Joe Walsh and Máirín Uí domestic water meters in Boston and beyond, draw- Erin’s Melody, the Tom gian Air International’s Ireland. Irish Heritage Festival, ing crowds of upwards of Lanigan Band, Gobshites, Chéide. application for a foreign to be held on Oct. 11 from Irish dance also will From the outset it ap- 9,000. Two outdoor stages, Erin’s Guild, Noggin, carrier permit. Only DoT peared ludicrous that a 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the as well as the venues Fuaim na nGael, plus be part of the festivities, approval for NAI will un- crossroads of Florian Hall with the Green-O Leary country with Ireland’s in Florian Hall and the the Boston Police Gaelic lock the door for these ex- rainfall should gave any (55 Hallet Street) and the McKeon Post, provide Pipes and musicians with School of Dancing, Smith- citing new routes, creating John McKeon Post Am- Houlihan Dance Acad- thought to metering, but for continuous entertain- Boston’s Hanafin-Cooley- more competition, more the more I investigated, Vets 146 (4 Hilltop Street). ment throughout the day, Reynolds branch of Com- emy, Kenny Academy of choice, and better fares The festival, taking Irish Dance, Keane-O’ the more the sheer stupid- showcasing many Greater haltas Ceóltoirí Éireann. for business and leisure ity of the decision became place for the fifth time, Boston-area acts. Other performers sched- Brien Academy of Irish passengers on both sides has become a Columbus Dance, Brady Academy evident. Among the local bands uled to appear include of the Atlantic.” For almost two years Day Weekend highlight on the program for this Pauline Wells, Michael of Irish Dance and O’ The new route, offering for Irish/Celtic music and year are Devri, Silver O’Leary, John Dalton, (Continued on page 16) 4-5 flights each week will (Continued on page 10)

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The Charitable Irish Society of Boston Requests that you save the date for their upcoming Silver Key Reception Wednesday, October 14, 2015

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Please visit us at www.charitableirishsociety.org to pre-register for this event bostonirish.com October 2015 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 3 Gerry Adams, six It’ll be Dublin vs.Galway in hurling others avoid charges match at Fenway in November First-class hurling, in McConville killing called the world’s fastest By SHAWN POGATCHNIK field sport, will be on dis- Associated Press play at Fenway Park on DUBLIN — Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams Sun., Nov. 22, as two of the sport’s biggest teams and six other suspected IRA veterans will face no – Dublin and 2015 All- charges over the outlawed group’s 1972 abduction, Ireland Finalist Galway slaying and secret burial of a Belfast homemaker, – compete in an exhibition Northern Ireland prosecutors announced Tuesday. on a pitch where the Red Adams, 66, was arrested last year on suspicion Sox play their games. of involvement in the disappearance of Jean Mc- In addition to the AIG Conville, a 38-year-old widowed mother of 10 whom Fenway Hurling Classic, the Irish Republican Army believed was a British the festivities will include informer. Detectives freed Adams without charge a lively Irish festival after four days of questioning, but sent an evidence complete with Irish food, music, and dancing plus file to prosecutors. a performance by the Northern Ireland’s deputy director of public pros- Boston-based American ecutions, Pamela Atchison, announced that Adams Celtic punk band the and six others arrested in the McConville probe would Dropkick Murphys. face no charges. Atchison said evidence was ``insuf- The match will come a ficient to provide a reasonable prospect of obtaining day after the Boston Col- a conviction against any of them.’’ lege Eagles football team Adams, whose Irish nationalist party leads plays Notre Dame on the Northern Ireland’s Irish Catholic minority, called Fenway grounds. Mayor Marty Walsh and incoming Red Sox president Sam Kennedy unveiled the decision “long overdue.” He said he had been The match has been plans for a Nov. 22 AIG Fenway Hurling Classic and Irish Festival at Fenway in the planning stages Park. Hurlers Dave Collins (Galway) and Mark Shutte (Dublin) were on hand falsely accused as part of “a sustained and malicious for months, the Irish for last month’s announcement. Ed Forry photo campaign seeking to involve me with the killing of Independent reports in Mrs. McConville.” FSM. Speaking on behalf of than the home of the Red noting that it has the full Aer Lingus, the official the GPA, Chairman Dónal Sox. We believe that hurl- After his release from custody in May 2014, Adams support of the Gaelic Ath- airline partner of Dublin Óg Cusack said: “The AIG ing ranks alongside the said detectives had grilled him about audio tapes letic Association (GAA) GAA and the official travel Fenway Hurling Classic best sports in the world from two IRA veterans, Dolours Price and Brendan and the Gaelic Players partner of the GPA, are is a truly wonderful op- and the staging of this Hughes, both of whom had identified Adams as an Association (GPA), both also backing the match, portunity for us to exhibit game in Fenway is part of IRA commander in Belfast in 1972 responsible for the Dublin and Galway the newspaper said, and hurling at a high profile our commitment to convey ordering McConville’s killing and disappearance. county boards, the North will provide flights for the US sporting venue, and that message to a new and Price and Hughes gave their accounts to researchers American GAA board and entire travelling party. there is none more iconic influential audience.” on condition that their comments not be published until their deaths; Hughes died in 2008, Price in 2013. Father Finn tribute at Social Club Adams’ alleged immediate superior in the Belfast IRA in 1972, Ivor Bell, was charged last year with Members of the After retiring from St. The Cork Club is ask- aiding and abetting McConville’s murder on the basis Knights and Ladies of Mark’s in Dorchester ing for a donation of of the tapes. The 78-year-old’s trial has yet to begin. St Finbarr–Cork Club this past spring after $10.00 per person so Before Tuesday’s announcement, prosecutors of Boston will host a 22 years as its pastor, that Father Finn may briefed McConville’s relatives about the decision. “Thank You Celebration Father Finn will assujme continue with his works Some of her children — who were separated into Party” from 1 p.m. to 6 new duties as the chap- of charity. different foster homes after being told that their p.m. on Sun. Oct. 4 to lain of the Irish Pastoral mother had abandoned them — have campaigned honor Fr. Daniel J. Finn. Centre. At right: Rev. Dan Finn since the mid-1990s for Adams and other alleged IRA The event will be commanders to be held to account. They reject IRA held at the Irish So- characterizations of their mother as a spy. cial Club at 119 Park Her remains were found near a Republic of Ireland Street, West Roxbury . beach in 2003, and forensic experts said she was killed Music for the event will by a bullet to the back of the head. McConville was be provided by the Denis among more than a dozen Catholic civilians whom Curtin Band and by “Er- the IRA killed and secretly buried without admitting in’s Melody” featuring responsibility in the 1970s and early 1980s. The IRA Margaret Dalton. did admit responsibility in 1999. For more informa- One son, Michael McConville, said his family didn’t tion, please call Mary intend to let the IRA off the hook. Tannion, President of “Those who ordered, planned and carried out this the Cork Club, at 978- war crime thought that their guilt could disappear 646-4652 along with her body,” he said. “But it has not. And Father Finn, an im- we will continue to seek justice for our mother and migrant from Kanturk see those responsible held to account no matter how in Co. Cork, has been a long it takes.” priest for some 43 years. Irish Network USA plans confab The Boston chapter will be on various Irish can Chamber of Com- of Irish Network USA American issues, but will merce in Dublin. On will host a national have a predominantly Friday evening there The Jesuit, Catholic College Preparatory School for boys grades 7 - 12 conference in Boston economic focus. Cultural will be a reception at next month, bringing issues and sports will the Massachusetts State together more than 300 also be topics at the House to celebrate Irish delegates from across meeting. This year, the Network Boston’s fifth Open House the country to explore conference will also in- anniversary. what it means to be Irish clude a panel dedicated The local chapter was Sunday, October 25, 2015 American in 2015. to women and the role established in 2008 by 12 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. There will be an in- they play in Irish and the Irish government in formal welcome recep- American connections. response to the global tion at Mr. Dooley’s on Next year marks the economic crash and the Information Nights Thursday evening, Nov. 100th anniversary of instability that followed. Join us 5 with the formal confer- the 1916 Easter Rising, There are now roughly High School (Grade 9) ence beginning on Friday which will also be a topic twenty chapters in the as an Wednesday, November 4, 2015, 6:00 p.m. at the Seaport Boston on the agenda. United States. Eagle-for-a-Day Tuesday, December 8, 2015, 6:00 p.m. Hotel. The keynote address More information is at Discussions and pan- will be given by Mark irishnetworkboston.net els at the conference Redman from the Ameri- Arrupe Division (Grade 7) Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 6:00 p.m. Kenny accepts Quinnipiac degree Wednesday, January 6, 2016, 6:00 p.m. The prime minister of Irish Famine. humane letters on behalf Ireland has received an Prime Minister Enda of the millions who lost To reserve space for your family, honorary degree from Kenny said in his Sept. their lives in the famine. please visit bchigh.edu/admissions Quinnipiac University 24 remarks that the University President to set up your online Eagle Admission account. in Connecticut. The museum is a symbol of John Lahey praised school is home to Ire- hope at a time when Kenny as a passionate land’s Great Hunger millions of people around defender of the rights 150 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA. Museum, which houses the world today are be- of others in Ireland, Af- www.bchigh.edu/admissions a large collection of art, ing forced to leave their rica and the European artifacts and printed homes. He says he ac- Union. (AP) materials related to the cepted the degree of Page 4 October 2015 BOSTON IRISH Reporter bostonirish.com Publisher’s Notebook Crossing Ireland: Cherishing the fine moments while coming to grips with time and the roads

By Ed Forry It was a glorious day in Dublin. My visit to Ireland’s capital city came in the midst of a whirlwind eight-day trip across the Emerald Isle that featured a mid-August vacation with close fam- ily and friends in the West, some business doings in Ballsbridge, and an attempt to make connections with some never-met Waterford cousins with whom I share a lineage extending back to my grandmother, Honorah Crotty Forry. But back to the beginning. We had booked an Aug. 19 Aer Lingus flight from Logan to Shannon, and found that the airline was us- ing leased Omni Air 767’s on the Shannon run for the summer. The Atlanta-based American crew weren’t the usual Irish staff, and the planes were in temporary service so that the airline could add more flights and seats to Ireland. One passenger was disappointed not to see the familiar stylized shamrock on the plane’s tail, but aside from an erratic video system, the double-aisled 2-3-2 seating configuration was acceptable – and the flight got us to Shannon in just five hours. It was my ninth visit to Ireland, and I have found the most difficult part of the voyage comes in those post- flight early morning hours after a night with no sleep. After all, we had left Boston at 7:40 EDT Wednesday night, and were on the ground at Shannon in the pre- dawn hours of Thursday at 5:41 a.m. Irish time, or (Top)- Streaming from Galway: two video cams en- 12:41 a.m. EDT, meaning we were not at all refreshed able “people-watching” live on the internet ; (Right) and ready for a new day while facing a 90-minute drive Della Costello and Ed Forry pictured in a selfie on to Galway, in a rented car – on the wrong side of the a blue-sky day on St Stephen’s Green. road! In all, it was not the sort of occasion when I am ride. The road, called a dual motorway, was not crowded, at my brightest. and the Irish actually stay to the left in their travel Looking ahead to those road-weary hours, I had asked lanes, using their signals to change lanes, and rapidly my destination hotel for an “early arrival” room, but moving left again once they had passed. I found the was told that check-in time was 3 o’clock, and I could drive to Dublin to be easier and far less stressful than not be promised a room earlier. I could book a room a Friday night run down Route 3 to the Cape. for an arrival the day before, but at 250 euros, that One of the discoveries of our road trip was finding seemed a bit of an extravagance. Still, it would have how useful my IPhone 6 was in navigating the roads. been nice to get off the plane and get some shut-eye I asked the phone’s Siri to tell me where I was, and before driving on those left-sided Irish roads. (More plugged in a destination. Each time, she gave step- on this later.) by-step map instructions, and pointed me through the Once in Galway in mid-morning, there was a chance streets of Dublin precisely to our B&B townhouse in to get in a nap at a friend’s house, and then it was off the city. Our stay was on Lansdowne Road, just steps player, is currently a national sensation on Irish TV to lunch with family at a wonderful seaside restaurant, away from the Aviva Stadium, where Boston College and on the internet.) I briefly met May’s sister, Terry Moran’s on the Weir. I recalled the late Mayor Tom will play a football game next Labor Day weekend. And Fitzpatrick, and she drove off to lead us to the family Menino telling me that it was his favorite place to eat there was another surprise: We had our meals at the home. But traveling across those narrow country roads in that part of the country. nearby Roly’s Bistro, a place I recalled Tom Menino in the midst of the Nile Valley, she took a fast right, The gathering was a birthday meal for a Galway na- saying was his favorite Dublin restaurant! we got delayed at a stop sign, and quickly lost sight of tive who was back home to celebrate with some family We walked the city that Monday morning, sitting her car, never to find her again. So we headed off for members, and our gift to him was our surprise appear- on a bench in St Stephen’s Green. It was a warm and the two-hour drive back to Shannon Airport, where ance at table. I never did buy him a present, reasoning bright blue-sky day, a great atmosphere filled with we had booked a room for the night prior to the flight the cost of plane tickets for me and my companion, his joyous Dubliners who have learned to cherish each home the next morning. sister, was sufficient to show the level of my esteem. moment of summer sunlight. Two days later, on the In Shannon, another discovery: We stayed overnight In Galway, I searched out the premises of Clad- motorway heading south, we drove through an hour at a very comfortable hotel called the Shannon Court. dagh Jewellers. Located downtown at the junction of of heavy rain. After a stop in Wicklow to see a cousin It’s a five-minute drive to the airport, and at a price Shop and High streets, this store hosts a pair of video and her delightful children, we were on the road to of 70 euros (about $78,) it’s very affordable. And then cameras that stream live pictures 24 hours a day. The search for those other relatives in a place called Bal- came the revelation: My next time over, I will reserve site (claddagh.ie) has become one of my favorite online lymacarbry, Co. Waterford, near the Limerick border a room at that airport hotel for the night when I leave destinations, as I can sit at my kitchen table in Lower town of Clonmel. Boston and on arrival at Shannon, I’ll go to my room, Mills and people-watch as the throngs pass by. The one disappointment was that once we were there, take to my bed and get in some decent sleep before That day we found a young woman busker singing and time did not allow me to meet the cousins, May Guiry, hitting those Irish roads. Refreshed, I can get accli- playing her guitar, and informed her she was appear- her children, and grandchildren. (May’s ten-year-old mated in short order, which should preserve the nerves ing live around the world! I called home to Dorchester grandson Cian Smith, a champion uilleann pipes of any passengers sharing my adventure of once again and asked my daughter to go online and check it out. driving on the wrong side of the road. She quickly spotted me and made a screenshot of the scene, marking my own first worldwide streaming video web appearance. That night, we dined with old friends Liam and For her, and for me, it’s on to Plan C Pauline Ferrie at their home in Menlo, and wished By James W. Dolan welcome, but it is inevitable, and as such, it is something Liam well as he was preparing for a second bypass Special to the Reporter we can prepare for. Belief in a hereafter offers the hope surgery. (The operation took place last month, and he’s Having had two rounds of chemotherapy, my wife of reunion, justice with mercy, joy, peace and eternal well on the mend while planning to resume his active is now beginning what she calls Plan C. She says. “I’ll love. Belief in oblivion offers just that – nothingness. Camino trekking.) continue treating for as long as they have letters in the It makes no distinctions. There is no truth, no account- By Sunday, I had made the adjustment to driving in alphabet or I’m too tired to go on.” It has now been two ability, and no grief. It is a final refuge for those who Ireland. Although familiar with traffic rotaries from years since she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. have been evil. Oblivion is their reward. my daily run through Kosciuszko Circle, in truth I was She prefers to think of it as a journey rather than My wife has made me a better person. She is the unprepared for the protocol of rotary driving (they call a battle. If it’s a battle, “I’m the battlefield not one of heart of our family. I admire and draw strength from them roundabouts) over there. The Irish rule seems to the combatants,” she declared. She faces each setback her. When the time comes, I will carry on in her absence be that drivers actually stop before entering if someone’s with grit and determination while acknowledging they and in some small way try to fill the void she leaves. We already in the circle. What a quaint system! It was an do take a lot out of her. Each ride on the cancer train is are not a perfect match and never came close to being adjustment, but soon I got used to it. getting shorter; the atmosphere is getting more somber; soul mates. However, we do complement each other: The drive to Dublin was some 200 kilometers – about the destination more remote. her strengths are my weaknesses. 140 miles – and it was an easy and largely uneventful Thank God! The crew on the Beth Israel Deaconess It was almost 60 years ago when I first noticed her, a Medical Center line remains as loving as ever. What pretty girl in gray Bermuda shorts and a white blouse a marvelous service to humanity, offering sympathy, walking with an air of confidence and self-assurance Boston Irish support, comfort, and hope to passengers and their that impressed me. We met two years later on a blind families. With Pope Francis bringing his message of love date; she was in nursing school and I was at BC. My and compassion to the United States, I can think of no earlier impression was accurate; she had a take-charge REPORTER profession that delivers those virtues more than those in personality to which I was more than happy to defer. A The Boston Irish Reporter is published monthly by: wise move, as it turned out. Boston Neighborhood News, Inc., health care. In a country that places such emphasis on a pedestrian vision of “success,” there can be no higher The train continues through a dark forest. It labors 150 Mt. Vernon St., Suite 120, Dorchester, MA 02125 up a steep grade and round a waterfall that spills down [email protected] www.bostonirish.com calling than offering the gift of love to those in need. Mary C. Forry, President (1983-2004) After 53 years of marriage, I try to prepare myself for a rocky slope. A mist arises and obscures the tracks as Edward W. Forry, Publisher a time when my wife will no longer be here. Knowing we proceed. At this point there are no fixed destinations. Thomas F. Mulvoy Jr., Managing Editor she was home or would be coming home always provided Sad families disembark from time to time along the way. William P. Forry, Editor great comfort. We did not have to be talking or even be We cling to the hope that our turn can be postponed. The Peter F. Stevens, Contributing Editor in the same room for me to feel her presence. She was horizon has shrunk; time is now measured in weeks and News Room: (617) 436-1222 here and everything was all right. There was nothing months. 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It will take time, but there inspires all aboard. Love often flourishes where there the cost of the space occupied by the error. The right is reserved by The Boston Irish is pain and sorrow and is sadly absent in what today Reporter to edit, reject, or cut any copy without notice. is no alternative. Millions have gone through it before. The end of life need not be a tragedy. It may not be is considered the “pursuit of happiness.” bostonirish.com October 2015 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 5 Point of View Reflections on a worn gravestone on Copp’s Hill

By Peter F. Stevens to declare only a portion of imported goods and to customs longboat. Malcolm and the others dragged BIR Staff unload the rest of the cargos without duty payments. it to the Common, smashed it to pieces, and set the Sometimes, glimpses of an old gravestone or a me- The Crown, strapped for cash, however, had ordered wreckage ablaze. The two officials fled to Castle Wil- morial trigger historical memory, compelling one to customs officials to halt the practice and charge fees liam, fortunate to be alive. pause and ponder their significance. In the Copp’s Hill on all imported goods. Order would be restored in the following days, but Cemetery stands one such marker, a weather-beaten Hancock had no intention of paying the duty. He the tension would percolate inexorably in the coming stone that bears the name of Captain Daniel Malcolm. ordered the Liberty’s captain to hold the official captive years. Cullen writes that Malcolm’s “fellow citizens The Boston Irishman died in October 1769, some six until the wine had been unloaded and removed from appreciated him, and showed their confidence by select- years before “the shot heard round the world” ignited the docks. At about 9 p.m., the sputtering customs ing him as their representative in the troublesome and the American Revolution. The merchant would not official was restrained for what would turn into hours. dangerous crises in which he was an actor; but there have the opportunity to stand with Sam Adams, John He was not released until the cargo was long gone. is every reason to believe that his proper sphere was Adams, John Hancock, and other future rebels against Hancock had flung the gauntlet down at the Crown. not diplomacy, but active and aggressive resistance.” the Crown, but he played a pivotal role in standing up Malcolm was ready to do the same. It is safe to speculate that the Irishman who was to the British before his death. A pair of customs officers – Collector Joseph Harrison laid to rest at Copp’s Hill in October 1769 would have Wrote the historian John Bernard Cullen: “The and Comptroller Benjamin Hallowell – strode aboard stood front and center in the Patriot cause in 1775. stone over it [Malcolm’s grave] …is of hard blue slate, the sloop the next day and seized her for “violation of A Post-Papal Visit Note: Prominent Congressman two inches thick, and showing about a yard above the revenue laws.” As word spread along the docks, and practicing Catholic Paul Ryan wasted little time the ground. The inscription is a just statement of his a throng of enraged colonists gathered alongside the in paying attention to Pope Francis’s appeal for the merits and reputation; but an additional wreath is Liberty, Malcolm quickly taking the lead. House and the Senate to help the poor and the afflicted. added to his laurels by the vindictive bullet-marks of The crowd’s anger soared as Hallowell, according to The lights of the papal jet had barely vanished on the the British soldiery, who used this stone as a target, Cullen, “marked the vessel with the broad arrow, and horizon before Ryan and his acolytes were once again and peppered the gravestone of the man who feared signaled to the warship Romney as she lay anchored fighting to strip health care from people able to receive nothing less than a British bloody-back.” in the stream.” it with help from the government. Ryan vowed to “stop In 1768, Captain Malcolm’s “Irish temper” was The Romney’s commander, Captain Comer, dis- Obamacare in its tracks and start working toward up. Red-coated troops on Boston’s cobblestones and patched longboats manned by armed sailors and Royal a more affordable, higher-quality, patient-centered dirt paths muttered the word “rebel” at Malcolm and Marines with orders to tow the Liberty from the dock system.” Kids with preexisting conditions that can other Boston merchants. In response came growls of at which the frigate’s cannons were aimed. As the bankrupt familes? The oh-so-Catholic Ryan and his “tyranny” from colonists. boats neared the wharf, the crowd surged, with Mal- crowd don’t care. Denial of health care for preexisting The simmering tensions boiled over on June 10, 1768, colm standing alongside the sloops and shouting his conditions for anyone of any age? More than okay for when the sloop Liberty, owned by Hancock, slid into protests. Cullen notes: “Malcolm…said [the Liberty] Ryan and company. Caps on health insurance? Bring Boston Harbor and docked at Hancock’s wharf (later was safe where she was, and no officer nor anybody else ‘em back, say the Wisconsin rep and his toadies on the Lewis Wharf) with a load of wines from Madeira, Spain. had a right to remove her. The boats arrived, and the Ways and Means Committee. If they cared one whit, Shortly after the merchantman moored, customs of- excitement increased. Malcolm and the other leaders they’d have a plan, an idea, something. ficial, or “tide-waiter,” Thomas Kirk strode aboard the of the populace threatened to go on board and throw It would be laughable if it were not such a blatant Liberty, sat with the ship’s master in his cabin to sip the frigate’s people into the sea. Suddenly the sloop’s lie that the Republicans in Congress will “start work- rum punch with him, and waited for the crew to offload moorings were cut, and before anything could be done ing” for a replacement for Obamacare. They have had the sloop’s cargo. Then, as was the practice with all to prevent it she was gone from the wharf.” years and years to craft a replacement or even a viable incoming cargo, the tide-waiter intended to inventory As the customs officials foolishly waded into the alternative, but there is no genuine plan. None. When the goods and tally the port duties the shipowner had crowd rather than leaving in one of the Romney’s the pope urged Congress to remember the Golden Rule, to pay. longboats, the mob followed them, roughed them up, it seems that Ryan and his ilk remembered half of it Port officials had long allowed colonial merchants broke the windows of Hallowell’s house, and seized a – “Do unto others…” The Northern Ireland government is a mess; little business being done

By Joe Leary it was also leaving government. Peter Special to the BIR Robinson, the DUP leader and also the It can be safely said that the govern- leader of the Northern Ireland govern- ment in Northern Ireland set up by ment, and four ministers left their posts, the Good Friday agreement in 1998 is using words like “step aside” rather that barely working and could be in serious quit so that they were still technically danger of collapse. There is deep resis- still in their positions. tance within the Unionist community, The whole episode was a farce and an especially among the political leaders, to attempt to embarrass Sinn Fein. Still, cooperating with Nationalist politicians, threats were made, calls were made to and very little trust between the sides. David Cameron, Britain’s prime minis- Since early this year there have been a ter, and continuous fighting took place number of skirmishes between the sides within Unionist ranks. and in fact among all the political par- Martin McGuinness, leader of Sinn ties. First there was the issue of bribes Fein in the Northern Ireland Assembly, being taken by Unionist politicians, then has told the Unionists to “put up or it was a disagreement between the par- shut up,” adding that if they have any ties concerning welfare cuts. evidence, they should produce it. In May, a prominent and well-liked All of this makes great headlines, but former IRA man, a community worker, it does not help us understand what is was shot and killed in the Markets area really going on while progress on budget of Belfast. Three months later, another items and other important matters are former IRA man was shot and killed not being addressed by the assembly. The Irish American Partnership last month donated the proceeds of its 2015 in the Short Strand area of Belfast. Britain’s current Northern Ireland Northern Ireland Appeal to St. Kieran’s and Elmgrove Primary Schools. The An inspector from the Police Service of Secretary of State, Theresa Villiers, is- checks were presented to Belfast Lord Mayor Arder Carson, right above Northern Ireland (PSNI) made a public sued threats to everyone and finally set with Irish American Partnership president Joe Leary. The mayor, who was statement that the Provisional IRA up a three-person panel to investigate instrumental in identifying these two deserving schools for Partnership sup- (which is supposed to be on cease fire) all paramilitary activities. The Unionists port, was in Boston to discuss the details of the Boston-Belfast Sister City was involved with the second killing in think they have won, and that the evil agreement. St. Kieran’s and Elmgrove will receive the $5,000 grants upon the retaliation for the first killing. Sinn Fein will be found out. This writer mayor’s return to Belfast. The provisional IRA is linked with very much doubts any such thing will be Sinn Fein and an uproar ensued on the uncovered and, predictably, the Union- Unionist side, with assertions that Sinn ists will complain even more loudly. Fein should not be in government if they This is not good government. The Please Join Us! were involved with such a killing. No Unionists have no proof or even any real proof has ever been offered of this con- evidence that Sinn Fein was involved, nection and the chief of the PSNI has but they are nonetheless willing to shut Join Mayor Marty Walsh said that the IRA is no longer operative. down government to gain some sort of & Billy Higgins But that statement did not slow down advantage. or inhibit the various Unionist parties in There will be a Northern Ireland As- for the their making of a huge issue out of the sembly election next year. Let’s hope killings. First the minor unionist party, there will be changes. In the meantime, Annual Southill Children’s Fund Fundraiser the UUP, said it would leave government the good people of Northern Ireland will Thursday, October 8, 2015 if Sinn Fein was not kicked out of the continue with their daily lives and try 5:30- 8:00 pm Parliament. Then, not to be outdone, the to ignore all the confusion. largest Unionist Party, the DUP, said Phillips Old Colony House

The fund helps the children of Southill, Limerick, Ireland achieve a better education and a better future. Subscribe Today! Suggested donations begin at $75; checks payable to Southill Children’s to the Boston Irish Fund, donate online at southillchildrensfund.com or by mail to 47 Farragut Reporter Call 617-436-1222 Rd South Boston MA 02127. The Southill Children’s Fund is a 501c3 tax decuctible charitable organization Page 6 October 2015 BOSTON IRISH Reporter bostonirish.com New consul general EATING AND EMOTION How Can sets up shop in Boston Dr. Bernadette Rock LTC Insurance Help The Irish government has appointed Fionnuala Quinlan to head the Irish Self-sabotaging You Protect Consulate in Boston. The newly appointed Consul General, a Cork native, your efforts at Your Assets? began her tenure in the Copley Square offices on Sept. 28. She succeeds losing weight Plan to create a pool of healthcare? Breandan O Caollai, who was reassigned in Au- By Dr. Bernadette Rock gust to new duties in the Special to the BIR Presented by Brian W. O’Sullivan, CFP, ChFC, CLU Department of Foreign My fridge beeps when the door is not closed af- Affairs & Trade’s (DFAT) ter 30 seconds. This beep has become a reminder How will you pay for long term care? The Dublin office. to take my head out of the fridge because in Quinlan comes to Bos- under 30 seconds I can munch through a chunk sad fact is that most people don’t know ton after a six-year stint of apple tart or a handful of crackers while tell- the answer to that question. But a solution in the department’s press ing myself “I’m not really eating.” is available. office, where for the past Are you keen to two years she was DFAT’s Fionnuala Quinlan shed a few pounds director of press relations. but find that your Many baby boomers are opting to make Prior to joining the Irish Telegraph in Australia. weight loss efforts long term care coverage an important part government, Quinlan Also new at the consul- are punctured by of their retirement strategies. The reasons worked as a journalist ate is Meg Laffan, a press your very own sabo- officer at the DFAT, who to get an LTC policy after age 50 are very for several publications, taging behavior? including the Irish Ex- is replacing Vice Consul Often we want some- compelling. aminer and the Daily Jillian O’Keefe. thing in our lives but behave in ways Your premium that are contrary to payments buy you achieving our goals. Fitzgerald home It’s uncomfortable access to a large pool letting go of food, and of money which can at Rundel Park waiting until you’re be used to pay for long physically hungry to term care costs. By eat. You might feel resistant to finding paying for LTC out of for sale at $578k new ways to treat that pool of money, you yourself that do not can help to preserve involve the biscuit your retirement savings and income. tin. So what if the secret in managing self-sabotage lies in The Department of Health & Human being comfortable Bernadette Rock and her Services estimates that if you are 65 today, with feeling uncom- daughter Keela. you have about a 70% chance of needing fortable? A few ex- amples: some form of LTC during the balance of Holding onto weight: Most people who lose your life. About 20% of those who will weight regain it again, along with a few extra require it will need LTC for at least five pounds, and here’s one reason why. Some people years. Today, the average woman in need feel distinctly uncomfortable when they receive mont Street was known of LTC needs it for 3.7 years while the By Jennifer Smith compliments or attention about their weight Reporter Staff as Arundel Park. loss. A new slim body means a smaller version average man needs it for 2.2 years. Former Boston May- The Fitzgerald Bible, of yourself. Some clients feel more vulnerable or or John “Honey Fitz” now at the JFK Library, exposed. Others feel anxious about the increased Why procrastinate? The earlier you opt for Fitzgerald’s Ashmont traveled with the family sense of personal power or confidence that weight from the town of Bruff in loss can bring. An online client, Amy, the mother LTC coverage, the cheaper the premiums. home is newly on the of two, recently confessed that she was afraid This is why many people purchase it before market, at a price of Lough Gur. It sat in the that “more would be expected of me now that they retire. Those in poor health or over $578,000, in need of at- Rundel Park home until I’m losing weight”. the age of 80 are frequently ineligible for tention and bearing a President-elect Kennedy These anxieties can push people back to the host of historical detail. brought it to the capital comfort of old eating habits. Instead can you coverage. “If these walls could for his oath-taking cer- start being aware of your specific fears and anxi- talk,” mused realtor emony. Secret Service eties? If you are concerned about giving off an What it pays for. Some people think LTC Charlene Folan with agents descended on the air of confidence when you lose weight, can you coverage only pays for nursing home care. Jack Conway & Co. “The house and were handed remind yourself that it’s okay to feel more con- It can actually pay for a variety of nursing, things they must have the Bible in a supermar- fident. Similarly, if you’re uncomfortable about ket shopping bag, accord- increased attention, can you reassure yourself social, and rehabilitative services at home seen.” that “I can cope and I can handle attention.” and away from home, for people with a The mayor and his ing to Tom Fitzgerald, a Trickery: Amy mentioned that she walks into chronic illness or disability. wife, Mary Josephine family cousin. her local bakery telling herself that it’s just a loaf Hannon Fitzgerald, the Dorchester architect of soda bread she’s buying, but knowing full well maternal grandpar- Edwin J. Lewis, Jr. de- that it’s croissants and scones that she’s really The Medicare misconception. Too many ents of President John signed the three-story going to buy. It’s like a form of trickery. Once people think Medicare will pick up the Fitzgerald Kennedy, left house, which was built you learn to be honest with yourself, set aside the cost of long term care. Medicare is not their longtime palatial in 1889, according to internal arguing, and make clear choices around long term care insurance. Medicare will home on Welles Avenue the historical society. It food – either “yes, I’ll eat it and enjoy it” or “no, maybe later”– you will be more likely to succeed only pay for the first 100 days of nursing on what is called Ash- features dentil and crown molding along high ceil- at healthier eating. This means asking “What home care, and only if 1) you are getting mont Hill and moved into is the best I can do to support myself today?” ings, three fireplaces, skilled care and 2) you go into the nursing the colonial at 3 Rundel Allow yourself get hungry: If you want to Park off Ashmont Street and hardwood floors home right after a hospital stay of at least manage your weight, then it is crucial that you in 1937, according to the throughout. City-main- get comfortable with feeling hungry (not very 3 days. Dorchester Historical tained gas lamps stand hungry or you might end up eating yourself out Society. outside, where an annual of house!) Do you eat because people around you Now, Medicaid might help you pay for Mayor Fitzgerald lived flag-raising takes place are eating, or because someone offers you food, nursing home and assisting living care, but there until his death in After the Fitzgeralds, or because it’s “normal” to eat lunch at 1 p.m.? 1946 and his wake in the the colonial passed What would it be like if you choose not to graze it is basically aid for the destitute. Some throughout the day, and wait until you start nursing homes and assisted living facilities home attracted a litany through two other family ownerships before being feeling hungry? Remind yourself that it is nor- of public figures. Mrs. mal that it will uncomfortable in the beginning. don’t accept it, and for Medicaid to pay Fitzgerald died in 1964. put up for sale on Sept. for LTC in the first place, the care has to Give yourself a chance to take the first President Kennedy 21. The 6-bed, 2.5-bath step: “What’s the point in even trying. I’ll prob- be proven to be “medically necessary” for stopped by to see his home will need a decent ably fail anyway.” Instead of sabotaging yourself the patient. grandmother in 1962, amount of modernizing by giving in before you’ve even started or when when the raised cul-de- attention. you don’t see immediate results, can you view this Ask your insurance advisor or financial sac at the crest of Ash- process as an opportunity to figure out what your extra eating is about, a chance to get connected advisor about some of the LTC choices to yourself, instead of just focusing externally on you can explore – while many Americans the rules of a diet? So can you give yourself the have life, health and disability insurance, opportunity to stay with the initial discomfort? that’s not the same thing as long term care Instead of thinking weight loss, think self-care: “This is my opportunity to start caring for myself.” coverage. Have a Heyday: Heyday’s supportive online Brian W. O’Sullivan is a registered representative of and program has recently been re-developed at hey- offers securities, investment advisory and financial plan- dayworld.com. Send your comments or questions ning services through MML Investors Services, LLC, Mem- to [email protected]. ber SIPC (www.sipc.org). Supervisory Address: 101 Federal Street, Suite 800, Boston, MA 02110. He may be reached Wishing you good health, at 617-479-0075 x331 or [email protected]. Dr. Bernadette Rock, PhD Honey Fitz in a familiar pose. bostonirish.com October 2015 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 7 Irish International Immigrant Center Immigration Q&A An agency accredited by US Department of Justice How to avoid 100 Franklin Street, Boston, MA 02110 Telephone (617) 542-7654 Fax (617) 542-7655 Website:iiicenter.org Email: [email protected] loss of legal

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By Bill O’Donnell that, then why have a divisive anti-Irish, anti-unions, and some thought she had a long and endearing crush Conservatives Target Obama Guest List – De- pro-dictator politician as a symbol of American values on the handsome senator and president-to-be. Mary spite the obvious love and joy that an excited American and democracy. Please. Note to Jeb and his incipient also traveled with and covered Robert F. Kennedy public lavished on Pope Francis in his public appear- presidential campaign: The Irish in America number during his ill-fated 1968 presidential campaign. ances here late last month, there was considerable an estimated 35-40 million people, many of whom are During 1980, my year with Congressman John behind-the-scenes dismay expressed during his visit voters. Mrs. T is anathema to most Irish – and many Anderson and his national independent campaign from political conservatives and Catholic traditional- Brits. Who is doing his research? Want a mulligan, Jeb, for president, Mary occasionally joined the campaign, ists alike. Together they were fighting an uphill battle on that sappy answer? especially early when Anderson’s poll numbers were against the tide of public approval of the Jesuit pope. Austerity Rules; Senior Travel Passes May End significant. She was the star of the campaign’s Big The particular sore points with conservatives were – There are threats abuilding to take away travel passes Foot reporters and I did my duty seeing that she got up two: the policy statements by Francis on immigration that senior citizens (over 60) in Northern Ireland use and onto the bus with her coffee or tea. I forget which. and climate change and the to travel and shop. It has been a privilege of age that She was delightful if crabby, particularly if the bus guest list for his welcome the free passes are an accepted perk for the North’s 60 left earlier than usual. I had enormous respect for her to the United States at the plus population. and her skills, which held up well even after decades White House by President Once the proposal moved from village rumor to a of writing about politics. She spent almost a week once and Mrs. Obama. much-discussed possibility, the Northern Ireland Pen- with the campaign in Chicago, and, upset for one reason There remains deeply sioners Parliament activated its lobbying arm in an or another, she took to calling our hotel for press and imbedded in conservative intensive effort to kill that in-your-pocket fee. Advocates, staff “the abysmal Bismark.” But on balance she was a “folklore” a visceral belief including many not eligible for the senior travel pass, favorite during the occasions when she caught up with that climate change and the point out that “free travel allows the older population the campaign. A Boston gal and a hell of a journalist; dangers that it holds for the to have a more active and healthy lifestyle, and ensures what was not to like. world we live in are unproven it isn’t a financial burden.” Others note that the free Some six years later, I re-introduced myself to her liberal ideas that impede travel should be praising what the Smartpass enables at the White House Saint Patrick’s Day party and industrial progress and older people to do. These activities actually save money, mentioned the Chicago hotel but it rang no bells for threaten capitalism. This, help the economy, and secure a better public transport her. Six years in politics is an eternity. Mary died in of course, flies in the face of for everyone. Amen. 2004, and hopefully her biography/memoir, “The First Bill O’Donnell the overwhelming evidence Boston’s Mayor Walsh a Tough Cookie – Globe Queen of Journalism” by John Norris, does this home- given by the planet’s scien- columnist Adrian Walker took a few jabs at Conne- town lady justice. tists that, leftist belief or not, the effects of uncontrolled mara’s and Dorchester’s Marty Walsh late last month, Student Finds Truth of NINA – A prominent climate change represent a ticking time bomb. but the mayor, zeroing in on the closing months of his American historian and others have long dismissed The second distressing sign to conservatives of a first two years in the Plaza Parthenon, is still standing as myth the anti-Irish discrimination signs of No Irish pope who appears to be generally supportive of poli- tall with his constituents. Need Apply, or NINA, that were found at job sites and cies emanating from the Obama White House was the Walker challenged Walsh on the $1.5 million Boston in help wanted ads beginning in the mid-1800s and presence at the impressive welcoming of an A-list of has spent on lawyers and push-back against casino continuing into the early years of the 20th century. America’s nobility and a number of individuals whose mogul Steve Wynn in working to get the best shake Reports of the NINA signs were deemed as untrue places in life speak to the social, cultural, religious, and for Boston and its citizens out of the gambling operation claims of discrimination against the Irish that didn’t political diversity of the country. For these right-wing designated for Everett by the state gaming commission. hold up after scholarly searches. elements, many of whom have spent six plus years I think it will turn out to be money well spent and an Now, however, as a result of research by a high school opposing President Obama’s agenda at every turn, essential element in protecting Boston against the ram- student, there is further proof and authentication that seeing a hugely popular pope espousing what they see paging billionaire from the desert. Walker, in his Sept. these NINA signs and advertisements not only actually as liberal dogma before such a gathering was almost 25 column, tried to hang the 2024 Olympics end game existed but they also were widely seen and recorded, more than they could stand. While their complaints as a “fiasco” around Walsh’s neck, but I and thousands according to a recent story in the New York Times. were many, certainly a lightning rod of outrage was the of clear heads who were unconvinced by the flying IOC After the student’s research turned up several ex- sight of the Catholic nun Sister Simone Campbell, circus think the Walsh call was a win and protected the amples of NINA artifacts, the Times reporter, Mark the organizer of the “Nuns on the Bus,” and a favorite city against liability for unlimited shortfalls and a plan Bulik, conducted a search of his newspaper’s data base. target of the right. that had too many unanswered questions. The earliest example Bulik found dates back to Nov. 10, A right-wing news site describes some of the 15,000 When you are an incoming first term mayor and 1854, in a classified ad for a nanny. It was the first of at the Rose Garden reception for Francis as a “rogue’s Olympic supporters, many with their own goals and 29 instances that Bulik found showing No Irish Need gallery” of dissenters and their inclusion “a stunning heady dreams, are championing a five-ring, world class Apply stipulations. In addition, he found many more show of political indecorum” designed to “test just how extravaganza, what new mayor would be a skunk at the classifieds stating that applicants be Protestant, sug- far Pope Francis’ notorious tolerance will go.” Sister lawn party by going against the prevailing winds and gesting a prejudice against Irish Catholic immigrants. Simone, outspoken and direct, has been a thorn in not supporting such an event? But a few words spring It has long been said that “the truth will set you free.” the side of conservatives; some paint her as the “pro- to mind: due diligence and caution. The mayor was not Finally, to the naysayers, we have the proof. abortion executive director of the social justice lobby giving anyone, from Mount Olympus or elsewhere, an Good Reading on the Vatican Curia and Whitey NETWORK.” Sister Simone, who, like many, was open checkbook on the city’s finances or future. & the FBI – The New Yorker magazine continues to be stunned by the “apostolic visits” from Vatican clerics Walsh worked to get a guarantee that Boston would one of the sharpest fact-driven investigative journals aimed at reining in the nuns and their leader, says she not be left holding the bag for losses that could have publishing today. In the Sept. 14 issue there is an is “pro-life, not just pro-birth.” croaked the city’s balance sheet. That’s a line of prevent excellent update on Pope Francis’s efforts to reform A broad-based criticism by conservatives of the guest defense direct from Rosmuc. The IOC couldn’t produce, the Vatican Curia, by Alexander Stille. In the Sept. list seemed to be especially virulent concerning the and Boston closed down the shop. 21 issue, Patrick Radden Keefe, who grew up in number of gay Catholics and LGBT advocates who had The mayor of Boston doesn’t owe anyone an apology Dorchester, takes a further look at the FBI and its been invited, including a gay Episcopal bishop, Gene for protecting the city against potential harm, except long-term relationship with alleged informant Whitey Robinson, and others with similar backgrounds. As the maybe the local banks that will not be enjoying an Bulger that tries to answer the question of who worked National Catholic Reporter noted, “Maybe American Olympics-driven borrowing frenzy. That’s the “fiasco” for whom in the FBI-Bulger arrangement. conservatives and Obama critics are more upset than we missed. And ain’t we lucky, Boston. RANDOM CLIPPINGS the pope they say they are defending.” Two Who Marked Special Septembers – This Weeks after the Irish water rates protesters hit the Grace Notes For A Troubled Time – In the north year’s Rose of Tralee, Elysha Brennan, a Meath na- streets, thousands are still protesting in Dublin, not of Ireland and in some nearby border counties the tive, had several reasons to celebrate her Rose crown. about the rates but about criminal charges brought slog is difficult and often depressing, but amidst the The first of course, most would say, is that she was against protesters in Tallaght. … Minister of the En- bramble bushes a sliver of sunlight now and then shines chosen the fairest of all on stage at the annual Rose vironment Mark Durkin of the SDLP is considering through. Two of those sidebar events caught my eye of Tralee pageant in Kerry. What many did not know licensing all bonfires in the North. … New British and deserve attention. about the 22-year-old Elysha is that she is in remission Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has come out as • For the first time a British army regiment will from cancer and is still being monitored with check-up a supporter of a united Ireland. … The VW “Gotcha” field a GAA team in competition. The story came out scans, her next scheduled for just before Christmas. cost in Europe is 6.5 billion euros; Ireland has been of London and it involved a vote taken last month to She is being treated for Hodgkin’s lymphoma but tells hit heavily. … The Pawtucket Red Sox (only 50 miles admit a junior Irish Guards side to play in the London family and friends that she is in the “height of my from Boston) move to Providence has been killed and county championships next year. The Irish Guards health” and looking forward to fulfilling her duties as the PawSox are looking for another field to play on. GAA team has an existing 45-man panel that includes Rose of Tralee. Go girl. … Monica McWilliams, founder of the NI Womens Irish players, players of Irish descent, and others who Across the water is a another wee girl, the twenty- Coalition, will speak at BC’s Devlin Hall at 5 p.m. on simply want to play. something Margaret Keys, who had the thrill of her Wed., Dec. 9. … BC will host two fine Irish writers onto The Irish Guards regiment was founded in 1901 by young life when she sang for Pope Francis in Philadel- campus this fall, Paul Murray and Kevin Barry. Call Queen Victoria and many Irish companies were dis- phia before an estimated audience of almost a million BC Irish Studies for times and venues. banded after Irish independence, but not the Guards people during his appearance there on Sept. 26. Mar- US Sen. Elizabeth Warren has the IRS in her sights unit, which remains an active part of the British Army. garet, from Derry, recently lost her father. He had been as she pushes to end lucrative tax breaks for private Rule 21, the ban on crown forces joining the GAA, was a strong influence in her life and a strong supporter of equity managers. … Thought it might be a typo, but abolished in 2001. her singing career. When she spoke about her father’s happily it’s true that the Irish government expects the • A similar if more subtle “hands across the com- help and hopes, she said that performing for the pope domestic economy to grow by a stunning 6 percent this munity” gesture is taking place in Fermanagh where became a greater ambition following her father’s death. year. … Irish President Michael D. Higgins is sug- members of the Church of Ireland in Derrylin reached When asked how she came to be selected to sing for gesting that local housing authorities should apologize out to help their Catholic neighbors. The generous ac- the papal party, Margaret explained, “I performed to the homeless for the lack of social housing services. tions by the minister, Rev. Andrew Quill, his daughter, on Vatican Radio while I was in Rome last year, and … Ireland’s biggest hotel group is looking to purchase and a friend began following a rash of break-ins into I believe that one opportunity leads to another.” She the well-positioned Gresham Hotel in Dublin for $67 cars outside St. Mary’s Catholic Church and nearby is following in the footsteps of another Derry girl, the million. … An immigration reform group is readying a churches. The pastor of St. Mary’s, Father Fintan Eurovision winner Dana, who has sung for several large TV ad buy that will embarrass Ted Cruz, Don- McKiernan, commended the action and revealed his popes in her lengthy career. ald the Draft Dodger, and Scott Walker, who has parish members would soon be following suit. “I appreci- “The First Queen Of Journalism,” Mary Mc- already left the campaign trail. … Mass. AG Maura ate it. It was a meaningful neighborly thing to do. We Grory – If you were Irish American, and a news junkie Healey is looking closely at pipeline routes that would will be having car supervisors now at Mass, weddings, who loved politics, you had a surefire crush on Mary cut across conservation land in the Bay State and New and funerals,” the pastor confirmed. The gift of caring McGrory, who wrote tellingly and factually about Hampshire. … Glad to see that Dorchester’s Carney can be a powerful force, it says here. politicians and others whom she covered in a half- Hospital has turned the financial corner. It is looking Not A Hoax; Jeb Said It – I missed the last GOP century as a reporter and columnist. She won the 1975 at breaking even for the first time in years. … Regula- Elephant Walk debate, but someone asked me for my Pulitzer Prize for commentary for her articles about tors are eyeing some Big Pharma cost increases that reaction to Jeb Bush’s answer on who should grace the Watergate scandal. have some cholesterol-lowering drugs costing $14,000 a the soon to be redesigned $10 bill. This Roslindale-born journalist was in her time year and other medications that are now priced in the I was told that Jeb (where’s that fire in the belly?) arguably the most celebrated political columnist in $100,000 and up range. Pharma cites research costs, but replied to the debate question by offering up former America, first for the late Washington Star and then many drug companies pay more to advertise than for British PM Maggie Thatcher as someone to be pictured the Washington Post. She knew everybody who was research. … “Spotlight,” the tale of the Boston Globe’s on the US $10 dollar bill. Wow! He actually said that. anybody worth knowing in the Beltway. She was per- Pulitzer Prize series on priestly sexual abuse, will be No Eire Pub pint for you. In the first place why have haps best known for her close ties with the Kennedy shown at the Hamptons International Film Festival a British citizen on our money? And, if you’re stuck on family. She and John F. Kennedy were close in age in October, and will be on screens in theaters Nov. 6. bostonirish.com October 2015 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 9 BRETT’S BOSTON By Harry Brett Exclusive photos of Boston Irish people & events The family and friends of the late Court- ney Kelly, a 25 year old Milton nurse who died in March, hosted a golf tournament and a benefit reception on September 21, at Florian Hall Dorchester. All proceeds benefited the St. Agatha School, Milton 2. Scholarship Fund in her memory. Noted Boston Globe photographer Bill Brett as- sisted Courtney’s dad Pat Kelly and his committee in making plans for the event.

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Black for her cover of his own “Walking The first time was in 1970, when he with My Love” on her “Stories from the and brother Eddie were playing in the Steeple” album – and even got a number back-up band for the legendary Clancy one hit, with Gerry Fleming’s “The Last Brothers, and decided to strike out on Great Love Song,” through his partici- their own – leading, ultimately, to the pation in an Irish reality TV series. His formation of a band with their other travels have taken him to, among other brothers, Paul and George. And the places, South Africa, where he sang second time was almost 25 years later, with a Soweto choir. His foray into films when Furey opted to leave the group and TV has clearly been satisfying and he’d fronted for so long – and which had rejuvenating. He’s also watched his released a number of best-selling singles children make their own way into music, and albums – to pursue a solo career. especially Martin, now a member of The Furey didn’t make either decision High Kings – his daughter Aine teamed lightly, nor has he regretted them. And with Martin in the band Bohinta and the result has been a decades-long odys- put out her own album, but ultimately sey that has taken him almost literally decided to go into a different profession. all over the world, forming cherished There have been tough times, too. friendships and collaborations along Brother Paul died in 2002, and in the the way, and affirming himself as one aftermath of that loss and others close to of the most beloved, and unique, figures his heart, Furey went through a period in Irish music – a master of the uilleann when his creativity was at low ebb. He pipes who can play a guitar and belt out also endured some physical problems a Johnny Cash song, or pick up a banjo to that curtailed the amount of time he accompany one of his own compositions, could perform on the pipes – and new without batting an eye. Oh, and by the restrictions on traveling with instru- way, he has also developed a side venture ments containing ivory have led him to of sorts in film, having made appearances decide against taking his pipes to the in Martin Scorcese’s “Gangs of New York” US from now on. and Michael Mahon’s “Strength and But on this day, certainly, Furey is not Honour,” among others, and contributed one to wallow. There is far more to be op- the score to the forthcoming “Occurrence timistic about, especially the outlook for at Wild Goose Lodge,” which revolves Irish music – he’s particularly enthused around the 19th-century secret society about the young County Clare trio Socks called The Ribbonmen of County Louth. “Every night I go on stage, I think ‘This music is bigger than me.’” in the Frying Pan, and the Donegal- Recently, Furey’s travels took him to Sean Smith photo based pop/Celtic rockers The Screaming Somerville, where he performed at The Orphans (“What a great name!”), both of Burren “Backroom” series. Sitting out- Yet Furey’s step out onto the big stage and contemporary songs, spanning the whom he recently appeared with during side The Burren on a warm late-summer came first with the Clancys, when he and emotional and tonal spectrum, from his US tour. “Entirely too much fun for afternoon, greeted continually by friends, brother Eddie were invited to join the unabashedly sentimental to stridently an old fella,” he says. “But it’s great to acquaintances, and fans arriving for his group in the wake of Tommy Makem’s topical to full-throttle up-tempo. see the music like that. Makes me wish show, Furey is reflecting on his long- departure in 1969. The two Fureys had They helped popularize such relatively I was 20, 22 years old again.” running journey and the people who by then recorded three LPs of traditional unknown compositions as Ralph McTell’s Whether it’s meeting the younger mu- have enlivened it, with the contented air and contemporary material – including “Clare to Here,” Bill Caddick’s “John of sicians, like Socks in the Frying Pan or of someone who has earned the right to Finbar’s haunting air “The Lonesome Dreams,” and a soft-spoken but stirring The Screaming Orphans, or those of his wax philosophically. Boatman,” a signature piece – and Finbar anti-war song by Eric Bogle originally age or older, Furey says he’s constantly “What would I be doing if not for music? an album of piping music with Eddie as titled “No Man’s Land” but – as cov- reminded that – whatever his accom- I’d probably be an attorney in Washing- accompanist on guitar and bodhran. “It ered by the Fureys and Arthur – better plishments – he’s a link in an incredibly ton, having a go against Donald Trump was a huge decision,” recalls Furey, who known as “The Green Fields of France,” long chain. for president,” he quips in a deep, gravely had only recently married Sheila by then. which spent more than half a year in the “Every night I go on stage, I think ‘This voice, redolent of his Dublin upbringing. “We’d just broken into the university Irish charts, reaching number one (it’s music is bigger than me.’ I don’t think of “I don’t really know. What I do know circuit, the coffeehouses, and the Clancys reputed to be Tony Blair’s favorite peace myself as an Irish traditional musician, is, Monday I fly back home to Ireland, just wanted me – but I wouldn’t move song). In 1981, the band had arguably even though people might call me that. and we’ll see what happens then. God without Eddie. So they brought him in their biggest hit with the 19th-century I mean, you have to be dead 50 years is good – you don’t know where he’ll put as well, and off we went, and didn’t we vaudeville standard “When You Were before you’re a traditional musician. You his hand next. One thing I’m sure of is raise the roof. The Clancys were great, Sweet Sixteen,” which hit number one think of great musicians, like a Willie that I still love playing the music. That’s though, such wonderful ambassadors in Ireland and the top 15 in Australia Clancy, and how they learned what they why I still do it. I just love the music.” for the music, for Ireland. They taught and the UK; “Golden Days,” the album did, and others learned from them. It’s It would’ve been more surprising if us a lot about ourselves, about our Irish on which the single appeared, was in like a big well we’re all dipping into, you Furey didn’t love the music, since it was heritage.” the UK’s top 20. know what I mean? And it’ll never dry practically inscribed in the family DNA: Finbar and Eddie also learned a lot The band traveled far and wide, in- up as long as there are brilliant young After his fiddle-playing father Ted, from about show business, playing throughout cluding to distant places like Australia musicians around. I think some of us, Salthill, went to the famous Puck Fair Europe, America and elsewhere in front and New Zealand (“the pinnacle,” says we’re like old warriors sitting around and heard Nora Connelly, a daughter of of crowds numbering in the thousands Furey), and kept turning out gener- the fire, sending out the young braves. a travelling family from Kilfenora, play instead of the hundreds, performing on ally well-received albums; Finbar also “All great heritage music – from the banjo, he waited all of four days to TV and appearing on two Clancys record- managed to put out a solo effort, “Love Ireland, or from Native Americans, or ask her to marry him. ings. But after about a year, Finbar says, Letters,” with his renditions of contem- from the Maori or from the aborigines in Ted set Finbar on the uilleann pipes at “it just got too big for me.” porary/popular love songs by the likes Australia – has that wheel, like a hub. a young age; an All-Star cast of visiting And more to the point, “I just felt we of Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Phil We all got it around 50,000 years ago, pipers, like Willie Clancy, Felix Doran, weren’t finished with Ireland,” Furey Lynott, Jim Croce, and Elvis Presley, as and no one knows where it came from. I Seamus Ennis and Leo Rowsome, would adds, “so I said, ‘Eddie, let’s go back.’” well as one written by his son Martin. remember talking with a friend of mine lend their expertise and guidance to Fin- (Furey says he also thinks the clamor As the 1990s unfolded, though, Arthur one night on a bridge in Melbourne about bar. By the time he hit his teens, Furey and attention he and Eddie had received left the band and Furey began to take heritage, and he asks me, ‘Where did you had won a bushel of honors, including playing with the Clancys would have stock. He’d been writing songs for years, get this?’ and I say, ‘I don’t know,’ and three All-Ireland titles. He had also left likely turned them “into spoiled brats.”) and thought that perhaps the time had he says, ‘There’s 12,000 miles between school, at his father’s direction, to go and The brothers resumed working as a duo, come to devote more attention to that us and we still have the same groove, busk out on the road with the family. during which time they recorded a cover part of his craft, and to work with dif- the same heart.’” “Dad didn’t play the pipes, but he of “Her Father Didn’t Like Me Anyway,” ferent musicians. At that night’s concert, the packed- was important to me, musically,” says given to them by Scottish songwriter So in 1994, Finbar played his last gig – to-the-rafter Backroom is in the same Furey. “He would just listen to me, and Gerry Rafferty (later known for his hit in New Haven, Conn. – with the band. “I groove, the same heart with Furey, as if I needed something, I knew I could single “Baker Street”) and began to draw wanted to go home,” he explains. “I just he and his accompanist, string bassist ask him.” wider attention among the music media felt I’d come about as far as I could. So I Paul O’Driscoll, take a leisurely stroll Furey came of age in the late 1960s, and public. went home and went fishing, took a year through his repertoire, beginning with when Irish music was in a transition Meanwhile, the other Furey brothers off to get my head together.” “The Lonesome Boatman.” At one point, period of sorts: The ballad bands, like were pursuing musical careers that grad- There was no animosity between him he starts up “Walking with My Love”: the Clancys, Dubliners, and Irish Rovers, ually intersected with that of Finbar and and his brothers about his decision to And her laughter fills the evening air had made a big impression in Ireland, Eddie: Paul had begun playing in a band leave, Furey says: “I was more worried I smile at her just strolling there the US and elsewhere, but people such called The Buskers, whose members also about whether they’d be OK without me, No need to hurry no not a care as Christy Moore, Donal Lunny, Andy included Davey Arthur; George, who had but I knew they’d do fine, really, and Arriving at the chorus, he lets the Irvine, Mick Moloney, Johnny Moynihan, been touring with Ted, eventually joined they have. We meet up now and then, crowd take over, while he continues and Micheál Ó Dhomhnaill and sister them. Then in 1976, Finbar, Eddie, and and there’s always laughter between us, softly strumming his guitar and smiling Triona were beginning to create a new Paul teamed up with Arthur to form Tam and then we have to hold back the tears. as much to himself as anyone else: sound – mining deeper veins of the Irish Linn, and after adding George, changed The boys are very happy where they are, When I’m walking with me darlin’ tradition and bringing in contemporary the name to The Furey Brothers and and I’m glad for them. When I’m walking with me love styles and attitudes – that would dra- Davey Arthur (later shortened to The “I’m the most unpredictable human With my love matically transform Irish music when Fureys and Davey Arthur). being you will ever meet – I’m terrible. The song ends, the crowd applauds the 1970s rolled around. Furey, a young The next two decades saw the band The boys would always say, ‘Don’t predict with gusto, and Furey looks like he could man playing one of Ireland’s most iconic flourish, their mix of instrumental where Finbar’s going to go, because he do this all night. Again and again. instruments, was a perfect fit for this pieces – led by Finbar’s pipes and whistle just doesn’t go there. You don’t know. vanguard. and Paul’s accordion – with traditional Just wait.’ But I enjoy it; I haven’t bostonirish.com October 2015 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 13 OCTOBER HAPPENINGS By Sean Smith her work, including by expanded her tastes to in- Special to the BIR Irish Music Magazine, clude American roots and The Dorchester Irish and her music has been picked up banjo, all the Heritage Festival [see featured in TV and films, while honing her singing separate story in this including “Some Mother’s talents. Named Canadian edition] is certainly the Son,” HBO’s “Six Feet Folk’s Young Performer of big highlight event in Under” and ABC’s “Clue- the Year in 2008, she lived Boston-area Irish/Celtic- less.” One of her most fa- in Boston while studying related doings for Oc- mous songs, “A Woman’s at the Berklee College of tober, but as always Heart,” was the title and Music and is now in Nash- there will be plenty of centerpiece for the best- ville. Gareiss is widely activity elsewhere, in- selling Irish album of all known for his innovative cluding performances by time, on which she ap- percussive dance style – Irish super-trio The Alt, peared with Dolores Ke- he has performed locally iconic singer-songwriter ane, Mary Black, Frances at “A Christmas Celtic Eleanor McEvoy, and the Black, Sharon Shannon, Sojourn” and BCMFest, revered fiddle-guitar duo and Maura O’Connell. among other events – Martin Hayes and Dennis • Martin Hayes and but is also considerably Cahill. Dennis Cahill wrap up the skilled on vocals and bou- • The Alt – with Nuala Backroom’s schedule this zouki. The two released a Kennedy (flute, whistle, month on Oct. 21. Hayes CD in 2010. vocals), John Doyle (gui- grew up immersed in his General admission tar, bouzouki, vocals) and native East Clare’s fiddle for the show is $20, Eamon O’Leary (bou- tradition (his father P.J. seniors and students The Burren “Backroom” series welcomes Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill on zouki, guitar, vocals) was a founding member $15. Tickets are avail- October 21; also appearing this month are Archie Fisher and Garnet Rogers – will be at Club Passim of the famed Tulla Ceili able through Eventbrite (October 7) and Eleanor McEvoy (October 10). Sean Smith photo in Harvard Square on Band) but in his 20s ex- [eventbrite.com/o/notlob- Oct. 5 at 7 p.m. All three perimented with other music-6730833315]. enjoyed phenomenally ac- kinds of music, notably • An event of a more complished careers even with the jazz-rock band participatory nature will before they began playing Midnight Court, where take place on Oct. 15 as a trio a couple of years he met guitarist-man- when Boston College ago, and released their dolinist Cahill. Deciding will host an Irish ceili as highly acclaimed first to work as a duo, they part of the Gaelic Roots album in 2014. revisited the music of series, led by Kieran For tickets and other Hayes’s youth and have Jordan, a Boston-based information, see passim. earned plaudits for their dancer, choreographer org. meditative, often mes- and teacher, with Seamus • Two of the more be- merizing, interpretation Connolly, director of BC’s loved singer-songwriters of traditional tunes. Irish music programs, of their generation, Scot- All Backroom shows are and area musicians. The land’s Archie Fisher and at 7:30 p.m.; Hayes and ceili will be held in the Canada’s Garnet Rog- Cahill also will play a 9:30 Irish Room of Gasson ers, come to The Burren p.m. show. See burren. Hall on BC’s Chestnut “Backroom” series in Da- com/Backroom-Series. Hill Campus, beginning vis Square, Somerville, html for information and at 6:30 p.m. Admission on Oct. 7. Fisher, from a links to purchase tickets. is free. See bc.edu/gaelic- venerable singing family • The Burren also will roots. and active in Scottish feature a concert of music, • Music of faith will be music since the 1960s, is songs and stories from the focus when the Belfast a Member of the Order County Clare on Oct. 9, Community Gospel Choir of British Empire and an event to raise funds comes to the Irish Cultur- holds a place in the Scots for the Michael Dunleavy al Centre of New England Traditional Music Hall Foundation, which sup- in Canton on Oct. 22 at of Fame as well. Rogers ports the fight against 7 p.m. Touted as North- started out playing in the pediatric brain cancer. ern Ireland’s first and band of his famous singer- The performers for “From only multicultural choir, songwriter brother, the Clare to Here” will be BCGC describes itself as late Stan Rogers, and Oliver O’Connell (accor- committed to “performing in the years since Stan’s dion), Mickey Dunne (uil- music that carries the death has become a musi- leann pipes, fiddle), Mick message of love, joy and cal force in his own right, Nestor (flute) and Boston- peace and to promoting noted for his on-stage area resident John Coyne a positive image of our presence and charisma (bouzouki). The concert country,” following many as well as his writing and begins at 7:30 p.m., and decades of “violence, divi- prowess on guitar, flute there is a suggested mini- sion and political upheav- and fiddle. The two have mum donation of $20. See al.” Comprised of over Serving breakfast, lunch toured together several michaeldunleavy.com for 100 auditioned singers times in the past 20 years; ticket information. from all over Northern & dinner every day of the week they will be accompanied • The notloB Music se- Ireland who perform in at the Backroom perfor- ries will present a concert various-sized ensembles, mance by Danish fiddler by Emma Beaton and the choir – hailed as “the Kitchen open nightly Harald Haugaard. Nic Gareiss on Oct. 10 soul of Belfast” – appears • Three days later, at Gregorian Rugs, 2284 at concerts, festivals, and until 10:45 p.m. Eleanor McEvoy makes Washington Street in civic, charitable, corpo- her appearance in the Newton Lower Falls at 8 rate and other events. Backroom. An accom- p.m. A native of Canada The concert is free. For GERARD’S ADAMS CORNER plished singer-songwriter and daughter of Scottish directions or other infor- herself, McEvoy has been immigrants, Beaton grew mation, see irishculture. 772 - 776 Adams Street honored several times for up playing Celtic music org. To learn more about on cello but subsequently the Belfast Community Dorchester, MA 02124 Gospel Choir, go to bcgc. Great Hunger Museum biz. 617-282-6370 visit set for Oct. 17 Ár dTeanga Dhúchais i mBoston (ÁdTD), a non-profit group that sponsors classes in the Irish language in Brookline and Dorchester, invites interested persons to Photography by join them for a visit to Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum (Músaeman Ghorta Mhóir) at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT on Sat., October 17. “The visit to the museum will enhance and expand Image Photo Service your understanding of this dark period in Irish his- tory,” the group said in a news release. Plymouth-Brockton Bus Lines will pick up in three • Weddings • Anniversaries • Banquets locations: Quincy Station at 8 a.m., Norwood Square at 8:30), and Brookline Village at 9 o’clock. The cost • Portraits • Reunions • Groups of the trip is $45 per person. Lunch at a restaurant in Connecticut is not included. • Families • Special Occasions Ár dTeanga Dhúchais means ‘our native language,’ and the group says it is committed to the teaching and the preservation of the Irish language in the Boston area. (617) 291-6609 In addition to regular language classes, they fre- quently host cultural events such as lectures on Irish culture and tradition, concerts, dances, poetry recitals, béaloideas (folklore), and sean-nós singing. Harry Brett • Margaret Brett Hastings Deadline to register for the trip is Oct. 3. Inter- ested persons are asked to contact ÁdTD by writing to Peggy Cloherty, Uachtarán (President,) 35 Vernon The official photographers of the Boston Irish Reporter St., Brookline MA 02446, or send an email to eolas@ ardteangadhuchais.org. Page 14 October 2015 BOSTON IRISH Reporter bostonirish.com various activities, getting the four of them together in that occasionally has a lovely jazz tint to it – his intro- CD Reviews a recording studio can be difficult; in fact, this is only ductory riff to “Oyster Island” is a thing of beauty – or a the fourth album in Buttons and Bows’ 30-some years solid, forthright piano accompaniment (he also composed By Sean Smith of existence, and first since 1991’s “Grace Notes.” the album’s other waltz, “Sweet Aibhilin,” named for Buttons and Bows, “The Return of Spring” • Still, it’s quite easy to forgive this interregnum, his granddaughter, and a sequel of sorts to a waltz he There are so many reasons to like Buttons and Bows, because “The Return of Spring” has so much unadul- wrote for her mother that appeared on “Grace Notes.”) not least because the group took its name from the terated amiability and cheer, in addition to superior Given the interval between their last two albums – old Dinah Shore hit (featured in the 1948 movie “The musicianship, percolating through its tracks. What can we’re talking from near the end of the George H. W. Paleface”), in tribute to their main instruments, i.e., you say about an album that begins, not with the rip- Bush administration to the latter months of the Obama accordion (buttons) and fiddles (bows). A bit of clever, roaring reel or jig set one might expect from an Irish era – it’s understandable to wonder when Buttons pop culture-referencing humor in Irish music is not a band, but a winsome waltz, “Oyster Island,” penned by and Bows next makes it back into the studio again. bad thing at all – hey, there’s another band out there Seamus McGuire, no less? Hopefully, not quite so long: They clearly still have a called Breaking Trad, whose album will be given some While Buttons and Bows has frequently extended its collective spring in their step. attention here in the near future. repertoire to include music from Quebecois, Danish, Ályth McCormack, “Homelands” • A native of But a better reason to appreci- Shetland and other traditions, here they stick largely the Isle of Lewis (off the northwest coast of Scotland) ate Button and Bows is – actually, to Irish material and their own compositions (each now living in Dublin, McCormack has appeared on four better reasons are – because member has at least one original featured). But there’s some two dozen albums and has two solo recordings of the All-Universe attributes of no diminution to their sound, not when you have Daly to her credit, a body of work that covers a variety of the band’s members: accordionist leading sets of polkas (including one he wrote in honor music, from Celtic and folk to jazz, classical and indie. Jackie Daly, one of the finest em- of the storied Galway box player Joe Burke) and slides, She has appeared with The Chieftains, and was the bodiments of the Sliabh Luachra or the McGuires out in front on a pair of reels (“The featured female vocalist in the 2012 “Christmas Celtic tradition of Cork and Kerry around; Prohibition/The Contradiction”) first recorded by the Sojourn” production. McCormack also has a lot of acting guitarist-pianist-mandocellist Garry O’Briain from legendary Michael Coleman and Tom Gannon, with experience, so there’s a certain theatrical quality, albeit Clare, formerly of Aengus and Skylark, now a member that classic Sligo flamboyance and ornamentation. tastefully and judiciously measured, to her singing. of the Boys of the Lough and a talented producer and There’s also a jig in the Donegal style from the famous “Homelands,” as the title implies, is about the concept instrument maker as well as musician; and the fiddling Doherty family, and a striking Limerick air, the aptly of “home” and its place in our imagination and emotions, McGuire brothers from Sligo, Manus – he’s played with named “An Ceo Draíchta (The Magic Mist)” from the not to mention our mythology. The Moving Cloud and the Brock McGuire band, won honors PW Joyce Collection that is followed by “The Stafford matter is not a little complicated, from the Irish American News and Trad Magazine – Dance,” which gives a nod to Leitrim tune collector suggests McCormack, who in the and Seamus, who released a highly acclaimed album Stephen Grier. liner notes for the album professes of music inspired by Seamus Heaney’s poetry and co- Daly and the McGuires obviously deserve the at- a love for both her former and her founded the classical-traditional fusion ensemble the tention they get, but there’s certainly no overlooking present homes. What do we value West Ocean String Quartet. Naturally, given all their O’Briain’s contribution, whether it’s a guitar backing most about our homeland, and how does that change – if it does – should we leave it? And if we stay but those we love go away, does that change how we feel about them, and about our homeland? Some of the songs are well known and have been covered often: “The Lambs on the Green Hills” and “Carrickfergus,” from tradition, and Patrick Kavanagh’s “Raglan Road.” McCormack also does Martin Furey’s “My Grandmother’s Eyes” – written shortly before his departure to the US in honor of his grandmother, who had already seen many family members and friends emigrate from Ireland – and “Lord Yester,” the George Weir poem set to music by Roy Williamson (of the Scot- tish band The Corries), in which a woman sublimates her grief for the likely death of her lover by imagining him in distant lands. Interspersed with these are McCormack’s starkly beautiful renditions of songs in Gaelic, such as “Bua- chaill ón Éirne (A Boy from Erne)” and “A Mhairi Bhoidheach (Beautiful Mary).” This makes for an exotic sort of contrast (especially if you’re not a Gaelic speaker) to the other tracks, and gives the album an overall heft and presence it might not have otherwise. McCormack also benefits from a supporting ensemble that includes her co-producer Brian Mcalpine (piano, guitars, accordion), Aidan O’Rourke (fiddle), Joe Csibi (double bass), and her husband Noel Eccles (percus- sion), all of whom provide a sensitive and discerning – as opposed to overwrought and overdone – backing. Albums built around a theme sometimes make listen- ers work a little to fully appreciate them. “Homelands” doesn’t do that, exactly; yet, in a mobicentric society like ours where you’re seldom likely to live in the place you were born, pausing to consider just what “home” means to us nowadays is a not unreasonable task. John Roberts & Debra Cowan, “Ballads Long & Short” • The first CD by this duo, both solid, stalwart performers of the British Isles and North American folk music traditions who have been familiar faces (and voices) at festivals and coffeehouses throughout the Northeast, whether together, solo or in other col- laborations: Roberts in particular for his longstanding partnership with his fellow Briton Tony Barrand, which includes the annual “Nowell Sing We Clear” concerts of Christmas music; Cowan, who lives near Worcester, has often ventured into contemporary folk, playing with the likes of Co. Down songwriter Colum Sands and American songwriters Si Kahn and Brooks Williams, among others. Whether you know Roberts and/or Cowan, or you don’t, “Ballads Long & Short” is a delight for those who just like well- sung songs that span the spectrum of humor, fellowship, tragedy, mystery, love, adventure and fun, with slight but not insubstantial accompaniment (by Roberts on banjo and concertina) – sometimes none at all. Roberts’ rich British-accented tenor nestles against Cowan’s clear, mellifluous tones to highly pleasing effect. Some of the songs reach back centuries, like the blood-chilling “Twa Corbies” (although this particular version was the work of 1960s/70s Scots singer Mor- ris Blythman, who set the words to a Breton tune), or “The Golden Hind,” one of those ballads that has all the ingredients (incest, suicide, murder, intrigue) of a “Game of Thrones” episode. Others are of more recent vintage, such as Mick Slocum’s “Jim Jones,” a bitter song about the Australian penal colony that’s been covered by Bob Dylan, among others, and “The Broadside Man,” co-written by John Connolly (author of “Fiddler’s Green”) and Bill Meek. Parodists will surely appreciate the Kipper Family’s “Combing the Mane,” a maritime ditty that indulges in some hair-raising, groan-inducing wordplay. Best of all, for those who like to do more than listen, there are plenty of very singable choruses on here, in songs such as “Bold Riley,” “When Fortune Turns the Wheel,” “Drive Dull Care Away” and “Garners Gay.” The long and short of it is, this is folk music at its most accessible and intimate, and altogether inviting. bostonirish.com October 2015 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 15

Comedian, Commentator and Founder of Humor for Humanity Jimmy Tingle as emcee.

Poetry by Harlym 125 (Jamele Adams)

Honorees include: Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh; The Hon. Linda Dorcena Forry, Massachusetts Senate; James E. Rooney, President of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce; Robert K. Coughlin, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council

Des Bishop on stage for IIIC on Oct. 24

You can help out the Irish International Immigrant Center and have a night so full of laughs that your belly will hurt by going to the Wilbur Theater, Boston’s finest comedy venue, on Oct. 24 to see the one and only Des Bishop performing in a benefit for the IIIC. For tickets, go to thewilbur.com/artist/ des-bishop. Page 16 October 2015 BOSTON IRISH Reporter bostonirish.com He’s keeping things on track at North Shore Music Theatre By R. J. Donovan A. We always try to look for a family show . . . this Special to the BIR show itself has so much heart. You just fall in love North Shore Music Theatre is presenting the Tony with this kid. And the dancing’s incredible. We choose Award winning “Billy Elliot: The Musical” through Adam Pelty (to direct and choreograph). He’s the guru Oct. 11. With music by Elton John, lyrics by Lee Hall of “Billy Elliot” . . . We really wanted someone who and based on the film of the same name, this is the knew the show but who also brought the heart to the story of a young boy with a fiery passion to dance. show, and he has a lot of heart himself. Despite his father’s stern objections, the motherless Q. Any local actors in this production? Billy fights the obstacles in his English coal-mining A. All the ballet girls in the show are local. It’s won- town to pursue his dream. derful. Our two Billys – one is from Chicago and one The North Shore production will feature two young is from Oklahoma – are just amazing. We wanted the actors alternating as Billy: Nicholas Dantes and Brooks best for the show and we certainly have it. Landegger. Q. What was the first Broadway show you saw as Kevin P. Hill is the artistic director at the Beverly a boy? theater-in-the-round. Working with theater owner/ A. “Annie,” here in Boston; the touring company. producer Bill Hanney, Hill keeps an eye on virtually I remember being seated in the very first row. I was every aspect of every production to make sure it main- there with my mother and my sister. I’ll never forget tains the theater’s high standards. there was one point in the show where one of the cast That includes assembling a compelling season of members pointed right at me . . . I thought, that’s productions, reaching out to directors, choreographers, what I want to do. and designers, holding auditions, casting each show, Q. You spent some of your early years as part of and making sure every production is technically sharp Reagle Music Theater. What was that like? and runs smoothly. A. That’s where I kind of grew up performing. I Kevin P. Hill, Artistic Director at North Shore Music A Waltham native with family ties that stretch to got my start there. Basically I wanted to learn every Theatre in Beverly. maternal ancestors in County Cork, Hill has had a single aspect of theater . . . I started painting sets. show with Carol Channing and Leslie Uggams and diverse career as an actor, dancer, choreographer, and Then I wanted to perform (so) I auditioned. My first Michelle Lee, so I had a big history with the show . . . director. In addition to having appeared off-Broadway, show was “Oliver” and I just caught the bug. That’s And it’s funny, but no one ever introduced me to him he has directed and choreographed more than 80 pro- all I could see myself doing. at the theater. I kind of (asked myself), Why is this ductions across the country. Q. Eventually you made the transition from acting to guy hanging around? (Laughing) I didn’t know who His impressive credits include touring productions choreographing and directing. How did that shift occur? he was. But we got talking and from that point on we of “Hello, Dolly!” “Anything Goes” and “A Chorus Line” A. My first choreographic job was “Kiss Me Kate” at kind of became best friends . . . In 2013, he asked me as well as local and regional productions of “West Side The Publick Theater in Boston. I got horrible reviews to come on board and be artistic director (in Matunuck) Story,” “Falsettoland,” “Smokey Joe’s Café,” “Rent,” but it was only because I didn’t really know what I and I jumped at the chance. “Chicago” and more. was doing . . . I had been a dance captain and I think And then came North Shore in Beverly? This past theater season he worked on Broadway at the last minute someone said, ”Oh, could you put Q. (In 2013) he said, “Do you think you can handle as assistant to the director of the Tony-nominated something together?” . . . I did a good job, but I didn’t A. two theaters?” Of course I wanted to . . . One of my musical “On The Twentieth Century,” starring Kristen know the whole story-telling part of it yet. many dreams and goals was to be the artistic director Chenoweth. In addition to his theater work, he owns Q. So how did you expand your vision? at North Shore. My mentor, I think, is (North Shore’s Hill Studios Dance and Fitness Center in Newton. A. I taught at Penn State University. I was a profes- former artistic director) Jon Kimball. I performed for We spoke during rehearsals for “Billy Elliot.” Here’s sor there for five years . . . I really gathered my skills him back in 1994 in the musical “Good News.” I just a condensed look at our conversation: there. I started choreographing a lot more there and loved Jon. I loved what he was about. And I said, Q. I know you’re very excited to be presenting “Billy I started directing there . . . They gave me more op- “Someday I’m gonna take over.” Elliot” this month. portunities. Q. So be careful what you wish for? A. It’s funny that my story is a lot like Billy Elliot’s Q. What’s your approach when you take on a new (Laughing) That’s right! because I wanted to dance and my parents, I think, show? A. were worried about people making fun of me. They A. I tell every cast I work with that every show that R. J. Donovan is editor and publisher of onstagebos- knew it was my passion, but they were just worried for I do I treat as my Broadway debut – my Broadway ton.com. me and wanted me to be in a more stable profession. opening – and I expect no less from the cast. ••• An architect or something like that. Not that that’s Q. So how did you and Bill Hanney first meet? “Billy Elliot: The Musical,” through October 11, North more stable (laughs). A. He owns another theater in Rhode Island (Theater Shore Music Theatre, 62 Dunham Road, Beverly. Tick- Q. What prompted you to include “Billy Elliot” in By The Sea in Matunuck) . . . In 2010 I was hired to ets: 978-232-7200 or nsmt.org your season? direct and choreograph “Hello, Dolly!” I had done the Dot’s Irish Heritage Festival offers dose of culture, family connections (Continued from page 1) credit. nesses and other patrons Shea-Chaplin Academy McEvilley, who is from who have provided sup- of Irish Dance, as well Cincinnati, took up acous- port for the event since it as performances of seán- tic guitar and tenor banjo debuted. nos (old-style) dance. As as a child, and began sing- Added Keady. “We are always, there is sure to ing American folk music so blessed with the best be plenty of spontaneous, while in college. Hearing of talented bands, musi- participatory dancing the Irish Tenors prompted cians, and dancers in this among festival-goers. him to explore Irish music, area. This day is designed In addition to the music and on a subsequent visit to showcase our neighbor- and dance, the festival of- to Ireland he happened hood that is so rooted in fers family entertainment, to hear Hernon on the culture, heritage, and and cultural activities, as radio – and was intrigued family. Over the years, well as food and vendor enough to find out more this festival has evolved booths selling clothing, about her. They eventu- as another opportunity for souvenirs, novelties, jew- ally made contact, formed families to gather and visit elry and various other a friendship over the with old friends return- items. years, and after Hernon ing to their old stomping Featured act Celtic immigrated to the US, got ground just before the Font is singer Mai Her- married. The duo’s reper- winter sets in. non and guitarist/singer toire reflects their merged “It promises to be a great Mick McEvilley. A native backgrounds, mixing Irish day for our Irish cultural of Gurteen in Co. Sligo, traditional music and heritage.” Hernon has a solid back- Irish/American folk. For information and ground in performing and Fiddler Geoffrey Roman of the band Erin’s Guild did a little audience outreach Festival organiz - updates on the Dorchester teaching traditional music at last year’s festival. ers Sean Weir, Patrick Irish Heritage Festival, see of Ireland. Among her Jordan and other mem- Keane, Len Graham and the all-female four-part McDonagh, and Mairin dorchesteririshheritagef- notable collaborators over bers of the group Dervish, Rosie Stewart. Hernon, harmony band Beeswing, Keady expressed their est.com. the years have been Cathy Seamie O’Dowd, Dolores who also performs with has three albums to her gratitude to the local busi- Plans in place for Boston-Cork flights beginning next May (Continued from page 1) to Barcelona route is also will be strong demand for and the new B737MAX liners at the lowest fares,” international destina- we have on order, we now an exciting addition to our these new transatlantic for which Norwegian said Norwegian’s Kjos. tions than any other for- have exciting plans to of- growing network. services from both busi- Air International will be “We are excited to offer eign carrier operating fer low-cost flights from Cork Airport Managing ness and leisure passen- Boeing’s European launch Bostonians even more Eu- here,’’ said Massport CEO Cork to Boston in 2016 Director Niall MacCarthy gers. We look forward customer. ropean destinations from Thomas P. Glynn. “We and Cork to New York in said: “We’re delighted to working closely with “Boston is an impor- this east coast gateway at welcome their growth, 2017. “We are delighted that Norwegian will op- Norwegian and our local tant market for Nor- affordable fares without their array of destina- to offer a long-awaited erate Cork Airport’s first partners to promote these wegian, and these new discounting on service, tions, and that they offer service from the US to transatlantic service. new services and to grow routes show our commit- which so many Americans budget-conscious travel- Cork and the southern Cork Airport has a robust passenger traffic at Cork.” ment to the US, where we have been enjoying since ers a great way to get parts of Ireland, which hinterland with a well- The routes from Cork will continue to grow our Norwegian launched its to and from Europe.’’ will create huge business, developed industrial base to Boston and New York presence by offering high- transatlantic service two of more than 440 routes leisure and tourism op- and a fantastic tourism will be serviced by single quality service on brand years ago.” to 132 destinations. portunities. Our new Cork product. We’re sure there aisle B737-800 aircraft new Boeing 787 Dream- “Norwegian offers more bostonirish.com October 2015 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 17 Traveling People Looking to tour Ireland? Guide choices are many, varied

Lovely Lismore Castle in Co. Waterford. The captivating wildness of Co. Kerry.

By Judy Enright bilities with many other of the day and planning the Special to the BIR companies that serve the next day’s itinerary. Planning to book a tour Emerald Isle. On her last day at of Ireland? As you prob- KNOCKAHOPPLE Knockahopple, she sat ably know already, tours Want a truly unique down by the fire with Liam are a really great way to travel experience in Ire- and told him how special see the country through land? How about joining it was to experience the the eyes and dialogue a few other travelers Ireland that most tour- of trained guides in the (minimum two/maximum ists miss. She insisted, many all-around tour five) for a customized he says, that he put his companies. There are so 10-to-14-day B&B stay at passion for “the real Ire- many things to see across Knockahopple Cottage in land” to work, “And on the Irish countryside from Co. Tipperary? that day, Knockahopple churches and monuments We met owner and host Cottage and Tours began. to castles and thatched Liam Hughes at Mil- In just a few short years, roof houses and so much waukee’s Irish Fest this my business has grown,” more. It’s always fun to get summer and know that a Liam says, “but remains the guides’ take on it all. visit to Ireland with him small and personalized, There are many tour would be great fun and which is exactly the way operators that work in also extremely interesting I intend to keep it. Ireland and many – like and that you’d see bits “For Irish-Americans CIE and Brian Moore and pieces of the country like myself, there is a International Tours and that you’d never see on strong bond with Ireland more – that offer options your own or probably with that calls us back to the The beautiful Doolough Pass and Delphi Valley in Co. Mayo is the site of a for those who want an anyone else. place of our ancestors. walk every year to remember 400 famine victims who died in 1849 during a overall or focused experi- Seems that in 1989 Liam There is something about frigid march to Delphi House from Louisburgh. Judy Enright photos ence. Clearly, we cannot was visiting extended the Irish countryside and mention them all but there family in Tipperary and turf burning in an open fire chamber display amazing and spent $10 million Colosseum, Buckingham are many very reputable asked a cousin if there that makes one think of examples of Stone Age (9.3 million euro) refitting Palace in London and Ri- companies that can take were homes for sale in the how difficult it must have art from early farming them to luxury standards. beira do Porto in Portugal. you on a general tour area. As they drove around been for our forefathers to communities in Western The company plans to The award was pre- around the country’s many checking out the available leave a place as beautiful Europe. spend another $1 million sented to the Storehouse tourist attractions. inventory, he looked up as this.” The Hill of Tara, the marketing the service to during a ceremony in Sar- SPECIALIZED on a hill, saw a derelict Liam has enjoyed nu- ancient royal site of the wealthy Europeans and dinia. Paul Carty, Store- TOURS cottage, and said, “It’s merous repeat customers High Kings of Ireland, was Americans. house managing director, Then there are super- mine.” That was it – Liam over the years for his tours a political and religious Vacations by Belmond claimed the award “as a specialized tour compa- was hooked and returning and already has book- center from early Celtic rail will be two nights victory for Irish tourism. nies - such as Crafted to the land of his great ings into 2018. Tours are times and the site where (Realm of Giants to North- One in every two holiday- Ireland (craftedireland. grandfather, who hailed designed according to the 142 kings were crowned. ern Ireland), four nights makers to Dublin visits com.) Crafted Ireland from Knockahopple. interests of the partici- For more information (Legends and Loughs, the Guinness Storehouse,” offers a range of specific Liam bought the cottage pants and include B&B, about these tours, visit Cork, Killarney, Blarney he said. tours including whiskey, and says on his website a light evening meal, and newgrangetours.com. Castle, Connemara Na- The Storehouse tells culinary, pubs, craft beer, (knockahopple.com), “I cocktail. Pickup can be arranged tional Park and Galway) the Guinness story and golf, gluten-free, geneal- have lovingly restored When he isn’t touring, at various hotels and other or six nights (Grand Tour has welcomed 13 million ogy, Christian and oth- Knockahopple Cottage. I the talented Liam makes locations around Dublin. of Ireland incorporating people since it opened in ers. The company has have tried to be mindful lovely jewelry (Liam- GRAND HIBERNIAN the other two tours plus 2006. About 92 percent of also designed a special of the feel of a traditional ShardJewelry.com) from Before we leave the a tour of Dublin.) the visitors are not Irish. package for the Georgia Irish cottage, but with all shards of old pottery, subject of tours, here is an All tours will depart In 2014, the top five visitor Tech-Boston College Aer the modern comforts.” much of which he finds in upcoming tour that might from Dublin. Visit Bel- nationalities were Ameri- Lingus College Football So, how does an Ameri- Ireland. We saw his work pique your interest: A mond.com for more infor- can, British, French, Ger- Classic on Sept. 3, 2016, in can who buys an Irish in Milwaukee and it is well-known international mation. man, and Italian. Dublin’s Aviva Stadium. cottage come up with the not only different but also tour company – Belmond GUINNESS TRAVEL Hotels are filling fast, they idea to offer tours? Well, very nice. Limited – which operates Speaking of Dublin, It’s October so be sure say, so those interested that was not Liam’s origi- For more information the Venice Simplon Orient we saw in a recent Irish to be on the lookout for are advised to contact nal plan but a 75-year-old about joining one of Liam’s Express and Royal Scots- Times online article that the wonderful fall coun- Rebecca@customireland. friend of his mother’s tours, visit the website or man, plans to start luxury the Guinness Storehouse try fairs and Halloween com,and soon. The compa- asked in 1999 if he could email Liam@IrishFire- train service in Ireland there was recently named events in nearly every ny promises “rather cushy drive her and her friend side.com. next August. Europe’s leading tourist county. packages of luxurious around Ireland because BOYNE VALLEY The Grand Hibernian attraction by judges in Enjoy Ireland when- city-center hotels, game she couldn’t drive. He TOURS will offer 5-star accom- the World Travel Awards. ever, however and wher- tickets, meals, transporta- planned a 14-day itinerary If you’re staying primar- modations for up to 40 in The storehouse topped the ever you go. The summer tion, visits to the best sites with her by telephone, she ily around Dublin, you private, en-suite cabins. Eiffel Tower, La Sagrada season has ended so watch and pubs and, of course, all and her friend stayed at might look into Mary Gib- Belmond bought 11 car- Familia in Barcelona, the for flight and ground deals the craic.” the cottage, savored tea, bons’ Tours, which offer a riages from Irish Rail Acropolis in Athens, the too. But if football is not homemade scones and ramble through the Boyne your thing, there are Irish bread, and sat by the Valley as well as fascinat- many, many other possi- turf fire late into the eve- ing visits to Newgrange ning talking about events and the Hill of Tara. At Newgrange, a listed Handmade since 1925 heritage site, you’ll see a Neolithic ritual center and passage tomb with archi- tectural links to prehis- toric maritime peoples of Portugal, Northern Spain, Brittany, Denmark, and the Western Isles, accord- ing to the website. The Newgrange build- ing is 1,000 years older than the pyramids and the oldest astronomical observatory in the world, completely intact since the Stone Age. The entrance The thatched roof Irish cottage is a reminder of stone and corbelled inner days gone by. This cottage is in County Clare. Page 18 October 2015 BOSTON IRISH Reporter bostonirish.com

Celebrating 25 years “Telling the Stories of Boston’s Irish

Boston Irish Honors 2015 Committee You are cordially invited Honorary Chairs to the Silver Anniversary Luncheon Edward J. Markey United States Senator Sponsored by the Boston Irish Reporter Martin J. Walsh Mayor of Boston Friday, October 23, 2015 Fionnuala Quinlan Ireland Consul General SEAPORT HOTEL/ James T. Brett BOSTON WORLD TRADE CENTER Event Chair Ed Forry BOSTON IRISH HONORS Publisher Aidan Browne William M. Bulger John Burke James Carmody John T. Carroll Della O’Flaherty Costello Steve Costello Jay Curley Brendan Feeney Dick Flavin 2015 Honorees John Philip Foley Bill Forry BPD Commissioner Senator Linda Dorcena Forry Maureen Forry-Sorrell WILLIAM EVANS FAMILY Anne Geraghty David Greaney Paul, John,Thomas, James John B. Hynes III Edris Kelley MICHAEL SHEEHAN William F. Kennedy Rev. Thomas B. Kennedy MARGARET STAPLETON Mimi & Paul LaCamera Joe Leary Bill McNally Roseanne & Peter Meade Registration begins 11:15 a.m. Sean Moynihan Gil Sullivan Luncheon 11:45 a.m. Bobby White $150 per guest, Table of 10, $1500 W. Paul White RSVP: Honors, 150 Mt Vernon St Ste 120 Dorhester MA 02125 or email: [email protected] Sponsorship opportunities available - please call 617-436-1222 bostonirish.com October 2015 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 19 The Irish Language by Philip Mac AnGhabhann

The particle go in Irish has many uses. Let’s review them now. EIRE First you learned that go is used to make adverbs: Go is always pronounced /goh/ as in English “go”. pub

go breá /goh BRAY-ah/ “fine” go deas /goh jes/ “nice” go dona /goh DOAN-uh/ “bad” 795 Adams St. • Dorchester go maith /goh mah/ “good” go hálainn /goh HAH-leen/ “beautiful” go hiontach /goh HEEN-tahk/ “wonderful” “President’s Choice” go tapaidh /goh TAHP-ee/ “quickly” go réidh /goh rey/ “steadily” go direach /goh JEE-rahk/ “just/quite” go huile /goh HOO-luh/ “all/every thing” Serving Lunch & Dinner go minic /goh MEEN-ick/ “often” go dearfa /goh JEER-fuh/ “indeed” go brách /goh brahk/ “for ever” Every day, go deo /goh joh/ “for ever”

We all know the bumper sticker Erinn go Bragh,. “Ireland Forever”. 7 days a week This is an older spelling. Don’t use it except in this phrase. Brach/bragh literately means “the end of time” or “end of the world”. Irish Social Club of Boston, Inc. The second thing we learned is that go is a preposition and means “to” but it can also mean “until” or “ ’till”, “for” . “as” and even more. 119 Park Street, West Roxbury, MA 02132 617-327-7306 or 617-549-9812 Incorporated by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, June 27, 1945 go An Spáinn /goh uhn SPEYN/ “to Spain” All held on SUNDAYS at 8 pm with $10 admission except where go abhaile /goh uh-VAHL-uh/ “to home” Socials every otherwise noted. Doors open at 6:30 pm for PUB NIGHTS: go Corcaigh /go KOR-key/ “to Cork” Sunday Evening live music from 8-11 pm. Admission free go maidin /goh MAH-jin/ “until morning” at 8:00 pm SCHEDULE OF EVENTS To is also used in a number of idioms: October to Spring Street, Centre Street, 3 Saturday ocktober German Festival to benefit reviewing Stand at Gormley Funeral go leor /goh lohr/ “enough” the Chefs Table Foundation, offering home, Lagrange Street and ending at go bhios do culinary school scholarships to Billings Field for concert, cookout and + personal pronoun /goh vees …/ “as far as PPn know(s)” homeless veterans and underprivi- booths with information of interest and seachtain go leith /SHAHK-tuhn goh ley/ “a week and a half” leged youth. 7-10 pm. Food stations, benefit to all veterans. 2-6 pm. contests, raffles, German Craft Beer For more information, please call go dtí /goh dee/ “towards” seminar, auction. Great fun! Mary Mulvey Jacobson go dtí go goh DEE go/ “until” Admission only $25. Call Carol at 617-327-7306. go ceann tamaill /goh kyown TAH-meal/ “for a while” o’Connor for more information 8 Sunday Erin’s Melody with Margaret Dalton ó cheann go ceann /oh KHOWN goh kyown / “from end to end” at 617-323-0670. 23 Friday Election of Officers will not be needed. In Irish 4 Sunday thank you Celebration Party for Father 25 Sunday Andy Healy “from head to head” Dan Finn from 1-6 pm. For more information, please call Mary Tannion, NOVEMBER or “beginning President of the Cork Club, to beginning.” at 978-646-4652 1 Sunday Traditions 4 Sunday John Connors and the Irish Express 5 Thursday 5th Annual West Roxbury Roslindale Note that ó requires lenition but go does not. 11 Sunday noel Henry’s Irish Show Band Kiwanis Dinner and Auction. 18 Sunday 40th Anniversary of the end of the Call Bob McNeill for more information Go is also used in “politeness phrases” such as “Thank you (very) much” – Vietnam War Parade, from VA Hospital at 617-327-3100. Go raibh (mile) maith agat, “Thank you (very) much” and Go maire tú Follow us on Twitter @irishsocialbos Follow us on Facebook: Irish Social Club of Boston an lá! , “Happy returns of the day!” or “Happy Birthday !”

This is quite a load of new vocabulary. Let’s spend some time practicing go. Subscribe Today to Boston’s Own Hometown Newspaper

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