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By R. J. Donovan Special to the BIR It seems like only yes- terday the international Irish singing and danc- ing phenomenon “River- dance” first blazed to life. Since opening in Dublin in 1995, the production has dazzled more than 25 million theatergoers across six continents. The milestone 20th An- niversary World Tour will be performing at Boston’s Citi Wang Theatre from May 10 to May 15. “Riverdance” originat- ed as a seven-minute dance number created for the 1994 Eurovision broadcast, the world’s longest-running inter- national television song competition. With a score by Limerick native Bill Whalen, the electrifying performance at Dublin’s Port Theatre was an instant hit, bringing the audience to its feet. Ironically, the extraor- dinary number was not part of the competition. Instead, it was meant The female dance troupe presents “Anna Livia,” an acapella number, in “Riverdance: The 20th Anniversary World Tour.” (Continued on page 13) Rob-McDougal photo Feeney brothers send young talent ‘All Changed, to college to study the gas industry Changed Utterly…’ By Maddie Kilgannon By Peter F. Stevens BIR Correspondent BIR Staff The Feeney brothers, Fifth of five parts. Greg and Brendan, who In Boston, as elsewhere in the United States, many operate a private utility Irish viewed the rebels as heroes from the first news contractor company in of the revolt. At four minutes past noon on Easter Dorchester, have been Monday, April 24, 1916, Patrick Pearse read the Proc- investing in their work lamation of the Republic from the steps of the General force through a training Post Office, declaring Ireland’s right to exist as a free program conducted at and sovereign nation. Bunker Hill Commu- The Boston Globe ran the entire text of the Irish nity College. The two-year “Declaration of Independence” on May 1, 1916; however, course, which trains stu- the eloquent document alone was not enough to sway dents in every aspect of the many readers – at least not yet. Supporters of Irish gas industry, will graduate home rule continued to denounce the Rising. A num- its first class this month. ber of Boston priests similarly castigated the actions The Gas Utility Technol- of Pearse, James Connolly, Michael Collins, Eamon ogy (GUT) Degree Option de Valera, and company as criminals against proper Program gives graduates authority, “traitors” against a nation [Great Britain] “more than just a piece at war against “the Hun.” of paper,” said Bill Egan, The company headed by Sligo-natives Greg and Brendan Feeney has pioneered a two year Gas Utility Technology program at a local community college. A great many of the Boston Irish did not yet know director of support services will be able to successfully Hill to complement its during school breaks that how to assess the doomed uprising. The local news- at Feeney Brothers Utility complete gas specific per- existing electrical utility allow for students to gain papers carried accounts of Dublin crowds jeering and Services. “The program formance skills and dem- program. Egan says the hands on experience and hurling invective at the ragged, bloodied rebels as they aims to give students all onstrate the ability to work program at Bunker Hill work with other profes- were marched through the streets to prison. Then, the the tools they need in order in teams to accomplish our is “truly a gateway to sionals in the gas utility reprisals by the British came – and everything changed to be safe and effective in objectives.” well paying jobs” in the industry. in Dublin and across the Atlantic in Boston. the field. Our expectation, Egan said that Feeney gas utility industry. The One of the three stu- In London, the Cabinet issued Major-General Sir John upon completion of these Brothers helped to create vocational program incor- Maxwell secret orders that the leaders of the Easter courses, is that graduates a GUT program at Bunker porates paid internships (Continued on page 9) (Continued on page 9)

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A large crowd gathered at the Canton campus of the the altar during Mass held 16 lilies, each labeled with reading of the proclamation. Irish Cultural Centre of New England (ICCNE) on Sun- names of those executed after the 1916 rising. Ciaran Nagle and Tara Novak were the final act day, April 24, to commemorate the 100th anniversary In other features, the Irish tenor Ciaran Nagle gave and what a finale! Their rendition of “The Fields of of the Easter Rising. Fr. Oliver Rafferty S.J., head of the event the solemnity and importance it deserved with Athenry” had all in attendance singing and waving Irish Studies at BC, celebrated the Mass, which fea- his singing of the Irish National Anthem; Fr. delivered their hands in the air! tured the music of Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann and an insightful and gripping speech on Catholicism and the beautiful singing of Maureen McNally. The Irish the Rising; Irish dancers from the Dunleavy, Boyle and Submitted by Maudy Dooher, ICCNE Director of Government was represented by the remarks given Connolly School of Irish dance captured everyone’s at- Programming & Membership. by Consul General Fionnuala Quinlan. Four vases at tention; and the actor Jason McCool’s gave a masterly At left, Ireland Consul General in Boston Fionnuala Quinlan.

A special thank you to our two readers whose relatives had a direct involvement in the events of 1916. At right, Patricia O’Neill is a granddaughter of Cecilia Rose O’Neill, nee Conroy, and a grandniece of Eileen Ho- gan, nee Conroy, both members of Cumman na mBan of 1916 Emer Mezzetti, is a grandniece of Elizabeth O’Farrell, member of Cumman na mBan of 1916. – Maudy Dooher Photos Tricia O’Neill Photography

Fr. Oliver Rafferty, SJ talked about Catholicism and The Rising. bostonirish.com May 2016 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 3 Dot native set to take CEO seat at Eversource By Bill Forry who is stepping down from ish, Judge and his wife maintained close ties to and today: These are first Editor the job next month. Mary (Cahill), who was his native neighborhood and second-generation Jim Judge, a native of The 60-year-old Judge also born and raised in throughout his career. immigrant parents trying Dorchester and the son of a is now the executive vice Dorchester, lived on Ash- “Still to this day, Jim to do the best for their Boston Police officer and a president and chief finan- mont Street after their is as comfortable on Ash- families. The objectives school librarian, has been cial officer for Eversource, marriage. He began his mont Street as he is on are the same. College named the new president which has a market value career in the finance of- Wall Street,” Hunt said. Bound and Mark Culliton and CEO of Eversource of over $18 billion, accord- fice of Boston Edison after “He’s never forgotten his and the staff have a pas- Energy, the utility com- ing to the company. He is graduating from Catholic Dorchester roots as evi- sion to shift the paradigm pany that serves 3.6 mil- expected to be elected as Memorial and Babson denced by his support for and interrupt a cycle of lion customers throughout chairman of the company’s College, where he also local organizations.” dysfunction and try to New England. He will board at an annual meet- secured a master’s degree Judge was honored by transform the community. succeed Tom May, the ing next year. in business. College Bound Dorchester They are engaging some company’s longtime chief Born in St. Peter’s par- In an interview with the at its annual gala in 2014. of the most disconnected Reporter, Judge credited He has served on the board youth and leading them the Sisters of Charity of the organization for the into college and a bright at St Peter’s Grammar last decade, according to future.” Joseph Corcoran School with giving him “a College Bound’s president Judge is engaged in tremendous educational Mark Culliton. many other civic endeav- foundation that got me “Jim is a quiet and hum- ors in his personal life, is choice for Robert started. I remember most Jim Judge ble champion for Dorches- serving on the board of of my classmates coming sued by the company ter who put our youth and the United Way of Mas- F. Kennedy honor out of eighth grade and last week. “I have every their future first in all that sachusetts and participat- getting scholarships to confidence in his ability he did,” said Culliton. “He ing on Eversource’s many Joseph E. Corcoran, the founder and chairman of CM or BC High.” to successfully lead Ever- is a Dorchester kid who corporate outreach efforts. the Corcoran Jennison Companies and a national St. Peter’s “was just a source into the future. His did well and understands The company leads an an- pioneer in transforming failed public housing projects great community to grow extensive experience in it’s his responsibility to nual walk for Children’s into successful mixed-income neighborhoods that of- up in. I was always in our industry, passion for give back. In his years Hospital and donates fer community services to low-income residents, will Ronan Park and played our customers, leadership of service he has been thousands of volunteer receive the Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps’ Boston Park League base- skills, and focus on results responsible for bringing hours annually, he said. Embracing the Legacy Award at the JFK Library in ball into my twenties. My make him the ideal person more than half a million His spirit for quietly Dorchester on May 20. best friends to this day are to lead the company going in funding to the students giving back has roots Corcoran is responsible still the crowd from Ronan forward.” of College Bound. Jim and in the three-decker on for more than $4 billion in Park,” said Judge, a father In that same state- his wife Mary never forgot Stonehurst Street where real estate developments of four and grandfather of ment, Judge said he was where they are from and he and his sister lived with nationwide, mostly in af- five grandchildren who “honored to assume lead- the debt they owe their his mom and dad on one fordable housing. In 1986, now lives on the South ership. I look forward to community. They quietly floor— with many cousins by pushing for a change in Shore. working with state leaders give and give to create a in the other two decks. federal tax credits – and His elevation to the top in addressing the energy better future for the next “I’m so fortunate that getting vital help from of one of the nation’s most challenges facing New generation of Dorchester my parents are still alive,” the late US Sen. Ted important utility com- England, furthering our kids.” he said. “My dad was a Kennedy – he turned the panies has been widely charitable commitment to Judge told the Reporter Boston cop who retired at downtrodden Columbia applauded following the the communities we serve, that he admires the mis- 65 after 30 years of nights Point project site into the announcement. and bringing positive sion of College Bound in Roxbury. My mom was popular Harbor Point on “I’ve known and worked results to shareholders.” Dorchester: “Even though a volunteer librarian at St. the Bay. with Jim for 38 years and Dorchester’s Jim Hunt, people say St. Peter’s Peter’s and a daily pres- Joseph E. Corcoran Corcoran also has cre- he has been pivotal to the III, who serves as vice- has changed so much, ence there. At my core, I’m ated a nonprofit, The company’s success as CFO president of regulatory I see great similarities just a guy from St. Peter’s American City Coalition, which works to revitalize over the last 20 years,” affairs for Eversource, between the Dorchester and I wouldn’t trade it for entire inner-city neighborhoods into viable commu- said May in a statement is- said that Judge has neighborhood of my youth anything.” nities. “The purpose of American City Coalition is to expand what we did with public housing and apply it to an entire community,” he told award officials. “It was something similar that Robert F. Kennedy had started to do in New York. I have been blessed with a successful career, and RFK - and the entire Kennedy family - have inspired me to help those who have not lived the American dream.” The son of Irish immigrants, Corcoran was born in Dorchester in a neighborhood that was mixed in income and ethnicity. His father was unemployed during the Depression yet managed to feed his family of eight children. “I was fortunate to attend Boston College High School, and I want urban kids to have a chance at a good education,” he said. To further his goal of teaching young men and women how to effectively create mixed-income communities and turnaround communities, Corcoran has endowed the Corcoran Center for Real Estate and Urban Action at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. He was nominated for the Robert F. Kennedy Award by the 2008 honoree, auto czar and philanthropist Don Rodman.

Pictured at the aerial ropes construction site on the grounds of the Irish Cultural Centre in Can- ton: Mossy Walker, ICC executive director with Topher Kerr, president, TreeTopAdventures. See Publisher’s Notebook Page 4. Page 4 May 2016 BOSTON IRISH Reporter bostonirish.com Publisher’s Notebook Ireland offers a model in how to Coming soon secure solid foreign investment to ICC in Canton: By Joe Leary for senior corporate executives of today to ensure the Special to the BIR survival of their companies. Our current presidential campaign will only inten- Despite that, some politicians are criticizing foreign A ‘Ropes Course’ sify over the next six months. Speech after speech, investment, mostly because they consider it tax eva- newspaper articles, and radio and television news sion. Profits made in foreign countries are taxed in that country. The United States only taxes profits made in By Ed Forry and commercials will be com- The Irish Cultural Centre will announce this ing at us every day from many foreign countries when the funds are returned to the American headquarters. Many American companies month that it has entered into a licensing contract angles and interests. With the use these profits to expand their operations overseas. with a private company to build a “Ropes Course” Democrats and the Republi- cans trying to put the best faces And that is where Ireland comes in. with ten “tree trails” on a portion of the centre’s This small country offers a natural, English- 46-acre campus in Canton. on their candidates, it will be difficult for us to understand speaking, low-cost location for Boston and American The outdoor activities course will be developed, companies to expand their businesses worldwide. After owned, and managed by a Rhode Island-based start- what is being said and how best to react. a rough period in 2007-2012, Ireland is back, offering up, Fitness Adventures LLC, which is owned by a IDA Ireland, the agency responsible for attracting husband and wife team, One thing we might concen- trate on is America’s place in inward investment. IDA says “positive leadership Christopher “Topher” and policies” make it an easy decision to locate there. Kerr and Molly McClain the world and, specifically for the readers of this newspaper, Ask Massachusetts companies like EMC and Boston Kerr. It is understood Joe Leary how the campaign rhetoric Scientific why they chose Ireland. the company will pay the might impact Ireland. And other companies agree. In 2014 (the latest ICCNE an annual rental While all of us should have a strong sense of loyalty year reported), United States businesses invested fee of $50,000 through and devotion to our country, we must be careful in $58 billion in Ireland. US investment in Ireland has 2018, with an escalating acknowledging that the United States has less than totaled $115.9 billion since 2008, more than Brazil, fee in future years. The 5 percent of the world’s population. The difference China, Russia, and India combined. Something must initial 15-year contract between our population of 330 million and the world be working well. includes a five-year option population of 7.4 billion people is overwhelming. Ireland’s strength is its educated work force and a through 2035. We have all heard the expression “It’s the economy, government that is understanding and cooperative. According to a January stupid” as political advice given to campaigns. Can- Being an English-speaking nation doesn’t hurt and proposal obtained by the didates will be urged to claim that they will obtain Ireland’s tax advantages are helpful. IDA Ireland role Boston Irish Reporter, the new jobs, and prevent the loss of jobs and revenue to in attracting inward investment is superbly organized outdoor ropes course, tentatively named “Treetop other countries. and one of the best in the world at what it does. Adventures at the Irish Cultural Centre,” would be Two things we can be sure of: There will be no jobs Despite what some say, the United States is enjoy- open 125 days per year, from early April through if the business world does not create them; and it is ing a period of solid economic growth. Unemployment November. Initially, it’s expected to be open only the healthy, growing, profitable companies that will is way down, automobile sales are at record levels, on weekends in the fall and spring, and seven days provide them. In their quests for profitability and interest levels are low, new home sales are growing, a week in the summer, until 8 p.m. Sunday through growth, the leaders of these companies would be mak- more and more people are receiving health care, and Thursday and 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. It ing a serious mistake by ignoring the 7.1 billion people the stock market, in which some 50 percent of Ameri- is understood that work on the facility has already who do not live in the United States. cans participate, has grown substantially in the past begun, with initial construction costs estimated to A company selling computers, cell phones, automo- seven years. be close to $1 million. The licensee hopes to open bile tires, television sets, and life-saving drugs would Our American system is working better than ever the park sometime this summer. be guilty of gross malfeasance if it did not look for except politically and in parts of the media. Let’s thank While rope courses are not yet common in New foreign markets for its products. Awareness and study God for our good fortune and pray that the new lead- England, it is said that some 7,500 such facilities of the world’s labor rates, tax levels, transportation ership will makes things even better and encourage exist around the Unite States, with several hundred costs, and employee availability are all requirements foreign investment. new courses coming online annually. According to a Wikipedia definition, “ A ropes course is a challenging outdoor personal develop- Off the Bench ment and team building activity which usually consists of high and/or low elements. Low elements take place on the ground or only a few feet above the ground. High elements are usually constructed in trees or made of utility poles and require a belay THE PHONE CALL for safety. “Most ropes courses start with a series of ground activities designed to ‘warm people up’ and get them Speaking with the Other Side used to working together. They will then progress abundance. An all-knowing, merciful, and loving God onto lower elements that will be challenging, but By James W. Dolan Special to the Reporter obviously understands the variable circumstances of are not usually ‘scary’ or too challenging. Next human life and judges accordingly.” up will be the high elements that are designed to I was asleep when the phone rang. Who could be calling at this hour? I reached over to answer it and “Have you seen God?” “I can’t say that I have. I don’t allow an individual to challenge themselves and know if He’s visible. But I constantly feel His presence work on overcoming fears or phobias they may said: “Hello, who is this? “It’s me Joan,” came the reply. “Is this some kind of joke,” I said. “No! No! Don’t hang around and within me. The nuns used to talk about have, especially a fear of heights.” the Mystical Body, God as the creative force of all “ Good news!” one ICCNE board member said. up; it really is me. Occasionally they allow someone to make contact and you know how persistent I can be.” existence. Remember the mystery: three persons in “This agreement creates two new significant one God. While I have yet to see the Father and the revenue streams into the ICC; it uses part of the “Where are you?” “I’m here in what we knew as heaven.” Holy Spirit, I understand Christ comes around from Campus that had not been used; and it will bring “Explain please, I’m still con- time to time.” thousands of new visitors to the ICC.” fused.” “When I died, I saw “I know you pray for me as I continue to pray for you An online posting at awesomeadventures.com that bright light others have and our family. Don’t worry: I made it and I’m fine. helps to explain the concept: “Many elements of a described. It drew me to it and I know you will understand if I say ‘never better.’ It Ropes Course are designed to not just challenge I was then able to make out the would have to be for me to want to stay forever. But an individual’s ability, but to encourage them to forms of family who had died. then time does not exist here so that’s not a problem. work together as a team to complete the activity. Our parents, my brother and The only improvement will be when you and our family In fact, many elements can only be completed sister were there to embrace join me. No rush, I can wait.” by two or more people. When participants work and comfort me. It turns out “I’m so glad you called. I worry, not knowing where together as a team to overcome challenges that our souls look much like our you are or if you are. Even with faith, one is never seem impossible, it gives everyone in the group bodies. Those who think it’s sure what’s out there. It will ease my lonely hours to a tremendous boost of confidence, and a greater know you are in a good place and that one day we’ll James W. Dolan crazy to believe in anything awareness of the importance of recognizing each beyond our earthly existence be together again. How could I help being a better individual’s talents and efforts. fail to understand just how incredible it is to believe husband in heaven than I was on earth? I love you. “Participants will be challenged, but not intimi- the cosmos and humanity evolved by accident from Call back if you can, but that’s perhaps too much to dated, to complete the course using physical and some cataclysmic explosion. Where did space and the expect. Meanwhile, I’ll keep an eye on our family.” mental stamina, all the while relying on their own atomic particles that caused the explosion come from? Suddenly I woke up, feeling refreshed. and their fellow participants encouragement and Is another reality that preposterous?” James W. Dolan is a retired Dorchester District Court support. “What’s it like there?” “Just as an unborn cannot judge who now practices law. “Challenge by Choice is an important policy for imagine human existence, this is beyond human any Ropes Course. This means that guides strive capacity to understand. 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By Peter F. Stevens BIR Staff Any of the 40 million or so Americans who have ancestral or immediate family ties to Ireland certainly want both the US and Ireland to prosper. As I wrote in December, though, there has to be a better way than one-sided corpo- rate inversions, one that is grand for both American and Irish bottom lines. At the end of last year, Pfizer, in a $160-billion deal, announced that it was gobbling up Allergan Plc., a move designed to allow Pfizer to elude US taxes by shifting its corporate headquarters to Allergan’s Irish address. Some- times, though, even in the murky realm of corporate inver- sions, reason reigns; a few weeks ago, the deal fell apart. The ripple effect, to quote a certain bellicose presidential candidate (more on him later), is “huge.” In and around Boston, businessmen and businesswomen have been instrumental in many deals that have profited both sides of the Atlantic. Corporate inversions, however, mostly benefit CEOs and stockholders, who take to the wearing of the green by moving headquarters over to the Emerald Isle. Such Irish-American “alliances” come at the expense of thousands in the US who lose their jobs as their companies bail out of paying corporate taxes here. One can certainly argue that inversions are good business even as they constitute rank greed and display a cynical paucity of patriotism. In a recent interview with CNBC’s “Squawk on the President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama in Belfast, Northern Ireland in June, 2013. Street,” CEO Brent Saunders of Ireland-based Allergan White House photo whined that the Obama administration, through the US Treasury Department, had “targeted” his company’s deal with Pfizer. “It really looked like they did a very fine job of Obama’s ties to, and interest in, constructing a rule here – a temporary rule – to stop this deal, and obviously it was successful,” Saunders groused. The “noxious” rule Saunders castigated was a just-crafted the island of Ireland are ongoing Treasury Department regulation that, according to CNBC, “will prevent so-called inversion deals – under which a US By Frank Costello the children of the nation equally.” company moves its base to a country with a more favorable Special to the BIR As a speech given by a US president, it was unique taxation environment. The regulation removed the tax In his only visit to Northern Ireland – at Belfast for how it underscored in more than sentimental benefits New York-based Pfizer had hoped to gain from the Waterfront Hall, on June 2, 2013, and tied to his terms what has linked Ireland and the United States deal with Ireland’s Allergan.” participation in the G8 Summit held in County for so long. He noted that for many generations Laughably, Saunders huffed to “Squawk Box” that “Al- Fermanagh – President Barack Obama pledged what drove them to America was as much about lergan had been blindsided by the Treasury’s announce- that the United States “will always be a wind at human dignity as about material gain. ment…For the rules to be changed after the game has your back.” In referring to the proclamation, he emphasized started to be played is a bit un-American, but that’s the In remarks that day, Obama noted the “wounds the journey and the promises still to be realized in situation we’re in.” that haven’t healed, communities where tension fulfilling the rights of the citizens of both countries. No, Mr. Saunders, what is more than a bit “un-American” and mistrust hangs in the air,” and “the walls that As president of a nation with enormous influence in is for Pfizer and other American business behemoths to set still stand.” the world, he also spoke of the enormous footprint up shop in other countries to avoid paying their fair share Given that during more than seven years plus of of those from a small island in helping to shape the of US taxes. If, as the Supreme Court ruled in Citizens his presidency he has presided over an administra- US by virtue of the contribution of so many of the United, corporations are “people, too,” they, too, should tion that has had to deal with the rise of ISIS in Irish, often driven by a thirst for liberty. have to file their taxes in America – just like the rest of the Middle East and a domestic economy emerging Indeed, other than President John F. Kennedy’s “we the people.” from the global financial collapse while addressing famous address before the Oireachtas during his To no one’s surprise, presidential candidate Bernie health care reform and gun violence at home, it historic visit to Ireland in June 1963, Obama’s Sanders – an avowed socialist whose unlikely push for the can be said that Barack Obama has kept his word. remarks were the most substantive ever by a US White House path is slowing to a crawl, allowing corporate While he was never going to engage directly with president in underscoring what had shaped the American to breathe a little easier – said the Pfizer-Allergan the political parties in Northern Ireland as Bill US and Ireland, even if those ideals appear at times merger “would be a disaster for American consumers who Clinton did, working the phones when problems to be forgotten. already pay the highest prices in the world for prescrip- arose, or as George W. Bush sometimes did, Obama Kennedy’s own famine-refugee ancestors could tion drugs.” has kept his eye on things in Northern Ireland and never have imagined — given the cold welcome the As the possibility of a Hillary Clinton-Donald Trump the Irish Republic while generally trusting the US Irish received in mid-19th century Boston – that match-up looms larger, the Pfizers and Allergans are un- State Department, first under Hillary Clinton and one of their clan could ascend to likely to find help from either candidate. Both have said now under John Kerry, to manage the details. the American presidency in a few generations. they oppose inversion and favor restructuring corporate In practical terms for Northern Ireland, much of But it would have been perhaps even more unlikely tax rates in the US. Of course, the ways in which either the Obama administration’s role has centered on that Padraig Pearse and James Connolly could would attempt to do that are a chasm apart. the economic front. In a move that resonated with have believed that on the 100th anniversary of the Clinton has asserted that she “is committed to cracking the approach taken by the Clinton administration Easter Rising a president named Barack Obama, down on so-called ‘inversions, and believes we should reform in October 2010, the Obama White House hosted a with roots in Ireland and Africa, would be invoking our tax code to encourage investment in the US, rather major economic conference at the US Department in the White House the independence document than shipping earnings and jobs overseas.” of State with Secretary Hillary Clinton overseeing while comparing their work to the same spirit of Late in 2015, Trump said, “These corporate inversions the event for the administration. the American take capital and, more importantly, jobs offshore. We need This event marked an early sign of Obama’s Declaration of Independence and its relevance leadership in Washington to get the tax code changed so active support for the peace process via economic also to America today. companies will be coming to America, not looking for ways development in the north. The conference attracted “Cherishing all the children of the nation equally,” to leave.” To the ire of many in Ireland, The Donald recently top executives from the New York Stock Exchange the American president emphasized, “means nurtur- told the Washington Post editorial board that “countries like and from major financial institutions who were ing a lasting peace in Northern Ireland.” Mexico and Ireland are outsmarting the US by giving mul- looking for a European base and led to some already While praising those in the room who helped tinationals incentives to move jobs overseas.” Not anymore. in Northern Ireland to expand their presence with negotiate the Good Friday Agreement, Obama A ‘Warning’ and a ‘Way Out’ other companies later setting up shop. stressed that “the fate of peace is up to our young It’s little secret that many in Ireland are tracking the A different level of Obama’s interest in the island people. “After all,” he concluded, “eighteen years US presidential race with varying degrees of amusement, of Ireland and all its communities was apparent of peace means that peace can vote now. We have bemusement, and head shaking. For what it’s worth, a at this year’s White House St. Patrick’s reception to keep setting an example through our words and recent Red C/Paddy Power poll that made the rounds of that he hosted as a “Celebration of Ireland.” In our actions, that peace is a path worth pursuing.” Irish media claimed that “some 81 percent of Irish people his twenty minutes of remarks, the president paid Francis Costello is a Belfast-based consultant say the world would be a less safe place” if Trump were to special attention to the 1916 Proclamation. Four assisting US and Irish companies in building busi- become president. times he cited its commitment to “cherishing all ness ties. Turning to Facebook, the Irish comedienne Clisare posted an anti-Trump video that went viral. Her piece, entitled “Dear America,” paints Trump as the proverbial “terrible boyfriend,” and she pleads with viewers to dump him Irish language immersion day before it’s too late. Her screed has already netted nearly two million views. She opens the video with the following “warning” from a set at Elms College on May 7 “concerned friend”: “I’ve just been chatting with all of the The Irish Cultural Center of Western New Eng- Dr. Thomas Moriarty, A retired professor of other countries, and we just really think that Donald is not land will hold its fifteenth Lá na Gaeilge (Irish history at Elms College, will devote his keynote right for you. We’d hoped that you’d come to this conclusion Language Day) on Sat., May 7, at Elms College, address to the 1916 Easter Rising. by yourself, but it’s looking like it needs to be said.” Chicopee, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Also participating will be Síle Dolan, this year’s To Americans who claim they will abandon America if This will be an opportunity for those with an Fulbright foreign language teaching assistant at Trump wins, the Belfast Telegraph reports that the good interest in the Irish language to deepen their Elms College. The day will conclude with a music people of the island of Inishturk, off the Co. Mayo coast, has knowledge and appreciation of this vital compo- session. an offer. Mary Heanue, Inishturk’s development officer, nent of Irish culture. The cost is $50 per person, $40 for ICC mem- says that the island could prove a haven for the “political The program consists of language classes at all bers, and $15 for college-age and under students. refugees.” Although Inishturk’s population numbers a scant learning levels, from beginner to advanced. Work- For further information contact the ICC office at 60 or so souls, the site’s five-kilometer expanse might not shops (tin whistle and dance), and conversation 413-265-2537 or send an email to irishcenter@ prove enough real estate for disaffected American exiles elms.edu. in a Trumpian world. groups will be held in addition to the formal classes. Page 6 May 2016 BOSTON IRISH Reporter bostonirish.com bostonirish.com May 2016 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 7 Immigration Q&A Irish International Immigrant Center An agency accredited by US Department of Justice Of immigration 100 Franklin Street, Boston, MA 02110 Telephone (617) 542-7654 Fax (617) 542-7655 medical exams Website:iiicenter.org Email: [email protected] Q. I am filing for legal permanent resident status based on my marriage to a US citizen. I understand Mayor renews efforts growth and make sure it town Boston. Entrance is that will explore belong- that a medical examination is part of the application to help immigrants reaches everyone.” at 201 Devonshire Street. ing, affordability, and process. Why is that necessary? Can I just get the make their way The Mayor’s Office for Mon., May 9 – Green displacement in Greater exam done by our family doctor? Boston Mayor Mar- Immigrant Advancement Briar Pub, 304 Washing- Boston. On the spot actors tin J. Walsh announced signifies the administra- ton Street, Brighton. from True Story Theater A. US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) the strategic rebranding tion’s proactive engage- Wed., May 25 – St. will portray the heart of requires medical examinations in order to determine of the Mayor’s Office ment of the immigrant Mark’s Church (School what is being heard using whether there are any public health-related issues that for Immigrant Advance- community by encourag- Hall) 1725 Dorchester music, movement, and would affect a prospective immigrant’s admissibility ment, formerly known ing their active participa- Avenue, Dorchester. dialogue. to the United States. The exam can identify medical as the Mayor’s Office of tion in the city’s policies For additional clinic Date: May 24; Time: 6 conditions that require follow-up care. The physician New Bostonians, to help and programs. Twenty- information, call 617-542- p.m. to 8:15 p.m.; Location: also will ensure that required vaccinations have been encompass the evolving seven percent of Boston 7654. IIIC, 100 Franklin Street, administered. Note that an applicant for permanent needs of Boston’s immi- residents are foreign- Community voic- LL-1, Boston. A light din- residence who came to the US on a K fiancé or K spousal grant community. born, and nearly half es – The Metropolitan ner will be served. Free visa will have had a medical examination as part of the Walsh also hjas launched of Boston public school Area Planning Council event. Limited seating visa application process at home and will not need to Immigrant Information students have a foreign- (MAPC), the True Story available. repeat the full procedure when applying for adjustment Corners at the Boston born parent. Theater, and the Irish For additional informa- of status here in the US. Such persons, however, must Public Library’s Central Legal clinics update International Immigrant tion, call Sarah Chapple- meet the vaccination requirement. Library in Copley Square Tues., May 3, and Tues., Center (IIIC) invite you Sokol at 617-542-7654, and the twenty-four May 17 – IIIC, 100 Frank- to participate in a dia- Ext. 36, or send an email All medical examinations include a physical exami- neighborhood branches to lin St. Lower Level, Down- logue about housing issues to [email protected] nation, a mental health status evaluation, a skin test provide information about for tuberculosis, and a blood test. The results of the resources and services examination are valid for twelve months after submis- available to help advance sion to USCIS. the well-being of the city’s A Dublin Man in Boston immigrant residents. This By Marita Dolidze flexibility allowed him to In addition, applicants need to show that they are represents a joint effort by Gareth Leahy, a Dublin find a perfect fit for his current with all vaccinations recommended by US public the City and US Citizen- native with a Bachelor of further professional de- health officials. See the complete list of such vaccina- ship and Immigration Ser- Commerce degree from velopment. He is gaining tions at uscis.gov. The physician can administer any vices (USCIS) to promote the Quinn School of Busi- experience in new areas vaccinations necessary and can certify if a particular citizenship in Boston by ness, University College as well as developing ad- vaccination is not “medically appropriate” in a particular providing materials on Dublin, arrived in the ditional skills in the type case (due to allergic reactions, pregnancy, etc.). the naturalization process USA last September on a of work he is familiar with. and highlighting the ben- J-1 Intern Work & Trave He likes the company cul- The form used to record the results of the exam is efits and responsibilities (J-1 IWT) visa. After ture, and the exposure and I-693, the current version of which can be downloaded of citizenship as well as making it through the experience he has gained from the USCIS website at uscis.gov. warning residents about worst of a relatively mild another “big US. city” across multiple depart- Unfortunately, you cannot have the medical exami- immigration frauds. winter, he is, like all of but he was pleasantly ments. And then there nation done by your family doctor. You need to choose “In the city of Boston us, is anxiously awaiting surprised to discover how are “the homemade chips a doctor from the USCIS list of government-approved our immigrant population the much-talked-about easily manageable and in the cafeteria” thay he physicians known as “Civil Surgeons” in your area, represents a dynamic and “Boston Spring,” and all navigable it was: “From calls “the best!” and you must pay the cost of the exam. You can find growing landscape and it of the outdoor activities the moment I got here - it Gareth thinks that en- an approved physician in your area at uscis.gov. Click is our hope that with this that come with the season. felt like home!”, he says. riolling in the J-1 IWT on “Tools,” then “Designated Civil Surgeons,” and then rebranding effort and Gareth has always He quickly made con- program was one of the scroll down the page and click on the “Civil Surgeon the launch of Immigrant wanted the chance to tacts through networking best decisions he ever Locator.” Then you enter your zip code or state and Information Corners, we work and live in the US, events and he and another made in his life, saying, the screen will display a list of approved physicians in are better able to serve and the J-1 IW&T pro- friend created a Facebook “It’s a risk that paid off your area. The doctor will charge a fee for the exam our immigrant residents,” gram was tailor-made for group that has grown from and an experience I will and will then fill out the form I-693 and the required said Mayor Walsh. “Im- him. He thought the whole two to seventy members. always cherish.” vaccination supplement, which will then be submitted to migrants interact with process allowed him to He will keep up with these The IIIC wishes Gareth USCIS as part of your application package. The doctor the city’s library branches make choices that were personal connections after best of luck during the places this form in a sealed envelope, which you must more than any other city best suited for him. He is he returns home and is remainder of his one-year not open. You will receive a copy for your own records. agency, which offers us also thankful for the guid- sure that he will have internship in Boston! a great opportunity to ance provided by the IIIC; many for life. The IIIC helps Irish If you have any questions about the medical exam, engage our residents in it was comforting to know Gareth works for Ar- graduates find paid, one- especially if you have a physical or mental condition their neighborhoods. The that he’d have this support bella Insurance Group, year, internships in the that you believe could affect your eligibility to become impact that immigrants both before and after ar- dividing his time between United States. If you have a legal permanent resident, visit one of IIIC’s legal have on our city will con- riving in the States. the Human Resources and any openings, please con- clinics for a free, confidential consultation. tinue to grow in the years Before his arrival, he the Corporate Communi- tact Paul Pelan at ppelan@ ahead and it is important envisioned Boston as cations Departments. This iiicenter.org that we plan for this Disclaimer: These articles are published to inform generally, not to advise in specific cases. US Citizenship and Immigration Services and the US Department of Matters of Substance State frequently amend regulations and alter process- ingBoston and Irish filing Reporter procedures. For legal advice, seek the assistanceFoley Law Offices of IIIC Ad immigration legal staff. Mental Health Conditions: Bi-Polar Disorder April 2, 2015 By Gina Kelleher and distractibility. It can manic episode. IIIC Wellness Director often feel pleasant initial- The best treatment for Second in a series ly but if left untreated, can BPD involves medications In an ideal world, people escalate into irritability or such as mood-stabilizers, with mental illnesses anger, risk-taking behav- anti-psychotics, and/or would be treated with the ior, impulsive decisions, anti-depressants com- same respect and dignity sexual indiscretions, and bined with psychotherapy substance abuse leading such as cognitive-behavior as those with physical (617) 973-6448 Ÿ 8 Faneuil Hall Marketplace Boston, MA 02109 illnesses. However, there to disruptions in work, or family-focused therapy. school, or relationships. Self-management strate- is much stigma, discrimi- Mania is diagnosed if gies such as getting edu- Claim your Heritage. Apply for Irish Citizenship today! nation and shame in our If your parent or grandparent was born in Ireland, you are eligible society surrounding men- these behaviors last at cated about BPD, keeping least seven days, if there to a regular sleeping, to become an Irish citizen. Our attorneys will help locate your tal health issues. Why is documents and file your application. Contact Foley Law Offices this? Fear of the unknown Gina Kelleher is a break with reality waking, and eating rou- to begin your citizenship application at (617) 973-6448. contributes greatly to such dramatic shifts in (psychosis) or if it leads tine and being involved this problem. The first mood that it significantly to hospitalization. Hypo- with supportive, positive step in overcoming this affects their work, social mania is diagnosed if the people can make a huge behavior lasts at least 4 issue is education and life, and relationships. difference in how people IRISH INTERNATIONAL IMMIGRANT CENTER knowledge. This series days. function with this illness. Just as people with hyper IMMIGRATION LEGAL ASSISTANCE of articles hopes that by or hypothyroidism can BPD is often misdiag- If left untreated, BPD can sharing basic informa- experience too much or nosed. Most people with lead to substance abuse, the disorder initially go for suicide, or suicide at- The Irish International Immigrant Center provides free legal support and tion on the most common too little thyroid hormone representation to the Irish immigrant community. Weekly legal clinics where types of mental illnesses, production, it’s helpful to treatment for depression. tempts, as well as legal, you can receive a free and confidential consultation with staff and volunteer Depressive episodes are financial and relationship attorneys are held throughout the Greater Boston area. we can help move closer to think of BPD as a signifi- For information, call us at (617) 542-7654. the goal of helping people characterized by a slowing difficulties. cant speeding up (mania) Upcoming Clinic Schedule develop awareness, com- and slowing down (depres- down of the brain. People If you or someone you feel sad or down, have low know is affected by this Tuesday, May 3rd – Tuesday, May 17th passion, and empathy for sion) of the brain. IIIC, 100 Franklin St. Lower Level, Downtown Boston. Entrance is at 201 those directly or indirectly To be diagnosed with energy, are sleeping either condition, please don’t Devonshire Street affected by these. BPD, the person needs to too much or too little and hesitate to reach out for Monday, May 9th have difficulty thinking help. You can call Gina at The Green Briar Pub In this article, we will have experienced at least 304 Washington Street, Brighton Center and concentrating. If they the IIIC at 617-542-7654 discuss one of the most one episode of mania or Wednesday, May 25th stigmatized and misun- hypomania (a less severe are treated for depres- or by email at gkelleher@ St. Marks Parish (School Hall) sion only but have had gmail.com. The National 1725 Dorchester Ave, Dorchester, MA derstood of all the mental form). Mania is character- 02124 episodes of hypomania or Alliance on Mental Illness illnesses, Bi-Polar disor- ized by feelings of eupho- Our Downtown Boston location is fully accessible der (BPD), once known as ria, increased confidence, mania, it can have disas- (NAMI) is a great resource by public transportation. Manic-Depression. 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By Bill O’Donnell The Twilight Of Limbaugh – Radio talk show some to their own detriment. Ray Fitzwalter moved Derry’s Richard Moore – Freedom In Forgive- host/cum hatemonger and the man with the richest against the tide and popular opinion at a moment in ness – At age 10 and a student at the Rosemount AM radio contract in the history of that medium is history when doing so was not a good career move. Primary School near Derry’s Creggan Estate, Richard one Rush Limbaugh, who has been enjoying an God bless all who follow his example. Moore was on his way home from school on May 4, eight-year, $400 million agreement during a time No Criminal Charges In Berkeley Balcony 1972, when a rubber bullet fired by a British soldier when his ultra-nasty brand of put-down, including Collapse – Following a nine-month investigation, the ten feet away crashed into his face. He lost his right racism, anti-women and anti-humanistic drivel, has Alameda (Calif.) County district attorney found there eye and was left blind in the other. His blindness led the parade of pale imitators on radio whose sole was “insufficient evidence” to bring criminal charges could have left him bitter and withdrawn, but instead claim to fame is their ability to get the bile flowing against the building’s owner. In the June 2015 accident he kept up with his music, which was already a big and breed more doomsday virulence for the salivating six students were killed and seven sustained serious part of his life, while his strong, supportive family hearts of the discontented. injuries. The Irish students, who were in the US on made all the difference. Richard was never angry or Limbaugh’s employer, once known as Clear Chan- J1 work visas for the summer, were among 40 people bitter; he even wished to meet nel Communications, has changed its name to “I at a birthday party on the fifth floor of the building the soldier some day. Heart Radio,” with a history that has caught up with when the balcony collapsed. The years passed and Richard its stock in trade – a hate-your-neighbor approach No Surprise, Super-PAC Money from 50 Rich- met and married Rita in 1984. unless he or she is a flaming anti-liberal, anti-gay est – A relative handful of donors, maybe 50 in all, He continued his education and or anybody who ever received a federal government including relatives, are writing over 40 percent of the graduated with honors from the payment for anything save a grant for grazing land checks that are funding the 2016 elections, according University of Ulster. He later or a silent oil well. to a Washington Post analysis of federal campaign reflected on his self-described This year, the Limbaugh crusade and his sumptuous finance reports. With each passing day, fewer and “good life,” blindness and all. contract are easing towards a finale. The reasons for fewer of our citizens are involved in election fund In 1996, in an effort to reach the Limbaugh Twilight are many, but they are largely raising, essentially leaving the funding of down-ballot out to children in the crossfire focused on depressed ratings, aging demographics, and presidential candidates to the professional fund- of poverty and to help promote and an advertising community that views his offer- raisers and the mega-rich who come to the task with and protect all vulnerable chil- ings as toxic and unwelcome in millions of homes of needs and greed. Bill O’Donnell dren, he founded Children in American listeners. We are to a large extent standing outside the action, Crossfire in partnership with That downside formula for Limbaugh’s limping letting those who can buy Senate and House seats local aid organizations in Africa and Ireland. employers, “I Heart Radio” – They are headed to do so without sharing the burden or allowing the Richard arranged to meet the soldier, called only court on the brink of bankruptcy with a debt burden rest of us to financially participate in the democratic “Charles,” for the first time in an Edinburgh hotel in of some $20 billion (Yes, with a “b”) and a dwindling election process. Political contributors in this current 2006. They have continued a form of friendship, meet- listener base. Many radio industry insiders believe cycle have given north of $600 million to 2,300 Super ing in each other’s respective homes. Richard is an that at age 65 Limbaugh’s radio future has never PACs, which can accept unlimited contributions from extraordinary man who found peace in his blindness looked worse as remnants of his once-bustling brigade individuals and corporations. and his work with Children in Crossfire and who says of listeners are growing stale and geriatric, aging As the Post’s analysis clearly reflects, “these Super his blindness is a gift, offering his personal philoso- alongside the Dark Knight of the aArwaves and his PACS have become fundraising powerhouses just six phy that he lives with blindness, not in darkness. He cliche destructive rants. years after they came on the scene. This concentra- also described his feelings and the aftermath of his While Limbaugh’s scorn-driven talk show has, for tion of power carries echoes of the end of the 19th early meetings with Charles: “I’ve found freedom in reasons already noted, been a short sale for several century, when wealthy interests spent millions to forgiveness.” years now, the slippage of his employer has fallen help put former Ohio governor William McKinley in His work leading Children in Crossfire has won him further and faster. Its stock price in January 2000 the White House.” international praise and a warm friendship with the was $90 a share; in 2007 it was $39; in July 2011 it This dangerous “shutout game” situation, where Dalai Lama, and the support of Northern Ireland was $8.30; and in mid-April this year it was $1.15. a mere hatful of multi-millionaires (most unidenti- statesman John Hume, a friend and neighbor in Even Rush is doing somewhat better than that. fied) is dictating election results, combined with the Derry. Richard will be in Boston from Mon., May 9, Pfizer & Allergan – See How They Run –After Supreme Court decision on Citizens United has only through Sun., May 15 to meet new and old friends. To less than six months, one of the biggest proposed merg- worsened a deteriorating situation that is dragging reach him and/or Children in Crossfire or for more ers of 2016 – between Pfizer and Allergan – was ended the electorate further away from active involvement in details call locally at 617-943-4528, or send an email by mutual agreement. The merger was an attempt at the process. And the road ahead, glutted as it is with to [email protected]. inversion with Pfizer joining Allergan and assuming a special interest dollars, looks anything but promising Boston, the Capital Of Irish America – Not too new tax home with its Dublin-based partner. Pfizer, for real campaign finance reform. long ago the Buffalo Business Journal, relying on facing some domestic problems, was keen to link with Grace Notes – Moments Worth Remembering Census Bureau numbers, named Boston (23.4 percent) Allergan and begin enjoying the 12.5 percent lower A loyalist flute band has memorialized a GAA the most Irish city in America. That will likely quiet corporate tax rate in Ireland. For Pfizer it was the Catholic youngster who died in a tragic accident on the candidates for the Irish heritage honor, cities like fourth unsuccessful attempt at inversion and came the Irish roadway where they march. The captain Philadelphia, Chicago and Pittsburgh, who are near suddenly as the US Treasury Department invoked of the Ballymacash flute band halted his troupe as it but trailing in Irish population. Following Boston for new rules that made inversion difficult, especially if marched close to the accident site where six-year-old the “most Irish” title are the aforementioned Pitts- there were previous efforts at such a move. Diarmud Frazer was injured and later died, and laid burgh and Philadelphia. And two cities in addition While Ireland’s corporate tax rate is more than 20 a wreath as a tribute to the lad. During the wreath- to Boston can be found in New England, Providence percent less than the US corporate rate, the so-called laying, the band dipped the colors and played the and Hartford. Other US cities in the first tier are inversion tactic has been a tempting stratagem for hymn “Abide With Me.” Rochester and Buffalo in New York. companies seeking to cut its US taxes. It is also true ••• Chicago (11.6 percent), a city many believe is clos- that the functional or actual US corporate tax rate For three decades, Adi Roche has led the Chernobyl est in Irish residents to Beantown, has only half the is often legally avoided by US firms. Children International (CCI), an Irish-based group number in Boston. Other above-average Irish heritage President Obama has on several occasions pub- dedicated to aiding victims of the worst nuclear disas- cities are Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Columbus, all licly chided US international companies for running ter in history. The CCI has become Ireland’s personal in Ohio and all hovering around 14 percent. Trailing out on their responsibilities as American companies. charity and Roche has worked tirelessly through thick but above average in Irish numbers are: St. Louis, The US Treasury has quickly moved to erect legal and thin to help make a difference to those who were Kansas City, Baltimore, and Louisville. obstacles against attempted inversions, and public terribly wounded at Chernobyl. Over the years the number of US residents claiming opinion is solidly against American companies who In an unprecedented move , the Belarusian govern- Irish heritage status has fluctuated, with the current reap benefits here but run to grab lower tax rates in ment, in a United Nations tribute, has for the first number roughly agreed on being 38 million. foreign countries. time given its allotted time spot at the UN to Adi The American cities with the smallest percentage John Treacy Warns On Irish Martial Arts – Roche. It is the first time that a charitable NGO has of Irish Americans or the least Irish today are: San Veteran Olympian John Treacy, one of the fabled been given a country’s allotted speaking time at a Bernardino, San Jose, and Los Angeles in California, distance runners in Ireland and a member of the UN Assembly. and Houston and San Antonio in Texas. Miami and Treacy family from Waterford that is well known RANDOM CLIPPINGS Salt Lake City also have below-average Irish numbets. here with its New England ties (Providence College), Weekday weddings are the new craze in Ireland. Of the major cities, Los Angeles ranks as the “least is currently the CEO of Sports Ireland. Last month, Newlywed couples (or their families) are being charged Irish” at under 5 percent. following the death of a martial arts fighter, Joao $30,000 and more to get hitched on a weekend. Filmmaker James Demo Talks About “Peace- Carvalho, Treacy issued a stark warning about the Thursdays are the new Saturdays, with a mid-week maker” – Cambridge documentary film makerJames dangers of the games and the need for enforceable wedding half the cost of the weekend affair. … Given Demo took some time from his post-production pol- regulations and codes of practice. the chaotic situation in the presidential campaign, the ishing and visiting film festival sites to talk about his The governance of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is GOP is looking to the possibility of saving the Sen- newest project, “Peacemaker,” the story of Padraig not under the control of a national organization and ate even if they can’t claim the top job. … Speaking O’Malley and his international efforts at solving in- regulatory oversight is lax. “If we bring forward guide- at Boston College, the former NI police ombudsman tractable conflicts in Northern Ireland, South Africa, lines and codes of practice and they are not followed, Baroness O’Loan said, “In a country in which the Iraq, and elsewhere. Demo, producer and director of than I think there is no place for it in Ireland. It’s as media was once sympathetic to the Irish Catholic the O’Malley film, has spent the last five years fol- simple as that,” said Treacy. Church, it is now aggressively hostile.” … The Nar- lowing and filming the University of Massachusetts Mixed martial arts has grown in popularity and row Water Bridge project linking the North and the Professor of Peace & Reconciliation, an effort that has event attendance in recent years. Irish MMA fans in Republic near Newry, seems to have found a new life resulted in an up close, verite look at an extraordinary the thousands have become fixtures in venues like after it was shoved to the back burner by Northern man and his mission. Las Vegas and Dublin, and in US arenas. officials. … The real estate mogul from NY has won the Following are excerpts from a recent interview Demo British Journalist Aids “Birmingham 6” Re- endorsement of Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post, had with The Independent Magazine, a respected voice lease – Last time in this space I marked the anni- the National Inquirer, and a paper owned by the of independent films and documentaries: versary of the release 25 years ago of the six innocent moguls’s son-in-law. … Norwegian Air International • “We have had significant support from within the men – the Birmingham Six – who were set free after will soon be flying a low-fare Cork to Boston service. documentary film world and the film could not have their guilty verdicts were overturned. There were Howie Carr is still around (albeit on a low-watt been made without it. The project was selected by many who helped find justice for the men who had Boston radio station) and talking nonsense and other three labs, Sundance, Film Independent Documentary languished in a British prison for 17 years, but there silly chatter about Fox network’s Megyn Kelly (heavy Lab, and the Tribeca Film Institute.” was one man who played a huge role in their release stuff, guys). … Australia is over the top in warning • “In addition to the support we received from and deserves public thanks: the British journalist travelers to Ireland to be “wary of civil disorder.” Sundance Institute, I also crowdfunded twice through Ray Fitzwalter. Tourists know that it’s just the Irish pols losing Kickstarter and had numerous fundraising parties. I An an investigative reporter for Granada TV’s World patience with the electoral impasse. … Don’t forget have used my own money when need be and in Action program, which ia watched by 10 million that the swan boats in Boston’s Public Garden lagoon many talented friends have worked in-kind.” viewers, Fitzwalter was directly instrumental in dis- are back afloat, their wondrous 140th year there. … • “They say the film is only half over when you fin- crediting the court findings, the bogus evidence, and Anglo Irish Bank’s former chief, David Drumm, is ish it, and for the majority of the next year I will be police misconduct in he case. He even went further facing two trials back in Ireland. … Deeply saddened launching the “Peacemaker” out into the world. Also I by identifying on television some of those who were by the death on the Notre Dame campus (fittingly on have begun discussions about turning Padraig’s story the actual Birmingham bombers. St. Patrick’s Day) of former Stonehill College President into a narrative-scripted feature. I am developing a It is worthwhile recalling that amidst the 1974 Father Bartley MacPhaidin. The Donegal priest few ideas for both documentary and narrative and Birmingham bombings and other injustices there and Irish speaker was one of a kind and a champion am really excited for what the next year will bring.” were men and women who followed their conscience, for sane, compassionate immigration reform bostonirish.com May 2016 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 9 EATING AND EMOTION Dr. Bernadette Rock We need to relax, but without food We need to chill out in our daily lives. But some- times relaxing can be more about “numbing” out. Numbing is often paired with food, eating, binging. It’s a habit that I notice more frequently among my clients: a slice of cake or two with that cup of tea, half a packet of crackers while watching a TV show. Numbing is eating while you’re doing something else, such as watching TV, multitask- ‘All Changed, Changed Utterly…’ ing, checking Facebook, preparing meals. (Continued from page 1) rocked Parliament. In Boston and New York, the Irish With numbing, there is also resistance to get- ting back into real life, after turning off the TV Rising were to be stood in front of a drumhead court- denounced the British, and, as in Ireland, conferred martyr status upon the executed men. Inflaming pas- or going offline. With relaxing, you’re fully pres- martial, quickly sentenced to death, and cut down by ent, intentionally relaxing, and you feel charged a firing squad. It was only after the rebels had been sions to a white-hot degree was the manner in which the British had killed Connolly, who was seriously afterwards. If you feel resistant or disconnected so dispatched that the public learned of the executions. and don’t want to move forward, then you might The British government believed that the brutal wounded. He was tried while he lay in a cot in Dublin Castle. Since he could not stand, he had been placed be using the time to numb out from reality. sentences would cow the remaining rebels and that the One way to prevent the numbing out is to give Irish public, with so many of them so angry at Pearse, in a chair and blasted from it by his firing squad. Michael P. Quinlin, in his article “Boston and the yourself time to relax, to de-stress, to get to grips Connolly, and their men for the carnage they had with emotions, to recognize “Okay, I need to re- brought upon Dublin, would accept and even applaud Irish Rising” (Irish America Magazine, February-March 2016) described the Boston Irish community’s response charge.” the executions. On every count, the British Cabinet Often we don’t allow ourselves this chance, and guessed wrong. to the execution as “electric” and notes that a pro-Rebel assemblage “of 20,000 people” crowded Boston Common so we can end up eating. Do you give yourself in- The Globe and the Herald delivered the shocking tentional time to relax, to intentionally reconnect news to Boston readers on May 4, 1916. “Organizers of and “thousands gathered in outlying cities…” Quinlin adds that “on May 14, the Friends of Irish so you can spend time with yourself? Irish Republic Are Executed,” the Herald’s front page Awareness is powerful. announced. “Four signatories to the republican proc- Freedom convened at the sacred Tremont Temple in downtown Boston, where Mayor Curley presided over Once you become aware lamation in Ireland have been tried by court-martial of a pattern or an attach- and found guilty and were shot this morning [May 3, 5,000 fervent followers, with another 4,000 spilling into Boston Common.” ment or a certain way of 1916]. Patrick H. Pearse, the ‘provisional president behaving around food, of Ireland”; James Connolly, commandant-general Across America, the tide of public sentiment slowly turned against the British government’s ruthless then you have a choice of the Irish Republican army; James J. Clark [Tom about what to do. Aware- Clarke]; and Thomas McDonagh [“MacDonagh] were executions. Mark Duncan, in “Reporting the Rising: Press Coverage of Easter 1916,” aptly asserts: “Even ness gives you a choice. those executed.” Can you allow yourself to The Globe informed readers that “Three Rebels many in the Anglophilic American press were aghast. Nationwide, Irish-Americans who cared little about make a few better choices Were Shot.” The front-page story stated: “Justice has around food this week? been swift in the case of the leaders of the Sinn Fein the Rising now rose up themselves, demanding an end to the executions, which ran from May 3 to May 12, If you’re faced with food rebellion. Three of the ringleaders, signatories of the and you’re not hungry, short-lived Irish republic, paid the supreme sacrifice when James Connolly was killed. Eamon de Valera – born in the U.S. – was set to be executed next. But the here’s what you can tell yesterday morning.” yourself: Recently unearthed firsthand accounts of the British finally ceased amidst the international outcry. This, finally, was a silver lining amidst the dark cloud “Maybe later”: This is British Army’s executions of the Rising’s leaders would a gentle response, not have likely ignited fury among Irish Americans stunned of the Rising.” Just a few years after the furor following the Rising, harsh, and you’re dis- by the news. In “1916 Diaries of an Irish Rebel and a tracting yourself from British Soldier” (Mercier Press, 1914), Sergeant-Major Boston’s Irish community would accord de Valera, who had been spared that firing squad at the last moment, the food. Samuel Henry Lomas wrote the following in his journal “How will I feel after- Bernadette Rock and entry for May 3, 1916: “We paraded at the time ap- a hero’s welcome at South Boston Station and Fenway her daughter Keela. Park. Both the Globe and the Herald recorded his visit wards? Remind your- pointed, marched to Kilmainham Jail. At 3.45 [a.m.] self about what’s really the first rebel MacDonoghue [Thomas MacDonagh] was as nothing short of “triumphal.” Not until the fall of 1920 would the words destined important to you, and why you want to manage marched in blindfolded, and the firing party placed 10 your eating. paces distant. Death was instantaneous. The second, to stand as the very symbol of the Easter Rising and the ensuing Irish struggle for freedom appear in public. “What’s the point? I might as well eat”: This P.H. Pierce [Pádraig Pearse] whistled as he came out thinking sets you up for disappointment. Remind of the cell….The same applied to him. The third, J.H. William Butler Yeats published his poem “Easter, 1916” that year in the New Statesman as the Anglo-Irish yourself that you want to start caring for yourself. Clarke [Tom Clarke], an old man, was not quite so fortu- There is no “perfect” diet. However, it can help nate, requiring a bullet from the officer to complete the war raged. At that moment, October 1920, Terence MacSwiney, the Lord Mayor of Cork, was wasting away to have a few guidelines for eating so that you get ghastly business (it was sad to think that these three the most enjoyment out of food. Can you make brave men who met their death so bravely should be on his hunger strike in prison, sacrificing his life for Irish freedom, as Pearse and the fourteen others done choices that serve you? That may mean cooking fighting for a cause which proved so useless and had a delicious whole food meal, and really enjoying been the means of so much bloodshed).” in front of British firing squads. In this year, the centenary of the Easter Rising, it and feeling satisfied: Eat when you are hungry; Captain Arthur Dickson, of the Sherwood For- eat sitting down in a calm environment (this does esters, commanded one of the firing squads on May Yeats’s words resonate as powerfully and poignantly as when they first appeared in public: not include eating in the car!); eat without distrac- 1916. In his memoir, published in the 1920s and now tions, such as TV, newspapers, anxiety-producing in the Imperial War Museum, London, he wrote: “We All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born. conversations; eat until you are satisfied (see marched our [execution] squads to [Kilmainham Gaol] the hunger scale in the handout); eat (with the long before dawn in a dismal drizzle . . . We had to ••• (For further reading, see Michael P. Quinlin, “Bos- intention of being) in full view of others; eat with wait while it grew faintly light and I took the chance enjoyment and pleasure. to instruct the squad exactly what orders they would ton and the Irish Rising,” Irish America Magazine, February-March 2016; The Easter Rising, Michael Foy You don’t have to follow all of these guidelines get; I didn’t want any muddle. . . together at once. Try just a few. Think of them as “Thanks to that preparation, it was carried out and Brian Barton, Sutton Publishing, 1999; and The Rising (Centenary Edition) -- Ireland: Easter 1916, your North Star! Get in touch with your comments smoothly. The 13 rifles went off in a single volley. The or questions at [email protected]. Check out rebel dropped to the ground like an empty sack . . . I Fearghal McGarry, Oxford University Press, 2016; Tom Deignan, “The Irish Revolution in America,” Dr. Bernadette Rock’s online weight management can’t say I felt much else except that it was just another program at heydayworld.com. job that had to be done.” Irish America Magazine, June/July 2006; Mark Dun- Fifteen leaders of the Rising in all paid the “su- can, “Reporting the Rising: Press Coverage of Easter preme sacrifice,” and within weeks, Ireland’s and Irish 1916,” Century Ireland Project, RTE, in conjunction America’s revulsion at the secret trials and firing squads with Boston College, 2016.) Feeney brothers send young talent to study the gas industry (Continued from page 1) the Reporter, Egan said For the next decade, he dents who will graduate that the gas utility in- worked a wide variety of from the program this dustry is expecting a jobs, until two years ago year, 19-year-old Andrew work force shortage in when he decided to go Letendre, said that he Massachusetts because back to school. Now at 32, was originally interested roughly 40 percent of the he says, “I know exactly in the electrical utility utility industry workforce why I am at school. I’m not program. After learning will become eligible for just trying to get by; now I more about the gas indus- retirement in the next can really appreciate what try, he decided that GUT five years. I’m learning.” program would be a better Manny DaSilveira, a DaSilveira and Letend- choice for him. native of Cape Verde who re plan on re-interviewing “With this industry now lives in Dorchester, is with Feeney Brothers and there is steady work be- also graduating this year. staying with the com- cause gas is such a boom- He previously studied pany after graduation. ing industry right now. graphic design at Madi- Egan said he hopes that Once we graduate, we are son Park 2002, and spent graduates of the Bunker basically guaranteed a a semester and a half at Hill program stay with job with Feeney Brothers the Massachusetts Col- the company because, he if our grades are good,” lege of Art. “I left because said, they “are part of our steady work because gas is such a boom,” says one Legendre said. The gas industry affords “ I wanted to do more,” culture now.” student. Graduates can expect to begin a full time job “if our grades are good.” In an interview with DaSilveira explained. 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By Sean Smith itself, its interrelatedness Special to the BIR to experience, and the It’s a pretty familiar transmutability of both rite of passage: You’re throughout life. In this within sight of age 30, or spirit of looking back while maybe a little past it, and going forward, O’Donovan the label “young adult” no touches on her Irish roots longer seems applicable; and the Americana style somewhere along the way, that characterized a good for better or worse, you’ve chunk of her earlier work, become a full-fledged but also continues to ex- grown-up. Then the death plore a more ambitious, of a family member ushers indie-folk sound. The title in a period of reflection track includes a jaunty and reminiscences of Wurlitzer keyboard part youth – a time that seems (played by O’Donovan) simultaneously closer and that seems not far re- farther away than you moved from a vintage might’ve thought. Beach Boys record; “The For singer-songwriter King of All Birds” is en- Aoife O’Donovan, her livened by a boisterous CAPTION: Singer-songwriter Aoife O’Donovan has been living in Brooklyn most of the past decade, but grandfather’s passing at string ensemble, clarinet, feels being native to the Boston area was an asset to her musical career: “Growing up in Boston was a the end of 2013 elicited and trombone; and then great way to hone your musical chops.” Anna Chattman photos childhood memories root- there’s “Donal Óg,” a re- vered Irish lament of loss began right in her Newton 2001, setting bluegrass in earnest on “Fossils,” out, especially in “The ed in Ireland as well as her home, thanks to her par- convention on its head by which included her com- King of All Birds” and native Greater Boston. and remembrance, which here is given a new reso- ents Brian (WGBH “A putting Corey DiMario’s position “Lay My Bur- “Magpie,” suggestive of This introspection came Celtic Sojourn” host and string bass and Greg Liz- den Down” that Alison flight and return, among at a time when O’Donovan nance with brooding, dis- torted electric guitars and festival/concert organizer) st’s five-string banjo – tra- Krauss had recorded on other things an allusion – a folk/acoustic music and Lindsay, a talented ditional bluegrass/string her Grammy-winning to O’Donovan’s travels performer since her teens, a moving coda via a home recording of O’Donovan’s pianist and singer. In the band instruments – along- country album. “Fossils” (literal and figurative). a member of the ground- O’Donovan household, side the mercurial cello of was an experiential com- Beaches, as places for breaking progressive grandfather singing. L a s t m o n t h s a w music – Irish, American, Rushad Eggleston, who pendium of sorts, repre- youthful frolics and win- bluegrass band Crooked folk, rock, classical – was would take solos or solidify senting styles from folk dows on the natural world, Still, and the “jazz-grass” O’Donovan – who moved to Brooklyn in 2009 (she not just something to the rhythm with equal to pop to jazz with which are part of the album’s supergroup Wayfaring listen to but to savor, aplomb. O’Donovan’s vo- O’Donovan had become geography (the album Strangers (with a cast that also lived there for two years after graduating and to experience with cals – by turns ethereal familiar over the previ- cover is a photo of a seven- included Tony Trischka, family and friends, many and seductive – were the ous decade or more; the year-old O’Donovan on the Andy Statman, John Mc- from New England Con- servatory in 2003) – re- of whom were successful, crowning touch, making album even had its own sands at Clonakilty). Gann, and Tracy Bon- accomplished musicians. for an urban, cosmopoli- familial connection – her Folk and traditional ham), and a frequent turn to her old stomping grounds, as she performed “I knew early on that tan take on a genre cham- sister Nuala (a brilliant music references also soloist in “A Christmas music would be a big part pioned by the likes of Bill vocalist herself) sang on abound, scattered among Celtic Sojourn,” among at The Sinclair in Harvard Square. Coming to Boston of my life, and that was Monroe, Jimmy Martin the title track. lyrics or titles, such as other activities – had because of my parents – and Earl Scruggs. In fact, “Fossils,” which “The King of All Birds” settled into a solo career, to do gigs is not a novel experience for her, but they always encouraged Crooked Still – which garnered much critical (“The wren, the wren, having released her first and supported me,” said became a quintet after acclaim, presented a chal- the king of all birds” – al- solo album, “Fossils,” until recent years these were largely in the context O’Donovan. “And there Eggleston’s departure lenge to O’Donovan. “The though O’Donovan points earlier that year, and were other adults, too – in 2007, adding cellist biggest struggle is your out her song is not about was considering her next of Crooked Still and other bands, and productions like my music teacher Tristan Claridge and second album, because wrens per se) and “Not project. at Newton North High fiddler Brittany Haas – you don’t want to do the the Leaving” (recalling So O’Donovan distilled such as “Christmas Celtic Sojourn” or the annual School, Mr. Travers – released five albums, then same record twice,” she “It’s not the leaving of the various recollected who helped me along the went on hiatus in 2012 explained. “I really liked Liverpool”). “Donal Óg” images and sensations tour by fiddle ensemble Childsplay, for whom she way. Having access to as its members pursued working with my producer dates back centuries but is from many visits to her the amazing music com- other projects. The band Tucker Martine on ‘Fos- timeless in its evocation of grandparents’ home in was lead vocalist. “On the one hand, it munity in Boston also played reunion concerts in sils,’ so I asked him to loss (“Sun, moon and stars the small coastal town of was incredibly important: 2014 and last year. come back for the next one. from me you’ve taken, Clonakility, Co. Cork, and doesn’t matter where I’m performing – I’m There were the Irish ven- By the time Crooked Still But I wanted a different and God as well if I’m over subsequent months ues, like The Burren, but adjourned, O’Donovan angle, a different sound.” not mistaken”), and the interpolated them into a just happy to present my music as a solo artist,” going to places like Pas- had already undertaken O’Donovan describes connection is reinforced collection of new songs. sim, the Lizard Lounge a host of ongoing and “In the Magic Hour” as toward the end with the These formed the basis said O’Donovan by phone shortly before her date and the Cantab got me temporary collaborations, a “scavenger hunt” (that excerpt of O’Donovan’s of her second album, “In more and more interested notably “The Goat Rodeo staple of children’s/family grandfather singing “The the Magic Hour,” which at The Sinclair. “But of course, it’s always nice to in bluegrass and other Sessions” album featur- recreation): full of motifs, West’s Awake” – the stir- she released in January. American music. ing cellist Yo-Yo Ma, as metaphors and connec- ring paean to Irish nation- While nostalgia, and be back in Boston, not only because I grew up there “Growing up in Boston well as the contemporary tions, some direct, others alism penned by Cork’s sadness over the loss of was a great way to hone “folk noir” trio Sometymes more oblique, for those own Thomas Davis. her grandfather, are both but because it’s a big part of who I am musically.” your musical chops.” Why; she even guested on who seek them. Birds “The nostalgia I feel in present on “In the Magic Those chops were on a jazz album by the Dave – seagulls, magpipes, a lot of the songs takes on Hour,” the album is more a The formative musical experiences for O’Donovan full display when Crooked Douglas Quintet. Most harrier hawks, owls and different qualities,” said contemplation of memory Still came together in of all, she was working wrens – appear through- (Continued on page 16) ARTS CALENDAR FOR MAY Visits by some legendary Celtic fiddlers – Scotland’s strings-driven ensemble, local quintet Scottish Fish, Alasdair Fraser and Ireland’s Kevin Burke and Nollaig will appear at Passim. The band’s five young members Casey – highlight Irish/Celtic events taking place in have been strongly influenced by performers such as the Greater Boston area this month. Fraser and Haas, Hanneke Cassel, Katie McNally and • Alasdair Fraser will perform with his longtime others in the “American-Scottish” style, and in the past collaborator, cellist Natalie Haas, in two shows at year have established themselves as a local favorite Harvard Square’s Club Passim on May 3 and 4, both through appearances at BCMFest and other events. at 8 p.m. Fraser and Haas, who have recorded four al- For tickets to these shows, and other information bums together, are known for their distinctive “ducking about Club Passim, see passim.org. and diving” duets, in which they exchange riffs, trade • Kevin Burke, renowned for his work with the off melody versus rhythm, and otherwise converse in pioneering Bothy Band during the 1970s, will be at various tones of emotion and intensity. Their draws on The Burren Backroom series on May 18 at 7:30 p.m. Scottish and other Celtic traditions, but also elements Burke was born in London of parents from Sligo, of Scandinavian, Breton, American, classical, jazz, and with its storied fiddle tradition that included major other music forms. figures in Irish music like Michael Coleman, James Meanwhile, Haas’s husband, Quebecois guitarist Morrison, and Martin Wynne. After a stint with singer- Yann Falquet, will play at Passim on May 2 at 8 songwriter Arlo Guthrie, Burke moved to Dublin and p.m. with fiddler Pascal Gemme – who, along with became immersed in the Irish music scene; in addition Falquet, is a member of the French-Canadian trio to The Bothy Band, Burke was a member of Patrick Genticorum – and guitarist/pianist/mandolinist/ Street and later the Celtic Fiddle Festival. A resident vocalist Keith Murphy, who is versed in the music of Portland, Ore., since 1980, Burke was awarded a of Eastern Canada, Quebec and New England, and National Heritage Fellowship in 2002. a solid performer in his own right as well as a much May 25 will bring a double bill to the Backroom: the sought-after accompanist. fiddle-guitar duo of Nollaig Casey and Arty McG- On May 8 at 3 p.m. will be the Passim debut of The lynn, and singer-songwriter and social activist Tommy Sound Accord, a Phoenix-based “chamber folk” string Sands. Casey and McGlynn have been playing since sextet – two fiddles, a viola and three(!) cellos – that 1979 (and married since 1984), recorded two well-re- blends traditional and contemporary Scottish and other Legendary Irish singer-songwriter Tommy Sands ceived albums, “Lead the Knave” and “Causeway,” and Celtic instrumental music with classical influences. plays at The Burren May 25 as part of a double bill contributed music for two feature films, “Moondance” A week later, on May 15 at 7:30 p.m., another with Nollaig Casey and Arty McGlynn. (Continued on page 15) bostonirish.com May 2016 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 13 Delightful sounds down the hallway The phrase “music affectionate rendition of school recital” inevitably Pete St. John’s “Dublin summons up images of a in the Rare Old Times,” hushed auditorium with with the audience joining expectant parents and in on the chorus. The skill other family members, levels also ran the gamut, and a bunch of nervous but each performance kids awaiting their turn got rousing applause and on the stage. But when cheers. the Comhaltas Ceoltóiri A set by uilleann Éireann Boston branch’s pipes instructor Patrick music school held its Hutchinson and his two end-of-semester recital young students, Cormac last month at the St. Gaj and Kevin May, in Columbkille Partnership particular elicited great School in Brighton, the enthusiasm, as much for setting and the vibe were its intergenerational as- decidedly informal. pect as the quality of play- Instead of an audito- ing. That significance was rium, the venue was a underscored by Jack Con- hallway intersection: The roy, a mainstay of Boston’s performers’ “stage” was a Irish music scene who has designated area in front of been working with the a bulletin board adorned Comhaltas school this with the message “When past year, when he spoke We Learn We Grow,” at the end of the program: around which chairs were “It’s a very special calling scattered in a rough semi- for those of us who play circle. The student per- the music. And that’s why formers spanned genera- we encourage the younger tions, including not only people to play, and to feel Jimmy Noonan kept an eye on his flute students as elementary school-age comfortable sitting next they performed. Sean Smith photos children – Ellery Klein’s Helena Costelloe played along with a tin whistle to older people when they three beginner fiddle stu- ensemble at the Comhaltas music school recital. do. There is such a great ald’s students, Barbara in the tin whistle ensem- dents were about half her joy in that.” Cassidy, finished up a ble remarked “I wish that size – but a few teens as them Deirdre Reiss, Jason nier, students of singing The joy was clearly mesmerizing sean-nos went on forever.” well as adults of several McCool, Charles Saulnier teacher Bridget Fitzger- evident across the ages: song in Gaelic, a young girl – SEAN SMITH different vintages, among and Charlene Duffy Saul- ald; the four sang a very When another of Fitzger- who earlier had performed “Riverdance” – 20 years, and still dancing strong with the land while feed- first year I took part in it. song contest for the first ing it and nourishing it, It was such a great expedi- time. And although I was and then rushing out to ence, you know, to be on very young, I do remember the ocean and beyond. the other side of things. I that moment. I remem- The current tour, direct- think we had 300 dancers ber that special feeling ed by McColgan, features over three weeks. Even – “That’s what I want new costumes, lighting though I’ve been in the to do when I’m older.” and projections plus a new show for six years, time And thank goodness it’s number, “Anna Livia,” does go so fast. You kind worked out. It’s definitely featuring the female mem- of have to pinch yourself been a dream come true bers of the dance troupe and be like, “God, I’m from a very young age. in an a capella hard-shoe here, I’m teaching these Q. Why do you think number. To remain fresh other dancers and trying “Riverdance” connects while continuing its re- to inspire them” . . . (And so incredibly with audi- markable international now) it’s so nice to have ences? outreach, “Riverdance” dancers on this tour who A. There’s something for also hosts an annual came from that process everyone. There’s not only summer school for new last year. the Irish dancing -- we’ve dancers. Q. You started dancing got our tappers, our Rus- Lauren Smyth, one of very early. sian dancers, Flamenco, the show’s Lead Danc- A. I come from a musical singers . . . 20 years ago, ers, has been performing background. My granda the cast were based in with “Riverdance” since played the accordion and Dublin. Now, 20 years 2011. Born in Newtown- my aunties were singers later, it’s become a global ards, Northern Ireland, and my Mom was actually phenomenon. We’ve danc- she began dancing at St. an Irish dancer when she ers from all over the world. Patrick’s School of Irish was younger. So it kind Australia, New Zealand, Dance. She was soon of was only natural that America, Ireland, Eng- competing, winning mul- she was going to send me land. It’s crazy . . . For tiple regional champion- to Irish dance lessons at me, the special part of the ships including Ulster and a young age – of course, show is the music. There’s Northern Ireland titles. not knowing what it was just something about it, At 16 she transferred to going to lead to. even though I hear it every the Reilly School of Irish Q. Were you dancing for day . . . It can still give you Dance where her success pure enjoyment, or did you goose bumps, six years in competition continued. envision something more down the line. She joined “Rhythm of the coming from it? R. J. Donovan is edi- Dance” in 2007, perform- A. I was four when I tor and publisher of on- ing the lead role for three started and obviously it stageboston.com. years. was just purely a hobby, ••• We spoke by phone purely for the enjoyment “Riverdance: The 20th when “Riverdance” was – the love for the music Anniversary World Tour,” playing in Chicago. and everything that came May 10 - 15, Citi Wang Q. Tell me about the with it. I think I was Theatre, 270 Tremont “Riverdance” Summer seven or eight years old Street, Boston. Info: 800- School. when I watched “River- 982-2787 or citicenter.org. A. Last year was the dance” on the Eurovision

Northern Ireland native Lauren Smyth is featured as Lead Dancer in “River- dance. (Continued from page 1) ranging from the classic dance” was officially part as entertainment to fill uilleann pipes and the of the cultural landscape. Handmade since 1925 an interval in the show. ancient bodhran to jazzy At heart, the Grammy Based on the thunder- saxophones and synthe- Award-winning “River- ous response it received, sizers. In turn, the danc- dance” tells the story of the producer Moya Doherty ing would incorporate Irish people – coming from and director John Mc- traditional reels and jigs many places and moving Colgan saw the potential blended with contempo- on to blend and interact in developing a full scale rary Russian, Spanish and with cultures around the stage production. African-American turns. world. Whalen has been Mixing traditional mu- Less than a year later, quoted as saying he was sic with his own rock “Riverdance” was back inspired by The Liffey and rock influence, Bill where it all began – at the River, which begins in the Whalen envisioned a show Port Theatre. That seven- Wicklow Mountains and with the band onstage to minute number was now travels through Dublin on interact with the dancers. a mesmerizing, evening- its way to the Irish Sea. The musicians would play long fusion of music and His concept was based on a variety of instruments dance that played a sold the life of the river, quiet out five week run. “River- at its origin, interacting Page 14 May 2016 BOSTON IRISH Reporter bostonirish.com

CD Reviews The result is a mix of elegant, stately, emotive yet sung here by former dignified passages and interludes one would expect to Danú vocalist Muire- By Sean Smith hear in a concert hall, interspersed with others that ann Nic Amhlaoibh: Charlie Lennon, “Áille na hÁille (A Terrible have the spryness and immediacy of tunes at a ceili or Plunkett’s mystical, Beauty): A Suite in Honour of the Heroes of 1916” kitchen party. Lennon plays his customary fiddle and spiritual “I See His • Lennon is one of those piano (also viola), joined periodically by his daughter Blood Upon the Rose,” rare individuals who is Éilís and son Sean on fiddles. Others appearing on the and – more compelling firmly rooted in both Irish album include well-known traditional musicians Ronan – Pearse’s prophetic, traditional and classical Browne on uilleann pipes, flute and whistle, Caitlín Nic sensual “Fornocht Do music styles, and able Gabhann on concertina and Jim Higgins on bodhran Chonac Thú (Renuncia- to bring them together and other percussion; the classical influence is abetted tion),” written in 1912, with an abundance of by pianist Finghin Collins, violinist Elizabeth Cooney which foretells his fate – “I have turned my face/To good taste as well as and the RTÉ Con Tempo String Quartet. this road before me/To the deed that I see/And the skill. “Áille na hÁille,” Some of the pieces serve as portraits of the seven, death I shall die.” a compilation of original such as “Planxty James Connolly,” “Tom Clarke’s Jig” Arguments have raged about what aspects of 1916 pieces by Lennon, is an and “Ceannt the Piper,” with a grand solo by Browne, should be remembered, and how these should be com- evocation of the run-up while others represent significant events or periods memorated, if at all. “Áille na hÁille” seems to offer to the Easter Rising and in their lives: MacDiaramada’s heroic return home a reasonable solution, inviting us to consider those its aftermath, focusing on seven major figures of the from prison and his contemplation of the strife to people, and in particular these seven men – passion- Rising: Patrick Pearse, Joseph Mary Plunkett, Eamonn come (“MacDiarmada’s Dream”); Pearse’s sojourn in ate, inspired, yet imperfect as all humans are – who Ceannt, Thomas Clarke, Thomas McDonagh, James Connemara, a wellspring of inspiration and creativity made history, both terrible and beautiful. [gael-linn.ie] Connolly and Sean MacDiarmada – like Lennon, a for his writing that would be an enduring voice of the Helena Byrne, “Scéal” • Sadly, in this day and age, native of North Leitrim and a longstanding object of Rising (“Ros Muc”). “Easter Lambs” honors all who the word “storyteller” has invariably come to mean fascination for the composer. died in the Easter Week fighting – “leaders, soldiers “somebody you can plunk the kids down in front of while As Lennon explains in the sleeve notes, these rebels or innocent bystanders” – and “Support from America” you check your messages.” There is a very unfortunate were a “diverse group, poets, writers, visionaries, musi- – two Lennon-composed reels played by Lennon and impression that the art of traditional storytelling is only cians, statesmen, free thinkers, all with a passionate son, Nic Gaghann and Higgins – acknowledges the suited for the juvenile mind, and adults are somehow love of all things Gaelic.” Appropriately, this musical contribution of Irish Americans to the Rising. Unit- exempt from its virtues. Byrne, a Kilkenny native who tribute is an amalgam of genres, tapping into Irish ing these various strands at the end is “Glaoch chun also works as a singer-songwriter, theatrical actor and tradition as a means to connote the Rising leaders’ Saoirse (Call to Freedom),” a three-movement piece producer, certainly doesn’t feel that way, and “Scéal” embrace of their national identity, and classical stylings played by Cooney and Collins. (Irish for “story”) states her case for reclaiming story- as a reference to their worldliness, and appreciation The album also includes Lennon’s settings of two telling as multi-generational entertainment – and, of for culture and refinement. poems associated with the Easter Rising leadership, course, a way to pass along history and culture. Byrne’s delivery has plenty of dramatic presence, but not in a cloying or overly histrionic manner; she holds your attention and then lets the words do the work. Most of “Scéal” involves tales of the supernatural (what used to be called “fairy tales” before the term fell out of favor) that include leprechauns, banshees, trooping fairies, and púcas. William B. Yeats is well represented here: In addition to excerpts of his writ- ings on Ireland’s supernatural folk, Byrne recites his poem “When You Are Old.” She also sings “My Lagan Love,” Joseph Campbell’s vivid, haunting lament of the leannán sídhe (“fairy lover”), set to a bewitching Donegal air. Byrne sets these in a useful and enlightening context with musings and stories about life in her grandpar- ents’ era, some taken from family reminiscences. Her point is not that these Irish of not-so-long-ago were delightfully “simple” people with quaint, primitive beliefs, but that their particular set of customs, rites and behaviors helped to define and explain the world around them – what we oh-so-modern folks might call “coping mechanisms.” And perhaps more importantly, these past generations knew the value of the spoken word, and the stories they passed on are therefore as precious an heirloom as one might find. [helenabyrne. com] Eileen Ivers, “Beyond the Bog Road” • Ivers has a lengthy and diverse resume, from Cherish the Ladies (which she co-founded) to collaborations with Sting, Hall & Oates and The Chieftains, and, of course, her stint in “Riverdance,” which presaged her Irish/world music fusion work with Immigrant Soul. On this album, Ivers trains her focus on a somewhat smaller part of the world: North America. “Beyond the Bog Road” is a musical representation of the Irish diaspora (or at least part of it) and the manner in which the Irish influenced, and were in turn influenced by, the new lands they encountered. It’s a subject near and dear to Ivers, whose parents came from Mayo, and like many traveled the titular bog roads on journeys that would take them thousands of miles away. Accordingly, Ivers and her cohorts delve into not only Celtic but Cajun, Quebecois, bluegrass, old-timey, Canadian Maritimes and African American music, some of it traditional and some penned or co-authored by Ivers. The instrumental tracks – notably “Kitty’s Wedding” (combining the Irish hornpipe with an old-timey tune “Smith’s Delight”); the Scottish/Cape Breton-influenced “Mackerel Sky”; and “Canbrack Girls” – showcase Ivers’ mastery of the fiddle, with her distinctive improvisations and hot riffs. And if you didn’t know already that Ivers can wield a pretty mean tenor banjo and mandolin, well, now you will. Ivers is happy to let her collaborators get plenty of attention: Niamh Parsons and Tim Shelton share a breathtaking duet on the traditional “Farewell My Love and Remember Me,” presented here more as an Appalachian waltz, flavored by Gabriel Donohue’s do- bro (Parsons also solos on “Green Fields of America”); former Cherish the Ladies colleague Joanie Madden adds her impassioned whistle-playing to the keening uilleann pipes of Lunasa’s Cillian Vallely on Ivers’ contemplative “Crossroads”; and Martin Connolly (accordion) and Matthew Olwell (foot percussion) en- hance the French-Canadian ambience of “Le Reve du Queteux Tremblay.” The showstopper is “Linin’ Track,” in which vocal- ists Deirdre Brennan and Tommy “Pipes” McDonnell (who plays with Ivers and Immigrant Soul) evoke the shared history of the railroad among Irish and African Americans, toggling back and forth between “Paddy on the Railway” and the work song “Linin’ Track,” popularized by Leadbelly. McDonnell takes the lead on another intriguing track, a cover of the 1926 Percy Venaele/Lous Armstrong number “Irish Black Bottom,” which captures the interplay between Irish dance and African American tap dance that flourished in the early 20th century – a reminder that American his- tory has many forgotten or overlooked chapters that, interestingly enough, often involve music and dance. [eileenivers.com] bostonirish.com May 2016 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 15 ARTS CALENDAR FOR MAY LEARN MORE (Continued from page 12) at the Original Congrega- or appeared on a number QUINCY and “Hear My Song.” tional Church in Wren- of recordings – her 2013 Sands, a Co. 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MacMaster to the film Smith, vocals, guitar, Graphic for illustrative purposes only Also on tap in the Back- “The Heavenly Angle”; bouzouki, bodhran) plays room this month will be and guitarist Bethany mainly traditional Irish a concert on May 11 at Waickman, a frequent songs and tunes, combin- About the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard 7:30 p.m. by the duo of accompanist of fiddler ing the spirit of a session The College Scorecard (https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/) is a free resource from the U.S. Department of Education that provides information for families and students to make educated decisions in the college search process. Using the College Scorecard, students and their families can look up the cost and assess David Power and Willie Lissa Schneckenburger with contemporary influ- the value of colleges. Each scorecard highlights five key pieces of data about a college: costs, graduation rate, loan default rate, average amount borrowed, Kelly. 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QUINCY: 617-984-1710 PLYMOUTH: 508-747-0400 Plymouth, Quincy & Online Ronan Browne and Jimmy elsewhere in this issue.] O’Brian-Moran, and was a On June 1, notloB will member of Liam Clancy’s celebrate its ninth an- “Fairweather Band”; he niversary with a special has three solo recordings. concert at the Arlington Kelly, who in addition Center for the Arts (41 to fiddle plays uilleann Foster Street) with two pipes and flute, was influ- stalwarts of the Cape enced by musicians from Breton music scene, An- West Limerick, Clare and drea Beaton and Wendy Galway and has been a MacIsaac, accompanied regular at the Catskills by Boston-area native Irish Arts Week in upstate Eric McDonald. Bea- New York. ton is an award-winning For tickets and other fiddler, dancer and tune information on The Bur- composer who has passed ren Backroom series, see along her family’s beloved burren.com/Backroom- music tradition. MacIsaac Series.html. excels on both fiddle and • The OCC Music series piano, and has released ‘Celtics Roots’ parley set for August in Minneapolis; TIARA will co-host event In 2014, TIARA (The be ten other family history Irish Ancestral Research experts from around the Association) co-sponsored United States. the sold-out Celtic Connec- Brian Mitchell, widely tions Conference at Bentley recognized for his genea- University, Waltham. This logical expertise in North- coming August, TIARA will West Ireland, will lead a travel to Minneapolis, the discussion of Irish place- home of IGSI, (the Irish names, one of 12 hour-long Genealogical Society Inter- first-day sessions on topics national), to co-host “Celtic aimed at beginning, in- Roots Across America,” the termediate, and advanced second Celtic Connections family history researchers. Conference. The second day’s pro- This year’s conference gram will continue with (August 5-6 at the Double- eleven hour-long sessions, Tree by Hilton just outside an author luncheon featur- the Twin Cities) prom- ing Erin Hart, well-known ises another successful author of Irish mysteries, selection of offerings in and a closing session on genealogy, history, music Irish records with the and literature featuring distinguished genealogist internationally known and author John Grenham. genealogists Brian Dono- Complete program de- van, Dr. Bruce Durie, John tails, on-line registration, Grenham, Brian Mitchell, and hotel reservation in- and William Roulston. Also formation is available at making presentations will celtic-connections.org/ Page 16 May 2016 BOSTON IRISH Reporter bostonirish.com To Aoife O’Donovan, looking back while How Much Money going forward seems to be the right mix Will You Need (Continued from page 12) adds, wistfully, “I wish I “I was over there for strings. Sara Watkins O’Donovan. “Sometimes was young again.” a wedding a couple of and Sarah Jarosz, who it’s haunting, sometimes “People would hear that years ago, and I remem- perform with O’Donovan In Retirement? it’s snarky, and some- and say, ‘What do you ber looking up at the sky as the trio I’m With Her, times it’s intense – like mean? You’re still young!’” and realizing, ‘Wow, that make an especially lovely in ‘Stanley Park,’ which said O’Donovan. “That’s is the weirdest shade of contribution on “Hornets”: Have you underestimated? is about when you’re no true, but what I’m saying blue I’ve ever seen,’” said Their vocal harmonies finally longer a child, is everyone can look back O’Donovan. “The ‘magic’ with O’Donovan achieve from wherever in life we is still there, if we let an angelic grace, while Presented by Brian W. 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By Sean Smith sionally for some 15 years is adding another dimen- Special to the BIR and having appeared on sion to its sound, working When the time came to one another’s solo CDs. on some selections from work on their first record- So when Klein returned the Frank and Anne ing, the members of New to the Boston area in 2013 Warner collections of England Irish trio Fódhla after a three-year sojourn American folk songs. literally had to meet each with her family in Jerusa- “It’s very enjoyable to other halfway. lem, they felt it was high finally be able to work That’s how it is when time to form a band, and consistently with Nicole, one-third of your band recruited Waickman to and to have Bethany be lives in Greater Boston join them. involved in the partner- and the other two-thirds The exactitude between ship as well,” says Klein. in Portland, Maine. For- Klein and Rabata, not to “We can’t do much in the tunately, Mill Pond Stu- mention their command way of extensive touring, dios in Portsmouth, NH, of their respective instru- but the opportunities that lay equidistant between ments, is readily apparent we do get to play together them, and owner/opera- on “Notes from Mill Pond,” make it a very rewarding Boston-area musician Ellery Klein, right, with her fellow Fódhla bandmates tor/engineer Jim Pender- especially on the opening experience.” Nicole Rabata, center, and Bethany Waickman. The trio performs in Somer- grast kindly allowed the track, a good, solid set of ville later this month. trio some rehearsal time driving reels (“Cleaning there before letting the the Henhouse/Reel with tape roll. Their six-track the Beryl/Charlie Harris’ CD, “Notes from Mill Reel”), and later on a pair Pond,” was released in of sprightly barn dances December. (“Napoleon’s Charge/Jim- Fódhla will perform my Duffy’s”). A medley locally on May 28 in the of jigs begins with Klein Arts at the Armory Café, and Waickman on “Crabs in the Skillet,” and when “Unearth 191 Highland Avenue, in Somerville, sponsored by Rabata joins in on “Gort notloB Music [see notlob- Na Mona” the result is music.blogspot.com for nothing short of glorious. full details]. Not to be overlooked is Formed in 2013, Fódhla the contribution of Wa- – which has appeared ickman, whose DADGAD your potential” at BCMFest, the Maine guitar style was shaped Celtic Festival, the Salt- to a great extent by her water Fest in Portland, studies with renowned and elsewhere in New accompanist and singer England – epitomizes the Keith Murphy. “Bethany effort often involved nowa- has this quiet but power- days in keeping a band ful way of playing, where together, and dealing not you suddenly realize she’s only with geography but driving the bus,” says the challenge of balancing Klein. “She has a great family life and other musi- sense of timing, and comes cal commitments. Fiddler up with some very tasty Ellery Klein, the trio’s chords, so she really adds Boston anchor, has two a lot to the melody.” young children, teaches In fact, Waickman ush- at the Comhaltas Ceoltóiri ers in the CD’s most in- Éireann Boston branch triguing track, in which music school and Pow- Fódhla goes outside its ers School of Music, and Irish repertoire to in- offers private lessons as clude a pair of Quebecois well. Flute player Nicole waltzes that begins with Rabata has a strong clas- “La Valse Matique.” After sical background like Waickman’s intro, Rabata Klein but also an interest picks up the melody, and in Brazilian choro music, Klein alternates between so her gig calendar is full playing in tandem and of sessions and concerts. long bowed notes that Guitarist Bethany Waick- bring a Scandinavian feel man – a one-time Boston- to the arrangement. The area resident – plays with second waltz, “Boureé Vermont fiddler/vocalist Longue,” sees Rabata Lissa Schneckenburger switching from melody and the contra dance trio to harmony alongside Anadama, among others. Klein, Waickman softly Technology – Skype, but firmly nudging the MP3s, email – aids in rhythm along. keeping up with one an- The trio’s virtues are Feeney Brothers Utility Services other in such situations, at their peak on the final of course, but ultimately track, as Rabata and satisfaction and success Waickman start out on The Northeast’s Utility Contractor comes from being able “Kemo’s Jig” before Klein to work on one’s own enters and clicks the and then focus like a set into a pair of reels, laser when everyone is “Palmer’s Gate” and the Locations in MA & CT together. infectiously rollicking “Basically, we end up “Foxhunter’s Reel” – Klein doing our rehearsing and Rabata let everything Gas – Electric – Utility Contractor before a gig – and I mean fly (Rabata offers up usually on the same day,” some especially bravura says Klein, a former mem- triplets along the way) Begin your career as a Gas Utility Foreman ber of Celtic rockers Gaelic and Waickman has that Storm and of the now- metaphorical bus at full, defunct Boston all-female but controlled, throttle. or an experienced Backhoe Operator quartet Long Time Court- “Nicole and I can really ing. “But having a gig lock in – I think that’s about every six weeks or so what comes from having works out fine. We make the classical precision in plans, go about with our our backgrounds,” says lives and projects, and Klein. “We’re able to bring stay in touch.” out variations by playing What helps enormously together, and kind of mi- www.feeneybrothers.com is that Klein and Rabata cromanaging the tunes. have a longstanding mu- I’ve always enjoyed that sical connection, having about our music.” [email protected] performed together occa- Klein notes that Fódhla

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By Judy Enright Special to the BIR It’s all about food and creative menus in Ireland these days. If someone tells you the food in Ire- land isn’t good, they have either not been here for about 30 years or they have made some horribly poor choices in restau- rants or pubs. Irish food today is often amazing and can be as gourmet and delicious as anything you might find in Paris, anywhere else on the continent, or in the States. Many Irish chefs have trained elsewhere before returning home to share their skills. Today, there are many well-known Irish chefs, including Darina and Rachel Allen, Neven Ma- guire, Derry Clarke, Ross Lewis, Oliver Dunne, Dylan McGrath, to name just a few. Excellent restaurants can be found everywhere from village to city, east to west, and north to south. GOURMET GREENWAY Every year since 2011, the Mulranny Park Hotel in Co. Mayo has hosted a gourmet dinner with a tasting menu that pairs the hotel chef’s culinary interpretation of products from local food and drink producers as well as wines The Mulranny Park Hotel began life in 1897 built by Great Western Railways as a hotel to make the coastal Co. Mayo town of that complement the Mulranny a tourist destination. Modern conveniences - such as electric lights - were added and by 1900, there were hot and cold cuisine. At the sold-out baths. The causeway built by the railway company to the beach and Clew Bay is still in use today. Once cars gained popularity event in the hotel’s Nephin as a mode of transport, railways lost their allure and the Westport to Achill line closed in 1934. The hotel, a listed building on 42 Restaurant, diners enjoy acres, continued to operate untl 1990 when it closed and lay empty, derelict and an eyesore until 2003 when it was purchased by the creative expertise the current owners and reopened in 2005 after being completely refurbished. The popular hotel now hosts a sold-out gourmet of Head Chef Chamila dinner every year and has planned a series of gourmet events that run from now until October. (Judy Enright photos) Mananwatta and his staff. Each year, the menu changes, as does the theme. This year’s theme was “From the Land and Sea to you and me” and, clearly, Mananwatta and his staff had great fun cre- ating delights from local ingredients such as Fen- nel Bavarois (lobster jelly, orange and Grand Mar- nier, focaccia crouton); Monochrome of Red (turf smoked Atlantic salmon, beetroot, pickle and sorrel leaves) and Back to Land (Panko-crusted Seaspray Crab salad plate served with style at Renvyle House lamb shank, lamb liver, Hotel in Connemara. Kohlrabi, burnt eggplant, who provided chutney for wood Vinegars, West Ceylon spiced apple curry, the dinner’s cheese course. Mayo Brewery, Achill wild garlic and olive oil They were a lively group Island Sea Salt, Achill Sheep graze on Clew Bay at low tide in front of Mulranny Park Hotel in Mul- powder.) The meal in- and a lot of fun to chat with Mountain Lamb, Café ranny, Co. Mayo. cluded special breads, a over such a delicious meal. Rua, Croagh Patrick Sea- milk and dark chocolate The Georgina Campbell ing to take a walk that’s a car in Ireland. Because The Gourmet Greenway foods, Marlene’s Choco- dessert, a cheese course, Guides, established in more than just a walk? I rent my car every year Food Trail comprises arti- late Haven, and Helen’s lemon cake, and chocolate 1997, is a family-run guide Then sign up to take part from Dooley Car Rentals san food producers along Homemade Brown Bread. truffles. and cookbook publisher in Renvyle House’s walk- (dooleycarrentals.com), the Great Western Gre- The dinner’s guest Wines were supplied by specializing in Irish food, ing weekend (May 6-8) I asked president Pat enway, Ireland’s longest speaker was Georgina Thomas Bassot and paired hospitality, and travel. with Michael Gibbons, a Dooley about his com- mostly off-road walking Campbell, Ireland’s lead- with each course. Included Recommendations are noted archaeologist and pany’s policy. and cycling path built on ing food and hospitality were Patio Sauvignon based on independent walking guide. “As far as we are con- an abandoned railroad writer who said she is “a Blanc, Chablis, Fluerie, and anonymous assess- There are many reasons cerned,” he said, “we will track between Westport huge admirer” of the Great Cotes Du Rhone, and Gra- ments, and inclusion is to do so – you’ll learn rent to any senior age visi- and Achill Island in Co. Western Greenway and ham LBV Port. Edward free and based on merit. a lot about the history, tor from North America Mayo. the Gourmet Greenway Leach represented the See ireland-guide.com area, and archaeology under the condition that Longtime Mulranny and the leadership, vi- company, described each for more. of the beautiful Renvyle it is automatic only. This Park general manager sion, and hard work that wine, its qualities and Also attending the din- Peninsula in Connemara, is for the safety of the cli- Dermot Madigan and created them. the area of France where ner was writer Catherine Co. Galway, during three ent, our car, and any other his management team She applauded the the grapes are grown and Madden from Taste of guided walks (including a party as it just takes the designed and organized G o u r m e t G r e e n w a y harvested. Ireland, an online food hike on an old smuggling risk out of senior drivers the Gourmet Greenway Events Guide, which she GOOD TABLEMATES review, who emailed later path along Killary Harbor, having to drive and shift.” in 2011 with six original launched at the dinner, Much of the fun at an that she and her husband Ireland’s only fjord.) I have always found members. The group has and urged diners to sup- event like this is having a very much enjoyed the You can attend Gib- Dooley cars to be clean and since grown to 20 mem- port the special offerings good group at your table. dinner. “It was a wonder- bons’s introductory talk well maintained and the bers who employ more by different members each Seats were pre-assigned ful evening.” and slide show, experi- company to be extremely than 130 area residents month through the end of and a friend and I sat The Mulranny Park ence the hospitality of the responsive to queries or and contribute some 1.5 October. The next special with a charming couple, offers a special room/ Renvyle House as well as problems. million euros to the local event from the events Andrea and Fergal, who gourmet dinner combina- evening entertainment TRAVEL PLANS economy. guide is Beer and Seafood were celebrating their tion rate every year and if there, and partake of the Warmer weather is here MEMBERS Week, May 9-15, at the first anniversary (they you are in the Mulranny, hotel’s outstanding food at last and spring is a great Those who contributed award-winning Grainne married a year ago at the Co. Mayo, area, a stay at (the crab salad is highly time to be in Ireland. Be to this year’s Gourmet Uaile Bar in Newport. hotel), Jane and Michelle this 4-star hotel is highly recommended.) Visit ren- sure to check with your fa- Dinner, in addition to A Harry McMenamon and (Jane works events at recommended. For more vyle.com for more details vorite travel agent or visit Taste of Days Gone By, his team there will spot- the hotel and Michelle information, see mul- or email: info@renvyle. the Aer Lingus website for included Kelly’s Butchers, light fresh local seafood formerly worked there but rannyparkhotel.ie com. travel specials. And enjoy Keem Bay Fish Products, and Clifford’s Ale from now works in Galway), WALKING WEEKEND RENTING A CAR Ireland whenever and Murrevagh Honey, Car- West Mayo Brewery in and Patti Moss, owner of Are you coming to Ire- I am often asked about wherever you visit. rowholly Cheese, Wild- Islandeady. A Taste of Days Gone By land this month and look- the age limit for renting bostonirish.com May 2016 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 19 The Irish Language by Philip Mac AnGhabhann

Failte do’n Bealtaine!, ‘Welcome to Bealtaine!” the traditional opening of the Celtic year. Be careful not to say, *”BELL-tain”. It is /BiALL-tuh-nuh/. EIRE This month’s “irregular verb” is tar, “come.” A word of caution here. In some dialects it is written and pronounced teara or even taeg as it is made analogous pub with the forms of the Habitual Present Tense. However, Standard Irish is tar, “come”, and I will stick with this form.

Tar is unusual in that it is irregular in all three verb tenses we have had so 795 Adams St. • Dorchester far – others are irregular in only one or two tenses. In the Habitual Present tense, the final –r turns into a –g: “President’s Choice” Present Habitual Tense: Tagaim /TAHG-eem/, Tagann /TAHG-ahn/ tú, sé, sí, sibh, siad but tagaimid /TAHG-uh-muhj/ “we”.

In the Definite Pasttense tar becomes Tháinig /HAH-nyuk/ except for the Serving Lunch & Dinner “we” form which is thángamar /HAHN-guh-muhr/. Tháinig mé, tú, sé, sí, sibh, siad but thángamar. My phonetic rendering /-muhj/ is similar to the English word “much”. Every day, For the Future Tar becomes Tiocfaidh mé, tú, sé, sí, sibh, siad but tioc- faimid. 7 days a week Here the initial T- is pronounced as a /ch/ and the –o- is there to balance a following –a-- so Tioc- sounds like the English “cheek”.

In the Cois Fhairrge (“Sea Coast”) dialect of County Galway, where perhaps Irish Social Club of Boston, Inc. the most native speakers live today, tar is teara /CHAR-uh/ and the Present 119 Park Street, West Roxbury, MA 02132 617-327-7306 or 617-549-9812 Tense is built upon the root teag- so in place of /tahg/ the pronunciation is / Incorporated by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, June 27, 1945 chahg/. The other tenses are the same as Standard Irish. In this course we’ll stick with the change from tar to the root tag- as it will be understood although SUNDAYS 8-11 pm with $10 admission except where otherwise noted. you might sound “bookish” but then, you are never going to be taken for a na- Socials every PUB NIGHTS: Doors open at 7 pm. Live music from 8-11 pm. tive by those who truly are. Free Admission Email us at [email protected] Sunday Evening Tar has a number of uses, all of which require prepositions of some sort. at 8:00 pm Among the most common are … SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Tar ar To come to a decision or to meet someone. MAY 2016 Chaplain, Fr. Brendan Darcy, at Tar amach as sin To come away from here or 1 Sunday Silver Spears 781-326-3288 for more information. “To come away from that.” 3 Tuesday Dance Class – 7:15 to 9:15 pm (see below) 22 Sunday Andy Healy Tar ar ais To come back. 8 Sunday Wild Rovers 24 Tuesday Dance Class – 7:15 to 9:15 pm (see below) Tar isteach ! “Come in !” 10 Tuesday Dance Class – 7:15 to 9:15 pm (see below) 26 Thursday Members Meeting at 7:30 pm. Please bring Thuginn! “Come on !” 12 Thursday 5th Annual Taste of West Roxbury your membership card to gain admittance. Tar anois To come up Fundraiser to benefit West Roxbury 29 May Tradition Tar ar rud To come upon something. Main Streets. Tickets $30. Call Chairperson 31 Tuesday Dance Class – 7:15 to 9:15 pm (see below) Nancy Reid from The Cooperative Bank for Tar chun tosaigh le idé To come up with an idea. more information at 617-201-2644. 14 Saturday Lucy’s Love Bus Annual DANCE CLASSES on the five Tuesdays in May There is one thing that tar is not used for, the question “Where do you come Tuesday, May 3, 10, 17, 24, and 31 from?” and the answer, “I come from X.” Fundraiser at the Irish Social Club. Call Johnny Costello at 617-678-7949 for more Jive, Old Time Waltz and Quick Step Dance Class detailed information. from 7:15-9:15 pm Learn these dances or sharpen your skills! “Where do you come from?” Cárb as dhuit? 15 Sunday Erin’s Melody with Margaret Dalton “I come from X.” Is as X mé. $12 a class 17 Tuesday Dance Class – 7:15 to 9:15 pm (see below) Call 617-327-7306 to sign up 20 Friday SMA Fathers Annual Fundraising Dance or for more information You may have noticed that when the words for “you, he, she” or “they” are on at the Irish Social Club. Please call our the end of a sentence, separated from the main verb that they are shortened to thú. é, í, and ise. These are called Disjunctive (“not connected”) Pronouns. Follow us on Twitter @irishsocialbos Follow us on Facebook: Irish Social Club of Boston While thú appears to be longer than tú /too/, it actually is not since the th- is “silent” thú sounds like /oo/. Subscribe Today to Boston’s Own Hometown Newspaper Disjunctive Pronouns occur when the Subject Pronoun is separate from the main verb and is really the Direct Object. Boston Irish REPORTER “I see him now” in Irish is “See+I now him” Feicim anois é. A Subscription to the Boston Irish Reporter Makes an Ideal Gift for Any Special Occasion. “He heard them yesterday” in Irish is “Heard he yesterday them”. Why Not Order One Today for Yourself, or for That Special Irish Someone in Your Life? Chuala sé inné iad. Order today, and we will send a gift card in your name. Now, as promised, translate these into Irish: 1.) “Would you like a beer?” 2.) Enclose $35.00 for each gift subscription. “Thanks. I prefer a half pint of lager.” 3.) “Come in!” 4.) “I came from Dublin Name______by car.” 5.) “She will come up with a good idea.” 6.) “Do you want coffee or tea?” 7.) “Neither. 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