November 2018 Boston’s hometown VOL. 29 # 11 journal of Irish culture. $2.00 Worldwide at All contents copyright © 2018 bostonirish.com Boston Neighborhood News, Inc. NE’s Irish organizations focus on giving a boost to outreach efforts Congratulations The agenda to the centers on many issues 2018 Boston Irish Honorees By Dan Sheehan BIR Staff How can Irish diaspora orga- nizations from across New Eng- land find some common ground on how they tell the stories that matter to those who cherish their The gathering at the ICCNE campus in Canton last month. heritage? That was the overrid- Ed Forry photo ing topic last month (Oct. 13) at and how to promote community Quincy or Braintree.” It also a conference sponsored by the welfare. There was also discus- means “getting more kids, not From left: Bob and Mary Scannell, and Helen, Henry, and Brian Danilecki. Bill Forry, Aidan Browne, Dr. Trevor McGill, Ed Forry. Consulate General of Ireland in sion about the Ireland-New just Irish-American kids,” she Boston and the Irish Cultural England relationship; Irish noted, adding, Centre of New England at the studies, the Irish language; and “It’s all basically your heritage centre’s facilities in Canton. Irish history. and getting people to come back. Delegates from dozens of When it comes to raising mon- And they do.” groups, including Boston Col- ey, Mary Sugrue, Boston CEO of The ICCNE said that it was lege’s Irish Institute and Burns the Irish American Partnership, “delighted to host such a dy- Library, the Celtic Studies offered this: “The key to fund- namic day at the Irish Consulate programs from both Harvard raising is building relationships conference. Collaboration was and University of Vermont, the From left: Bill Forry, Supt. Nora Baston, Deputy Supt. Gerard Bailey, Rev. Doc Conway, Commissioner William Gross, Capt. Jack Danilecki and Ed Forry. with individuals. You have to be one of the recurring words of Charitable Irish Society, Irish passionate about what you’re the day. This gathering will help The Boston Irish Reporter gratefully acknowledges the support of our sponsors: Network Boston, the Boston asking them to support.” Speak- forge stronger relationships & Irish Business Association, the ing on a panel on managing indeed promote the emergence Irish Pastoral Centre, the Irish successful events, Ellen Joyce of new relationships between American Partnership, and of the GAA Continental Youth local organizations.” the Amherst Irish Association Championship host committee, Added the office of the Consul- offered their opinions on such touted inclusivity as a key part ate General: “Dear All, Thank Eire Society topics as: of expanding an organization’s you for attending the Conference How best to protect and reach. of New England Irish Organiza- promote Irish heritage; how to For her, success is about tions at the Irish Cultural Centre Irish American Partnership Mike & Maureen Sheehan better collaborate with other “being inclusive and getting in Canton, MA. We feel it was a groups; how to better raise funds; out there to other areas and huge success, and hope everyone how to manage events; how to towns, and not thinking it’s found it just as rewarding and See Pages 7-16 use social media to best effects; just Canton and Dorchester or insightful as we did.” For Áine Minogue, it’s all about Eve and what she has meant for all of us By Sean SmIth Minogue’s work is marked by SpecIal to the BIR a serene, meditative sound, The Boston-area Irish harp- with elements of new age and ist and singer Áine Minogue world music blended with those has a certain philosophy about of Irish and other Celtic tradi- brainstorms: If you have one, tions, and an abiding interest in don’t get in the way – just let the spirituality and mythology Michael F. Higgins: it happen and then figure it all found in the ancient Celtic world Irish voters’ choice out afterwards. So, a few years and its traditions and rituals ago, Minogue found herself in – as demonstrated in albums Higgins breezes what she calls “a mad writing such as the holiday-themed “To fit,” in which hundreds of songs Warm the Winter’s Night” and to second term seem to pour out. “The Spirit of Christmas,” and Ireland re-elected its leftist “I didn’t know what was “Circle of the Sun,” a collection president, Michael D. Higgins, going on,” recalls Minogue, a of songs and tunes that mark to a second term and voted Tipperary native. “Some of the the passage of seasons. overwhelmingly on Oct. 27 to songs seemed to come from my Here, however, Minogue’s remove a ban on blasphemy subconscious. They were coming focus is on the many iterations from the Constitution. out, and I was just along for the of Eve – not just as a Biblical Higgins won easily, with ride, trying to keep up. I felt I or literary character, but as about 56 percent of the vote, was the messenger, and so it the essence and embodiment despite a late surge by a former became a matter of figuring out of femininity itself, throughout reality show celebrity whose what I was meant to convey.” history and humanity. support soared after he criti- This surge of creativity be- “It’s about everything that cized an ethnic minority group. came the basis for her latest Eve represents, and not just as In a separate ballot, about 65 album, “Eve,” her 15th over- it applies to being a woman,” she percent of voters, or 951,650 all – and her first consisting Aine Minogue’s latest album, “Eve,” is her first of all-original explains. “There is the idea, as people, chose to abolish a con- entirely of original songs. songs. 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Fortunately, eventually received her of the St. Vincent DePaul we were able to provide license. We then gave her Society and other non- her with legal assistance a key—a key to a reliable profit organizations, and through the efforts of Tony used car, which to this day to Linda Dorcena Forry, a Marino of the Irish Inter- she is still driving both to former state senator who national Immigrant Cen- work and appointments. is now an executive with ter, who forwarded her “These are just several Suffolk Construction, at paperwork to Fragoman examples of the work we its annual Awards Recep- Law Offices, who took on do. … Looking out over tion at the Fairmont Cop- her case pro bono. We cov- this fine gathering, I ley Plaza hotel on Oct. 4. ered all the costs of filing would guess that most The Society was formed fees, transportation, and here are immigrants, in Boston in 1737 to “cul- a physical, which eventu- children of immigrants, tivate a spirit of unity ally led to her receiving a or grandchildren of immi- and harmony among all green card, which was her grants, many of whom ar- resident Irish and their key to opening the door rived mostly from Western Silver Key honorees Linda Dorcena Forry and Paul Doyle.