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Mohawk Valley Irish Cultural MOHAWK VALLEY IRISH CULTURAL Volume 13, Issue 11 EVENTS NEWSLETTER Nov 2016 Enter the Haggis Comes Back Home November 5th is no doubt going to be a long day for Toronto Celtic Rockers Enter the Haggis. Beginning at 10 AM at the F.X. Matt Brewery’s 1888 Tavern, they’ll be hosting a listening party for their latest release, “Broken Arms,” and then at 7 PM they’ll be giving a concert in MVCC’s Schafer Theater. Since 1995, Enter the Haggis has led the charge among Celtic Folk Rock bands, with their most recent album debuting at No. 9 on the U.S. national Billboard Heatseekers charts. And while their ambitious touring schedule has earned them fans around the globe, they seem to have a special affinity for the folks in this area. Their first trip here was in April 2005 to perform at Utica’s legendary club, the Devereux, and they’ve returned at least once a year ever since then. Besides their several appearances as headliners at the Great American Irish Festival and playing at every “festival eve” Saranac Thursday since 2009, they have also included Utica as one of only two cities to hold listening parties for their last two CD releases (the other being a small Irish town called Boston). The band’s new album, “Broken Arms” is their third EP (fourth if you include the one the released as Jubilee Riots) to go along with their eight studio, five live and one compilation CDs (and if that wasn’t enough, guitarist/vocalist Trevor Lewington just released a new solo album, “Lion of Grace,” while House of Hamill -- the duo made up of bandmate Brian Buchanan and his fiancée, Burning Bridget Cleary’s Rose Baldino -- has just released an album called “Wide Awake”). While the listening party was originally offered as a reward for pledges in a crowd-funding campaign for the new CD, it is now open to the general public. Says Brian “If you don’t have a ticket and you’d still like to come, tickets are $45 (which includes a copy of the new album) and there’ll be a limited number available at the door until the room is too full to squeeze anyone else in.” The party is open to all ages. The concert at MVCC (1101 Sherman Drive in Utica; Shafer Theater is in the Information Technology Building), is part of MVCC’s Cultural Series. The show begins at 7 PM, and will feature songs from the new CD as well as many of the old songs that have made Haggisheads of us all. Tickets for the show are $20 for the general public, $15 for MVCC employees, and free for MVCC students. Tickets can be purchased over the phone and in person at the MVCC Box Office, Information Technology Building 106, from 10 AM to 2 PM Monday-Friday, in person at the Utica Campus Bookstores, or online at any time at www.mvcc.edu/tickets. Hothouse Flowers Founder Liam O’Maonlai To Perform in Kingston Irish singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Liam O’Maonlai will be making a rare visit to the Arts Center of Kingston on November 4th. Best known as the founder and charismatic frontman for the eclectic Irish rock group, Hothouse Flowers, he has earned his place as one of the most beloved and respected music carriers in Ireland. This show, presented by Irish Cultural Center Hudson Valley, begins at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $30, and are available on-line. The Arts Society is located at 97 Broadway in Kingston, NY. Mohawk Valley Irish Cultural Events - 1 Anything But Bland - the next installment of MVICE’s Notable Irish Women series by Sue Romero On an August morning in 1910 what sounded more like a large-scale catfight than an engine, revved in Randallstown, Co. Antrim in Northern Ireland. Lilian Bland gave it a little more gas and Mayfly moved forward, faster and little faster, until it lifted itself off the grassy track and rose up into the air. Giving it a few more tries that day, she grinned from ear to ear. She had done it. She would always know she was the first woman in Ireland to fly an airplane and the first woman in the world to design and build one. Lilian was never one to hesitate when she got an idea to do something. By the time she was 32, the year she flew, she had already traveled throughout Europe, been a sports photographer and journalist, a proficient hunter and crackshot, and horse trainer and rider. Daring and unconventional as she could be for a woman at the turn of the 20th century, she walked about in breeches, smoked cigarettes, rode astride (not sidesaddle) and practiced Ju- Jitsu. And when her uncle sent her a postcard picturing Louis Blériot’s aeroplane that had crossed the English Channel in July 1909, she looked up at the seagulls she was photographing in Scotland that day and decided what her next project would be. When she returned to Ireland in early 1910, she started building a kite-like model biplane out of bamboo, spruce, fabric, and wire. She steamed the wood to curve its 6-foot wingspan like the seagull wings she had observed. It flew beautifully. Next she built her design into a glider large enough to hold herself as pilot and added a set of bicycle handlebars to steer it. This wafted into to the air as well, but she needed to know if it could hold the weight of an engine, so she enlisted the help of four burly constables and a gardener named Joe Blain. With all the guys hanging on to the outside of the plane, she took off, and the whole shebang lifted into the air for a few seconds, until the constables got spooked and let go. Only Joe stuck around for the rest of the ride, but it was enough to convince Lilian that adding the engine would work. So she sent to England for a gas engine and a propeller. When she heard her order was delayed, she went to the factory in Manchester herself and brought it back by boat and train even though the gas tank was still not finished. No worries. When she got home she just cobbled one together from a whiskey bottle and her deaf aunt’s ear trumpet. This girl was just unstoppable. After waiting for the windy rainy weather to clear and puzzling through several mechanical difficulties for weeks, finally the day arrived when she could test her creation with a real flight. The Mayfly (named after the doubters around her said it “may fly or may not”) would have its moment of glory. With the engine situated behind her, Lilian settled into the pilot’s seat and called out to her helpful friend Joe Blain to give the propeller a spin. The engine kicked in with a roar and she was off the ground for at least a quarter mile and 30 feet high. “I could hardly believe it. After each flight, I ran back to see where the wheel tracks left the grass to convince myself that I really had been airborne,” she said. Mohawk Valley Irish Cultural Events - 2 It was a glorious day, but it was the last one in Lilian’s flying career. Her father’s nerves had had all they could take, and he offered to buy her a Ford Model T if only she would give up flying airplanes. As a woman of many interests and aware of the huge expense required to take her Mayfly to the next level, she accepted pretty willingly. Cars would be her next adventure. She taught herself to drive and started a Ford dealership in Belfast, which she managed successfully for a couple of years. In 1912 she married her cousin Charles Bland and emigrated to Western Canada where together they built a farm in a remote area with a view of a quiet sound. Of course she took her camera with her and made more than 400 photos while she lived there, recording their rustic pioneer life on the Canadian frontier. One picture shows her true to form in overalls with an early motorized farm tractor that looks similar to a push lawnmower. The caption says it had several different attachments that could accomplish various farm tasks. She was also known for her expertise in repairing boat motors. In 1913 their daughter Patricia was born and in 1922 their son Jackie. Lilian captured many adorable photos of them as children playing on their farm with lots of dogs, cats, cows and horses. Patsy, as they called her, took after her adventurous mom wearing pants and working and playing hard in the wilderness. The photos in a gallery here are full of fun and smiles. Then in September 1929 tragedy struck. Patricia, Lilian’s dear daughter, best friend and constant companion, died of a tetanus infection at the age of sixteen. The disease leads to a terribly painful end and they were not able to provide her with medical help in their remote location. Lilian was devastated. “A child of the woods, a born naturalist and artist, she was yet my right hand in all practical work, with the skill and energy of an old-timer, utterly unselfish, calm and brave in the face of danger. She died as bravely as she had lived, without the help that science and civilization might have given to dull the agony. Death in connection with one so full of life seemed impossible – unreal,” Lilian wrote in a letter some months later.
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