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Editors Corner ebrated our neighborhood, our Mangan was selected as the 2014 cultural initiatives and embrac- community and our commit- Northern Ohio Rose of Tralee. I ing the roots of our past for a All through the Bitter cold, ment. West Park’s Kamm’s have been assisting the Northern better future. Irish Consul Aiden the thing that keeps me looking Corner is a neighborhood that Oho Rose Centre for a couple for Cronin and Vice Consul Nicho- forward are the festivals. From has welcomed and nurtured years, and knew Gráinne would las Michael did a masterful job Cleveland through Kansas City, the Irish for over 100 years; it be an outstanding ambassador with multiple events over the Pittsburgh, Muskegon … the has been home to the Ohio Irish for Northern Ohio, so encour- three days. I was honored to list goes on and on, fortunately. American News since 2006. aged her to apply. be a part. The music heals, the dancers and I grew up in this neighbor- I have known eight or ten I am just home from the 29th pipers thrill, presentations and hood. I live and work in this Roses, every single one has been Annual Greater Cleveland Peace poetry to feed the soul. But the neighborhood. It was, is, and I deeply impacted by the experi- Officers Memorial Society’s most nourishing part of it all is John O’Brien, Jr. suspect, always will be, an Irish ence of taking part, formed life- Peace Officers Parade. The Tat- the friendships – fest directors, enclave. Families with strollers volunteers, groupies, all make opened it’s doors, on West 44th and bicycles, people laughing the travel minor and the arrival and Detroit. The iconic Cleve- at patio tables and great music major. It is always hard to leave land fixture is not only home wafting out over the street have a festival on a Sunday night, be- for Karen; it is home for all of us. turned my neighborhood back, cause of those pieces parts that Friends, neighbors, musicians, to when there were neighbor- fulfill the soul. politicos, music and story lovers hoods, everyone stopped for a I walk over the bridge and all can follow their hunger, or fol- chat and summer nights lasted look back at the mass of people low their thirst, to The Harp, and forever. thronging the Rock Stage at find respite. Congratulations to In our OhIAN booth, A Letter Dublin, the lovers that stroll the Karen and all the O’Malley fam- from Ireland Columnist Cathal bridge at Muskegon, in Dayton ily, as well as Kim, Katie, Jeanie, Liam drove up from Cincinnati, I recall college days, the river at Mary and all the gang at The Off the Shelf Columnist Terry Pittsburgh … it goes on and on, Harp. So glad you came home. Kenneally joined us, and we a lonesome ache, at times, but a There are many themes of spread the good news of the glow that carries me home. homecoming, in festival cultural Ohio Irish American News to Check out our center section areas, reunions and more. THE those who matter most to us, for some of the brightest festivals Homecoming, however, was the our extended family. We also CoPublisher and Editor John O’Brien, Jr. this summer. Our 8th Annual 5th Annual Hooley on Kamm’s had a blast. with President and Mrs Higgins Festival Focus Issue is here! Corner, held on May 10th. 30,000 The Ohio Irish American News Fifteen years ago, The Harp of my closest friends and I cel- was so delighted that Gráinne long friendships, and in turn, has too follows. Bands and brothers returned those blessings back to come from across the U.S. and the community, not only in Ohio, Canada to join in the weekend ish M but across the world. Gráinne is long ceremonies each year, to Ir u off to Ireland, for the Regional’s; honor those who died in the Live sic! we wish even more success for line of duty. For the first time this wonderful young woman. in memory, this year, no Peace I was most honored to meet Officer, of any Law Enforcement the Honorable Michael D. Hig- Agency in Greater Cleveland, gins, President of Ireland, and made the ultimate sacrifice. his wife Sabine in Chicago as I was reminded how fortunate he continued his good will tour we are; how blessed we are; day of the States. Irish America still or night, rain or snow ~ they fuels dreams in Ireland, as it come ~we take it for granted, always has. For centuries, those that they will come, and yet we dreams have crossed an ocean, criticize so easily. Respect is easy to magical America, but often to lose, a hard thing to earn, and they are fulfilled under an Irish today, so thick you could slice sky too. it. 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The Day Of The then, we were just not allowed We carried the two horses and olds creating the detour. every driveway was full and the out. When you were stuck in the sign into the bushes at the We sat in the bushes waiting traffic was backing up on Lake Detour the house with no TV or video corner and plotted how it would for a break in traffic. We were Shore Blvd now. Then we heard By Dick Lardie or anything, it was a real pun- work. Tony would carry the sign giggling already thinking about the siren. ishment. Today the kids don’t and one horse, I would carry how funny this was going to We were stuck in this little “I don’t know, Dick, what do care because they don’t go out the other horse first, set it down, be. It was great to have a good patch of bushes. We couldn’t you want to do today?” anyway and they have more grab the sign so he could set his buddy sharing an afternoon of get out without being seen and “I don’t know Tony, what do fun inside. shenanigans on a hot summer caught. you want to do?” It might have been Tony, It day. Suddenly there was a The police came and were try- It was about the tenth time we might have been me, but one break, no cars coming around ing to figure out how to untangle had said that. Tony was dragging of us suddenly remembered a the bend. Out we dashed, the this mess. We sat quite as mice a stick over the picket fence mak- discarded detour sign and two plan went like clockwork. Soon in the bushes. ing a great rat-a-tat sound. I was wooden horses at the corner of we were back in the bushes A car came from the other kicking a rock I had gathered up Lake Shore Blvd and Brighten watching the detour unfold. direction, stopped, opened the off someone’s gravel driveway. Avenue in Bratenahl. They Tony was laughing so hard door and I heard a voice yell It was the dog days of summer. were left there by the Bratenahl he was rolling on his back and “Dick” We had done it all this summer service department after some holding his stomach. The cars Tony said, “Oh no, it’s your and now we were getting close to road work earlier in the week. would come up, see the detour dad”. starting school again. Boredom Tony and I thought it would and turn left onto Burton. Tony “Dick” Louder! was setting in but we were too be great fun if we detoured a and I laughed at every car. The Tony whispered; “Don’t an- young to admit it. few (emphasis on a few) cars plan was they would go to swer; he is going to kill us. He I never knew the real fun of down Burton Avenue from Lake horse, then I would prop the de- the end, turn around and come doesn’t know it’s us.” summer, when you are 12 years Shore Blvd. That sounded like it tour sign against the horses. We back out. They were all turning. “DICK”. He was shouting now. old, was not having anything to could be great fun. needed to work this out because This was great fun. No one was “Yes, Dad.” do. We spent a great amount of [A little background here: traffic was pretty heavy. coming out. “This yours and Tony’s doing?” time trying to figure out what in 1954, Lake Shore Blvd. was This should have been a clue We suddenly realized we had I neglected to say that Tony to do. a major artery to downtown as to what lay ahead - we were a problem. The street was filling and I had at times been accused I believe the statute of limita- Cleveland. Burton Avenue was only going to detour westbound up with cars. Soon almost all the of mischief before. Nothing tions has expired on what we (and is) a dead end street about traffic ,so we only needed to driveways were full and people harmful or destructive, but we thought of next. I do know I 20 houses long with 20 drive- block the westbound lane. Tim- couldn’t back out because there were thought of as spirited lads. am finally allowed out again. ways on each side.] ing was important, because no was a car in the street behind “Yes dad, we didn’t think it We never got grounded back And so the adventure began. one should see two twelve year them. Our laughing was getting would be this bad. We thought a little uncomfortable. we would detour a few cars and Then we heard that ominous it would be funny.” sound. A CTS bus was sitting My dad cleared the detour at the detour. We could see sign, went and talked to the the people on the bus craning police. They were busy backing their necks to see why they had the bus out. He sent Tony home stopped. We wanted to yell and he told me to go home and “Stop, don’t turn, it’s a joke.” But that I wasn’t allowed out. we just sat there looking at each “For how long,” I asked ? other thinking, “We are in deep “Three score years,” Dad said. doo-doo now, boy”. I went home and looked up how The bus turned and only got to long a score was. about the fourth house and was I am allowed out this summer. at a dead stop. The street was full, Good thing I lived to be 72.

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short-story writer, best known for 22 June 1798 - Execution of John freedom, an unsung hero, and a On This Day her novel, The Last September. Kelly, also known as “Kelly of victim of the British government. in Irish History 16 June 1904 -Today is the day when Killane”, one of the most popu- 29 June 1916 - Roger Casement is 3 June 1974 - Michael Gaughan, James Joyce first went walking with lar leaders of the Wexford rebels convicted of treason and sentenced to an IRA prisoner in Pankhurst Nora Barnacle; this became the date and hero of the famous ballad. death for his part in the Easter Rising. prison, Isle of Wight, dies after a on which everything takes place in 27 June 1846 - Birth of Charles 29 June 1842 - Birth of Maurice sixty-five day hunger strike. He Ulysses and is known as “Bloomsday”. Stewart Parnell, Nationalist leader, Davis, first President of the Gaelic was the first known Irish hunger- 21 June 1877 - Ten members of the the “uncrowned King of Ireland”. Athletic Association, known as “ striker to die in an English prison Molly Maguires are hung at Pottsville He is remembered as a fighter for the Father of Gaelic Football”. since Terence MacSwiney in 1920. and Mauch Chunk, Pa. The day is 7 June 1899 - Birth in Dublin of remembered as “Black Thursday”, Elizabeth Bowen, a novelist and the largest mass execution ever car- ried out on American soil. The Great American TREEHOUSE BAR Irish Festival 820 College Ave. July 25-26-27, 2014 • Frankfort, NY — Off exits 30 or 31 of the NYS Thruway — Cleveland, OH 44113 216.696.2505 Four stages Many activities & attractions: of continuous 5K Run, Irish Dancers, Sunday Morning Open 365 Days a Year entertainment Irish Mass, Bagpipe Band Competition and Now Serving Lunch Featuring: Massed March, Irish History and Cultural Satuday and Sunday • High Kings Seminars, Gaelic Football, Children and Teen Doors open at Noon • The Elders Entertaiment, Irish Merchandise, & more! • Sprag Session Live Entertainment • Barleyjuice on Sunday Evenings • Makem Brothers and Free Parking www.treehousecleveland.com Spain Brothers On-site Camping • Runa Active Duty Military Free Steak • Seafood • Prime Rib • Fighting Jamesons • Rathkeltair Children under 13 free Irish Specialties and Spirits • Kilmaine Saints • McLean Avenue Band Tickets and further information • SeamusThe KennedyBirmingham Six available online at: The Unicorn …and many more! www.gaif.us Restaurant & Pub Gaelic Imports Ahern Ca tering 5633 Pearl Rd. Parma, OH 44129 Open from 11:30 a.m. Tuesday - Friday Banquets, 440-845-0100 We ddings, fax 440-845-0102 & 4:00 p.m. Saturdays Clamba kes or 800-450-2725 Your Special E v ent 
 

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Celebrate Celtic-style with three days worth of FREE music, dance, Irish Ceili Dance: entertainment and culture. Plan now to get down to Dayton’s Saturday & Sunday premier outdoor event – the United Irish of Dayton Celtic Festival! 5K/10K Race: At RiverScape MetroPark in Downtown Dayton 111 E. Monument Street, Dayton, Ohio 45402 Saturday, 10:01 a.m. www.DaytonCelticFestival.com Celtic Breakfast: Sunday, 9:00 a.m. Gaelic Mass: Sunday, 10:00 a.m. 12 IAN Ohio “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com June 2014 Festival Focus! Plus: Enjoy Celtic arts and Fighting Jamiesons, Kilmaine gun at the former St. Patrick’s Highland Games, Kids Highland language, Celtic Marketplace, Saints, Hair of the Dog, Seamus Church, corner of Columbia Games, Sheep Herding, Dub cultural demonstrations, chil- Kennedy, Makem & Spain Broth- & Varick Streets in Utica. Crawl and IGS Energy/Dublin ers, Runa, Tallymore, Get Up Jack, Irish Festival 5K, Irish Dancing McLean Avenue, Sprag Session, 27th Annual Dublin and the Columbus Feis, Shop till Moxie Strings, Blarney Rebel Irish Fest You Drop, an Traditional Irish Band, Rattlin’ Bog, Pat Kane, August 1 - 3 Wake, Irish Sports demonstra- Donal O’Shaughnessy, Kevin tions, Whiskey Tasting, Dublin McKrell, The Stoutmen and more. Featuring more than 75 bands, Wine Cellar, Sunday Mass, Plus: Celtic vendors, 5K run, including: Red Hot Chili Pip- Contests, dancing, Celtic Canines, ers, Sharon Shannon, Solas, We , Brian Boru’s Ireland, and of Banjo 3, The StepCrew, Scythian, course, a great cup of Irish tea! Marketplace, Art in the park, Skerryvore, Ashley MacIsaac, “Like Ireland, Except Smaller.” Catholic Mass 9:30 a.m. Sun- dren’s activities, food, bever- Cara, Full Set, Black 47, Willis www.dublinirishfestival.org day, Art in the Park, The Snug, age, 5K Run/Walk on Saturday, Clan, Munnelly & Conneely, Boulevard beer tastings and Whiskey Tasting, Bike ride, Irish Rambling Irishmen, Tempest, 12th Annual Kansas Jameson Irish Whiskey tasting. Ceili Dance Saturday, a tradi- Old Bay Ceili Band, Mossy City Irish Fest Crown Center Square – tional Gaelic Mass and Celtic August 29 – 31 Downtown Kansas City: breakfast on Sunday and lots www.kcirishfest.com more FREE family-friendly fun! Featuring: The Elders, Gaelic RiverScape MetroPark, 111 E. Storm, Mundy, Carbon Leaf, Monument Avenue, Dayton The Killdares, Shana Morriaon, 24th Annual Ohio and surrounding streets in Eddie Delahunt, Ashley Davis, Pittsburgh Irish downtown Dayton. United Irish Qristina and Quinn Bachand, of Dayton, Inc. 937-372-9788 or food, Bagpipe Competition Socks in a Frying Pan, Fullset, Festival www.daytoncelticfestival.com and an Irish Mass. Campsites dance schools and many more. September 5 - 7 available. Herkimer County Plus: Cultural displays & Featuring: Scythian, Scream- 11th Annual Great Fairgrounds, just off Route 5s Moran, Homeland, Ladies of interactive workshops, Tourism ing Orphans, Makem & Spain American Irish Fest in Frankfort NY www.gaif.us Longford, Drowsy Lads, Brigid’s Ireland’s Culture Café, Comedy Brothers, Socks in the Frying Pan July 25 – 27 Proceeds from the annual Cross, Dance Groups, Pipe Stage, shopping, ethnic food, The Willis Clan, Moxie, Matt & festival help establish an Irish Bands, Local groups and More. genealogy, Whiskey Tasting, Beer Shannon Heaton, Tom Sweeney, Featuring: High Kings, The Cultural Center in the Mohawk Other Weekend Tasting, Children’s Village, Rock Evans & Doherty, Clear Blue Elders, Barleyjuice, Ratheltair, Valley. Construction has be- Highlights include: Amateur Climbing Walls, inflatables, Irish Sunday, Cahal Dunne, Dennis

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July 18, 19 & 20, 2014 Also Appearing... Dervish • Scythian • The StepCrew Also... Damien Dempsey • Bernadette Ruddy Entertainment Award-winning Theatrical (To Date) Malachi Cush • Marys Lane Performances, Dogs Native Black 47 • The New Barleycorn to Ireland, Food Court, Dermot Henry • James Kilbane Tir Na nOg Children’s Area, Brigid’s Cross • Guaranteed Irish Internationally-Recognized Lost State of Franklin • Dennis Doyle Cultural Exhibits Hall, The Kilroys • Fintan Stanley Ronan Tynan Eileen Ivers The High Kings Sessiúns, Workshops, & Immigrant Soul Presentations, and More! Donal O’Shaughnessy

Tesse Burke School of Dance Scythian Leneghan Academy of Irish Dance ClevelandIrish.org Brady Campbell School of Irish Dance 87th Pipe & Drum For Information - Call 440-331-4233 East Side Irish American Club Pipe & Drum Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds - Berea, Ohio West Side Irish American Club Pipe Band June13 2014 IAN Ohio“We’ve Always Been Green!” “We’ve Always Been Green!”www.ianohio.com www.ianohio.com June 2014 Festival Focus!

Extreme Zone, Hedge School, Curragh Racing, Blarney Bingo, Irish Brigade (Civil War re-enactors), and more. Cel- ebrate Gaelic Mass on Sunday. Visit www.pghirishfest.org for info. Fun for the entire family.

Doyle, Matthew Craig & The Cincinnati Kerry Tipper Band, Red Hand Celtic Fest Paddy, Hooley w Liz Shovlin, September 5-7 Corned Beef and Curry, Mike Gallagher, Burke Conroy School of Irish Dance, Pittsburgh Ceili SOFT SHOE Club, Pittsburgh Irish Reel- ers, Bell School of Irish Dance, Shovlin Academy of Irish Dance, Terry Griffith, Ballet Featuring: Whiskey of the Academy of Pittsburgh, Alan Damned, Enter the Haggis, Irvine, Pittsburgh Police Emer- Murphy’s Law, Roger Drawdy ald Society Pipes and Drums & the Firestarters and more. HARDCORE Band, Macdonald Pipe Band Plus: traditional Celtic of Pittsburgh, Patrick Regan, merchandise, art, food and Slua, The Wild Geese, Donnie music. Free admission. www. AUGUST 1–3 2014 • 3 DAYS Irish, and Whiskey Limerick. WashingtonPark.org PLUS: Workshops and 15th performances, ceili dancing, Annual Muskegon Irish dogs tent, special Irish Irish Music Mass Sunday at 10 am, Irish conversation, Irish musi- Festival cal instrument demos, Irish New Reads from irishbookclub.com

Learn Irish With Living Language September 13 - 15 Put Yer Rosary Join us for the best of Irish dance, music, Beads Away Ma! Featuring: Gaelic Storm, La art and culture at the largest three-day Bottine Souriante, Moxie, The Irish Festival on the planet. by Cahal Dunne Dave Curley Band, The Ollam, Pogey, Socks in the Frying Pan, DublinIrishFestival.org The Canal Bridge Seamus Kennedy, Blackthorn, by Tom Phelan Danny Burns and much more. Irish & Celtic music on four covered stages! Con- The Loughinisland tinuous live music, Plus: the Massacre Celtic Kitchen and Pub serve by Colm Smyth authentic Irish food and drink, an Irish Marketplace, Dublin Irish Festival is presented by: children’s activities, cultural Wild Bill Hickok center, and session tent. The and the Wrath of Michigan Feis, an Irish dance the Dead Rabbits competition, is held on Satur- day. Sunday features a 9am by James Mic Regan Catholic Mass, followed by a traditional Irish breakfast. The Gaelic Letters Located at Heritage Land- by R. Thomas Roe ing in downtown Muskegon. www.michiganirish.org. 14 IAN Ohio “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com June 2014 Things to Do and See in County Donegal 1 2 9 Spend some family time with

3 4 Answers on Page 15 birds, reptiles, monkeys, lemurs, and butterflies at ____ 5 World in Letterkenny. 10 Go horseback riding on the 6 7 8 9 beach at Dunfanaghy 10 ______. 12 Shoot a round at the Ballylif- 11 12 fin ___ Club, a links 13 course, near Inishowen. 15 Explore ____ Cave and St. 14 15 Patrick’s Holy Well, caves

16 17 18 where people used to say Mass during the Penal 19 Times. 16 For lovely, peaceful views 20 21 22 23 visit Poison ____ in the 24 Dunlewey area near Gwedore 17 Climb ______the highest peak in Donegal near 25 Gwedore. 21 Spend an afternoon at Glen- 26 27 28 colmcille ___Village, a

29 30 reproduction of a thatched cot- tage village explaining 31 32 the hardships of life in rural

33 Ireland during the 19th century. 34 35 36 22 Explore Grianan Aileach ___ Fort, a reproduction of a 37 fort on the original seat of the O’Neill sept of the High Kings of Ireland in Burt. 38 39 23 Tour the ancestral home of the

40 O’Donnell clan, _____ Castle, on the river in Donegal 41 Town. 25 Stroll around ______in Donegal Town and stop for www.CrosswordWeaver.com a lovely picnic on the way. 27 Visit the ____ O’Donnell Mu- ACROSS in Letterkenny. crana’s riverside to find DOWN seum in Donegal Town 2 Ride the Lough Foyle ____ 18 Stop in at the Newmills Corn the butterfly garden and the 1 Stop in at the Maritime & Heri- that displays the history of his from Greencastle, Co. and ___ Mill near fairy’s house in the tage ______Centre in career. Donegal to Magilligan, Co. Letterkenny for an informative woods. Killybegs, which tells the history 28 When the tide is out, get a Derry. tour about the linen 34 Stop for a picnic alongside the of the fishing industry photo of Bad Eddie’s Boat, 3 Visit the Fort Dunree _____ industry Assaranca ______and carpet making. aka the ______near Gwe- Museum in Buncrana to 19 Visit Lifford’s Old ______and across from Maghera Beach near 2 Visit the ruins of the Abbey of dore. learn the important role it played face arrest and Ardara. the ___ Masters on the 29 Drive to ______the most in World War I. fingerprinting at the hands of 36 Visit Ballyshannon’s ____ Quay in Donegal Town. northerly point of Ireland for 7 For lots of fun on a rainy day, the foul-tempered guard Mill, which is by the oldest 4 Attend a performance at An some fantastic views take the children to during an interactive tour bridge in Ireland. Grianan _____ in 30 Walk the beach and visit the Wain’s _____ in Buncrana. 20 Hang 10 at ______Bundoran 37 Take a family outing to Let- Letterkenny. caves at low tide at 8 Take a drive out to St. John’s for lessons, boards, terkenny’s ____ 7, with 5 Drop in at Glebe _____ and ______Beach and Caves near ___ in Dunkineely for surf parties, etc. bowling, karting, laser tag, Gallery, the former home Ardara. great lighthouse and bay pic- 24 Spend the day at Glenveagh 38 Spend some family time with of Derrick Hill, a renowned 33 If you are a train enthusiast, tures. _____ Park, Irelands birds, reptiles, monkeys, English portrait and be sure to visit the 11 Get your picture taken with 2nd largest, in Letterkenny. lemurs, and butterflies at ____ landscape painter, now an art County Donegal _____ Restora- the ____ Gallagher statue 26 Take some great pics at the World in Letterkenny. gallery in Letterkenny. tion Limited. in Ballyshannon or attend the _____ Lighthouse in 40 Take a walk along ______, a 6 Visit the stunning cliffs at ____ 35 Tour the Doagh ____ Village festival in his honor Moville on the Inishowen Pen- clean beautiful, blue ____ in Carrick. in Inishowen. 13 Drive or hike ______for a insula. flagged beach with sand dunes 7 Take the tour at The ______in 39 Drive, cycle, or hike Glengesh fabulous scenic trip with 31 Take a lovely walk up the glen in Narin-Portnoo. Dunfanaghy for a _____ to Ardara for lots breath-taking views in Clon- to the ______Waterfall 41 Stroll along Five Fingers ___ perspecitve of a young girl in- of scenic views. many. in Clonmany. or Silver ____ Beach carcerated there during 14 Visit ____ Castle in the park 32 Explore ____ Park along Bun- near Malin Head. the famine June15 2014 IAN Ohio“We’ve Always Been Green!” “We’ve Always Been Green!”www.ianohio.com www.ianohio.com June 201415

fair play to him. But there’re garding its treatment of Ireland cord as well as finally taking its some long-standing issues occurred during the later years leave of NI, little will change. connected to his acceptance of of the 1840s. Ireland, flounder- So, if England is truly into this invitation that troubles me. ing from the consequences of a fence mending, it’s time to roll I certainly appreciate the national disaster, saw England up the sleeves. Until then let’s need for both Britain and continuing to export tonnes have no more talk of inviting Ireland to bury the hatchet of foodstuffs from Ireland to some of the ‘royals’ to Dublin and reconcile past differences... feed its own population. Now for the 100th anniversary of Growing up, I remember the May also marks the death it’s the only way to press on labelled ‘genocide’ by most 1916. Why would they even old saw heard on radio, seen of some of Ireland’s greatest in our increasingly intercon- historians and economists, the want to come anyway? on television and splashed heroes, most of the leadership nected world. However, there British government has yet to Speaking of 1916 celebrations, across newspaper front pages, of the 1916 Rebellion. This year, needs to be a mutual sense of fully acknowledge its role in my dear friend Ron Daly, a “It’s May Day and they’re the 98th, has been a time of reciprocity if real reconcilia- that horrific, diabolical epoch. forty-year-plus veteran of Ire- marching in Red Square.” deeper reflection than usual for tion is to occur. Once again, it But enough of this regur- land’s Defence Forces received Sure, the USSR is no lon- me. I’ve been wading through seems to me, Ireland is asked gitation. If England wants to a special honour this past ger, but May 1st is fondly some of the newly published to make the majority of the mend old ways and heal old Easter Sunday. As the soldier remembered in other ways. biographies of those men. concessions as England tries wounds, then she must act assigned to Army Chaplain My mother, with scissors Published by Dublin’s O’Brien extending her hand of friend- like it on a grass-roots level Monsignor Eóin Thynne, the in hand, would head out Press under the subtitle 16 ship. I say bollocks to this. and stop her pandering. Teas, officer who delivered prayers into the back garden and Lives, seven are now in print. I If there is to be a celebration wreath-layings, state din- at the 98th Commemoration, cut an array of brightly co- particularly enjoyed the narra- of common understanding, let ners, addresses to parliaments, Ronnie was at his usual post. loured spring blooms. Back tives of Seán Heuston, Michael both sides give equally. No lon- etc. are fine times to dress up, With the O’Connell Street in the kitchen, my sister and I Mallin and Edward Daly. Each ger must Ireland be the lesser of shake hands and say polite observance ended, he was would fill several small straw volume is authored by a differ- the two, bowing to the suprem- things, but they fail to tackle invited inside the GPO. In a baskets with the flowers. ent writer and unfortunately acy of her island neighbour. the fundamentals lying at the unique ceremony, the surprised After inspecting each ar- aren’t readily available here I haven’t the time or space heart of long held animosities. veteran received his corporal’s rangement, mother would care- in the States, at least currently. needed to lay out the case for England has often welcomed stripes for outstanding service fully fashion a ribbon to each Amazon.com does carry a few Britain’s audaciousness regard- Ireland’s help in fighting to Ireland. The last man to handle. Then, my sister and I titles, but if you are as impa- ing Ireland. With few debatable Britannia’s battles but long receive such an honour inside would set out delivering the tient as I, Amazon.co.uk does exceptions, England, acting as resisted Ireland’s quest for the GPO was Volunteer Seán containers to our ‘unsuspect- list each one as they’re pub- the obstinate interloper, has independence. Until Britain MacLoughlin from a badly ing’ neighbours. I fondly recall lished, usually at a discounted been the usual instigator of honestly addresses such issues wounded James Connolly on stealing up to each door and retail price. The drawback, of frequent wrongdoings. On the as the particulars surround- Easter Thursday 27 April 1916. silently leaving our ‘treasures’ course, is paying the small other hand, sound arguments, ing the 1989 murder of Belfast God bless all, Cathal for the families to find later. additional shipping costs. supporting Ireland’s retalia- solicitor Pat Finucane; the role *Cathal is a freelance writer Additionally, there was All of this brings me to the tory behaviours against British of the Northern Irish police and the author of four histori- always a bonfire on May eve to sensitive subject of Michael D. occupation, can be made in force in numerous nefarious cal fiction novels. His newest help usher in Bealtaine, the first Higgins’s recent historic four- defence of their rebelliousness misadventures; the facts behind novel, A Fire On The Moun- day of summer. After a hard six day state visit to Britain. As Ire- in 1798, 1916 and during the the 1974 Dublin/Monaghan tain, is scheduled for release months of winter’s cold and land’s president, Michael D is 1968-1996 Troubles. Over the bombings; completing the work in 2104. www.cathalliam.com darkness, the pending season, charged with the responsibility centuries, though, so much of 1998 Good Friday Peace Ac- marked by warmth and longer of championing Irish interests has transpired, it’s difficult days, was eagerly anticipated. both at home and abroad...well, to affix precise blame, but to mention one episode that gained recent worldwide at- tention, consider the events surrounding Derry’s Bloody Sunday of 30 February, 1972. C L IO On that day, fourteen EV H ELAND • O civil rights demonstrators were gunned down, some shot in the back, by members of the JUNE LIVE MUSIC occupying British army. 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very young they were. If you for the skeleton to have been Intrusions consider that date, you should placed on public display. Recently online, I read a place the letter instantly. It was Ireland My wise, gentle aunt looked letter. It was written in Ireland written during the height of straight at me in that way she in1848, by one young man to the Great Hunger, or Famine. Past and had, and simply stated: “But another. The writer was then Both men were involved in you did worse in Kilmainham. aged 32; the recipient 24. The trying to obtain justice for Ire- Present You read their diaries and their sadness of that struck me; how land and her people. They suf- By Niamh O’Sullivan letters”. I don’t think I have yet fully recovered from her fered greatly for it: both were though I am intruding, reading take on my job in the Kil- exiled to Van Diemen’s Land something I perhaps should mainham Prison Archives! I by the British, both escaped, not. Suddenly, they are no instantly and heatedly de- and both were heavily drawn longer historic figures, just two fended my position. It was not into the American Civil War. friends trying to find a way the same thing at all. Again On 13 December 1862, they to endure in heart-breaking she merely asked: “How?” were both in Fredericksburg, times. But, they were notable It has taken me these last Virginia. On opposite sides. public figures, and as such seven years to consider agree- In this letter, the writer, John they will be and they should ing with her. If I had the choice Mitchel, is pleading with Thom- be thoroughly researched. in one hundred years’ time as F. Meagher, the recipient, to This episode reminds me of to have either my skeleton attend a meeting. He empha- when I first came to live in Cal- with its arthritic knees on sises how much he wishes Mea- lan, nearly seven years ago. My display, or my private let- gher to be present. What struck first week here, a public lecture ters and diaries revealed, I Traditional & me most when reading was the was held on the over 800 skel- think I know which I would passion reflected, the immedia- etal remains which had recently choose. Bones alone cannot Contemporary cy – I was drawn instantly into been located within the com- reveal too much, even if they IRISH MUSIC their 1848 world. But I also felt plex of the former Workhouse do represent your very person. I was, to a certain extent, prying. in Kilkenny City. I am vague But would private letters and VENDORS Mitchel was the most on details and on who precisely diaries expose your very soul? IRISH DANCERS revolutionary of the Young gave the lecture. I do know Still, we badly need every Irelanders, and highly aware for certain that those in charge last letter, autograph book, di- FOOD of how precarious his position were wholly and utterly profes- ary and other writings by those was. His intensity is reflected sional and wholly and utterly who shaped our country. They KID’S TENT in his style. He writes Meagher respectful. It is only the concept are essential, priceless sources DOOR PRIZES with a fierce honesty: “For in with which I had difficulties. of information, adding richly to AND CONCERT truth I don’t know how many When I arrived into the hall our understanding of the times men I can now count on as my where the lecture was held, I and people who came before Saturday 10:30am–9pm friend. Be here to ‘denounce’ instantly noticed a skeleton us. Although I now probably me if you like, to warn the laid out, very carefully, on agree with my aunt, I hope that FESTIVAL HELDJune ON GROUNDS 21 OF: people against me, - or to say the table at the front. 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banks are slow to repossess hold- humble origins who became the investors. ings in Ireland there are compel- wealthiest man in Ireland, Quinn How could such maniacal prac- View ling reasons for their hesitancy. is now routinely in the High tices take hold in a country where The New Land League might Court in Dublin to salvage what they would have been unthinkable From Ireland focus on publicising quite how he can of the empire he built up, ten, even five, years ago? It is as faulty and risky the banks’ repos- predominantly close to the border, though a national psychodrama By Maurice Fitzpatrick session mechanisms are. on both sides. is playing out to find a cure that But then there is the really But would-be repossessors of is already commonly known. We An organisation has formed in that pretends to subvert the gov- alarming stuff. Consider the case Quinn’s businesses are on the know that the banks need to write the past month in Ireland to com- ernment and banking hegemony. of an entrepreneur who took over ropes too. Things began badly for down loans to keep businesses bat the repossession of land and Restricting this discussion to rural a repossessed filling station and them when, on August 8th 2011, going. We know that appoint- property. The self-styled “New Ireland, there exists revolutionary shop in Blacklion, Co. Cavan, a the home of Paul O’Brien, the man ing receivers will not be widely Land League” takes its mandate tendencies in events that occur whisker’s distance from the bor- appointed chief executive to the accepted by local communities. from the extraordinary efforts of before, during and after many der with the Northern Irish State. Quinn Group by receiver KPMG, Proper leadership would not go Parnell and Davitt in the 1880s auctions in Ireland today—if that Ordinarily, such a business should was attacked. Intimidation has through the painful motions, but to achieve the return of Irish land potential could be translated into be profitable. Filling stations on the steadily continued. Today Quinn’s rather insist on an immediate to Irish people. As the organiser businesses and assets are attacked solution. The New Land League’s of The New Land League, Jerry about on average once a fortnight; frustration is very widely shared Beades stated, expressing his frus- the attacks, redolent of the IRA’s and their arguments for a solution tration with the banks: ‘Are they “economic targets”, are not faint- are solid. But they need a leader to going to evict them all? It’s impos- hearted and they have repelled drive them. sible. They have to come up with meaningful and realistic solutions’. Good to know that some people are realistic about facing up to the problem. So, finally, is there a body strong enough to coerce the banks into confronting the issue of private debt? Do not count on it. The New Land League is a nascent entity with big ideas and a small following. Also, it is founded on a somewhat specious non-party Gerry Beades, 2nd from left, with (l to r), Johnny Squires, Denis Mc- political premise. Its organisers Grath (Kells) Margaret Hanrahan (Cahir), Tom Reilly (Navan) and might study their history a little other supporters after a meeting which reformed The Land League. more, and take a steer from his- torical precedent on that matter. political action. How many times Southern side of the border bring A central reason for the success of does the buyer at an auction of a a steady stream of traffic from the Michael Davitt’s Land League is at- seized property covertly represent North, where petrol and diesel tributable to his good judgement in the former owner who is, techni- are more expensive. But after the allying himself with Charles Stuart cally, bankrupt but has in fact ousting of the owner and the new Parnell. That the ‘Uncrowned King squirreled off funds to buy back broom’s arrival, business declined. of Ireland’ picked up his crown the property through the dummy The new man’s tenure ended after from the potato patch was as true bidder? How often must a new his son, who was tending the cash as it was a rapid progression. With owner pay an auctioneer a pre- register alone one night, received societal and political concerns agreed amount of money under baseball bat wounds to the head so tightly organised, the British the table, say thirty percent of the from attackers wearing balaclavas. government began to concede asking the price, which is kicked Shortly afterwards, the thugs went ground (pun intended) to The back to the original owner as a for the property itself: during the Land League almost immediately. sop? How often does an auctioneer night on March 6th this year, a Aside from the lack of party consent to market properties in Hymac Caterpillar, which was political underpinning, the new a fire sale only if they were built being used for roadworks beside incarnation of The Land League by an out-of-town builder, and the station and left by the roadside needs, paradoxically, a more in- refuse to have anything do to with overnight, was hijacked and its tense face-off than the one that purveying the properties of a local bucket arm repeatedly rammed currently exists in Ireland. After builder? You get the picture. into the building almost trigger- all, repossessions have so far been Even those banks that dare to ing a fire that could have inciner- relatively rare in Ireland and The appoint repossession sheriffs to ated the town. The fuel station New Land League’s importance muscle in on hapless people in reverted to receivership, where it will be proportional to the degree arrears can be foiled by their own languishes. It is a damaged, vacant of provocation its members receive. chain of command. It has been lot—a metaphor for what banks Such repossessions as do take known in the past two years for a have made of much of the country. place are often sold at auction, but sheriff to be openly contemptuous The most systematic breach of what is never reported is that those of his hirer: to arrive at a site on a the peace in Ireland vis-à-vis prop- auctions constitute a very interest- mission of snatching assets and erty has surrounded Seán Quinn’s ing development for any group ‘not see’ anything worth taking. If estate. A border businessman of 18 IAN Ohio “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com June 2014

nationalist and political activist Maud became the very image of a free nation.” Gonne. She had rejected his proposals When the woman is heard singing, the of marriage and although she consid- young boy is asked if he had seen an ered him a friend, she resisted taking old woman going down the path, he the relationship any further. This unre- replies, “I did not, but I saw a young quited love ended up inspiring many of girl, and she had the walk of a queen.” Yeats’ poems. It was an easy decision After watching the play a fellow for Yeats – Maud Gonne would portray actress wrote about Maud, “Watching Cathleen. Maud requested that the her, one could readily understand the play be produced by the organization reputation she enjoyed as the most on April 2, 1902 at St. Theresa’s Total she founded – Inghinidhe na hEireann beautiful woman in Ireland, the inspira- She Had the Abstinence Hall in Dublin. The play (Daughters of Erin). Of course, Yeats tion for the whole revolutionary move- Walk of a Queen centers on the 1798 Rebellion and the agreed. Although she was living in ment. In her, the youth of the county landing of the French forces saw all that was magnificent in Cathleen Ni Houlihan (In Irish: at Killala in County Mayo. In Ireland. She was the very per- Caitlín Ní Uallacháin, or literally, the play the title character of sonification of the figure she “Cathleen, Daughter of Houlihan”) is a Cathleen first appears as an old was portraying on the stage.” mythical symbol and emblem of Irish woman. She appears at the cabin A critic wrote, “… but above nationalism found in literature, art and door of a family preparing to all Miss Gonne’s imperson- song, representing the personification celebrate their son’s wedding as ation had stirred the audience of Ireland as a woman. the French are landing at Killala. as I have never seen another Cathleen Ni Houlihan is sometimes The old woman describes her audience stirred.” Yeats was referred to in song and story as the four “beautiful green fields” that very pleased with the per- Sean Bhean Bhocht (pron. shan van have been unjustly taken from formance. He wrote to Lady vokt), the Poor Old Woman, and often her. These fields symbolize the Gregory that Maud Gonne depicted as an old woman who needs four provinces of Ireland (Lein- played the part “magnificently the help of young Irish men to fight and ster, Connacht, Munster and and with weird power.” die in order to free Ireland from English Ulster). The family, wrapped up By the third and final rule. She is also sometimes referred to in its own plans and concerns, performance, crowds had to as a young Lady Ireland. doesn’t recognize the woman. be turned away from the fully Irish artist Sir John Lavery painted With little subtlety, the old booked theater. The Inghinid- his wife Hazel Lavery as Cathleen lady requests a sacrifice, when he lacked the resources to rent leaning on an Irish harp. For most of she declares: “It is a hard service the hall for more than three the 20th Century this image was used they take that help me; many performances. In that short on all Republic of Ireland banknotes. that have been free to walk time, however, the play and The figure of Cathleen Ni Houlihan has the hills and the bogs and the Maud’s performance entered also been invoked in nationalist Irish rushes will be sent to walk hard the realm of Irish national- politics. streets in far countries; many ist mythology and became As a literary figure, Cathleen Ni a good plan will be broken; an inspiration to many. So Houlihan was most famously used many a child will be born and inspiring was her performance by Irish poet William Butler Yeats and there will be no father at the that after the failure of the Lady Augusta Gregory in their 1902 christening to name it; and for all that, France, at the time, Maud agreed to 1916 Rising, Yeats asked himself in a play, Cathleen Ní Houlihan. they will think they are well paid.” come back to Dublin to star in the play. poem, “Did that play of mine send Yeats himself best described where It is clear to the audience that the old Maud Gonne was a smart, articulate out certain men the English shot?” his idea for the play originated: “One woman is Ireland, mourning over the and statuesque beauty who was well Another significant result of this play night I had a dream almost as distinct loss of her land to “strangers,” mourn- known in nationalist and literary circles was that its success resulted in the estab- as a vision, of a cottage where there ing for those “lovers” who died for in Ireland. Besides being an activ- lishment of the Irish National Theater was well-being and firelight and talk of her sake, and trying to convince the ist for several nationalist causes, she Company. Yeats became its president a marriage and into the midst of that young man about to be married to had acted previously in many plays and Maud joined Lady Gregory, George cottage there came an old woman in leave his home to fight for her. She produced by the Inghinidhe. She was Russell, and Douglas Hyde on the board a long cloak. She was Ireland herself, says, “I have good friends that will best remembered for her portrayal of directors. The Irish National Theater that Cathleen ni Houlihan for whom so help me. They are gathering to help of Joan of Arc. The trick in this play Company greatly shaped Irish theater many songs have been sung and about me now. I am not afraid. If they are put would be convincing the audience changing the way people viewed and whom so many stories have been told down today, they will get the upper that she was an old woman who connected with the theater. It created and for whose sake so many have gone hand tomorrow.” As the young man would, at the end of the play, trans- nationalistic pride by producing plays to their death. I thought if I could write agrees to fight and leave the safety of form into a beautiful young woman. for the Irish written by the Irish. this out as a little play I could make his home, Cathleen appears as a young On opening night Maud convinced *J. Michael Finn is the Ohio State others see my dream as I had seen it …” woman, singing of those who fight everyone that she was indeed Cath- Historian for the Ancient Order of Although the concept of the play for her: “They shall be remembered leen, Daughter of Houlihan. As the Hibernians and Division Historian for came from Yeats, he needed to develop forever; They shall be alive forever; old woman, Maud wore a heavy cloak the Patrick Pearse Division in Colum- the characterizations and speech of They shall be speaking forever; The that covered most of her body. She bus, Ohio. He is also Chairman of the the County Mayo family depicted people shall hear them forever.” walked in a crouch and spoke as an Catholic Record Society for the Diocese in the play. This was contributed by A key part of the play for Yeats was old woman. When she removed her of Columbus, Ohio. He writes on Irish collaboration with Lady Augusta casting the person who would portray cloak at the end of the play and drew and Irish-American history; Ohio his- Gregory, who co-authored the play. Cathleen Ni Houlihan. For several herself up to full height to become tory and Ohio Catholic history. 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leapt into boats and onto before.” If you’ve never heard of this or her own preferences, and most of the plates. Needless to say, it’s delightful chocolaty treat, then you’re time, nutritional value is the last thing on taken me a long time to ap- in luck, because I am about to explain anyone’s mind. Taste reigns, even if it’s preciate seafood in all of its it to you. artificial. forms, some of which may The Cadbury Flake reminds me some- But hey, a one-off indulgence every once never leave my plate and will what of a Kit-Kat bar because both are in a while never hurt anyone. Not even me. eventually be abandoned in quite flaky. The best thing about the the compost bin. Clean plate club be Cadbury Flake bar is that it comes in a A Recipe for Guilty Pleasures When I think of my time living in damned. dark chocolate flavor! Maybe I’m the 1 bag original-flavored Taytos Ireland, I often think of guilty pleasures. The Tayto prawn cocktail couldn’t only one who gets excited about dark 1 fish and chip with a pasty side Taytos immediately come to mind, fol- change my mind, but the battered cod chocolate because it often seems that the 1 Cadbury Flake, dark chocolate or milk lowed by a dinner from the “chippy,” from the chippy did. My first experience milk chocolate Flakes reign among my complete with a potato pasty. eating a real plate of Irish fish and chips Irish lady friends. Take your time to enjoy all the flavors. It’s easy to dismiss the nostalgic pull of was unremarkable, but it opened the door Ultimately, this is what I love about Pair with a Guinness and reruns of Father certain foods, particularly guilty pleasure to a new world of possibility: seafood I guilty pleasure food: everyone has his Ted or EastEnders. would be willing to eat! Let’s be honest about one thing: the bread batter certainly helps make eating fish easier for a seafood neophyte, like me, especially if the fish is unfortunately fishy — in other words, when it tastes like the bad smells at the fishmonger. The other thing that makes fish-eating easier is getting fish and chips with a pasty side. A pasty is mashed up fried potato that comes in the shape of a ham- burger. More potatoes! But, I digress. After I’ve finished a bag of original- flavored Taytos, then polished off my non-fishy fish and chips and pasty, I like to indulge in a Cadbury Flake. They say it’s: “Only the crumbliest, flakiest choco- late, tastes like chocolate never tasted

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particular inanimate item to brown leaves, the cup lie tossed Spirit Found the point that I was tearful on its side, but the whelk and its I cannot quite remember upon my separation from accompanying odor was gone. when my fascination with it. This “thing” was not a For me, found objects take on found objects first began. My stuffed bear or broken teacup, a mystical quality. I liken the brother once played upon my but rather a used and rather find to good fortune: the pink sentimental attachment to a empty Crayola box. Even quartz my son and nephew at the age of five, I found amid the tombstones on could romanticize Slievemore, the perfectly trian- just about anything, shelled conches that my friend’s my attempt to control fate, to gular shard of emerald glass lay- even my connection to mother once shared with me. handle a world that is beyond ing beneath the sand on Keem a twenty-four pack of A third-grade teacher, my my expertise - a world that Beach. The whelk was the good crayons. It is no won- friend Sue’s mother had the is more real than romantic. luck charm that would tend der that I still have a most fascinating collections Though I parted with my rock to my son’s fate as he danced sliver of my baby blan- in her bureau drawers. On and bubble gum collection years on London’s World stage in ket and my first lost stormy summer days when ago, I now collect seashells and April. The whelk was now tooth tucked away in the wind rattled the telephone bits of sea glass that wash up gone, an ominous omen indeed. a keepsake music box. lines, she always kept us along the shores that I visit. I Even without the whelk, my Over the years, I girls busy with exotic Ori- have jam jars filled with small son still made it to the final collected rocks, but- gami paper crafts, weaving pebbles from the Pacific Ocean round of dancing and placed tons, bubble gum, and looms, and board games. and tiny remnants of Lake quite well. All the good luck Bonne Bell LipSmack- During one particularly Erie fresh water mussels. My charms in the world cannot ers. Prior to the advent dreary day, she even unearthed most valued shell, however, replace practice and poise. of video games and a Ouija board from her attic. is one that vanished during After my son completed his cable television, chil- Though Sue and I never man- a late autumn windstorm. final set round, he came off dren needed to occupy aged to conjure any spirits, we In October, my youngest son the stage and whispered to themselves in some did catch a whisper of the soft and I traveled for Irish dancing me that he prayed before and constructive manner. I breath of the ocean in her moth- to Bognor Regis, a quaint sea- after his dance. He offered his longed to collect sea- er’s prized seashell. Whether side village in Sussex, England. best effort to a little boy from shells, yet I had never or not that mysterious sound We enjoyed our walks along the our school, who lay home in seen the sea. Dead was an auditory trick, for two pebbled strands. During one bed without the ability to see smelt and zebra mus- little girls with vastly creative stroll, I found a lovely spiral- or hear. Tears fell from my sels washed up along minds, that shell was magic. shaped shell. Tufts of green eyes at the perspective and the city shores of Lake As I grew up, I realized that lichen still clung to its form. I maturity my son possessed. Michigan, but found the magical innocence of child- squirreled the shell into my Despite this child’s suffer- items such as these did hood did not last forever. After raincoat, only to later discover ing, this little boy remained not capture my imagi- contracting spinal meningitis the odor that emanated from strong and optimistic. He nation in the same at the age of eighteen, my best this seemingly benign object. inspired and continues to fashion as the dried friend Sue died. Her mom My pockets and hands were inspire so many. This little seahorses and giant asked me and our other close permeated with the smell of boy had faith in his heart. friends to select an item by rotting fish and barnyard. Michael Orbany passed away which to remember Sue’s spirit. In a trinket shop, I talked with on May 1, 2014 from brain One girl chose a pair of earrings, the owner, the wife of a fisher- cancer. No object, found or another a necklace. I chose her man. I told her of my problem- inherited can take the place favorite sweater, still perfumed atic find. “ That’s a fine whelk of such unwavering faith. with Bill Blass, her signature you have there. A bit of Detterol During young Michael’s adolescent fragrance. In an at- will get rid of the stench, and funeral mass, the pastor of tempt to preserve her scent, the a nice memento you’ll ‘ave!” our church encouraged the only tangible memento of her The whelk became my mis- faithful to remember God’s life, I tucked the sweater into sion. For the remainder of the Words, “Behold, I make all a plastic baggie. Over a few trip, it soaked in a teacup filled things new.” We must con- months, the scent faded and the with bath bubbles. The stench tinue to cherish our faith with sweater was just that, an item; remained. For travel, I wrapped the innocent freshness of a much like the sound of the sea it in three layers of plastic child. We must continue to was not really the life-affirming and stashed it in the furthest delight in found treasures. crashing of waves in a shell dis- recesses of my suitcase. Upon We must continue to seek placed far from its home. Sue’s my return home, I scrubbed hope when all seems lost. 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The Quagmire of Politics I went last night to review the produc- with the need for justice, or is perhaps tion of Henry V by the Chicago Shake- justice also a causality of war? speare theatre. The quest for power, the The appeal of the dead cannot be qui- proliferation of propaganda, and mis- eted by threats of endangering the peace representation of facts, reminded me of process. If one cites South Africa, then that saying ‘truth is the first casualty of you equally need to support such cases war’. While watching the young Henry with the need for confession, or admis- (only 25) disguise his lust for power in sion of guilt. Peace and reconciliation pious nationalism, I was finding myself cannot be sustained unless those who drawing parallels with what is presently have committed such atrocities have the happening in Ireland. guts to make public confession. Gerry Adams (Sinn Fein) is arrested The past needs to be addressed, and and subsequently released, when it is faced up to before we can move forward. alleged that he was involved with the Is it fair or just for the families of those killing of Mrs. McConville in 1972 . Mc- who have suffered loss to simply be bul- Conville, a mother of ten, was accused of lied and victimized again and again by being an informant. The accusation was those who promote the peace process? untrue, the killing unnecessary, and to If those who have unjustly killed want to make matters worse her body was among have peace, then it is fair to require them the ‘disappeared’, some of whose graves to own their actions publically so that we SEPTEMBER 5, 6,& 7, 2014 were never found. can move forward. My initial response to this news was The peace process should not be a baton one of confusion. I believe that the family used to silence those who want civil rights At The Riverplex deserves justice for their mother. They and justice for all. It is it unrealistic to were orphaned by this dreadful murder. expect the same justice from those who IRISH FOOD & BEVERAGE | CHILDREN’S AREA And, to add to their misfortune, they were fought to bring equality and fairness? IRISH MARKETPLACE | IRISH DOGS & TEEN ZONE unable to locate her body until years later. How can we expect those who advocate When one hears of their terrible loss, it is the peace process to act with impunity if hard not to emphasize with their quest we don’t see transparency? I am skepti- Live Irish Music Featuring for justice. cal that issues such as this, whether they But, and here’s where it becomes murky, become manifest in audiotapes, or some the arrest of Adams, and his release, reit- other form, will ever be forgotten unless erates the fragility of the ‘peace process’. they are dealt with fairly. In the pursuit of political stability, it is What can we expect when we try to believed by those in power that the past suppress the truth? Simply, a wallpaper- Scythian The Screaming Orphans needs to be forgotten in order to move ing over the deep, wounded cracks in the into a peaceful future. But is it so easy hearts of those who continue to mourn. to forget? The expectation for public confession The ghosts of the past refuse to be must be unilateral. It goes across the dismissed. McBeth kills Banquo but his board when it comes to owning up to The WIllis Clan murderous action has consequences and murderous actions, whether indirectly the apparition pricks his conscience. The or directly ‘executed’. The British armed ALSO Socks in the Frying Pan | Makem and Spain Bros. past cannot be negotiated with and it forces, the RUC, and Protestant paramili- Matt and Shannon Heaton | Tom Sweeney | Evans and Doherty | Moxie comes back to haunt us in all sorts of ways. taries should be held equally accountable. Ironically, while McConville’s killers’ In Henry V, the young king gets what walk free, her family continues to live he wants. He subdues France into sub- in fear. After the murder of his mother, mission but he engenders and fosters SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2014 Michael McConville was abducted when resentment, and hostility. It is impossible Present this coupon and receive $2.00 OFF the price of ONE $2.00 OFF regular adult admission purchased for Sunday, September 7, he was eleven years old and told to keep to suppress the truth forever. Unless the 2014 ONLY. May not be combined with any other discounts quiet. Forty-two years later, he still lives crimes of the past are addressed justly, the ONE ADULT ADMISSION or o›ers. NO CASH VALUE. in fear while walking the same streets peace process will remain a hiding place with those who took his mother’s life. For for the guilty. this family, and the families of the Omagh *Terry, originally from Derry, now re- PGHIRISHFEST.ORG 412-422-1113 sides in Chicago and teaches Irish and bombing, as well as other unsolved kill- 1000 SANDCASTLE DRIVE | WEST HOMESTEAD (PITTSBURGH), PA 15120 ings the past is not dead, nor forgotten. British Literature at Loyola University, The unfinished business of the dead lies Chicago. [email protected] There are over 1.4 million people of Irish descent in Ohio; 475,000 in Greater Cleveland; 175,00 in Cuyahoga County: Want to reach them? Advertise in the OhioIrish American News: [email protected].

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