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Totally FREE Checking a Skil 21Pc February 2012 Boston’s hometown VOL. 23 #2 journal of Irish culture. $1.50 Worldwide at All contents copyright © 2012 Boston Neighborhood News, Inc. bostonirish.com ‘God have mercy on us’ Sen. Kerry seeks halt Boston will be the host city in the United States this May for the fourth official International to US/British probe of Commemoration of the Famine. Local events will coincide with Ireland’s annual National Famine Commemoration, set to be held in Drogheda, Co. BC archive interviews Louth. Today the BIR begins a four-part series on By BIll Forry The British government ini- the Great Famine (“An Gorta Mór”) of 1845-1852. and MelISSa taBeek tiated a legal process to gain BoSton IrISh rePorter access to Boston College’s files By Peter F. StevenS The British government’s last spring. Acting through BIr StaFF controversial attempt to seize an existing treaty agreement In the late summer and early autumn of 1845, records from a Boston College between the US and the UK, the first signs of a cataclysm materialized in parts oral history collection related to British prosecutors secured of Ireland. While many histories of the Great the conflict in Northern Ireland a federal subpoena to compel Famine commence with the year 1846, historian scored another court victory on university officials to turn over Thomas Gallagher writes in his masterful work Tues., Jan. 24, when federal specific tapes and transcripts Paddy’s Lament, “The year before [1845] had Judge William Young dismissed from interviews conducted for been a near disaster; a disease had attacked the a lawsuit that sought to block the Belfast Project. BC ini- growing [potato] plants without warning and the records’ release. tially fought the subpoena in destroyed almost half of them. The people had US Senator John Kerry US courts, but did supply the suffered, but most had been saved by their long jumped into the fray that same documents after losing an ap- apprenticeship to scarcity and want, by salvaging week, urging Secretary of State peal in December. what they could and making that do.” Hillary Clinton to halt the fed- Then Judge Young dismissed A County Cork farmer noted that same sum- eral government’s cooperation the lawsuit brought by the two mer: “A mist rose up out of the sea….When the with the British probe. men— Anthony McIntyre and fog lifted, you could begin to see the potato stalks Kerry, who is the chairman of Ed Moloney— who had con- lying over as if the life was gone out of them. And the Senate’s Foreign Relations ducted the interviews on BC’s that was the beginning of the great trouble and Committee, warned that the un- behalf beginning in 2001. Young the famine that destroyed Ireland.” folding controversy threatened ruled that neither McIntyre or In the spring of 1846, everyone from the rich- to undermine the intent of the Moloney had any standing to est landowners to the lowly tenant farmers was Good Friday Accords. “It would seek to block the release of the breathing a collective sigh of relief at the sight of be a tragedy if this process were tapes, adding that the treaty healthy potato stalks blanketing some two mil- to upset the delicate balance provisions required Boston lion acres with the plant’s distinctive dark-green that has kept the peace and al- College to comply with the leaves and purple blossoms. The blight that had lowed for so much progress in subpoena. McIntrye’s wife, Carrie Twom- turned so much of the 1845 crop into a rancid, to inspect the stalks numerous times each day the last fourteen years,” Kerry reeking mess did not reappear in spring 1846. wrote in a letter dated Jan. 23. “I ey, was on hand for the Jan. 24 and Irish nerves grew edgier as July unfolded hearing — which coincidentally Even when the disease flared in the potato beds and some of the strangest, most extreme sum- would urge you to work with the of a few Cork farms in early June, it did not ap- British authorities to reconsider was held at Boston College Law mer weather people had ever seen engulfed the School. In an interview later pear to spread and caused scant damage. island. The mornings started out dry and mild the path they have chosen and Still, farmers and gentry alike nervously began (Continued on page 11) revoke their request.” (Continued on page 11) Taoiseach From the Famine era to the present-day is bound Second in a series on the attributed the rising rates of Charitable Irish Society of crime, disease, and poor-relief The Charitable Irish Society for Boston Boston. costs to the arrival of the Irish. of Boston (CIS), the oldest Irish It was in this context that organization in the Americas, the anti-immigrant, anti-Cath- will celebrate its 275th anniver- Ireland’s Taoiseach, Enda By CatherIne B. Shannon sary on March 17 with a gala Kenny will be spending a few The first two decades after the olic anti-Irish Know-Nothing movement in the form of the dinner at the Copley Fairmont days in Boston this month, famine were extremely difficult Hotel in Boston. times for the new immigrants American Party swept all the his first visit to the Hub since state electoral offices in l854. his election as prime minister in Boston and indeed for those already resident in the city. The No public officials were invited notable members during this last year. huge influx of 130,00 Irish immi- to or attended the society’s an- era, including the Boston Pilot The Irish leader will ad- grants in the years between l846 nual dinners in the l850s and a editor Patrick Donahoe, the dress at a forum at Harvard’s and 1853 provoked a resurgence few of its wealthier Protestant future first Catholic mayor of John F. Kennedy School of of nativist hostility against Bos- members left the organization. Boston, Hugh O’Brien, and the Government on Feb. 16, and ton’s Irish population. The society gained only 30 new philanthropist Andrew Carney, then make several appear- ENDA KENNY The famine immigrants were members in this decade, reach- whose generosity was crucial to the establishment of Carney ances across the city over the Whirlwind tour Feb. 16,17 poorer, less skilled, and often ing 130 by 1860. Most famine in poor health compared to immigrants were struggling Hospital, Boston College, and course of the the next day. On simply to survive the effects the construction of the Church Kenny’s schedule for the 17th, and an early evening reception earlier immigrants, and their hosted by the Irish Consul- presence caused resentment not of miserable housing, disease, of the Immaculate Conception is an 8 o’clock breakfast at the on Harrison Avenue. Donahoe, a ate, Enterprise Ireland, and only among the Boston’s native unemployment and poverty, Boston Harbor Hotel on Feb. and few joined the organization. fierce critic of the Know-Nothing Irish Network/Boston at the working class, but also among 17 that will be hosted by the the city’s governing elite, who Nonetheless, there were some (Continued on page 22) Irish American Partnership, Seaport Hotel. There’s a lot more to Sign up now and choose either a Multi-Purpose Folding Stool by MOKE or Totally FREE Checking a Skil 21pc. Ratcheting Screwdriver Set. than just the FREE Gift at account opening. FREE ATM/VISA® Check Card Free Online Banking and BillPay Convenient e-Statements or Combined Statements 24-hour Driveup ATMs Connecting all offices: 617.268.0379 You’ll find a whole lot of access and convenience www.MtWashingtonBank.com in all of our Checking Accounts. We reserve the right to substitute an item of similar value. 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