June 2014 ’s hometown VOL. 25 #6 journal of Irish culture. $1.50 Worldwide at All contents copyright © 2014 Boston Neighborhood News, Inc. bostonirish.com Enter Primark, into Downtown Crossing By Peter F. Stevens area’s New York developer, completes Ryan and Micaela Mitchel opened a BIR Staff renovations to the structure. The Boston store named Penneys on Mary Street in It somehow seems fitting that one store is slated to open its doors in late Dublin. Within a few years, four more of Ireland’s top retailers would choose 2015, serving as a springboard for Pri- Penneys had sprouted up in the Greater Boston for the chain’s first foray into the mark in other cities in the Northeast in Dublin area. The operation garnered United States marketplace. When the 2016. According to Breege O’Donoghue, attention in the industry because of its giant clothing chain, better known as Primark’s human resources and busi- affordable, fashion-forward merchandise Penneys to countless , ness-development director, “We’re hop- and marketing approach, and as the announced that it will move into the ing in the first year to open nine stores company expanded throughout Ireland historic downtown building that long in the northeast corridor.” and then into the UK, the stores were 2015. Primark is our company name housed Filene’s, the news reflected the If a company’s past is prologue, Pri- named Primark except in Ireland where and identifies our entire company, while evolving resurgence of the moribund mark is certainly poised to cause more Penneys stood its ground. Penneys is a trading name that is used “hole-in-the-ground” site. than a ripple in American retailing. In The corporate profile notes: “[Primark] in the Republic of Ireland only. You may Primark will take over four floors and Europe, the chain is part of the cloth- today operates in over 270 stores in nine have noticed that when we used the name 70,000 square feet of the Burnham Build- ing and apparel landscape. Primark’s countries in Europe and growing with Penneys in Ireland we always follow ing as soon as Millenium Partners, the saga began in June 1969, when Arthur the first US store opening in Boston in (Continued on page 19) PSNI wants all the tapes

By Shawn Pogatchnik Associated Press DUBLIN – Northern Ireland police announced last month that they will sue to obtain all of the audio-taped interviews of former militants who described their wartime careers to a Boston Col- lege oral history project, will play at this year’s Boston Irish Festival as part of its Last Hurrah performance tour. a move designed to re- open scores of ``cold case’’ murder investigations in the British territory. A June two-step for Boston Irish Festival The police last year successfully sued Bos- ton College to obtain 11 Celtic potpourri will Larry Kirwan ruminates interviews of Irish Re- publican Army veter- ans discussing the 1972 enliven ICCNE’s campus about the end of the run abduction, killing, and secret burial of Jean Mc- By Sean Smith For almost exactly a quarter-century, Black 47 has made raucous, often provocative, sometimes outrageous, Conville, a 38-year-old Special to the BIR Belfast widowed mother There’ll be a last hurrah from Black 47, plus return and always full-hearted music, a distinctive brand of Irish/ mixed with hip-hop, jazz, and reggae of 10. engagements for Irish-world music fusion act Eileen Those tapes were used Ivers & Immigrant Soul and and imbued with a zeal for social justice and history – and an equally robust spirit of pride, fu,n and mischief. as a primary basis for ar- indie folk-pop crossovers The resting Sinn Fein leader Music, dancing, Screaming Orphans when But in November, 25 years to the date of their first gig, e n t e r t a i n m e n t Larry Kirwan: “Be- the band will ring down the curtain. Among the stops on Gerry Adams, who had the Boston Irish Festival’s cause of the politics and been accused by some over two week- music weekend takes place their final tour will be the Boston Irish Festival, June social commentary, I’m 6-7 at the Irish Cultural Centre of New England [see IRA interviewees of be- ends (June 6-7, 14) June 6 and 7 at the Irish very aware that Black ing the Belfast IRA com- Cultural Centre of New separate story], where they’ve frequently appeared over 47 has been more than the years throughout the festival’s various incarnations. mander at the time who England in Canton. just a band to many, so ordered McConville’s The following Saturday, June 14, will see some of Recently, Black 47 co-founder, guitarist, lead vocalist, I really want to finish and songwriter Larry Kirwan shared his thoughts on slaying. Adams denied New England’s best Irish step dancers flock to the the whole thing up in a the band’s legacy, their final album, “Last Call,” and a the accusations and was ICCNE for the second annual Boston Irish Festival Feis dignified, complete and released without charge (BIFF), a daylong competition for all ages and levels. principled manner.” few more subjects, with Sean Smith of the Boston Irish Reporter. (Continued on page 19) (Continued on page 15) Sean Smith photo (Continued on page 11)

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By Bill Forry first base. Among those Richard. special needs and forming Editor who scored on Xavier’s “To make our first in- new friendships.” When the first half- single was eight-year-old vestment in athletics About 65 volunteers inning of Savin Hill Chal- Jane Richard, who lost and community, which have signed up to assist lenger baseball ended on her leg in last April’s directly supports our mis- as buddies and coaches. Sunday afternoon, May 18 marathon bombing that sion, was very important McDonough says 29 kids the pitcher, Billy Farrell, took the life of her brother to us. Watching them play are registered as play- lingered on the mound Martin. and seeing the smiles on ers— most of them be- for a good, long minute. Jane’s dad, Bill Richard, all those faces was emo- tween the ages of six A long-time civic leader beamed from the first- tional -- there were plenty and twelve. Next year, and volunteer coach from base line and took photos of cheers (and tears) but McDonough believes, the Dorchester’s Meeting of the action. The Martin overall a beautiful day for league will double its House Hill, Farrell had W. Richard Charitable an amazing group of kids.” numbers to four teams, just watched the bases Foundation— which Bill The Challenger division with two age brackets. The cleared on a base hit by an and his wife Denise set is up and running, thanks generosity of the Martin autistic boy from Dorches- up to honor the memory to Brendan McDonough, a W. Richard Foundation ter— Xavier Bell— who of Martin – is a major Savin Hill resident whose means that the kids have had never before stepped sponsor of the league. seven-year-old daughter shirts, equipment, and onto a ball field. The $10,000 donation is Sophia is also playing for refreshments throughout “This was— by far— the the first awarded by the the Astros. McDonough the year— and trophies greatest experience I have charity, which has raised has founded Project BIND, that await at the end of ever had as a player or a more than $1.25 million a program for non-typical the season in June. The coach playing baseball,” since it was launched children at the Boys and Shaw’s supermarket com- gushed Farrell, one of earlier this year. Girls Clubs of Dorchester, pany has chipped in with dozens of volunteers who The reasons for choosing and Project DEEP, the a $800 donation of water shadowed players for the Savin Hill Baseball— and successful tutoring and and Italian ices for the day. He was ready to pass the Challenger division— high school prep program kids during each game. pitching duties off to the as the “first act of giving” based in Neponset. Both “We have a good core next helper. “Someone by the foundation are programs are partners in nucleus of 30-40 volun- else has to come out and “obvious but powerful,” the new six-game baseball teers per game so that Jane Richard, 8, of Dorchester stepped to the plate enjoy it. I cannot be this Richard explained. “Mar- season. every kid has a buddy, for her first at-bat in Savin Hill Little League’s Chal- selfish.” tin loved sports, especially “This comes out of a be- with infield coordinators, lenger division. Richard lost her leg in the Boston Like all of the players, baseball, and he played at lief that every kid should bench coaches, two people Marathon bombing in 2013. Her brother, Martin, some of whom have lost Savin Hill Little League. be able to play baseball at home plate and some- was killed in the same blast. Photo by Bill Forry limbs or use wheelchairs Jane is now working very and every kid should one running with each due to conditions like hard to overcome her own experience being on a kid,” said McDonough. Henderson Inclusion Ele- Angels winning the World cerebral palsy, Xavier physical challenges and team,” said McDonough. One of the players who mentary School. Anthony Series. He’s never played had help from a “buddy” as a family we are all-in “Secondarily, this creates thanked McDonough after has cerebral palsy. “I don’t baseball before. On Sun- named John Joyce, who in helping her and others a venue for typical kids to the inaugural game was think he slept the night day, he was up out of his helped him swing the ball have the same experi- experience the benefits Anthony Curioso, a fifth before,” said McDonough. chair and running around into play and then run to ences as other kids,” said of helping a child with grader at the William “Now he’s hell-bent on the the bases.” O’Toole in line to take charge of Seattle police force BIR Staff Lovick, a member of the — and the world.” Kathleen O’Toole, one- search committee, wrote The city’s police force time Boston police com- in the Seattle Times that has been commanded by missioner police commis- “Everyone who lives, two interim police chiefs sioner (2004-2006) and works and visits Seattle since the former chief former inspector general should feel confident in resigned under a cloud in of Ireland’s police force, the selection of Kathleen April 2013. According to a the Garda Inspectorate, O’Toole as the next police May 19 report in the Los has been nominated to chief. The impression she Angeles Times, the city’s be the chief of police in left upon me and others police department “has Seattle. on the committee after been operating under a The announcement of her interview is still fresh federal consent decree O’Toole’s new posting was in my mind. I remember that required stiff reforms made in a Memorial Day former King County sher- to combat excessive force ceremony by Seattle’s new iff and fellow committee and biased policing.” mayor, Ed Murray. She member Sue Rahr and If confirmed by the was selected over two men I turning to each other Council, O’Toole will take who were also finalists and uttering a silent but the position with a salary for the job, the chiefs of exaggerated ‘wow’ when of $250,000. police in Elk Grove, CA, O’Toole finished speaking Cutline: and Mesa, AZ. with us and walked out of Former Boston police If confirmed by the the room. commissioner Kathleen Seattle City Council, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, center, looks at former Boston police commissioner “Her résumé is far more O’Toole, left, speaks after O’Toole will become the Kathleen O’Toole, right, as they stand with Interim Seattle Police Chief Harry than a list of accomplish- being introduced by Se- first woman to head that Bailey, left, after O’Toole was introduced as Murray’s nominee to be Seattle’s ments to brag about at attle Mayor Ed Murray, city’s 1,300-member po- new Chief of Police, Monday, May 19, 2014, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) dinner parties. It is a right, as his nominee to be lice force. She will meet study in successful law- Seattle’s new chief of po- soon with members of the committee, and the full vote on her confirmation published reports. enforcement-agency re- lice on Monday in Seattle. council’s Public Safety council is scheduled to on June 30, according to County Executive John forms around the country

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Ulti- Red Sox vs. the Braves Special to the BIR mately, under a US federal judge’s order, BC released Contrary to some of the criticism directed their way a number of interviews to the police in Northern By Ed Forry recently, Boston College and its Center for Irish Pro- Ireland wherein IRA veterans talked about the 1972 The Old Town Teams were at it again in late May grams deserve great praise for the courage and good abduction and murder of Jean McConville, a 38-year- in Atlanta and in Boston, renewing a baseball matchup will they have created with multifaceted programs in old Belfast mother of 10 whom the IRA suspected of with historic roots that were planted in our city early Ireland and Northern Ireland. Notre Dame, Harvard, being a police informer. in the last century. , and many other universities have Gerry Adams, Martin McGuiness, and other leaders It was the National league versus the American, the active Irish programs, but none with the breadth and of the Sinn Fein Nationalist political party were among Braves versus the Red Sox, influence of Boston College. the most influential in bringing peace to Northern two squads that for decades Professor Tom Hachey, execu- Ireland. They still are. However, even today Sinn beginning at the turn of the tive director of the center, says, Fein is the object of hate and derision by those who 19th century had been the “We have managed and conducted want Northern Ireland to remain part of the United source of strong feelings and 110 different programs on behalf of Kingdom. This includes many of the older officers in great rivalries among pas- Ireland North and South.” Hachey the British police force, which is now called the Police sionate followers throughout manages several Irish departments Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). New England. That’s right: at BC, including the Boston College Collectively, most of the Protestant/ Unionist com- Before there was the storied office building at 42 Saint Stephen’s munity, including the police, continue their bitter Red Sox/Yankee rivalry, there Green in the heart of Dublin. animosity towards the Catholic/Nationalist community was intense competition for One of the programs, an oral and fear that a United Ireland is around the corner. Boston baseball fans between history project, has become con- And they think they have found an opening in the our city’s two major league troversial involving lawsuits and a Joe Leary Boston College tapes situation. squads, the foreign government, but that does The PSNI has selected a tragic murder from 42 years and the Boston Braves. not invalidate or diminish the contribution all the ago during the middle of the worst of the violence when The clashes lasted until 1953, when a financially programs have made to both Ireland and to peace in Gerry Adams was 23 years old, and through the tapes strapped Braves owner Lou Perini moved his franchise Northern Ireland. That is a point critics never seem they are trying to connect Gerry Adams to the terrible out of our city and on to Milwaukee. For thousands of to mention. crime. This is selective enforcement at its worst. “We baseball fans in Boston, it was a sad time, the day when Oral histories are a staple of historical research. The will get him somehow.” Hundreds of other, more recent our favorite team gave up the ghost and left us behind. Columbia University Center for Oral History Archives, crimes still go unpunished. Last month, the two teams resumed the rivalry in one of the largest collections of recorded histories in Someone or some group of men and women within a home-and-home series, two in the vagabond Braves the world, is currently working on an oral history the British government gave approval to sue the United current home, and two here at Fenway Park. But the concerning the 9/11 tragedy. States under an obscure treaty for the sharing of data first glimpse of that Braves logo – the left-facing Indian The idea at Boston College was to document the thought related to terrorism that they could apply to a and the hatchet, the same symbols that “our” Braves personal testimony of the people of Northern Ireland 42-year-old murder. Boston College was then forced to were wearing before they abruptly left town – evoked from both sides who were involved in the “Troubles,” give 11 of the 26 tapes it had in its files and give them instant memories for old and wizened Braves fan. meaning that researchers 50 or 100 years hence could to the British police as ammunition they might use to Back then, you rooted for one team over the other: listen to the voices of on-site participants and have a harass and arrest Adams. They arrested Adams after you were a Braves fan or a Red Sox fan. The Comm better idea of exactly what occurred. It was a classic he volunteered to go to the police station for question- Ave trolley dropped you off at Kenmore Square for historian’s project. ing and held him for questioning for four days before Sox games; a mile or so up the street, Braves Field Boston College now has some 165,000 graduates releasing him with the words “the file will be sent to was just off the avenue on Babcock Street. It has been throughout the world. There are 14,400 students on the prosecutor’s office for evaluation.” redeveloped and is now Nickerson Field, home park campus today being taught and cared for by a commu- This had nothing to do with Boston College; it was for Boston University. nity of 133 Jesuit priests, and a faculty of more than a matter of old hatreds and “we will never give up” Sox followers in those long-ago days had their fa- 761 full-time professors. It is one of the most selective attitudes. Meanwhile the British government establish- vorites – Ted Williams, Dom DiMaggio, Junior Ste- and highly desirable universities in the United States. ment must have been delighted to see Prime Minister phens, Walt Dropo, and Billy Goodman. But in 1952, The problem’s roots are in Northern Ireland. Its Cameron’s Northern Ireland Secretary of State our Braves featured the future Hall of Famer Eddie genesis took place some five hundred years with the Theresa Villiers endorse the police action. Mathews at third, Johnny Logan at short, and Earl difficulties between the Catholic Church in Rome, Nationalist Belfast was shocked. Leaders of Sinn Torgeson at first base. The Sox had Sammy White Catholic Ireland, and an “I’ll marry anyone I want as Fein spoke at rallies and various meetings urging behind the plate, the Braves had Walker Cooper; and often as I want” British king. More immediately things caution and patience. Supporters in the United States on the Fenway mound were names like Ike Delock, Mel came to a head in the 1960s when Catholics, suffering received calls urging restraint. Some politicians, like Parnell. Mickey McDermott, and Ellis Kinder, while the hatred and bigotry of the British establishment in Congressman Richard Neal of , spoke Braves Field featured Vern Bickford, Lew Burdette, Northern Ireland, decided to protest their second class out but generally people remained quiet. Had Adams Dick Donovan and the great Warren Spahn. citizenship by demanding equal housing, the right to been charged him with a crime, everyone would have In my neighborhood we favored the Braves. There jobs, and basic human respect. been in a very different situation today. were all sorts of stories about how they were “the poor After decades of extraordinary violence during which From this distance it is hard to guess what the man’s team,” the come-from-behind “miracle” World some 3,000 died, a peace treaty called the Good Friday police are up to. They apparently didn’t find enough Series team of 1914 that almost won it again in 1948 Agreement was signed in 1998, but extremely bitter evidence in the first 11 tapes given to them by Federal against the Cleveland Indians. and poisonous attitudes remained in place for some. Judge William G. Young to charge anyone. He listened That year, the Braves boasted two ace pitchers – the It was in this atmosphere that the Boston College oral to all 26 tapes and ruled that these 11 were the only great lefty Spahn and Johnny Sain, who together won history project was born. It was a courageous move relevant ones to the specific murder. He also said from 39 games. “Spahn and Sain, then two days of rain,” the requiring the independence and objectivity of those the bench that he heard nothing of a serious nature. fans would say. It was also the year when it seemed involved who were not in the college’s ranks. According Something else may be going on. Is this just another there might be an all-Boston World Series, the Braves to some at BC, two of the outside participants were, fishing expedition? Do they have a back door witness versus the Sox. But the Sox lost a one-game playoff in the end, not at all objective. who claims there is more on the tapes or is this just to the Indians, who went on to beat the Braves in six. There were 26 individuals whose testimony was more harassment of Boston College? Unhappily, 1948 turned out to be the Braves’ water- tape-recorded, and many of them are, or were, enemies The matter of what will happen to the rest of the shed season; four mediocre years followed. After his of Sinn Fein, the cease-fire and the Good Friday Agree- tapes has yet to be adjudicated. Stand by for more team finished the 1952 season with 89 losses ment. Brendan Hughes and Dolores Price, recognized moves by all sides. and a .418 winning percentage while attracting just opponents of the peace process, were among them. Both As a side note, suggestions were widespread that the 281,278 paying fans to Braves Field, Perini pulled the are deceased but were bitter enemies of Sinn Fein’s Adams arrest was an attempt to damage Sinn Fein plug and decamped for Wisconsin, opening the season Gerry Adams when they were alive. The planned oral during the campaigning for the May 22-23 elections in on April 14, 1953, as the “Milwaukee Braves.” history, it seems, was tainted from the beginning. Northern Ireland and in the Republic. At this writing In every old Boston Braves fan, there remains a bit Boston College has not been as naive as some media there is no evidence of that. To the contrary Sinn Fein of fealty for our once-favorite team. Eddie Mathews have made it out to be. The university’s lawyers required appears to be doing very well with both electorates. (512 home runs) and Warren Spahn (363 wins, the the project’s author, the journalist Ed Moloney, and On May 24, the Belfast Telegraph reported that the best so far for a southpaw) went on to Hall of Fame the interview-tapes reporter, IRA veteran Anthony result of the current election giving Sinn Fein over careers, but, alas, we never got to see the great Hank McIntyre, to sign confidentiality agreements. All 24 percent of the overall vote makes the party the Aaron (755 home runs) play at Braves Field, as he participants were told the interviews would remain largest in Northern Ireland. Change is moving fast came up to the Braves from the minors on April 13, private until they died, but police investigators in in Northern Ireland. 1954, a year after the team left Boston. Northern Ireland subsequently persuaded the United This four-game series in late May, full of nostalgia, brought back happy memories of when we were young and baseball was truly special in Boston. Jackie, a priest, and her private side

Associated Press she had met in the U.S., helped renew her commitment Boston Irish Jacqueline Kennedy’s letters to an Irish priest written to her Catholic faith. over a 14-year correspondence have revealed new details “I terribly want to be a good Catholic now and I know about the closely guarded thoughts of the fiercely private it’s all because of you,” she wrote. REPORTER former first lady, including her questions of faith fol- But in a letter dated January 1964, a few months after The Boston Irish Reporter is published monthly by: lowing the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. her husband’s assassination, she appears to question that Boston Neighborhood News, Inc., The more than 30 letters, first reported in The Irish very faith and asks why God would take her husband. 150 Mt. Vernon St., Suite 120, Dorchester, MA 02125 Times, were written to the Rev. Joseph Leonard and dis- “I am so bitter against God,” she wrote. [email protected] www.bostonirish.com covered hidden at All Hallows College in Dublin this year. Additional excerpts: Mary C. Forry, President (1983-2004) They were sold to an expert in rare books, Owen Fe- — In her first letter to Leonard, after he had chaper- Edward W. Forry, Publisher lix O’Neill, and were scheduled to be sold at auction in oned her around Dublin, she said she was “miserable Thomas F. Mulvoy Jr., Managing Editor Ireland next month but after a public hue and cry the at leaving Ireland.” William P. Forry, Editor sale was called off. — Leonard also made the 1955 visit with Sen. Ken- Peter F. Stevens, Contributing Editor In 1950, then-Jacqueline Bouvier first met Leonard, a nedy memorable. “You will never know how much our News Room: (617) 436-1222 family friend, on a trip to Ireland. She met him in person visit meant to both of us — of all the places we’ve ever Ads : (617) 436-1222 just one more time, in 1955, after she had married the been together that was — always will be — the best. Fax: (617) 825-5516 [email protected] then-US Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts. She And why? All because of one person whom there is no On The Web at www.bostonirish.com described it as a “fairytale visit.” one else like on this earth — you.” Date of Next Issue: July, 2014 She and the priest corresponded regularly until — In a 1952 letter, she describes some of her early Deadline for Next Issue: Friday June 20 at 2 p.m. Leonard’s death in 1964. She sometimes disclosed her impressions about her future husband. “I think I’m in innermost thoughts, but on other occasions, especially love with — and I think it would interest you — John Published monthly in the first week of each month. The Boston Irish Reporter is not liable for errors appearing in advertisements beyond early on, was more lighthearted, discussing arts and Kennedy — he’s the son of the ambassador to England the cost of the space occupied by the error. The right is reserved by The Boston Irish literature and her personal life. In one early letter, she — the second son — the oldest was killed. He’s 35 and Reporter to edit, reject, or cut any copy without notice. said that Leonard, who was so different from the priests a congressman.” Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com June 2014 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 5 Point of View Recent controversies at Citizens Energy Corp and at BC just aren’t as clear as some contend

By Peter F. Stevens Energy Corp would prove a literal drop in the bottom- BIR Staff less barrel of “Big Oil.” Kennedy asks, they say no. For a few moments, I thought I was reading the The Globe editorial is long on condemnation of Wall Street Journal editorial page, not that of the Venezuela, and rightfully so. The piece’s paucity of Boston Sunday Globe. The headline of the May 26 condemnation toward American oil producers, however, piece seemed straightforward enough: “Venezuelan is puzzling. If Kennedy were to refuse Venezuelan oil crackdown presents challenge to Citizens Energy Corp., on moral grounds, would the Globe’s editorial board Joe Kennedy II.” The deteriorating human-rights situ- find it equally immoral that seniors and families, for ation and crackdown on opponents by President Nicolas whom the low-cost oil has been a lifeline from winter Maduro does, as the Globe points out, pose pronounced to spring, would be without heat? One wonders, given questions for Kennedy’s Citizens Energy Corp. because that the editorial zeroed in on Kennedy and Venezuela of its long-standing relationship with Venezuelan oil. – not on the fact that no one would even be mentioning Under brutal dictator Chavez, Venezuela pro- that country’s “charity oil” if American oil companies vided some 200 million gallons of oil for Kennedy to simply took care of their own. Unlike them, Kennedy distribute to Massachusetts residents – generally the is not in it to make a buck. elderly and the working poor – in desperate need of *** help for the fundamental need to stay warm in winter. Another dismaying story on the Boston Irish scene While acknowledging the good that “Joe for Oil” has been the evolving furor over Boston College’s has done, the Globe editors quickly shift gears to sug- controversial “Belfast Project.” The short-lived ar- gest that Kennedy pressure Venezuela to improve its rest of Gerry Adams for questioning in the murder of abysmal human rights record or else “sanction” that Jean McConville, a mother of 10 who was abducted in nation’s low-cost oil. It appears naïve to imagine West Belfast in 1972, cast an even harsher spotlight that Joe Kennedy’s disapproval could force Maduro on the program (according to the IRA, which took re- to rethink his policies. It is also naïve to suggest that sponsibility for her killing, they suspected she was an Kennedy simply look elsewhere for oil to help the local informant). As former Congressman Marty Meehan poor. In fact, he has tried. He told the Globe: “I have noted, “He’s [Adams’s] got a real connection to Mas- asked every single oil company, and not one of them Joe Kennedy: “I have asked every single oil com- sachusetts, which makes the fact that all of this came has given me a gallon to help the poor.” The editors pany, and not one of them has given me a gallon from the tapes at BC somewhat ironic.” chose to bury that salient point deep in the piece – the to help the poor.” The Monday-morning quarterbacking and demands sixth paragraph. for answers about the ill-conceived “oral history” project Kennedy did not help matters by equivocating: “Is are both predictable and necessary. Peter Weiler, a the Venezuelan government worse than the Saudi professor emeritus of history at BC, writes in a letter Arabian government? Is it worse than the Russian to the Globe, “To date, no one at the university has government? Don’t be telling me I’m in collusion with accepted responsibility for a project that has badly the Venezuelan government when they’re the only ones damaged the school’s reputation and harmed its prized who have showed some willingness to help the poor.” relationship to both Ireland and Northern Ireland. Is The Globe ignored that hard truth about Saudi and nobody going to be held accountable?” Russian oil to opine that “it is an embarrassing irony. Professor Weiler and his colleagues are correct that An impoverished and deteriorating country supplies accountability in the academic realm is necessary. So, charity oil to the United States.” Apparently, if too, however, is accountability beyond Chestnut Hill. Venezuela were a flourishing oil supplier with serial As flawed as the project turned out to be, it is a safe human-rights violations, its “charity” would be more bet that its architects’ intention was not to hand the palatable. British government and US federal courts and law Despite where one’s views about Joe Kennedy rest, enforcement a means to use the “oral histories” for the words that should most concern the Globe and any- questionable and cloudy “cases.” Why were US jurists one with a shred of compassion in and around Boston and agencies so accommodating to British demands that are these, to repeat: “I have asked every single oil Gerry Adams: ‘Real connection’ to Bay State. could impact and even do damage to the still-difficult company, and not one of them has given me a gallon political climate in Northern Ireland? History will be to help the poor.” “friendly” foreign companies as BP had show any pang the judge, and while that is small solace to Did Kennedy make a so-called “deal with the devil” of corporate conscience? Don’t be fooled by the slick the McConville family and so many other victims of with Chavez and now renew it with Maduro? Yes, (no pun intended) commercials of BP, Shell, or other The Troubles, the truth does have a way of surfacing but would we even be talking about Venezuelan oil petro players. As Kennedy contends, they have not – without the heavy-handed opportunism surrounding for the poor if even one of America’s oil titans or such stepped up to help. Fueling such programs as Citizens the “surrender” of the BC tapes. Life with the Jesuit fathers: a recollection

By Tom Mulvoy Associate Editor Serenity rules over the ample space where neatly placed rows upon rows of plain-looking gravestones, some 750 in all, mark the final resting places of dedicated men who in the long ago invited me into their learning circle and helped steer my young self through the shoals of adolescence and early adulthood as I made my way to who I was meant to be. No traces of eminence disturb the setting of the rows in the Jesuit cemetery that sits in a grove a short walk down a winding path from the Campion Center in the bucolic town of Weston in Massachusetts; whether noting the death of a university president or a brother who tended to campus gardens, the memorial stones are alike in size, and elegantly austere in their engraved presentations: Johannes W. Sullivan, reads one, the given name in Latin whisking me back almost 60 years to the Jesuit scholastic Mr. Cotter’s Latin class at Boston College High School. Below the name are listed three dates: Natus: April 13, 1917; Ingressus: August 14, 1934; Obiit: February 26, 2003. The day he was born, the day he entered the order of the Society of Jesus, and the day he died. The Rev. John Whitney Sullivan, SJ, a native, like These are the Jesuit cemeteries (the old one is seen in the background) at Campion Center in Weston. me, of Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, was, as the This is where I will most likely be buried. Eternal rest grant unto them O Lord . . . . saying goes, the best teacher I ever had. White chalk in Photo by Fr. Jack, SJ hand, he slowly unwrapped the mysteries of mathemat- he worked the room like a heavyweight boxer stalking My connection to Boston College extends back to my ics for the freshmen in BC High’s Room 1L in the fall his foe in the ring; Joannes W. Chapman, the legendary, days in infant clothes at the St. Mark’s Parish baptis- of 1956, his casual classroom manner and explanatory innocent “Chops” who guided us through the Iliad and mal font. The Rev. Joseph R. Walsh, a cousin of my brio a very far cry from the force-feeding of numbers the Odyssey; Franciscus Mahoney, homeroom teacher- father, was the rector of the Jesuit community on the that so many nuns employed in grammar school. I kept turned omnipresent alumni director; Jacobus Foley, the BC campus from the 1950s to the early 1960s, and he in touch with Father Sullivan after graduation until his last Jesuit to shake my hand on graduation day; Arturus was the family priest for Christenings and all manner death, when I wrote his obituary for The Boston Globe. MacGillivray, who taught freshman English at Boston of other commemorations. When the occasion called for In between there were regular lunches, which were College with a fearsomely taut classroom style. Some a Mass, my brothers and I were often called on to be easy to arrange because we worked across Morrissey 40 years later we reconnected when he took to send- altar boys in the small chapel in the Jesuit residence, Boulevard from each other, and a special occasion: He ing me finely honed critical comments of certainGlobe St. Mary’s Hall. gave me the Last Rites in August 1964 when a perforated writers when I was the paper’s managing editor; and This week, I will be welcomed back to Boston College ulcer almost did me in. Jacobus Casey, who gave of his extra time to work on as a member of the 50th Anniversary Class of 1964, As I walked between the rows and stopped to say a biblical exegesis with a small group of curious seniors a Golden Eagle at long last. I have been blessed for short prayer at two dozen or so stones bearing names at Boston College in 1964. the family that has sustained me all of my life and for that I recognized, I heard their voices again: Ambro- Today, the Jesuit presence at my old high school is the steadfast teachers and counselors who backed me sius Mahoney (“Mousie” to some), the hyper-efficient minimal, but the education continues in the spirit of St. from the get-go with their talents and their time and principal of BC High in my time there when 62 Jesuit Ignatius Loyola. Out at Boston College, some 130 Jesuits today rest side by side with their Jesuit brothers, their priests or scholastics dominated the faculty; Eduardus teach or minister to 14,400 students on campus along names etched on their simple gravestones in the spirit Sullivan (“Big Ed” to everyone), the dean of discipline; with a faculty of more than 761 full-time professors. of their lives. the heavy-set Guglielmus Phalen, who taught history as Page 6 June 2014 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com BRETT’S BOSTON By Harry Hastings Exclusive photos of Boston Irish people & events

he Irish Pastoral Centre hosted a Volunteer Recognition Evening Tat the Irish Social Club in West Roxbury on Saturday night, May 17. The event gave special recognition to volunteers Maureen Lenihan, Dan Harrington, Arlene Phinney and Mary Carney. Musi was provided by the Andy Healy Band, door prizes were awarded, and net proceeds benefited the IPC pro- grams. The BIR’s Harry Brett was on hand for these exclusive photos. 1. 1.) May Gallagher, Needham; Evelyn Flaherty, Arlington; Emer Mezzetti, Newton; Peggy Cor- mican, Dorchester; Angela Durkin, Quincy; 2.) Doc Walsh, Dorchester; Ken Daly, W. Roxbury; 3.) Janet Hagerty, Quincy; Eleanor McDonough, ; 4.) Ginny Hasson, Quincy; Peggy Delaney, Milton; 5.) Helen Charron, Dorchester; Helen Lilly, Dorchester; 6.) Richard And Nancy , Derry N.H.; 7.) Dan Needham, Norwood; Nancy Burns, Derry N.H.; 8.) Sr. Marguerite Kelly, I.P.C; Jim Culligan, Quincy; 9.) Tony and Denise Johnson Ilacqua, Milton; 10.) John and Trudy Harrington and son Dan; 11.) Mary Ward, So. Weymouth (singer with The Andy Healy Band); 12.) Walter Phinney, So. Dennis; Julie Marotta, Milton; Arlene Phinney, Milton.

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By Bill O’Donnell million, might, after negotiations and a possible cash Good Show! Riverdance At Twenty – The su- Hunger Strike Charges Shadow Adams – Rich- exchange, end up in the Kennedy Library & Museum. perlatives have all been uttered, the applause still ard O’Rawe, public information officer for the IRA Trump’s Bluster Riles Irish Reporters – Sev- vibrates across the globe and Riverdance, the won- inmates during the hunger strikes had an intriguing eral Irish journalists found themselves in some edgy drous accident, just turned 20. Most of us know the tale to tell of what actually occurred during the 1981 jousting with self-styled billionaire builder Donald story. As the Irish Times put it, “Six minutes and 40 protests. O’Rawe’s account of what went down during Trump during his victory lap after his purchase of seconds that would put Irish dancing on the world the negotiations between Margaret Thatcher’s Brit- the golf course and hotel in Doonbeg, Co. Clare, golf map.” A Eurovision TV filler that helped make Ireland ish government and the Irish republican leadership course and hotel. The Donald, with nary a humble famous all over again. It’s been a delight, a whirlwind, outside the prison walls makes for intriguing reading. bone in his overripe body, made some interesting if Michael Flatley and Jean Butler, the long run of And this story has haunted Gerry Adams up to the debatable points about his slick out- maneuvering of the expanded show at Dublin’s Point Depot Theatre present moment, according to a story by journalist Ed the Irish to grab the storm-damaged property for pen- and then the world. Moloney, who organized and led the BC tape-recorded nies on the euro. He went on to proclaim his bargain In April, Riverdance sold its 25 millionth ticket. It interviews effort. buy for millions less than it originally was selling for has toured and performed in 46 countries. From its Adams, a bitter critic of and boasted that his purchase in Clare “created a earliest incarnation, the trio that fashioned River- the Boston College oral his- great international image for Ireland.” Poor Ireland, dance, Moya Doherty, John McColgan, and Bill tory project, has charged that in other words. Whelan, knew they had a winner. In their hearts, on O’Rawe and others who re- While in Ireland, this international boor even spoke stage, and in the audience, those three creative spark- corded their IRA experiences encouragingly of his possible entry into the 2016 race plugs were believers who saw first what we would all were dissidents who disagreed for president, a bit of the BS he uses to con the Irish agree we saw later. with Adams’s embrace of the and boost his television career. When he was finishing The Riverdance statistics mount to help define a Good Friday peace plan. But telling the Irish what a great man he was and how he unique entertainment. There have been 11,000 per- O’Rawe, in his book, “Blan- was going to make Ireland great once again, Trump formances, a world box office take of $1.65 billion, ketmen” writes of betrayal, was asked about the property in Aberdeen, Scotland, 700,000 touring miles, 10 million DVDs and 3 million political compromises, and a that he bought eight years ago amidst a cascade of CDs. And the backstage numbers: 2,000 dancers who cold-blooded strategy devised high-flying promises. The reality, a fraught word produced 60 in-house marriages and 90 “Riverdance and administered by Adams in for Trump, is that there is little to mention about babies.” And the show is still playing somewhere today. his senior role within the IRA. the moribund nature of Trump’s paradise. He said God Bless the Mark. Bill O’Donnell The O’Rawe tale indicts Mar- early and loudly back when he bought the property Former A-I Bank Chief in Hub Bankruptcy garet Thatcher for four of the hunger strike deaths, that he would “invest a billion dollars as well as cre- Court – David Drumm, who has been in the states but six others who died on strike, alleges O’Rawe, were ate some 6,000 jobs.” Going on nine years now, the (primarily Boston) defending himself against fraud and the responsibility of Adams, who overrule concessions master builder and job creator has made a relatively perjury charges while trying to get himself declared by the British that would have effectively ended the tiny investment (one-half of one percent) in what he insolvent, has hit a few bumps on the litigation trail. fast on favorable terms to the IRA. Adams’s motives pledged to invest in the Aberdeen property. And the The traveling ex-banker who owes millions to credi- for overruling the prisoners’ leaders, it is charged, Scots are still waiting for the job crush. Trump blamed tors large and small (including his former bank) told were strictly political. He wanted to assure Owen his failure there on Scotland’s government. Yes, just the Boston court that he “forgot” to list $1.2 million in Caron’s election to succeed Bobby Sands in the what Ireland really needs, another obnoxious chancer. cash he transferred to his wife just before he sought Fermanagh-South Tyrone constituency, and ensure Say good night, Donald ! bankruptcy here. And earlier he failed to declare he that the SDLP would give Caron a clear field in that Did You Know … that in 1965 Professor James was the target of lawsuits when applying for a mort- August’s by-election Also, the belief at the time was Pantridge and Dr. John Geddis, both at the Royal gage on an upscale Wellesley home. that an ongoing hunger strike would strengthen the Victoria Hospital in Belfast, used two car batteries But the bad faith maneuvering of Drumm, who IRA’s electoral position and broaden public support to create the world’s first portable defibrillator? The earned $18 million between 2004 and 2008, goes on for republicans. invention of almost half a century ago has saved and on, according to reports in the Irish papers. US It is Moloney’s and O’Rawe’s conviction that Caron’s thousands of lives of heart attack victims and is found Bankruptcy trustee Kathleen Dwyer argues that success and later IRA/Sinn Fein electoral triumphs in health centers, airlines, heart centers, municipal the allegations against Drumm should block him came at the terrible price of the six men who need- buildings, and public safety facilities across the globe. from being released debt-free when the court case is lessly died in 1981 following an ideal that had been Pension Proposals for ‘Troubles’ Victims – The finally concluded. politically compromised. In a ironic postscript to the question of pensions for victims of violence suffered Among its charges the government lists more than Gerry Adams saga, a recent major poll showed that during the 30 years of the Troubles is now a matter a dozen cash and property transfers totaling millions nearly half of Irish voters believe Sinn Fein leader of proponents looking for ideas and proposals prior to of euros made by Drumm to his wife in the two years Gerry Adams was involved in the murder of Jean going to the Stormont Assembly for potential legisla- just before he sought bankruptcy. This included over McConville forty years ago. tion. The initial idea is to see what options and other a million dollars in cash held in bank accounts. If our Irish Fear Obama To End US Firms’ Tax considerations should be contained in the pension bill. traveling banker was moving about shopping for a Breaks – The Man from Moneygall and his concerns New legislation would specifically exclude those hurt kind and gentle bankruptcy court, it seems he failed about US-based multinationals operating in low tax as a result of their own paramilitary activities. It was to find one in Boston. countries like Ireland and avoiding taxes owed to the agreed early on that this exclusion be mandated as Former Wisconsin Governor Patrick Lucey, 96, IRS at home is clearly worrying the Irish. President part of any new law. is dead – One of the nicest men ever to be a success Obama has personally avoided public discussion on Among the unanswered questions to be posed are: in American politics, Patrick Lucey ran out a long this touchy matter, but White House economic adviser At what age should an eligible person be allowed and memorable life of activism, integrity, principle Jason Furman spoke to the topic recently. Furman’s to draw a pension; how serious should the physical ,and accomplishment. I spent considerable chunks of words, together with European Union’s edgy comments injuries be; and most critically, how to manage a the 1980 campaign year with Lucey, a two-term gov- about Ireland’s low 12.5 percent corporate tax rate, broad mandate excluding persons who were partly or ernor of Wisconsin. We were thrown together when might be leading to some major changes in US tax code. fully responsible for a criminal act; those who were he signed on as the vice presidential running mate Furman contends that Ireland must attract foreign convicted of membership in proscribed organizations; for Illinois Congressman John Anderson, who was investments on the basis of a skilled, English-speaking and anyone convicted of a terrorism offense. Still to running for president as an independent. Pat had a work force and proximity to Europe rather than on low be agreed on is the pension amount and designated grand career, beginning as an elected member of the taxes. Clearly, the US president wants US companies funding for any pension scheme. state assembly, state Democratic Party Chairman, who are paying the low Irish corporate taxes to pay One Man’s Opinion – There has been a US Olympic lieutenant governor, governor, ambassador to Mexico, their US headquarters country additional large tax Committee delegation floating across America this year and VP candidate. When it was all over politically, payments. The concept, said Furman, is that “if you visiting cities like Dallas, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, he was happy to return to Wisconsin and his wife are investing in a country with a robust tax system, San Francisco – and Boston. The delegation’s goal is Jean. He was delightful company, whether on a small you would likely not face any US taxes, but if operating to eyeball these cities and others and help discern the plane over the Midwest under a lightning assault or in a country with a less robust tax system, you would level of interest in hosting the 2024 Olympic games. at a rally in Santa Monica, or even when showing the have to pay US taxes.” Yes, a decade from now and some hundreds of mil- Anderson-Lucey flag in Hawaii as part of Pat’s “50 state The heated debate on both sides of the Atlantic lions of spent dollars later, one United States city will campaign.” A warm and hugely likable personality, he continues, but when the US high corporate tax rate be crowned “Big Spender.” Let the Games begin. Get relished a good story, knew and was liked by all the of 35 percent is brought up, little attention is paid to the ceremonial shovels primed, with only about seven Democratic leaders everywhere, and was as comfort- the reality that most US multinationals hardly ever years remaining to build that second metropolis to able in his own skin as any accomplished politician I pay that rate, relying instead on generous loopholes entertain the torch-lit faithful. ever met. Rest in peace, Pat. and an array of business deductions that reduces The Games offer a mega-expensive experience for the RANDOM CLIPPINGS actual corporate taxes paid to well below the dreaded selected city. Wall-to-wall TV coverage and minute- Ireland has the world’s most expensive petrol. In the 35 percent level. by-minute, split-second results are the big payoffs Isle it costs $170 to fill the tank of a small Ford. … As Jackie, Priest Letters Sale Halted – As our dead- for building stadia nobody needs, the enrichment of the National Catholic Reporter says, GOP budget chief line approached it was announced that the sale of 33 prosperous contractors, new development projects Paul Ryan’s recent proposals to double down on the letters written to an Irish priest over a number of years that create temporary employment, and the burden same trickle-down economics reward the rich and slash by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis had been called of what to do with the leftover projects and buildings safety nets. … It’s the 40th anniversary of the worst off. Some news reports suggested that the Kennedy when it’s time to get back to regular business. single atrocity of the Troubles, the Dublin-Monaghan family laid claim to the letters’ copyright, and other And there’s the cost: Don’t be sanguine about the bombings that killed 33.The victims’ relatives are su- sources reported that Caroline Kennedy, freshly zillions that the city, state, advertisers, and assorted ing the police, defense ministry and the secretary of named ambassador to Japan, has asked to be kept sponsors will chip in once the nod is given. It took the state. … Has Rupert Murdoch lost something off his informed. The letters, coming as they did both before city of Montreal 30 years to pay off the costs of their fast ball with the WSJ? The Journal under Murdoch and after her marriage to John F. Kennedy and in 1972 Olympics, and Greece went in the hole over $9 has gone seven years without a reporting Pulitzer…. the days following the president’s assassination, are billion worth of public debt for its 2004 rendezvous Mark June 8 all day at the Irish Social Club in West highly unusual items to reach the open market. Given with destiny. And they’re still a financial basket case. Roxbury for a fundraiser for fallen firefighters Mike Mrs. Kennedy’s reputation for privacy, they represent Olympic games are the gaudy moth and candle of the Kennedy and Ed Walsh. Details at 617-620-6909. a treasured insight into the personal life of one of the sports fantasy realm. The Boston College Belfast Project oral histories will 20th century’s most intriguing historical figures. However, if you’re a city with aspirations, a city in make a busload of lawyers a lot richer. … The Derry The media reports on the letters and their planned search of a second master plan, a city that not enough city council has everything it needs to get its recycling sale mention that the priest who exchanged corre- people know about yet think they might want to visit, going except organic waste bins. … Ireland has paid spondence with Jackie had died without a will and I’d say go for it. Put some name recognition out there, up 42 percent of the cost of the banking crisis at a his order, the Vincentian Fathers, had asserted its some spunky get-up-and-go spirit and, yes, the money price of $12,000 per person. … Ireland’s psychiatric ownership of the letters. In most cases that this ob- in the middle of the high stakes table (don’t forget the patients are being sent abroad for treatment at a cost server knows of, letters between two people in most money), and hope that lightning strikes and they get of $4 million annually while mental health facilities circumstances become the property of the recipient, a Mitt Romney or a Vladimir Putin to run things. are closing!!! … The newest Irish ambassador to the rather than the sender. Or – and this means you, Mayor Marty Walsh, Vatican is career diplomat Emma Madigan, an ap- It is much too early in the ownership issue between John Fish and similar suspects – please work with pointment that hopefully will bring peace to the edgy the Irish Vincentians and the Kennedy family to know what Boston has. As a native who has looked at the relations between the Holy See and Ireland. … The what the outcome might be. Obviously, the Kennedy innards of cities in 45 states in my time, I know we neighborhood outside Galway had streets dangerously Library at Columbia Point would dearly love to add have a good thing here. Work to make it better, but pocked with potholes (sound familiar) so they put up the letters to its collection. There has been conjecture remember the curse of that Irish Olympic czar and a sign to the town councillors: No vote for you unless that has found its way into the media, including the rogue Lord Killanin: “If you build it, we will come.” you fix our road. Within a week the municipal trucks Irish Independent, that the letters, valued north of $3 Don’t take the dare. were out and filling those pot holes. Ain’t it grand. Page 8 June 2014 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Immigration Q & A Irish International Immigrant Center Know your rights An agency accredited by US Department of Justice 100 Franklin Street, Boston, MA 02110 Telephone (617) 542-7654 Fax (617) 542-7655 on employment Website:iiicenter.org Email: [email protected] Q. I recently became a naturalized US citizen. I’ve been looking for a new job, and it seems to me that some prospective employers have been hassling me unfairly about my immigration status. This may be Solas Award Celebration to honor because of my accent or the country I originally came from. Is there anything that I can do? inspirational leaders this October A. In the Civil Rights Division of the US Department of Justice there is an Office of Special Counsel (OSC) On Oct. 30, the Irish niversary of assisting services to thousands of her 24 years of leadership for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices. International Immigrant immigrants from Ireland immigrants and Irish at the IIIC. Her efforts to This office investigates situations like yours, as well Center will hold its an- and from 120 nations as exchange program par- promote solidarity, peace, as those involving other people authorized under fed- nual Solas Awards Cel- they integrate into Ameri- ticipants over the past and justice are global in eral law to work in the US, such as legal permanent ebration at the Boston can society, and working 25 years, and of the im- scale, benefitting people residents or employment visa holders. In appropriate Park Plaza Hotel. Named with partners to promote migrants who continue in Ireland, Haiti, Uganda, cases, OSC will sue employers who discriminate against from the Gaelic word reconciliation in Ireland. to bring so much to our and beyond. people based on their immigration status or national for “light,” IIIC’s Solas This year’s Solas Awards communities. Proceeds from the 2014 origin. OSC has published the following guidance on Awards recognize the Celebration will mark the Given the anniversary Solas Awards Celebration this topic: good work of inspirational culmination of our year milestone, it is appropri- will support our vibrant, leaders. This year, IIIC of anniversary activities. ate that IIIC is presenting welcoming center that Citizenship/immigration status – Generally, will present awards to IIIC expects hundreds Solas Awards to Sister provides legal, wellness, an employer may not treat you differently because Sister Lena Deevy, LSA, of our friends and sup- Lena, IIIC’s Executive and education services to you are, or are not, a US citizen. [Note: one excep- and others. porters to participate in Director Emerita who has thousands of low-income tion would be certain jobs with the government or a The year 2014 is a this celebration of the worked tirelessly to pro- immigrant families from government contractor requiring US citizenship for a special one for the IIIC, volunteers and staff mem- mote the welfare of immi- Ireland and across the security clearance.] marking our 25th an- bers who have provided grants, especially during world each year, and help to promote leadership de- National origin – An employer may not treat you velopment opportunities differently because of your place of birth, native lan- for men and women from guage, accent, or appearance. the island of Ireland. For more information, contact Document abuse – An employer may not, on the Mary at 617-695-1554. basis of your citizenship status or national origin, demand more or different documents than necessary for completing the I-9 Form, reject reasonably genuine- Lord Mayor of Belfast looking documents, or treat you differently when using Ó Muilleoir visits IIIC E-Verify. On Tues., May 12, Belfast’s Lord Mayor Retaliation – An employer may not retaliate against Máirtín Ó Muilleoir and anyone who files a complaint with OSC or cooperates Boston’s Mayor Martin with an OSC investigation, or who asserts his or her J. Walsh signed a sister rights under the anti-discrimination provision of the city agreement between Immigration and Nationality Act. Boston and Belfast. “To- gether, Boston and Bel- A person who believes he or she has been subjected fast will strive to foster to discrimination for any of these reasons can call educational exchanges, OSC at 1-800-255-7688 or visit the agency’s web site promote cultural under- at usdoj.gov/crt/osc. standing, and stimulate Of course, there are other avenues to relief from economic development various types of employment discrimination, including through our new sister filing a complaint with the federal Equal Employment city relationship,’’ Walsh Opportunity Commission or the relevant state agency. said in a statement. “It Choosing the right course in a particular case gener- truly speaks to our his- ally will require the advice of a lawyer specializing in toric connection, genuine employment discrimination issues, particularly as they ties, and deeply linked Máirtín Ó Muilleoir visited the IIIC and took this selfie and tweeted: “Selfie heritage.” relate to immigration status or national origin. IIIC can with wonderful staff of @iiicenter Irish International Center in Boston. Un- make a referral to such a lawyer in appropriate cases. conditional support 4 undocumented” Visit one of IIIC’s weekly legal clinics for a free, confidential consultation on any immigration law-related issue. Matters Of Substance Disclaimer: These articles are published to inform generally, not to advise in individual cases. Immigration law is always subject to change. The US Citizenship Celebrating grandparents and their and Immigration Services and US Department of State frequently amend regulations and alter processing and filing procedures. For legal advice seek the assistance work toward ‘recovery’ in families of IIIC immigration legal staff. By Danielle Owen Following are some of Find a way to let yourself IIIC Staff the messages we can share have fun. The IIIC often receives with children impacted by Don’t ride in a car when calls from grandparents a loved one’s addiction? the driver has been drink- wanting to know how to Sharing your feelings is ing if you can avoid it. It support grandchildren not being mean or disloyal is not safe. As adults, we who have been impact- to your family. When you should help protect chil- ed by their parents’ or talk to someone you trust, dren from having to ride caregivers substance-use you begin to feel better and with someone who has problems. No one wants less alone. been drinking or is under to believe that children When you live with the influence of drugs. are affected by this dis- alcoholic/drug addicted You have no control over ease, but research and parents, feeling afraid the drinking. You didn’t Making healthy Choice our work with families and alone is normal. It make the problem start, & clearly indicates they are. is confusing to hate the you can’t make it stop and Celebrating me! 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Where in the World Can You Find News about Ourselves & Our Town www.BostonIrish.Com Page 10 June 2014 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Boston irish Boston Irish Arts, Entertainment, Travel & More ReporterFrom Worcester to Broadway Tony Award winner McGrath bringing ‘The Odd Couple’ to Cape Playhouse

By R. J. Donovan Special to the BIR Michael McGrath (pronounced McGraw) is a lucky guy. And he knows it. The Worcester native first came to the attention of Boston audiences in Gerard Ales- sandrini’s musical spoof “Forbidden Broadway” back in the 80s. He costarred with Toni DuBuono, the lady who would eventually become his wife. Since that time, he has established a successful career on Broadway and beyond. Along the way he has picked up a Tony Award (along with Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle honors) for his role opposite Matthew Broderick and Kelly O’Hara in the Gershwin musical “Nice Work If You Can Get It.” His impressive Broadway credits also include “Mem- phis,” “Born Yesterday,” “Wonderful Town,” and creating the role of Patsy, King Arthur’s long suf- fering sidekick, in “Monty Python’s Spamalot.” This month he returns to The Cape Playhouse in Dennis to play Oscar Madison in Neil Simon’s classic comedy “The Odd Couple” from June 9 to June 21. Tony Award-winning Michael McGrath is Oscar Madison, the slob of all time, in Neil Simon’s ”The Odd Here’s a condensed look at our recent conversation: Couple,” playing June 9-21 at The Cape Playhouse. Photo: Ken Huth Photography BIR: In “The Odd Couple,” Oscar is the classic slob and Felix is the fastidious neat freak. Which one are MM: Any actor will tell you it’s a blessing, as much you at home? as some may complain. To have a long run, and know MM: I’m the Oscar-Felix combo. (Laughing) I can you have a place to go every night, and you’re in a hit be a little unkempt. There’s always a little pile on the . . . it’s definitely a blessing. Because it’s security. floor, which Toni yells at me about. But I love to cook, Fame is fleeting but the paycheck is what puts the and I’m a bit of a foodie, and that’s very Felix of me. bread on the table. And I’m way into sports, so that’s very Oscar of me . . BIR: It must have been almost overwhelming to . This show plays as good as it did in 1965. It’s amaz- work with Eric Idle, creating “Spamalot.” You had a ing how it has held up to the test of time. I think it’s truly impressive cast. a classic. MM: It was an amazing time in my life to work with BIR: Playing The Cape Playhouse is a homecoming such people as Mike Nichols and Tim Curry, Hank for you. Azaria, David Hyde Pierce. They were all amazing. MM: I love working there. My family has had a place And to be in that group – everybody treated everybody in West Yarmouth since the late 70’s, early 80’s. It’s as a peer. It was a wonderful, wonderful collabora- always a great retreat. tion . . . When the project was first presented to me, BIR: Talk a little about growing up in Worcester. I thought, ‘How the hell are they gonna do a musical Did the performing bug bite you early? version of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail?’ I just MM: Way back when, when I was in grade school, couldn’t see it. None the less, when I was told that grammar school, it was something that I always loved Mike Nichols was directing it, I jumped at the chance doing. I always liked making people laugh. You know, to be involved, of course. it’s sort of the old adage, being a show off. It sort of BIR: And you got to sing the most iconic song in morphs its way into an acting career, I guess. I was the show. always in the forefront of performing and singing and MM: We worked in New York for five weeks before doing whatever I could do in those days, when I was a we went to Chicago to do our out-of-town tryout. . . . I little kid, to get attention in some respect. was sitting in the hall outside the rehearsal studio early BIR: “Forbidden Broadway” has become a cult clas- one morning . . . there was a meeting going on inside . . sic, cleverly parodying musical theater for more than . Eric Idle came out and said to me, “McGrath, are you 30 years. Performing it at the Park Plaza Hotel from familiar with ‘Always Look On The Bright Side of Life.’ ‘85 to ‘88 had to be a demanding experience, but also “ I said, “Of course I am. Absolutely, I am.” He said, a great training ground. “Well you just got a new number.” And I said, “What? MM: “Forbidden Broadway” has always been one of What?” I thought he meant I should be looking on the the hardest shows I’ve ever done. Anybody that goes bright side of life because I got a new number. And he into it finds that out quickly. It’s very hard on the said, “’Always Look On The Bright Side of Life.’ It’s voice because you use so many different muscles and your new number in the show. We need something Michael McGrath (left) and Noah Racey (right) are techniques to get different impersonations . . . It’s like to open up the second act and now it’s yours.” I just Oscar Madison and Felix Unger in a classic scene doing an opera every night. It was 24 songs a night. looked at him. And then he said – and you may not from Neil Simon’s ” The Odd Couple,” playing June BIR: Since those days, you’ve had a lot of long runs be able to print this – “Don’t **** it up.” (Laughing) 9-21 at The Cape Playhouse. in New York. Is that a blessing or a necessary evil? (Continued on page 14) Photo: Ken Huth Photography The Burren looms a hot spot in June The Burren in Somerville will be quite the hub for roll is known not only for her technical ability but also masterful fashion. They were enthusiastically received Irish/ in June, highlighted by an appear- for her talent as a composer of tunes in the traditional at last year’s New Bedford Folk Festival – one of many ance by one of the Irish music revival’s most iconic vein. In 2009, she became the first American-born artist welcoming receptions they’ve received throughout the singers, and a concert featuring a groundbreaking to earn a Grammy nomination for playing Irish music world. Irish-American fiddler. on the strength of “Double Play,” which she recorded West Clare concertina player Padraig Rynne will One June 4, , a member of the legend- with longtime collaborator John Doyle. Among other be the opening act, accompanied by local guitarist ary bands Sweeney’s Men, and Patrick Street, honors, she was named Female Musician of the Decade Matt Heaton, who plays as part of a duo with his will come to the Davis Street pub to play a solo show. by Irish American News. At the Burren, Carroll will be wife Shannon, and as a member of The Deadstring Heralded for his role in helping popularize the man- joined by guitarist-pianist Jake Charron, an accom- Ensemble. Rynne has played with such distinguished dolin and bouzouki in Irish/Celtic music, and blending panist in various styles of traditional and . figures as Liz Carroll, Donal Lunny, Arty McGlynn and Irish, American and Eastern European influences, The Mari Black World Ensemble will Triona Ni Dhomnaill, and is part of an exciting new Irvine has been equally celebrated as an accomplished open for Carroll and Charron. Black is a fiddler/vio- Irish-American collaboration, Atlantic I/O. singer – not only of traditional material but also of his linist with distinguished academic credentials from The Irvine, Carroll and Vishten shows are part of own compositions. Yale and Columbia, and as much at home with jazz, the Burren’s Backroom series. Opening for Irvine will be the West Coast-based tango and classical as she is with Celtic, American and Also at the Burren this month, on June 8, will be a duo Marla Fibish and Bruce Victor, known as Canadian styles. return visit by rising young singer-songwriter Róisín Noctambule, with their acoustically eclectic settings of On June 25, the Prince Edward Island trio Vishten Ó, who comes from a storied musical family and has poetry by the likes of Service, Tennyson, Neruda and will perform at the Burren. Steeped in the French- branched out into her own, very personable brand of St. Vincent Millay. Acadian tradition, Vishten also incorporates elements music. The Burren was one of the stops on her first Two weeks after that will see a visit by Liz Carroll, of Celtic music and contemporary sounds as well, American tour last year. easily one of the most dynamic and innovative Irish mustering fiddle, guitar, piano, bodhran, jaw harp, For information on these and other events at the fiddlers of the past few decades. A Chicago native, Car- whistles, percussive dance and electric instruments in Burren, see burren.com. ­ – SEAN SMITH Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com June 2014 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 11 Larry Kirwan ruminates about the end of the run (Continued from page 1) different from anything ways of looking at things. Q. Any second thoughts I’d ever heard: Listen to So, it was very natural or regrets within the band “Paddy’s Got a Brand New for me to incorporate those since announcing that this Reel” and “Home of the outside elements in my will be the last hurrah? Brave” from the Black 47 own music and writing. LK. I don’t think so. Of “Independent” CD. To me that intersection course, I can only speak for I began to wonder about with those Latino and myself. But I reckon you Foster at that point, too; black cultures was an op- make a big decision and in what way was he influ- portunity not to be missed then you go for it. Second- enced by the music he was and I’m still harvesting guessing life is no life. hearing in the Five Points the possibilities – take a Q. Do people seem to be dance halls. So, all these listen to “Salsa O’Keefe” accepting of your decision? years later I’m working on or “Let The People In” on Are you getting “How a new production of “Hard “Last Call.” could you do this to me?” Times” and promoting a Q. Being part of Black type of responses? Black 47 CD – all because 47 has never impeded you LK. There’s a lot of re- I was into Charles from getting involved in gret from fans, but that’s back in 1986. Crazy world! other projects and activi- understandable. To some Q. Also on the new CD ties. What are some cur- people we were the sound is “The Ballad of Brendan rent or upcoming things track to their lives, and to Behan” – it’s almost hard on your plate? others it’s “I’ve just found to imagine that this is the LK. Well, I’m spending you and now you’re finish- first time Black 47’s done a a lot of time developing ing?” But we’ve always song about him. What has “Hard Times” – which had done things our way, so Behan, as a writer and as two successful NY produc- you can’t change with the an historical figure, meant tions – into a bigger proj- last big decision. Because to you? ect. It’s been optioned by of the politics and social LK. Apart from our some big-time producers commentary, I’m very early version of “Patriot and they’ve encouraged me to take the Stephen aware that Black 47 has Game” – again putting an Foster story and the Draft been more than just a odd hip-hop beat beneath Riots of 1863 and bring band to many, so I really the greatest protest song them into the world of want to finish the whole – I never wrote anything the American Civil War thing up in a dignified, about Brendan, probably in 1863. complete, and principled because Shane McGowan The arrest of Sinn manner. was so influenced by him Q. Fein leader Gerry Adams Q. In explaining the and if you’re an Irish song- last month prompted a band’s decision to re- writer you should keep great deal of speculation tire, you’ve talked about as far away from Shane and commentary about “finishing up at the top as possible – he’s such Larry Kirwan: “Because of the politics and social commentary, I’m very aware the political situation in of our game” and “going a powerful writer. Like that Black 47 has been more than just a band to many, so I really want to Northern Ireland – as out on our terms.” Were most people I was prob- finish the whole thing up in a dignified, complete and principled manner.” well as its unhappy his- there any subtle signs ably more influenced by Sean Smith photo tory – and how the peace and portents suggesting Brendan’s public persona process might be affected. that, perhaps, the energy than his writing. He was LK. This is it – finito! years. When we decided less-appreciated, less- Black 47 has certainly or focus wasn’t as strong the first Irish celebrity What’s the point in a re- to make “Last Call” the known aspects of Stephen chronicled The Troubles as it had been – and so and he was ours; not some union? We’re a band for songs just streamed out. I Foster’s life and work – over the years – is this a maybe it was time to seri- academic or Anglo-Irish our times and I don’t want think I wrote eight of them notably how impressed he song with no ending? ously consider ending the toff but a working class to look back. We have an in about three weeks. I’ve was by the ethnic diversity I hope not, but the band before things began guy who left school at LK. album of all-new challeng- always been prolific but in the music and dance of real problem is that people to seriously degrade? 13. I did admire “The ing songs; we don’t want it surprised me. I guess Five Points. This seems expect The Troubles to LK. Not in the least. Quare Fellow” and “The to be an oldies group play- that’s more and more the like a recurring theme in be wound up neatly and Had there been any of Hostage,” when I became ing out the fans’ favorite way I write: Find a vein, Black 47: taking a histori- packed away in a box. those “sign or portents” a playwright in the early requests. But we’re also spike in, and write until cal figure or event that has As ever, was on we’d have chucked it in 1980s. finishing up as brothers. I’m exhausted. become obscured by the the money: “Much ha- long ago. It takes a lot Q. Pretty much right Of course, we’ll sit in with Q. How did you decide mists of sentimentality tred, little room…” All of energy and commit- from the beginning, Black each other or play on each on “Hard Times,” by Ste- or other rose-colored emo- the tragedies won’t fade ment to actually keep a 47’s music has sought to other’s projects but, as phen Foster, as the ending tions, and putting them in away; they’re still there band going, so you need explore the ties between far as I know, there are track? a new light. in the hearts and minds of to be enjoying yourself Irish and other cultures, no plans for that so far – LK. I had written a LK. One of the good people. It will take acres and creatively moving especially black and La- and I definitely don’t have musical called “Hard things about finishing up of time for the problems of forward on an ongoing tino. Can you talk about any. On the other hand, Times,” about the life of Black 47 is that, for the centuries to resolve. The basis. I thought we were that connection? I’ve played with Thomas Stephen Foster and the first time, I’m not under Adams arrest is only the sounding perhaps better LK. I moved straight Hamlin (drummer) and times he lived in. I took pressure to come up with tip of the iceberg. There than we ever did, and to the East Village when Fred Parcells () a body of his songs and something new. I realized are personal, tribal, and that was the real impetus. I came to New York City since the early ’80s, so re-imagined them, mostly that part of the impetus cultural animosities at But also to wrap it up on and lived among the if I wanted a kick-ass by shaking off all the dust for forming Black 47 and play here, and the ubiqui- a high note – we’ve made black and Latino people. drummer or a virtuoso and calcification that had writing about Stephen tous tit for tat of Northern 14 or 15 CDs, and played It was a whole new life bone player, I wouldn’t grown around them. Of- Foster/Five Points came Irish politics. perhaps 2,500 gigs. So and I could be whomever go looking on Craigslist. ten while doing so I’d be from Charles Dickens’s It amazes me that so why not put a cap on it so I wanted. Then I began Q. You’d already de- struck by the way Black account of his visit to the many hurts have been put people can see Black 47 as playing up in the Bronx cided to retire before you 47 could interpret those Five Points. He wrote aside for the greater good. a finite thing, not a combo around Bainbridge Av- started to record “Last songs. “Hard Times,” about the music and danc- The Adams situation is going through an endless enue and 204th Street Call.” Did that create a in particular, seemed ing and the bands he’d a bump on the road, but end but a creative entity – it was an Irish area certain amount of pres- fertile material – mostly heard composed of Afri- it’s not a crater. In the that’s going out as it came completely surrounded sure, to make the “perfect” because I rarely liked the can-American and Irish. end, people have children in – with a bang. by Puerto Ricans and ending artistic statement, mournful way it has been I was intrigued to know and want to see them get Q. Inevitably, when a Dominicans. The Irish up and so on? interpreted. To me that what they would have ahead in a reasonably just band announces it’s going there had no connection LK. No, that idea would song feels as if it needs an been playing. From that society. But the residue to retire, people immedi- with their neighbors. But be just a waste of time. element of defiance or else came the idea of Black 47 will remain. Look at poli- ately start speculating the cultures seemed very Albums are about songs – it’s likely to sink under a – what if you mixed Irish tics in the southern states about whether there’ll similar to me: Catholic, and unless you’re talking wave of self-pity. And who traditional music with the of the USA, still somewhat be a reunion. So, do you family-oriented, with a about “Iraq” or “New York better for defiance than African-American music influenced by the Civil foresee that happening, fondness for drinking Town” (about 9/11), you’re Black 47! It did feel like of 1989 – hip-hop? I was War and Reconstruction. and what circumstances and music. I suppose be- dealing with 12 or 13 songs a good way to finish Black a big drum programmer For information on would it take? Or, at least, ing a musician I wanted that you’re trying to string 47’s recording career. back then and found that Black 47, and to order might there be some col- to know how they made together in some meaning- Q. In the online song- reels placed across hip- their CDs, go to black47. laborations among a few their music. But I also ful way. I hadn’t written story notes, and in your hop beats worked wonder- enjoyed their culture and com. members, as opposed to for the band in a couple of blog, you talk about the fully – that the music was the band as a whole? they opened me up to new ‘Last Call’ – apt finale album for Black 47 Go out on top. Leave ’em signature combination of Jamaica, thanks to Crom- Died,” his tribute to Fran Dublin brasser/wrapped wanting more. Better a brass, , Irish well. Hip-hop populism O’Toole who was killed around a culchie prince blaze of glory than slowly and en- blazes forth from the in the infamous 1975 Mi- – (“culchie,” in Kirwan’s dying embers. Whatever liven the rock ’n roll foun- sardonic “US of A 2014” ami Showband bombing) description, being the word cliché you want as a de- dation and the multitude (“Asked all the questions or friends/acquaintances for “anyone unsophisti- scription, Black 47 ac- of subjects and interests but nobody knows/Who who left too soon (“La- cated enough to be born complishes it on their final lead vocalist/guiding spirit stole the scent from the ment for John Kuhlman”). outside Dublin”). album, “Last Call.” This is Larry Kirwan explores American rose”), while And the familiar acerbic The closing number hardly the work of a band in his songs. There’s cul- “Let the People In” is a Irish wit – with the barbs is “Hard Times Come – had more reasons than on its last legs, or cynically tural crossover in “Salsa clarion call to scrap anti- aimed at class and social Again No More,” Ste- one might think to make going through the motions. O’Keefe” (a paean to the immigration views. divisions – is there, too, phen Foster”s timeless this Black 47’s finale. It There’s no apparent dimi- pulchritudinous offspring Also on display is Kir- in “Shanty Irish Baby” appeal for the less fortu- is, to paraphrase a line nution of the passion, the of a Puerto Rican mother wan’s fondness for writing (“Tired of living with the nate, delivered here less from a famous speech verve, nor the cheekiness, and Co. Mayo father) and biographies, whether for love-me-nots/wanta go a parlor-song lament than several years after Foster bravado and pride that has the reggae-spiced “Johnny the legendary (“Ballad South Side where the a scrappy, street-corner published the song, alto- characterized Black 47’s Comes A-Courtin’” – which of Brendan Behan”), the love is hot”) and “Culchie anthem. But, typically, gether fitting and proper music over its 25 years. notes the tragic connec- obscurely famous (“The Prince” (‘Ain’t seen noth- Kirwan – as he explains that they did this. As always, Black 47’s tion between Ireland and Night the Showbands ing like it since/a gorgeous in the Q&A in this edition – SEAN SMITH Page 12 June 2014 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Scenes from the second annual Féile Cheoil Boston The second annual Féile Cheoil Boston (CCE) Reynolds-Hanafin-Cooley Boston categories, the event featured children’s took place May 17 at the First United School of Music with support from the entertainment and activities, outdoor Methodist Church of Melrose, organized Melrose Messina Arts Fund. In addition performances and an evening concert by by Boston’s Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann to competitions in instrument and vocal the trio Open the Door for Three.

Attendees at the Féile Cheoil enjoy a performance by Jimmy Noonan, Denis Galvin and John Coyne. Sean Smith photos

Kieran O’Hare, adjudicator for the tin whistle competition, listens to Liam Murphy, 12, of Burlington, Mass. John Gannon, left, and Rory Coyne team up on melodeon to lead a set of tunes. Irish Social Club of Boston, Inc. 119 Park Street, West Roxbury, MA 02132 617-327-7306 Incorporated by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, June 27, 1945 FRIDAY (and sometimes) SATURDAY NIGHT CHEER PUB NIGHTS Socials every Doors open at 5:30 pm – Free Admission – Live music 8-11 pm Sunday Evening SCHEDULE OF EVENTS at 8:00 pm All held on SUNDAYS at 8 pm except where otherwise noted JUNE 22 Sunday – Noel Henry 1 Sunday – Erin’s Melody 27 Friday – Pub Night with Curragh’s with Margaret Dalton Fancy 6 Friday – West Roxbury Roslindale 29 Sunday – Andy Healy rotary Club Awards Dinner and presentation of the Paul Harris JULY Award for Community Service to 6 Sunday – Wild Rovers Mary Mulvey Jacobson. Doors open at 6 pm. Buffet, raffles, and music. Admission $25 8 Sunday – Firefighters Fundraiser from Noon until 11:00 pm. 15 Sunday – John Connors and the Irish Express 21 Saturday – Parkway People Reunion Follow us on Twitter @irishsocialbos Follow us on Facebook: Irish Social Club of Boston Storyteller Joe Keane enthralls his youthful audience. Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com June 2014 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 13 CD Reviews compelling voice, as both songwriter and singer. suring presence holding sway. By Sean Smith Two-time All-Ireland /mandolin titlist Frankie Titles like “One Last Party” and “Whirl Spin Girl” Maybe, if you’re like me, you get a little apprehensive McCormick adds to the band’s traditional make-up, might – given the indulgences associated sometimes when the phrase “Celtic rock” is mentioned. Perhaps ably supported by guitarist Walter , drummer with Celtic rock – suggest nihilism and self-destruc- you’ve heard a few too many recordings or seen a few Ryan Cavan and bassist Patrick Dineen; McCormick, tiveness, but in fact these are sincere, well-observed too many performances of the genre that value force Ensor and Dineen also contribute vocals. lump-in-the-throat recollections of times past, and of personality, excessive volume, and a glorification of The acid test for most any Celtic rock band, of course, Fee and the band absolutely nail them: “That’s the boorish, if not downright anti-social, behavior at the is how well the “trad” elements blend with the rock/ problem with these daydreams,” she sings on “Whirl cost of, say, competent musicianship, variation in tone contemporary aspects, and the fit is most assuredly a Spin Girl,” “they take the sun away/when we’re in the and mood, and appreciation of subtlety. Well, two re- comfortable one on Celtic Cross. The fiddle, , moment/we’ll be there to stay.” “Best Days,” which cent releases definitely fall into the latter description. mandolin, and banjo are integrated into, rather than closes the album, is an infectious brew of blues, funk, Celtic Cross, “Saoirse’s Heart” • Based in the self-consciously grafted onto, the rock-pop foundation; and good-natured humor (“I love you on your best New York City area, Celtic Cross benefits from the solid there is ample space to appreciate the dexterity of the days/but not the ones in-between/you got the crazy core of siblings Kenny and John Vesey and Kathleen Veseys and McCormick while grooving on the licks look in your eyes/it’s finally Saturday night”), and Fee; Kenny produced by Ensor, Dineen and Cavan. And most of you practically can see the smiles on Ensor and Fee and John sport all, it is Fee’s voice – powerful enough for rock/pop as they sing. i m p r e s s i v e but with exquisite tints from her folk/trad roots – that The Young Dubliners, “Nine – 9 – Naoi” c r e d e n t i a l s give Celtic Cross its heft. • Perhaps no with multiple “Saoirse’s Heart,” the band’s fourth recording, longer quite so North Ameri- centers on both literal and metaphysical journeys young – the can champion- – the travels of immigrants and the progress from band originally ships on fiddle the travails of restless, impulsive youth to a wiser, formed in 1988 and accordion, if sadder, adulthood. The title track, which kicks off – and only two- respectively, the album, is a rap-and-rock commentary by Mc- fifths native while Kath- Cormick that speaks to the conflicting emotions that to Dublin, the leen (a Senior accompany the odyssey to the New World (“Why did “Dubs” have by North Ameri- you make me go?/I haven’t done nothing/Out in the and large left can traditional world alone/I never seen it coming/Standing in The behind their Irish singing Bronx as a new arrival/Why would I ever stay, can renditions of champion her- I see survival?”), with an ethereal refrain from Fee. Irish folk and self) gives the Songs such as “Water’s Edge” and “Hold on for the traditional ma- band its most Ride” are philosophical and didactic, with Fee’s reas- terial to focus largely on their own compositions. Though more boisterous and punk-leaning than Celtic Cross, the Young Dublin- ers constrain the noise and impetuousness enough to evince a maturity that strongly suggests there’s more to life – and Celtic rock – than knocking back the booze and knocking heads together. “We the Mighty,” for example, features that classic 2/4 rhythm without which Celtic rock could not exist, as co-founder/lead vocalist/guitarist Keith Roberts and crew suggest both a reverence for legacy and a new beginning: “Same old story, just a different generation/a traveling people, a familiar situation. . .Call ‘em up, tell ‘em we’re coming over/there’ll be no shamrocks/and there’ll be no four-leaf clover.” Drummer Dave Ingraham, guitarist Bob Boulding, and bassist Brendan Holmes propel “Say Anything” and “Seeds of Sorrow,” with their upbeat, all-in-this- together messages (“Fight the world on another day/ this is now and you’re OK/take a breath all of this goes away”), arena-ready choruses, and irresistible hooks. “The Rain” and “Deep” are more introspective and subdued, and redolent of acoustic-based pop, with Chas Waltz’s fiddle, Boulding’s mandolin and lap steel guitar, and Roberts’s acoustic guitar particularly prominent. “Only You & Me” is the album’s coda, Waltz’s piano leading the way and guest musician Eric Rigler on whistle, intertwined with backing vocals and a swell of instrumentation – a sort of 21st-century take on the 1980s-style power ballad. Black 47’s impending departure [see the Q&A with Larry Kirwan elsewhere in this issue] is a loss to the Celtic rock genre, what with the band’s propensity for infusing their sound with political, historical, literary, and multicultural interests. But as these two new CDs demonstrate, what remains in Celtic rock is hardly all noise and attitude.

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These people he would just engage me tion -- or what we call a are iconic in the business. in conversation about my workshop – in the fall, and on applications When you’re welcomed family or the ball game hopefully we’ll be on stage into their little club, it’s last night or something somewhere, I think on the for Jan. 9-10 event pretty fun. I first worked like that. It’s pretty in- East Coast, in the spring with him on “The Goodbye credible to get a glimpse of 2015. We’re shooting BCMFest (Boston’s Celtic Music Fest) is now ac- Girl” in 1993 with an- inside of those people. for a Broadway opening cepting applications for the 2015 festival, which will other iconic figure, Martin BIR: One of your next in fall of 2015. take place next January 9 and 10. Bands, duos or solo Short. And Bernadette big projects is brand new. BIR: At the end of the Tony Award-winning performers interested in appearing at BCMFest can Peters . . . I was Martin’s A musical based on “The day, it sounds like a pretty Worcester native Mi- fill out an online application at passim.org/bcmfest- standby in that show. . . I Honeymooners” with you good life. chael McGrath is Oscar performer-application; the deadline is July 15. wasn’t performing, I was playing Ralph Kramden. MM: At the end of the Madison in Neil Simon’s A program of Passim, BCMFest showcases Greater his cover. So I used to sit at MM: It’s something I’m day, it’s a damned good ”The Odd Couple.” play- Boston’s best musicians, singers, and dancers from the table in the rehearsal completely jazzed about life. ing June 9-21 at The Cape Irish, Scottish, Cape Breton, and other Celtic tradi- Playhouse. tions at its annual festival and other events during the course of the year. R. J. Donovan is edi- On June 7, the BCMFest Music Sail will take place tor and publisher of on- from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in Gloucester. A donation stageboston.com. of $50 reserves a spot on deck of the 65-foot schoo- *** ner Thomas E. Lannon as it sails around beautiful “The Odd Couple” June Gloucester harbor, while some of the Boston area’s 9 – June 21. The Cape finest Celtic musicians fill the air with tunes and songs, EIRE Playhouse, Route 6A, with part of the proceeds going to benefit BCMFest. Dennis, MA. Tickets: For reservations and information see schooner.org or CapePlayhouse.com or call 978-281-6634. pub 877-385-3911. Boston, Belfast announce 795 Adams St. • Dorchester ‘Sister City’ agreement Boston Mayor Martin J. “Together, Boston and Joe Leary, President of the “President’s Choice” Walsh and Belfast Lord Belfast will strive to fos- Irish American Partner- Mayor Máirtín Ó Muil- ter educational exchang- ship. “We are thrilled to see leoir signed a Sister Cities es, promote cultural under- Boston and Belfast unite as Serving Lunch & Dinner agreement last month, the standing, and stimulate sister cities to forge a new first Sister City agree- economic development future of positive partner- ment signed by the City through our new Sister ship between our peoples.” Every day, of Boston since 2001. 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From the Berkshires to Boston Reliability • Integrity • Trust Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com June 2014 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 15 Celtic potpourri will enliven ICCNE’s campus (Continued from page 1) Reporter.] The Feis, co-organized Highlighting the Satur- with the Walpole-based day schedule will be an af- Harney Academy of Irish ternoon concert by Eileen Dancing, will cap the first Ivers & Immigrant Soul. year of a new format for A Grammy-winning, nine- the Boston Irish Festival, time All-Ireland fiddle with events taking place champion who was part of across three weekends the original “Riverdance” instead of one (the festival production, Ivers has began on May 31 with a long been an enthusiastic day of sporting events and explorer of Irish/Celtic children’s activities). music in the context of Kicking off the music multiple genres and cul- weekend on Friday, June tures including those of 6, will be an evening con- South America and Af- cert with the Screaming rica. The Immigrant Soul Orphans and Black 47. ensemble represents an The four Diver sisters, outgrowth of Ivers’s child- natives of Bundoran in hood in the Bronx, where Co. Donegal, make up her exposure to other the Screaming Orphans, kinds of music proved to whose tagline is “where be as significant as her honey and gravel collide.” involvement in the Irish Over nearly two decades, traditional music scene. the band – which has 10 Saturday will see nu- recordings, eight of them merous music acts on full-length, to its credit – multiple stages during the has combined traditional course of the day. Other Irish material with its performers slated to ap- own melodic pop-flavored pear as of press time in- songs, touring extensively clude: Inchicore; the Alfie throughout the US and O’Shea Band; Yokeshire; Europe. They’ve worked the Step About Boston with the likes of Sinead dancers; Norman Payne; O’Connor, The Chieftains, Erin’s Melody; Cat & The Afro Celt Sound System, Moon; Tommy Byrne and and Peter Gabriel, and Denis Curtin; The Gob- appeared on soundtracks shites; Erin’s Guild; The for the films “Magdalene Auld Locals, and the Tom Laundries” and “All the Lanigan Band. Little Animals.” In addition to music, Following the Scream- there will be stepdancing ing Orphans, Black 47, shows from local perform- which last fall announced ers; vendors and exhibits; that it will retire this and food and drink. The Screaming Orphans will open for Black 47 at the Boston Irish Festival. November, makes its The June 14 Boston farewell appearance at Irish Festival Feis will selection of adjudicators the Boston Irish Festival. be exciting and enjoyable from outside the state, Since its founding in 1989, “for anyone who likes which is a good experience the New York City-based Irish dancing ”ºº whether for dancers to have, and group has been at the as a dancer or a specta- we’re bringing in musi- forefront of Irish/Celtic tor,” says Liam Harney, cians from different areas rock, mixing not only founder of the Harney as well. It’s just a way of traditional elements but Academy and co-chair of getting the dancers more influences from hip-hop, the feis. Hundreds of danc- stage experience, and ex- reggae and jazz; their rep- ers, ranging in age from posing them to more of the ertoire delves into social as young as four years Irish dance world. and political issues – in old to adult, are expected “We’re happy to support the US, Ireland and the to attend. the Irish Cultural Centre, world – as well as Irish What makes the event and Irish dance.” historical events and fig- appealing to dancers, he Check the festival web- ures like Michael Collins explains, is the opportu- site [bostonirishfestival. and Brendan Behan, but nity to meet counterparts info] for updates and other also is full of romance, from elsewhere in New information. Tickets can humor and cheekiness. England, see different be purchased online at [An interview with Black styles and approaches, brownpapertickets.com/ 47 co-founder Larry Kir- and make a friend or use- event/699984. wan appears elsewhere in ful contact. this month’s Boston Irish “There will be a wide Summer Solstice Festival (June 21) an event for all in Cumberland, RI, park The Boston Irish Festival also will feature a concert by Eileen Ivers & Im- Popular Greater Bos- $10 seniors, $5 children erfolk.org/brtssf or call migrant Soul. ton/Eastern Massachu- ages 6-16, children under Blackstone River Theatre setts Celtic performers 5 free. For directions and at 401-725-9272. Matt and Shannon Hea- other information, seeriv- ton, Aoife Clancy, and Robbie O’Connell are among those appearing at the fourth annual Barrett & Sullivan Blackstone River Theatre Burials in Summer Solstice on June 21 at Diamond Hill Park in Massachusetts Attorneys at Law Cumberland, RI. The fes- or Ireland tival focuses on Celtic and world music, dance and culture, and also includes children’s entertainment Telephone: 781-641-1850 and more than 30 craft and food vendors. Gormley Others scheduled to per- form include Pendragon, Funeral Home Cantrip, the duo of Torrin Personal Injury, Accidents, Ryan and Mark Oien, the 617-323-8600 Panache Quartet, Burn- ing Bridget Cleary and Real Estate, the trio of Laurel Martin, Mark Roberts, and Kieran Jordan. In addition, the 2055 Centre Street Business and Insurance Law event will feature Irish step dance performances West Roxbury, MA and participatory Irish Initial Consultation at No Charge set dancing. www.Gormleyfuneral.com Admission is $15 adults, Page 16 June 2014 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com

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By Judy Enright Island Airport Corpora- Special to the BIR tion in the USA, “has told Shouldn’t your vacation The Mayo News he firmly in Ireland be a complete believes that a direct link escape from everyday life? between Ireland West You’ve saved all year for Airport Knock and the this outing, so do some- Eastern United States thing totally different is a real possibility. ‘I and create some amazing wouldn’t be here if it was memories. not a realistic option,’ said A great place to start Fredericks. He added that is with a unique and such service is probably a extraordinary place to couple of years away but stay, dine, and meet other that he and the others who international travelers. visited were pleased with You could hardly do bet- what they saw at Knock ter than to select one of ‘and we are aggressively the 36 historic country and realistically pursuing estates included in an ac- these types of routes.’ ’’ commodation group called That’s great news for all Hidden Ireland (hiddeni- those who love the West reland.com). These are all of Ireland and would like private and historic family to get there faster from homes where the owners Boston. welcome and interact with Another story in The guests and sometimes Mayo News reported that even head for the kitchen Peacock’s, a well-known to don aprons and cook landmark and hotel in breakfast or dinner. Maam Cross, Connemara, I have stayed at a num- has been sold and the ber of Hidden Ireland gift shop and hotel will properties over the years reopen under new owner- and can recommend all of ship, perhaps as early as Temple House in Ballymote, Co. Sligo, has been in the same family since 1665 and welcomes visitors to next month. That’s great them without reservation. experience life in an elegant Irish estate. I’ve enjoyed The Quay news for that area and for House in Co. Galway, all those who travel the Bruckless House in Co. N59 road from Galway Donegal, Clonalis in Co. to Clifden. The hotel was Roscommon, and Ashley completely upgraded in Park House in Co. Tipper- 1999 but has been in ary. Each one is unique, receivership for the past reflects the style, heritage, four years. and flair of the family, and FESTIVALS is absolutely delightful. On June 28 and 29, TEMPLE HOUSE Westport House in Co. This year, a friend and Mayo will host the West- I each booked rooms at port Festival of Music Temple House (Bally- and Food featuring many mote, Co. Sligo), a mag- musical groups, including nificent mansion and The elegant entrance David Gray, Bryan Ad- working sheep farm on hall, adorned with Per- ams, Shane Filan, Sinead some 1,000 acres. Again, ceval family portraits, O’Connor, and Kool & the it was a wonderful Hid- at Temple House in Gang. See westportfesti- den Ireland experience, Ballymote, Co. Sligo. val.com for more details. Temple House is one of Doolin in Co. Clare enhanced by the warm 36 select and historic and sincere welcome ex- will be hopping June private homes in Hidden 13-15 when the Doolin tended by sociable and Ireland (hiddenireland. gracious owners Roderick Folk Festival comes to com), a group that wel- town, featuring the best and Helena Perceval. Rod- come guests for a unique erick represents the 12th and extraordinary B&B of contemporary Irish generation of Percevals experience. folk including Solas and at Temple House, which (Judy Enright photos) Damien Dempsey. See has been in his family doolinfolkfestival.com for since 1665. details. Temple House is so Bathrooms are updated The West Cork Cham- and the showers have are not just renting a night packages are also listed by Hidden Ireland much more than a B&B, room - they are coming offered. Temple House is are “passionate about ber Music Festival will be as are all the Hidden excellent water pressure. held from June 27 to July Roderick added that to stay at Temple House open from April 1 to Nov. what we do,” Roderick Ireland properties. The to experience history and 30 and dinner each night said. 5 at Bantry and includes house is large but comfort- the kitchen also has been concerts, master classes, thoroughly modernized heritage.” is 47 euro and optional. BITS AND PIECES able and, as a guest, you We don’t always trust Hidden Ireland was Several years ago, there workshops and talks. can enjoy first-hand the and central heating has See westcorkmusic.ie for been installed as part of TripAdvisor reviews but founded in the mid-1980s was a British low-cost air- family antiques, prints, when you scan through and homes in the program line called Flyglobespan more. and portraits you might ongoing upgrades. The Irish Open will be SOCIALIZING them and there is one are family-owned and that initiated direct flights otherwise only see in a glowing report after an- run and are chosen for from Ireland West Airport held at the Fota Island museum. At 7 p.m. one evening, Resort in Co. Cork June residents gathered around other, you do take notice. their architectural merit, Knock (IWAK) to Logan Exceptionally large A visitor from Leesburg, location, and settings Eve- and other East Coast 19-22. See irishopen.ie windows flood expansive a blazing fire in the sitting for details. room for drinks and social- VA, wrote, “For those … ning meals are provided airports. The service only rooms with light and looking for fast paced city (unless there are quality lasted a short time be- TRAVEL high ceilings enhance izing. A delicious dinner, It’s summer and Ireland made by Helena, followed, excitement, this isn’t it. restaurants handy) be- fore being scrapped. Re- that sense of spacious- This is a country manor cause they are, Roderick cently, however, officials is buzzing with activity. ness. The house over- and we dined around one There are all kinds of large table with a couple house and working farm. said, “an experience to be from Rhode Island visited looks manicured gardens, Restful and charming, enjoyed.” IWAK and Neill O’Neill, events happening across neatly-mowed lawns, the from London, two bicy- the country. For the most clists from Philadelphia, it was the perfect oasis For more information managing editor at The ivy-covered ruins of a midway through our trip.” about Hidden Ireland, Mayo News, reported that up-to-date listings, visit former Knights Templar a businesswoman from Tourism Ireland’s excel- Canada, and a retired Sarah from Brooklyn visit hiddenireland.com. Kelly Fredericks, the chief castle, and Templehouse said, “Who should book Owners of historic homes executive of the Rhode lent website – Ireland. Lake, where boating is boxing champ from Eng- com – and enjoy your trip. land – a mixed and most at Temple House? Anyone available. Location is key with an imagination, a to this wooded demesne interesting group. Roder- ick was the chef for the full sense of humor, a long- and, as Roderick says, ing for the past, a bit of “From Temple House, choice breakfast the next morning and, according adventure, anyone of any you can look out without age who craves beauty and Handmade since 1925 seeing any lights.” to one diner, he made the most perfect poached egg – whimsy.” Bedroom décor is classic And in April this year, and old world. Antique reportedly the benchmark by which one judges an Jack from Amsterdam beds are fitted with com- wrote: “Roderick is a fabu- fortable mattresses and accomplished chef! Guests are encouraged lous host. His passion for fine linens. Photographs the place shines through. and prints decorate the to book for at least two nights to savor the house It’s got to be a lot of work walls and mantels and flat to keep up something like surfaces display family and its surroundings and enjoy the many varied this, and I’m glad he’s knick-knacks and memo- done it.” rabilia. Modern touches activities in the area. “People like to wind down Visit templehouse.ie have been carefully added for more information. Six so as not to adversely af- here,” Roderick said, add- ing that at Temple House bedrooms can sleep four- fect the historic ambience teen in the main house and include hairdryers, “hospitality is the key word. This is so much and there is also a four- electric kettles for tea bedroom, self-catering making, and thermostats. more than a B&B but it’s not a hotel. Guests cottage available. Multi- Page 18 June 2014 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com The Irish Language by Philip Mac AnGhabhann Celtic

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Please fell free to contact us. For a quick start up please see our Irish Words Arms by email. section. Just after you can take your first steps into the grammar, but it’s just an overview, if you want to You are invited take it more seriously, you’ll have to study many years. The Irish literature is another interesting source of to visit information, as well as Irish slang, to know a little about how people speak in the streets. And if you’re www. a teacher, please visit our Irish Teaching resources page, to get in touch with associations and other sites bigwood.com/ built specially for you. Here are some basic Irish words heraldry Thank you: Go raibh maith agat You’re welcome: Tá fáilte romhat Hello: Dia dhuit What is your name?: Cad is ainm duit? ©-bigwood.com My name is Judith Flynn: Judith Flynn is ainm dom IRELAND IN CROSSWORDS How are you?: Conas tá tú? ACROSS 7. She ate holy mixture in Thurles establishment where Days of the week 1.‑ Lou, go above. (anag.) Wexford village famed in on 1st November 1884 the G.A.A. was founded. (5,5) Monday: Dé Luain Thursday: Déardaoin song, where Father Murphy led a revolt in 1798. (10) 8. Shorn raven in flutter over longest Irish water. (5,7) Tuesday: Dé Máirt Friday: Dé hAoine 5. Chin up! Come to Kerry resort with a 4 mile beach 10. Rod’s own plate gets broken in County Dublin Wednesday: Dé Chéadaoin Saturday: Dé Sathairn on the Dingle peninsula. (4) racecourse. (12) Sunday: Dé Domhnaigh 9. Act before the French to get the unemployment 11. Chop stew, nun. (anag.) Kildare steeplechasing Eating benefit. (4) course. (11) an t-arán: the bread bainne: milk 11. “Anarchism is a game at which the ——— can beat 16. Holy dabble up in West Cork resort near Schull an t-im: the butter tae: tea you.” Shaw. (6) under Mount Gabriel. (10) subh: jam caife: coffee 12. Dogged reversal for the 11 across in Antrim, Ar- 20. Label many in disguise in large Antrim linen town siúcra: sugar an ghloine: the glass magh, Derry, Down, Fermanagh and Tyrone. (1.1.1.) in the River Braid valley.(9) salann: salt crúsca: jug 13. Jolly time spent in Glengarriff, undisturbed. (3) 26. “It is impossible for an Englishman to open his piobar: pepper crúiscín: jug (small) 14. Fuss at a party function? (3) —— without making some other Englishman hate or citseap: ketchup cupán: cup 15. Cuts off always when there’s a ship around. (6) despise him.” Shaw (5) an fheoil: the meat fo-chupán: saucer 17. Throw the tar on the playing surface. (5) 28. Building feature evident in popular Charleville na pónairí: the beans sásar: saucer 18. Is it suitable for Pat to come around? (3) hotel. (4) na glasraí: the veg- buidéal: bottle 19. Vehicle returns under prefix. (3) 30. Sots are in the horrors and throw up! (4) etables babhla: bowl 21. Leg hair disposed of by Queen Bess’s favourite 32. Primate involved in Ballina Pentecostal service. (3) an ubh: the egg pláta: plate tobacconist, involved in massacre at Smerwick Bay. (7) na huibheacha: the eggs sáspan: saucepan 22. “Now there’s ane — of ane old song.” -James Ogilvy CROSSWORD SOLUTION ON PAGE 19 an t-anraith: the soup scian: knife on signing the Act of Union of 1706. (3) toradh: fruit forc: fork 23. “I must — down where all the ladders start in the an t-oráiste: the orange spúnóg: spoon foul rag and bone shop of the heart.” Yeats. (3) an t-úll: the apple an chiaróg dhubh: the 24. At the rear of the boat in finest Erne traditions. (5) tráta: tomato cockroach 25. Tom goes back in the miller’s river, that will take Irish Sayings milseáin: sweets bord: table him down a peg or two! (6) In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. císte: cake cathaoir: chair 27. “No, —, never no more, will I play the Wild Rover, Many an irish property was increased by the lace of a císte milis: sweet cake ...” Irish ballad. (3) daughter’s petticoat. an t-uisce: the water 28. Shoe mender’s tool found in Portlaw leather works. The best way to keep loyalty in a man’s heart is to (3) keep money in his purse. Rooms A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied For-halla: Entrance way 29. Put the Scottish headgear back on the floor. (3) 31. Run, and won in a brand new way. (6) in one swig. Seomra suí: Sitting room Show the fatted calf but not the thing that fattened him. Cistin: Kitchen 32. Amount speculated in Buttevant equitation. (4) 33. Hobo put out in Fermanagh underground cave Marry a woman from the mountain, and you’ll marry Halla: Hall the mountain. Séipéal: Chapel system west of Enniskillen. (4) Seomra bia: Dining room 34. Fine, as then disturbed by the Irish Republican It’s better to solve the problem than to improve the law. Teach an Phobail: Church (Catholic) Brotherhood of old. (3,7) “Both your friend and your enemy think you will Leabharlann: Library DOWN never die.” 1. Old Celtic porcine totem seen in Drumshanbo ar- “The well fed does not understand the lean.” Colours rangement. (4) “He who comes with a story to you brings two away orange: oráiste 2. Late scold about small Meath town, an angling from you” blue: gorm centre for Lough Sheelin. (9) “Quiet people are well able to look after themselves.” pink: bán-dearg 3. Compete, that is, after victory. (3) “A friend’s eye is a good mirror.” yellow: buí 4. Once in place, a time to start the fairy story. (4) “It is the good horse that draws its own cart.” brown: donn 6. Bernie ceded that his brother’s girl be included. (5) “Two thirds of the work is the semblance.” green: uaine green: glas ADVERTISEMENT grey: liath

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Among the well-known chains that failed to crack the US mar- ket successfully were WH Smith, Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury, and Tesco. Martina Anderson, centre, celebrates with her husband Paul and Sinn Fein Although Ted Baker and members Martin Mc Guinness and Gerry Adams, left, at the Kings Hall count Topshop have garnered centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Monday, May 26, 2014. Sinn Fein’s Martina a measure of success in Anderson has topped the poll in the European elections for Northern Ireland, for expansion in Europe. Basement, the sight of the America, Primark is con- “Primark has got poten- recently blighted area on She polled 159,813 votes, beating the quota by over 3,000 votes to become the fident that their stores first of Northern Ireland’s MEP’s. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison) tial to become a global its way back to being a will flourish here. The fashion brand. commercial cornerstone company does have reason In a media statement of Boston conjures both for that confidence, with following Primark’s an- nostalgia and a sense PSNI wants all the tapes its 2014 reputation as “one nouncement of its plan that Downtown Crossing of the fastest-growing re- for Downtown Crossing, is indeed on the way back. tail businesses in western George Weston, CEO of As noted in last month’s from BC/Belfast project Europe.” Associated British Foods, BIR, Downtown Crossing Retail analyst and which owns Primark, is – again, nostalgically (Continued from page 1) “I call upon the US jects. fashion expert Maureen said: “We think we have speaking – a fitting locale May 4, although police government to resist this NBC News last month Hinton told Reuters that as differentiated and for the Irish-spawned did send an evidence file fishing expedition by the initiated its own legal Primark’s prospects in attractive a proposition Primark/Penneys to open. to British state prosecu- PSNI (Police Service of proceedings seeking ac- Boston and beyond are in the US as we have in After all, an Irish im- tors for potential charges Northern Ireland) and to cess to parts of the North- encouraging. “Young continental Europe and migrant opened the first later. remember that the major ern Ireland audio archive fashion is global now. the British Isles. We think store in Boston 384 years Now, the Police Ser- casualty of this bid to at Boston College. The US tended to be quite we have something special ago, in 1630, and did so vice of Northern Ireland invade an American col- In its May 6 letter to conservative in fashion. I to offer.” on a plot of land on the says it wants the entire lege’s private archive will Judge William Young, think that has changed The timing for Primark northeast corner of the audio archive, including be to undermine a peace the Boston judge who because of the global in Boston appears propi- future State and Wash- the accounts of former deal that was in no small presided over most of the access in fashion and tious. The long-awaited ington Streets within Ulster Volunteer Force way the product of careful Northern Ireland police- entertainment. The main redevelopment of Down- shouting distance of the members involved in American diplomacy and Boston College legal point about Primark is its town Crossing is under future Downtown Cross- the slayings of Catholic peace building,’’ Moloney tussle, NBC News said price positioning….it has way, with residential and ing Primark. No one civilians. In a statement said in a statement. it wanted to see all tran- all the trappings of the commercial space being would have likely called it said Serious Crime Moloney added that it scripts, audio recordings big stores and the feel of gobbled up at such sites John Cogan “fashion for- Branch detectives were was “no accident’’ that and documents that had a more expensive fashion as the upscale Millenium ward,” but the purveyor of doing this because of the police are seeking to seize already been provided brand. I am sure that the Place, which has sold dry goods, hardware, and police’s ``statutory duty all the tapes following to the Northern Ireland likes of [US rival] Forever every unit. For locals other essentials in Bos- to investigate fully all Boston College’s offer to police for the McConville 21 are a bit worried.” who grew up accustomed ton’s first store shared a matters of serious crime, relinquish possession of investigation. Hinton also pointed to Macy’s (the erstwhile “retail-forward” approach including murder.’’ the tapes to their sub- out that Primark had not Jordan Marsh), Filene’s, with Irish-born Primark. The move threatened exhausted its prospects and the late, great Filene’s to open up another legal can of worms for Boston PUZZLE SOLUTION FROM PAGE 18 College and the two of- ficials who collected the oral history: journalist Ed Moloney and IRA vet- eran Anthony McIntyre. Dozens of IRA vet- erans and Protestant militants agreed to speak to McIntyre starting in 2001 on condition their interviews be kept secret until their deaths. Some of those interviewed have said they plan to sue Boston College to have the tapes and any other records of their in- terviews returned or de- stroyed. Boston College itself said it was willing to return the interviews to their subjects. The lat- est police move appears designed to prevent that from happening. EIRE pub

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