March 2012 Boston’s hometown VOL. 23 #3 journal of Irish culture. $1.50 Worldwide at All contents copyright © 2012 Boston Neighborhood News, Inc. bostonirish.com Kenny re-assures Boston: Irish know about adversity, and we’ll beat this crisis By Ed Forry speech at the Harvard Kennedy BIR Publisher School, a reception hosted by Irish Network/Boston, a private Ireland held a national elec- American Ireland Fund dinner tion last March that changed with 30 Boston business leaders, the face of government. Amidst a breakfast sponsored by the every indication that the boom Irish American Partnership, years of the “Celtic Tiger” had and a business luncheon at the long since passed, the world- John F Kennedy Library. wide economic meltdown struck For all that, Kenny found time Ireland with catastrophic con- to sit down with the BIR and sequences. talk about his first year in office: High unemployment, the “We inherited an unprecedented failures of Irish bank and other situation in Ireland; we had to industries, and the collapse in face down an enormous chal- the housing values saw the lenge economically, rebuild the voters turn out the Fianna Fail reputation of the country, and party, in power since 1987, in set out in a sense of trust with favor of a new government. Fine the people, and say look, ‘This Gaél’s Enda Kenny was named is the plan, this is what we are Taoiseach (prime minister), and going to do, here’s how we’re go- Ireland’s Taoiseach Enda Kenny greeted students from Dorchester’s Pope John Paul II Catholic his party formed a governing ing to get out of this situation. Academy on Feb. 17, during a breakfast hosted by the Irish American Partnership in Boston. coalition with the Labour Party. Nobody else is going to get us The Irish leader was in Boston for a two-day trip, including remarks at the John F. Kennedy Within days, Kenny visited out of this except ourselves.’ ” Library about how Ireland and Massachusetts can build upon its strong business and cultural Washington for a traditional Speaking in hushed, deter- ties. The students, under the direction of Mary Swanton, performed a violin piece in honor St. Patrick’s Day reception mined tones, he carried on with of Kenny’s visit. Photo by Harry Brett at the White House. “I know his theme: “When you look at now that miracles do happen, the characteristics of the Irish Kenny told President Obama. personality, we have dealt with “The fountain is green and I’ve adversity before in the past. In BC fights judge’s call for more arrived in the East Room here the 80’s for instance, interest in the White House. One week rates were 20 percent, inflation in office: enough to build the was 16 or 17 percent, and we Belfast tapes from its archives world – that’s what the creator had two thirds of the workforce had. If we keep this up, Ireland working that we have now. So By Bill Forry since been revealed that the be heard in April.) BC officials, what we want to do is get back Police Service of Northern Ire- however, note that Price had will be great again inside a very Managing Editor short time.” to where we were in the late Boston College has appealed a land (PSNI) wants the tapes already broken her own agree- 90’s, where Ireland was cost as part of its ongoing criminal ment with the university and Now almost a full year in of- US District Court judge’s order fice,an Taoiseach visited Boston competitive, had a very strong to turn over seven additional investigation into the 1972 dis- the Belfast Project to keep the export manufacturing output, appearance and murder of Jean tapes’ existence confidential. in mid-February, completing a tapes from their Belfast Project whirlwind tour that included a archives to British authorities, McConville, a Belfast mother of Jack Dunn, a spokesman for (Continued on page 14) opening up a new front in a 10 who was slain, allegedly by BC, said the university could complex, year-long battle to the IRA. The existence of the BC find “no basis upon which to preserve the university’s pledge archives— which was supposed appeal” the Price ruling, par- inside to keep the controversial records to be kept confidential— was ticularly because Price had of IRA and Loyalists interview revealed in public statements spoken out publicly in media • The world-renowned subjects secured — to the extent by Delours Price, one of the IRA interviews about her involve- Chieftains have released a new of US law— until the deaths of members interviewed by the ment in the McConville case. In CD as part of the celebration individual participants. The BC-funded project team in 2001. Price’s public comments about of their golden anniversary latest appeal, which will likely In December, US Judge Wil- the murder, she also said that this year. Entitled “Voice of be heard in June, marks what liam Young— after reviewing Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Ages” and produced by Paddy could be a climactic turn in the the contents of the Price tape Fein, ordered the McConville Moloney and T. Bone Burnett, legal struggle. — ordered BC to give the mate- murder, a charge that Adams it features the group teaming The showdown began last rials over to the PSNI, a ruling has denied. with, among others, stars from May when BC’s Burns Library that BC opted not to challenge. “[Price’s] statements made the worlds of indie-rock, coun- — the repository of the Belfast (Ed Moloney and Anthony her interests in upholding the try and Americana, and Irish Project tapes— was served with McIntyre, two men considered secrecy of the interviews less and Scottish folk. See story, its first subpoena from the US the principal engineers of the than compelling the Court,” Page 19. Arts and Entertainment sec- Department of Justice, acting Belfast Project, are fighting Dunn said. • There is plenty of holiday tion features stories on “River- on behalf of a then-undisclosed the Price tape’s release. Their More recently, Judge Young action, per usual, for the Saint’s dance,” “The Ivy Leaf,” and branch of law enforcement in appeal to stay Young’s order on was asked to rule on whether month. See a calendar of events Sean Smith’s roundup of March the United Kingdom. It has the Prince tape is scheduled to (Continued on page 14) and parades on Page 3. The musical fare. See Page 22. Page 2 March 2012 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com

Kevin White, scion of Irish-American politics, dies at 82 Kevin Hagan White White, who died on Brahmins regained its across neighborhood was a man of many per- Friday, Jan. 26, at age long-held place among lines under a federal sonas – ebullient, moody, 82, took what his imme- the nation’s and the judge’s order aimed at haughty, energetic, fret- diate predecessors, John world’s great cities. ending the racial imbal- ful, intellectual, daring, B. Hynes and John F. But along with those ance that the court had to name a few ascribed Collins had begun – the flourishes came great found entrenched in the to him during his often- rebirth of a Boston that stress and heartache, city’s school system. tumultuous mayoral oc- some had come to call perhaps most notably cupancy of Boston City decrepit – and added his the deeply felt unrest Hall from 1968 through own imaginative flour- in the mid-1970s over KEVIN H. WHITE 1983. ishes as the city of the the busing of students 1930-2012 Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com March 2012 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 3 A proclamation by the President or centuries, America and Ireland have built a proud and enduring partnership cemented by Fmutual values and a common history. Genera- tions of Irish have crossed the Atlantic in pursuit of prosperity, and today nearly 40 million of their proud descendants continue to make their indelible mark on the United States of America. Their stories, as varied as our Nation’s people, humble us and inspire our children to reach for the opportunities dreamed about by our forebears. Over hundreds of years, Irish men, women, and children left the homes of their ancestors, watching the coasts of Donegal and the cliffs of Dingle fade behind them. Boarding overcrowded ships and navigating dangerous seas, these resilient travelers looked to the horizon with hope in their hearts. Many left any valuables, land, or stability they had behind, but they came instead with the true treasures of their home- land – song and literature, humor and tradition, faith and family. And when they landed on our shores, they shared their gifts generously, adding immeasurable value to towns, cities, and communities throughout our Nation. Today, we draw on the indomitable spirit of those Irish Americans whose strength helped build countless miles of canals and railroads; whose brogues echoed in mills, police stations, and fire halls across our country; and whose blood spilled to defend a Nation and a way Enda Kenny, Ireland’s prime minister, presented a bowl of living shamrocks to President Obama when of life they helped define. Defying famine, poverty, and they met at the White House on St. Patrick’s Day last March. AP photo. discrimination, these sons and daughters of Erin dem- onstrated extraordinary strength and unshakable faith more prosperous future for all Americans. of Irish Americans to our Nation. as they gave their all to help build an America worthy Now, therefore, I, Barack Obama, President of the In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this of the journey they and so many others have taken. United States of America, by virtue of the authority first day of March, in the year of our Lord two thou- During Irish-American Heritage Month, we recall vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the sand twelve, and of the Independence of the United their legacy of hard work and perseverance, and we United States, do hereby proclaim March 2012 as Irish- States of America the two hundred and thirty-sixth. carry forward that singular dedication to forging a American Heritage Month. I call upon all Americans – BARACK OBAMA to observe this month by celebrating the contributions

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Saturday, March 3 themed “The Arts of Ireland,” will feature marching Co. Donegal Association’s Annual St. Patrick’s bands from all over New England, as well as colorful Day Dinner Dance – 7 p.m. at Florian Hall, Dorches- floats, antique cars, and many other attractions. ter. Hot and cold buffet will be served. Music provided *** by Erin’s Melody and there will be dancing from 7:30 Irish Cultural Centre Chef Seamus Healy will p.m. to 12:30 a.m. There will be special appearances demonstrate the cooking of corned beef and cabbage, 12 by the Harney Academy of Irish Step Dancers, as well p.m., in Canton. Seamus provides the perfect ingredi- as Donegal singer-songwriter Shunie Crampsey. For ents to season this most popular Irish dish. Following tickets and more information, contact JP Doherty, the demonstration, you will enjoy a corned beef and 617-605-9878, or Michael McCarron, 617-696-1702. cabbage lunch! Tickets are $35 for ICC members and *** $40 for the general public. Contact 781-821-8291 or Irish Cultural Centre presents “On the Road: [email protected] A Play Direct from Ireland” at 8 p.m. in Canton. A historical presentation on St. Patrick will Performed by Gerry Motherway, this play brings the be held at the Centre at 7 p.m. The evening includes experiences and memories of an Irish football fan to a lecture hosted by Seamus Mulligan, a meal, and life. Tickets are $10. Contact 781-821-8291 or cgriffin@ a viewing of the film St. Patrick: The Irish Legend. irishculture.org. Also, Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $25 for Irish Cultural Center members and $30 for general admission. For additional information Thursday, March 8 call 781-821-8291 or contact [email protected] Night of Irish Music, Laughter and Dance to (This event was postponed from Feb 10.) Benefit Coyle Cassidy High School, 7 p.m. at Mc- Carty Theater on the school campus. Featuring Alfie Sunday, March 11 Martin Sheen plays a 1950s Tipperary priest in O’Shea’s Irish Show Band and special appearances County Roscommon Association of Boston St. Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s “Stella Days,” an Irish-made by Eddie Dillon and The Harney Academy of Irish film that opens the 13th Annual Irish Film Festival Patrick’s Banquet. – 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., Elks Hall, Spring Boston this month. The Festival first night is set for Step Dancers. The Cafe will be serving Corn Beef and and Morrell streets, West Roxbury. Corned beef and Harvard Square’s Brattle Theatre on Thurs., March Cabbage beginning at 5p.m. so come early for dinner cabbage catered meal, entertainment by Andy Healy 22. Other films will be screened at the Somerville before the show. Advance ticket purchases are en- Showband. $35 per person. Tickets: Richie Gormley, Theater in Davis Square from Fri., March 23 to couraged, Adults $10, seniors and children under 12 president, 617-323-0860. Sun., March 25. BIR Publisher Ed Forry writes $8. Contact Mrs. Cheeves in the President’s Office at about this year’s impressive line-up in Publisher’s 508-823-6164, Ext 614. Wednesday, March 14 Notes, Page 6. *** The Chieftains – In concert at Boston Symphony The Saw Doctors at the Hanover Theatre, Hall. Annual St. Patrick’s Day show. Tickets are $47- Copley Plaza Hotel. Tickets $175, contact klkassa@ Worcester, 8 p.m. – The Saw Doctors return for an $75. Call 617-482-6661. yahoo.com or call 508-655-8430 energy-filled concert featuring old favorites and new. *** Tickets are $28-45 and may be purchased by calling Friday, March 16 Cranston R.I. 14th Anniversary St. Patrick’s 877-571-7469 or visiting thehanovertheatre.org. The annual Irish American Partnership St Celebration – 2:30 p.m. thru 11 p.m., Rhodes on the Patrick’s Breakfast – 8 a.m. at the Boston Harbor Pawtuxet, Cranston. Featuring the New York Irish Hotel, Rowes Wharf, Boston. Show Band with Tommy Flynn, The Garde Band, Friday, March 9 *** Step Dancers, John Connors & the Irish Express, Adm Cape Cod St. Patrick’s Parade Grand Marshall Irish Network Boston St. Patrick’s Day Party - 6 $10, children free, to benefit St. Michael’s Ministries & Colleen Dinner, 6 p.m. Cape Cod’s Irish Village to 9 p.m. at the Moakley Federal Courthouse. Tickets for the Poor will kick off Cape Cod’s weekend of St. Patrick festivi- $35 for members, memberships available AT tinyurl. ties. For more information call 508-362-7239. com/83duowk Sunday, March 18 *** *** Boston’s St. Patrick’s/Evacuation Day parade, 1 The Saw Doctors at the House of Blues Boston, Head to the Irish Cultural Centre the night before p.m. – Boston’s traditional St. Patrick’s/Evacuation Day 7 p.m. Tickets are $29.50 for standing room and $45 St. Patrick’s Day and enjoy an evening of traditional parade steps off through the streets of South Boston, for Reserved Seating and may be purchased from music and set dancing. Music will be provided by Car- from Broadway at Dorchester Avenue. ticketmaster.com or at the House of Blues box office. raroe, who specialize in lively jigs and reels and also *** by Dan Hallissey. Irish dancers will be performing Thursday, March 22 Celtic Women at the Citi Performing Arts Cen- throughout the night. The ICC pub opens at 6 p.m. 13th Annual Irish Film Festival- opening night ter Wang Theatre, Boston, 8 p.m. Celtic Women Tickets are $10 and are available at the door only. at Brattle Theatre, Fri-Sun March 23-25 at Somer- return to Boston for two shows, Fri., March 9 and Sat., 781-821-8291. vile Theatre, showcasing an award-winning lineup of March 10 @ 8 p.m. Tickets are $48.75-$78.75 and may thirty Irish feature films, shorts and documentaries be purchased through citicenter.org. Saturday, March 17 that celebrate the very best of Ireland and the Irish *** The Saint’s Day at the Irish Cultural Centre on screen - past, present and future. Tickets $10 per Irish Cultural Centre presents The Joshua –Begins at 10 a.m. with breakfast and pints along performance, irishfilmfestival.com Tree – Head to Canton to see the nation’s premier U2 with a viewing of The All-Ireland Final Highlights Tribute Band. The ICC pub opens at 6 p.m. Tickets from 1947-1959. Corned beef and cabbage luncheon Sunday, March 25 are $15 and may be purchased by calling 781-821-8291 available at noon. Music provided by John Kearney Celtic Crossroads come to Worcester for a show or contacting [email protected]. As last year’s and Friends from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. In the evening, at the Hanover Theatre filled with their signature concert was completely sold out, advance ticket sales Amy Basse and Friends will perform. Tickets are $10 youthful energy and dazzling musicianship, 8 p.m. are strongly encouraged. and may be purchased by contacting 781-821-8291 or Tickets are $29-$39 and may be purchased by calling [email protected]. Anyone who renews or joins 877-571-7469 or visiting thehanovertheatre.org Saturday, March 10 the ICC by March 17th will be entered into a drawing Sunday, April 22 The 7th annual Cape Cod St. Patrick’s Parade to win a trip to Ireland. Irish Hearts for Haiti, a benefit fundraiser now in – Stepping off at 11 a.m. on Route 28 (at School Street) *** its third year, will take place at the Marriott Hotel in in Dennis and proceed over the Bass River Bridge into Charitable Irish 275th Anniversary Dinner- 6 Quincy, 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. There will be live performances Yarmouth, ending at Forest Road. This year’s event, p.m. reception, 7 p/.m. dinner, Oval Room, Fairmount from various musical artists. Page 4 March 2012 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com BIR Profile For Matthew Power, risk is often its own reward By Greg O’Brien you better lead in a way that respects Special to the BIR people,” adds Power. “You have to care Matthew Power is a study in risk and about the people you’re charged with redemption. The 49-year-old Boston in- leading if you want them to follow. Poor surance man – he is executive vice presi- leaders attempt to manage through dent of Lexington Insurance Company, intimidation. There’s a big difference the nation’s premier excess and surplus between management and leadership. carrier— has been well acquainted with True leadership requires vision, charac- the concept since his days as a youth ter, and compassion for others.” on the streets of West Roxbury during Power and Margaret, still a nurse at Boston’s bruising busing crisis. Brigham and Women’s, remain loyal to Those who have followed Power’s ca- Ireland, visiting once a year to catch up reer say he knows a good risk when he with Limerick friends and relatives. “We sees one—whether it’s insurance policy want to make sure our children have protection for invasive surgical devices, an appreciation of their mother’s back- for earthquakes, or for the storm of the ground. It is an important part of their century. “We live in a world of risk,” heritage.” It is an enduring spirit with he says in an interview recently in his Matthew Power, as well. He is involved downtown office on the 18th floor of 100 in Irish causes, chief among them the Summer Street in Boston. “Recognizing American Ireland Fund, a philanthropic the imbedded opportunity often inher- network that supports worthy ventures ent in risk is the basis for innovation of peace and reconciliation, and arts cul- and growth.” ture and education throughout Ireland. Speaking in his aerie office above “Ireland has undergone enormous Boston, Power talked briefly about his change over the past 30 years, says growing up days in West Roxbury during Power. “Infrastructure improvements days of trouble for the city, his neighbor- that have taken place over the last hood, and himself. “When the crisis took decade have improved accessibility and hold, West Roxbury, like many neighbor- the ability to move people and products hoods, was severely impacted.” As was throughout the country. The financial Power himself. “In truth, the students crisis has clearly taken its toll on many were the sacrificial lambs of the busing of the island’s social constructs. The crisis, as education was overshadowed Irish healthcare system, in particular, by the turmoil and constant protesting has suffered from immense stress and that went on across the city.” lack of available public funding.”. Power, a man with close family ties During last month’s visit to Boston, to Limerick, declines to amplify on the Irish prime minister Enda Kenny was impact on him of that tumultuous pe- the guest of honor at a private dinner at riod, only to say that he bounced around Boston’s Four Seasons Hotel hosted by four high schools, then dropped in and the Ireland Fund. About 30 of Boston’s out of college before graduating in 1989 leading business executives attended, from The University of Massachusetts. and Power was among them. “It is in- Despite the challenges, Power showed cumbent upon people who have done academic promise along the way. A well,” he says, “to remember where they voracious reader from adolescence and came from and support those things that intellectually curious, he consumed can make a difference in people’s lives..” Power also serves on the boards of the Dostoyevsky, Hesse, and, particularly, Matthew and Margaret Power have settled in West Roxbury with their two Shakespeare, “who,” he says, “spoke to daughters, Caitlin, 16, and Samantha, 14. Photo by Bill Brett New England Council and the Greater me of every aspect of life, love, success, Boston Chamber of Commerce, and sits and failure.” work ethic and entrepreneurial spirit. which he joined in 1993 as National on the Dean’s Advisory Board at the Those Shakespearean lessons about “He was entrepreneurial and very much Accounts Regional Director. In 2000, University of Massachusetts College of life and love came into fruitful reality a risk taker. He had an incredible work he was promoted to Northeast Regional Management. He previously served on when in his early ‘20s he was introduced ethic. Still, for my Dad, his family and Vice President, and two years later, he the boards of the Greater Boston YMCA to a stunning beauty named Margaret his faith came first.” was named executive vice president of and HopeFound. Callinan, who had emigrated from Once settled back in his old neigh- AIG’s Domestic Brokerage Group, with Power clearly hasn’t forgotten where Limerick, the birthplace of his paternal borhood, Power began the process of responsibilities for the East Coast and he came from—his roots and the stops grandparents. Margaret—traveling to raising a family and building his career. Canada, or about $7 billion worth of along the way to 2012. His office walls Boston with Power’s Limerick cousin, “I am proud of the fact that I stayed in business. and shelves are adorned with images joined the nursing staff at Brigham & the neighborhood, to make a difference In 2006, Power was named president underscoring a busy, successful life, Women’s Hospital. here, to make West Roxbury a better of Risk Specialists Companies, Inc, a pictures of him with Hilary Clinton, Ted “I can remember the first moment I place,” he says, having most recently Chartis US subsidiary. That same year, Kennedy, John Kerry, Tom Menino, and saw her,” says Power. “It was lights out led a fundraising effort among his col- he also took on his position at Lexington Scott Brown. He is an avid New England for me. She was beautiful, intelligent, leagues in Boston’s Financial District, Insurance, under the AIG umbrella. Patriots fan, and his office shows it with and extremely well grounded. I knew which raised hundreds of thousands of The Risk Specialists Companies pro- team memorabilia like a signed Tom right away that I wanted to spend the dollars in support to build a new YMCA vide direct, local access to Lexington Brady jersey to framed photos of Adam rest of my life with her. Looking back, I facility on Centre Street. Insurance’s range of property, casualty Vinatieri and Tedy Bruschi. may have been somewhat of a tough sell Despite increasing personal and and specialty insurance products and “To have had all these experiences for her! Margaret took some convincing.” professional success, Power carried services. in my career and in my life, given the He and Margaret were married 22 with him a self-inflicted diffidence Throughout the years, Power was the challenges I faced as a young man, I years ago. They have two daughters, over his often-interrupted high school beneficiary of a world class insurance am truly blessed,” he says today. “What Caitlin, 16, and Samantha, 14, and live and college education. It bothered me education as part of an organization I’ve learned,” he says, “is that you have in West Roxbury on the same block where tremendously,” he says, noting he was led by AIG CEO Maurice (Hank) Hank to constantly challenge yourself and Matthew grew up, a stunning transition surrounded in business by academic Greenberg, a legendary executive. “Mr. welcome opportunities to get outside of from his life in the neighborhood almost world beaters. “I felt as though I had Greenberg believed in placing young your comfort zone in order to grow and 40 years ago. let myself down during those years in talented people into the deepest end of be successful.” One of five boys growing up in a neigh- terms of academic focus.” the corporate pool where they would Matthew Power’s life today is testi- borhood in St. Theresa’s parish, where Academic redemption would come for quickly learn to sink or swim,” he says mony to the fact that one can survive practically every father was either a him came at the in the halls of Harvard in appreciation of having the option of risk with faith, savvy, and endurance cop or a politician, Power describes his Business School where he was accepted drowning. “The company created a cul- to become a sure bet on those actuarial childhood as a mix of thrill and anxiety into the prestigious postgraduate Gen- ture to thrive.” Power clearly did well in charts. given the society around him. The Power eral Management Program in 2005. He his lessons. “I had learned some valuable household, with a dominant father, was would emerge from that experience with survival skills growing up as a young Greg O’Brien is president of Stony patriarchal, but Catherine (Crehan), a new perspective on leadership, and a man in Boston,” he adds. “You can’t Brook Group, a publishing and political/ with ties to Cork, held sway as mother newfound confidence in his ability to underestimate the value of those tough communications strategy firm based on and homemaker, even if she often felt perform at a very high level. lessons in life or in business.” Cape Cod. The author/ editor of several as if she were herding cats. “She had to Born again academically, Power In the insurance business, risk is books, he writes for various regional and manage a good deal of chaos with five boys maximized his innate street sense and measured, says Power. “To win requires national publications, and is a regular and their cadre of friends and cousins. integrated it into his business sense, a willingness to take risk and the con- contributor to the Boston Irish Reporter. Lots of scraped knees, black eyes, and which by then had taken him from the fidence in your own decision-making Fittingly, he wrote this profile on a train calls from teachers,” says her son. Liberty Mutual and Kemper insurance ability,” In short, the foresight to price from Dublin to Belfast on a recent trip In many ways, Matthew is the image companies, where he began his career, to risk correctly, an instinct for good com- to Ireland. of his father, a man personified by his the high rungs at insurance giant AIG, munication, and the vision to lead. “And

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By Bill O’Donnell audience that Ireland would seek to move Europe be- finger to investigate her death for thirty years before Irish-Based Charity Is Scammed – The Chernobyl yond austerity and cutbacks with renewed emphasis the BC subpoena. Children International charity founded and run out of on economic growth. Kenny said that the ECB would Baxter, now a “security consultant” for New Century Ireland by humanitarian Adi Roche is one of the most need to ease off stringent policies and take a “fuller with a Pentagon contract to train the new Afghan police admired and successful efforts of its kind anywhere role” in finding answers to the Eurozone debt crisis. He force, believes that the RUC has been emasculated and in the world. Since its founding in 1991 following the concluded with his key theme, “reasserting Ireland’s the terrorists (yes, like brother Adams) are winning Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine, the nonprofit place in the world.” All in all a very impressive message the post-war war. In a Belfast Newsletter article on CCI has raised and spent over $120 million to provide indeed from a confident leader in full stride. March 10, 2010, Baxter urged the RUC’s successor, the free medical, social, and rehabilitative services to Corrib Gas Pipeline Boon To Irish – The Irish Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), to launch thousands of young vic- equivalent of Boston’s Big Dig in terms of controversy a new investigation in the Sinn Fein leader’s alleged tims in Chernobyl. It is has finally settled down and additional funding to com- role in the death of McConville, the mother of ten. He far and away the favorite plete the pipeline has been agreed to. The completion of has continued to campaign in unionist/loyalists’ pub- charity of Ireland and the pipeline begun eight years ago is set for late 2014. lications and other outlets with Adams as his target. of the Irish people, who The project, centered in northwest Mayo, has been With his long ties as chief liaison between the police have sustained CCI’s two the subject of almost continuing debate and delays and MI5 in the North, Baxter has wide contacts and is decades of giving even as but it will, experts say, create over 1,500 jobs on site held in high repute by both police and military. Har- their tiny nation dealt with and indirectly. The additional funding by Shell E&P boring the hate he has for Adams has been a personal its own economic crisis. Ireland to finish the project is roughly $1.1 billion The campaign of destruction focused on having charges CCI has been accredited big news that comes with the agreement on continued being brought against Adams. by the United Nations funding is the fact that Ireland will be significantly The pursuit of Adams and others, Eamonn McCann and won scores of awards more independent and (this is called burying the lead) believes, is seen by Baxter and his colleagues as un- for its work over the past the pipeline will supply 60 percent of Ireland’s present finished business. twenty years. and future gas needs. Wow. And with the BC/British police imbroglio due for Proving the adage that NOTABLE QUOTE some resolution this month, it seems rather probable “no good deed goes unpun- “An Ireland that ensures older people are not margin- that Baxter and his police allies – and maybe MI5 ished,” there are several alized by ageist attitudes, and that respects the young thrown in for good measure – will get their wish to Bill O’Donnell bogus organizations that and combines wisdom and energy, is a rich society.” get Gerry Adams into a Northern Ireland criminal have, mostly via the inter- – President Michael D. Higgins courtroom some day. net, used the good works of Embassy Closing Attracts New Critics – One of Not To Be Overlooked —The vice president of the Ireland-based CCI to scam (steal is not too harsh a the icons of Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs, China and the soon-to-be next leader of China, Xi description) unsuspecting people into donating money Sean Donlon, has added fuel to the fire with a criti- Jinping, recently spent three full days in Ireland to several newly developed phony charities of a similar cal broadside against the closing of Ireland’s Vatican meeting with top government officials and Irish busi- name, and who claim, falsely, to be helping the young Embassy. A former ambassador to the U.S., Donlon, ness leaders. The Chinese vice president arrived in of Chernobyl. now retired, said the breakdown in relations between Ireland directly from the US and his Irish visit was The most notorious scam calls itself “Chernobyl Ireland and the Holy See related to the clerical abuse his only stop in a European country. This could be Children Charity” and has been identified as criminally scandal made the diplomatic mission more rather than a super significant event in the relations of the two fraudulent, stealing from the CCI Irish charity’s web- less important. countries. Vastly increased trade relations, even a site, and providing very little if any aid to Chernobyl or Donlon said that Taoiseach Kenny’s very public blast long term partnership, appear to be the order of the to anywhere else. The key is in the name. The largest at the Vatican “had probably been a good thing, because day. Currently China only accounts for a scant three of the fake charities calls itself Chernobyl Children it shook up people at the Holy See” But he added that percent of Irish exports, but the red carpet treatment Charity but the Adi Roche-led Irish-based charity with it was now time to begin the process of “normalizing of Xi Jinping could radically change that. a 20-year solid history of delivering the goods is named the relationship.” Although some years have passed RANDOM CLIPPINGS the Chernobyl Children International. since Donlon was in government, he continues to offer Heroes are in short supply these day, or more likely The legitimate, widely honored CCI has the word a well-respected voice that his former peers listen to. we just don’t know about them. But my candidate for “International” trademarked as an integral part of Donlon rejected the government’s contention that Hero Status is John Glenn, Marine, test pilot, astro- its name, not to be confused with the shameful scam the embassy in Rome was too costly to operate. He naut, US senator, an Ohio boy who did it all and never operation run by a couple of parasitic Ukrainians. If recalled there was a precedent in place not to allow bragged on it. … Irish folk legend Tommy Makem in doubt here or in Ireland, know to whom you are giv- other countries to cover Irish diplomatic missions, but has been nominated to the Irish American Heritage ing, and remember: the internet giveth and it taketh. agreed that it might be possible to operate both Irish Center Hall of Fame in Chicago. What took them so Parades On Tap For St. Patrick’s Celebrations missions out of the same building. long? … John Walker Lindh, the American Taliban – Some of the area parades come early, most happen Ireland’s Councils Need Spending Restraints who took up arms against the US, could soon be paroled. on the St. Pat’s weekend, and a couple come a week – Apparently immune or uncaring about harsh warn- He plans to seek Irish citizenship !!! … From late June later. Here, courtesy of the Boston Irish Tourism As- ings from the Dublin government about county and through July 8 the place to be is Galway for the Volvo sociation, are some parades scheduled in New England town council spending, the local governing authorities Ocean Race which will turn the county upside down and beyond: continue over-spending as if the Celtic Tiger were still during its two-week stopover. … Save your pennies: Saturday morning, March 10 –Yarmouth on the prancing about. Peter’s Pence just went up as Italy is looking for taxes Cape; Sunday, March 11 –Worcester at noon.; Sunday, The lads (still weak on gender equality) on various from the Vatican of almost a billion dollars. … I guess March 18 – Holyoke at noon; Boston, Abington, and council bodies that were under orders to reduce costs I am old-fashioned. Until now I had never heard of a Scituate, 1 p.m.; Sunday, March 25 –Manchester, NH, and borrowing at the outset of the financial crisis have bank charging a fee to close an account. … Royal Bank at noon. In Ireland, Dublin’s famed parade begins at resorted to overdrafts and bank loans to meet every- of Scotland had a terrible 2011, with stock price and noon on March 17, St. Patrick’s Day. day expenses. Auditors are troubled by the finances income down, but CEO Steve Hester still wanted his Another Good Idea From John Cullinane – That of three authorities, Sligo, Mayo, and Donegal. And $1.5 million “bonus.” inventive laboratory in John Cullinane’s fertile the vast majority, 18 of 24, are running a deficit or Globe columnist and basketball guru Bob Ryan is brain has come up with yet another solid idea, this are overdrawn. retiring after the Olympics; a solid, steady journalist. one aimed directly at the creation of jobs here and The situation country-wide is dire. Because of its … Isn’t Dr. Bill O’Connell one of the best assets we in Ireland, a goal sorely in need of a creative bounce. own deficit, the Dublin government has cut the council have, and he continues working to honor the Irish in John, the Cambridge-based philanthropist and entre- funding by a third. One result: The Galway City Coun- unmarked graves on Deer Island. Good man, Bill. … preneur with a special regard for Ireland, has created cil has 32 staff members who are owed more than a Joe Kennedy III looks a bit young for Congress, but an “Entrepreneurial Portal” that is designed to help year’s paid annual leave; council salaries continue to father Joe of Citizen Oil wouldn’t have sent him out young entrepreneurs succeed “anywhere in the world.” increase regardless of ability to secure funding; and if he didn’t think he was ready. … If the Republic po- The portal’s comprehensive approach coincides with council contracts worth millions are being awarded nies up its share, the work can begin on A5, the road a recent separate but congenial initiative by the Irish without formal tendering. Maybe they might go the between Derry/Donegal to Dublin that is overdue and government geared to draw overseas entrepreneurs bankruptcy route of Harrisburg, PA, or Central Falls, needed. … I didn’t see or hear either Gerry or Martin to Ireland. RI. Who knows, but someone should tell them that the McGuinness saying it but kudos to Sinn Fein’s Pat Cullinane believes strongly that only entrepreneurs Tiger is sleeping. Doherty for telling the world that the IRA campaign can create the private sector jobs that are the key to Former Carmel Mayor Gives USA a Pep Talk was a “massive injustice” to victims. America’s future. And Ireland, with its 14 percent – I thought the Super Bowl ad segments were mostly US House Republicans called a congressional hear- unemployment, would certainly benefit by that ap- pedestrian. Nothing much to skip a beer for. Or at least ing on contraception and women’s health and all the proach. Cullinane, who founded Cullinet, the first they were until the former mayor of Carmel, CA, came witnesses were male. Is anybody left in the GOP to be software products company valued at a billion dollars, on before his 100 million plus audience to say a few ashamed? … MSNBC, especially in the early morn- and who has been active in creating inward investment words about Chrysler, and a few more words about ings, is a channel I watch but never with the sound on in Ireland, has some innovative ideas in his Portal for the state of the state. It was magic, especially if you when prime-time bigot and nativist Pat Buchanan is prospective entrepreneurs that include: free online ac- can’t quite digest that Barack Obama is responsible uttering his bilge. The cable station said “bye, bye” to cess to the experience of Cullinane and other successful for Jimmy Hoffa’s absence, the two most recent Pa- him. Pat, don’t let the door knob catch you on the way entrepreneurs; problem-solving from proven leaders; triots’ Super Bowl debunkings, and Elvis’s departure out. ... When you see the name “Numbers USA,” check links to the universe of successful entrepreneurs, or- from the house. your landscapers. They have mobilized to defeat the ganizations and other valuable contacts; and unique I thought the U.S. taxpayers’ bailout of the American Scott Brown proposal to allow 10,500 visas for the opportunities for emerging entrepreneurs to share auto industry (sans Ford) was a no-brainer. You don’t Irish same as we do for the Aussies. … As I write this, experience and access advice. kill America’s signature industry and its jobs while Galway’s regional airport may already have closed. It Taoiseach Impresses Boston Community –Enda pouring billions into greedy rogue banking and invest- faces liquidation and has lost its government subsidy. Kenny, a longtime Fine Gael bridesmaid and Taoiseach ment emporia like Goldman Sachs, AIG, et alia, and … Nancy Brennan of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy in waiting, has, along with his Labour Party cohorts, take companies that actually make things off life sup- Greenway lost her way when asked to produce pay finally grasped the reins of the post-Fianna Fail Party port. At least not in the real world. Even Tim Geithner records for herself and other top staffers, but my good- salvage operation. Coming into government a year knows that. Thanks, President Obama, while we’re at ness, it’s not a capital crime. Cut them some slack and ago, Kenny had little need to play big. It was enough it, for the job on Osama Bin Laden. move on. Nancy forgot the Greenway is partially public in those early days to simply not to be Fianna Fail. Another Long Knife Out For Gerry Adams – funded. She won’t forget again. … .Famed runner However, more and more, Kenny has been making The Boston College/British police dust-up over Dail Eamonn Coghlan doesn’t race anymore. Today he’s new friends in a difficult economic climate at home Deputy Gerry Adams added another hardscrabble a Fine Gael senator and was at the NY Athletic Club and in his straight-from-the-shoulder dealings with player with a grudge to the lingering drama that seeks fundraiser last month for his charity, the Children’s the European Union. This was reinforced in his mid- to demobilize the Sinn Fein party leader for distant Medical & Research Foundation at Crumlin Hospital February visit to Boston and earlier to New York where sins. As described by Eamonn McCann, one of my in Ireland. On occasions I would see him in Boston, the word on the street was that he impressed many of favorite journalists/activists, in a Counterpunch news- usually alongside the late and much missed sports col- the Hub’s heavyweights with his ease and command of paper article, Nicholas Baxter, a former Royal Ulster umnist and author George Kimball. … Kevin White the issues. One close observer who was in attendance Constabulary (RUC) detective chief superintendent was a gift to Boston. He was smart enough to build on at more than one of Kenny’s appearances heard to say who is possessed of a fierce, unrelenting hatred of Mayor John Collins’s urban ideas and vision and that Ireland was being run by some first-class people. Adams, deserves a piece of the credit for the British he had a great eye for talent in assembling one of the The taoiseach, leading Ireland next year into its EU demand for BC’s oral histories regarding the abduc- sharpest cadre of top staffers ever to patrol city hall. presidency, also had some words of advice for the Union tion and death of Jean McConville in 1972. Keep in To one and all: have a healthy and happy St. Patrick’s and the European Central Bank. He told his Boston mind the British never picked up a phone or lifted a Day and hope for better days there and here. Page 6 March 2012 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Publisher’s Notebook Ian Paisley, deathly ill at 85, did much Coming attraction: harm; but healing has begun The Irish Film Festival By Joe Leary Was the man stupid, just Special to the BIR playing to his crowd, or was By Ed Forry One of Northern Ireland’s most fearful sectarian he, simply, a bigot? An Academy Award-winning short film made in I saw Paisley in the Northern Ireland, a new feature film made in County agitators is coming to the end of his life at the age of 85. Ian Paisley, minister, politician, bigot, and one-time London airport one day Tip starring American favorite Martin Sheen and sup- during my travels. While porting actor Stephen Rea, and a documentary about leader of anti-Catholic sentiment in its most virulent forms, lies in a Belfast hospital with an ailing heart I was walking to my gate, Barack Obama’s Irish cousins and his mother’s roots in I saw the corridor ahead of Moneygall, Co. Offaly, are among the lead attractions and other undisclosed medical problems, and with his family gathered around him, waiting. me blocked by the police, at this month’s annual Irish Film Festival, Boston. and in short order there An array of thirty Irish feature films, shorts, and Good riddance many would say, for Paisley, a presence every- was Paisley, bustling along documentaries will be screened over four days (March with an aide, the two of 22-25) under the banner of the festival, which return where he traveled with his broad shoulders and volcanic voice, them protected by a pair for its 13th year at two venues: opening night, March of burly police officers, each IAN PAISLEY: 22, at the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square, and never contributed to peace and Bigot with bluster understanding of any kind until he carrying a machine gun. for three days at the Somerville Was there a real threat, Theatre in Davis Square over the surprisingly appeared to mellow late in his life. or did he just enjoy the attention? It all seemed quite weekend of March 23-25. unnecessary. The opening night features He was born in April 1926, four years after Northern Ireland I also met the man twice on trips to Belfast. The Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s “Stella first time was in 1994 while I was at the American Days,” selected as this years was partitioned from the rest of Ireland, into a Baptist minister’s consul general’s home with a group of my organiza- Directors Choice award recipi- Joe Leary tion’s supporters. Paisley came bursting into the house, ent. The film features Sheen as family in Ballymena. This was a time when anti-Catholicism was exclaiming in his booming voice, “I’m not speaking; you a “misfit parish priest” in a small can ask questions; who’s in charge here?” I stepped rural town in Tipperary in the very popular in the North (some say it still is amongst certain groups). The ruling Protestant aristocracy up somewhat timidly and said, “That’s me, Reverend mid-1950s. Also starring is Rea, Paisley. These folks have come 3,000 miles to hear you. best remembered for his Oscar- refused to give Catholics jobs and young Protestant families received first housing preference across all of Would you consider speaking for five minutes and I’ll Ed Forry nominated role in “The Crying ask the first question?” Game.” Rea is expected to attend the North. And with the approval of their legislature in Belfast, Protestant leaders systematically gerryman- He looked at me, a twinkle in his eye, and said, “You on opening night. have done this before haven’t you, Leary?” In his talk, Following the Thursday events, the venue moves to dered political constituencies to deny Catholic voting influence. In 1968, for example, Derry, with its 20,000 he blamed all the violence and unrest on the IRA. In Somerville, and there’s great anticipation over the first every answer to questions, he managed to make it Boston screening that night of the Academy Award- Catholics and 10,000 Protestants, was divided so that all the Catholics were lumped into one district, leaving the seem that the IRA was the only bad side in the North. winning short film “The Shore.” Viewers of last month’s After the discussion period, I walked out with him, and Oscars telecast will recall the emotional moments when Protestants as the majority in the two other districts, which enabled them to vote for 12 city councillors in noting the rain, I asked with a grin: “Do you blame the writer/producer Terry George and his daughter, co- IRA for the rain, too?” Loudly, and with his own grin, producer Oorlagh George, came to the stage to receive their two districts while the Catholics could only cast ballots for 8 councillors in theirs. It should come as no he replied: “Absolutely!” the Oscar for best love action short film. Humor from a monster? Filmed on location in Killough, Northern Ireland, surprise that Protestants ruled Derry until recently. This was the general atmosphere in the North as The other time I met the minister was on a trip to the movie was underwritten by funding from North- Northern Ireland with former Massachusetts Governor ern Ireland Screen, a private agency funded by Invest Paisley reached adulthood. The future was to be even more radical. William Weld. We were on our way into The Malone Northern Ireland. House for a dinner with Northern Irish officials, and as “Our little film was inspired by the people of Northern Not only was Paisley a formidable physical presence, but he also proved to be quite intelligent, crafting I walked in well behind all the officials accompanying Ireland, Protestant and Catholic, who, after 30 years the governor, who greeted me but Paisley himself. He of war, sat down, negotiated a peace, and proved to his speeches and various press comments to please or annoy as he wished. Some of his more outrageous was his same loud self, and I’m sure he didn’t recognize the world that the Irish are great talkers. I want to me from our first meeting. dedicate this to them,” Terry George said as he accepted comments were constructed to appeal to his followers and to draw attention to himself. After the speeches and the meal, a British reporter the award. “This is about reconciliation in Northern came up to me thinking I was a friend of Paisley’s and Ireland. It is really close to my heart.” George had been In 1946, at age 20, he became minister of the East Belfast Ravenhill Evangelical Mission. Evidence of his asked me if she could speak to him. I went over to him nominated previously for two Academy Awards for his and made the request on her behalf. He was seated screenplay work in “Hotel Rwanda” and “In the Name training for this duty is somewhat obscure, but there he was. Five years later, he founded the Free Presbyterian at the end of his table and grabbed my arm and said, of the Father.” “Sure, but you sit right next to me.” Among other films to be shown at the festival are: Church of Ulster, saying at the time that he had become disenchanted with the main Presbyterian Church and The reporter asked several inane questions with the black comedy “Behold the Lamb from Northern Paisley providing completely slanted answers. He Ireland,” with director John McIlduff and actress Aoife accusing them of “creeping towards Romanism.” In 1958, Paisley denounced the Queen Mother and eventually got bored, declaring the interview over while Duffin in attendance for their US Premiere; documen- holding my arm again to keep me there as he dismissed taries and Irish Film and Television Academy awardee Princess Margaret for “committing spiritual fornication and adultery with the Anti-Christ,” when they visited the reporter. “How did I do?” he asked. I took a deep “Bernedette: Notes on a Political Journey”; “Ballymum breath and replied with a slight grin, “Sir, you are a Lullaby,” with director Frank Berry in attendance. Pope John XXIII in Rome. In 1963, when Pope John died, Paisley offered these statements: “The Pope is now complete fraud.” With that he slammed his hands on President Obama’s Irish cousin, Henry Healy, is the table, and began to laugh (they were more like guf- expected to attend the screening of his film, “The Road in Hell,” and “The Romish man of sin is now in Hell.” Some 25 years later, in 1988, when Pope John Paul faws, I would say) as he slapped me on the back and to Moneygall,” detailing how Healy found out he was continued to enjoy himself until someone interrupted. a distant cousin of the US president, and chronicling II was speaking to the European Parliament, to which the people of Northern Ireland had elected Paisley, he So Ian Paisley had a sense of humor. How do these Obama’s visit to Offaly last spring. stories fit with the rest of his tyrannical image? He On Sunday, films include “Dreaming of the Quiet stood during the speech and yelled, “He is the Anti- Christ,” earning him a suspension from that body. did a lot of harm during his life. He will be gone soon Man,” a piece that acknowledges the 60th anniversary and the hurts have begun to heal. of “The Quiet Man,” by exploring director John Ford’s struggle to highlight his homage to Ireland, his parents’ place of birth. Written and directed by Sé Merry Doyle, the film features contributions from commentators Of the Church and contraception and film makers including Peter Bogdanovich, Martin Scorsese, Jim Sheridan, and, exclusively, Maureen O’ By James W. Dolan I was born, bred, educated, and will die within the Hara. Also on Sunday, an encore of “The Quiet Man,” Special to the Reporter Catholic Church. For me, it best explains God’s rela- which is rarely seen on the big screen will be shown. The Catholic Church’s stance on contraceptive tionship to man. The doctrine of original sin helps me “There’s nothing ‘unlucky’ about this, our 13th an- birth control is wrong and as a result is largely ignored understand human nature’s obvious flaws. The Church nual Festival,” Dawn Morrissey, festival co-director, by practicing Catholics. is not immune from these weaknesses, so evident in said in a news release. “Momentum is building around There are two realistic meth- ourselves and our institutions. the strength of our line-up and it is an honor to be the ods to limit the size of families The child sex abuse scandal is only the most recent first port-of-call when it comes to premiering Irish film – now a matter of necessity not example of human beings within the church at all in America. For a complete schedule of screenings, and just for health concerns but also levels failing to act responsibly. Even good and sincere to purchase tickets, go online to irishfilmfestival.com. for family and economic stabil- persons are afflicted with human frailty. They can be ity: contraception and abortion. wrong, and in the case of artificial contraception, I To suggest the two are the same believe they are. is nonsense. Faith is the affirmation of hope. It is the act of believ- Boston Irish Contraception is a means to ing in things that cannot be proved – that are beyond prevent conception. Abortion is our capacity to reason. On such matters, I submit to the termination of a fetus. Since the authority and teachings of the Church. There are no one can say with absolute also issues, like contraception, that most view as ca- REPORTER James W. Dolan pable of analysis. 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By Peter F. Stevens Massachusetts Irish votes. Politics smart and simple. Still, he backed off his claims to the Herald, a paper BIR Staff Brown, however, who has proven adept at never taking that is deeply supportive of all things Scott Brown, that It came as no surprise that on Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s a stand until he knows the turf beneath him is solid, he was close to passage of the E3 bill. John Kerry has recent swing through Boston, he met with a politician might have promised more than he can deliver here. often been castigated by the Boston media of all stripes named Kennedy. In this case it was the new Kennedy In fact, he has been backing away from his comments because of his penchant at times for murky, equivo- on the political block, Joseph P. Kennedy III, who is to the Herald. cal phrasing, but in words that rival Kerry’s ill-fated running for Congress. It used to be that all things Irish Many local Irish-American leaders, both Democrats first-he-was-for-it, then-he-was-against-it gaffe in the in these parts and in Washington, D.C., ran through and Republicans, are not buying equivocation from 2004 presidential race, Brown offered this of the E3 Senator Ted Kennedy, but in a clear sign of just how Brown’s original stance, and various political observ- measure: “I said the issue is about to pop; I never said much politics in Massachusetts and across the country ers speculate that failure to deliver on E3 could cost the bill was about to pop. The fact that we’re talking have shifted in recent years, Kenny and Tanaiste (Irish Brown votes. “It’s one thing to verbally come out and about it, and it’s in the forefront, that’s about to pop.” Deputy Prime Minister) Eamon Gilmore were courting support it, which is great, but there has to be follow Stoking the heat on Brown, immigration-rights Senate Republican leaders Mitch McConnell, Charles through,” said James Gallagher, head of the United organizations and anti-immigrant groups alike are Grassley, and Maine’s Susan Collins, among others. Irish Counties of Massachusetts. “We’ve been led down contending that he is seeking special treatment for the The issue for Kenny the primrose path before.” Irish in order to win Boston Irish votes. In the Boston and Ireland was, and Brown’s chief obstacle is not the Senate Democrats. Globe, Roy Beck, of Numbers USA, a group committed to is, an E3 visa bill that In fairness to his efforts, Brown has helped persuade keeping immigrants out, charged that Enda Kenny and would allow 10,500 Irish 53 Democratic senators and a handful of Republicans his government are “upset because they don’t have the a year to come to Amer- to back the bill. As he knows full well, the legislation special privileges that they once had” and want special ica with two-year non- needs 60 to get past a filibuster, and that a filibuster treatment at the expense of other immigrant groups. immigrant visas renew- would come from fellow Republicans who are virulently They should not be given favor ahead of other groups able every two years, anti-immigrant. Republican Senator Charles Grassley, such as “Latinos and Africans and Asians.” Brown also a process that already of Iowa, has hamstrung Brown’s efforts by holding up has to deal with Irish-American organizations saying exists between Ireland a combined hi-tech workers and Irish E3 visa bill, but his E3 bill falls far short. and Australia. Aware Brown has been trying to persuade Grassley to com- Jack Meehan, a past national president of the Ancient that in the gridlocked, promise in the sSnate, leaning upon Senate Minority Order of Hibernians of America, wrote to Irish Central contentious US Senate, Leader Mitch McConnell and powerful Texas Senator that Brown’s bill does not go nearly far enough. “If a Sen. Brown the Republicans have John Cornyn to get Grassley on board. Brown is also permanent resolution is not reached now,” he asserted, employed the filibuster competing with Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer, “it will be déjà vu all over again twenty years from in unprecedented and never-intended ways – yes, the of New York, who also has an immigration bill with now. It is my honest belief that to settle for something Democrats used the same tactic to block George W. 53 Democrats supporting it. Perhaps ominously for like this is to do a great disservice to those wishing Bush, too, but never in the record numbers as McCon- Brown, Politico reports, “The powerful ranking Repub- to emigrate from Ireland, but more importantly a far nell’s defeat-Obama-no-matter-the-cost crew – the Irish lican [Grassley] on the Senate Judiciary Committee greater disservice to our undocumented Irish nation- government has turned to Scott Brown, the man who is opposing Brown’s efforts to quickly pass a bill that als currently residing here who have been completely won the deceased Ted Kennedy’s seat, as the point man could certainly help him in a state about a quarter of left out in the cold.” in the drive to push the E3 bill through the Senate. whose population has Irish roots.” “‘Tis a fine mess” into which Senator Scott Brown Senator Brown, facing a strong challenge from As the pressure mounts, Brown is working to broker has plunged, and his chief problem is the very shift Democrat Elizabeth Warren in a real, not a special, a deal. He told the Herald and other outlets that he’s in American politics that has seen Enda Kenny reach- race, has championed the so-called “Irish bill” and “working on using every mechanism and every means ing out to the minority party in the U.S. Senate. The guaranteed to the Boston Herald that because of his to address their concerns like I do on every bill.” He intransigence of far-right Republican colleagues might efforts, the bill was “ready to pop.” There’s nothing added, “I don’t do stuff based on campaign issues; I’ve present Brown a version of “ready to pop” he never wrong with Brown using the issue as a means to court been doing my job since I got here.” anticipated to see during his battle for reelection. Returning to Kerry – the Flahertys and the O’Donnells By Bill O’Donnell I told myself on our annual visit to Ireland with my My cousin Dan Flaherty died twenty years ago at age wife Jean and daughter Erin, it would be different. 53. As he left us, he was doing what he loved: tending The trail began close to home in Dorchester, when my his sheep atop the mountain overlooking the farm be- mother’s brother Timmy handed me two long-forgotten low that he shared with his wife Eileen and daughter Irish registry certificates. The papers confirmed that Margaret. I love all the Flahertys, but I reserve a special both grandparents were born and baptized in the district place for Dan. He was a community leader, a regular of Castlemaine, a small farming community over the in the Castlemaine players Slieve Mish Mountains from Tralee in County Kerry. group, and a much-loved The next portion of the link was St. Gobnait Parish performer in his neighbor- in Castlemaine. The church pastor, Father Casey, hood musicales. And from our who, when we knocked on his door, didn’t seem at all first meeting almost 30 years surprised either at our visit or our request for informa- ago, he was my friend. The tion. After introductions and cold drinks for his three following account of that first visitors, the priest produced from a nearby cabinet meeting with our Irish family what looked to be a Dickensian ledger book, the of- members was published 29 ficial record of baptisms in the parish. Almost before years ago and I dedicate it the good Father could complete his apology about the now to Dan Flaherty and the parish’s “poor record-keeping,” he was tracing his fin- cousins in County Kerry and ger along the neatly scripted entries of a century ago. beyond. It was all there: both my mother’s parents’ baptismal Dan Flaherty REACHING back into the dates and godparents’ names. All the godparents would A special man past and confronting your show up later as sponsors of a succeeding generation beginnings has grown com- of new births. pulsively popular and very much the buffed personal All told the entire process, exclusive of the hospital- Dan’s daughter Margaret; George Flaherty, Dan’s ity, at the parish office had consumed less than ten brother; O’Donnell; Margaret Flaherty, mother of journey to take in recent years. Much of the allure of Dan and George, and in front, Erin O’Donnell, Bill the genealogical mania has rightly been attributed to minutes. Our next stop, as directed, was at the “Keel Church” some two miles away on the main road where O’Donnell’s daugher, on the farm in Castlemaine, Alex Haley and his book and TV series “Roots.” But Co. Kerry in 1983. for Irish Americans who have found the excellent Irish Tadgh and Annie were christened; Tadgh in 1875, Catholic Church records compelling, and the proximity Annie in 1878. I couldn’t keep my eyes off a large, I would learn from George and Dan the adventurous of their native land a boon to ancestor-hunting, the roots ornate crystal baptismal font where a century earlier lives of the peripatetic Flahertys of Ireland. I discovered of the old country have long held a potent fascination. both, as infants, had been christened. I had difficulty that four brothers, Matt, Tom, Dan, and Tadgh (Tim) John F. Kennedy, as president, visited his forebears’ reconciling the two elderly Irish I knew from Lafield had emigrated to America in search of that better life. homestead in June of 1963 and the photographs show- Street in Dorchester and the two babies that began One brother, Dan, father of the Dan I was sitting across ing him with his Wexford cousins quickly became the their lives on St. Gobnait’s altar here in Kerry in the from, homesick for the gentle, rolling farm country focal point of his Irish pilgrimage —and front page, late-19th century. surrounding the River Maine, would return home happy-time news around the world. Who can forget But now, leaving the church, it was time (ready or after nine years in America. The other three brothers, the beaming young world leader standing near the not) to meet the cousins, who Father Casey told us were including my grandfather Tadgh, would never return. humble Dunganstown home of his grandfather sur- only minutes away. Our first stop was a small farm We also learned during the tea-driven revelations, rounded by his equally delighted Irish relatives. That at the curve-end of a slim dirt road in the Shanachill that we had additional cousins in the states, sisters of image contributed greatly, at least among the American section of Castlemaine. There a man pitching hay lis- Dan, George and Tom, now married and living in Buf- Irish, to the upsurge of interest in Ireland and those tened patiently to our story, nodded knowingly, and falo. As we sat around the table that evening talking of who came before us. directed us to a farm building up the road where, he the past and what our respective lives had been, there Yet despite all that and a personal, quiet longing to assured us we would find “your cousins, the Flahertys.” was muted surface excitement, but little to indicate someday visit the birthplace of my mother’s parents, And so we did. the inner satisfaction and sense of fulfillment of the Tadgh Flaherty and Annie Griffin Flaherty, I had We wouldn’t meet Dan, who was in Tralee, until later two sets of cousins, one American, the other Irish. We resisted the temptation on many earlier Irish trips that evening, but his brother George, a bachelor who had covered the miles and the years to a moment of to “intrude” on ordered lives and separate worlds. owned and worked a nearby farm —another second homecoming none of us would forget. The attempt to connect with ancestors in Ireland was cousin (our grandfathers were brothers) welcomed After returning to Boston —safely distanced from the simply something I would get to later. I had no idea, us with conversation, tea, and open arms. George stark emotions of that familial encounter —I thought of course, if any Irish relatives were still alive and introduced his mother, Margaret Flaherty, widow of about those long, comforting hours in Kerry and what living in Ireland, and if so, what their reaction might George’s father Dan Sr. George explained that he had I had left there and, more importantly, what I had left be if a “Yank cousin” and his trailing family actually long expected cousins from the states would someday with. I remember even now that look on Dan’s face when presented themselves at their front door. come calling, and there we were. During the following he first discovered who we were. I recall the softened Just a kernel of family lore talk-filled hours as we sat in the farmhouse kitchen but still discernible disappointment when the brothers I knew from early on that my maternal grandparents we discussed decades-old leavings and homecomings, spoke wistfully of their father, Dan, Sr. who had died had come to this country from Ireland around the turn births and deaths, and the sudden-new family history six years earlier, always hoping to meet the American of the century. I could vividly recall the difficulty I had of both the stateside and Kerry Flahertys. cousins that would surely come some day. as a youngster trying to decipher my grandparents’ ‘Extended family’ time Months later I can still hear Dan’s voice, the evening brogues on our Sunday excursions to Dorchester from Photographs of Irish relatives I had never met nor milking chores finished, on our last night in Kerry, Somerville. But beyond that meager kernel of family would ever meet, were taken down from the mantle and saying in a near-whispered aside, “I will never forget history, I knew nothing further. But this year, 1983, the term “extended family” took on a new dimension. this.” And neither will I. Page 8 March 2012 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com

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By John P. Rattigan Special to the BIR Calvin Coolidge John Fitzgerald Kennedy Third in a three-part series commemorating the 27th At the annual dinner in 1920, anniversary of the Charitable Irish Society of Boston. Governor Calvin Coolidge at- After returning from naval tended and responded to the service in World War II, John The Charitable Irish Society, founded in 1737, had toast “to the Commonwealth of F. Kennedy, like most of his a good head start over the United States of America, Massachusetts.” Coolidge was family, joined the Charitable which was established some 39 years later. In the warmly received at the din- Irish Society. His brother Joe intervening years, five of the nation’s chief executives ner, according to newspaper had been a member along have addressed the Society, three of them while serv- accounts. It apparently did with his father, Joseph P. ing in the presidency and two who had not yet moved not matter that seven months Kennedy. Both of his grand- into the White House. previously Coolidge backed fathers, Patrick Kennedy Although non-political, the Society has always been the firing of all of the partici- and John “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald, were prominent a putative representative of a large ethnic voting bloc pants in the Boston police strike, most of whom were members as well. in Massachusetts, so it is hardly surprising that poli- Irish. This record was favorably counterbalanced by Following his election to the US Senate, Kennedy ticians of every level and persuasion have carefully his vocal support for Irish independence. Coolidge’s responded to the toast to the United States at the cultivated a relationship with the Society in the hope decisive action in the police strike gained national Society’s dinner in March 1953. Like many of the “cold of being favorably remembered in the next election. attention and led to his election as vice president and warrior” politicians of this era, his remarks centered Most often, this interest was manifested by an his later succession to the Presidency. upon the free world and the encroaching threat of appearance at one of the Society’s annual dinners Communism. celebrating both the feast day of Saint Patrick and the There probably was no prouder moment for the anniversary of the organization’s founding. Following Charitable Irish Society than the election to the is an account of the Society’s presidential encounters: Franklin D. Roosevelt presidency of one of its own members in 1960. Dur- ing his first year as President, Kennedy instituted a On the 200th anniversary of formal recognition of Saint Patrick’s Day by hosting Andrew Jackson the Society in 1937, President a reception at the White House. In making this nod Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke to his Irish heritage, JFK spawned a tradition that Andrew Jackson did not simultaneously via telephone has continued for over fifty years. hesitate to describe himself to both the Society and the Hi- **** as of Irish origin. His parents bernian Society of Savannah, The Society’s chronicles with regard to these were Presbyterians from Coun- Georgia, that was celebrating presidential interactions open a window into times ty Antrim, Northern Ireland, its 125th anniversary. At the long past and the historical events that shaped the and he was a member of the time, Roosevelt was at his cultural and political thinking of the day. We learn Hibernian Society of Philadel- vacation retreat in Warm the reasons that brought people together and the phia, which he joined in 1819. Springs, where he would die eight years later. causes that sometimes drew them apart. From the It was unusual for a sitting In an unusually warm and personal greeting, Roos- Colonial days into the 21st century, the Charitable president to tour the states of evelt said: “It gives me great pleasure from this quiet Irish Society has been a microcosm of life reflected the Union in the early 1800s but Jackson, first elected spot in the Georgia hills to greet my friends of the in the larger world. to the office in 1828, did so during his second term. Charitable Irish Society of Boston and the Hibernian John P. Rattigan is a past president and a current His travel included Boston where he spoke at Harvard Society of Savannah. You in Boston, celebrating your member of the Board of the Charitable Irish Society. College and visited the USS Constitution. two hundredth anniversary, are the oldest of the fam- During Jackson’s stay at the Tremont House in ily. You in Savannah, celebrating your one hundred President images courtesy americanpresidents.org/ Boston, the Society’s president and a delegation of and twenty-fifth anniversary are the youngest. I have gallery. members called upon him on June 22, 1833. In reply a particular tenderness for St. Patrick’s Day for, as to the greetings of the Society, Jackson said: some of you know, it was on the seventeenth of March “It is with great pleasure that I see so many of the 1905 that a Roosevelt wedding took place in New St. Patrick’s Day countrymen of my father assembled on this occasion. York City with the accompaniment of bands playing I have always been proud of my ancestry and of being their way up Fifth Avenue to the tune of “The Wearin’ descended from that noble race, and rejoice that I am of the Green.” On that occasion New York had two fete will hail so nearly allied to a country which has so much to great attractions—the St. Patrick’s Day Parade, and recommend it to the good wishes of the world.” President Theodore Roosevelt, who had come from Washington to give the bride away. I might add that Society’s 275th it was wholly natural and logical that in the spotlight William Howard Taft of these two simultaneous attractions the bride and the bridegroom were almost entirely overlooked and anniversary The 175th anniversary of left in the background. the Society 100 years ago “Today, therefore, I am obtaining revenge for my The Charitable Irish Society of Boston will celebrate was notable not only for the obscurity on that occasion, for I am taking an actual its 275th anniversary with a gala dinner on St. Pat- presence of President William personal part, even though it be by telephone, in one rick’s Day at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel in Howard Taft but also for the celebration of the day in the North and another cel- Boston. The evening will commence with a reception famous “dust up” between the ebration of the day in the South. There is a further at 6 p.m. that will be followed by dinner at 7. The Archbishop of Boston, Wil- happy coincidence in this greeting which I am sending event is optional black tie. Members and non-members liam Cardinal O’Connell, and tonight to Boston and to Savannah. My children are of the society are welcome to attend. then-Massachusetts governor, the direct descendants of pioneer settlers of both your Founded in l737 by Irish immigrants who came Eugene Foss. cities, Savannah through their mother, and Boston primarily from Ulster, the society is the oldest Irish At this time, 1912, there was still palpable tension through their father. I am proud to participate in organization in the Americas. For almost three cen- between the local Protestant and Catholic commu- these celebrations and to have this fellowship with turies, the society has remained firmly committed to nities, especially in the matter of church and state organizations which in former years were addressed its core missions to help Irish immigrants to Boston, relationships. Both sides were responsible for provoca- by predecessors of mine in the presidency of the to nurture unity and harmony among all Irish people, tive statements and inflammatory behavior that only United States.” and to advance their social, moral and civic interests increased this friction. Once again, high drama and intrigue re-visited on both sides of the Atlantic. For instance, at the 1908 centennial ceremonies the stage of a Charitable Irish Society dinner. Only As part of the celebration, the Society will confer marking the founding of the archdiocese, Archbishop one month earlier, Roosevelt had unveiled his “court Life Achievement Awards on four distinguished people O’Connell observed, or rather boasted, “The Pilgrim packing” plan to appoint additional justices to the US of Irish ancestry who have contributed immensely to has passed. The Catholic remains.” Supreme Court. This was an attempt to shift the bal- civic, cultural and public life in Boston: Sister Janet Only four months before the dinner, Governor Foss ance away from the more conservative justices who, Eisner, SND, President of Emmanuel College; Dick announced that he would not allow the state militia Roosevelt felt, had undermined much of his progres- Flavin, playwright and poet laureate of the Boston to march in a Boston parade honoring O’Connell upon sive New Deal legislation. This was an extremely Red Sox; Henry Lee, founder and past president of his return from Rome where he had been elevated to controversial proposal that ultimately failed to gain the Friends of the Public Garden; and Kathleen M. the College of Cardinals. much public or Congressional support. O’Toole, former Boston Police Commissioner and Being imperious by nature, O’Connell was very Roosevelt’s telephone remarks were to be followed currently Chief Inspector of the Garda Siochana comfortable with his new title and did not hesitate by a speech by FDR’s personal representative, Harold Inspectorate in Ireland. to exercise the perks that went along with his posi- Ickes, the Secretary of the Interior. Shortly before Tickets are $175 per person. Reservations can be tion. Just before the anniversary dinner on March 17, the dinner, the Society’s president wrote to Ickes re- made by contacting the society either by telephone at word was passed to the Society’s dinner committee questing that he not touch upon the “court packing” 617-330-1737 or by email at charitableirishsociety@ that protocol required the cardinal be seated next issue in his address. Ickes refused and threatened to gmail.com. For further details, contact President to the president on the dais and that he address the withdraw if he was so restricted. Paul McNamara at 617-722-8100. dinner guests immediately following Taft and before As it turned out, Ickes was unable to attend the din- A Night at Fenway Governor Foss. This was based upon the theory that ner due to illness and Assistant US Attorney General In advance of the anniversary gala, the Society a “prince” of the Catholic Church outranked a mere and Roosevelt intimate Robert Jackson replaced him. planned to host an event on March 1 from 6 p.m. public servant, albeit governor, in the hierarchy of The president later appointed Jackson to the Supreme to 8 p.m. at the Bleacher Bar to commemorate the protocol. The Committee made the change and when Court and during his tenure there, he served as Chief 100th anniversary of the opening of America’s most Foss learned of it, he was so incensed that he boycotted US prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crime trials. beloved ballpark. The event will honor Charles E. the dinner. Accordingly, there was no one to respond The president’s son, James Roosevelt, accompanied Logue and James E. McLaughlin, the Irishmen who to the traditional toast “to the Commonwealth of Jackson to the dinner. built Fenway Park. Massachusetts.” Jackson, because he was a last minute replacement, Ground was broken in September 1911 for the The Charitable Irish Society has always been proud did not have a prepared speech but did his best to out- construction of the park, which opened seven months of its diverse religious membership and ecumenical line the positive aspects of FDR’s judicial reform plan. later. Logue (1858-1919), a member of the Charitable tradition. Twenty-six Irish Presbyterians founded the According to newspaper reports, many of the dinner Irish Society and an immigrant from Derry, Northern Society. By the time of the 175th anniversary, owing guests were hostile to these ideas and responded with Ireland, was the construction engineer and McLaugh- to the upward mobility of the sons and grandsons of “subdued booing” during Jackson’s remarks. lin (1873-1966), a son of Irish immigrants who was famine era immigrants, Irish Catholics dominated Also on the speaking program was Martin Conboy, born in Nova Scotia, was the project architect. the Society. former US Attorney for the Southern District of New Tickets are $35 per person and may be paid for It is disturbing to look back at a time when fellow York, and a fellow Democrat and friend of the Roosevelt at the door by cash or check but reservations are Christians stood so far apart from one another fully administration. However, on this occasion, Conboy required and can be booked by calling 617-330-1737 ignoring the spirit of tolerance. The displays of petty spent most of his speech castigating Roosevelt and or by e-mailing the Society at: charitableirishsociety@ bickering and the acrimony that characterized the tearing into the plan to reform the Supreme Court. gmail.com. The Bleacher Bar is located under the 1912 dinner, as well as the whole milieu in Boston, Ickes later intimated that Society officials had tried centerfield bleacher stands near Gate C of Fenway would not begin to wane until after the First World to “set him up” by adding Conboy to the program with Park at 82A Lansdowne Street. A parking garage is War. the specific intention of embarrassing him. located directly across the street. Page 12 March 2012 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com March 2012 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 13 Happy St. Patrick’s Day When reminiscing about St. Patrick’s Day, one cannot but re- flect upon “one of Boston’s great Irishmen,” Andrew Carney, the founder and benefactor of Carney Hospital.

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For more information or to book an appointment call: 617-506-4400 Page 14 March 2012 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Kenny re-assures Boston of the Irish grit in a crisis (Continued from page 1) actually creating the new and where you were still future. In ten years’ time, attracting a lot of internal much of that is going to investment from abroad. come out of the ingenuity “We have all those char- of the Irish workforces acteristics, [we just have] coming down the line. to tie them together. The “Ireland borrowed over fundamental challenge 63 billion [euros] to re- is that we are spending capitalize our banks at 18 billion [euros] more high interest rates,” Ken- than we’re taking in. That ny said, adding that his means you have to down- government negotiated size the cost of running the a lower rate that “saved government, downsize the the Irish taxpayer over 10 public sector, and provide billion (euros).” As a result your service more effi- of the economic meltdown, ciently with less people. Ireland has been under “It also means that you the direct economic rule have to concentrate on of out-of-the-country fi- providing a stimulus for nancial institutions, and the economy so that it can Kenny said his govern- expand, because while you ment is working to find are cutting back, you’re “flexibilities” that were never going to get out of not available in the early the economic situation stage of the Euro zone that we’re in. Ireland struggles. He added that is one of 27 countries those institutions are now in the European Union, Kennedy cousins Stephen Smith and Joseph P. Kennedy, III flank Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny at reviewing possible ways and one of 17 in the euro a business luncheon held on Feb. 17 at the Kennedy Library in Dorchester. Kennedy Library photo to adjust the repayment plan. zone where we have to a horizon. We’re not mov- things: one of them is polit- the number of tech compa- mix here. “We’re going to pay our deal with the fact that you “In the last ten months ing off our 12 1/2 percent ical stability – the two par- nies, banking companies, debts, but we want a facil- need fiscal discipline, you we have rebuilt the repu- corporation tax rate; our ties in government have the new companies off the ity to have a lower interest need budgetary oversight, tation of the country, and technology, our talent pool a big majority and we’re internet – they’re all in rate over a longer period,” and the fact that if you business now knows that and our track record are working on implementing Ireland and they’re doing Kenny said. “We will pay sign on for conditions, we’re not messing around quite unique, in the sense our own program with the well in Ireland because it in full and keep our you better be prepared in Ireland. There’s clar- that there’s opportunity people; the second is the they recognize the creativ- reputation and our status to adhere to them. So all ity, there’s decisiveness, for any potential investor. opportunity for economic ity and the imagination of and our credibility intact.” those things are in the there’s definition, there’s “We offer two other growth, and that means our young people, who are BC appeals judge’s call for more Belfast tapes (Continued from page 1) cific case requested by the with the government’s of 10,” Dunn said. deceased Belfast Project The Belfast Project guar- the remaining cache of 24 British authorities,” said interest in meeting its Ed Moloney, the former participants, David Irvine antee to safeguard the IRA-related tapes should BC spokesman Jack Dunn Mutual Legal Assistance Belfast journalist who and Brendan Hughes, identities of those inter- also be conveyed to the in an interview with the Treaty obligation with the directed Boston College’s says that two key Boston viewed, the ASA said rep- PSNI. Judge Young— Reporter. “The six others United Kingdom,” a refer- project, and Anthony College faculty members resents “a core component at BC’s request— first made only a passing refer- ence to the treaty that McIntyre, a project re- encouraged the book’s of efforts by historians and reviewed the tapes in ence of Jean McConville. has — so far— trumped searcher and former IRA publication and hoped to social scientists to develop his court chambers and, Given this apparent lack BC’s appeal to maintain member, said that they share in any profits. In a the research-based knowl- subsequently ruled that of probative value to the the confidentiality of the welcomed news of the BC statement sent to the Re- edge that is critical to an seven of the tapes con- criminal investigation, it archives. appeal. porter, Moloney says that informed society and its tained some reference to made sense to appeal the “Our intention was “I think they’re glad Prof. Tom Hachey of the well being.” the McConville case and second court order.” to be a repository of an that Boston College has Irish Studies Department The American Civil Lib- should be sent to Northern Dunn said that Boston oral history project that belatedly joined them,” and Dr. Bob O’Neil, who erties Union’s Massachu- Ireland detectives. College will “argue that would provide a future their attorney Eamonn ran BC’s Burns Library, setts affiliate (ACLUM) This time, BC has the District Court incor- resource for historians Dornan told the Associ- encouraged the book’s has also lent their support balked at the judge’s or- rectly applied its own and scholars seeking a bet- ated Press, although both 2010 publication. to the appeals by BC, der, noting that Young’s review standard when it ter understanding of The Moloney and McIntyre The Council of the along with Moloney and own ruling— dated Jan. demanded the production Troubles, while also help- have been outspoken in American Sociological McIntyre. In an amicus 20, 2012 —indicated that of the interviews of these ing to promote peace and criticizing the university’s Association (ASA) issued brief filed with the court, there was little or no value seven individuals.” reconciliation in Northern position on the Price’s a statement in February the ACLUM warned that to the tapes in his opinion. “From the beginning, Ireland. At no time have interviews. supporting the BC ap- those exposed could be “The judge admits that Boston College has asked we wanted to obfuscate Moloney, who wrote peal, saying that they are considered informants just one of the seven pro- Judge Young to weigh a criminal investigation a book Voices from the “profoundly disturbed” by by paramilitary groups vides information that our interest in protect- into a horrific abduction Grave based in part on Judge Young’s latest deci- and targeted for assas- is responsive to the spe- ing academic research and murder of a mother tapes recorded of two sion on the seven tapes. sination. Ireland to hold referendum on European fiscal pact By Shawn Pogatchnik The fiscal treaty agreed campaign to stop a pact he Associated Press last month by 25 of the said would strengthen the DUBLIN – Ireland’s cit- 27 EU countries proposes Irish government’s “ter- izens will vote on the Eu- tough new deficit and rible policy of austerity.” ropean Union’s new fiscal debt limits for eurozone And Shane Ross, an treaty, Prime Minister members in hopes of pre- independent lawmaker Enda Kenny announced venting future financial and investment guru also on Feb. 28, in a major crises. The only holdouts, critical of Ireland’s bail- test for plans to impose the United Kingdom and out terms, argued that tougher budget discipline Czech Republic, are not rejection of the treaty on the 17-nation Ezone. euro members. was the only way to stop Kenny planned to sign The treaty would nor- a process that would end the treaty on March 2 at mally require ratifying in Ireland’s surrender a Brussels summit but members to keep their of economic decision- noted that Ireland’s con- deficits within 0.5 percent making. He noted Franco- stitution requires the pub- of gross domestic product. German hopes of forcing lic to ratify the treaty in a But it offers basic excep- Ireland to raise its 12.5 referendum. The outcome tions, such as a severe percent rate of corporate is uncertain - Ireland has recession or an existing tax, a key magnet for voted down two previ- bailout agreement. investment by 600 U.S. ous European treaties, Ireland’s 2010 bailout companies in Ireland. delaying their ultimate terms require the govern- Ross called the treaty ratification. ment to reduce its deficit “a forerunner of further to 3 percent of GDP by fiscal union down the Ireland’s government AP photo will quickly draft the 2016, so Ireland wouldn’t road” that, if ratified, yes-or-no question to be be expected to reach the x500 billion ($670 bil- EU and International the brink of bankruptcy would set the stage for put to the people “in the 0.5 percent target until lion) European Stability Monetary Fund. will not be repeated by “greater sacrifices of our coming weeks,” Kenny 2017 at the earliest. It ran Mechanism. While the bailout is any future government,” independence.” said. He specified no date a 2011 deficit of 10 per- This means that if the meant to keep it funded Kenny said. Ireland has been the for the vote. cent, better than expected, Irish vote to reject the until late 2013, many Opposition leaders wel- only EU member bound “I am very confident while its bailout target for treaty, Ireland could be economists expect Dublin comed the government’s by its 1937 constitution to that, when the importance 2012 is 8.6 percent. barred from receiving will require a new round of decision as a chance to subject each EU treaty to and merits of this treaty While the 0.5 percent more EU loans once its EU-IMF loans next year. undermine what they a nationwide vote. are communicated to the rule is of no immediate current bailout funds run “In this referendum, consider European ef- The policy twice has Irish people, they will concern to Ireland, the fis- dry by the end of 2013. the Irish people can con- forts to seize control caused major headaches endorse it emphatically cal treaty also emphasizes In 2010, Ireland was firm our commitment to of Ireland’s spending and for the EU as Irish vot- by voting ‘yes’ to continued that any members who fail forced out of bond markets responsible budgeting taxation policies. ers temporarily blocked economic stability and to ratify the pact by March as its borrowing costs and, in doing so, ensure Gerry Adams, leader the union’s two previous recovery,” Kenny told law- 2013 will be blocked from soared and negotiated that the reckless eco- of the Irish nationalist treaties with narrow “no” makers in Dail Eireann, receiving funds from the a euro 67.5 billion ($90 nomic mismanagement Sinn Fein party, vowed to votes in 2001 and 2008. the parliament. eurozone’s future euro billion) bailout from the that drove our country to lead a strong anti-treaty Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com March 2012 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 15 BRETT’S BOSTON By Harry Brett Exclusive photos of Boston Irish people & events

The Wharf Room at the Boston Harbor Hotel was the scene of a business breakfast in honor of Ire- land’s An Taoiseach Enda Kenny T.D. on Fri., Feb. 17. The event was hosted by the Boston-based Irish American Partnership, and drew several hundred business and Irish civic leaders to hear the govern- ment leader in his first visit to the city since being elected to head the Irish government last March.

1.) Marie Louise Greenidge, PJP II; Nick Puleo, BC High; Sr. Gail Donahue, SSJ, PJPII; Rev. Wil- 1. liam P. Joy, chairman of PJPII; 2.) Rep. Marty Walsh, Dorchester; Joe Leary, IAP; Jim Brett, Dorchester; Bill Walczak, Carney Hospital; 3.) Caroline Faherty, Mary Howard, Norwood; 4.) Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Richie Gormley; 5.) Bill Morrissey, president Central Bank; Dr. Larry Shields, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School; 6.) Bill Reilly, Attleboro; Arthur Buckley, Lynn; 7.) Sen. Jack Hart, So. Boston, Dorchester; Rep. Linda Dorcena Forry, Dorchester; Joe Kennedy; Rep. Marty Walsh; 8.) Steve Greely, Exec. Director Ireland Fund; Matt Power, Lexington Insurance Co.; 9.) Patrice and Fred Harris, Arlington; 10.) Paul Guzzi, Chamber of Commerce; Jim Brett, New England Council; 11.) Mary Conroy Henderson, Westwood; James Finn, Dublin/Glastonbury, CT; Monique Miller, Arlington, VA; 12.) Kevin Plunket, VP HRIZONS, 2. Needham; Stephen Costello, Needham; Tom Kirk, TYPESAFE; 13.) Stephan Masterson and Jonathan Hanly of Ulster Bank, Dublin; Cian McCourt, New York; 14.) Rita Kyne, Galway; Liz O’Connor.

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St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast Celebration Supporting the future of our Irish heritage. You are cordially invited to attend The Irish American Partnership’s Annual St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast. Join Boston-area business and community leaders, Government ministers from Ireland, North and South, and the Partnership

The Boston Harbor Hotel - Wharf Room Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts Friday, March 16, 2012 8 a.m.

Featured Speakers Ministers from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland Professor Brian MacCraith, President, Dublin City University Invocation Special Appearance The Boston Boy Choir The Boston Archdiocesan Choir School of St. Paul’s Church Cambridge, MA

A special drawing will take place for all attendees for Two Round-Trip Tickets to Ireland! Sponsored by Tourism, Ireland.

The Irish American Partnership 33 Broad Street • Boston, Massachusetts 02109 For reservations, call 617-723-2707 www.IrishAp. org Page 18 March 2012 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Irish International Immigrant Center An agency accredited by US Department of Justice 100 Franklin Street, Boston, MA 02110 Telephone (617) 542-7654 Fax (617) 542-7655 Website:iiicenter.org Email: [email protected] Lá Fhéile Pádraig are first-come, first-served Are you interested in Sona Daoibh: Happy and it is possible we will becoming a U.S. citizen? Saint Patrick’s Day from reach capacity. The up- Please join us at the Irish everyone at the Irish coming schedule: International Immigrant International Immigrant South Boston La- Center for free citizenship Center to all Boston Irish boure Center, Feb 28, 6 classes to prepare for the Reporter readers. p.m., 275 West Broadway. citizenship exam starting Celebrate Saint Pat- Downtown Boston, in January. IIIC staff rick’s Day by making a March 5 and 19, 4 p.m, at can help you through the donation to support our the IIIC offices,100 Frank- whole process. Choose work of assisting immi- lin St, (enter 60 Arch St.) between two class times: grants from Ireland, and Allston-Brighton, Thursday afternoons 1 from over 120 different March 12, 6:30 p.m.. p.m.-3 p.m. or Thurs- countries. Donations of Green Briar Pub, 304 day evenings 6 p.m.- 8 $10 or more made before Washington St. p.m. Call Chris Tegmo March 17 will be entered Dorchester, March 28, at 617-542-7654, Ext. 41, into a draw for two VIP All 6:30 p.m, St. Mark’s Par- to register or for more IIIC program manager Jude Clarke meets the Wider Horizon’s group from Access Passes for the Irish ish Hall, 1725 Dorchester information. Ireland whose arrival in Boston is scheduled for later this month. Film Festival (scheduled Ave. IIIC Wellness and for March 22-25 in Bos- Free Citizenship Ap- Education Services: be seminars during the IIIC Exchange 1,000 hours of service to ton). You can send a check plication Assistance The IIIC offers the fol- event and information Program Updates local organizations this for the attention of Mark Workshop: March 3: lowing courses in part- available about financial J-1 Irish Work & year. They return to Ire- Kerr, 100 Franklin Street. The IIIC, working in nership with Cathedral aid options. You do not Travel Program: The land with new skills and Boston, LL-1, Boston, MA collaboration with the Cares Ministries and have to have completed IIIC continues to help a confidence which allows 02110 or make a secure, Fish Family Foundation, CARE (Cumann Áirigh, our classes in order to large number of students many to become future online, donation at iiicen- the MIRA Coalition, and Runchara Na hEireann): attend. This event is and graduates from Ire- community leaders, youth ter.org/donate. Thank you six other organizations, Home Health Aide Train- free and open to all. If land find paid internships workers, care providers for your support. will hold a free workshop ing; CPR Workshops; you are interested in a in Boston, and the United and other careers. Free legal clinics for on Sat., March 3, at the Employment Preparation vendor table, please con- States through our J-1 We are currently gear- immigration and US Notre Dame Education Workshops; Computer tact Ann Marie Cugno at IWT program. Megan ing up to host our group citizenship issues: Center in South Boston. Skills Training; Access- 617-542-7654, Ext. 32. Carroll, director of in- of the year. Twenty young Immigration attorneys If you are interested in ing Higher Education Still interested in Quit- tern placements for the adults will arrive on and specialists are ready registering for the event, Workshops; Stress Man- ting Smoking? Improv- IIIC’s J-1 IWT service, March 24. This is the to assist you. Please call in please call John Rattigan agement Courses; Suicide ing Stress Manage- recently returned from sixth consecutive year advance to confirm clinic at 617-542-7654. Prevention Workshops; ment? If you were unable a very successful trip to that IIIC have partnered is still being held (617- Free US Citizenship Reiki Classes and Other to attend our recent Smok- Chicago and continues to with the Clanrye Group, 542-7654). And please Preparation Classes: Holistic Skills. ing Cessation groups but assist graduates in secur- which is based in Newry, remember that all clinics March 8 – April 12: Please check our web- are still keen to quit smok- ing quality internships County Down. The IIIC’s site (iiicenter.org) for ing, we are able to offer you in their field of study. Jude Clarke recently trav- current class schedule another opportunity! We Wider Horizons Pro- eled to Ireland to meet the Immigration Q & A updates and new course are planning a series of grams: The program group, and assist them in offerings. Stress Management work- brings young men and their preparations to visit IIIC Employment & shops this Ssring, which women from Ireland to Boston. Don’t even think Education Open Day, will include Hypnother- Boston for six week intern- We need local families Boston, March 8, 5 p.m. apy. Hypnosis has been ships in community-based to host one or two of these to 8 p.m.: The IIIC will known to be very effective organizations. The expe- young adults for their of marriage fraud host an open day for Home in helping people limit or rience provides a great six-week stays. IIIC staff Health Aide employers cut out unhealthy behav- opportunity for personal support all host families Q. I have heard that some people who are un- and schools from all over iors, especially smoking. and professional growth throughout the stays and documented receive legal permanent residence the state who are looking All workshops in this for these young adults. compensation is provided. based on a marriage to a U.S. citizen that isn’t for new staff or students series are free. Contact They provide a tremen- For more information, really genuine, and that there is a good chance interested in the health- Danielle at 857-233-6613 dous contribution to the contact Ann-Marie Byrne that the immigration authorities will not catch care field (CNA, LPN, or [email protected] for local Boston community at 617-542-7654, Ext. 16. on. Is this true? Nursing, etc.). There will more information. and will contribute over A. Anyone considering a green card application based on a fraudulent marriage needs to think again. This is a serious federal offense, and it is vigorously prosecuted by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Matters Of Substance and the US Department of Justice. ICE regularly announces, as part of its “Operation Honeymoon’s Over,” the arrest and federal prosecution Hidden challenge – Opportunity for Hope of people for committing marriage fraud and related offenses. Generally this involves schemes whereby the By Danielle Owen by others, and of doing or other social occasions; conspirators collect a substantial fee to arrange sham IIIC Staff things that will embarrass eating, drinking, and writ- marriages between U.S. citizens and undocumented In the eight years I have them and because of this ing in public; meeting new immigrants. But it also would cover a situation where been honored to work with fear they tend to avoid people; speaking in public; a U.S. citizen agrees to marry an undocumented person the Boston Irish immi- situations where they may using public restrooms and apply for the green card, just as a “favor.” These grant community, an issue be “seen.” They may feel There are a number of offenses carry stiff penalties: up to five years impris- has consistently surfaced an overwhelming anxiety ways people can get help; onment for each charge, plus a fine of up to $250,000. for people dealing with and self-consciousness in you cannot just “snap” In addition, the undocumented immigrants involved alcohol and/or drug abuse everyday situations, not yourself out of this condi- face deportation. problems – social phobia. just at events. They can tion. The goal of treatment When an immigrant applies to adjust status to that Let me be clear: this worry for days or weeks is to help you function of permanent resident based on marriage to a U.S. will not be an exploration before a dreaded situation, effectively in all situa- citizen, the couple is interviewed by an experienced of how shyness “makes” a worry that can become tions and success usually U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) people drink or use drugs! so severe it interferes with depends on the severity of officer before a decision is made. At these interviews, Social phobia is often work, school, and other the phobia. the officer asks questions designed to elicit information hidden and frequently activities, making it hard Frequently I meet peo- Danielle Owen about whether the marriage is genuine. The couple also confused with “being shy.” to make and keep friends. ple in recovery from alco- must present extensive documentation of the marriage The truth is it’s a very Although many people hol or drugs who discover support groups and spe- relationship – birth certificates of any children born to common disorder but with with social phobia realize that these symptoms can cialists available in Mas- the marriage, joint financial information such as tax support, its key symptoms that their fears are exces- continue for months after sachusetts who can help, returns, photos, and the like. An applicant does not can be successfully man- sive or unreasonable, they they abstain. Without ef- and we here at the IIIC stand a good chance of surviving this level of scrutiny aged. If untreated, people are unable to overcome fective support, individu- are available to chat with if the marriage is a sham. with social phobia are at them on their own. als are then at higher risk you about the best referral Applicants with a genuine marriage, on the other high risk for alcohol or Physical symptoms that of relapse; soon followed options available, even if hand, have nothing to fear from USCIS in the inter- other drug dependence, often occur with social with a pain, shame and you do not have health view, which will be quite brief and conducted in a loneliness and isolation phobia include blushing, hurt. insurance. respectful, professional manner. In fact, we at IIIC because they may come difficulty talking, nausea, Anti-anxiety and anti- Recovery and change is meet with couples prior to the interview to discuss to rely on drinking or profuse sweating, elevat- depressant medications always possible. Let us the process and ensure that their documentation is drugs to relax in social ed blood pressure, rapid are sometimes used to help you! Call Danielle at adequate. They go to their interviews fully prepared situations. It may begin heart rate and/or trem- help relieve the symptoms 617-542-7654, Ext. 14, for and accompanied by a member of our legal staff. For in adolescence with both bling. This is different associated with phobias more information, and to a free, confidential consultation about marriage-based males and females being from shyness. Shy people but are not always nec- chat about your options. adjustment of status or any other aspect of immigration equally at risk of develop- are able to participate in essary. Counseling and Send an e-mail to down@ law, visit one of our legal clinics as announced in the ing this problem. social functions; however, group support can be very iicenter.org. You can also Boston Irish Reporter’s IIIC notes column each month. Social phobia is a per- people with social phobia effective in helping you check out this great re- Disclaimer: These articles are published to inform sistent and irrational fear are constrained by their understand and change source for more informa- generally, not to advise in specific cases. Areas of law of situations like being condition to the point that the thoughts that are tion mentalhealthquiz- are rapidly changing. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration seen at parties and other it affects their ability to causing your condition, as zes.com/sadtreatments. Services and the U.S. Department of State regularly social events. People tend function in work and rela- well as learn to recognize html. amend regulations and alter processing and filing to have an intense, persis- tionships. Common fears and replace panic-causing Danielle Owen is the procedures. For legal advice seek the assistance of an tent, and chronic fear of can include: Attending thoughts. IIIC’s Director of Wellness IIIC immigration specialist or an immigration lawyer. being watched and judged parties/ going to the pub There are some great and Education Services. Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com March 2012 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 19 David Kelly, familiar face in Irish film, TV, dead at 82 By Shawn Pogatchnik Associated Press DUBLIN – Irish char- acter actor David Kelly, who played Grandpa Joe in “Charlie and the Choco- late Factory’’ and motorcy- cled naked in “Waking Ned Devine,’’ has died. He was 82. His family and friends said Kelly died on Feb. 19 in Dublin after an acting career on stage, film, TV and radio that spanned a half-century. The cause was not given. Kelly was best known in Sean Keane, left, Paddy Moloney, Kevin Conneff and Matt Molloy are celebrat- ing their 50th anniversary as the Chieftains. Photo by Barry McCall Ireland for his 1980 depic- tion of doomed tenement David Kelly had hilarious role in the movie ‘Waking dweller Rashers Tierney Ned Devine’. AP photo Chieftains hail 50th with in the historical minise- Usually consigned to In 2005 he played Char- ries “Strumpet City’’ and bit parts in film, Kelly’s lie Bucket’s grandfatherly for his large body of work two most prominent roles escort in Tim Burton’s Symphony Hall concert as a Dublin stage actor in came late in life. In 1998’s adaptation of the fantasy the 1950s and 1960s. Brit- “Waking Ned Devine,’’ world of Willy Wonka. (Hear/Concord). Produced ish and Irish TV viewers he portrayed an Irish That year he also received The remarkable Chief- Roxbury, and Florian Hall by Paddy Moloney and T. also could recognize his villager who must imper- a lifetime achievement tains, now marking their in Dorchester, respec- Bone Burnett, it features face and bony frame from sonate the late Devine award from the Irish Film 50th year of bringing tra- tively, have been put off the group teaming with, short, usually comedic to collect a huge lottery & Television Academy. ditional Irish music to ven- due to the artist’s health. among others, stars from turns on myriad soaps and win – and finds himself His final role was in 2007’s ues around the world with Pat McDonough, the the worlds of indie-rock sitcoms, most memorably hurtling down a muddy fantasy film “Stardust,’’ an extensive tour of Eu- show’s promoter and pro- (Bon Iver, The Decem- as a work-dodging Irish road, naked apart from in which he played the rope and North America, ducer, in wishing Larry berists, The Low Anthem), builder opposite John his motorcycle helmet, guard between the Eng- will be performing for the Cunningham a quick country and Americana Cleese in a 1975 episode of socks and shoes, to keep lish village of Wall and 24th time in Boston when recovery, says he “will be (The Civil Wars, Pistol An- “Fawlty Towers.’’ He also the ruse intact. Kelly often the magical kingdom of they gather at Symphony putting on a show, with a nies, Carolina Chocolate played a dim-witted, one- joked that his career took Stormhold. Hall on Wed., March 14, new date and a different Drops, Punch Brothers), armed dishwasher in the off in his 70s once casting He leaves his wife, the for an 8 p.m. show entitled, artist. Irish and Scottish folk late 1970s British sitcom agents finally knew about actress Laurie Morton, “Voice of Ages” with Paddy “Robin’s Nest.’’ Moloney & The Chieftains (Imelda May, Lisa Han- Jordan performs in his sexy body. and their two children. and Special Guests [one of nigan, Paolo Nutini). Celtic Sojourn shows whom is former member After the Symphony Dorchester’s own Ki- Seán Keane]. Hall show, the group will eran Jordan will perform Make that ‘Mayor’ Gormley head to New York and a in the seventh annual A The ensemble was West Roxbury funeral director Richie St. Patrick’s Day date at St. Patrick’s Day Celtic formed in 1962 by Paddy Gormley, right, is receiving congratula- Carnegie Hall. Sojourn concert. The show Moloney, who brought tions from his friends after being selected Celebrity Series of Bos- which will be staged at together folk musicians as “Mayor of West Roxbury. The designa- ton, which first welcomed the Zeiterion Theater in such as fiddler Martin Fay, tion, an honorary title, was bestowed last The Chieftains to the city New Bedford on Saturday, flautist Michael Tubridy, month after an online vote conducted by in 1981, is presenting March 17 and at Harvard tin whistle virtuoso Seán Patch.com, an internet site . this month’s performance, University’s Sanders The- Potts and bodhrán player In the informal, unscientific polling, entitled, “Voice of Ages” atre in Cambridge on Sat- David Fallon. Potts and Gormley received 33 percent of the tally. with Paddy Moloney & urday, March 24. Hosted Tubridy left in 1978 and The website had asked respondents to The Chieftains and Special by WGBH radio host Brian were replaced by Kevin say “Who is the unofficial Mayor of West Guests [one of whom is O’Donovan, the show will Conneff and Matt Molloy, Roxbury.” Some nine persons were in the former member Seán Ke- introduce audiences to a who remain in the band running, with longtime West Roxbury Richie Gormley on Centre Street ane]. The sponsor is Tufts wide range of new and today. The Chieftains are activist Mary Mulvey Jacobsen second Photo West Roxbury Patch Health Plan, with 89.7 familiar Celtic singers, recognized for bringing with 32 percent. WGBH as media partner. musicians, and dancers. says he plans a celebratory event at the traditional Irish music to Gormley, who also is president of the Tickets are $75, $65, $57 Kieran is an Irish dance club late this month. “I’m looking forward the world’s attention, and Co. Roscommon association and a long- and $47,and are available performer, choreographer to inviting everybody to my inauguration were officially named Ire- time supporter of the Irish Social Club, on March 30,” he told the Patch outlet. land’s Musical Ambassa- online at celebrityseries. and instructor who lives in dors, as they have become org, by calling Celebri- Lower Mills. She has more the standard bearers of the tyCharge at 617-482-6661 than 25 years of dance Irish folk music tradition. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to experience and is the long- New director for ICC They have been nominated 4 p.m., or at the Symphony time Dance Director for A The Irish Cultural Cen- mix of programming, with other Irish organiza- for a total of 18 Grammy Hall box office, 301 Mas- Christmas Celtic Sojourn. tre has a new director, facilities and members tions in the greater Boston Awards, and are six-time sachusetts Ave. Joined on stage by Jackie Mary McTigue, and she who all come together and area and throughout New O’Riley and Kristen Kelly, winners. The group has Larry Cunningham has set as her goal expand- also great sports events, England. She also hopes she will bring variety and also won an Emmy and a shows are cancelled ing the organization’s so we’re lucky to have all to increase use of the Genie award. The Larry Cunningham percussive spice to the reach in the regional Irish of that here.” center for functions and To celebrate their golden performances scheduled gatherings. community. Her time at the ICC has take advantage of the anniversary, the Chief- for March 16-18 at Con- Tickets and information McTigue has headed just begun, but the new approximately 50 acres of tains last week released a cannon’s in Norwood, the for both shows are avail- non-profit groups for the director wants to expand property on ICC’s Canton new CD, “Voice of Ages,” Irish Social Club in West able at wgbh.org/celtic past 20 years, the last 10 of the cultural center’s offer- campus. which she spent as execu- ings and reach out to new – Meena tive director of the Boston audiences via things like Ramakrishnan Division 8 AOH to cite 3 Adult Education Center. additional partnerships During her tenure, the program grew to have at St. Patrick’s Day fete some 30,000 students a year attend classes there. The Rev. James T. serving veterans of all sociation Relief’s In, One She concentrated on ex- O’Reilly OSA Division 8 wars, but in particular Market Street, South panding program offer- Ancient Order of Hiberni- those who served during Lawrence. It will feature ings, increasing market- ans will be honoring for- the Vietnam War. This a traditional corned beef ing efforts, and diversify- mer Massachusetts State award is presented annu- and cabbage dinner with ing the school’s approach Sen. Sue Tucker as the ally to an Irish Catholic dancing to the Jolly Tin- to adult education. winner of its Hon. John E. who resides in the Greater kers from 6 p.m. to 11 Says McTigue, who Fenton Citizenship Award Lawrence area, and is p.m. For more information grew up in Holyoke, at- at its St. Patrick’s Day named after the great and purchase of tickets, tended Boston College, Dinner Dance on March Irish Catholic prelate who contact Robert Gauthier and now lives in Lexing- 10. Sen. Tucker served in served the archdiocese of at 978-686-2786. ton, “The ICC has a unique the Massachusetts House Boston for nearly 50 years. of Representatives from Lawrence resident 1982 to 1992 and the Sen- Timothy J. Doherty, a ate from 1999 to 2010. A member of Division 8 for native of Michigan, she more than 20 years, has now resides in Andover. been named Division 8’s Edward F. Curran has 2012 Irishman of the Year. been selected as the re- This award, established cipient of the Richard in 1964, is the highest FOLEY LAW OFFICES, P.C. Cardinal Cushing Award. honor that the Division A native of Lawrence, Mr. can bestow on a member. Attorney John Philip Foley Curran worked for the A native of Everett, he has Permanent Residency & Citizenship • Family & Business city of Lawrence for many lived in Lawrence for over Immigration • Labor Certification & Temporary Visas years and also served as 25 years. ALL Nationalities & AILA Members the Veteran’s Agent for The banquet and dance the city of Methuen. He will be held at the Law- has been very active in rence Firefighters As- Page 20 March 2012 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com March 2012 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 21 Page 22 March 2012 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Boston irish Boston Irish Arts, Entertainment, Reporter Travel & More

Bill Whelan, the Grammy Award winning composer of Riverdance, visited the Columbia Campus of Pope John Paul II Catholic Academy on November 30, 2010, where he was entertained with songs by members of the Academy’s music program. Photos by Ed Forry beating human heart is open everywhere. One begins to realize after touring the world that, whatever may The sound of ‘music in the air,’ be the geographical and political divides, at the level of our music and dance, poetry and painting, drama and literature, there is little that separates us and and the sight of ‘feet on the floor’ much that affirms our common humanity. If I may, I would like to include some personal re- flections about Boston. Four years ago, my youngest son, Brian, enrolled as a student at Berklee School A Riverdance salute to Boston of Music on Mass. Ave. Last year, my family and I sat proudly at the Commencement ceremony for his a homecoming. For the dancers and musicians, Boston’s By Bill Whelan graduation. Shortly after Brian began his studies, I audiences always feel a bit more like their Dublin Special to the BIR was invited to join the Board of Trustees at Berklee. counterparts – rowdier, more familiar, and eager to It seems like yesterday that Moya Doherty and I Inevitably, all of this meant that I have spent consid- celebrate their Irish roots. In other venues with less sat down in the chill winter of 1993 in a small café on erable amounts of time here. I now have friends and Celtic connections, this exuberance is also present, Dublin’s Baggot Street to discuss the germ of an idea colleagues in Boston, and I have come to know the city but combines with a curiosity about Irish culture and that was to become Riverdance. Little did we dream that better, enjoyed its many cultural and social amenities, a keen willingness to join in the party. by 2012, this small germ would have sprouted into a worked and relaxed here, and feel very much at home There is something at the core of traditional music two-hour show that would be seen by 22 million people every time I return. and dance, no matter where its roots lie, that has a around the world. Now it is making its return visit to Slán, the Irish word for “goodbye,” is a familiar word capacity to unite people. In those 16 years touring Boston, where Riverdance has previously performed to many Bostonians. Either they, or their forbears, will the United States, Riverdance has witnessed some on seven very happy occasions. have used that word over the centuries, and sometimes extraordinary events – from the horror of 9/11 to see- However, for the first time, this visit will be tinged in heartbreaking circumstances. It comes from the ing Americans go to war. Back in the home country, with some nostalgia. We are here to say farewell to Irish word lán which means “full” – “full and plenty” we have lived through the arrival and the departure Boston and to the USA, as our company sets out on -- of life, of health and of happiness. And while it is of the Celtic paper Tiger and we have watched our its travels elsewhere. doubly difficult at this time to say Slán”“ to Boston, it people struggle to deal with the fallout. This will be our first time out of the United States is exactly what all of us in Riverdance wish our friends Despite all these trials, what the Riverdance company in sixteen years. Significant milestone events like this here in Massachusetts: a warm farewell. prompt some reflection, both general and personal. witnesses every night is the human capacity to come together and engage emotionally and spiritually when Since the show first set foot on American soil in Bill Whelan is the composer of Riverdance, which there is music in the air and feet on the floor. And what 1996, we have played in every kind of venue, from will be presented at the Boston Opera House on the is most encouraging is that wherever we tour, be it in massive arenas to more intimate concert halls. In some weekend of April 13-15, with shows on Friday night New York, London, Moscow, Beijing, Tokyo, Hamburg, locations, like here in this city where there is a large and the Saturday and Sunday afternoons and evenings. or Millstreet in County Cork, this same window into the Irish-American community, the performances resemble At a time of changing seasons, The Ivy Leaf seems to be on the cusp of its own transition By Sean Smith (they’ve also done gigs in vari- Special to the BIR ous subsets of the group). The Hoary clichés and bad jokes experience last year of record- just seem inevitable where the ing a CD, which they expect to Boston-based traditional Irish release this spring, proved to be band The Ivy Leaf is concerned: a formative one for the band and You could say, for instance, that strengthened their personal and The Ivy Leaf is blossoming, has musical bond with one another. deep roots in the Irish tradition, So, at a time of changing sea- is branching out, and some day sons, The Ivy Leaf seems on the will be raking it in. cusp of a transition themselves. But horticultural-themed They are plainly delighted at wisecracks should not obscure their progress thus far, happy the fact that this quartet of with the relationship they have young musicians—all in their forged, and optimistic about early or almost-mid 20s—really what opportunities may lie is getting ready to bloom. ahead. You might say, in fact, As its members—Dan Acca- that their hopes and expecta- rdi, Armand Aromin, Caroline tions are in full flower. O’Shea, and Lindsay Straw— “It’s really interesting to have individually done due listen to the album now,” says diligence in learning the music, Accardi, a Warren, RI, native they have collectively worked to who is in his final semester develop a sound suited to their at Boston College. “I think of skills as well as their interests. it as a recording of us finding Their resume includes Boston- our voice as The Ivy Leaf. We area gigs at Club Passim, City had been playing together for a Feed and Supply, the Lansd- while, obviously, and we knew owne Pub, and an upcoming The Ivy Leaf: (L-R) Dan Accardi, Armand Aromin, Caroline O’Shea and Lindsay Straw a bunch of tunes and songs, but performance at The Beehive Photo by Larry Green (Continued on page 30) Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com March 2012 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 23 Irish music calendar for March – it’s busy, as always The Greater Boston • There are three op- fiddler Jeremy Kittel, Gaelic Roots Music, Song, area resounds with Irish portunities to catch Larry whose style encompasses Dance, Workshop and and other Celtic music Cunningham, an exalted Celtic, American and jazz Lecture will host an Irish all year round, of course, figure in Irish showband elements; multi-genre dance and ceili on March but March seems to be a annals, when he appears trio The Bee Eaters, with 29 at 6:30 p.m. in the Gas- particularly active period in the Boston area during the compelling sounds of son Hall Irish Room. Ki- – perhaps because of a St. Patrick’s Day week- fiddle, cello and hammer eran Jordan will call and certain holiday that falls end. Cunningham – who dulcimer; the Kieran Jor- direct the dancing, with on the 17th. Here’s a look has appeared with the dan Dancers; and a “pure music provided by Seamus at some of the events tak- likes of Loretta Lynn, drop” ensemble of bou- Connolly and friends. The ing place in the next few Hank Williams Jr., and zouki/flute player Mark public is invited, and there weeks: Johnny Cash, and whose Roberts, piper Joey Ab- is no charge for admission. • The Deadstring En- show band was the first to arta and fiddler Tina Lech. The Gaelic Roots website semble of John McGann, play Carnegie Hall – will Go to wgbh.org/celtic for is bc.edu/gaelicroots. Flynn Cohen, Danny be at these venues: March more information. – SEAN SMITH Noveck, and Matt Hea- 16 at Concannon’s Village • The Boston College ton will appear as part in Norwood; an afternoon of “Celtic Fusion 2012” dance on St. Patrick’s Day on March 5 at Berklee at the Irish Social Club College of Music’s Café in West Roxbury; and a 939, 939 Boylston St. in post-St. Patrick’s Parade Boston. The free concert, dance on March 18 in which begins at 8 p.m., Dorchester’s Florian Hall. features Berklee faculty See shamrocknation.com and students in an eve- for ticket information and ning of traditional and other details. original music from across • The seventh annual the Celtic diaspora. Also “St. Patrick’s Day Celtic performing will be the trio Sojourn,” with host Brian A column of news and bring an instrument and updates of the Boston join in, or to share a song, of Holland Raper, Ellen Irish singer Susan McKeown will be among the O’Donovan, will be at Appleton and Drew Story, New Bedford’s Zeiterion Celtic Music Fest (BC- a poem, a story—or even performers at this year’s “St. Patrick’s Day Celtic MFest), which celebrates to showcase his or her and Jenna Moynihan, Sojourn.” Theatre on St. Patrick’s Hamish Napier, Courtney Day, before heading to the Boston area’s rich step-dancing skills. The Hartman and Lukas Pool. p.m., on the heels of their a slew of special guests Sanders Theatre in Cam- heritage of Irish, Scottish, session starts at 7 p.m. See fusionmagazine.org. new CD [see this month’s during the performance. bridge a week later (March Cape Breton music and Club Passim is located at • Irish supergroup Der- reviews]. Altan has been See celebrityseries.org. 24). Performers for this dance with a grassroots, 47 Palmer Street in Har- vish will play at The Bur- at the forefront of the most • Boston’s own Matt year’s edition are: Irish musician-run winter mu- vard Square; see passim. ren on March 7 as part of recent Irish music revival, and Shannon Heaton will singer Susan McKeown sic festival and other org for more information. the popular Somerville bringing a fresh perspec- share the bill with local – known for her particu- events during the year. Next month’s Celtic pub’s “Backroom” series. tive to the Donegal music harpist Maeve Gilchrist at larly passionate brand – SEAN SMITH Music Monday, on April 9, The sextet, led by singer tradition that is at the core Club Passim on March 15. of singing – who will be The BCMFest monthly will feature a performance Cathy Jordan, has gar- of their sound. See world- The Heatons bring both with Michael Brunnock, Celtic Music Monday by Kyle Carey, a singer- nered widespread praise music.org for details. virtuosity and sensitiv- a New York City singer- series will present “The songwriter who is steeped for their musicianship • Celebrating their 50th ity to their renditions of songwriter featured on BCMFest Session” at Club in Gaelic language and and artistry, as well as anniversary year, The traditional Irish music as the soundtrack of the Sean Passim on March 12. The music traditions. Ad- the quality of their record- Chieftains hit town on well as their own material, Penn movie “This Must Be event, which is free of ditional details will be ings. More information at March 14 with an 8 p.m. while Gilchrist has fash- the Place; Jefferson Ham- charge, is an opportunity available in next month’s burren.com. concert at Symphony Hall. ioned a unique approach er and Eamon O’Leary, to relax and enjoy an in- column. • Another top Irish Original founding mem- to Celtic harp that draws who play detailed ar- formal evening of music For information on BC- band, Altan, take to the ber Paddy Moloney, with upon contemporary influ- rangements of traditional hosted by some of Boston’s MFest, and to join the stage at the Somerville Matt Molloy and Kevin ences. Go to passim.org for and original songs in Irish best session musicians. BCMFest e-mail list, see Theater on March 10 at 8 Conneff, will be joined by tickets and information. and American styles; Anyone is welcome to bcmfest.com. Page 24 March 2012 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com March 2012 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 25 Liam Harney: Dancing Man He’s in Reagle’s revue, ‘A Little Bit of Ireland’ By R. J. Donovan recently spoke about his professionals now—and Special to the BIR work and the upcoming they do what they do best Reagle Music Theatre’s Reagle revue. Here’s a for keeping in shape. popular revue “A Little condensed look at our BIR: What do you have Bit of Ireland” returns conversation. in store for this year’s on March 17 and 18 for BIR: Dancing has really “Little Bit of Ireland?” its 14th season. The show been your life. Where did LH: There will be a is a colorful celebration it all begin? combination of maybe 16 of Irish music, dancing, LH: Well it just clicked or 17 dancers. Some of and light-hearted comedy with me. My parents them are in college, oth- based on what Reagle’s put their three oldest ers in high school. And Producing Artistic Direc- into dance after a trip to then we like to jump the tor and Founder, Bob Ireland. I didn’t really gap all the way down to Eagle, modestly calls “a know what to expect, I our youngest dancers, little idea I had.” was just four and a half. [who are] 7 and 8 years This year’s production I loved the music. … It old. Probably they’ll do features an enthusiastic was pretty clear it was the old-fashioned country cast of almost 70 singers my favorite thing to do. set. The older girls will and dancers, including As the years went on, it be doing more of what’s World Champion Irish Step Dancer Liam Harney leads students from his Irish tenor Rusty Russell, became more competitive come to be known as the Harney Academy of Irish Dance in a number from “A Little Bit of Ireland” at world-renowned Irish and I went on to win the show scene Irish dance Reagle Music Theatre. Photo by Herb Philpott fiddle player Seamus Con- World Championship a numbers. nolly, Broadway’s Sarah few times, become a Presi- BIR: “CelticFusion” in the London production it was really the moment the English said, “It’s the Pfisterer, Harold “Jerry” dential scholar and later was quite innovative. of “Riverdance.” in time when the world coordination of arm, head Walker, Larry Reynolds went on to perform for a How did you come up with LH: (Laughing) We’re saw a line of world cham- and foot movement.” So and Comhaltas, plus Ju- couple of our presidents as the concept? talking ancient history pion Irish dancers—the Ireland came up with dith Ross and the Massa- well as the presidents of LH: “CelticFusion” was here. If I could be as bold two lead dancers being their own mock dance, chusetts Harp Ensemble, Ireland. I’ve had a pretty a huge success for us here as to say, it being a new Jean Butler and Michael restricting their arm and among others. good dance career. in the United States be- genre of Irish dance— Flatley—with a budget to head movement, straight Always an audience BIR: Was teaching and cause it was what people show dancing—there were actually put on a spectacle forward, but showing favorite in the show is sharing the dance tradi- were looking for. … They very few people that the show. And not to forget the free nature and the Men’s World Champion tions something that was were curious—What is producers had to choose that it was a Eurovi- fighting spirit of the Irish Irish Step Dancer Liam a natural progression? Irish dancing? And how from because the competi- sion song contest—which people through the fast Harney, returning for the LH: I always knew did this phenomenon come tion scene was so strict on meant all of Europe was foot movement. Now that’s sixth year. As in the past, that I wanted to teach. to be? So I decided it would arms straight down and tuned into it (on television) just a theory . . . but it does Liam will bring with him But I also knew I had a be an informational show head straight forward. at that very moment. draw a picture. a diverse group of dancers performance bug that along with being an enter- BIR: “Riverdance” was BIR: To end where we R. J. Donovan is pub- from his Harney Academy needed to be taken care taining show. I take audi- just explosive for dancing, began, tell me a bit about lisher of OnStageBoston. of Irish Dance in Walpole. of. I decided I would open ences on a journey. I am wasn’t it. the traditions of Irish com. Since leaving the world of my studio and have that the narrator of the show, LH: People had no dancing. *** competitive dancing, he to come back to after I but not through spoken idea that Irish dance had LH: I don’t know if Reagle Music Theatre’s has taken his considerable had my performing years words. It’s through dance. as much technique and you’ve ever heard the defi- “A Little Bit of Ireland,” talents to some of the most under my belt. I opened I showed what happened talent behind it—years nition of Irish dance, being March 17-18, Robinson prestigious stages around the studio here in Boston to the music and the dance of training. They thought that dance was banned in Theatre, 617 Lexington the world, from starring in 20 years ago this fall. steps when they crossed of it as St. Patrick’s Day. Ireland by the English. St., Waltham. Tickets: “Riverdance” to perform- BIR: Do you find your the ocean and came to the People putting their hands And the Irish said, “Well, 781-891-5600 or reagle- ing internationally in his students stay with you United States. We’d do on their hips and doing a what is dance? We’d like players.com. own creations, “CelticFu- long-term? the Irish dance number mock Scottish dance. So a definition of that.” And sion” and “Waves.” LH: Yes, that’s basi- and the audience would Whether on stage on cally one of the honors I get what they thought in the studio, he’s known consider in Irish dancing. they were getting. And for his dedication to culti- You build relationships from there, I’d come out vating Irish dancing and with these kids—you’re in a special light and do crossing it over into other their teacher and their a bit of a solo and turn it styles. mentor for a good 10 to into the country clog. So Born in Boston and a 12 years of their lives. I the audience started to certified instructor and now offer a class called see the Irish dance chip adjudicator, Liam was Boomerang. If you throw away and become another named one of the top 100 a boomerang it does come dance form. Irish Americans by Irish back. And so these kids America magazine. We come back to me—they’re BIR: You also starred Page 26 March 2012 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com

and Ciaran Tourish plus accordionist Dermot Byrne refrain behind to fire up the melodies, and rhythm ably supplied by Ní Mhaonaigh. CD Roundup guitarists Daithi Sproule and Mark Kelly, and Ciaran She also sings Curran’s counter-melody/harmony bouzouki style. Also “The Pretty By Sean Smith contributing on some tracks are Belfast-born flutist Girl Milking Long anticipated new recordings from two of Ireland’s Harry Bradley and bodhran player Jim Higgins, add- Her Cow” in its best-known acts of the past few decades are in stock, ing even more exquisite texture. original Gaelic, and neither is likely to disappoint fans. A couple of powerful sets, “The Ardara Girls/Back- to great effect Altan, “The Poison Glen (Gleann Nimhe)”— door Highlands/Fáscadh mo Léine/Reel in A/Ciaran (and we learn Right from the opening track, a pair of lusciously ar- Tourish’s” and especially “The New Rigged Ship/Eddie from the album ranged and played slip jigs (“A Fig for a Kiss/The Turf Curran’s/The Monaghan Twig/Kitty the Hare,” stand sleeve notes Cutter”), Altan shows itself to be as vital and relevant as testament to Altan’s enduring prowess in arrang- that Thomas a force in Irish traditional music as ever, nearly three ing and — most importantly — playing the tunes with M o o r e ’ s f a - decades on. Part verve as well as skill. The former set demonstrates the mous English of Altan’s long- Donegal-Scottish link, starting with three tunes from t r a n s l a t i o n standing appeal the Glenties part of Donegal and segueing into “Reel was recorded has always been in A,” led by Byrne with some generous boom-chuck by none other its distinctive backing by Kelly and Sproule, and then “Ciaran Tour- than Judy Garland). Donegal sound, ish,” composed by the late, beloved Jerry Holland. “The The album’s namesake location, Gleann Nimhe, is a largely fiddle- New Rigged Ship” set begins with a slower, unusually supposed to be where the Celtic sun god Lugh killed and-pipes tra- accented reel, Curran’s melodic accompaniment under- his grandfather Balar, who possessed an evil, poison- dition that is pinning the two fiddles and accordion, before Bradley ous eye. When Lugh pierced Balar’s eye, the legend peppered with helps launch the intricate second tune — from the goes, the poison stained the hills red, deep into the Scottish influ- repertoire of Curran’s uncle — and put the set into a granite, for eternity. Altan may not go around slaying ences. Given the more conventional groove. malevolent deities, but they, too, seem to be as much growing cosmo- The songs, in Gaelic as well as English, are every bit as a part of the Donegal landscape. politanism of tra- glorious. Ní Mhaonaigh lends a delicate but firm touch [Altan will be in concert on March 10 at the Somer- ditional music, in to “The Blackest Crow” — with fine harmony by Sproule ville Theatre.] Ireland and elsewhere, it’s more than a little refreshing — and “The Lily of the West,” with a nifty bluesy guitar to hear a band that continues to exhibit a definitive riff throughout. “Seolta Geala” is a sea shanty (trans- Mary Black, “Stories from the Steeples” – Now regional style with equal parts creativity and respect. lated from Gaelic by Ní Mhaonaigh’s father) intended here’s flattery for you: An audiophile magazine in the Musically, Altan sounds as game as ever, sparked as a call to “head for the freedom of the ocean,” and here UK thinks so highly of Mary Black’s voice that they by the twin-fiddle dynamics of Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh the rest of the band lends gorgeous harmonies on the use it as the basis for comparing the sound quality of different high fidelity systems. It’s certainly quite reasonable to hold up Black as a standard, what with her almost three decades-long career that has seen her go from a singer with trad/folk bands like De Danann and General Humbert to a chanteuse on the order of an Enya or Sinead O’Connor. “Stories from The Steeples,” Black’s first studio album in six years, is not, as one might infer from the title, a collection of faith or religious-oriented songs; The Steeples refers to the Dublin studio where the recording took place. Yet there is a certain atmosphere of rever- ence here, not least that of Black for songs with a strong narrative quality. The spiritual tone seems present in other ways, too, such as in Black’s voice, which now tends more toward the middle or lower range — in significant contrast to, say, the soaring heights of “A Song for Ireland” — and a rather intimate soulfulness. The 12 contemporary songs (one is a bonus throw- away, “Fifi the Flea,” a romance-in-the-carnival bit of whimsy penned by the Hollies’ Graham Nash, Tony Hicks and Allan Clarke) tend to fall in the contem- plative folk/country/pop spectrum where Black has largely operated for the past couple of decades. Among the highlights are Ricky Lynch’s “Marguerite and the Gambler” — love-from-the-wrong-side-of-the-tracks tragedy a la “Anachie Gordon” — and Paul Kelly’s “The Night Was Dark and Deep,” a vivid recollection of one of those childhood glimpses into an inexplicable, unnerving moment of adult life. Chris While and Julie Matthews’ “Steady Breathing” is an almost unbearably heartbreaking farewell to life, but not love, while Neil Murray’s “One True Place” — definitely suggestive of the aforementioned spiritual tone — soothes to the accompaniment of Pat Crowley’s accordion. Three of the songs, it should be mentioned, are compositions by Black’s son, Danny O’Reilly, the most impressive being “The Night Is On Our Side,” with appearances by the author and his brother Conor and sister Róisín. Black also has three duets on the album: “Moun- tains to the Sea,” an ode to the traveling life with rockabilly/blues-belter Imelda May; with Janis Ian on Boston-based Ry Cavanaugh’s simplistic but infectious “Lighthouse Light”; and, best of all, with the estimable Finbar Furey on his unabashedly romantic “Walking with My Love,” Finbar’s banjo and well-worn voice bringing a gruff charm to the proceedings. It gets occasionally schmaltzy and fluffy here and there — “Wizard of Oz” is one glaring example — but “Stories from the Steeples” is a welcome return for a performer who deserves to have her story told.

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Happily sion organized by Mon- projects that try a musi- for Gurney, “Traditional signor Coen during Gur- cian’s soul: long, exhaust- Irish Music on the But- ney’s early immersion into ing hours in the studio ton Accordion” fulfills the Irish music; the “Fly By spent doing take after mission statement in its Night/Eclipse” hornpipe take of the same track; plainspoken, declarative set, meanwhile, evokes fretting about various title, spotlighting the Derrane’s legendary deft post-production details; marvelous intricacies and touch. squabbling with accom- dynamics of both music A good recording, much panists about this or that and instrument. In reel like good luck, is sup- artistic aspect. sets, such as “The Brook/ posed to be the residue of And then there is Dan Ambrose Moloney” and hard work. In this case, Gurney’s new album. “Farewell to Ireland/The success also came from Gurney, a Harvard Uni- Beauty Spot/The Flow- Gurney’s adherence to versity grad and former ers of Red Mill,” and jig his goal of producing a Boston resident now living medleys—“Greensleeves/ straightforward, as-it- in New York City, rolled Banks of Newfoundland” comes presentation of out “Traditional Irish and “Driving the Cows Irish music. Gurney hoped Dan Gurney: “My favorite solo albums are simple in structure -- just two Music on the Button Ac- Home/The Bowlegged Tai- to recapture the feel of musicians in a studio.” Photo by Danny Diamond cordion” earlier this year, lor” among them—Gurney a foundational period in a 15-track, all-instrumen- shows himself to be less his life: 2009, the year he in performance and re- ing. “What I like about Gurney also credits tal CD featuring Gurney interested in break-neck lived in Galway on a post- cording stints with Matt Brian is that he plays recording engineer Paul playing accordion solo and tempos than in bringing graduate fellowship, and and Shannon Heaton, banjo as well as piano,” Gurney (no relation) for with accompaniment by out the qualities of tunes, devoted himself to crafting and as part of The Hay says Gurney of McGrath, the satisfying results: pianist Brian McGrath. while investing all with a his musicianship and ex- Brigade, the folk/jazz- who recorded the album “Paul is a genius with The album was recorded considerable drive. And ploring the tradition with fusion quartet he formed “Ireland’s Harvest” with sound. He was mixing the in a little more than three in presenting a repertoire a renewed focus. with Forrest O’Connor, Derrane and De Danann tracks even as we were hours last August at Real tending toward less-famil- “I wanted to recap- Duncan Wickel, and Nicky fiddler Frankie Gavin. “He listening to them, and he World Studios in Long- iar, off-the-beaten-track ture the atmosphere of Schwartz. But where solo knows the tunes from the got everything just right. ford, Ireland. Its tracks material that includes Galway,” says Gurney. albums are concerned, perspective of a melody Usually, I don’t like listen- are arranged exactly in other types of instrumen- “Although I certainly less is more for Gurney. player, so he plays piano ing to my recordings, but the order in which they tals, such as set dances played plenty of gigs and “It can be distracting if in a very complementary I’m still enjoying this one.” were made: “The first note and hornpipes—and aided sessions when I was there, you have too many accom- style. He gives you just The CD over and done you hear on the album,” by research notes from I also spent a lot of time panying musicians, or if the right kind of rhythm.” with, Gurney is happily says Gurney, “is the first Don Meade on each tune— just playing on my own, there are a lot of arrange- Chalk it up to the right settling into his new digs note I recorded with Bri- Gurney helps, in his own learning tunes, working ments,” he explains. “My mix of personalities and near the Little Italy sec- an.” Gurney had booked way, to further enrich the on my style. It was all very favorite solo albums are talents, or a fortuitous tion of New York City, two additional days at the place of the accordion in spontaneous and laid- simple in structure—just alignment of the planets, having recently moved studio, but the work was the Irish tradition. back, and that was the two musicians in a studio. but when Gurney and from his childhood home essentially done by the The album also is a sound I was looking for.” And, again, that was the McGrath sat down in the upstate in Dutchess Coun- end of the first day—the tribute—even an expres- This approach might mindset I kept from the studio and began playing ty. Suffice it to say, he is equivalent, perhaps, of sion of gratitude—from seem a significant change year in Galway.” into the microphones, “we no hurry to leap into a new driving from Boston to LA Gurney to some of the of pace for Gurney, given So Gurney reached out just got on a roll,” says project. on a weeklong car rental most influential figures in his ample experience to McGrath, a County Gurney. “I had written “I’d like to play some and getting there in half his musical development, working in ensembles, Fermanagh native whom down some sets I wanted gigs, maybe get a band the time. notably Monsignor Char- whether as a member he met while in Galway, to play, we picked them going,” he says, “but I’m Speedy and efficient use lie Coen and Joe Derrane: of fiddler/vocalist Lissa and signed him up as ac- out, and everything just happy to let things settle A set of barn dances, for Schneckenburger’s band, companist for the record- kind of flowed.” for a while.”

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By Judy Enright will be held in Lahardane Special to the BIR from April 8 to 15. Catherine Bourke, Nora The observation starts Fleming, Delia Mahon, on Easter Sunday with Annie McGowan, John a re-enactment of the Bourke, Annie Kate Kelly, journey from Lahardane Pat Canavan, Delia Mc- to Castlebar. The bal- Dermott, Mary Mangan, ance of the week includes Kate McGowan, James many assorted activities Flynn, Bridget Donohue, to entertain and inform all Mary Bourke, and Mary ages, including a treasure Canavan. hunt, vintage and heri- The names don’t mean tage display, exhibitions, much to most of us but a live American wake, an they bring tears to the eyes evening of Irish song and of many in the North Mayo poetry, and a spectacular parish of Addergoole. The Titanic Ball (advance tick- Addergoole Fourteen, as Lahardane, was empty last spring but had a plan- ets only) at the Pontoon the group is known, struck ning permission sign posted by the wall next to Bridge Hotel. A road sign as you enter Lahardane, North Mayo, out from the hills and the road. Work has been ongoing all year to create The annual memorial designated Ireland’s Titanic Village for the 14 valleys around Nephin a Titanic Memorial Park here that is designed to Mass on April 15 will be members of the community who were on board the Mountain 100 years ago simulate the bow of a ship pointing west. The park followed by the dedication ill-fated liner in 1912. next month – some in will have five story plaques and statues. of two Titanic stained pointing west, will have jaunting carts, others glass windows at St. Pat- five story plaques and two on foot – and crossed the remember the lost and the times for those lost and rick’s Church, designed by life-sized statues and will Windy Gap into Castle- survivors with an April three times – joyously American artist Michael be on land donated by the bar where they took the 15 commemoration that -- for those who survived. Coleman, who now lives Killala diocese next to the first of several trains to begins in Murphy’s Pub Lahardane is said to be in Lahardane and owns Lahardane rectory. Queenstown (now Cobh.) in Lahardane at 1 a.m. the only place in Europe Whitethorn Studio. There If you are in North Mayo There they settled into At about 1:45 a.m., the where the Titanic is re- is one stained glass win- at the beginning of April, steerage (third class) on participants – some of membered every year. dow on either side of an be sure to take part in the the RMS Titanic to laugh, whom are descendants of Dr. Paul Nolan, energetic existing marble plaque, Titanic Memorial Week chat, dance, and sing as the Addergoole Fourteen chairman of the Titanic erected in 2002, that lists events. And, if you’re in they prepared for the long – go from the pub to St. Society, said, “Ours is a the names and birth dates a post office in Ireland, ride to America and their Patrick’s Church. They very sad human story still of most of the Addergoole keep an eye out for the Ti- bright new lives. quietly walk down a dark remembered here.” Fourteen from baptis- tanic stamp with Michael When the luxury liner street that is illuminated A WEEK OF mal registers and other Coleman’s painting that struck an iceberg off only by their 14 lanterns REMEMBRANCE sources. The theme of one portrays the Addergoole Newfoundland on April that they place on the Dr. Nolan and the so- window is emigration and Fourteen waiting on the 15, 1912, eleven of the ground beneath the Tim- ciety have been hard at is dedicated to all those Queenstown quay for the fourteen were among oney Bell at the church work for many, many who have left Addergoole A marble plaque, inside tender. those who died as Ad- to simulate a ship’s bow. months raising money, ap- Parish. A Titanic window St. Patrick’s Church in For more information dergoole Parish suffered Songs and stories fol- plying for grants, sending on the other side shows Lahardane, was erected about the week in La- a proportionately higher low and at 2:20 a.m., the speakers all over – even Lifeboat 16 being lowered. in 2002 over the spot hardane, visit mayo-ti- loss of life than anywhere exact time the Titanic to Boston – to explain the Thirteen of the travel- where the baptismal tanic.com. else in Europe. disappeared after floun- Titanic’s connection to Ad- ers were baptized in La- font was located and Other ship exhibits: Each year, members of dering for two hours and dergoole parish. Plans are hardane, according to Dr. where 13 of the Adder- If you’re visiting Cobh, the Addergoole Titanic ten minutes, the Timoney now finalized and a Mayo Nolan. The exception was goole 14 were baptized. Co. Cork, head for the Society and the parish bell is rung slowly eleven Titanic Cultural Week Annie McGowan, who was Judy Enright photos born in Scranton, PA, and Cobh Heritage Centre to baptized in Dunmore, PA. see the fascinating mul- information. Her godmother was Cath- timedia exhibit there on Rosenstock said he was erine McGowan, an aunt the Titanic, the Lusita- initially drawn to Mayo in who lived in Chicago and nia, convict ships, and 1971 when he landed at had tried for a year and a more. Between 1848 and Shannon to photograph. half to persuade residents 1950, more than 6 million “I just drove, not knowing to return to Chicago with adults and children left where I would wind up. her. She even bought tick- Ireland with some 2.5 It was in the winter and ets, he said, for some who million of them departing very few B&Bs were open. couldn’t afford the fare. from Cobh, making it the I drove as far as Westport Catherine perished on the single most important and found a wonderful Titanic but Annie was res- port of emigration.There B&B. I intended to stay cued, eventually moved are also Titanic exhibits a few days and drive on, to Chicago, married and in other places, including but it was so magical, I raised three daughters. Belfast, where the ship never left!” Another Annie – Annie was built, at the Harland On subsequent trips, he Kate Kelly – also survived and Wolff shipyard. Ti- stayed a week in Westport and is memorialized in tanic Belfast is expected and a week in another one of the stained glass to open to the public in part of Ireland. “I thought windows looking up at her early April (the-titanic. I really should see if there cousin, Pat Canavan, who com/Titanic-Today/At- were other areas that had is holding rosary beads tractions/Titanic-Belfast. the variety of subject mat- and waving as her lifeboat aspx). And, there are plans ter that all photographers -- Boat 16 -- is lowered into for a Titanic Belfast Fes- just love. I kept returning the water. She joined the tival from March 31-April to Westport. As the years Dominican nuns as Sister 22 (see belfastcity.gov.uk/ rolled by I made many Patrick Joseph Kelly OP, titanic/ for details.) friends that I still have and taught in Chicago. WORCESTER ART to this day. It is truly my The third survivor was MUSEUM home away from home.” Delia McDermott, who If you want to see Mayo For information about bought a new outfit and but aren’t in the market traveling on a photo tour hat in Crossmolina be- for a transatlantic trip just with Rosenstock visit: fore leaving because her now, be sure to make time phototc.com or email: mother said she should to visit Ron Rosenstock’s [email protected]. ICC Traditional Session & Dance: Come to the ICC and enjoy a night of traditional arrive in New York look- magnificent one-man He says there are many Irish music and set dancing. Music provided by Carraroe who specialize in lively jigs & ing like a lady by wearing show at the Worcester advantages to traveling reels and music and dancing by Dan Hallissey. Irish dancers performing throughout a hat and gloves. She was Art Museum. His exhibit – with him. His group “will the evening. Begins at 7pm until 11pm. $10 per person. Pub will be open. Tickets in a lifeboat when she real- Hymn to the Earth – runs not be considered tourists are sold at the door only. ized that she left her hat through March 18 and by the Irish but as my behind so she ran back to features many stunning friends and we will visit get it and found a place shots of County Mayo, many of my friends on the in another lifeboat. Delia where he owns a house trip. I also know many was going to stay with her outside Westport, as well out-of-the-way spectacu- cousin in St. Louis but as other places he has lar places to photograph, once she recuperated from visited and toured. The and I try to get there her rescue, she married museum is open Wednes- for the right light. After and stayed on the East day to Friday and Sunday teaching photography Coast. from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and for 40 years, I can help MEMORIAL PARK Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 people with any problems DEDICATION p.m. Admission is $14 for they have.” To see more of On the last afternoon adults, $12 for seniors and his work, visit: ronrosen- of Titanic week in La- college students and free stock.com hardane, the Memorial for those under 17. The And, enjoy your trip to Park will be dedicated and museum, at 55 Salisbury Ireland – or to Worcester a time capsule buried. The St., is also free the first – whenever you go, and Memorial Park, designed Saturday of every month Happy St. Patrick’s Day. like the bow of a ship from 10 a.m. to noon. Call 508-799-4406 for more Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com March 2012 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 29 Page 30 March 2012 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com At a time of changing seasons, The Ivy Leaf seems to be on the cusp of its own transition (Continued from page 22) of Glynn/Jackie Small’s/ ton, as well as Providence, being in that studio really Rolling Wave” and “Ken- and the influences they’ve helped us to focus on how nedy’s/Return to Camden picked up through these we wanted to sound.” Town/The Ragged Hank and other associations. Adds Straw, the band’s of Yarn” are vibrant and Jimmy Devine, Seamus bouzouki and guitar play- sure-footed, and tailored Connolly, Andrea Mori, er: “Doing the CD repre- to fully reveal each tune’s and Shannon Heaton are sented an opportunity we character and personal- among those who have just couldn’t pass up. The ity. The band also shows served as mentors in the conventional wisdom is itself willing, and quite members’ musical educa- that you don’t do a record- able, to change things tion. ing until you’ve reached up a bit: in the “Lumpy Another important the stage as a band where Custard” medley, for ex- source of inspiration, you’ve figured everything ample, where they shift Straw says, came from out. But a friend told us, between mazurka, hop jig Detroit concertina player ‘Don’t wait until you’re and reel; or, in another set Asher Perkins. “Asher has ready. You get better from where they put the polka been part of a family band, the process.’ And record- “Four Shoves” on the back and when he visited with ing the CD really helped end of two hornpipes. Nor us he described how they us to get better.” does The Ivy Leaf shirk would spend time arrang- A sampling of tracks the song tradition, as evi- ing sets and songs. We had Photo by Larry Green from the CD bears out denced by Straw’s quiet, been more ‘session-style’ the observations of Acca- winsome version of “The before, but listening to and out,” says Aromin, and making several trips O’Shea was in Providence rdi and Straw. Accardi’s Month of January,” with Asher inspired us to think who adds that despite the to the All-Ireland Fleadh most of the time, and on fiddle and concertina, Aro- twin fiddles and whistle more about how we ap- band’s greater emphasis Cheol. the occasions she was min’s fiddle and whistle, creating a suitably spare, proached our material.” on planning arrange- Aromin, a Rhode Island back in Massachusetts, and O’Shea’s flute and sobering backdrop for this “We didn’t want the ments, “some of our best native like Accardi (they Accardi or Aromin often whistle carry the melodies lament of false love. music to feel too robotic stuff comes under the attended the same high might be visiting Rhode with assurance, Straw’s The CD also is the band’s or mechanical, so we ex- ‘three-hours-before-a-gig’ school, but didn’t know Island; additionally, Aro- bouzouki providing an heartfelt thank-you to nu- perimented in terms of, category.” each other then), can min, O’Shea and Accardi accompaniment that is at merous musicians with say, changing rhythms “That may be true,” trace his beginnings in all have spent significant once rhythmic and melod- whom they’ve played at or tempos in a set, or puts in Accardi, “but even the music to the tai-chi periods studying in Ire- ic. Sets such as “Humours sessions throughout Bos- dropping instruments in if what we end up doing lessons he took in his early land. But their schedules hasn’t been planned in teens: His instructor also matched up enough to advance, we’re getting taught violin and lent make it workable, espe- good enough—on our own Aromin an instrument so cially over the past year. and with each other—that he could practice on his All the while, the Ivy The County Donegal Association, Boston we can work things out.” own. When the moderator Leaf members have all Every band has its of his high school’s pho- cultivated their own mu- back stories, of course, tography club—a student sical interests. Accardi, St. Patrick’s Day Dinner Dance typically various com- of Jimmy Devine—spied for example, studied East binations of fortuitous Aromin carrying around Clare fiddle with Connolly Saturday, March 3, 2012, 7:00 p.m. events and mitigating the violin, he suggested at BC, and concertina circumstances, and there Aromin try his hand at with Niall Vallely, while Florian Hall are elements of all these Irish music. Another Ivy developing a fondness 55 Hallet St., Dorchester in The Ivy Leaf. O’Shea, Leaf seed was planted. for Sliabh Luchra and a senior at Providence If Aromin can point West Clare styles. Aro- Hot & Cold Buffet College, followed the most to tai-chi as his unlikely min, who, in addition to conventional path to Irish portal to Irish music, Ac- Devine, counts Rhode Entertainment by Erin’s Melody music: growing up in the cardi can cite an invitation Island-based piper Pat- Harney Academy of Irish Stepdance Irish-American hotbed of to play video games at the rick Hutchinson as well Milton with a father who house of a school friend, as traditional musicians Special Guest, Direct from Donegal: ran an Irish gift shop whose fiddle-playing fa- Bobby Casey, Lucy Farr Singer/Songwriter Shunie Crampsey where she listened to ther happened that day and Tommy Reck among popular Irish ballad bands to be hosting a party and his major influences, is Tickets $40.00 per person Hope to see you all there! and dabbled with the tin session. The music being studying violin-making whistle, then taking les- played wasn’t strictly and repair at Boston’s For tickets and info: sons at the Comhaltas Irish, Accardi says, but North Bennet Street President JP Doherty, 617-605-9878 or Ceoltoiri Eireann music he was intrigued enough School. O’Shea considers Chairman Michael McCarron, 617-696-1702 school with Heaton and by what he heard that his her six-month sojourn in Mori—who convinced her friend’s father lent him Galway last year a major Or any officer of the County Donegal Association to switch from the classi- a fiddle—which came in step in her understand- cal flute she’d been play- handy shortly thereafter ing and appreciation of ing to the Irish brand— when Accardi’s mother the tradition. And Straw saw an announcement for has been making her way fiddle lessons, leading him through the landmark to Devine. “Voice of the People” series Straw, the group’s geo- of recordings of traditional graphical outlier, grew up singers from Ireland and in Wyoming with a great the UK, transcribing and affection for 1960s folk researching songs. guitar a la Joan Baez, “Playing with these Simon and Garfunkel and, guys, I learn to appreciate eventually, Bert Jansch. the older, ‘roots’ musi- Although she made at- cians,” says O’Shea. “I tempts at playing jazz, her tend to remember the feel- music teachers invariably ing of a tune, and where steered her to folk—and I heard it, more than the then, attending Berklee names or other details. College of Music, she came Dan is a great fount of under the tutelage of John information that way.” McGann, who opened her Says Accardi, “It’s just up to Celtic music. Listen- fascinating to me how, on ing to various Celtic bands such a little island, even like Malinky, Planxty and in a single county, there the Bothy Band, Straw can be so many aspects decided to expand her of the music. I can learn talents to the bouzouki. a tune, play it a certain The concise Ivy Leaf way, and then I’ll hear origin goes something like somebody do essentially this: Aromin met O’Shea the same tune, but with – then a high school se- enough variations that it nior—at a Mid-Atlantic sounds significantly dif- Fleadh in New York. ferent. I like to examine Then Straw met Aromin how the musicians made at Berklee, and the two the musical decisions became roommates, a they did because of what boon to Straw’s immersion they heard around them, in Irish music. O’Shea, or the style they learned. and eventually Accardi, That’s what I like about entered the fold through Irish music: You discover various sessions with Aro- what’s hidden under his- min and Straw in Boston tory.” as well as Providence. Information about The However strong their Ivy Leaf, including the desire to desire to play band’s CD, is available together as a band, lo- at their website, ivyleaf- gistics and other factors music.com presented an obstacle: Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com March 2012 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 31 Irish Heritage Month March 2012 • Lawrence MA Preserving and Fostering our Heritage and Culture Sona Feile Padraig ort. The Men and Woman of the Reverend James T. O’Reilly Division 8 Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Irish Foundation of Lawrence have joined forces to present a series of cultural programs for Irish Heritage Month in the City of Lawrence and other venues throughout the Merrimack Valley. These events are the largest celebration of its kind north or Boston. All are welcome. You don’t have to be Irish or a Hibernian to come and enjoy these events. They include special exhibits, lectures and presentations, concerts and other musical events, food, children’s programs and for the sports minded a Four Mile Road Race. And last but not least the Lawrence St Patrick’s Day Parade. Thursday, March 1, 2012 Friday, March 16, 2012 IRISH FLAG RAISING Across from City Hall – Common Street 43rd ANNUAL SAINT PATRICK”S DAY LUNCHEON at the at 11:00 a.m. All are Welcome Lawrence Firefighters Association Relief’s In,O ne Market Street, South Lawrence, MA 01843 Traditional Corned Beef and Cabbage Dinner with entertainment by the Silver Spears Irish Show Band at Sunday, March 4, 2012 NOON. - For more information please contact Jack Lahey at 603 OPENING RECEPTION FOR THE EXHIBIT “The Irish, 898 7766. Sponsored by Division 8 AOH The Augustinians: The Story of Our Catholic Heritage” with a LECTURE by the Rev. Father James McFadden Wenzel OSA of Merrimack College who will speak on “The Irish, The Augustin- Friday, March 16, 2012 ians: The Story of Our Catholic Heritage” at Lawrence Heritage RECEPTION AT LORICA ARTWORKS, 96 Main Street, State Park Visitors Center, 1 Jackson Street, Lawrence, MA 01840 Andover, MA Opening of Irish Art Exhibit 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. Sponsored by Division 8 AOH and the Irish Foundation – Handicap Accessible (FREE) – Handicap Accessible Friday, March 16, 2012 Sunday, March 4, 2012 ANNUAL IRISH ART EXHIBIT (March 16 – April 21) at Lorica 19th ANNUAL CLADDAGH PUB ROAD RACE – 11 am (rain Artworks, 96 Main Street, Andover, MA 01810 for information or shine) Part of the Wild Rover Race Series - For more informa- please call 978 470-1829. Sponsored by the Irish Foundation – tion runthecladdagh.com Handicap Accessible

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 Saturday, March 17, 2012 LAWRENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY, South Lawrence Branch, 135 HAPPY SAINT PATRICKS DAY – Irish Music all day at the Parker Street, Lawrence, MA 01843: Showcase of Irish Books, Claddagh Pub and Restaurant, 300 Canal Street, Lawrence, MA CD’s and DVD’s – All Month (Monday, Wednesday, Saturday 01840 For further information call 978 688-8337. 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.) Sponsored by Division 8 AOH and LAOH and the Irish Foundation - Handicap Accessible Sunday, March 18, 2012 LECTURE by Dr Kathleen Shine Cain of Merrimack College Saturday, March 10, 2012 who will speak on “Leaving the Troubles Behind: Images and THE 141st ANNUAL SAINT PATRICK’S DAY BANQUET Narratives of Northern Ireland” at Lawrence Heritage State Park AND DANCE at the Lawrence Firefighters Association Relief’s Visitors Center, 1 Jackson Street, Lawrence, MA 01840 at 1:00 In, One Market Street, South Lawrence, MA 01843. Traditional p.m. Sponsored by Division 8 AOH (FREE) - Handicap Accessible Corned Beef and Cabbage Dinner with dancing to the Jolly Tinkers from 6:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. Awarding of the Richard Cardinal Saturday, March 24, 2012 Cushing Award, Honorable John E. Fenton Citizenship Award and IRISH FILM FESTIVAL at Lawrence Heritage State Park Visi- Irishman and Irishwoman of the Year Awards. - For more informa- tors Center, 1 Jackson Street, Lawrence, MA 01840 10:00 a.m. tion please contact Robert Gauthier at 978 686-2786. Sponsored Sponsored by Division 8 AOH For further information please call by Division 8 AOH 978 794-1655. (FREE) - Handicap Accessible

Sunday March 11, 2012 March 25, 2012 WHITE FUND LECTURE featuring the Rev. Sean McManus CELTIC MELODIES – A concert performed by Terri and George who will speak on his book, “My American Struggle for Justice Kelley with Larry Melia Jr. at the Lawrence Public Library, Sargent in Northern Ireland” at Lawrence Heritage State Park Visitors Auditorium, 51 Lawrence Street, Lawrence, MA 01840 at 2:00 Center, 1 Jackson Street, Lawrence, MA 01840 1:00 p.m. (FREE) p.m. Sponsored by the Friends of the Lawrence Public Library. – Handicap Accessible (FREE) – Handicap Accessible

Sunday, March 11, 2012 IRISH HERITAGE MONTH IS SPONSORED BY THE FAMILY DAY AT THE CLADDAGH 3pm – 6 pm Irish Music, ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS DIVISION 8, Pipers, Dancers Claddagh Pub and Restaurant, 399 Canal Street, LAOH DIVISION 8, and THE IRISH FOUNDATION of Lawrence, MA 01840 For further information please call 978 688-8337. LAWRENCE Irish Heritage Month is supported in part by a grant from the Lawrence Friday, March 16, 2012 Cultural Council, a local agency which is AN EVENING OF IRISH MUSIC - 3 pm until? at the Claddagh supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Pub and Restaurant, 399 Canal Street, Lawrence, MA 01840 For Council, a state agency. For information further information please call 978 688-8337. on AOH Membership please write to: Division 8 AOH Organizer, PO Box 1407, Lawrence, MA 01842. Page 32 March 2012 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com ‘BLACK ‘47’ – THE DARKEST OF YEARS For Ireland, it marked the full onslaught of the Famine

By Peter F. Stevens nowhere to turn except the back-breaking road work. but because most Irish could not afford to buy food, BIR Staff As the Irish people’s misery and fear swelled with the warehouses remained full, and people continued Second of four parts each day of the new year and the British government to starve. “Black ‘47” – just two words at first glance. In all appeared incapable of or unwilling to address the ca- Disastrous response of Ireland’s history, however, few phrases resonate tastrophe, Britain’s Quaker community strove to help with such horror. the starving millions. William Forster, a leader of the By the end of June 1847, the British government As peasant families in all corners of Ireland struggled Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends, ceased all public-works sites as Prime Minister Rus- to survive in the winter of 1846-47, desperate men, which had branches in Dublin and London, had been sell decided that simply “keep[ing] the people alive” women, and children turned to the government’s directed to investigate the Famine and set up relief superseded everything else. The new policy intended hastily and ill-conceived public works projects for sur- efforts, and he was stunned by the scope of the disas- for the Irish to be fed for free through the Soup Kitchen vival. Charles Edward Trevelyan, head of the British ter. In an appeal to Britain’s collective conscience, he Act, spearheaded by local aid organizations and paid in treasury, or Exchequer, oversaw all Famine measures wrote of countless children who looked “like skeletons, large part by taxes on Irish landlords and merchants. after the fall of Prime Minister Robert Peel’s Conser- their features sharpened with hunger and their limbs Once again, the British government’s response proved vative administration to the Whigs, led by Lord John wasted, so that little was left but bones, their hands disastrous. Russell. A proponent of letting free markets operate and arms, in particular, being much emaciated, and The Famine was bankrupting landlords whose no matter the consequences, Trevelyan shut down the happy expression of infancy gone from their faces, tenant farmers could not pay their rent. Few people Indian corn depots throughout Ireland and banned leaving behind the anxious look of premature old age.” could pay merchants, and shops closed everywhere, the a ship headed for Ireland with a cargo of corn for the Frightful spectres businessmen and their families joining the starving starving populace, asserting that the Irish could not peasants on the streets. At the soup kitchens, demand remain “habitually dependent” on the British govern- Nicholas Cummins, a magistrate in Cork, toured far outstripped supply; in Killarney, only one soup ment and had to learn how to make “Irish property Skibbereen and sent the Duke of Wellington and The kitchen existed and it had to contend with more than support [redress] Irish poverty.” Times of London a letter describing the starving, 10,000 people. The soups themselves – rancid meat, Trevelyan further contended that a full-blown disease-wracked people of the snow-cloaked country- coarse corn, and often-rotting vegetables in boiled Famine aid effort could “paralyze all private enter- side. Wrote Cummins: “I entered some of the hovels, water – caused bowel and stomach woes for the lines prise.” In short, he wanted Parliament to do nothing and the scenes which presented themselves were such of men, women, and children clutching small pots or and let Ireland figure out a “free-market” solution, a as no tongue or pen can convey the slightest idea of. bowls in hopes of getting soup before the pots were stance that was to have catastrophic consequences In the first, six famished and ghastly skeletons, to all empty. Eventually, kitchens began to issue a four-ounce for the Irish. appearances dead, were huddled in a corner on some slice of bread and “stirabout,” porridge consisting of filthy straw, their sole covering what seemed a ragged corn meal, rice, and water. Some three million Irish Stone roads horsecloth, their wretched legs hanging about, naked fought to survive on such skimpy rations throughout above the knees. I approached with horror, and found the summer of 1847, malnutrition and disease still to nowhere by a low moaning they were alive – they were in fever, claiming thousands of victims with each week. The onset of 1847 found some 500,000 Irish laboring four children, a woman and what had once been a man. to build stone roads that led to nowhere throughout … in a few minutes I was surrounded by at least 200 A ‘coffin ship’ rural regions. The men smashed boulders with heavy such phantoms, such frightful spectres as no words can on starvation hammers and were paid piece-work for every basket describe, [suffering] either from famine or from fever.” they could fill. Women and children lugged the bas- Corpse-filled cottages, shallow graves, and massive, In a perverse turn, the fall 1847 potato harvest kets to meandering road beds where the stones were unmarked trenches in which countless bodies were was not blighted, but yielded only a quarter of the dumped. With one of the harshest winters in Irish dumped and covered up with quicklime and earth pre-Famine crop. Cash-hungry landlords, large and memory unleashing one storm after another, bitter stretched across the island. Along with starvation, small, decided to turn their acres over to cattle and gales, snow, and sleet battered the road crews. Men, dysentery, typhus, and fevers of all sorts decimated sheep and to plant, but in order to do so, they had to women, and children, weakened from hunger, clad the population, as well as doctors, priests, nuns, and move off the tenant farmers clinging to their meager in rags, and barefoot in many cases, collapsed with Quaker relief workers striving to help. Entire families plots. The answer was eviction on a massive scale. The fever amid the piles of stone and froze to death where lay down along the road and died of “Road Fever.” Irish Diaspora was about to swell to unprecedented they fell. Trevelyan’s misguided program of useless public-works levels as desperate Irish faced a choice of “coffin ships” The paltry pay allotted by the Crown proved barely projects and the cutoff of Indian corn was a disaster. carrying them from their country or starving to death. enough to feed workmen and their families, especially Merchant vessels laden with privately purchased In “Black 47,” hundreds of thousands had perished as food prices soared. Coarse corn meal coast three cargos of Indian corn and other food did begin to dock and many thousands of the living were boarding ships times its pre-Famine price, but desperate Irishmen had in Ireland’s ports and offload shipments to warehouses, barely seaworthy that were bound for Boston. Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com March 2012 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 33 Arthur Griffith: revolutionary voice in heady times

By Stephen M. Pingel tradition of journal- dual-monarchy as a means to gain power for Ireland, Special to the BIR ism and the printing the rationale being that such governance would be more business. realistically inviting to the British crown than strict Following is the first in a series of retrospective articles It was through independence for the island. Setting aside the monar- on individuals who made substantial contributions to his journalism that chical notion as a non-starter for the times, Griffith’s civic life in Ireland during the 20th century. Although Griffith contribut- work in helping to form Sinn Fein and its ideology, a number of them had extended influence in Ireland ed greatly to the in outlining many of its goals, and in setting out the over several decades, the series will highlight the life of nationalist cause, organized means by which to pursue independence a single personality from each ten-year period. beginning with his were his greatest contributions to the cause. enrollment in the Griffith the Pioneer Arthur Griffith Irish Republican One of the ongoing aspects of modern Irish history 1900-1910 Brotherhood (IRB), a is the appearance of political leaders who become in- precursor to the Irish grained in Irish governance over many decades, and Anyone attempting to analyze governance on the Republican Army who often secure positions of power numerous times, island of Ireland during the first decade of the 20th (IRA) that came into to wit: Eamon de Valera, Michael Collins, and, today, century is faced with the historical reality that for Arthur Griffith being in 1919. The Gerry Adams. Arguably, it was Arthur Griffith who the Irish people there wasn’t any; Ireland, north and Minister of change IRB was the orga- pioneered this trend as he maintained a prominent south, was part of the United Kingdom and under nization behind the place in Irish politics until his death. He served as British rule. But there is governance and then there Easter Uprising in Dublin in April 1916. It was in a parliamentary minister, deputy to the legendary are politics and culture, and Ireland produced men and working inside these organizations that Griffith offered nationalist de Valera, and was, with Collins, at the women who heavily influenced the way the Irish dealt up some interesting concepts as he and his colleagues head of the delegation that met with the British in with life under the English as both countries moved moved forward for the cause of liberty. Perhaps the London and helped to create the Anglo-Irish treaty along what came to be a bloody road to independence. most well-known of these was an idea he promoted of 1921. After De Valera resigned as president of the Arthur Griffith, journalist and politician, was such with the publication in 1904 of The Resurrection of Dail in protest of the treaty, which gave concessions to a figure. Hungary: a Parallel for Ireland. dominion status rather than full independence, it was In any examination of significant personalities in Here, Griffith proposed the idea of an Anglo-Irish Griffith who succeeded to the post, serving from January 20th century Irish history, fundamental questions monarchy, similar to the governmental set-up that to August in 1922. It was Griffith who came up with offer themselves: Where to begin and with whom? gave contemporary Hungary and Austria equal stand- the idea of “absenteeism” in Irish politics – candidates And to what extent were individuals substantively ing in the empire of the overarching Habsburgs. For would campaign and get elected to British parliament involved in a civic arena where everything began and Griffith, that would mean reverting to the late 18th- but then not take their seats. It was a tactic that later ended in London? century when Ireland and Great Britain had their own became a staple of political life in the six counties of A consensus on “where to begin” had long centered governments under a shared king, an accommodation the North in their continued association with London. on the years between the Rising in 1916 and the onset that was ended by the Act of Union in 1801. Griffith’s legacy can be inferred from the decades- of the civil war in 1922. But historians have also noted Even though the notion received short shrift, its long strength of the Sinn Fein party and in the ulti- the significance of events in the 19th century years of very existence gave Griffith visibility as an agent for mate success of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, which the Great Hunger and before, and to follow the rocky change in the drive for a new, independent political brought to an end the intramural violence of the War road to independence means digging deep for the structure in Ireland. In the book, Griffith had this to of Independence and paved the way for the Irish Free beginnings of the ancient English-Irish divide, a gap say: “The Hungarians resorted to a manly policy of State, and, finally, the Irish Republic. And political involving more than sovereignty and ethnic persecution. passive resistance and non-recognition of Austria’s differences and ideological stances stemming from the But that is another story for another time. right to rule – the Irish resorted to parliamentarian- compromises that Griffith and Collins brought back The Young Nationalist ism, implying recognition of an English right to rule from London in 1921 are very much in evidence today Although Arthur Griffith’s role in Irish civic life this country. And one nation today is rich, powerful, in Ireland, north and south. spanned many years, there were distinct stages dur- and able to defy her conqueror, while the other is poor, Griffith died on Aug. 12, 1922, of heart failure, at ing which he wielded significant influence among his weak and more tightly held in the conqueror’s grasp.” the age of 50; ten days later, Collins was assassinated, confederates, and with the population at large. He Enter Sinn Fein even as their cause endured, and, finally, prevailed. was born in Dublin on March 31, 1871 (1872, accord- What Griffith is best known for, however, is the Stephen M. Pingel is a student at University of Mas- ing to some sources) to Arthur Griffith and his wife, founding of the Sinn Fein party in November 1905 sachusetts Lowell, specializing in socio-economic history Mary Phelan, and received his early education at the when he formally presented his “Sinn Fein Policies” to of modern conflict areas, as well as 20th century Irish Christian Brothers School in Dublin where he was, like the public. It was here that Griffith declared the Act of history. He has previously worked for the University many other students, first exposed to nationalist ideas Union to be illegitimate, thus illegal, and also brought of Massachusetts’ Center for Irish Partnerships and and movements. The cause of independence quickly up again his idea of a dual monarchy. Although he was Middle East Center. He can be reached via e-mail at became his focus even as he carried on with the family hardly a monarchist in his political ideology, he saw a [email protected]. Page 34 March 2012 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com

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Last month we began to look at regular “Class Cross II” or “Type 2” verbs. These have two syllables. For “model” verbs we used céangail /KAHN-guhl/ “tie” and osgail /OS-guhl/ “open”. We will continue Words to use these two verbs – the first because it begins with a consonant, the second begins with a vowel. The Irish The first thing to do with “Class II” verbs, in crosswords are every tense, is to “telescope” the final syllable. Since “syllable centers” are vowels, this is easily a service of an accomplished by simply removing the last vowel(s). The finalconsonant is moved over to become part Ireland-based of the “root” word, thus maintaining the meaning. website which However, there are still two syllables, the first one and the “telescoped” second one to which the provides Irish verbal endings or person+tense suffixes are attached. Family Coats of

For example, the “root” of céangail drops Arms by email. the –ai- and becomes céangl-; céan is the first syllable and –gl + person+tense ending is the You are invited second. Céanglaíonn tú, “You tie.” Remember that “silent” -a-. to visit

Oscail drops the –ai- to become oscl-. Os- is the www. first syllable and –cl + person+tense ending is the second. Osclaíonn tú, “You close”. bigwood.com/

There are three “Person” endings in the Habitual heraldry Present for two-syllable verbs -- “I”, -(a)ím /eem/, “we” -(a)ímid /ee-muhj/. Endings for “you, he, she, you-all, they” are –(a)íonn /een/. The vowel in parentheses is “silent”, simply there to fulfill the ©-bigwood.com Irish “vowel rule” for balance, “Broad to broad and IRELAND IN CROSSWORDS slender to slender.” ACROSS 11. Lad ride in tune about the Republican aspiration 1. Melon clan’s joy. (anag.) Scottish leader of the Irish for 32 altogether. (6,7) Again, the first two endings, for “I” and “we” are Citizen Army during the Easter Rising of 1916. (5,8) 14. Wives torn in bits in Fermanagh agricultural centre the same for both one syllable and two syllable verbs 10. “Surely mortal — is a broomstick!” Swift (3) where Necarne castle is. (11) in the Present Habitual tense – (a)im and -(a) 12. Ed, she is confused, but pays attention. (5) 19. Question: did the ropes get tangled back in Killure imid. The ending for all other persons is different, 13. On edge right before 999. (3) so perfectly? (5) -(e)ann /uhn/ for one syllable and –(a)ionn /een/ 15. Wear this in the kitchen or pan will tip over. (5) 20. “Better build schoolrooms for the boy than —— and for two syllable verbs. 16. Poetic before being included in Clogher edition. (3) gibbets for the man.” Eliza Cook. (5) 17. Having had an inclination in a Rathkeale ante- 22. Lots dance out east about Ireland’s nearest neigh- Compare these two verbs in the Habitual chamber. (5) bour. (8) Present tense. Cuir is of one syllable and ends 18. By all means sway about. (3) 23. I.e. lark about in Derry angling centre in the Bann in a “slender” vowel (e, i). The second, céangail, 19. Nice P.R. about the heir to the throne. (6) valley. (6) is a two syllable vowel which when “telescoped” by 21. He gets skill to turn to the Kerry rocky islands 9 24. Customer puts in fifty one to an American penny. (6) removal of the second vowels (-ai-) to form a “root” miles off Valentia with an old monastic settlement. (3,8) 27. Pat’s a mess when it comes to foreign food. (5) will end in a “broad” (a, o, u) vowel which neces- 24. These boxes would be for Plato’s mentor if so 28. Fierce man-eating giant, therefore Roman retreats sitates the insertion of a “silent” vowel for balance. prefixed. (6) from Mayo green environment. (4) 25. Golfer’s shout in secluded Westmeath village near 29. Apparently, colonels give a clue to what General “Type I” or “Class 1” Castlepollard, with numerous ancient crosses. (4) McAuliffe said in reply to the Germans who demanded 26. Second class stream yields a first rate sea fish! (5) his surrender in 1944. (4) Cuir “plant/put/wear” 28. “Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do gen- erally discover everybody’s face but their —.” Swift. (3) CROSSWORD SOLUTION ON PAGE 38 Cuireann tú “You plant” 30. Get a tender back in Thurles running. (5) Cuirim “I plant” 31. Large ox-antelope appears when gun is broken. (3) 32. Is pan enough to take to the country? (5) Cuireann sé “He plants” 34. Old hated irregular in Ireland got his out in the Irish Sayings Cuireann sí “She plants” sun. (3) “Youth does not mind where it sets its foot.” 35. Seal led saints over to the offshore Wexford bird “Both your friend and your enemy think you will Cuirimid “We plant” sanctuary where Bagenal Harvey was captured. (6,7) never die.” Cuireann sibh “You-all plant” “The well fed does not understand the lean.” Cuireann siad “They plant” DOWN “He who comes with a story to you brings two away 2. Purple quartz found in mast they dismantled. (8) from you” 3. “We are all born —. Some remain so.” Beckett. (3) “Quiet people are well able to look after themselves.” “Type II” or “Class 2” 4. “Eschew evil and do good: seek peace and —— it.” “A friend’s eye is a good mirror.” Psalm 34 verse 13 (5) “It is the good horse that draws its own cart.” Céangail “tie” 5. See you apparently in the matter of the way to treat “A lock is better than suspicion.” bacon. (4) “Two thirds of the work is the semblance.” Céanglaim “I tie” 6. “Yet malice never was his aim; He lashed the vice “He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed Céanglaíonn tú “You tie” but spared the ——.” until midday.” Céanglaíonn sé “He ties” Swift (his own epitaph) (4) “People live in each other’s shelter.” Céanglaíonn sí “She ties” 7. Guru seen in Kincora clearly. (6) “The world would not make a racehorse of a donkey.” 8. Run lag out of large Armagh linen town near Lough “You are not a fully fledged sailor unless you have Céanglaimid “We tie” Neagh where George Russell, (AE), was born. (6) sailed under full sail,” “and you have not built a wall Céanglaíonn sibh “You-all tie” 9. We’ve lent Beth’s version to Connemara’s high unless you have rounded a corner.” Céanglaíonn said “They tie” dozen. (3,6,4) “There is no strength without unity.”

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