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Editor’s Corner the meaning, often out loud, are today. Ireland is an island; we pany of immortals. Let it live on, “Follow me where I go, when praising or pushing back are not. We vow, to not go to our as we pass on. what I do and who I know; against pain. I do it to deepen grave with our music still inside The heart of our issue, has O’Bent the resonance of the simple but us. Each of us gain a little immor- always been our advertisers. Enterprises includes: powerful words. History echoes tality, with our written and read Each month within, you will find www.twitter.com/jobjr within me. Sometimes we can words; be they preserved in the a profile on one of them. Each www.facebook.com/ only hear our own ridiculous- books we author, the columns we month we strive to bring you OhioIrishAmericanNews ness and meaning lost through write, the films and the memo- great stories, humor, sports and www.linkedin.com/in/ repetition, when we make the ries, we make. other entertainment, wrapped in jobjr/ http://songsand- effort to not only listen, but to My parents, my roots, are from the Irish penchant for nostalgia, stories.net/myblog/feed/ hear, out loud. May’s crowning Ireland. I am the last First Gener- made immortal in the songs and John O’Brien, Jr. flowers are here; don’t lose sight ation of the Irish in Ohio. I know stories, of our modern day bards. of the flowers. the significance and importance The Art of Motherhood; the Whether it be a decade of the History echoes throughout this of supporting the arts; my books, horror of Tuam’s mothers and rosary, or a decade of publica- issue, and we hope, in all issues. this newsmagazine, Cleveland Sisters; Census; an Inner View tion, 10 years can fly and lose its Easter does not erase the cross; Irish Fest, all would not be here, with Growing Up Irish Col- About Our glory and purpose, if we don’t it transforms it. Each new issue were it not for our community umnist Maureen Ginley; this stop to pay attention and con- does not erase the past, it offers supporting the kaleidoscope of month’s Irish lesson, book re- Cover stantly strive to be more than we remembrance, celebration, and the arts and all the ripples big view, puzzle, radio shows and are. “Slow down, you move to maybe recalls the glory or gory, and small that are nourished many, many special events; and fast. You got to make the moment that was. by it. of course, live music, seven days Unleash last …” We don’t seek to dwell, we In that immigration journey, a week is showcased in May’s the Hounds! I slow down and deliberately seek to illuminate, learn, and in the hardships, injustices and Out & About Ohio. 175th Cleveland St. Pat- say the Hail Mary, emphasizing discern, who we were then, and discrimination so much a fabric We reflect on Martin McGuin- rick’s Day Parade Cover of our lives past and in crosses, I ness; Immigration; The Armada Photo by John O’Brien, Jr. believe we have learned to fight of Ireland; and with Una Ellis; for what is right, not who is right. Hurling in Ireland and Youth and The OhIAN I believe we have the power to older kids Gaelic football camps welcomes new put sense into the world, through and games in America coming Coming Next those strokes made immortal. too; the discovery of Golf, Scuba Month: advertising partners Each day, we trade one day of – all of it celebrated within, and our life, for something. Creating with you. Turn the page. The 11th Annual Fitzgerald’s B & B a movie, a book, a paper, a film … Festival Focus Issue; festival, a difference ~ creating a Go dtí an mhí seo chugainn, Pop-up Pub community - every day, we must slán a fhágáil is your The Hooley @Kamm’s Corner be a cheerleader in someone’s (Until next month, goodbye) Fest featured? 24th Annual Riverfront Irish Fest life; together we aim for the com- John [email protected] Greater Cleveland Peace Officer’s Memorial Society Kerry Blue Terrier Fiona’s Bakery Michael P. Maloney, Attorney together we bring you the OhIAN. MAY 2017 “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com 3

The Wonder Anna’s room to disprove it. Donoghue’s book is based on By Emma Donoghue the many cases of “fasting girls” Picador ISBN 978-1-5098-1839-6 reported across the world from 291 pp. 2016 the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Women and girls, often

River Terrace Building 19111 Detroit Rd, Ste 200 Rocky River, OH 44115 440-333-8960 [email protected] “The Wonder” is Emma Dono- prepubescent, who claimed to live ghue’s first historical novel set without food for months or even in her homeland of Ireland. The years. Lib is critical of the mixture setting is the Irish Midlands, 1859. of religiosity and folklore, which The book’s protagonist is an En- permeates the village where Anna glish nurse, Lib Wright, a disciple and her family live. Her suspicions of Florence Nightingale, who eventually lead her to “figure out” served in the Crimean War. She what is going on in Anna’s home is summoned to a tiny village to and leads to a climactic denoue- observe what people are calling a ment. medical miracle - a girl said to have Like “Room”, this is a thrilling survived without food for months. domestic psychodrama that draws The girl, Anna O’Donnell, an its power from quotidian detail as eleven-year-old, has reportedly well as gothic horror. Donoghue not consumed any food for four also sets Anna and Lib’s relation- months, yet is flourishing health ship in a wider context of English - wise. Wright and a nun, who is and Irish antagonism, of the birth also a nurse, are hired to watch of nursing and of the clash between the girl for two weeks and try and science and faith. This reviewer determine if this is a hoax or a found the book to be a page-turner medical marvel. and a TOP Shelf read. The girl has become a celebrity *Terrence J Kenneally is an at- by not eating, surviving on water torney and owner of Terrence J. and “manna from heaven.” The Kenneally & Associates in Rocky townspeople are mostly in awe River, Ohio. He defends insureds of the child, who draws pilgrims and insurance companies in insur- from across the country hoping to ance defense litigation throughout get a glimpse of the “miracle” girl. the state of Ohio. Terrence received Lib is immediately skeptical, his Master’s Degree in Irish Studies assuming Anna is an attention from John Carroll University and seeking fraud: “What was it about teaches Irish history and literature this spoiled miss that she’d man- at Holy Name High School. Mr. aged to enroll all the grown-ups Kenneally is also the President of around her in this charade?” But Holy Name High School for 2016- she never witnesses the girl eat and 17. He can be reached at terry@ she cannot find any stash of food in tjkenneally.com. 4 IAN Ohio “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com MAY 2017

Order of Hibernians and Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians traveled to Ireland to participate in the Centennial Com- memoration activi- Special Relationships ties. I was privileged to travel with a group of family and Every spring, Irishmen and Irish- friends. We were in Derry on March 23 women commemorate the Easter Rising. 2016. Last year many members of the Ancient A year later the streets of the Bogsjde

were filled with mourners from across Funeral Process. Danny shared some of the globe for the Funeral of Martin Mc- his memories with me. He was touched Guiness. Many Hibernians were in that that the Hibernian delegation were given assembly, including AOH National Pres- some special privileges. ident Judge Jim McKay of New Orleans When Judge McKay and Danny ar- and AOH National Vice President Danny rived at the house, they were brought O’Connell of Youngstown. in bypassing the long line of mourners. The leadership of the Ancient Order They were also on the list to carry the cof- of Hibernians were in Ireland on official fin. Unfortunately circumstances did not business. The AOH agenda included allow this honor to happen. The crowds meeting with the Irish Government, were massive and every time a different AOH divisions and members of the Irish group changed to carry the coffin, the clergy. The AOH testified with a Com- crowd paid their respect by voicing their mittee on Foreign affairs on three areas approval. Watching the Funeral proces- of concern: Brexit and Border, Immigra- sion, I was proud to be able to spot my tion, and a United Ireland. On arrival to Hibernian Brothers near the coffin. Ireland Niall Burgess, Secretary General Following the Funeral, Judge McKay of the Department of Foreign Affairs, and Danny continued the AOH agenda notified Judge McKay and Danny of the of meeting with AOH divisions in Derry, death of Martin McGuiness. The AOH Omagh, Tyrone and in Scotland. They schedule needed to be changed in order met with Cardinal Sean Brady. They to attend the wake. also met with groups that have received Judge McKay and Danny traveled to funding from AOH and LAOH FFAI Derry to represent the Hibernians at this (Freedom for All Ireland). sad event. They attended the wake at One of the final meetings was with the the McGuiness home and walked in the Continued on next page MAY 2017 “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com 5

Clare Council in regards to the Famine National President of the Ladies Ancient in leadership roles. AOH National Pres- National level continues today with four Monument and its upkeep. In 1995, the Order of Hibernians, Kathie Linton of idents have included Martin Sweeney Ohioans serving on the National Boards: Clare Council, Ancient Order of Hiberni- Uniontown, spoke at the dedication. from Cleveland and Michael Coogan of Danny O’Connell, Denny Parks of Akron, ans and Ladies Ancient Order of Hiberni- The Hibernians are proud of our Dayton. LAOH Presidents have included Carol Sheyer of Cincinnati and myself. ans dedicated a monument to remember special relationship with Ireland. Ohio Adelia Christy of Cleveland and Kathie This spring, remember all the men and the victims of the Great Hunger. There is a is lucky that we have been honored to Linton of Uniontown. This Ohio commit- women who have served in the interest Ohio connection with the dedication. The have many individuals who have served ment to service in the Hibernians on a of Ireland.

Festival Fun at 8th Annual sponsored by Dollar Bank, will Hooley on Kamm’s Corners™ provide entertainment for the younger crowd. Irish dancers Tagged “West Park’s Homecoming Cel- from area dance schools will ebration,” the 8th Annual The Hooley on perform, each showcasing its own distinc- Kamm’s Corners™ kicks off Saturday, May tive style, some wearing colorful costumes 13 at noon and runs until 8 p.m. on Lorain and ringlet wigs. Appearing will be: Brady Avenue in the City of Cleveland neighbor- Campbell Irish Dance School, Burke Schools hood of Kamm’s Corners. Lorain Avenue of Irish Dance, Cannon Irish Dance, and will be closed to traffic from West 165th Leneghan Academy of Irish Dance. Street to Rocky River Drive. Other acts include a karate demonstration “Hooley” is Irish slang for party or from All American Karate, juggling from the celebration. This one started out as a cele- St. Ignatius Circus, singing from Tower City bration of the new streetscape installed ten Chorus, and a performance from Newton years ago. Today, The Hooley™ remains D. Baker School of the Arts. The West Side an annual day of live music, festival food, Irish American Club Pipe Band will play a entertainment, and activities for all ages, medley of crowd-pleasing tunes. presented by Kamm’s Corners Development Nearby will be the Youth Center, operated Corporation. There is no charge to enter the by the West Park YMCA and sponsored by Neighborhood Family Practice, fea- turing an obstacle course race, a thir- ty-foot tall fire truck slide, and engaging games and activities for youth of all ages. The always-popular pop-a-shot returns, operated by St. Mark Parent Club. Purchase unique goods and pick up interesting informa- tion from the more area of The Hooley™, thanks to presenting than 100 booths lining Lorain Avenue. In- sponsor, Fairview Hospital. dulge in a variety of Hooley™ offerings from The opening ceremony begins at noon on more from a dozen food vendors, including the main stage at Rocky River Drive, facing gyros, hot dogs, pulled pork, kettle corn, east on Lorain Avenue. then Irish music, ice cream, and freshly squeezed lemonade. including pipes and drums, ballads, reels, Come hungry! All the restaurants will be and an infusion of classic rock music and open, too. New food vendors this year in- originals, including: The Pipes and Drums of clude Hatfield’s Goode Grub, The Hub, and the Cleveland Police; Brigid’s Cross (Celtic), Bomba’s Tequila and Tacos. Tie Dye Harvest (Classic Rock and origi- A curated handmade arts and crafts show nals), Cleveland Firefighters Memorial Pipes takes place on West 168th Street. Bring a tote and Drums, Tie Dye Harvest, Harp City bag for your purchases of unique items, (Celtic and Rock), and The Sunrise Jones. including accessories, stuffed animals, cloth- Voted Cleveland’s best cover band, Sunrise ing, beach glass jewelry, toys, home decor, Joneses features Classic Rock and Pop from Irish-themed gifts, and more hosted by My the ’60s ‘70s, and ‘80s including The Beatles, ReClaimed Life. Robert Palmer, The Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, and more. Admission is free! Please join us for a great The Family Stage at West 165th Street, day of music, food, and family friendly fun. 6 IAN Ohio “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com MAY 2017

24th Annual Riverfront MAY 2017 Vol. 11 Issue 5 Publishers John O’Brien Jr. / Cliff Carlson Editor John O’Brien Jr. Website and layout Cathy Curry Carlson

Columnists Behind the Hedge- John O’Brien, Jr. Blowin’ In- Susan Mangan Cleveland Irish- Francis McGarry Cleveland Cohmra- Bob Carney Crossword Puzzle- Linda Fulton Burke Don’t Forget Us-Lisa O’Rourke Growing up Irish- Maureen Ginley Heart of the Issue- Bob Carney Illuminations- J. Michael Finn Ire. Past & Present- Niamh O’Sullivan Madigan Muses- Marilyn Madigan Off Shelf/On This Day-Terry Kenneally Our Sports Man- David McDonnell: Out of the Mailbag- John O’Brien, Jr. Terry From Derry- Terry Boyle Toledo Irish - Maury Collins

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On This Day in Irish History By Terrence Kenneally

1 May 1170 - A Norman force of 40 (1959-66), died. knights, 60 other horsemen and 500 ar- 15 May 1847 - Daniel O’Connell, ‘the chers led by Raymond le Gros Fitzgerald, Liberator’, died in Genoa. landed at Baginbun, Bannow Bay, Co. 17 May 1974 - Dublin and Monaghan Wexford. bombings. 3 May 1903 - Bing Crosby, descen- 18 May 1983 - Death of Frank Aiken, dant of Irish immigrants, is born in Taco- commander of the Irish Republican Army ma, WA., as Harry Lillis Crosby. and later senior Irish politician. 5 May 1879 - Isaac Butt, barrister, 19 May 1798 - Arrest and mortal writer, and politician, who founded the wounding of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Home Rule movement (1870), died. United Irishman. 5 May 1981 - Death of Bobby Sands, 21 May 1921 - Northern Ireland’s first the first republican prisoner to die of a general election. hunger strike. 31 May 1906 - Michael Davitt, agrarian 11 May 1971 - Sean Lemass, founding radical, journalist, and ‘father of the Land member of Fianna Fail and Taoiseach League’, died.

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A Visit With Una Ellis mers at the famous Anna McCoy School On a cool Saturday afternoon, Micki Ansberry and I had in Belfast. a lovely visit with Una and Jack Ellis in their home in North It was in grade Ridgeville. They have been married sixty-seven years and school that Jack and have known one another since they were children. Una met, although Una was born in Skerries, Co. Dublin. Her family came Jack told us with a to America when she was four. Like most families, her twinkle in his eye, that parents, Michael and Sarah McAughey, were looking for he met Una when she a better future for their family. They settled in New York was getting off the boat in the Bronx, and at the age of six, Una’s mother enrolled from Ireland and she’s her in the James T. McKenna School of Irish Dance, thus been chasing him ever began her life long journey. since. That brought a laugh from Una and a reminder to Una’s natural ability, along with a great deal of hard Jack that she was four when she arrived here. She warned work, led to winning championships as a teenager in New us not to believe everything Jack tells us and if he wants to York, New Jersey and Ireland. She trained for three sum- believe she’s been chasing him all these years that’s okay with her. Still laughing she told us they both have their own versions of their past together. “When I was twelve years old, I always had ringlets in my hair, when I was twelve, I asked my mother if I could get my hair cut, she said, “Well, I don’t know...., don’t get it too short.” So I went to the beauty parlor and got it cut and walked home past his apartment building, and this guy (holding Jack by the arm), who’s always right where he wants to be, says, and I remember this so clearly, says “Oh look at the little girl, she got her hair cut!” I said I did not! And ran home! The two of us have had quite a background! Every Thursday is Irish Night 7 – 10pm They realized they had a lot in common besides their Irish heritage, and stayed in touch as Una’s career in dance Open Seisiún – kept her busy. She attended Horry Georgetown College and Traditional musicians of all ages welcome! earned a degree in criminal justice, graduating with honors. $3 Guinness & Jameson on Thursday Nights After Una earned her teaching certificate for Irish dance, she married Jack and then opened The Dublin Academy of Come enjoy our patio, Irish Dancing. She discovered she had a knack for teaching, until another promotion brought them back to Cleveland. expanded wine selection and new dinner menu! and over the years saw many champions come from her In 1985 Una was teaching an adult ceili class in Rocky 16719 Detroit Ave. Lakewood, OH 44107 schools. River and sent three groups to the Mid-America Oireachtas In 1961, Una was one of six teachers from the U.S. and Competition in Ohio. One of the organizers told Una she Canada who joined together to set up a national orga- was going to be happy with the results of the competition. nization which they hoped would be recognized by An She thought that meant one of her groups had placed, they Coimisiún le Rinci Gaelacha (the Irish Dancing Commision did: First, second and fourth! Not bad for her first foray established by Conradh na Gaeilge, The Gaelic League in into a Ceili competition! the late 1920s). Una was the first recording secretary of the Jack and Una showed us around their home , filled with fledgling organization, Irish Dancing Teachers Association mementos and some of the numerous awards that have of North America (IDTANA). been bestowed upon her. The United Societies of Cleveland “It took a long time and a lot of work, but we kept at it named her Irish Mother of the Year in 2013; was honored and in 1965 Dublin allowed us to become part of the Com- at the National Competitions in Rhode Island in 2015; and mision. It was a lot of letter writing. The Commision was this past December she was inducted into the Irish Dance formed many years before. The Irish are very careful who Hall of Fame. These are just a few of the many awards they commit to and being 3,000 miles away, it took some given to Una in recognition for a lifetime of achievement convincing to be accepted, it took awhile but we went in in Irish dance. with flying colors!” IDTANA now has over nine-hundred The thing she seems to cherish the most however, is the members, its establishment was a big step for Irish dance doll her mother made. Her mother used to make Una’s in North America. dance outfits for her, and made the one on the doll as well. Una has taught for over fifty years and judged all over She entered the doll in a contest at a feis in New York and the U.S., parts of Canada and Ireland, as well as judging won first place with it, the detail in the dress is amazing. two World Championships. “I’ve been very fortunate, I’ve “My mother Sarah was one of nine children, my grand- seen and been a part of the many different phases Irish father died at a young age and her eldest brother, who was Dance has gone through, I’ve been blessed.” fourteen at the time, took over the family farm outside of Jack’s career with the Glidden Corp. brought Jack, Una Belfast.” Una recalls the visits back to Ireland with her and their children, Brian, John, and Kathleen, to Cleveland mother fondly, telling us how the house would be filled from New Jersey. Una became active in the Westside Irish with laughter when the sisters would be together. “My American Club when it was still located on Madison Av- mom was very special, both my parents, God has been enue. A promotion took the family to Chicago for a time, Continued on next page MARCH 2017 “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com 29

John Carroll University Welcomes Three Gerard Manley Hopkins Speakers John Carroll University in welcoming three Gerard Manley Hopkins speakers, who will offer public lectures on Irish literature and history. (from left)Paul Muldoon and the T.S. Eliot prize-winner, Sinead Morrissey, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, join Oliver Rafferty, a nationally known scholar of Irish studies formerly Hopkins Chair at John Carroll. These events will help inform students in JCU’s Peace, Justice and Human Rights Program, which includes a trip to Ireland, Sinead Morrissey of Queen’s University, Oliver Rafferty of Boston College: doon of Princeton and The New Yorker: in May 2017. The lectures take place Belfast, Ireland: talk and poetry reading “Famine, Migration, and God”: a lecture talk and poetry reading. on John Carroll University’s campus in Wednesday, March 15, 2017 in Rodman on the Great Famine. Wednesday, March Monday, April 24, 2017 in University Heights, Ohio; all are MAY welcome. 2017A, 7 p.m. “29,We’ve 2017 in Rodman Always A, 7 p.m. Been Paul Mul Green!- Donahue” Auditorium at 7 p.m. www.ianohio.com 9 Tara Trips enough taught me how important it is to let Subway Ride others know that we By Tara Quinn see each other. Seeingdefeated and respect and- embarrassed as I could see all of the moon. I’m sitting on the Sub- ing, this is where the way, taking the 2 uptown. journey theof service divers be below- me. I lay close to the bow, staring up, hearing I have no plan; I just find TaraTrips gins. The elevenThen yearI looked at the stunning fish and the light laughter of tipsy divers, with Ben E. learning the Subway is old in us wants to be empowering, and ex- seen, connectedprayed. with, I remember asking for help. Help me King’s Stand By Me playing. I felt a spiritual ploring the city alone given a smile and a gives me quality time space thatto says, get “You’re through this as week as gracefully as experience. I’ve had them before, but this with myself. worthy possible,and you areI thought. Help me to dive, help me one was profound. We make a stop and enough; you don’t twenty some middle- bother me;to wouldwalk youthrough the fear. Help me to learn I was diving, I was laughing, I was mak- schoolers get on the train. like thewhatever seat next toit is that you want me to learn. ing incredible friends and I was once again I watch as some adults me, your laughter does roll their eyes, move fur- By Tara Quinn not bother Andme. In then fact, the Universe responded, as it al- met me, Tara.I learned that Tara can walk ther down the train, fully the world needs your uncomfortable with all brightness.”ways does. It slowly revealed it had already through the uncomfortable and the fear that comes when 11 year Early morning after Christmas, I jumped I wasn’t cut out for this, “I think I’ve gottaSeeing sent one allanother I needed. Every person I needed was when she asks for a little help. olds overtake and make through glasses of re- noise. I spend the next on a plane, anxiously and excitingly solo, go.” He laughed. “What are you talkingspect is thealready foundation on that boat. Life on the Morning Star gave me some of 15 minutes watching these kids; they the beginning of being my brother and further down the train. My perception of maximum service. It is the begin- are laughing and socializing,completely some are sister’s denying keepers; I had and forgotten respecting how hu- tothat about?people were Of coursemoving awayyou’ll was stay?” ning he of beingchuckled each other’s Slowly,keepers. they began to present themselves the most valuable tools I have. It prepared playing a hipper version ofscuba Rock Paper dive. manI meant beings to because Google, of the“how simple to scubayet skewed, in his but sweet the feeling Dutch of not accent. being I panicked. on the Morning Star and the roles they me for a year that threw some of my most Scissors, while others are resting their profoundly important fact that their heads on each other. dive”, the nightare human before beings. but with the rush of I walked back to the box size room that I played in teaching me to walk through fear, painful lessons. It gave me such internal Occasionally I make eye contact with My high school’s motto was “Learn, a handful of these kids; wethe exchange holidays Serve, I forgot. and Lead.” I learned how to be trust the process and love the wanderlust of strength and faith in the power of the Sun- smiles; I see them. I move a Iseat would over, ofsoon maximum arrive service to the in those game-chang hallways; - the Universe. light of the Spirit. I learned what spiritual not to get away, but to give room so we were nourished in it. I continuously friends can sit next to eaching other. adventure, gave back,but Iand would in return have was to filled walk The shifts on that boat happened magi- fitness feels like. “Here is where it starts,” I think to with self worth and self-love. Not to myself. Here is where wethrough begin to immense “save” people, fear butand to uncomfortable ask, “Is there cally, little by little. I became brave enough That boat taught me what clinging to God question if we are ‘enough’;moments to ques- beforesomething I Iwould can do to recognize help?” thin to swim with sharks, no wetsuit, just an looks and feels like. I learned that there’s still tion if we are seen; to question if we But when I graduated, I stopped, are worthy of the space waswe take; in the if andmidst I forgot of adventurethat that was the again. deal here; I was infamous pink bikini. Brave enough to be- so much internal work to do but that I’ve we are respected. Whetherswimming it’s on the thatin fear giving by back the was time my Irent landed here on and come an advanced diver, plunging 90 feet come so very far; that perhaps life is just a Subway or in a classroom or in the earth. I began to forget I was enough, grocery store line, they arecould watching, see nothingand felt unworthy but the ofidea the spaceof skipping I was deep water. continuous opportunity to untangle. gathering information on how the taking up. Somewhere I thought I had world responds to them. the boat entirelynothing and to give, going that tono aone resort. wanted We danced and sang under the rising of I learned that uncomfortableness is im- Here is where it simply startsThe for me:taxi medriver around; got that me they to mywere port moving and I the moon. I let the fear seep out with each portant and essential and to stop labeling it walked on a boat made for 25 people. Most dive and absorbed the beauty of a world as bad. I ;learned that the Universe shines everyone was on the boat, with their SCUBA many never experience. And I was vulnera- through our broken cracks and relishes in diving buddy, with their equipment. It felt ble enough to make a handful of wonderful the fact that we might not remember how like the first day at a new school where you friends that share these memories with me. to scuba dive. And sometimes it even gives don’t have a single friend and you don’t The middle of the week, we docked the us a killer tan, some special friends too, and know the social rules. boat in the middle of the sea. Sails up, we turns us into a pirate along the way. I didn’t belong. I had no gear. I left my shared with three other women and the first could see millions of stars against the rising PADI card at home. magic moment happened. I met my dive I had only done four open water dives buddy: a driven young Brooklyn woman, a a year and a half before. Most people had few years younger than me, indulging her dozens. I tried to convince myself maybe carefree and adventurous side. we’d dock at some point and I could lay in She showed up with the same reasons I a beach for a day. Then I saw how small my showed up. Cheating boyfriend, in need of room was, made for four of us to sleep in. a break, ignited by our independence and It was the size of my car and how would wanting to do something completely dif- four of us live in this room? Not a chance. I ferent. We really wanting to immerse every went back on deck and told my dive master ounce of our being into taking an adventure I needed to leave. I stood next to him, unable with the subconscious hope that something to look at him in the eye. would shift in us. I began apologizing to her for the tears streaming down my face. I was Continued from last page overwhelmed and afraid and far away from good to me.” home, with no idea what Dramamine was. On that Saturday afternoon, I went to talk Our first dive; I panicked. I panicked be- to a lady about Irish dance, I left with so fore we jumped in the water when they told much more. Jack and Una look at one anoth- us to check our equipment. This is where the er like a couple that has just started dating, Google search would have been helpful, but constantly reaching over to touch each other there was no cellphone signal on this boat, as they spoke. The entire conversation was in the middle of the Caribbean. accented by laughter and thankfulness. It When I jumped into the sea, I tried to was truly a pleasure to spend time with descend, but couldn’t breathe. It’s an odd them and have them share a fraction of the feeling being hooked up to a very expen- many stories and remembrances they have. sive system, created to provide breathing Thank you Micki Ansberry and Margaret under water, and being completely unable Flynn for your assistance with this visit. to inhale. I hopped back on the boat while Go raibh míle maith agaibh! twenty-four other divers explored the bot- Slán go Foill! tom of the deep blue sea. [email protected] Taking off my tank, Captain Red had me jump back in, gear off, and snorkel. I felt 10 IAN Ohio “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com MAY 2017

different kind of clientele. There were around, we went into the lake and began no slot machines, the fish and chip shops to search. The water was freezing and it were more expensive than those we were was deeper than it looked. Terry From Derry used to, and it lacked the rough and ready We felt for the lost balls with our feet. appeal of Buncrana. Once the sunken treasure was located, we by Terry Boyle Finding ourselves bored we wandered plunged our bodies into the murky waters back to the camp. Amid the sighs, punctu- and one by one, we gathered our booty, ated with swears of frustration, we heard which we hid in our tent. the sound of something being whacked. The next day while everyone else was The Discovery of Golf a more meditative side to life among the Our curiosity peaked; we went outside to investigating the intricacies of nature, we rocks, rolling hills, and restful walks along see what it was. took to the golf course with our findings From a very early age, I was always a the seacoast. None of us had ever seen a golf course from the previous day. Golfers, it seems, traveler at heart. Indeed, my itchy feet I’d never been in a tent before, never before. The game was beyond our price love a bargain and, fortunately, we had to be on the move did not go unnoticed mind set one up, and my ignorance range and its players in a completely dif- the wherewithal to offer them a bargain by my mother, who was flummoxed by showed. A job that should’ve taken at ferent class. We sat watching, as the tartan they couldn’t refuse. Necessity may be constant excursions. It began, I believe, most a half an hour showed signs of be- trouser brigade wasting time and energy the mother of invention, but in this case, when I was around 13-years-old. coming a Herculean task as we passed the on hitting a small white ball. it was boredom that became for us the My friends and I were harangued into two-hour point. Once eventually settled Given that there was absolutely nothing mother of enterprise. Each day we could going camping with a local club. We were in, the three of us who were to inhabit the else to do, we interspersed our watching earn enough money to buy the cigarettes not going far, about 40 miles, to Portsa- tent made off to see the sights. with calls of ‘fore’ and intermittent cries we craved and even eat chips in a shop lon, Co. Donegal. It was yet again one City boys in the countryside, who are for help as if one of us had been hit by a that none of us could afford to eat at be- of those good, educational adventures in need of adventure, are rarely a good small flying missile. Needless to say, the fore we discovered golf. designed to take children out of troubled combination. After escaping the attention golfers were not amused with their heck- Travel is a way to broaden the mind; areas and into a peaceful sanctuary. Away of the adults, we lit up our cigarettes and lers and tried to scare us off, to no avail. at least that’s what they say, and in this from the rioting, raiding, and political took to racing towards the sound of the There was one thing we did notice case our pockets expanded with each new wrangling, we teenagers might discover waves. while making fun of the older men with harvest of golf balls. All was going well The sea and sand were nothing new their sticks. More often than not, a ball until I developed a toothache. to us, we had been on the annual trip would find itself flying into a small lake Since we were in the Republic and to Buncrana beach, but that was only 12 on the course. When this happened, the had no access to a dentist, I was given miles away from Derry, whereas this was polite golfers would let loose their own whiskey; a cure that made me instantly further again. Here, we were outside of string of pleasing swear words. popular with my tent mates, and, as such, our usual comfort zone, and we didn’t Golf balls cost money, so some of the I was dutifully sent back for a drop of the know what to expect. men would attempt to wade into the rare stuff every couple of hours. In Buncrana, there were slot machines water to redeem the fruits of their labour. The dilution of my share of the whiskey to lose your money on, ice cream, cheap Getting into the water proved to be eas- resulted in no change in my ailment, so fish and chip shops. We were used to ier than getting out, and inevitably the I took off without informing the camp the usual ritual of playing the machines, retrieval of the glorious object was more leaders of my decision to leave. I had no leaving the gambling dens skint, and, often than not, abandoned. idea as to how I would get back to Derry, with no money to spend, run around the As we sat watching these attempts to but I knew that I had to try. By extending beach until it was time to eat. Portsalon, retrieve the lost ball again, and again, we my right thumb into the line of traffic, I however, was different. It catered for a hatched upon an idea. When no one was managed to secure a couple of lifts to take me home. My mother, who had assumed I’d come back on the bus, arranged for me to see a dentist, and put me back on a bus to Portsalon the following morning. When I arrived back at camp, the leaders refused to take me back. I’d broken a cardinal rule by leaving without permission and could not remain. What they didn’t know is that I didn’t have the money to take the bus back to Derry. I tried to explain my predicament, but they were not having any of it, so once again the trusted right thumb was called into action and I was on the road again. The hitchhike back and forth from Portsalon proved to have lasting effects. From that time onwards, I saw myself as an adventurer who was not afraid to step out into the great unknown. The experience had unleashed a passion to travel wherever the road would lead me. MAY 2017 “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com 11

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The Irish more common in political Benevolent Club life, among the leaders of organized labor and in busi- Hundreds of Irish were employed during the con- ness. They have a natural struction of the Miami and Erie canals. When the work bent and capacity for leadership. They have filled every through raffles, dues and four or five dances each year. was completed, many of the hardy laborers were so public position from the white house to the patrolman Through feather parties, picnics and plays, the Irish impressed by the opportunities offered that they re- on the beat. They have dominated legislative halls Benevolent Club kept the tradition of helping someone mained in Toledo, and formed the nucleus of the large from the board of aldermen to the United States Senate. or a group in need and usually did it without any pub- Irish element now found there. They have brushed away solemnity with their ready licity. In its heyday, the Irish Benevolent Club numbered In an article from the (Toledo) Blade, in early 1930s, wit. They are prominent among the priests and leaders over 250 members. Nevin O. Winter wrote: of the Church. Among the blue uniformed guardians Each member had to be Irish or have an Irish spouse. “’Paddy’” and his shovel are not so common a sight of our cities - and especially New York - the dialect is Many of the members were Irish born. Immigration today as in the canal days. The sons of Erin are today frequently unmistakable. The Irishman never denies his policies of the United States starting in the 1960s, limited nationality. Rather he boasts of it, and for this, no one the number of Irish immigrants. The Irish born of the can blame him. He has a heritage of which he well may club started dying off and their children found other boast; Centuries of suppression could not dampen or interests, causing the club to disband in the late 1970s. diminish the national spirit. Exiled Irish have climbed There have been revivals of Irish pride in the Toledo to great heights in other lands.” with John Connolly and his Biddy Mulligans pub. John Growing up in Toledo, many of my parent’s friends Connolly and his group performed regularly. John were either Irish born or first generation Irish. My also brought in Irish bands from Ireland and Canada to father, Maurice Collins, was very active in the Irish Be- perform. Biddy Mulligans was filled to capacity every nevolent Club. John Mackin wrote an article about the Friday and Saturday evening. Irish Benevolent Club in the book The Irish in Toledo, edited by Seamus Metress and Molly Schiever. “After John also sponsored shows by Irish performers, and a tragic auto accident in 1948 resulted in the death of along with Ted McHugh has been doing a popular Irish a local Irishman, the founding members of the Irish radio show, “Echo’s of Ireland” for over twenty-five Benevolent Club raised money to provide help to his years. The Irish American Club, The Ancient Order of widow and her large family.” Hibernians and the Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians The Irish Benevolent club provided help to many have held Irish festivals and parties. The Ardan Academy groups as well as to individuals. They donated regularly of dance has produced many wonderful Irish dancers. to St. Patrick’s Church, the Little Sisters of the Poor and Still, I look with envy at other Ohio cities with much the former Divine Word Seminary. Money was raised more active Irish communities compared to Toledo.

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We Get Letters … to his father’s farm. Officers from hard-working brick mason and landlords following World War ll. the Austrian law-abiding citizen, raising 12 chil- Just imagine how much stronger This letter is in Army made an attempt to reenlist dren with the help of his Polish wife and united our country might have response to the recent him but tradition dictated that he Mary (nee Mazan) and the rest, as been had this unofficial tradition articles covering could remain at home so long as he they say, is history. continued. was sorely needed on the farm. Im- Just as Cleveland is a city of neigh- Gentrification is not the answer. immigration. mediately after the officers departed borhoods, so is the United States a Preventing immigration is not the Albert’s father gave him his brother’s country of immigrants. In fact all the solution. Intense vetting is accept- My grandfather Albert Joseph Bi- travel documents and instructed him major cities of America {at one time} able during these challenging times alek came to the United States from to immigrate to the United States. His served as incubators for immigrants but to unfairly deny one person Poland father knew that war was coming and to not only become accustomed to access to the United States makes us [Galicia] in 1910. Per the Ellis he didn’t want to lose his son to it. the ways of this country, but also to all orphans again. As a popular song Island website, he boarded the ship It took me longer to locate my intermingle with each other (often goes: “let me in immigration man.” Kaiser grandfather on the passenger list prohibited in their native homeland). Wilhelm der Grosse in Bremen, because I had It’s a shame that the inner cities Joe Bialek Germany [formerly Prussia]. He forgotten he was traveling under were handed over to the absentee Cleveland, OH had just the name Jan and not Albert. Given completed his service in the Aus- the fact that Albert entered the United Gaelic Imports trian Army. Poland at that time was States under the name Jan Bialek and 5633 Pearl Rd. divided later burned his immigration papers, Parma, OH 44129 into three spheres of influence by it is evident he was by definition a 440-845-0100 Austria, Prussia and Russia. “illegal immigrant.” fax 440-845-0102 Upon being discharged he returned He went on to become a very 800-450-2725 
 

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initially founded 6 years apart. is the general ratio of number of children A perfect storm, as they say. All that born before coming to Ohio to those born was needed was five days without work, a in Ohio. schedule of parishes with an 8 a.m. Mass, So why did Irish immigrants reside one thumb drive, and a library within in a locale long enough to have a child walking distance of an Irish restaurant. and move on? I do not know the cost of Check and check. Spoiler alert: microfilm transportation from New York or Boston is a buzzkill. in 1860 or how long it would take to save The 5th Ward in 1860 was on the near that amount of money. A fair number of Census argues that the Irish settlement pattern Eastside. It was roughly north of Euclid inhabitants were laborers and eventually I have always been impressed by the in America was based initially on familial Avenue, east of the Cathedral as far as financially able to traverse to Cleveland city of Cleveland, even more so by the relationships; easy enough to grasp. The Dead Man’s Curve, to use a contempo- with their families. Cleveland Irish. It is well known that the second determinate suggested by Clark rary point of reference. There were 4,828 We hear the stories of the Irish laborer Cleveland Irish are held in high regard, es- is county affiliation. He looked at the people included in the 1860 Census for in America on the canals, railroads and pecially amongst themselves. As I strolled surnames in the Irish neighborhoods of the 5th Ward. 885 inhabitants were born in the mines. We hear of labor unrest, with Bill Homan down Superior Ave on Philadelphia and affixed an Irish county. in Ireland. 1,605 inhabitants were born in drinking and a hard life. We do not hear the 17th, I thought of the stories he had His methodology utilized the history of Ireland or had an Irish parent. I call that of these men as fathers and husbands. shared in the past of the old neighborhood the surname and its geographic common- 33%. A conservative 1/3. In 1860 on the Eastside, more Irish men and of his father. Some of the buildings ality. Fair enough, but such methodology There are many who have Irish sur- were married than single and nearly all are newer and so are the people. The story would not stand up in the court of law names, but the Census lists only the state were married to Irish women. These Irish is still the story. As Aunt Irene always or academia. It was merely to establish in which they were born. We have to wait also started to build parishes. Difficult to said, “Start at the beginning.” plausibility and the necessity for addi- until the 1890 Census to have the category comprehend since our brethren suppos- Motivation is the beginning. It was a tional research. for birthplace of parents. Horseshoes edly spent all their time in saloons getting privilege to read Bernie McCafferty’s the- The 18th; the day after, or plus 1. I and hand grenades, that number could in fights. Not saying someone didn’t get sis on the Irish in Cleveland in 1850. The watched the Irish fall to West Virginia be between 40-50%, using Clark’s meth- tuned up on occasion and a pint was had amount of data and his use of mapping with a priest and an electrician who odology. I tried to limit my Eastside bias from time to time, but that is surely not the software was an inspiration to me to pen drinks his whiskey warm with cloves, a and applied somewhat strict guidelines. complete story of our people in America an article or two with fewer syllables and gentleman. Tasty. We were surrounded There is quite a bit to be gleaned from or Cleveland. more historical research. That is what by those who make the Parade happen. this data. My inceptionary gleaning was Residence by the Irish in multiple cities leads to spending spring break at the I was proud to be of Erin. My focus re- more a reversal of idiosyncratic intuitives. pre-Cleveland indicates various adaptive library. The silver lining is the flock of sin- currently went back to Superior Avenue. That is to say, I was amazed at how much approaches to immigration and migra- gle women in the Genealogy department. Father Sean made me think of Immaculate of what I did not know, made perfect tion. The availability of work, a social Dennis Clark is a historian. He is the Conception and the Irish of Cleveland. sense; Bliss, as they say. To paraphrase network and perhaps familial or county author of the seminal book, “The Irish in Father Sean made me think of St. Columb- Socrates, the more I know the more I affiliation were all variables or potential Philadelphia: Ten Generations of Urban kille and the Irish of Cleveland. Two Irish know not. variables in that equation. We have the Experience.” Impressive work. Clark Churches, 15 blocks apart on Superior and The 1860 Census in the 5th Ward, in not uncommon narrative of the families broad strokes, chronicles more family who arrived in Cleveland from Canada. migration than individual. There were The boat ride was cheaper to Canada and almost as many children of Irish ancestry border crossing was partitionless. as native-born Irish. Irish families were However, people were not just passing increasing their families as they migrated through as some of the Irish did in Balti- to Cleveland. The Census shows births in more to avoid immigration bans in Penn- England, Scotland, Nova Scotia, Canada, sylvania. The Irish stayed long enough New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, to have children in Canada before they Illinois and Indiana. The one that threw resided on the correct side of Lake Erie. me for a loop was Prussia. Who goes There is so much history in Cleveland: from Ireland to New York to Prussia for Irish history, our history. Some of it can two years and a kid and then to Ohio? be gleaned from the Census, some of it Ancestry misread “Penn” as Prussia. is Census. A lot of it is older than Bill Problem solved and time to walk to that Homan and his stories. Irish restaurant. The 1860 and 1870 Censuses are my The 1860 Census in the 7th Ward indi- chronological point of focus. The 5th and cates a similar narrative. The 7th Ward 7th Ward are my loci. Eastside. was due east of the 5th Ward, extending to Those Irish neighborhoods and their 55th Street, although it was not 55th Street parishes will be the data used to eval- yet. 2,177 inhabitants called this eastern- uate Clark’s settlement hypothesis. St. most ward home. 204 inhabitants were Columbkille was reportedly founded for born in Ireland. 437 inhabitants were those from County Cork. Immaculate born in Ireland or had an Irish parent. I Conception was reportedly founded for call that 20%. those from County Mayo. In theory, the If you combine the two wards, the Irish settlement patterns should support this account for 30% of the total population of history. Ya see, not just an Eastside bias. both. Parent to child ratio is similar and so It is historicity. MAY 2017 “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com 15

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took her inside. She said her first Kay and I were laughing so reaction was relief that I wasn’t hard I missed my turn to get with her. “How come?” I asked. onto I-75 south. Oh darn, the Living With Lardie She told me there was a big last place we want to be lost is by Richard Lardie table in the building with about in downtown Detroit. I start- 6 uniformed guards sitting ed looking for a place to turn around. There were 4 donut around but everything was boxes on the table and she was really desolate and I didn’t want convinced that if I was in there I to stop and turn around. Oh Canada a border patrol guard put the problem and I said so. would have made enough jokes I looked up and saw a row gate down behind it. The guard “Be quiet and pull your car about cops and donuts that I of cars and what appeared to Crossing the border was not directed us to the first lane to slowly thru the portal over would probably be in jail. She be a crowd of people. I always something I ever worried about. the right. I thought, “just my there. I slowly advanced thru then went over the fact that she feel safer in a crowd so I drove At least not since I was sta- luck, this guy is going to lunch. until I was told to stop. They had been given a letter by the ahead and joined in a row of tioned on the border between As we pulled into that lane, 5 opened the passenger door and doctor that she could use if she cars. They were blowing their East and West Germany back border guards in full combat told Kay to get out. I opened my went into a federal building horn at us but I ignored them. in 1961. So, when the 5 border gear came out and surrounded door to also get out and was explaining why she radiated WE took a left onto a semi patrol guards, in flak jackets, our car. I put my window down told to STAY IN THE CAR while nuclear levels. She hadn’t given main road and found ourselves carrying rifles, surrounded our and asked what was going on. they took Kay into the building. it a thought about crossing the in a parade. Mexican music van as we tried to re-enter the I was told to be quiet and pull I was then told to back up border. was playing and people were United States two years ago, it up to the guard shack slowly. thru the portal and then pull I guess what impressed me waving at us and all the cars brought me to the edge of my I pulled up and again asked, my car off to the side. They then was they were able to pick up in the parade. The street was seat. I thought; “Well Lardie, “What’s the problem?” I was started searching my car. That the residual radiation in her lined with people 3 deep so we this is another fine mess you got told to be quiet and follow was all right till I heard them chest from two cars back in the couldn’t turn off the street. yourself into.” directions. rattling my golf clubs. They line at the border. There was no That is when we reminded We had better go back to the A guard leaned in and asked took Kay, they searched my car, fooling around. They had me ourselves, it was May 5th and beginning. My wife Kay and I if we had any nuclear equip- but messing with my golf clubs surrounded before I knew there we were in the Cinco De Mayo used to enjoy going up to the ca- ment on board. When we re- is the last straw. I began to raise was anything wrong. I am sure parade in Detroit’s Spanish sino in Windsor, Canada. It was sponded no, he asked if anyone a stink when Kay came back out most of the job they do is boring area. We stayed in the parade a short and easy jaunt. It had the had gotten a nuclear health test and got into the car. They told but when they had to snap to till the end blowing our horn, excitement of going to another recently. A light bulb went off us we were clear to go. action, it was all business. God waving and laughing and then country, staying at a hotel for a and we said that Kay had had a Kay and I slowly pulled away, bless all our men and women found our way back to I-75. nice getaway, and doing some nuclear stress test for her heart happy to be in the land of the in blue or brown who put their We don’t go up there anymore gambling at a very nice casino. the day before we came to Cana- free. Kay laughed as she told lives on the line daily for our but we miss it. It was fun and The restaurants are nice and the da. That should have solved the me what happened when they safety. always a nice trip. rooms are comfortable. We have probably done this 15 times over the past 10 years. It was easier when we didn’t need a passport. The border guards would just ask ques- tions about where you lived and where were you born, etc. Once when Kay drove in she was asked what country she was born in and she responded Ohio. The guard smiled and said, “I think that is in the Unit- ed States. 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times, children disappoint, but a clothing, reminding them of her the spirit of the memory that mother’s love is constant. love. surrounds mothers with the art Mim wished that the challeng- So often motherhood is just like of their creations, the beauty of ing times were not quite so hard. that trace of perfume that lingers their children. In Heaney’s poem, Together, the family survived pov- on your clothing or that slight we are brought into the mind’s erty during the Great Depression, taste of lotion left behind from eye of the groom’s mother as she and welcomed their young men one’s hand on a freshly baked witnesses his marriage. Behind the home from the front at the close of scone. Your senses remind you seeming joy of her clapping hands, World War II. Through it all, my what is real, but the spirit of the we can see her thoughts fly back “Mother of the Groom” The Art of mother was my grandmother’s person is ethereal made solid to her son’s little boy days and the What she remembers Motherhood beloved daughter and she would through the scone, the quilt, the tug of memory as she recalls his Is his glistening back not have changed a minute of treasured tea set. slick back and small feet. Through- In the bath, his small boots The night before my mother their time together. As mothers, we embrace the out the years, our children will In the ring of boots at her feet. was married, my grandmother My grandmother died just shy fleeting images of our children always be our babies. Mim wrote her a letter. In it, she of her one hundred and second through the different stages of As my grandmother lay on Hands in her voided lap, expressed her love and hope for birthday. She lived to enjoy scores their lives in our memory. True, her deathbed, she looked around She hears a daughter my mother’s happiness with my of grandchildren and great-chil- we have videos and pictures, art at the living bodies of her five welcomed. father. Though the letter was dren. Mim always delighted in projects and trophies that remind children. The siblings smiled It’s as if he kicked when lifted. characteristically eloquent, it was the little joys of life: a good hand us of special times with our chil- through their tears as their mother And slipped her soapy hold. also honest. in cards, a tale well told, the soft dren, but my most valued mem- declared, “My babies!” Mim wrote that it was not brush of a child’s kiss on her wrin- ories are more primitive. Here my mother and her sib- Once the soap would ease off always easy being a mother. Life kled cheek. Even though life isn’t I recall the first time I felt my son lings stood, old age had bested The Wedding ring required sacrifice and hard work. always easy, the joys of mothering move deep inside my body. His them all, as the youngest was That’s bedded forever now Mothers often spent time fretting are infinite. sister, just a baby herself, slept on approaching seventy. How blessed In her clapping hand. over their children, shedding tears When I was married, my grand- my chest. Her heartbeat mingled my grandmother felt to have been - By Seamus Heaney of worry, gratitude, and joy. At mother Mim was still alive. She with mine, and at that moment, surrounded by all her children as traveled the many miles from my son quickened for the first she began yet another journey as Billings, Missouri to Cleveland time. Overwhelming is this mira- a mother. to attend my wedding. As part cle of life how three living forms I know she was imagining of my wedding gift, she gave me can syncopate breath, movement, her babies searching for comfort a quilt. The pattern is stitched and life for one brief moment. beneath her warm quilts in the from my mother’s old girlhood Much like I imagine my grand- cold of the old farmhouse. I know dresses. Blue, yellow, and mint mother felt at the time of my she saw the phantom image of green shapes fading now with mother’s adolescence and young my mother as a two-year-old girl age, blanket the quilt with kalei- adulthood, my teenagers are at twirling atop the slope of lawn in doscope images of remembrance times unrecognizable to me. Ma- her favorite calico dress, while her and love. turing features and independent daddy sat beneath the warm sum- During seemingly endless personalities draw a sketch of mer sun in his wicker chair. I know nights when I held my own motherhood so different from the that she was reciting one of her children, nursing them through toddler years. Fortunately, I can favorite poems to her children, as illness and frightening dreams, still remember the tangle of their the crickets chirped outside in the I would wrap the quilt around bodies as they sat on my lap, vying tall meadow grass, and the cows our huddled form, falling into its for the best position as I read their bayed gently amid soft tufts of hay. comfort. The quilt is a tangible bedtime stories; how they delight- “So shut your eyes while mother symbol of Mim’s love, a legacy of ed in verses filled with moonlight sings mothering. and magical nighttime journeys. Of wonderful sights that be, My own mother just turned Mim used to tell me the tale of And you shall see the beautiful eighty-four in late winter. Like three little children, a girl and two things her mother before her, my mother boys who embarked on the great- As you rock in the misty sea.” finds comfort in the simple plea- est adventure, “Wynken, Blynken, *Sources Consulted: Field, Eu- sures of life. She enjoys the chang- and Nod one night sailed off in a gene, Westerman, Johanna (ills.). ing fragrances of the seasons: wooden shoe.” My children also “Wynken, Blynken, and Nod.” woodsmoke in winter, burning loved this story and could identify London: North-South Books, 1995. leaves in fall, the sweetness of Lily with the trio of siblings. The pages Heaney, Seamus. “Opened of the Valley in May. of this storybook are worn with Ground.” New York: Ferrar, My children enjoy hugging use, but if I close my eyes and Straus, and Giroux, 1998. their grandmother. Where once imagine, I can still feel my baby *Susan holds a Master’s De- they slept in her arms, they now boy’s curious eyes upon me as I gree in English from John Car- tower over her, embracing her read, my daughter’s soft tumbling roll University and a Master’s petite form in gentle bear hugs. hair on my arm, and the weight Degree in Education from Bald- When they walk away, her scent of my oldest boy standing by my win-Wallace University. She may of cherry blossom perfume and side, fingers entwined in my hair. be contacted at fabric softener lingers on their Again, it is the flash of feeling, [email protected]. MAY 2017 “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com 19

1 The band played from the cinema’s The Saw Doctors ______By Linda Burke 2 To Win ____ Once Solution on page 25 3 They are finally touring ______and the UK in 2017. 4 During a 6 week gig at The Quays, they became friends with the ______. 7 Mary _’______was the local vocalist in the original trio. 10 As of February 2014, the Saw Doctors are Leo Moran , Davy Carton , Kevin Duffy, Anthony ______, and Rickie O’Neill . 11 John “Turps” ____ was a member of the band from 87 to 93. 12 The band was formed in 1986 in ____, Co. Galway. 13 ______K 15 Davy______was a songwriter and guitarist with short-lived Tuam punk band Blaze X. 16 Another ______player and guitarist with the band was Derek Murray 17 The Saw Doctors filmed a ______on a flat-bed truck while driving between Galway and Salthill. 21 ___ Wrap 22 The band’s first ______was N17, produced by The Waterboys. 26 In spring 2013, the Saw Doctors announced a break from ______. 30 They also appeared in the 1999 Walter Foote ____ The Tavern. 31 The Green and Red of ____. 32 Pearse Doherty was a former ____ player with the group. 34 I’ll Be On My Way

The Irish in Action Are you running for an elective office? There are over ACROSS Higgins, and Fran Breen were all once 25 They hold the record for the Ireland’s 1.4 million people of Irish 5 About ___ Now hit Number 1 seventeen ______with The Saw Doctors.. alltime descent in Ohio; 475,000 in years after their first hit. 19 Their short film, Crackle and Buzz ______-selling single. 6 Their first No. 1 was “I Useta ____.” had its 27 World of ____ Greater Cleveland; 175,00 in 8 Leo _____ was a member of defunct world ______at the Claddagh Palace 28 _____ Island Cuyahoga County: Want to Tuam reggae band, Too Much for the Cinema in Galway. 29 In 2008, they received a reach them? Advertise in the White Man, 20 The band’s debut album If This Is Rock ______Achievement Award at the Ohio Irish American News: 9 The Saw Doctors had to cancel their and Roll, I Want My Old ___ Back Meteor Ireland Music Awards. [email protected] to reach 2016 entered the Irish albums chart at number 33 ______& Mayo Tour because Davy had a one 35 They appeared at the Glastonbury the Irish community Cleveland; _____operation. 23 Tony Lambert was a former keyboard Festival and Oxegen. [email protected] to reach 14 In 2016, the band made the and 36 They got their big break when they the Irish community announcement that they would be back in ______player in the band. opened for popular Irish bands such as throughout Ohio. the _____. 24 Hopefully, The Saw Doctors will be the Hothouse ______and The Stunning. 18 Padraig Stevens, John Donnelly, Jimi touring the ___ in 2018. DOWN 20 IAN Ohio “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com MAY 2017

would like to make you aware of though, Oíche mhaith (ee-hah wah) good night Speak Irish is that there is no simple yes or no in Irish. Tráthnóna maith ( tra no na mah) good afternoon In Irish, the verb in the question would be Maith go leor ( mah guh lore) good enough Labhair Gaeilge repeated back in its affirmative or negative Ceart go leor ( kyart guh lore) ok form. The words sea (shah) yes or ní hea Tá brón orm ( taw brawn or um) i’m sorry By Bob Carney (nee hah), no, would not be grammatically An bhfuil sé ceart go leor? correct in answering all questions posed in (ahn will shay kyart guh lore) Is it ok? Irish, but for our purpose, responding to an Fadbh ar bith ( fye bir bih) no problem English speaker, they will suffice. Arís (ah reesh) again Is deas bualadh leat (iss jess bool la lat) Labhair Gaeilge Sea (shah) yes it’s nice to meet you Ní hea (nee hah) no EOCHAIR FEASA FOGHLAIM Sláinte (slawn cha) cheers Dia duit (jia gitch) hello Is maith liom é ( iss mah la may) I like it (oh-ker fass-ah foh-lim) Slán (slawn) goodbye Learning is the key to knowledge Maith thú (mah who) good job Go raibh maith agat (guh rah mah ah-gut) thank you Tá sé sin go maith ( taw shay shin guh mah) Maith (mah) good Writing this column for the OhIAN has some very that’s good Tá fáilte romhat (taw fawl-cha row-aht) An álainn (ahn awling) very beautiful pleasant benefits. I have met some wonderful people your welcome and have had many opportunities to discuss the Irish Tuigim (tigg um) I understand Le do thoil (lay duh hull) please Ní thuigim (nee higg um) I don’t understand language. gabh mo leithscéal ( guh mah lesh scale) excuse me At last years Cleveland Irish Cultural Festival, I spent Mar seo (mahr sho) like so An mhaith ( ahn wah) very good Aontáim ( ahn him) I agree time in the Temple Bar and Cultural Hall. I would ap- So bhlasta ( so blas ta) delicious proach people and ask them, “An bhfuil Gaeilge agat?” Dada (dah dah) nothing Beagáinín (bih ah gone ing) a little Níos déanai (nees di ah nee) later ( ahn will gall-ih gay ah-gut), Do you speak Irish? Tá sé so bhlasta (taw shay so blas ta) this is delicious After a puzzled look, I would repeat in English and Níl a fhios agam ( neel ah iss ah gum) Fáilte (fawl cha) welcome I don’t know hand them a Speak Irish Cleveland bookmarker and Maidin maith (moh gin wah) good morning offer a quick lesson in Irish. Many Tá an ceart agat (taw ahn kyart ah gut) that’s right were not even aware there is an Irish Conas atá tú? (ko nass ah taw too) language. how are you? All I met seemed to be interested Táim go maith (time guh mah) and said they would love to learn the I’m good language of their ancestors. Of course Feicfidh mé thú (feck ee may who) I also heard many reasons why some see you later could not, lack of time, too difficult, too Is Cuma liom (iss coo mah lum) old and so forth. The only excuse I really it doesn’t matter took exception to however was, “There Tá an lá go brea is no one I could speak it with.” ( taw ahn law guh braw) it’s a fine day I read a novel not too long ago where Dia linn ( dee uh linn) bless us (used as one of the main characters would inter- a blessing when some one sneezes) ject words and phrases in Spainish in conversation. I tend to do the same with Don’t forget your dictionary Irish and encourage all of the students (teanglann .ie) to find other words you in Speak Irish Cleveland to do the same. may want to add. I think you’ll find the It’s a way of speaking the language ev- opportunities to speak Irish are every- ery day, and also allows us to share our where, it’s all up to us. heritage with others. GO GCOINNE DIA THÚ A friend of mine who gives many (guh guh nuh dee uh who) presentations to groups of people as May God keep you part of his job, likes to say good morning SLÁN GO FOILL! or good afternoon in Irish when he’s [email protected] speaking to a group. He said it helps him get everyone’s attention and they remember him as “that Irish guy”. Being remembered by prospective clients is important in his line of work. There are over 1.4 million I like to use one or two words and people of Irish descent in maybe simple phrases and always Ohio; 475,000 in Great- follow up with the English translation. er Cleveland; 175,00 in An dtuigeann tú? (ahn diggin too), Do you understand? Go maith! (guh mah), Cuyahoga County: Want to Good! Sometimes you’ll spark interest reach them? Advertise in the and be able to share a small part of our Ohio Irish American News: culture with someone, or even better, [email protected]. learn something of someone else’s. For that very reason, I out together this months vocabulary. One note,I MAY 2017 “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com 21

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Ohio State. Go Bucks! And happy graduation Billy! OhIAN: Where did you study? Maureen: I graduated from John Carroll University in 2014 with a degree in English Litera- ture and Creative Writing, and in May I’ll graduate with a Master Growing Up Irish of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the Northeast Ohio Master Columnist Maureen Rose Ginley of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Maureen Rose Ginley has Maureen: I have four siblings: Program. Education has always been a regular columnist for the Katie, Chris, Mike and Billy, we been a huge part of my life, and OhIAN for about two years. She also have a dog named Tucker. I’m hoping to take my love of is a twenty-four year old grad- Growing up in such a large fam- school and turn it into a career. Ei- uate student residing in Rocky ily was amazing, I always had ther as a teacher or through some River with her parents, Susan someone to play with or bounce other position that engages my and Thomas. ideas off of. I’m excited for all of creative writing and people skills. in my life. to the community after being at OhIAN: Do you have a large us to be together at the last Ginley OhIAN: What do you like to OhIAN: How did you become JCU. I found so much more in the family Maureen? graduation in just a few weeks at do when you’re not writing or involved with the paper? Ohio Rose Centre and the Rose of working? Maureen: I started writing for Tralee International Festival as a Maureen: When I’m not at the Ohio Irish American News whole. I found a family. school or working as a Graduate because of my involvement with I found a renewed love for my Assistant at Cleveland State, I the Ohio Rose Centre. After par- Irish heritage. From that initial volunteer with City Dogs Cleve- ticipating in the 2015 Ohio Rose essay, John offered me the oppor- land as Events Team Member. Selection, I was so excited about tunity to write a monthly column, I also volunteer as a tutor with what I had experienced that “ Growing Up Irish”. For the Seeds of Literacy. Both are caus- e-mailed John O’Brien, Jr. with past two years I’ve written about es I’m passionate about, animal an article idea, a piece all about growing up Irish in Cleveland, welfare and education. I love the selection, what I had learned, my interests in education and spending time with both the dogs and everything the Ohio Centre creative writing, and my amaz- and students. They’re wonderful had done for me in such a short ing, inspiring family and friends. reminders of what’s important in amount of time. OhIAN: Congratulations on life, the value of hard work, and At a time when I was searching your upcoming graduation, from to be grateful for the blessings for something to root me back in all of us!

Ancient Order of Hibernians Division Present Alzheimer Donation to Regina Health Care Center The Ancient plans to host Order of Hiber- the beer run nians, Irish Bri- again next gade Division year. #1 of Medina For informa- County recent- tion on The ly presented a Ancient Order check for $771 of Hiberni- to Maureen ans in Medi- O’Neill-Laszlo, na County, a director at contact the Regina Health division pres- Center in Rich- ident, Tony their friends spent the day field, Ohio. This money Manley at tonym92979@ touring and sampling at will go towards the Alzhei- sbcglobal.net. five local breweries. Da- mer Unit at the Center. [Enclosed photo shows, vid Manley and Raymond The money was raised from left to right: Tony Schulte were instrumental during the division’s first Manley, Raymond Schulte, in getting this event or- annual “Charity Beer Run”, Maureen O’Neill-Laszlo ganized and the division where the Hibernians and and David Manley] MAY 2017 “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com 23

shunned these girls, nor was the future bright for a fatherless child in old Ireland. One can only imagine the horror of these homes cascading and overcoming the peo- Tuam are a people who have crossed ple involved. over to a numb indifference at The Church is culpable Tuam was nicknamed Sugar the incomprehensible number of in that it created a climate town. A former sugar beet factory church abuses. that allowed fear and cast a rosy hue over a town other- This cycle began in earnest in shame to rule the day. wise known for music, a cathedral, the 90s, with the former Bishop of What about the families high crosses, Saw Doctors and Galway, Eamon Casey. He fathered of these girls? It is hard the GAA. That reputation soured a child and was caught diverting to find any account of recently with the substantiation of money for the upbringing of that anyone helping the girls or trying Church and State. The survivors terrible scene. Perhaps it is in the some long-held rumors. child, who was living in New to stop any of this. are still very much alive so you acceptance of the complexity of Catherine Corless, a local ama- York. The exposure of fallibility of Accounts discuss the shame can’t say it’s in the past, they are our nature that we appreciate the teur historian, revealed the stark a man so high opened the gate to and fear that families had all around us, they are hurting diversity of the human fabric. All truth of what occurred behind the so much more. and the desire to protect what and we have to do something for that I could take from this story doors of the local unwed mother’s Court cases followed that illus- was left of their families. It is them.” (1.), Catherine had looked was that whenever we are tempted home, St. Patrick’s, in Tuam. She trated patterns of abuse of chil- a truly heartbreaking story. all over and was shocked to discov- to judge without compassion, we confirmed the remains of 796 ba- dren at the hands of priests and It was a different time. But this er that there were no graves for the both deny the humanity of others bies and children buried in a septic the subsequent cover-ups by the story is a stark reminder of the 796 babies. Nobody wants to talk and risk our own. area on the grounds of that home in church establishment. The Mag- cost of simple times. According about it in the North Galway town *Lisa O’Rourke is an educa- the years between 1925 and 1960. dalene laundries were yet another to Catherine Corless, “This is very and the Bon Secours sisters said tor from Akron. She has a BA She sought to uncover the truth. black-eye, modern workhouses much part of our story,” she said. they kept no records from the site. in English and a Master’s in Corless found a sympathetic that trapped some “fallen” women “I have heard people from the Theocracies have never been kind Reading/Elementary Education. soul in Anne Glennon at the Gal- and condemned them to servitude. Church say that this was a different to women- regardless of the re- Lisa is a student of everything way records office. “She was very The last of these laundries closed Ireland and that we couldn’t look ligion. Somehow, they always Irish, primarily Gaeilge . She apologetic. She said they didn’t in 1996. Undoubtedly, flawed at the past with today’s values. denigrate “wicked” women but in runs a Gaeilge study group at the normally let the public into her clergy exist, as they do in any other But I thought that was extremely so doing, they do not compliment AOH/Mark Heffernan Division. office, but promised to do a search area of human endeavor. There unsavory and unsuitable for the manhood either. If the real test of She is married to Dónal and for me. are also clergy who have risked survivors who are still alive today. law is to protect the weak from has two sons, Danny and Liam. I told her what I was looking and lost their lives in the service A total injustice was done to these the powerful, then the Irish gov- Lisa enjoys art, reading, music, for; she asked me to give her a few of mankind. The clerical order in mothers and their children. My ernment and church are in arrears. and travel. She enjoys spend- weeks. She came back to me after charge of the Tuam home were argument was that it was not that The weak were hidden here ing time with her dog, cats and three or four weeks and asked the Bon Secours, which translates long ago, that the survivors are still as some unpleasant reminder of fish. Lisa can be contacted at if I really wanted all those death to mean “good help”. While few around, and that it’s still the same fragility only to spawn a far more [email protected]. certificates. I was expecting ten or of the women they served believe 15 deaths from the home, but she that they received good help, it is told me there were nearly 800,” equally unbelievable that those she said. (1) nuns gave up so many attachments 796 is an eye-popping number; of the physical world to join a thinking of the scale, it is more convent because they wanted to children than are contained in two harm anyone. average elementary schools. How Yet, there aren’t any good stories did they die? Neglect is the prima- about how these homes were run. ry cause; dirty beds, inadequate The nuns became situational sa- nutrition and medical care. dists. Theoretically, the people on At that time, infant and child both sides were institutionalized, mortality was around 10% and in as illustrated in the Stanford Prison these homes it was over 50%. Some Experiment; the women were held, of the children who survived were their rights denied, their names adopted: primarily sold to wealthy changed, their children taken from Americans eager for a child. An them. account of such a case is in book The women in the homes were and movie form under the title, dehumanized and powerless and Philomena. they were treated accordingly by These revelations have pushed staff who were overwhelmed and the Irish public further from the underprepared. Fear and shame church. So many Irish people are exhausted judgment and the hu- very angry, a strange anger. They man heart. 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Richard Bingham, the President of Con- lead in a war against the English Crown. nacht, and his brother George Bingham, Nevertheless, he also reported to Fitzwil- executed up to 1,100 Spanish survivors liam that he had “put a large number of of the wrecks who made it ashore in the Spaniards to the sword” in Inishowen. western province. In Galway city, 300 On September 16, 1588 seven Spanish Spanish prisoners including 40 aristocrats ships appeared off Liscannor, sighted were beheaded on Fitzwilliam’s orders. by Nicholas Cahane, an agent of Boeti- Elsewhere, at Streedagh in modern us Clancy, the High Sherriff of County County Sligo for instance, where four Clare. They anchored off Kilrush, where the starving sailors at- The Armada Atlantic Ocean. Some had cut tempted to trade with the and Ireland their anchors in the flight from locals for food and water. The Spanish Armada was a fleet that the English fireships, which Several ships sailed away sailed from Spain in August 1588, under severely diminished their abil- unscathed, but anoth- the command of the Duke of Medina ity to navigate close to shore. er, the Annunciada, sank Sidonia, with the purpose of escorting Also, the Armada commanders off Scattery Island, was the Spanish army from Flanders to invade made a large navigational error set alight by the crew and England. The fleet was composed of 130 that brought the fleet too close looted by locals. Two oth- ships, 8,000 sailors and 18,000 soldiers. to the dangerous Atlantic coast er ships were also lost: The strategic aim was to overthrow of Ireland. the San Estaban and San Queen Elizabeth I of England and the Most of the fleet – 84 ships – Marcos, with the loss of Tudor establishment of Protestantism in avoided land and most of those around 800 lives. Crawl- England, with the expectation that this made it home to Spain, although ing ashore, half drowned, would put a stop to English interference in varying degrees of distress. malnourished and in no in the Spanish Netherlands (Northern Ita- The remaining ships, roughly fit state to resist, English ly) and end the damage caused to Spanish 28 ships, were forced toward soldiers led by the Sheriff interests by English and Dutch priva- the rocky west coast of Ireland. massacred the survivors, teering. These included several gal- about 300 men, at Spanish After entering the English Channel, the leons and many merchantmen. Point. Armada dropped anchor off the port of The merchantmen had been In County Kerry four Calais, France. While waiting for com- converted for battle and were Spanish vessels arrived munications from the Duke of Parma’s leaking heavily, making sail in the Blasket Sound near army of 30,000 troops, the Armada was with severely damaged masts Dunquin. Three of these scattered by an English fireship attack. and rigging, and with most of vessels sank. Only one In the ensuing Battle of Gravelines, the their anchors missing. The fleet ship survived and was Spanish fleet was damaged and forced of ships seems to have main- able to return to Spain. to abandon its rendezvous with Parma’s tained contact until the begin- By the end of Septem- army, who were blockaded by the Dutch ning of September, when they ber 1588, Fitzwilliam navy. The Armada managed to regroup were scattered by a south-west was able to report to the and, driven by southwest winds, with- gale (described in an account Queen’s secretary that the drew north, with the English fleet chasing of an Irish government official Armada alarm was over. it up the east coast of England. as one “the like whereof hath While most of the Armada The Spanish commander ordered a not been seen or heard for a long time”). ships were lost, the locals robbed the wrecks went down in areas impossible to return to Spain. The Spanish King Phillip Within days, this lost fleet had made Spaniards of any valuables they could salvage, some of the wrecks have provid- II’s attempt to invade England failed due landfall in Ireland. find, but did not kill them. However, in ed interesting salvaging over the years, to his own mismanagement and partly In Dublin, Queen Elizabeth’s govern- north Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim, areas, such as Spanish gold, cannon and other because of the defensive efforts of the ment, headed by Lord Deputy William which had very recently been in armed re- artifacts. Heavy storms are thought to English and their Dutch allies. Realizing Fitzwilliam, was panicked at the thought volt against the English Crown, chieftains have uncovered the Spanish vessel, long that their expedition had failed, Medina of thousands of Spanish soldiers landing such as MacWilliam Burke, and Brian buried in the sandy sea bed off the coast Sidonia ordered that the fleet to sail north on the west coast of Ireland and joining O’Rourke harbored Spaniards. of Streedagh, in County Sligo. The Irish and approach the coast of Norway, pass- up with the Irish. He issued dire warnings In Ulster, which was still largely outside heritage ministry has been collecting and ing the Shetland Islands. that that all Spaniards be captured and of English control, the Spaniards seem to preserving these artifacts at the National This allowed the fleet to clear the coast immediately hanged and that any Irish have fared somewhat better, at least if Museum. of Scotland. Once out in the Atlantic, aiding them be tortured and charged as they survived shipwreck. In Antrim the *J. Michael Finn is the Ohio State Histo- the ships were to steer to a point 645 km a traitor to the Crown. His order also in- MacDonnell clan led by Sorley Boy helped rian for the Ancient Order of Hibernians beyond the Shannon River estuary on the cluded a stipulation not to spare “Spanish up to 500 Spaniards escape to Scotland. and Division Historian for the Patrick west coast of Ireland, giving them a clear prisoners of any quality whatsoever (that The position of Hugh O’Neill, Earl Pearse Division in Columbus, Ohio. He run to northern Spain. is, rank or social status).” of Tyrone, the most powerful northern is also Chairman of the Catholic Record When the fleet entered the North Sea, Most of the 28 ships were lost to the leader, who at this point still proclaiming Society for the Diocese of Columbus, 110 ships remained under Medina Sido- rugged Irish coastline. It is estimated that himself a loyal subject to Elizabeth I, was Ohio. He writes on Irish and Irish-Amer- nia’s command. Many were damaged by between 5,000 and 7,000 Spaniards per- hard to determine. He sheltered and kept ican history; Ohio history and Ohio gunfire or were running low on supplies, ished at sea along the coast. Some made on a number of Spanish commanders to Catholic history. You may contact him at making them unfit for service in the it ashore only to suffer a different fate. train his own forces, whom he was soon to [email protected]. MAY 2017 “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com 25

We Get Letters: ing combinations: John Hume by himself; Sinn Fein’s outreach for peace began in ic means was the only way forward. John Hume, David Trimble and Gerry the 1970s, with talks between Gerry Adams McGuinness appeared to be always con- Adams and McGuinness Adams; and David Trimble and Gerry Ad- and Father Alec Reid, the Redemptorist tent to stand in Adams’ shadow. However, for 2018 ams—but never just Hume and Trimble. priest, and into the mid 1980s with Gerry the worldwide response to his passing Nobel Peace Prize? So, there was great expectation in both Adams’ outreach to John Hume, which re- has changed that. His legacy now stands By Sabina Clarke Ireland and the U.S. for Adams getting the sulted in the crafting of the Hume/Adams firmly with Adams - both recognized as Nobel Peace Prize. When he did not there Joint Document for Peace. world leaders who helped end decades of As we approach the 20th anniversary was shock abroad and shock in the United While pursuing the rocky and dangerous murders and violence that took more than of the Northern Ireland Peace Process and States. Ed Moloney, journalist, author and road to peace, Sinn Fein adopted the dual 3,200 lives. Through their joint commitment with the global response to the death of expert on the Troubles has stated that there strategy of the armalite and the ballot box to a peaceful solution, what was once con- Martin McGuinness and his legacy undis- would have been “no peace process without - but an end to violence was always the sidered an intractable conflict has become puted —now is the time to nominate Martin Gerry Adams.” goal. As revolutionaries turned politicians, a template for peace and reconciliation McGuinness posthumously and Sinn Fein I remember well that morning in 1998, an- former comrades who called them traitors around the world. ticipating with for having compromised vilified them, and Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness others that Ad- they risked being assassinated while they risked their lives and their careers for ams, who was argued that compromise through democrat- peace. to speak at the Union League in Philadel- phia later that day, would be included in the Award and that we would be there to cover it. Martin McGuinness and And I recall our Gerry Adams (right) disappointment Portraits by Megan Lawlor and still hear Adams’ words that echoed thru President Gerry Adams as the joint recip- the packed room –the sincerity of which no ients of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. The one could deny - when he tried to comfort Norwegian Nobel Committee has a less the crowd by saying that he did not care than stellar record regarding The Troubles about prizes and that the only prize - the and its Peace Prize awardees. important prize - was peace. In October 1976 the Nobel Committee For more than 40 years, Gerry Adams and awarded the Prize to Betty Williams and Martin McGuinness have been inseparable Mairead Corrigan, founders of the Peace as trusted friends and comrades. Growing People’s movement. The two women quar- up in Belfast, Adams experienced firsthand relling about who would keep the prize the bias, blatant discrimination and bigotry money tarnished the award. They also lost towards Catholics. He came from a strong credibility with their own people by failing republican background. to condemn state violence with the same McGuinness grew up in Derry, in a ardor that they criticized the IRA. These staunchly Catholic family that was not circumstances led to the disintegration of political. He turned to republicanism after the Peace People movement. witnessing the government’s repression In October 1998, the Nobel Committee of the nationalist community. And he was – on the heels of the historic April 1998 second-in-command of the Irish Republi- Good Friday Agreement-- again recog- can Army on Bloody Sunday when British nized Northern Ireland by awarding the soldiers murdered peaceful protestors Nobel Peace Prize to John Hume, the Social marching for Civil Rights. His response Democratic & Labor Party, SDLP Leader was visceral. and David Trimble, the Ulster Unionist At his 1973 conviction he said, “We have Party, UUP Leader for their “efforts to fought against the killing of our people. I find a peaceful solution to the conflict in am a member of Oglaigh na Eireann, (IRA) Northern Ireland.” and very, very proud of it.” The Committee reasoned that since there As early as 1972, both were recognized by was “one from the Catholic side and one the British and secretly flown to London to from the Protestant side” — no one would participate in what turned out to be abortive be alienated. This decision disappointed talks with then Secretary of Northern Ire- many since it seemed not only simplistic, land Willie Whitelaw; and by the mid-1980s but flawed, since it excluded Sinn Fein. they were acknowledged as the key people In Ireland there were bets on the follow- in the Provisional republican movement. 26 IAN Ohio “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com MAY 2017

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Still, Waterford at times in the league was semi-final in 2016. They were leading with simply outstanding and they will be game 10 minutes to go and winning the midfield for anyone this year. They are certainly con- battle. It took the introduction of Bubbles tenders for All-Ireland glory this September. to tip the scales in favour of the blue and At the other side of the Munster draw, ex- gold on the day. pect Clare to overcome Limerick in Semple This year they had a great league reaching Stadium on June 4. the final against Tipp. In David Burke, they Limerick is now a team in transition with have the perennial midfielder in the country Tough to Topple half forward line with inconsistent results. a host of young players coming through. and up front they have an array of high Tipp from Title Two other players likely to vie for starting They had a mixed league campaign and yet calibre attacking talents of Joe Canning and places are Donagh Maher at corner back still managed to make the league semi-fi- Cathal Mannion, alongside Conor Whelan For most the last decade, the hurling and Jason Forde at midfield. nals before been beaten badly at home by and Jason Flynn. The return of Johnny championship was gripped with the Tipperary opponents in the Munster Galway. Glynn from New York will add another pondering on who if anyone had the ca- quarter-final, Cork have had a positive On the positives, the positioning of string to their bow and playing Johnny pability and the fortitude to stop Kilkenny spring which has seen a renaissance of Coen in midfield adds further from winning another All-Ireland as the spirit down Leeside. Manager Kieran athleticism. Cats reigned supreme in 2006,2007, 2008, Kingston’s charges have a sense of Yet, it is their backline 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2015. For once, optimism that wasn’t tangible in 2016 where there are holes to be that is no longer the case. and the Rebels win against an under- filled. Last year, Daithi Burke In its stead, that question now applies strength and already qualified Tipp was outstanding at full-back to the 2016 All-Ireland champions Tip- side in the last round of the League yet he has often been de- perary, who this spring have established has made this fixture more intriguing. ployed further out the field in themselves as the team to beat with some However, a triumph for Cork on May the league which has left them stunning league displays without ever 21 would be an outcome for Cork vulnerable to conceding goals. fielding more than 12 of the starting team supporters hold in hope rather than Yet this is a terrific team who that won the championship last Septem- expectation. will feel that anywhere short ber. Twelve months ago, Tipp manager The winners of this tie will play of lifting the Liam McCarthy Michael Ryan used the league campaign Waterford, the team in my opinion, Cup on the first Sunday in to unearth new talent for the first 15 and most likely to halt Tipp in Munster. September will be seen in this approach saw Seamus Kennedy and Waterford have been the coming team Galway as another lost year. Dan McCormack start the championship under Derek McGrath three years in Kilkenny on the other hand at wing-back and wing-forward respec- change and now they look equipped Tipperary’s Séamus Callinan, who scored 13 points look a little shorter than this tively and most notably John McGrath to challenge for all the major honours. in last year’s All-Ireland final, is part of arguably time last year, yet they still starting at corner-forward. They are a county that have always had the most lethal full forward line the have the same two problems. Since his induction, the younger of a tough temperament and their sides game has ever seen Number one is full back. Last the McGrath brothers, with his aerial are routinely filled with physically year’s incumbent Joey Hold- ball-winning ability, decision making, strong players. en was replaced by All-Star work-rate and scoring power, has brought This is still the case but now they have the Declan Hannon in the half back line has wing back Padraig Walsh in the number a formidable Tipp attack to a higher level forwards to match with any defence. The worked and in the forwards the emer- three jersey during the league. Walsh is an and his positioning alongside Seamus positioning of Austin Gleeson in the half gence of young talents in Arron Gillane, outstanding hurler yet he doesn’t look a Callinan and John ‘Bubbles’ O’Dwyer forwards last year saw him win an amount Kyle Hayes and Gearoid Hegarty have fullback and you would wonder whether has created arguably the most exciting of high ball from Waterford puckouts and all been positives. Hegeaty especially has this will catch Kilkenny at some stage full-forward line the game has ever seen. this allied with his hurling ability with ball given Limerick a ball winning forward, during the summer. In last year’s All-Ireland final, the trio in hand saw him go on to win the Hurler yet, where they are lacking has been their The other area of concern for the Cats is accounted for two goals and 21 points of the Year in 2016. scoring against the stronger teams. Limerick being over-reliant on TJ Reid and Ritchie against Kilkenny and in the League this With the emerging hurling prowess of traditionally have always been a champion- Hogan for scores. Last year Walter Walsh year all three have performed well at potential hurling superstars in Shane Ben- ship team and expect fireworks against the gave them enough help that saw them to a various stages. Callinan, however, is a nett and Patrick Curran, along with the Banner, but realistically Clare are favourites final appearance. Although Conor Martin doubt for Tipp’s championship opener established Maurice Shanahan, Waterford for this semi-final tie. has come into the starting 15, manager Bri- against Cork in Semple Stadium on May are not over-reliant on one man and in the Clare are playing a more traditional style an Cody will need more consistency from 21 after breaking his finger in the League league this year, they have added DJ Foran since the departure of manager Davy Fitz- Conor Fennally and Liam Blanchfield at semi-final over Wexford last month. into the mix with overwhelming positive gerald. The loss of Conor Ryan for the year the business end of the championship for In the 2017 League, Niall O’Meara has results. has been massive, while one to benefit from All-Ireland success. stood out and will come close to making Foran’s aerial ability and his goal scoring the new regime is Seadna Morey, and Arron Wexford have had a great league under Tipperary’s championship team. He has instincts allow him to be effective whether Shanaghar at full-forward had worked well Davy Fitzgerald’s early tenure as manager. been deployed in the half-forward line he lines out in the half-forward or full for- so far. Yet, Clare’s ability to win silverware They have a good team that will trouble in All-Star’s Bonner Maher’s absence, as ward line and his presence has also allowed will likely hinge on the performances of any opponent, but they are still a forward the latter has spent six months deployed Kevin Moran to be deployed at his best posi- star player Tony Kelly. They remain a good or two short upfront to be realistic chal- on a peace-keeping mission with the Irish tion in midfield. Waterford will be without outside bet for the All-Ireland. lengers. Their tie with Kilkenny in the Army in Syria, and is not expected to be Tom Devine for the summer championship, In Leinster, two teams with realistic Leinster semi-final will set the fate of their ready for hurling duty until later in the which will be a loss in so far as he played All-Ireland credentials are Galway and ambitions. The same applies to Dublin who summer. Ryan has also given extended his best game for Waterford in their league Kilkenny. Galway certainly feels that they look on course to meet Galway in the other playing time to Stephen O’Brien in the quarterfinal loss to Galway in April. should have beaten Tipp in the All-Ireland semi-final.