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By Peter F. Stevens BIR Staff September 10 is the long-awaited big day for Primark and Boston’s Downtown Crossing. The Dublin-based fashion retailer is opening the doors to its first US store in the redeveloped Burnham Building, once the home of Filene’s and the late, lamented Filene’s Basement. Primark’s foray into the American retail market stretches across four floors of the venerable structure. On the first and second floors will be women’s clothing and apparel; men’s clothing will be on the third floor. On the fourth floor is children’s clothing. Shoppers looking for shoes and accessories will find them on each floor. What American customers will find on all four floors Anne Driscoll is a member of the Boston Irish Currach Rowing Club, which will compete in a North is Primark’s array of “in the moment fashion” and American regatta set for Sept. 5 at Carson Beach in South Boston. Kristina Carroll photos home goods at the reason- able prices that has made the chain a huge success Boston’s champion currach rowers in Europe. Retail industry insiders view Primark as akin to Swedish-based H & M, Spanish-based Zara, and Los Angeles-based Forever 21. have fun while winning nationwide In a visit to the Boston site last March, Breege O’Donoghue, a Primark board member and director of By Kristina Carroll “Everybody had headed business development and new markets, told the Boston Special to the Reporter back to Ireland because Globe that “the stores target fashion-conscious millen- The Boston Irish Cur- Regatta set for Sept. 5 the Celtic Tiger was go- nials but also appeal to a much wider demographic.” rach Rowing Club, one ing on.” A Primark press release in March stated that the of seven teams in the along Carson Beach Driscoll decided to give chain planned to open stores “in the USA…located close to areas of high-urban density and that would benefit North American Currach about 15 years ago, and first heard about the club. it another try in 2013, from high levels of existing customer footfall.” With Association, has brought the club has been up and “I had read a story in and was pleased to find the ongoing redevelopment of Downtown Crossing, a centuries-old Irish tra- down over the years,” the Boston Globe in like out that not only had the “customer footfall” should be a given. dition to the waters of he said in an interview. 2003, and had it in mind club started up again, but Primark’s board selected Boston as the ideal site Hough’s Neck in Quincy. “It died out there for a that I wanted to do this. it was also in desperate from which to spread the word throughout the US. While the club has had a while, and we didn’t have And then when I called, need of women rowers. “So Said O’Donoghue to the Globe: “We recognize that shaky history, its founder, a good boat, so I ended up it was probably 2005 or it’s like a fever, it keeps there’s not a high level of awareness about Primark,” Joe McDonagh, says the building one myself three 2006, when I really had coming back,” she said. she said. “We’re a value retailer. Our business is about club is doing better than years ago.” time to devote to it, I “I thought I was all done affordable fashion at great quality and great prices.” ever. “I’ve been involved That was seven or so found out that the team with it, but some young Even as the doors to Primark in Downtown Crossing since I came over here years after Anne Driscoll had disbanded,” she said. (Continued on page 3) are flinging open this month, the chain is already plan- ning seven more stores in the US by the end of 2016, including ones at the South Shore Plaza in Braintree, and in the Burlington Mall. The Boston store features 84 fitting rooms and a small army of over 500 manne- quins. A 1,000-square-foot “trend room” at the front of the store will present mannequins clad in the chain’s most popular and trendy fashions. At 77,000 square feet, Primark is smaller than next- door neighbor Macy’s. Still, if the Irish chain’s success in Europe is a predictor, the maiden US store should offer Macy’s a literal run for its money. In a welcome development for the local economy, (Continued on page 6)

Honorees for 2015 Boston Irish Honors announced The Boston Irish Currach Rowing Club trains in the the waters of Hough’s Neck in Quincy. A form of sculling, the currach is a wider boat that seats only four people. It is widely used in western Ireland. Page 3

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By Lauren Dezenski enced tremendous success Defense raps prosecution Reporter Staff in the classroom and on One of the most deco- the basketball court,” Ti- Associated Press rated players in UMass tus said. “I always enjoyed A lawyer for an Irish Boston basketball history watching Eileen play. She nanny who was accused will be inducted into the displayed skill and pas- of killing a one-year-old New England Basketball sion, which allowed her to girl in her care and served Hall of Fame in August. lift everyone around her. more than two years in Eileen Fenton, the only This induction is such a prison only to have a women’s player in the well-deserved honor.” murder charge against her dropped on Mon., Aug. 31, school’s history to have Fenton said the nomina- Aisling McCarthy her number retired, will tion came as a complete called the prosecution a “complete disgrace” and a In prison 28 months be honored in a ceremony surprise and called it an awaiting trial on Aug. 8 at the DCU honor. “UMass is a big “rush to judgment.” Center in Worcester. The piece of my success and Melinda Thompson said 90 days. Dorchester native and I’m so thankful,” she said. 37-year-old Aisling Brady She had been in prison current resident still holds “When I was playing the McCarthy “can’t stop cry- from the time of her 2013 three school records, in- game, I never thought of it ing out of joy” but still faces arrest until May, when cluding the single-season in terms of records, it was uncertainty because feder- she was released on bail scoring mark of 490 points just pure love of the game. al immigration authorities and ordered to wear a GPS in 1989-90. She graduated I’m a city kid. I was fortu- want to detain her. monitor while awaiting an from UMass Boston in nate enough to be exposed “It was a tragedy that October trial. 1991. She is the daugh- to great athletes, parks, a child died, but, quite Monday’s announce- ter of Willie and Mamie and accessible sports.” frankly, the way this ment by prosecutors came Fenton, who are originally Fenton said there was prosecution was handled after a state medical from Carna, Co. Galway. a spot for her to play bas- was a complete disgrace,” examiner reversed an ear- Fenton was nominated ketball every night of the Thompson said hours lier decision declaring the by her coach, Charlie week in the neighborhood, after Middlesex District death a homicide caused Titus, and by Suffolk whether it was the Little Eileen Fenton on the court for UMass Boston during Attorney Marian Ryan by shaken baby syndrome. University’s Jim Nelson. House, the Boys and Girls her Hall of Fame career. UMass Boston photo dropped a first-degree McCarthy had insisted “Eileen was a pioneer in Club, or Ryan Playground. murder charge against she was innocent, and our sports program in our Even today, the Savin I would have been a dif- an attorney for MassDOT, McCarthy, who remains her lawyers vigorously early years. She played Hill resident plays basket- ferent person” without was inducted into the at an undisclosed location. challenged the medical a key role in making the ball every Tuesday night playing basketball, Fen- UMass Boston Hall of Thompson said McCar- examiner’s findings that women’s sports programs with a women’s league at ton said. “I do appreciate Fame in 2003. DShe said thy hopes to rebuild her Rehma died of complica- matter on this campus. An Hemenway Park. “It’s a the value that sports have she does not plan to bring life and her credibility and tions of blunt-force head outstanding student and competitive league and added to my life in terms her basketball sneakers hasn’t ruled out legal ac- injuries. fully dedicated athlete, a great group of women. of leadership, team build- to the Aug. 8 ceremony, tion against prosecutors. The office issued an Eileen was extremely fo- I’m probably on the older ing, and playing as a team “unless they let me play “This was an absolute amended ruling chang- cused and hard working. end of the age range, but member. It transferred to in stilettos. I’d probably nightmare,” Thompson ing the manner of death She gave real meaning to I can still run,” she said my professional life and rather play basketball said of her client’s time to “undetermined” after the term ‘student-athlete,’ with a laugh. personal life as an adult.” anyway.” in prison. “It changes a reviewing additional ma- and as a result she experi- “I can’t help but think Fenton, who works as person. She can’t get those terials, including expert years back.” witness reports, tran- McCarthy was accused scripts of police interviews Irish Heritage Festival set for Oct. 11 at Florian Hall of killing Rehma Sabir in and grand jury testimony, The fifth annual Dorches- The festival began sim- more space for the event, music group from Maine, Cambridge in January additional medical records ter Irish Heritage Festival ply enough. the festival has since been performed last year. The 2013. She had been the and lab testing. will take place on Sunday, “It was just an idea we moved to Florian Hall. “It event has always included girl’s nanny for about six The report notes Rehma October 11 from 11 a.m. to had over a beer,” said Cedar was sad to move it, but it performances of Irish mu- months. had a history of bruising 6 p.m at Florian Hall (55 Grove Civic Association had to be done,” said Weir. sic and step dancing. Food McCarthy, an Irish and suggests she may Hallet Street) and the John President Sean Weir, one of This year’s festival vendors serving Irish food national now married to have been prone to easy McKeon Post AmVets 146 the organizers. The festival lineup has still yet to be will also be included. The a Boston-area man, trav- bleeding with relatively (4 Hilltop St.). Organizers was held for the first two finalized, but organizers suggested donation is $5 eled to the United States minor trauma because of estimate that almost 9,000 years in Adams Corner to say that it will be similar per person, or $20 per about 13 years ago under an undiagnosed disorder. people came out to the help the local businesses in to previous years. Press family. a visa waiver program event in 2014. that area. In order to get Gang, an innovative Irish – Maddie Kilgannon that entitled her to stay PUBLIC MEETING ON SEPTEMBER 10 AT BOSTON ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL, JAMAICA PLAIN, 6:30 P.M.

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Mattapan_Dorcherster Reporter.indd 1 8/31/15 8:51 PM bostonirish.com September 2015 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 3 Stonehill names professorship in honor of Richard Finnegan, longtime teacher, Dot native Stonehill College has in- that began with hitchhik- stituted the Distinguished ing as a freshman from my Richard B. Finnegan Pro- parents’ house in Dorches- Michael Sheehan William Evans Margaret Stapleton fessorship in Political ter to class at Stonehill, CEO, Boston Globe Police Commissioner, Boston Executive, Philanthropist Science and International and have taken me so Relations in honor of the many more places since. Dorchester native who The gratification I found in Evans brothers, Globe CEO, earned his BA from Stone- studying, in teaching, and hill in 1964 and returned in the simplicity of work- to the campus in Easton ing my hardest at them.” Eire Society stalwart named in 1968 as a member of The author or co-author the Political Science De- of six books, Finnegan partment. was awarded the Moreau 2015 Boston Irish Honorees In announcing the pro- Medal for Distinguished fessorship, which will Contribution to the Col- The 6th annual Bos- Ireland, who established McNally, Roseanne and allow a faculty member lege on the occasion of its ton Irish Honors lun- productive and meaning- Peter Meade, Sean Moyni- to conduct advanced re- 50th anniversary in 1998. cheon will take place ful lives in Boston, and han, Gil Sullivan, Bobby search on major political Richard B. Finnegan He has been a visiting on Fri., Oct. 23, at 11:45 worked to make better White, and W. Paul White. themes, Stonehill called scholar at Harvard Uni- a.m. at the Seaport Ho- lives for succeeding gen- Past Honorees: (2014) it “a tribute to all that “Stonehill has been a versity, where he taught tel/Boston World Trade erations of emigrants to Katherine Craven, Mayor Professor Finnegan ac- portal for me to worlds a course on Irish Politics, Center. The celebratory our city.” Marty Walsh, and the complished as a teacher, that I could never have and University College gathering will also mark The 35-member lun- Burke family of South scholar, author, adminis- anticipated that I would Dublin. During his career, the Silver Anniversary of cheon committee will be Boston; (2013) State Sen- trator, ambassador, and inhabit,” said Finnegan at he received prestigious the Boston Irish Reporter. chaired by Jim Brett, ate President Therese mentor for scores of stu- a dinner held in his honor grants from the Fulbright The 2015 honorees are: president of the New Murray, John P. Driscoll dents over almost five earlier this summer. “I am Program, National Sci- Boston Police Commis- England Council. Serv- Jr. (posthumously,) and decades at the college.” grateful and truly moved ence Foundation, De- sioner William Evans and ing as honorary chair are Gerry and Bob Mulligan During his long tenure that this occasion has also partment of Education, his brothers, Paul, John, US Senator Ed Markey & family; (2012) Congress- as a member of the faculty afforded me a private op- National Endowment for Thomas and James; Mike and Boston Mayor Marty man Richard Neal, Bren- at the Catholic liberal arts portunity to reflect on the the Humanities, and the Sheehan, chief executive Walsh. Program mod- dan and Greg Feeney, and institution, he founded the work itself: the time in Whiting Foundation. officer, The Boston Globe; erator will be Boston Red the Mary and Bob Muse International Studies pro- front of the classrooms full Anna Ohanyan, a po- and Sox “poet laureate” Dick family; (2011) Former gram and the Irish Studies of students, or alone at my litical scientist colleague Margaret Stapleton, re- Flavin. Boston Police Commis- program and served as research and writing. The at Stonehill, is the first tired vice president, John Other committee mem- sioner Kathleen O’Toole, department chair, director miles logged and hours faculty member to hold the Hancock Insurance and bers are Breandán O Caol- State Sen. Tom Kennedy of the Honors Program, clocked. The day-by-day new professorship. Financial Services, past laí, Ireland Consul Gen- (RIP,) the Joseph Corco- and dean of the faculty. carrying of these years president Eire Society, eral, Aidan Browne, Wil- ran family, the James and longtime Pine Street liam M. Bulger, John Hunt family and the Inn volunteer. Burke, James Carmo- Thomas Mulvoy family; “Since October 2010, dy, John T. Carroll, Del- (2010) Congressman Ed the Boston Irish Reporter la O’Flaherty Costel- Markey, John Donohue, has sponsored this annual lo, Steve Costello, Jay the Brett family, the Tom event,” said publisher Ed Curley, Brendan Feeney, & Peg Geraghty family, Forry. “It’s an inspiring John Philip Foley, Bill and the Mayor John B. luncheon to recognize and Forry, state Sen. Linda Hynes family. celebrate exemplary Irish Dorcena Forry, Mau- For more information, individuals and their reen Forry-Sorrell, Anne please contact Ed Forry, families who share our Geraghty, David Gre- Publisher, Boston Irish heritage in Boston and aney, John B. Hynes Reporter, at 617-436- Ireland. “At this event, III, Edris Kelley, William 1222; email bostonirish- we tell the life stories of F. Kennedy, Rev. Thomas [email protected] exemplary Boston Irish B. Kennedy, Mimi and Paul with immigrant roots in LaCamera, Joe Leary, Bill Milton real-estate broker is charged with fraud by US A Milton real estate investors of millions in agent with an office in a real estate investment Dorchester was arrested scheme that began in at last week on federal wire- least 2007. Flynn used fraud charges, according investor’s money to pay to the US Attorney’s office. his personal debts and to Daniel J. Flynn, III, 52, repay prior investors, ac- has been under investi- cording to the complaint. gation for a scheme in He could face as many which he allegedly tricked as 20 years in prison if investors into lending him convicted. money to buy property he A Boston Globe profile already owned. Investiga- of Flynn, published last tors were seen confiscating May, described Flynn as items from his office at 161 a “strait-laced real estate Granite Ave. in Dorches- broker and auctioneer,” Jim Brett, President and CEO of The New England Council, and his wife, Pat- ter last Friday. who was known as a tie, joined His Eminence Sean P. Cardinal O’Malley, Archbishop of Boston, According to the com- “go-to guy” to assist in on the Golden Jubilee Anniversary of the Galway Cathedral, The Cathedral plaint released by US Daniel J. Flynn, III Greater Boston’s charity of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven and Saint Nicholas, Galway, Ireland. The Attorney Carmen Ortiz’s office, Flynn defrauded gala circuit. ceremony was held on Aug. 14. Currach rowers have fun while winning nationwide (Continued from page 1) how you keep your boat national championship is this team compared to up, set for Sept. 5, at Ireland and it’s like our kids came over and they straight,” she said. “So not something new to the any other teams,” he said. Carson Beach during the baseball games – people were very interested in it, it’s different from me just Boston team, which has “Even the best people Labor Day weekend. It come out and it’s a big so that’s how I ended up going out in my rowboat.” maintained the national on those other teams will be open to the public, community event,” she building the boat.” The team accepts row- title for several years wouldn’t be the best on and the club is encourag- said. “People get really Currach rowing is a ers of all ages and levels while competing in cities this team, because these ing people to come down into it, and I think this form of sculling, but the of experience, with the like Pittsburgh, New Lon- guys are really good. and watch teams from all is also a kind of boat that boats are very different youngest rower being 17 don, and Philadelphia. And these guys can re- over the country compete. goes back thousands of from the many crew boats years old. “But what I Now in first place, the ally train you. If they can “It’s an annual event years, and it’s a really that can be seen moving like about this is it’s very club expects to remain the teach me, they’re pretty that we have, and we al- important tradition. I along the Charles River. egalitarian,” said Driscoll. champion this year. good.” ways have a really great think it’s great that there The currach type is much “There are races that have Joe Keegan, who has Competition in the turnout,” said Driscoll. are people here that are wider, and seats only four men and women both, and been with the club for a Currach Association in- “It’s a lot of fun; lots of dedicated to keeping it people. The oars also lack then there are men’s races year, has noticed a dif- volves holding regattas friends, and just people alive.” paddles, and instead are and women’s races. And ference between Boston in the hometowns of each who are curious about There is no fee to join made up of long thin poles. it’s not that important and the other competing competing team. Points currach racing, show up. the club, which is wel- Because the oars are how old you are. It’s really teams. “We have some are awarded after every She thinks clubs like coming new members. so thin, Driscoll says age blind. So I can start a people that are outstand- event, and at the end of these have a positive Practice is Hough’s Neck teamwork is integral to sport at my age and be on ing rowers, and it makes it the season the team with impact on Irish-American on Tuesday and Thursday making the boat move. a national championship so they can teach someone the most points is the culture. evenings, and on Sunday “That’s where you get team.” like me, which is a huge champion. “This is a sport that’s afternoons. your power from, that’s And the notion of a advantage to being on Boston’s regatta is next really popular in western Page 4 September 2015 BOSTON IRISH Reporter bostonirish.com Publisher’s Notebook New confidence leads Quinnipiac’s Lahey: to lots of smiles in Dublin By Joe Leary In case you think this is Dublin- ‘Famine’ account Special to the BIR ers’ only chance to experience their After visiting Ireland for a week this past June I city, wait till 4:30 – 5 p.m. when feel I can confidently say that Dublin and most of its the bars and restaurants open for is a ‘mis-told’ story citizens are enjoying one big celebration of life. Spend business. The celebration is on! On a Saturday afternoon walking from O‘Connell Street a sunny evening in June the city By Ed Forry to Grafton Street and all the way up to a bench on St. turns into a giant street party. And Quinnipiac University president Dr. John Lahey was Stephen’s Green, and if at the end you don’t experience as we know, daylight in Ireland, educated as a philosopher, and landed in professional the joy and superheated heartbeat of one of the world’s especially in late June, lasts well happiest cities, I’d be very surprised. into the night. Much later than in academia in the 1970s as a vice president at Marist Joe Leary College in Poughkeepsie, Thick crowds bustle their way on busy streets, with Boston. New York, with special old and young alike walking briskly to wherever they Perhaps not every day of the skills in development and need to go while others saunter along and take pleasure week but on the Thursday evening that I was in the fund raising. in each other and in the electric atmosphere that seems city, I went for a walk and saw the bars the streets and In 1987, he answered the to be everywhere. To this unpracticed observer, most the sidewalks packed and alive with laughing happy call from Quinnipiac and of the walkers were natives, with just a few tourists people of all ages sitting and talking and drinking their relocated to Connecticut at mixed in. favorite beverage. It was so crowded that you could not age 40 to become one of the The stores were all open, and the sales help inside tell where one bar ended and another began. youngest college presidents were unusually happy and helpful. The crowds were so Take Williams street just west of Grafton Street, in the country. thick that in one 15-foot wide store – Boots Pharmacy for example. Nearly every building had a restaurant, With a heritage from on Grafton Street – there were eight cash registers, all of them brimming full with customers. Tables and Clare, Cork, and Kerry, he all staffed and busy. Ireland still has the youngest chairs had been moved onto the sidewalk (some into was raised in the Bronx, population in Europe and its seemed that many of the streets) and not a seat was to be had. Many folks and marched as a schoolboy them were in Boots the day I passed by. simply were standing next to their friend’s table or down Fifth Avenue in the Full shopping bags were the order of the day. Brown chair with a drink in their hands. There was hardly St Patrick’s Day parade. and Thomas, House of Ireland, JD, Carrolls, Green any room for the cars and bicycles that tried to get by. In 1996, he was named chief marshal of that parade. Notes, Grahams, and Simply Ireland were just a few But no one complained. There must have been close In that role, he says, he was asked to speak before a of the signatures to be seen. to 20 bars that I walked by during my brief tour, all wide array of Irish groups. It was the eve of the 150th And music was everywhere, with Dublin’s favorite packed with relaxed crowds. To see that many people anniversary of “Black 47,” the potato crop failure that buskers playing different instruments loudly in try- having such a good time was an uplifting experience. led to the loss of millions of Irish lives, and he resolved ing to gain the most contributions to the hats lying on According to the Irish Central Statistics Office, almost to educate himself about “An Gorta Mór.” Reading the pavement in front of them. I’m told that up to 100 700,000 North Americans visited Ireland during the the scholarly work of noted Irish historian Christine euros an hour go into those hats on a good day. One first six months this year, a 15 percent increase over Kinealy, he developed a speech about that chapter in busker playing the flute told me that she makes a lot last year. Many of them will visit Dublin to experi- Ireland’s history. The experience, he says, led to a more per hour than if she worked in a shop somewhere. ence the charm and good will and ambience of this life-long interest in those tragic events. There were at least five full flower stands, bringing wonderful city. Today, he proudly tells about the “Ireland’s Great color and vibrancy to their street corners. It is rare The Dublin City Council is making it far easier for Hunger Museum” he has established at Quinnipiac, for tourists to purchase flowers to bring back to their visitors and Dubliners to move around the city with the and he talked with the BIR while promoting a special hotel rooms. The helpful attendants tell me that it’s building of an extended public transportation system exhibition from the Quinnipiac collection that opens “the locals” that keep them in business for the many called the Luas Cross City. Several worldwide credit on Sept. 20. years they have been there in these same locations. rating agencies have applauded the government’s man- Lahey credits Quinnipiac alumnus and board mem- As you rest on your bench on St. Stephen’s Green, agement of its economy by repeatedly increasing their ber Murray Lender, a principal of Lenders Bagels, for notice the crowds that walk through the colorful gar- confidence in Irish political leadership. his guiding hand in establishing the Institute. “He’s a dens. Fathers and mothers, some with baby carriages, When you put all this together and then recognize Polish Jew and had just sold the company for a couple some holding their children tightly while taking their that Dublin has just received an award from Conde of hundred million to Kraft Foods,” Lahey told me. “He families out for a stroll. Teenagers, with their war- Nast Traveler magazine as the second friendliest city was a great supporter of the Holocaust memorial, and paint bright red, purple or yellow hair, laughing and in the world, you come to appreciate why Ireland and he said to me, ‘Let’s create a room that focuses on the joking as they parade by. its major city should be on everyone’s list to visit. Great Hunger – I want a special room in the library.’ He had plenty of money, and he wanted to settle down and do something good. “I told him I have big Off the Bench plans for the universi- ty, but I’m not going to get things done unless I get you on the board Our reunions are especially precious of directors. I need you for your leadership and By James W. Dolan precious. Strong and realistic, she confronts problems financial support. By Special to the Reporter head on. This disease is going to kill me; I just don’t the time this Great The pain started a little after know when, she told me. In the meantime, I’m not Hunger thing came lunch. Was it what she ate or finished raising my children or grandchildren. We around he was already something more serious, like have a Cape Cod reunion planned for next summer and vice chairman of the the blockage that put her in the another in New Hampshire in 2017. These goals give board.” hospital for a week last March? her something to strive for. We pray she will make it, The school’s collec- With ovarian cancer, one never but if not, she’ll be there in spirit. tion – now more than knows. When the pain per- I admire how she has coped with cancer and the 100 pieces of art – soon sisted, we reluctantly decided example she sets for the rest of us. She continues to outgrew the on-cam- to leave the family reunion in live a full and active life despite the inevitable anxiety pus library, so with New Hampshire and head for and discomfort. We all face death, so one might as well Lender’s full support, Beth Israel. make the most of it. The gift of a graceful death can be the school bought and She was again in remission the last thing we leave to those we love. It provides an completely renovated after a second round of chemo- opportunity to show love, courage, faith, and acceptance. a property on the edge James W. Dolan therapy following an earlier LAST FAREWELL Dr. John Lahey of the Hamden campus, 13-month period of remission. Now is our time to part; my life will soon be over. near the border with No shrinking violet, she studies all her medical re- I leave you my love, our family and the joyful times New Haven. ports, reads everything she gets her hands on about we shared. “Yale is right down the street from us,” he said, “less the disease, and carefully regulates her diet. “I know I take with me the sadness and any pain I may have than ten miles away. Whitney Avenue goes north and my own body,” she likes to say. caused. south, from Hamden right down to the town, right to We left Thursday about 8 p.m., and a few miles be- Forgive my weaknesses and cherish my strengths. Yale. At Yale they have the Mellon Museum of British yond Franconia Notch, I heard her praying and then In my absence, care for those we love; art, a pretty good collection that Mellon gave them. noticed she had fallen asleep. A good sign. On we drove For they are what remains of me. And up the street on the same Whitney Avenue we and about two hours later as we approached Boston, I’ll be waiting down the road. have Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum. she woke up with no pain. If I go to the hospital, they’ll James W. Dolan is a retired Dorchester District Court “I think it symbolizes the two institutions. They just admit me; so let’s go home and see how I do, she judge who now practices law. (Yale) have been around a long time, the blue bloods. said. That night she slept for seven hours and awoke And we’re the scrappy Irish who had to fight all the with no symptoms. way. It’s a great thing!” Having decided it was likely only a severe attack of Key to Lahey’s plans was recruiting Kinealy from indigestion, we decided to head back to Bretton Woods. Drew University in New Jersey: “For three years I Short of a medical crisis, there was no way she was Boston Irish recruited her,” he said. “I had my eyes on her, I had going to miss the reunion that had been planned for to get her. I told her I’ll get you tenured professor, and months. All 21 of us: our 5 children, their spouses and REPORTER I would create a Great Hunger Institute. We’ll give 9 grandchildren were there. Three hours later we were The Boston Irish Reporter is published monthly by: you research support, with conferences, publications back, and all were relieved to see her return. Boston Neighborhood News, Inc., and so on. You’ll be the academic portion.” Aside from that scare, the weekend was a grand 150 Mt. Vernon St., Suite 120, Dorchester, MA 02125 The pitch worked, and Kinealy accepted the profes- success. There is nothing we enjoy more than a family [email protected] www.bostonirish.com Mary C. Forry, President (1983-2004) sorship in 2013. “She’s the foremost authority on both gathering highlighted with great food and drink, lively sides of the Atlantic,” he said. “I believe there will be Edward W. Forry, Publisher talk, laughing, music, singing, dancing, and the simple Thomas F. Mulvoy Jr., Managing Editor more research and educational activity in connec- joy of all being together. There was swimming, hiking, William P. Forry, Editor tion with Ireland’s Great Hunger at Quinnipiac than fishing, bocce, badminton, and shooting from the deck Peter F. Stevens, Contributing Editor anywhere else in the world. We just started an Irish at cans in the backyard with a pellet gun and BB gun. 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By Bill Forry the truth,” said Weir, who Editor added that complaints Adams Village, a key about signage have not gateway to Dorchester generated any permanent and a bustling crossroads improvements. “I’d love of daily life, is poised for in- to see a Main Streets cremental but substantial designation, but no one improvements over the could agree. The property coming months and years owners just couldn’t get on as a new property owner is the same page.” vowing to pump youthful There are exceptions, energy and investment say Weir and Folan, who into the aging business point out that the Blasi district. family has made its cor- Civic and business lead- ner of Adams Street and ers hope the fresh owner- Minot Street – a former ship will trigger a positive hardware store turned shift in the village scene, bar and restaurant – into a monstrous collage of an inviting and popular neon signs, clashing ar- destination. The Eire Pub, chitecture, and just an they note, is vigilant about overall shabbiness that sweeping its sidewalk has settled in there over A block of stores along Adams Street, shown to the right of the flags, have recently been acquired by daily and keeping its the last decade. new owners— John and Peter Lydon, who plan to make improvements to the storefronts. prominent facade well- “We’d like to see the Bill Forry photo painted and tidy. corner come back to where “I’d love to see more of had made his own man- I grew up in and felt very and replace it with a spar- of Appeals on Sept. 1 to the owners involved in it used to be,” said Sean agement of the sites dif- comfortable with – and I kling new edifice. “It won’t seek a variance to allow Weir, president of the cleaning their storefront ficult. believe they do, too.” be a quick change,” Lydon live entertainment and like the Eire,” says Weir. Cedar Grove Civic As- John Lydon, a 29-year- Another fan of the Ly- told the Reporter. “It will outdoor seating, a first for sociation. “Most of the “It takes five minutes for old law student who was dons is Peggy Folan, be subtle here and there, the village. someone to be out there to buildings really need raised in Savin Hill, read who started an online or- but changing without a Another key element to some tender, loving care. push a broom.” the Reporter article and ganizing effort two years doubt.” improving the look and As the beautification Right now, there are reached out to Murphy, ago aimed at beautifying Lydon agrees with Fo- feel of the village will be all these neon signs; noth- progresses and perhaps whom he knew through the business district. lan and others that the the fate of its landmark makes the village more ing matches down there. a Boston College class- The group, Revitalizing two hulking billboards on eatery, Gerard’s Adams We’d like to see uniform and more of a destination, mate. Lydon and his Adams Village Economy top of No. 526 need to go, Corner, a throwback res- Weir hopes it will keep signage and all around father Peter, a native (RAVE), has coordinat- and he vows that they will taurant that shares space cleanliness. It looks so its distinctively-Dorches- of Ireland who started ed clean-ups and raised on his watch. But it will with a variety store. Long- ter character. “Everyone congested and dirty.” his own Braintree-based funds for plantings. Folan take years, he estimates. time owner Gerard Ado- The forlorn nature wants to get their foot in plumbing business in the has also lobbied chain “We’re working to find out munes owns the first floor the door right now,” he of the business district 1980s, also own properties stores – including Foodie’s now who owns the rights restaurant and store and stands in sharp contrast said. “It’s a hot neighbor- in South Boston. and Wahlburgers – to to them,” he said. “But I controls the rental spaces hood. I don’t want this to to much of the surround- “We aren’t developers,” consider opening up shop agree: They need to go.” on the two floors above ing neighborhood, a heav- turn into the next South said the younger Lydon, in the village. First things first, how- (including space where Boston, either.” ily residential community who is buying his own “It’s the gateway to ever. The Lydons and the Reporter was head- that continues to be one Mary Salas, who has home in Savin Hill next Dorchester,” said Folan. Murphy have not yet quartered in the 1980s). owned and operated Hair of the more desirable and week. “We tend to buy “You can go from Adams finalized terms or a price The oldest commercial expensive real estate in Image salon in the build- and hold properties and Street all the way to for the building. “I grew up building in the village, the ing just purchased by Dorchester. The prob- improve them. That is South Boston and that around here in the early property is in need of re- lem, in part, has been the Lydon team, is simi- what we plan to do in one building is the big- ‘90s and I have a lot of pair. It is currently valued larly conflicted. “I would that some of the most Adams Village.” gest eyesore,” she said, respect for [Murphy] and at $754,500, according to prominent and expansive like to see the village Murphy and Lydon referring to Murphy’s others for just hanging on. city records, a figure at- change structurally, to be properties in the village both confirm that they property, which she and What I’d like to do is find a tained by a steady climb have been controlled by modernized and beauti- are in ongoing talks about many others refer to as way for all of these build- after the market bot- fied,” she said. But she’s owners unable or unwill- the sale of the Gallivan the China Sky building, a ings to complement one tomed out in 2010. The ing to pump new dollars also worried that a rent property, but say that any nod to its longest-standing another in the best way, building would likely fetch increase – as much as $400 into needed repairs and transaction is not likely tenant, a Chinese eatery in a unified way. There’s far more than that in the cosmetic improvements. a month – might not be to occur until next year. that sports a vintage sign so much to do here,” said current market. tenable for her and other Then last month, in In the meantime, Lydon that no longer glows at Lydon. Last week, Ado - what looks to be a sign of longtime merchants. is acting as a building night. “There’s nothing In fairness, much has munes told the Reporter “I hope to stay in the things to come, one of the manager, cleaning out that looks nice about it. been done already to set that rumors that he had more-distressed buildings village, but under those the cluttered second floor For such a small village,” the pendulum of progress sold or had agreed to sell conditions, I have no in the village changed office suites in the build- she said, “we’ve lost that in motion at the corner. the property were false. hands. idea,” she said. “I’ve fixed ing and fixing cracked village feel.” Greenhills Irish Bak- One developer, he said, everything in this place on A real estate trust con- windows. He has set up his Lydon has met with ery, housed in a former made him an offer, but, trolled by the father-and- my own over the last 20 own private desk in a cor- Folan and other civic lead- shoe store, is a standout. according to Adomunes: years.” Still, she sounds son team of Peter and ner of the 19,000-square- ers to gather their ideas The crisp and clean busi- “He didn’t want to buy it; John Lydon purchased a hopeful note. foot building in what was about how to improve the ness has become a mecca he wanted to steal it.” “The Lydons seem like 775-789A Adams St., a at one time the office of an storefronts block that he for Irish and Irish-Amer- Still, he acknowledges building that is actually decent people. I would love auto school. The windows and his father now own. icans craving soda bread, that the time for him to to be here for another 20 a collection of storefront face out onto the Adams He and Folan agree that it coffee, and baked goods. sell the building is coming condominiums that in- years. I just want it to be Street block that he and would make sense to have Last year, Boston Sports soon. “I am 65 now and like it used to be. People clude tenants such as his father purchased last the storefronts mimic the Club moved into another I have been here at this Adams Fish, Hair Im- don’t come here like they month, and Lydon has style and decor of the vil- key village building – 540 corner for 45 years, and used to because these age, Casali’s Market and taken to watching the foot lage’s marquee establish- Gallivan, a onetime super- I have been good to this Handy-Person caterers. buildings look run-down. traffic in and out of the ment, the adjacent Eire market and more recently community,” he said. “I If [the Lydons] are going to The sale price, which also businesses. Pub. The Eire, owned and a drug store that now have had some inquiries included a residential change that, they’ll have “This village gets re- maintained by second- houses Supreme Liquors and I think it’s time for me to invest.” condo above the commer- ally quiet at night, be- generation publican John and a few small retailers. to think about it. I want to cial space, exceeded $1.5 John Lydon says he is cause most of these places Stenson, is the village’s A year-long renovation of be able to walk out of here committed to doing just million. are closed,” he noted. “It’s most renowned business. the building was accom- in good health.” The Lydons purchased that. He plans to meet on really not inviting for folks It sports a white and em- panied by a major change Lydon said that he and site with city officials this the commercial properties who might want to walk erald facade that reminds outside as well. Supreme his father would definitely from Arthur Murphy, a week to talk about ways through the village. I’d Folan and others of a tidy Realty Trust, which owns be interested in buying that city programs can Dorchester native who like to change that.” village in Ireland. the building that houses Gerard’s building in a had owned and managed help with facade improve- Murphy said that the “It’s going to be great to the sports club chain, few years, but he doubts ments. the storefronts since 1986. Lydon family’s roots in have someone like John completely rehabilitated it will be on the market He remains the owner of “It should be updated Dorchester and their Lydon, who would like to the adjacent parking lot, long enough for them to big time and we’re spend- the village’s most promi- commitment to making fix it up and make it look a space that had become be in contention. nent and, to many, most ing a lot of time thinking Adams Village a long- like a little Irish village,” badly run-down in recent In the meantime, Weir what could make it look problematic property – term focus of their new says Folan. As to the stone years. and other stakeholders 526 Gallivan Blvd., a two- better. Just small things investment is one reason and brick China Sky build- “It’s been a big success,” continue to hold out hope like fixing the lights under story warren of offices, he decided to sell to them. ing across the street, she said the civic association’s that the city of Boston will nail salons, restaurants, the awnings- the things “There were a lot of is less optimistic about the Sean Weir of the parking help bring some order and that make an inviting and dingy empty spaces people who were inter- prospects of a facelift. “Ul- lot’s clean new look and direction to the village that looms over the inter- atmosphere in front of a ested, including some timately it would be nice if orderly layout. that has proven elusive business. section of the boulevard who offered more money,” it could be knocked down And last spring, Cedar through strictly private and Adams Street. The “Our main approach is Murphy told the Reporter. and replaced,” she said. Grove Civic Association efforts. Adams Village that it would be a mistake building, crowned with “But this is a family that “It’s such an eyesore.” members approved a pro- is a strong candidate for two large billboards that to come in and dictate came to America and Those longing for a posal by two partners to a Main Streets district, what we want to do,” said have themselves become worked hard and I like quick transformation of open a new bar and restau- Weir argues. Such a desig- targets of neighborhood Lydon. “I want to listen their family. They are a the village’s stragglers rant – Sam Maverick’s – in nation would bring city re- to what everyone else activists eager to beautify BC family and I feel that are well advised to keep the long-shuttered Gran- sources and coordination the district, is valued at thinks is a good idea. To they will have the right their enthusiasm to a ite Avenue space that was in the form of a full-time come in and declare that more than $2 million, ac- values for Adams Vil- minimum. Lydon himself once home to Hollywood director who would help cording to city tax records. they need to leave or to lage. I passed up on some cautions that his family’s Video. The new eatery landowners and tenants disrupt the usual course Last year, Murphy told developers who were will- own financial wherewith- is expected to open later make storefront improve- the Reporter that he was of business here would be ing to pay more money, but al is part of the mix. They this year. The two men, ments and promote the irresponsible.” ready to sell his village they wore suits, not blue will make fixes, but have who plan to lease the old village as a destination. properties, acknowledg- jeans and sneakers. This no imminent plans to raze video store, will go before “I’d like to see more en- ing that health problems is the neighborhood that Murphy’s corner building the city’s Zoning Board forcement here to tell you Page 6 September 2015 BOSTON IRISH Reporter bostonirish.com RIP: Quincy’s Beachcomber EATING AND EMOTION End of an era as popular venue exits the local music scene Dr. Bernadette Rock By Peter F. Stevens Black 47, and Dropkick BIR Staff Murphys, the Beachcomb- Since 1959, the Beach- er was constantly filled Time to dispense comber on Quincy Shore with both the tears and Drive has been a watering the cheers that the vari- hole for patrons and the ous incarnations of Irish with unhealthy stage for some of the best music conjure or tear from traditional Irish and Irish audiences. Always, Jim American bands and solo McGettrick made a place eating habits artists. The news that for Irish music, from the club’s near-legendary St. the club has been sold and By Dr. Bernadette Rock will close its doors for good Patrick’s Day celebrations Special to the BIR at the end of September to its Irish music Sundays. Not surprisingly, Food is an emotive topic and our eating often marks the end of an era for reflects what’s happening within and around us. live music in and around several of his favorite Boston. and perennially booked I grew up in Roscommon in a family of seven With the recent clos- performers were talented kids. My parents routinely warned us to “clean ing of T.T. the Bear’s, in local Irish Americans. In a your plate, the children in Africa are starving” Cambridge, and the an- 2009 interview with well- or “eat it all up before it goes cold.” When we nouncement that Johnny known Patriot Ledger had the Stations or D’s, in Somerville, will music critic Jay Miller, Mass in our house, depart the music scene in McGettrick said that his my parents would early 2016 after a 46-year “all-time favorites were provide an enormous run, up-and-coming Irish locals, men and women spread of fabulous singers and musicians who didn’t just stop at food but “just for will no longer have three the Beachcomber; they the visitors”! My venerable stages to use as came back again and mother conveyed a career launching pads./ again. People like Paul link between food The Beachcomber’s saga O’Donnell, a comic from and love that later began in 1959, when Jim- Merrymount in Quincy, led to a struggle with my McGettrick opened the and Sid Walsh, ‘a singer weight gain in my club with co-owner Fred with an Al Jolson-kind 20s. My relationship Crowley. McGettrick’s of voice...known as Mr. with food was as fol- opening stake was money Beachcomber.” lows: angry + bored that he had earned by sell- McGettrick told Miller = ice cream, hurt = ing Christmas trees, and that Walsh would “come chocolate. the price to buy the Beach- on in the middle of those Food has the pow- comber was $25,000. Mc- eight-act shows and start er to make us feel Gettrick, who bought out with ‘Southie is my Home- town,’ and finish with ‘God loved or, indeed, Crowley in 1965, was 25 unloved. The idea when they opened the club Bless America,’ and knock it out of the park.” of “comfort food” can – fittingly – on March 17, make us nostalgic 1959. After the purchase The nickname “Mr. Beachcomber” could well and transport us costs, the two partners back to a special had only $285 left to stock be applied to Jimmy Mc- Bernadette Rock and her Gettrick, too. His repu- time in our child- daughter Keela. the bar. hoods. Enjoying When he passed away in tation for treating per- 2011 after battling brain formers with respect and comfort food on an cancer, McGettrick’s sons, fairness was well known. infrequent basis is absolutely fine but if you Sean and Patrick, stepped Duke Tony Bennett, Norm adapting to the musical Carla Ryder, who played find yourself seeking comfort from food on an in to run the club. In July, Crosby, Johnny Mathis, tastes of several genera- the Beachcomber with the everyday basis, you will need to ask yourself they announced that they Steve Lawrence, Loretta tions brought rock, r & b, band Mudhens, reflected why. Here are some tips: had sold the Beachcomber Lynn, Count Basie, Bobby punk, and any number of to James Reed, of the What’s Your Eating About? – Often we eat to a developer who plans Darin, and Eydie Gorme genres for younger crowds. Boston Globe: “I think because we want to escape or numb out. We to tear down the building for one generation. A An up-and-coming comic people have a deep respect eat because we don’t like or want our reality. and replace it with an singer with a captivating named Jay Leno per- for that place [the Beach- What are you avoiding when you eat? Maybe it’s upscale restaurant. For style stunned audiences formed many times at comber], and they have time that instead of looking externally at diets countless patrons over the there with her range and the club. a reputation of treating and food plans, that you look within and ask decades, however, there is ability to sing everything No matter how many their artists supremely yourself, “Why am I reaching for food? What’s no replacing the club and from pop to rock. Her other styles of music hit well. It’s a venerable old bothering me that I want to eat?” A diet cannot the memories of the bands name? Linda Ronstadt. the stage at the Beach- Boston institution that help you address eating triggers, such as eat- and singers who raised Although the club was comber, McGettrick never feels very down-home. It ing because you’re stressed, overwhelmed or to the proverbial roof along renamed “Nostalgia” from lost sight of his true love feels horrible to me that “treat” yourself. the early ‘80s to the late for Irish music, both tra- Wollaston Beach. all these Boston clubs that Get Comfortable with Discomfort – I’m Throughout the years, ‘90s, it was always the ditional and new. The tra- are closing are the classic Beachcomber to patrons ditional Irish music scene not a masochist but I’ve learned that managing McGettrick booked an old ones.” my eating means staying with myself when I eclectic, musical hall of in the same way that the thrived at the Beachcomb- For many locals, the “Garden” is the only name er from beginning to its feel stressed instead of reaching for a packet of fame that included Louis loss of the Beachcomber’s biscuits. “What exactly is upsetting me? Will eat- Armstrong, Benny Good- for the Bruins’ and Celtics’ imminent end. From the Irish Sundays and St. Pat- abode. Wolfe Tones and the Olde ing a few slices of cake really change anything?” man, Rosemary Clooney, rick’s Day revels will soon Bear in mind that progress rarely takes a McGettrick’s knack for Brigade to The Prodigals, be plaintive memories. straight line, and zig zag progress is normal. A lot of people tell me they feel under pressure to lose weight because they have a wedding or a Opening its US market push, holiday on the horizon. Often this pressure only drives further eating. Visualisz where/how you would like to be three months, six months, or a Primark eyes success at Boston site year from now. This could include being more comfortable in yourself, liking yourself more, (Continued from page 1) If a company’s past is Primark’s prospects in on its way back to being a letting go of specific eating habits. prologue, Primark is cer- Boston and beyond are commercial cornerstone of Primark has announced When you slow tainly poised to cause a encouraging. “Young Boston conjures a sense of Be Mindful, Be Present – the hiring of some 550 em- down when you eat, you are more in control, large ripple in American fashion is global now. nostalgia. ployees ranging from part- instead of feeling out of control: Sit down while retailing. In Europe, The US tended to be quite Downtown Crossing is time and full-time retail eating, instead of eating while hovering over the the chain is part of the conservative in fashion. I – nostalgically speaking workers to hires for the sink or fridge. Just because you distract yourself clothing and apparel land- think that has changed be- again – a fitting locale store’s visual merchandis- while eating does not mean that you’re not really scape. Primark’s saga cause of the global access for the Irish-spawned ing department and de- eating; pause before you eat and deliberately began in June 1969, when in fashion and entertain- Primark/Penneys to open. partment and upper-level ask yourself, “Is this hunger or habit?”; separate Arthur Ryan and Micaela ment.” After all, an Irish im- management. Solidifying your eating from watching TV. Watching TV can Mitchell opened a Pen- “The main point about migrant opened the first the Irish chain’s commit- breed boredom and bored eating. Food improves neys store on Mary Street Primark is its price posi- store in Boston’s annals ment to Boston, the offices the experience of TV, but it also means we eat in Dublin. Within a few tioning. … It has all the 385 years ago, in 1630, of the company’s US head- far more than we realize. years, four more Penneys trappings of the big stores and he did so on a plot quarters are a short walk I’m delighted to partner with sprouted up in the Greater and the feel of a more of land on the north-east Have a Heyday: away at 101 Arch Street. the Irish International Immigration Center in Dublin area. The opera- expensive fashion brand. corner of the future State Primark’s distribution Boston, and I’ll be giving a class at the IIIC in tion garnered attention in I am sure that the likes of and Washington Streets center is in Pennsylvania, Boston in the near future addressing our mindset the industry because of its [US rival] Forever 21 are within shouting distance where the chain plans to around food and weight. So email me for further affordable merchandise a bit worried.” of the future Downtown open its second American details at [email protected]. and approach, and as The timing for Primark Crossing Primark. store. Heyday’s supportive online programme has the company expanded in Boston appears propi- No one would have Primark executives and recently been re-developed at heydayworld. throughout Ireland and tious with the redevelop- likely called John Cogan retail analysts have been com. Prof. Donal O’Shea, founder of the Weight then into the UK, the ment of Downtown Cross- “fashion forward,” but quick to point out that the Management Clinic in Loughlinstown hospital, stores were named Pri- ing under way and with the purveyor of dry goods, Downtown Crossing store Dublin, reports, “I am happy to recommend mark, except in Ireland. residential and commer- hardware, and other es- is not a second incarna- Dr. Bernadette’s Programme. It is extremely On the eve of its entry into cial space being gobbled sentials in Boston’s first tion of Filene’s Basement, valuable in supporting people who struggle with the US market, Primark’s up at such sites as the store shared a “retail- which was famed for sell- weight challenges. I have been happy to refer corporate profile notes upscale Millenium Place. forward” approach with ing famous name-brands patients to Dr. Rock.” such as Calvin Klein at that today “it operates For locals who grew up Irish-born Primark. On over 270 stores in nine accustomed to Macy’s (the Sept. 10, another Irish- steep discounts. Primark’s Wishing you good health, countries in Europe.” erstwhile Jordan Marsh), tinged retail milestone niche is its own labels and Bernadette Rock, PhD Retail analyst and Filene’s, and Filene’s will unfold at Downtown clothing, shoes, and acces- sories purchased direct fashion expert Maureen Basement, the sight of Crossing. from manufacturers. Hinton told Reuters that the recently blighted area bostonirish.com September 2015 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 7 Irish International Immigrant Center Immigration Q&A An agency accredited by US Department of Justice Renewing green 100 Franklin Street, Boston, MA 02110 Telephone (617) 542-7654 Fax (617) 542-7655 card? Why not Website:iiicenter.org Email: [email protected]

IIIC Updates Why I became prevention workshops. naturalize, too? Legal Clinics – Tues., a US citizen For more information about the walk, visit the Q. I’ve been a US legal permanent resident for Sept. 1 and Tuesday, By Gina Kelleher, Sept. 15 at the IIIC of- News and Events page of almost ten years, and my green card is expiring IIIC Wellness Director our website: iiicenter.org. soon. What is the current procedure for renew- fices, 100 Franklin St. First in a series of articles To end the stigma and ing it? Lower Level, Downtown by immigrant staff at the taboo surrounding sui- A. Immigrants filing applications to renew perma- Boston. Entrance is at 201 IIIC sharing their stories cide, we need to talk nent resident cards with a ten-year term of validity, Devonshire Street. Mon., about becoming US citizens. openly about it. Some commonly known as “green cards,” need to file Form Sept. 14, at The Green We Irish truly love our myths on the subject: I-90 (which can be downloaded at uscis.gov) with US Briar Pub, 304 Wash- country and take pride in • Myth: Talking about Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The ington Street, Brighton our Irish identity. So much suicide might encourage form can be mailed or sent by courier to the addresses Center. Wed., Sept. 30, at so that I have to admit I the person to do it. Fact: shown in the instructions. For most applicants, the St. Mark’s Parish School was a permanent resident Due to the stigma sur- submission also can be made on-line; go to uscis.gov and Hall, 1725 Dorchester for about 10 years before applying for my US citizen- rounding suicide, people follow the instructions for electronic filing of Form I-90. Avenue, Dorchester. ship in 1998. What held me back? The closest way I who are contemplating Applicants receive by mail a notice for a biometrics Together can explain it is that I felt I would be losing my Irish suicide are often hesitant (fingerprint and digital photograph) processing appoint- for Hope Walk identity, that I wouldn’t be truly “Irish” anymore. It to reach out for help. Talk- ment at a local USCIS Application Support Center. for suicide preven- was important for me to retain that feeling. I also felt ing openly about suicide Important: Applicants are being instructed to take to tion that getting my citizenship wouldn’t add many more can give people options their biometrics appointments the records of any arrests, is set for October 17 benefits than I already had as a permanent resident. or time to rethink their convictions, or any other involvement in criminal mat- We are excited to an- Then, a family member who is an American citizen decision. ters since last being granted legal permanent resident nounce that the IIIC’s kept urging me to go for it. He reminded me that • Myth: Most suicides status. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Together for Hope Walk things change constantly in life: divorce happens, happen suddenly without officers have been attending these appointments and for suicide prevention war happens, immigration laws can change, which in warning. Fact: The vast reviewing the documentation supplied by applicants. and awareness will take turn could affect my status. Being an American citizen majority of suicides are Some applicants have been detained because of the place on Oct. 17 at Pope would add more protection for me in an unstable world. preceded by warning criminal records they submitted or because an ICE John Paul II park in I could leave the country and be out for an extended signs, whether behavioral background investigation detected criminal convic- Dorchester, MA. Last period without having to apply for re-entry permits. or verbal. It is important tions or outstanding arrest warrants. Accordingly, it year’s walk was a great I could vote, and I have to say, that felt surprisingly to become educated about is imperative that you obtain legal advice before your success, helping us to good the first time I voted in a presidential election. I these and to learn what to biometrics appointment if you have any issues involv- continue to provide vital was no longer on the outside looking in, supporting a do if you notice someone ing past or pending criminal proceedings anywhere in counseling and support particular candidate, but being unable to do anything has these signs. the world. to people struggling with about it. Now I could be fully involved. After all, I • Myth: Someone who The IIIC can help you with the Form I-90 renewal depression, loneliness, paid taxes and wanted to have a voice in decisions is suicidal is determined filing process, as well as the application for getting a isolation, and access to that affected my family and me. to die. Fact: Suicidal new green card when the original has been lost or sto- care. Help us continue Having an American passport hgas made travel a lot people are often ambiva- len, or when the card contains incorrect information. our work of helping people easier. With dual citizenship, I could also still be an lent about living or dying. Note: Holders of two-year conditional permanent to recognize signs of sui- Irish citizen. Last but not least, I also love America! Access to emotional sup- resident cards based on marriage to a US citizen don’t cidal contemplation; to This country has been good to me and has given me port at the right time can file Form I-90 to remove the condition; they use Form question, persuade and many amazing opportunities. prevent suicide. (World I-751 instead. refer people to get help The tragedy of 9/11 happened shortly after I became Health Organization, By the way, anyone who has been a legal permanent if experiencing these an American citizen and the world has indeed changed 2014) resident long enough to be eligible for US citizenship thoughts by fundraising, in many ways since then. 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By Bill O’Donnell mentions of the Obama record in office when the round numbers that translates into more than 300,000 Fine Gael, Fianna Fail in 2016 – That is a headline busload of GOP presidential hopefuls were on stage` cancelled medical appointments in a province that that a respected member of Fianna Fail is pushing, “debating.” Wonder why! has, at last count, 1.85 million residents. and the sentiment for change can be heard from other Boston Olympics Likely Heading to Los Ange- The total annual costs of this “Alice in Wonderland” Soldiers of Destiny front liners. les – No gloating, no “high fives” as Boston Olympics misadventure (while welfare costs are being targeted The next election must be held before April 3 of 2024 folded its tent and headed back to State Street, for substantial cuts) to the British government is next year, and Taoiseach and FG party leader Enda Federal Street, and their real estate empires. I am over $25 million. Add to this rescheduling, lost time Kenny will lead and contest that election. The major happy to see it go. As Boston City Councillor Michele for medical specialists, longer waiting times, etc. and question, looking ahead, is who would be a suitable Wu said in what could be the “Boston No” mantra, you have a flat out crisis. junior partner with Fine Gael? “Boston doesn’t need the Olympics to prove we are a Is anybody in Whitehall or Stormont listening? Up front, Fine Gael has world-class city.” No, indeed, we do not. Heaney’s Hopeful Epitaph on Headstone – said that they will not form The flaws in the plan and the muddled pipeline Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, who died on Aug. a coalition government between its supporters and the people of Boston when 30, 2013, left something to lift our spirits and tell us with Sinn Fein. Labour, it came to the sticky numbers and commitments – a bit about his view of life. On a headstone recently aside from the bumps in and liability – was not something that Boston Mayor inscribed near his Bellaghy, Co. Derry, birthplace his the relationship, appears Marty Walsh could abide. These high-living man- epitaph reads: “So walk on air against your better not to be anywhere close darins called the International Olympic Committee judgement.” to winning enough seats and their Beantown Brothers, who were sincere if not Professor Fran Brearton, director of the Seamus to continue in coalition tough enough with the visiting cheerleaders, tried. Heaney Centre at Queen University Belfast, talked after the election. Early But hand signals and eye blinks, especially on multi- about the line of poetry taken from the final stanza projections look for Labour billion dollar mega-projects, went out with Lomasney. of “The Gravel Walks” that now adorns the Heaney to fall some 20-25 seats The marriage, or rather, the troubled courtship gravesite: “It is about being able to see beyond your short of a 79-vote ruling between the Hub and the IOC was a tough fit from moment. He says it is a reminder to himself about majority when joined with the outset. Let’s move on to bigger and better things – what poetry can do.” Fine Gael. schools, public transit and in-town housing that folks I think he was, at least partly, talking about putting Into this pre-election without trust funds can live in. Now that’s a legacy. a bounce in our step. Bill O’Donnell conjecturing season Knock Airport Welcomes First US Charter – Maybe, as people do in front of Yeats’s epitaph in comes Fianna Fail’s fi- Some three decades after the inaugural flights from the parish churchyard in Drumcliffe, Co. Sligo, citi- nance spokesman and future party leader candidate, Mayo’s Knock Airport, the dream of Monsignor James zens and tourists will pause in that plot of land in Michael McGrath, who is saying aloud for the first Horan, the airport welcomed its first ever chartered Co. Derry to stop, to ponder the hopeful, expectant time that his party should be willing to swallow its pilgrimage flight from North America last month. The words Heaney wrote for himself, and for us. Maybe. pride and join with Fine Gael, even as junior partners flight, from JFK Airport in New York to the shrine, was Former Provo Official Arrested as ‘Dissident’ in the coalition. It has been 90 years since the Irish headed up by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop – From Gerry Adams to Martin McGuinness and civil war and reconciliation in the form of a national of New York, and Brian O’Dwyer, International other Sinn Fein opponents of the breakaway “dissi- front, left-right coalition would be a powerful force Chairman of Ireland West Airport, or Knock as it dents,” there is no warm house for those who do not for a new clarity of purpose and a refocusing of at- is usually identified. Welcoming the pilgrims from follow the lead in condemning the rump Republicans tention on domestic economic problems, growth, and America was Taoiseach Enda Kenny. who fight on for Irish unity, Brits out, and against long-term stability. Each year the Knock Shrine receives some 1.6 million the peace process. They are the enemy and are not Political reality reflects a sharp drop in support for visitors. It is envisioned that with the introduction of welcome in Sinn Fein, but an arrest last month of the coalition, and increased support for Independents, charter pilgrimage flights, their number will increase Kevin Hannaway, says the journalist Ed Moloney, “pointing to difficulties in forming any government and grow to at least three million in coming years. is a clear signal that the “significance of the allega- following the election which was not a Fianna Fail- The shrine and the airport were conceived and came tion is twofold.” Fine Gael alliance,” reports the Irish Times. into being following years of fundraising, politicking, Hannaway’s father and Gerry Adams’s mother were There are pitfalls in a FG-FF coalition, but his- and outreach by Monsignor Horan. The Mayo-born brother and sister, which makes Kevin and Gerry tory “has shown that two parties of roughly equal cleric died at age 75 shortly after the airport was first cousins. Moloney says the fact that Hannaway, a size have never gone into coalition before and might completed in May 1986. close relative of Adams, the chief architect of the Sinn offer a different prospect.” (Stephen Collins, Irish Movies With A Local Twist – At least three major Fein/IRA peace process, has been accused of being in Times) And it might prove to the Irish electorate, if films of local interest are finished, in production, or, as sympathy with the enemies of the peace process is proof is needed, that Fianna Fail’s recent past is not the Hollywood types like to say, in development. Two likely to be a source of considerable embarrassment necessarily its future. of them will be released before the end of the year. and political discomfort for the Sinn Fein president. Ten Top Destinations in Ireland – TripAdvisor’s The first is the heavily anticipated “Black Mass,” The other important feature of Kevin Hannaway’s recently published with few surprises a list of its top the story behind the story of how Southie gangster arrest “is that he is one of the most respected survivors 10 spots to visit. We have been to all of them, some on James “Whitey” Bulger and the Irish mob co-opted of the Provo IRA’s founding fathers,” says Moloney. many occasions, and few would argue the choices. The each other as the FBI zeroed in during its investigation This is a tested veteran of the war with Britain and list begins with Killarney and follows with: Dublin, of the city’s Italian mobsters. Produced by Warner it should send a red-hot alert to Sinn Fein/IRA that Dingle, Galway, Donegal Town, Westport, Cork, Sligo, Brothers and starring Johnny Depp as Whitey, it some of their most trusted operatives are unhappy Doolin, and Tralee. is set to open in Boston and worldwide on Sept. 18. and possibly moving into the dissident orbit. Not good Killarney, everyone’s favorite. Can’t forget the Lakes The second is “Spotlight,” the story of how the Bos- news for anyone. and honeymooning at the Hotel Europe; Dublin, so ton Globe investigated and published in early 2002 many memories, including the premiere of “My Left a series by its Spotlight Team on clergy abuse in the RANDOM CLIPPINGS Foot” and the Gresham party with Christy’s family; Catholic Church. Boston’s Cardinal Bernard Law Former Irish Ombudsman Baroness Nuala O’Loan Dingle, our first trip around the peninsula in dense resigned in December of that year and the following went on BBC’s Radio 4 to tell listeners that peace in fog and a visit to the then Boston-owned Benner Hotel spring the paper was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the North is “fragile” as she delivered a broadside and to Doyle’s; Galway, the capital of the West, dinner Public Service for its work. The Globe story’s cast against current British government agencies for on the top floor of the Great Southern overlooking the includes Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, and overlooking endemic post-traumatic stress disorder in Bay at sunset; Donegal Town, walking inside Donegal Rachel McAdams, and is scheduled for release in NI. … On Sept. 28, 1960, at Fenway Park, Ted Wil- Castle, the old homestead showing its age; Westport, the Boston area in early November and worldwide liams delighted me and 10,453 other spectators by Knock, and a luxe afternoon tea at Ashford Castle; on November 20. hitting his 521st home run in his last MLB at-bat. … Cork, where I first met Christy Brown in the Oyster The last of the three films with a strong Boston hook Rory McIlroy is king of the Green but he is touting Bar, and shopping at Quill’s for Aran sweaters; Sligo, is actually two movies about the Boston Marathon another northerner, Belfast’s Tom McKibbin, who when I attended a Boston Ireland Ventures board bombings with one (called “Patriots Day”) that stars just won the under 12 world championship in the US. meeting and chatted with our Galway & Derry board Mark Wahlberg, and a second, “Boston Strong,” that … Irish clothing retailer Primark is opening its first allies; Doolin, Gus O’Connor’s Pub amidst the trad is reportedly in the development stages and starring US store in Boston this month. … A new political party music and the carefree backpackers, walking at the Ben’s Affleck’s brother Casey. in Ireland, Renua, is promising major tax cuts for stone edge of the Atlantic and then on to the Arans Update: The Berkeley Balcony Tragedy – Clo- self-employed. … Fifty years ago a newspaper strike for a ceili and a dark walk home to our guest house; dagh Cogley, seriously injured in the California in Dublin closed 46 printing houses and the papers Tralee, the gateway over the Slieve Mish Mountains balcony collapse, returned to Ireland in early August for ten weeks. … The AOH says that CNN, still look- to the home of my maternal grandfather in Castle- and is in rehabilitation working to recover from her ing for an identity, is in a time warp looking at Irish maine, Tadgh Flaherty. injuries, Clodagh joined Sean Fahey, Conor Flynn, history. … The new Google maps somehow omitted While age and slow going keep us from getting back and Jack Halpin, who had all recovered sufficiently the giant Goliath crane from its recent mapping. … to Ireland too often, the memories, just scratched to go home to Ireland. Three of the seven students the Orange Order is unhappy that easyJet warned above, warm us during the New England winters. injured in the Berkeley balcony collapse, Aoif Beary, passengers about the July 12 “travel disruptions.” We’re thankful, in our own way, for both. Niall Murray, and Hannah Waters, are receiving A lovely lady, Mary Keane, John Bs wife who Let’s Look At The Record – The economist and care and treatment in a US rehabilitation center. took John’s place at their pub in Listowell on many columnist Paul Krugman, despite his Pulitzer and A number of funds are being set up and adminis- occasions, has passed on at 86. … Ryanair, in a new his Nobel Prize in Economics, isn’t the favorite of the tered in Ireland. The Irish Consulate in Boston (617- milestone, carried 10 million passengers in July. … conservatives who read. Too much truth? In an Irish 267-9330) may be able to provide Irish addresses for Months after a Galway waitress at An Pota Café rec- Times column last month he laid to rest some of the fundraising to benefit the injured students. ognized a customer who had left his disability money “pants-on-fire” falsehoods about the six plus years of What’s Going On in the Health-Starved North by mistake, she was able to return his cash. Happy clarity, cleanup, and progress highlighting Barack – There is something wildly incomprehensible going Days. … The Irish holiday home industry remained Obama’s tenure. on within the Northern Ireland health service. This strong even through the recent terrible weather. And, First, Krugman discussed the Affordable Care Act, government-run enterprise, less a few unaffiliated sadly, the number of Irish home repossessions has aka Obamacare, and found it working, and quite well. hospitals, has had a near historic breakdown that reached 60 a week. … Sean Fitzpatrick, who lent Despite some 50 repeal attempts by an inept GOP has nothing to do with the paucity of gurneys used to himself 100 million euros from his bank, Anglo Irish, leadership, the ACA is attracting more health coverage transport non-ambulatory patients from one hospital is trying to get his ongoing trial adjourned. Fat chance. clients and has sharply reduced the number of unin- station to another. And it has little or nothing to do Tea sales in Britain are dropping and retailers sured while costing substantially less than expected. with the quality of medical care. Doctors and nurses are blaming coffee and green tea. … Old pal Dr. Obamacare was also predicted to be a jobs-killer, but in Ireland, north and south, are generally spot-on. Frank Costello, and Dr. Gerard MacAtasney are since the ACA went fully into effect, the US economy What confounds this observer of the past several collaborating on a book on the global impact of the has added an average of 237,000 private sector jobs years is that medical appointments with trained and Irish Famine. … Good to see that Ace Atkins, the per month. Remember Texas Sen. Ted Cruz calling competent health services in the North – that’s PCPs, successor to Robert Parker in the ongoing series of Obama Care “an abomination.” specialists and senior status physicians – are being Spenser novels, has been seamless in continuing to And despite the horrendous hand he was dealt, cancelled more and more. This means that patients and use Parker’s references and mentioning some musi- Obama’s administration has had unemployment rates hospitals and the doctors who staff them are telling cians from early novels. Atkins spent Page 200 in his lower than President Reagan had during his time each other they cannot keep scheduled appointments. “Cheap Shot” Spenser novel weaving the late pianist in office. And while Republicans are screaming about Last year patients failed to turn up for almost Dave McKenna and the Copley’s Oak Bar into his the need for new gas and oil pipelines, domestic oil 150,000 certified appointments. On the hospital side, story line. As with Parker, the reference worked well production has soared and oil imports have plunged in a failed process the health service describe as “dis- in highlighting local color. … Support your local food since Obama took office. appointing,” more than 168,000 appointments were pantries and meals for the homeless. But, as Krugman reminds us, there were very few cancelled by hospitals across all five health trusts. In bostonirish.com September 2015 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 9 BRETT’S BOSTON By Harry Brett Exclusive photos of Boston Irish people & events With more than 45 teams registered in the Boston area, the ICCNE is home to the North East Division of the GAA. Saturdays and Sun- days during the summer are busy here with up to ten games being played in one day, and late August and early September are extra busy times as each league hosts semi-final and championship matches. The BIR’s Harry Brett was on scene on Sun., Aug. 23, to capture these photos of happy spectators. 1.) Olivia Leonard, Braintree; Cara Leonard, Braintree; Denise Feeley, Walpole; Noreen Fitzgerald, Dedham; Maureen Lyons, Dorches- ter; 2.) James Conley, Hyde Park; Michael Buckley, Quincy; 3.) James Kelly and Stacey Ryle, Newton; 4.) Rob McDowell and Kathleen Harrington, W. Roxbury; 5.) Seamus Healy, Pres. 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By R. J. Donovan Special to the BIR Theater has been a part of Jake Emmerling’s life for as long as he can remember. The influence began with his grand- parents who were such diehard fans that when they’d visit New York, they’d see six shows in four days. That love of the arts soon rubbed off on Jake, his brother and his cousins. His stage debut came in the first grade. “I was the doctor for a lion that was sick or something that like. I couldn’t learn my lines,” he said, adding with a wry edge, “So that was great.” The young actor is cur- rently in Boston perform- ing in the national tour of the outrageous musical comedy “The Book of Mormon,” playing the Citi Emerson Colonial Theatre through Oct. 11. He has been with the show for the past three years, has performed in Jake Emmerling (third from left) with the cast of the national touring company of “The Book of Mormon,” playing the Citi Emerson 32 cities, and recently Colonial Theatre through October 11. Photo © Joan Marcus, 2014 played his 1000th per- formance as a member of the ensemble. a condensed look at our It’s very surreal. The understanding, they sent not funny.” They’d look back to the McKennas, Winner of nine Tony conversation. entire rehearsal process, them the video tapes and at it and say, “I see what O’Connors, Garrigans, Awards, including Best as stressful as it was, was they literally had to ap- you’re trying to go for, but Skelleys and Haneys Musical, “The Book of Q. With theater such crazy. (I’m thinking), prove us. let’s try it from this per- in Limerick, Kerry, Mormon” follows the an influence in your life, “Okay, I’m in New York Q. Were they involved spective” . . . They really Emmsken, Londonderry, comical misadventures when did it shift from an City with all these Tony in your rehearsals? encouraged everyone’s and Clare. What sparked of a mismatched pair of avocation to a possible Award-winning directors A. They were very creativity. your curiosity? missionaries who travel career? and creatives and I’m active, actually . . . We Q. And what about A. It started it about halfway around the world A. Sophomore year in doing their show, one of rehearsed in November Casey Nicholaw, your ten or 15 years ago. One to spread the good word high school. I did “West the biggest shows in the and they had to take time choreographer and co- of my Mom’s cousins went in Uganda. Side Story.” That’s when country right now” . . . It off from “South Park” to director with Trey. He’s to Ireland to visit distant The satirical block- everyone started saying, got me my Equity Card. come out (to New York) worked on everything relatives and when she buster was written by “Oh, you can actually And it’s been a ton of fun and rehearse us. It from “Spamalot” to “Alad- came back, she told us “South Park” creators do this” . . . I had never touring the country. was right in the middle din.” all about it and showed Trey Parker and Matt thought of it that way. Q. Were you already a of their season. It was A. He has such a keen pictures. That’s when ev- Stone, with Bobby Lo- One of my teachers in “South Park” fan? crazy, but they did it, eye . . . He was adamant eryone in my family was pez, the Oscar-winning high school – Jim Julian, A. I was. I was. Grow- they made it work . . . about keeping the show like, let’s do this, make composer of Disney’s my chorus teacher – told ing up, it was one of those They really wanted to clean. Not, of course, a family tree. So we’ve “Frozen” and Broadway’s my parents during one shows that we weren’t make sure their show was literally clean, but the been keeping up with it . “Avenue Q.” of the Parent-Teacher allowed to watch (laugh- exactly what they wanted show itself, the message. . . It’s crazy to think about Raised in Derry, PA, Nights to take me down ing). But of course we’d it to be . . . Very hands on. They were adamant that it, the heritage, where we Emmerling trained at the (to Pittsburgh Civic Light sneak it in everyone once Very, very, very invested, the Mormon boys were come from . . . I haven’t Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera School) if I wanted in a while, go to a friend’s which was really cool to actually Mormons. From been to Ireland yet, but Opera School for Music to actually pursue it. We house or something. watch. day one (Casey and Trey it’s on my list. Theater during high looked into it and I got Q. Did Trey Parker and Q. What are they like said) “We’re not out to school. He later attended tested by taking a ballet Matt Stone have approval personally? make fun of Mormons. R. J. Donovan is the Shenandoah Conserva- class with a lot of six- on your casting? A. You’d think Matt That’s not what we’re editor and publisher of tory, graduating magna year-old girls. I was like A. For one of my two fi- and Trey – the creators doing. These are not onstageboston.com. cum laude with a BFA 15, 16 . . . My Mom and nal callbacks in Chicago, of “South Park” – should caricatures. This is not in Music Theater and Dad were so supportive. the entire creative team, be very funny and know ‘South Park’ -- this is not ••• a Minor in Dance. He They said if you really everyone, was there, ex- comedy. And it’s so true cutouts.” We are actual “The Book of Mormon,” also received the school’s want to do this, let’s do cept for Matt, Trey and . . . They really under- people . . . So that’s what through Oct. 11, Citi Em- Excellence in Theater it. So I just jumped in. Bobby. There were like stand comedy. Not just I try to bring to it every erson Colonial Theatre, Award. Q. “The Book of Mor- nine people behind the funny guys making jokes night. 106 Boylston St., Boston. We spoke while “Mor- mon” is a fairly auspi- table when we auditioned back and forth . . . (They) Q. I’m impressed with Tickets: 800-982-2787 or mon” was playing at cious way to make your . . . It was videotaped . wouldn’t just look at (the how familiar you are with visit BroadwayInBoston. the Kennedy Center in national tour debut. . . Which was also kind work) and say “No, I don’t your family ancestry. I com. Washington. D.C. Here’s A. I’m very grateful. of scary. But from my like what you’re doing, its know you trace your roots Fall schedule set for Gaelic Roots at Boston College The Gaelic Roots Music, Song, presentations of Gaelic music band, the Irish Ramblers – and fiddler Seamus Connolly, the his diligence in collecting Irish Dance, Workshop and Lecture as well as the dance traditions her brother John (string bass) on Sullivan Artist-in-Residence traditional tunes – his reper- Series at Boston College will of Ireland, Scotland and the September 24. Clancy took up in Irish Programs at BC, and toire stands at more than 3,000 feature performances this fall United States. Gaelic Roots Irish fiddle as a young child and Kieran Jordan, a renowned – many of which he has shared by Cape Cod-based fiddler and events, which are free and open over the years played occasional Irish dance performer-chore- through a series of recordings. violin-maker Rose Clancy, and to the public, take place from concerts with Gene, John and ographer-teacher and BC Irish Joining O’Brien will be Nathan the duo of accomplished accor- 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the Theol- other family members. Eight Studies faculty member. This Gourley (fiddle, guitar), a former dionist and tune collector Paddy ogy and Ministry Library on years ago, Clancy enrolled in participatory event features Minnesota resident who has O’Brien and fiddler Nathan Brighton Campus, unless noted the violin-making program at Irish social dances, all of which been living in Boston for almost Gourley. otherwise. Boston’s North Bennet Street will be taught by Jordan, and are three years; he and O’Brien have Sponsored by the Center for The series’ fall slate opens School and settled in Chatham, open to experienced and novice played together as part of the Irish Programs in collaboration on Sept. 24 with a concert by Mass., where she runs an instru- dancers alike. trio Chulrua. The concert will with University Libraries and Clancy, a native of Bronx, NY, ment shop and hosts Irish/Celtic On Nov. 12, Gaelic Roots will take place in the Theology and the BC Alumni Association, from a strong Irish background. music events. welcome Paddy O’Brien, who Ministry Library. Gaelic Roots brings to campus She will be joined by her father The series will shift to Gas- in addition to being a highly For information and updates outstanding musicians, singers, Gene (guitar) – who once toured son 100 on Oct. 15 for an Irish regarded master of the Irish on Gaelic Roots, see bc.edu/ dancers and scholars, who give the US as a member of a popular dance and ceili, organized by button accordion is known for gaelicroots. bostonirish.com September 2015 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 13 Music aplenty in September; Fiddlers take the spotlight

Appearances by Alas- Celtic and traditional dair Fraser and Natalie music realm, his playing Haas, Cape Cod fiddler often compared to lumi- Rose Clancy and guitar- naries such as Martin ist Pierre Bensusan plus Carthy, John Renbourn a reunion of the Boston- and Davey Graham. area fiddle trio Halali are Halali, which plays among the highlights of two shows at Club Passim September Irish/Celtic on Sept. 17, is anchored events taking place in by the majestic fiddling the Greater Boston area. of Laura Cortese, Han- The fiddle-cello duo of neke Cassel and Lissa Alasdair Fraser and Schneckenburger, and Natalie Haas, who will the estimable Flynn perform at the Amazing Cohen accompanying Things Arts Center in on guitar. Individually Framingham on Sept. 20, and collectively, all four recently released their have been major figures latest CD, “Abundance” and influences in the [see this month’s CD 21st-century Boston/New reviews]. For more than England Celtic music a decade, the two have scene; what with thriv- cultivated a compelling ing solo careers and partnership of sounds various collaborations that draw not only on afoot (Schneckenburger Scottish and other Celtic and Cohen are part of traditions, but elements the aforementioned Low of Scandinavian, Breton, Lily), they rarely have the American, classical, jazz opportunity to perform Boston-area fiddler Jenna Moynihan (at Club Passim on September 30) and Mayo accordionist David and other music forms. as Halali. Munnelly -- appearing with guitarist Phil Masure at The Burren on September 23 -- are among the per- Also at Amazing Things Club Passim will fea- formers taking to the concert stage locally this month. this month will be a CD ture a number of other release concert on Sept. performers of Celtic and 13 by the band Low related music this month, Lily. Formerly known including at the club’s as Annalivia, the trio of Campfire Festival over Liz Simmons (vocals, Labor Day Weekend: guitar), Flynn Cohen Among those appear- (vocals, guitar, mandolin) ing are Joey Abarta & and Lissa Schnecken- Nathan Gourley, Eliza- burger (vocals, fiddle) beth & Ben Anderson, focuses on the intercon- Cat & the Moon, Lind- nectedness of American say Straw, Sean Smith, folk music with its Irish, and Molly Pinto Madi- Scottish, English, New gan. Madigan also will be England and old-time/ the opening act on Sept. 9 Appalachian offshoots, for a CD release concert and interpolate their by Hannah Sanders, an own modern ideas and English folk/traditional approaches. singer who lived and For times, ticket infor- performed in the Boston mation and other details area and elsewhere for a regarding these shows, few years. see amazingthings.org. Jenna Moynihan, Rose Clancy will kick whose fiddling combines off the fall schedule of Scottish and Appalachian Boston College’s Gaelic influences, will close out Roots series of traditional this month’s Passim slate music on Sept. 24. Raised with her own CD release in a musical family – she’ll concert on Sept. 30. See burren.com/Back- be joined at the concert by For more details on room-Series.html for her father Gene (guitar, these shows, see passim. more information. vocals) and brother John org. Also on Sept. 23, Celtic (string bass) – Clancy The Burren “Back- piper Dick Hensold will plays the fiddle tradi- room” series in Somer- play traditional music tions of Ireland, Scotland ville will host the duo of from Scotland, Ireland and Cape Breton. She David Munnelly and and Northumberland at took her career in a new Phil Masure on Sept. 23 the Somerville Armory direction several years at 7:30 p.m. Munnelly is café. Hensold is regarded ago when she decided to a dynamic accordionist in as one of the foremost become a violin-maker. the Mayo tradition who players of the Northum- [See feature story on has played with distin- brian bagpipes in North Clancy elsewhere in this guished musicians such Americas, and has per- edition.] as The Chieftains, De formed and taught in Admission to the con- Danann, Gerry O’Connor England, Scotland, Ja- cert is free; it will be and Sharon Shannon, in pan and Canada as well held at 6:30 p.m. in the addition to touring with as across the United School of Theology and his own band. A native States; earlier this year, Ministry Library on the of Belgium, Masure has he went on a multi-city BC Brighton Campus. been one of Europe’s most tour with Cape Breton See the story in this in-demand folk/tradi- musicians Andrea Bea- month’s issue about the tional music guitarists, ton and Troy MacGilli- fall Gaelic Roots series, or with dozens of recordings vray. The concert, which go to bc.edu/gaelicroots. on his resume. Opening begins at 8 p.m. (doors Pierre Bensusan will for Munnelly and Masure open at 7:30), is pre- perform at Club Pas- will be The Fretless, a sented by notloB Music. sim in Harvard Square band that explores the Admission is by free-will on Sept. 25. With a rhythmic, harmonic, and offering, with a suggested career spanning some structured arrangement donation of $15-20, $10 four decades, Bensusan of folk music from their for students and seniors. is widely regarded as an native Canada and else- Reservations through innovator whose multi- where in the essence of a eventbrite.com are sug- ply influenced acoustic chamber string quartet; gested. For more details, guitar style anticipated, among its members is see facebook.com/not- and helped usher in, such Ivonne Hernandez, a loBParlourConcerts or popular genres as world Berklee College of Music e-mail notlobreserva- and New Age music. But alumna who performed [email protected]. “From Tulla to Boston” offers highlights of last fall’s Trad Youth Exchange Bensusan in particular at various Boston venues concert at The Burren. had an impact in the and events. Page 14 September 2015 BOSTON IRISH Reporter bostonirish.com tunes like “The Piper’s Chair,” “The Western Lasses,” world, and how attuned we are to its rhythms and CD Reviews “The Old Bush,” “The Galtee Rangers” and “The Ormond phrases – and what it means when a voice in its grand Sound” and beckoning to the imagination of the mind, chorus is no longer heard. By Sean Smith and heart. The key word here is “interpret,” as in many Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas, “Abundance” • Dana Lyn & Kyle Sanna, “The Great Arc” • It’s instances Lyn and Sanna depart straightforward ren- This is the fourth album for this pioneering partnership not exactly a revelation to say that traditional folk mu- dition to explore harmonic and rhythmic components that has distilled seemingly every trait of Scottish mu- sic, from Ireland and elsewhere, is strongly rooted in within the tunes, deconstructing and reconstructing sic through the sometimes otherworldly compatibility the natural world – all those songs and tunes describing them – such as on the “Poll Ha’Penny/Sean Se Ceo” and and symbiosis between Fraser’s fiddle and Haas’s cello. or evoking (sometimes metaphorically or symbolically) “Galtee Rangers/Jack Coughlan’s/Ormond Sound” sets. Their utilization of harmony, improvisation, rhythmic verdant vistas, flora and fauna, the passage of seasons, [The outliers are “Skylarking,” a Lyn composition, and intrigues, and ample doses of intuition and empathy and so on. So the concept of using mainly traditional an alluring take on Bach’s “Allemande,” which features – what they refer to as “ducking and diving” – evoke Irish instrumental music as a basis for an album that an appearance by Solas accordionist Mick McAuley.] aural settings that range from parlor to pub, ceilidh centers on animals is by no means a stretch. The obvious test for an album like this is, if you don’t to concert hall, and perhaps a windswept moor or two. But “The Great know the context for it, can you appreciate it? Where It hardly dimin- Arc” has a deeper, “The Great Arc” is concerned, the answer is generally ishes the result rather more compli- yes. Lyn and Sanna are excellent musicians who work to mention that cated essence: The very well together, and their ideas and improvisations they do have some species to which it are often interesting, even fascinating: One of the very talented as- pays tribute are strongest and most successful tracks on the album is sistance here and all either endan- “The Rainy Day” – honoring the Great Barrier Reef – there, in the person gered or extinct. Lyn which builds from a delicate, tentative fiddle/acoustic of pianist-accordi- (fiddle, viola, piano) guitar pairing (with a field recording of peepers in the onist Donald Shaw and Sanna (acoustic background) to an ever-stronger, elaborate, assertive and percussionist and electric guitar) arrangement that includes viola and piano. James MacIntosh – whose resumes Perhaps the key to “The Great Arc” is realizing how (of the well-regard- include forays into Lyn and Sanna challenge our expectations and as- ed bands Capercail- several genres and sumptions about Irish music: Most of us are probably lie and Shoogle- styles of music, from used to hearing reels, jigs and the like done according nifty, respectively), Irish to classical to to convention, an A part followed by a B part (and, double-bassist Co- experimental – have fashioned a series of tone-poems where necessary, other parts), instead of as tangents rey DiMario, mandolinist Dominick Leslie as well dedicated to, among others, the stegosaurus, blue-tailed or riffs that can be elements in and of themselves. as cameos by Boston-area fiddler Hanneke Cassel – skink, trilobite and great auk. With a couple of excep- By extension, you might say Lyn and Sanna also are playing piano here – percussionist Stefan Amidon and tions, they draw upon the Irish tradition, interpreting inviting us to consider our perceptions of the natural Haas’ fiddle-playing sister Brittany. They even have a two-person brass section in Kai Welch (trumpet) and Oscar Utterstrom (trombone, bass trombone, eupho- nium) on the opening and closing tracks. The centerpiece of the album is the “Connie Suite,” a five-part commissioned work that draws inspiration from various music and dance traditions, not only Celtic but French and African, with an exquisite excursion into jazz at one point. Yet for all the fireworks and excitement from the guest musicians, at the core is, as always, the interaction of Fraser and Haas – right after the “Connie Suite,” for example, is just the two of them playing “Braigh Lochiall,” the melody to an old Gaelic love song, and it’s starkly beautiful and emotive. Simple, yet sumptuous. Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas will perform at the Amazing Things Arts Center in Framingham on September 20 (see amazingthings.org). Will Woodson & Eric McDonald, “The Sunny Hills” • McDonald, a Boston-area native who has showcased his guitar, mandolin and vocal talents with Katie McNally, Matching Orange, and Cantrip, among others, has for the past couple of years collaborated with Woodson, a Maine-based performer on the Scottish border pipes and flute (their local appearances include BCMFest and the notloB Concert Series). As this CD demonstrates, the duo has cultivated a tight, cohesive sound in which melody and rhythm are thrown into sharp relief by the instru- ments’ qualities – the primal-force beauty of the pipes (a set specially co- designed by Wood- son that has some similarities to the uilleann pipes) and the bassy tone and pulse of McDon- ald’s guitar – as well as the pretty basic arrangements that highlight them. It’s not the sort of thing one hears much in Celtic music nowadays; typically, pipes seem to be found more in an ensemble setting, often sharing the lead with a fiddle, and with guitar and perhaps a bouzouki in the mix as well. If that seems a roundabout way of suggesting that being favorably disposed to bagpipes helps in appre- ciating this album, well, true enough – but even the uninitiated can certainly admire Woodson’s control and dexterity, such as on the pair of reels (“Willie Murray’s/ Gladstone’s”) that opens the album, or the intricate slip jig “Chloe’s Passion” that leads into the jigs “Hills of Glen Orchy” and “Portree Bay”; another track begins with Woodson and McDonald both playing melody on a march, “The Highland Lassie Going to the Fair” and then ramps up into two energetically delivered reels, “Lochiel’s Away to France” and “The Little Uist Reel.” For a change of pace, McDonald plays mandolin on a track that begins with the march “Garden of Skye,” switching over from rhythm to double the melody on the strathspey “Lime Hill” and the reel “Captain Byng” – although slightly out of tune in spots, it’s an enlivening number. Woodson, meanwhile, shifts to flute on two instrumental sets, “Cameron’s Got His Wife/ Donald Blue/A Dhomhnuill” (strathspey and reels) and a medley of two quickstep marches with a slip jig; the flute takes on a more percussive, almost harsh sound here, not unlike that of a fife. McDonald also contributes three songs, two of them – the winsome Cape Breton love song “When First I Came to Caledonia” and the Jacobite lament “Chairlie, Oh Chairlie” – from the repertoire of the late, peerless Tony Cuffe (who lived locally in Arlington for the last 12 years of his life), as well as a somewhat shortened, and more tragic, take on Robert Burns’ “The Bleacher Lassie,” for which McDonald’s vocals are especially tender and emotive. There’s an overall splendid dose of rawness here, tied to the sometimes fierce but nonetheless compelling na- ture of the pipes, and giving Woodson and McDonald’s music a rugged authenticity. bostonirish.com September 2015 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 15 hear how it sounds, I can ‘Fiddle Piano Bass’ CD put it down and look at the aesthetics.” Clancy had a little bit of another leap of faith for recording experience with her family, and had talked with Brendan Dolan about multi-talented Rose Clancy doing an album of her own “some day.” Finally, she By Sean Smith on a trio of jigs (“Boys of Although Clancy was says, “Brendan called me Special to the BIR the Lough/Knights of St. born and bred in the up and said ‘Let’s do it!’” As someone who used Patrick/Dancing Eyes”) or Bronx, her roots are mani- To round out the sound, to be in the moving- the push she gives to a set festly Irish, with both she recruited Evans, an- and-relocation profession, of reels (“Tuttle’s/Kiss Me parents native to Armagh. other Cape resident, who Massachusetts fiddler Kate/Ormond Sound”). And Irish music figured has played with pop stars Rose Clancy knows a In addition to the jigs, prominently in her family like Tori Amos and Sarah little something about the reels and slower pieces, history: Her father, Gene, MacLachlan. process of uprooting and Clancy adroitly handles originally came to the US “I love the depth that the starting a whole new life barn dances (Charlie in 1962 along with his two bass brings,” she says. “My – even if it means taking Lennon’s sprightly sweet brothers to tour as the brother is a lovely bass a chance that things won’t “Dance of the Honey- Irish Ramblers (yes, says player, so we always had work out. bees” along with “Chaff Clancy, they’ve frequently that in our music, and my Clancy herself made Pool Post”), hornpipes been confused with that dad’s ceili band had a bass just that kind of leap of (“The Pleasures of Hope/ “other” musical Clancy player – it’s practically in faith eight years ago, Dwyer’s”), slip jigs (“The family). But Gene ulti- my DNA, I guess.” when she left behind her Little Fair Cannavans/ mately decided he didn’t She also decided to in- native New York, and the Ryan’s/Moll Roe”) and – a want to pursue music as clude Jennings, a familiar family business where further delight – a pair a full-time career, and figure at Boston-area she’d worked for more of mazurkas (“Doherty’s/ settled into family life and Scottish music events than 20 years, to enroll in The Glenties”). Dolan, for starting up the moving and gatherings. “I met a violin-making program his part, does an excellent and relocation business. Bob at a Boston Scottish in Boston. And she did so job of modifying his piano Still, Clancy recalls, Fiddle Club weekend on again three years after backing to suit the genre “there was always music the Cape. I didn’t know that, setting up her own in which Clancy is playing in the house, and it got in a lot of Scottish tunes, so shop in Chatham on Cape – a rollicking Cape Breton my soul.” She began play- most of the time I just sat Cod to put to use what she accompaniment, for in- ing violin in third grade there listening. But then had learned. stance, or a somewhat through her school, but there was a break, and This past year has seen lighter, bouncy touch on she also found plenty of Bob just sat there playing Clancy add another new Irish jigs (he also shows inspiration and assistance Irish tunes with me for an experience to her portfolio, some imaginative chord- from family friends in the hour. I thought he’d be ing, particularly on “The local Irish community to perfect for the waltz and recording and releasing After living most of her life in New York, Rose her first solo CD, titled Admiral’s Whiskers”). learn traditional music. the lament.” And he’s a fine melody Clancy says she was for- Clancy has made a home for herself -- and her music Clancy says she’s “Fiddle Piano Bass.” The -- on Cape Cod. 12-track album features player, too, switching to tunate to have a violin pleased by the reception Clancy playing tunes from flute on the slip jigs and teacher in Paul Ehrlich to “Fiddle Piano Bass,” art materials (her clients ing” and decided that she and is gratified that her the Irish, Cape Breton whistle for the Greg John- “who was very tolerant of included the New York would renovate it to be her and Scottish traditions, son waltz “Betty Moffett.” different types of music – efforts to achieve what she Public Library). “But I base of operations – but calls “an authentic sound” accompanied on most As the album demon- he encouraged me to work always found time to play not just for violin-making. tracks by her longtime strates, Clancy doesn’t see on the Irish.” Other key have been well received. with family and friends. I “I could see there was a “I tried two different friend Brendan Dolan on herself as taking after a mentors and influences never let go of the music.” pretty active traditional piano, flute and whistle, particular regional style of included legendary Irish microphones when we In fact, over time Clancy music scene on the Cape,” were recording, to try and Jon Evans on double Irish fiddle – nor, for that pianist Felix Dolan (Bren- says she became “ob- she says, “and I wanted to bass; Boston-area musi- matter, an exclusively dan’s father), who gave and get it ‘just right,’” she sessed” with her instru- help strengthen what was says. “But what helped, cian Bob Jennings also Irish style at all. “I like Clancy books and record- ment of choice – not so going on.” plays cello on two tracks. a lot of different types of ings related to Irish music actually, was listening much in the music it Thus was born the Cha- to some Jerry Holland Although she’s always music within a certain and had her sit in with produced, but the overall tham Fiddle Company had a strong connection genre, although I did play him at ceilis and dances, albums. The sound is raw, sound. She had the sense [chathamfiddlecompany. and it’s fantastic – Jerry’s to Irish music through mainly Irish for a long as well as fiddler Brian of what it took to be a good com], a hub for Clancy’s her family, and has been time. I had a friend who Conway and accordionist just there fiddling, having fiddle player, but what, instrument rental, repair a great time. What you playing it herself since played Cape Breton fiddle, Mike Melanophy. she wondered, went into and crafting business as childhood, she feels the and as a kid I’d thought it Clancy competed in hear is the spirit of the making a good fiddle? well as a venue for her music, and that’s what is relationship has both was a kind of ‘simplified fleadhs when she was Then she found the place classes in fiddle, classical broadened and deepened Irish’ style. But when I younger – she had the important. If you can put where she could answer violin, mandolin and ban- that across in a recording, as a result of the new went to Cape Breton, I misfortune, she laughs, her question: the North jo, and for a regular slate direction she took in her really got the full effect; of being the same age as you’re doing very well.” Bennet Street School in of concerts featuring the In fact, now that she’s life. The CD is a reflection the beautiful subtleties, fellow New Yorker and Boston, which offers a likes of Robbie O’Connell, of this bond, she says, and the drive. I like the power future fiddle star Eileen got one solo recording un- three-year course in vio- Aoife Clancy, Frankie der her belt, Clancy says, the demands and rewards in it, but also appreciate Ivers – and one year quali- lin-making. She hemmed Gavin, Tommy McCarthy that go along with it. the gentle flowing tunes fied for the All-Irelands “I want to do it again.” and hawed about apply- & Louise Costello, and But for now, she’s con- “Recording the CD was in the tradition. in the slow airs category. ing, but eventually she Andrea Beaton. (Gene fun, and at the same time “I have another friend, Joining the family busi- tent to build on the prom- did (“Life’s too short,” she Clancy’s woodwork art ise of the Chatham Fiddle fairly excruciating,” quips Sara Marchio, who began ness didn’t squelch her says) and was accepted. also is available there.) Clancy, who will appear at playing Scottish pipes, musical activities by any Company, and appreciate After graduating from Reflecting on this tran- all that leap of faith she Boston College on Sept. 24 and she started feeding stretch; there were oc- the program, Clancy sition, Clancy says, “I as part of the university’s me Scottish tunes – the casional concerts with took years ago has brought found herself at a cross- thought that learning to to her music, and to her Gaelic Roots series [see ornamentations and the her father and other fam- roads. “The violin-making make violins brought me separate story]. “We are rhythms are challenging ily members, and plenty life. “Building and then was a great experience, deeper into the music, playing an instrument is often our own worst crit- but fun to play. I’m not of sessions and parties. and I learned so much,” though perhaps not quite ics. It’s difficult, this pur- an expert in those tradi- [She’ll be appearing with a wonderful thing. Being she says. “But I realized the way I thought. When I able to play, and get a suit of perfection, because tions, nor do I try to make her father and brother that I still love playing see a fiddle now, I always it’s not the way any of us them sound Irish. We just at BC.] tone, just encourages you music most of all. I wanted want to know what it to improve. I can hear, and play. You listen to what played how we wanted “My job was pretty de- to find a way to bring that sounds like, and I’m not as you’ve done, and your ears to play, and not worry manding, and it took a lot feel, and see what I did all together.” interested in the construc- right and what I didn’t. pick up a note here and so much about stylizing of my time,” says Clancy, While in Chatham, tion or the appearance – there that perhaps sounds the tunes, so there was who was involved in or- I’m very happy with how where her parents own the ugliest instrument can it’s worked out.” flat – and you just have a certain freedom to the ganizing the relocation a house, Clancy found have a beautiful sound. to say to yourself, ‘Well, whole process.” and storage of library and “a little wreck of a build- Once I play it, and can that’s just what it is.’ “So, ultimately, you just have to make the decision to put yourself out there, even though it’s maybe a little nerve-wracking.” Anxiety, or any other such unpleasant reaction, is scarcely likely to befall those who listen to “Fiddle Piano Bass.” Clancy shows herself to be entirely at ease with different fiddle styles, whether it’s pulsating Cape Breton reels, such as the opening medley, which includes a composition by the late Brockton, Mass., native Jerry Holland; the tender “Neil Gow’s Lament for the Death of His Second Wife,” one of the legend- ary Scottish fiddler’s most well-known pieces; and, of course, plenty of tunes from the Irish tradition – listen to the lift she gets Page 16 September 2015 BOSTON IRISH Reporter bostonirish.com CD of Trad Youth Exchange: It lays out a milestone event

By Sean Smith tracks are devoted to the of traditional music in Special to the BIR combined Túlog-Realta Clare), a medley of reels Perhaps the worst thing Geala ensemble. with solos by Aisling you can say about this CD As impressive, and solid, McMahon, Conal Egan, is that it makes you wish as those big-band sets are, and O’Connor, who join for more – like a compan- it’s the various smaller- together at the end. In a ion DVD. scale collaborations and similar vein is a “Fiddle “From Tulla to Boston: solos that really offer an Run,” a lengthy procession Live at The Burren” is insight into the talent of reels with Túlog fiddlers a recording of last No- and skill residing in this Carroll, Cliona Donnel- vember’s Trad Youth next generation of Irish lan, Leagh Hunt, Eve Exchange concert that musicians (not to men- O’Connor, Áine Murphy took place in The Burren tion the organizational and Naoise O’Sullivan. in Somerville, and as such acumen of Sean Clohessy, (Credit must be given, is a valuable keepsake of Kathleen Conneely, Mary incidentally, to Clohessy a milestone moment in MacNamara, Lisa Coyne, for his piano backing on Boston’s Irish music his- and the other impossibly many of the tracks.) tory. The concert was held committed and devoted Part of what made the as part of a cross-Atlantic adults who put this shin- Trad Youth Exchange con- partnership between two dig together). cert special were appear- groups of young musi- There are the twin ances by accomplished cians – one from Tulla in fiddles of Bostonians Josie musicians like Jimmy Country Clare, the other Coyne and Audrey Bulger Noonan, Tommy McCar- mainly from the Boston with Maeve O’Brien on thy, Jon Gannon, Tina area – created through bodhran, on a pair of Lech, and John and Lisa Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éire- jigs (“Cook in the Kitch- Coyne along with Mac- ann to build fellowship en/Brendan Tonra’s”); a Namara, Conneely and and share a mutual love dandy set of reels, “The Clohessy. Emcee Brian of Irish traditional music. Bunch of Green Rushes” O’Donovan remarked at Last fall, the Tulla and a less familiar ver- one point that the event youngsters (the Túlog sion of “The Maid Behind constituted “a passing of Ceili Band) spent several the Bar,” by Túlog’s Lily the torch,” where a new days in the Boston area; O’Connor (concertina) and generation of musicians earlier this year, the Rosa Carroll (fiddle); the served notice that it is Boston contingent (Realta fiddle-playing Kozachek ready, willing, and able Paddy O’Brien, left, and local fiddler Nathan Gourley will perform at Boston Geala) completed the loop sisters of Realta Geala, to continue the tradition. College’s Gaelic Roots series on November 12. with a visit to Clare. Lizzy and Mary, taking on So the veterans’ pres- The 17 tracks on this the venerable “Banshee/ ence provided a valuable Trip to Durrow”; a jig-reel perspective to the show, affair, and among the for a video “extra” to this to be around, and Irish CD are an audio highlight younger musicians’ per- CD, to be able to see that traditional music is all the reel of one very memorable pairing on twin flutes by which the CD captures Túlog brothers Stephen on three tracks, as well formances there might youthful talent in action, better for it. afternoon, when practi- be the occasional misstep and the tremendous re- For information on pur- cally every square inch of and Ronan Kennedy; and as another in which a jig easily one of the show’s set by the Coyne family or duff note. But the level sponse it provoked from chasing the “From Tulla the Burren Backroom was of skill, focus, and crisp- the Burren crowd. But to Boston” CD, send an filled with enthusiastic highlights, a near-flawless symbolizes this union of rendition of the air “An generations. ness displayed by the then, there’s plenty of e-mail to Johnmichael- audience members and kids – most of whom are footage on YouTube. Or [email protected]. The youthful musicians – in Raibh Tú Ag An gCarraig” If one really wanted to by Túlog fiddler Clodagh draw generational com- barely, or not even, into better yet, keep an eye Trad Youth Exchange fact, the latter (number- their teens – is deserving out for these young people, Facebook page is face- ing just under 30) took up O’Farrell. parisons here, the older Another track is a tour- musicians sound perhaps of respect, not to mention whether at fleadh, festi- book.com/TradYouthEx- almost all the space on the heartening in and of itself. val, concert hall or session change. stage. Three of the album de-force for the concertina just a bit looser and more (which is, after all, a staple relaxed about the whole So, yes, one could wish – they’re definitely going

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By Judy Enright from the US, with many Special to the BIR traveling from California, Wow! Arizona and Texas. Most There simply isn’t any American guests, though, other word to adequately still visit Ashford from describe Ashford Castle’s the East Coast, from New new look. York, New Jersey and The well-known castle Boston primarily. hotel, home to the Guin- Ashford is well known ness family for more than for its link to the 1952 100 years, was purchased film, “The Quiet Man,” in 2013 by Red Carnation with John Wayne and Hotels and has since been Maureen O’Hara, which is totally and exquisitely still shown in the theatre refurbished. daily. We toured the recently For more information reopened hotel in Cong, about this great venue, Co. Mayo, this spring, visit ashfordcastle.com. courtesy of effervescent HAPPENINGS Sales and Marketing Di- • The Lisdoonvarna rector Paula Carroll, and Matchmaking Festival saw for ourselves what a in Co. Clare, one of Ire- spectacular property two land’s oldest traditional years of work has cre- festivals, takes place in ated. In fact, Ashford is so Red Carnation Hotels, a South African company that owns Ashford Castle in Cong, Co. Mayo, has spent the small spa town from spectacular that Virtuoso, the last two years completing a 50-million euro renovation that included more than 800 new windows, Aug. 28 through to Oct. 4. a luxury travel network, new wiring, a new lead roof and repointed stonework. The hotel celebrated it new look when it was The festival is more than recently named it the reopened this spring. 150 years old and attracts world’s leading hotel, a up to 60,000 people from room, indoor and ozone- all over the world. Third title earned by Ashford filtrated swimming pool, topping some 1,100 other generation matchmaker techno-gym, 32-seat cin- Willie Daly, who will be extraordinary contenders ema, and a cigar terrace. from all over the world. on hand to bring singles Kitchens were moved together, boasts many The “new” Ashford is and rebuilt on a different the brainchild of Beatrice marriages to date. See level to be closer to dining matchmakerireland.com Tollman, president and areas for more efficient founder of Red Carnation for more. and timely service and • And, while you’re in Hotels, a South African 500,000 euros were spent company, along with her Co. Clare, be sure to stop to upgrade the nine-hole in on a Sunday between daughter, Toni, the Red golf course. Carnation project team, 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., May There are 130 shim- to October, at the Bur- and architect Philippe mering chandeliers in Bonino. Renovations were ren Art and Craft fair Ashford’s hallways, cor- in Ballyvaughan. There done to respect the castle’s ridors and rooms, includ- storied and historic past you’ll find a collection of ing 11 Waterford Crystal items for sale by crafters, while incorporating the chandeliers in the George latest technologies ex- photographers, and art- V dining room. Each of ists based and working pected by today’s traveler. Ashford’s 70 guest rooms, The 50-million-euro in the Burren region. The 15 staterooms, and suites fair is in the Village Hall renovation required a was furnished with an- complete overhaul of the and is well worth a visit. tiques, original artwork We especially like Janis infrastructure due to the and marble bathrooms in age and scale of the castle. James’s goat milk soaps addition to I-luv speak- that smell wonderful, are Included were more than ers, electronic blinds, 800 new windows, new Mrs. Tea’s Boutique and Bakery is just one of many attractions on the 350- easy to pack, and make air conditioning, mood acre Ashford estate and is named for Mrs. Beatrice Tollman, president and great gifts to bring home. wiring, a new lead roof, light dimming, and USB and repointed stonework. founder of Red Carnation Hotels which owns the Irish castle hotel. Admission is free. chargers in the wall. • Up in Co. Mayo, the Grounds were done over There is complimentary 13 Red Carnation hotels hotel over the years were and food. At Mrs. Tea’s Ballycroy National Park and additions included wi-fi throughout the ho- on three continents as George V (then Prince of Boutique and Bakery visitor center is open from a five-room spa, billiard tel. Wherever possible, well as a restaurant in Wales), Brad Pitt, John (next to Cullen’s at the 10-5:30 daily through Sep- room, children’s games materials and pieces were London and a country inn Wayne, Fred Astaire, Cottage restaurant), visi- tember and admission is sourced from local arti- in Dorset. In her cookbook, Barbara Streisand, John tors will find a split-level free. At the park, there is sans and suppliers, like “A Life in Food” (avail- Travolta, and many more.) shop selling gourmet foods a nature trail with pond, the Connemara marble able at the Ashford gift There’s lots to do on made at Ashford daily and interpretation panels and bar top in the Prince of shop), she writes, “I have the 350-acre Ashford an assortment of locally viewing points, and you Wales cocktail bar. learnt much along the property, including fal- made products including will be introduced to the Little guests are wel- way, but one particularly conry, archery, zip lining, Connemara Smokehouse landscape of the spectacu- comed with apple juice important golden rule horseback riding, clay salmon, Bewley’s coffee, lar Nephin Beg mountain and cookies as well as sto- that I feel I must impart shooting, golf, tennis on and more. In the boutique, range and Owenduff Bog, rybooks personalized with is to always seek out the new, all-weather surfaces, there are locally made one of the last intact ac- their names. The young freshest seasonal ingre- and cycling and water souvenirs, sporting goods, tive blanket bog systems ones can also partake of a dients, no matter where sports on Lough Corrib. and clothing. in Ireland and Western Lego room service menu. you are. I have long been Six ghillies are available Niall Rochford, general Europe. It’s a great day Top quality babysitters an advocate of farmers’ at Ireland’s only Orvis- manager at Ashford for out in the fresh air. For are available, too, so par- There have been many markets and I always buy endorsed property for the past 14 years, noted more information, visit ents can enjoy a night out. famous guests at Ashford organic, locally sourced fishing, and gear can be that staff levels have ballycroynationalpark.ie. Ancient underground Castle in Cong, Co. Mayo, products whenever pos- rented or purchased at increased significantly TRAVEL wine stores have been over the years, includ- sible.” Good advice for us the fishing and golf center. to 300 to support the Enjoy Ireland whenever ing American president transformed into private all; it shows that she was All activities can also be improved facilities. Some and wherever you go and Ronald Reagan. dining cellars and an old well ahead of her time as enjoyed by guests at The staffers at Ashford have keep an eye out for airline boathouse on Lough Cor- farmers’ markets have Lodge. worked there for up to and ground travel deals rib has become a private, only recently surged in And don’t forget shop- 40 years, which is quite often available at this secluded, and luxurious popularity. ping! Ashford has two a tribute to management. time of year. Summer has lakeside cottage suite. Red Carnation boutique stores on the Historically, some 85 wound down but there’s Beatrice Tollman Red Carnation pur- grounds that sell a va- percent of the high season still a lot to see and do in Perhaps the most fas- chased Ashford in 2013 for riety of gifts, clothing guests at Ashford come Ireland. cinating aspect of the a reported 25 million euro renovation was that Mrs. and bought the 50-bed- Tollman, wife, mother room Lodge, a boutique and grandmother, was 4-star sister hotel within completely hands-on and the castle grounds, for 1.8 Handmade since 1925 involved in every last me- million euro in 2014. ticulous detail from con- Room rates have in- struction to the addition creased (high season from of live orchids in bedrooms 495 euro per night for and eating areas, such as B&B in a Corrib room) at the drawing room. She or- Ashford Castle to reflect ders vases of glorious red the investment costs. Vases overflowing with roses to be delivered fresh The split-level Reagan fresh red roses, Irish daily for gathering spots Presidential Suite rents crystal chandeliers, au- such as the Connaught in high season for 2,500 thetic antique furnish- Room, where you can take euro a night. (President ings are par for the afternoon tea, and the Ronald Reagan was just course every day at Prince of Wales bar. one of many dignitaries the newly-refurbushed And, if that is not to visit Ashford over the Ashford Castle in Cong, enough, the tireless Mrs. years. Among the royalty, Co. Mayo. Tollman is also an ac- celebrities and heads of Judy Enright photos complished cook who state welcomed to the oversees restaurants in Page 18 September 2015 BOSTON IRISH Reporter bostonirish.com BIR Notebook Life Insurance … Jillian O’Keefe says goodbye Nurse’s death prompts The second-in-comannd at the Irish consulate has benefit for St. Agatha’s returned to Ireland. In a letter issued last month, The family and friends of the late Courtney A. Kelly, is it time? deputy Consul Jillian O’Keefe wrote, “As most if not a 25-year-old Milton nurse who died in March, are all of you will know by now, I will conclude my posting planning a benefit reception on Mon., Sept. 21,from 6 to the Consulate-General of Ireland, Boston, on Fri., p.m. to 10 p.m. at Florian Hall Dorchester. All proceeds Have you been putting it off? will benefit the St Agatha School (Milton) Scholarship Aug 21, to take up a new role at the headquarters Fund. Information: Pat Kelly, 508-663-7759. of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Presented by Brian W. O’Sullivan, CFP, ChFC, CLU Dublin... .I wanted to take this opportunity to thank Irish boy, 4, in Boston all of you for helping to make the last two years such for tests on rare illness an enjoyable and interesting experience. After three A four-year-old Irish boy, Cian McDonnell Lynch, A March 2011 survey from Genworth Fi- years in the Russian Federation and two years here, from County Meath, is suffering from Revesz Syndrome, nancial and the University of Virginia’s it’s time go home for a while but I will always treasure a rare condition involving the failure of the bone mar- my memories of Boston. From Ministerial visits to row to produce normal blood cells. In late August, his Darden School of Business found that immigration issues to St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, parents traveled with him to Boston, where physicians almost 70% of single parents and 45% at Children’s Hospital began assessing him for a life- from scorching summers to freezing winters, it’s been saving double lung transplant. of married parents were living without an adventure and I was very fortunate that there The family, which anticipates that life-saving surgery any coverage.1 were so many wise, wonderful, and helpful people could cost $1 million, or more, has returned to Ireland here with which to share it.” to await the results of the assessment. Fundraising efforts continues, with details on Face- Eire Society to host concert book at hopeforcian. Why don’t more by NE Irish Harp Orchestra young adults buy life The Eire Society of Boston will host a concert by Irish Heritage Certificate insurance? Shopping the New England Irish Harp Orchestra on Sun., Sept. program closed down 27, at the Irish Cultural Centre of New England, 200 The Irish government has discontinued its Certificate for life insurance may New Boston Drive, Canton. of Irish Heritage program. The certificate was intro- seem confusing, bor- The program will include traditional dance tunes, duced in 2011 to recognize descendants of previous songs, and airs arranged for multiple harps. Tickets generations of Irish citizens in an official way and to ing, or unnecessary. are $10 per person for ICCNE/ESB members and $12 give greater practical expression to the sense of Irish Yet when you have for non-members. identity felt by many around the world. kids, get married, buy a house or live a lifestyle funded by significant salaries, the need arises.

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In the August column we learned that both English and Irish have two types of conjunctions, compound where both sides of a sentence are equal EIRE and subjunction where one side – usually the first – is more important than the second part. English most often uses the word “that”. After the Irish subconjunction go you must use the “after particle” form of the verbs pub bí and is.

“He said that Peter was there.” Deir sé go raibh Peadar anseó. 795 Adams St. • Dorchester /JEER shey goh roh PEED-uhr uhn-show/ Now you can learn another subjunctive conjugations, the word for “President’s Choice” “when”. This does not require an “after particle” forms. These only apply to the verb bí and the copula Is. The “after particle” forms of the verb Bí are in the present (bhfuil,) and past (raibh.. Don’t forget that bhfuil is pro- nounced /weel/ or /veel/ with a “silent f” while raibh is /roh/. Serving Lunch & Dinner

The forms of Is (often abbreviated ‘S before a word beginning with vowel) is Is/’S, Ní, An?, and Nach? in the present and Ba/B’, Níor, Ar? and Nár? Every day, in the past. However, the form following go for both Is/’S and Ba/B’ is gur. All others are the same. 7 days a week Deir sí go gur muid ceart. /JEER she goh goor MOO-eej KERT/ “She said that we were correct.”

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