February 2013 Boston’s hometown VOL. 24 #2 journal of Irish culture. $1.50 Worldwide at All contents copyright © 2013 Boston Neighborhood News, Inc. bostonirish.com Adams accuser Price dead at 61; a central figure in BC tapes case She said Sinn Fein leader ordered ’73 bomb attacks By Shawn Pogatchnik Associated Press DUBLIN – An Irish Republican Army veteran who accused Sinn Fein party chief Gerry Adams of involve- ment in IRA killings and bombings was found dead in her home on Thurs., Jan. 24, according to police. Dolours Price, 61, was a member of the Provisional IRA unit that launched the very first car-bomb attacks on London in 1973. She later became one of Irish re- publicanism’s most trenchant critics of Adams and his conversion to political compromise in the British ter- ritory of Northern Ireland. Police said her death the night before at her home in Malahide, north of Dublin, was possibly the result of a drug overdose and foul The actor Stephen Rea, right center, walked behind the coffin of his ex-wife, Dolours Price, at her funeral play was not suspected. in west Belfast on Mon. Jan. 28. AP photo by Peter Morrison But it could have implica- tions as far away as the US Supreme Court. In interviews Price re- Obama goes Irish with chief of staff pick peatedly described Adams as her IRA commander in Catholic west Belfast Says Denis McDonough will ‘always give it to me straight’ in the early 1970s when By Nedra Pickler tion to that. McDonough the outlawed group was secretly abducting, execut- Dolours Price Associated Press reports that during their WASHINGTON – Pres- early married years, his ing, and burying more ident Barack Obama has parents lived in South than a dozen suspected informers in unmarked graves. picked a straight-talking Boston, where they had Adams rejects the charges. Irish-American with roots six of their boys. They Since 2011 Northern Ireland’s police have been in Minnesota and South then moved to Minnesota fighting a legal battle with Boston College in the USA Boston as his new chief where he and four other to secure audio-taped interviews with Price detailing of staff. Trusted White siblings were born. her IRA career to see if they contain evidence relating House foreign policy ad- Obama teased that to unsolved crimes, particularly the 1972 kidnapping viser Denis McDonough, the father of three and and murder of a Belfast widow, Jean McConville. a man the president de- former St. John’s Univer- Price allegedly admitted being the IRA member who scribed as a close friend, sity (Minnesota) varsity drove McConville across the Irish border to an IRA will succeed Jack Lew, football player “made up execution squad. whom the president has for modest talents with (Continued on page 15) selected as the next Trea- extraordinary dedication sury chief. and a high threshold for Saluting ``I know you’ll always pain.’’ give it to me straight, as Earlier in his career, Miss Madden only a friend can, telling McDonough worked as a One of BC High’s first me not only what I want President Barack Obama applauds after announc- foreign policy specialist ing last Friday that Deputy National Security Ad- female teachers, Mary to hear, but more impor- in Congress, including Madden, a Dorchester na- tantly, what I need to hear viser Denis McDonough, left, will become his next as a senior foreign policy chief of staff. AP photo by Carolyn Kaster tive, taught math at the to make the best possible adviser to former Senate school at all levels for three decisions on behalf of the tional security decisions of ban on openly gay service Majority Leader Tom decades in a character- American people,’’ Obama his presidency, including members Daschle, D-S.D., before building environment that, told McDonough as he the end of the war in Iraq, The president said that moving to Obama’s Sen- by her own admission, put made the appointment winding down the war in McDonough can be tough ate office. Obama joked a far greater focus on get- last month. Afghanistan, responses when he has to be, having that McDonough showed ting students into Heaven Obama said that Mc- to natural disasters in been raised in Minnesota him where the Senate than into Harvard. Donough has played a key Haiti and Japan and in a large family, although restrooms were and how Greg O’Brien profile, role in all the major na- repeal of the military’s there is a Boston connec- to get a bill approved. Page 8 Page 2 February 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com February 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 3 South Boston solon steps down; opportunity called, he explains

By Gintautas Dumcius cial election to replace US Hart said. Hart’s chief of News Editor Sen. John Kerry, who was staff, Jennifer Jackson, Massachusetts State confirmed as President will be joining the outgo- Sen. Jack Hart (D-South Obama’s secretary of state ing senator at Nelson Mul- Boston) stepped down on Jan. 29. A primary for lins, according to the firm. from his seat on Fri., Feb. the federal special election Hart previously served 1, saying he was joining will likely be held on April in the state House of Rep- Geraghty 30, with a general election resentatives, from 1997 a law firm the following Monday. to follow on June 25. to 2002. As part of his ASSOCIATES Hart, who has served as Hart, who was elected duties as South Boston’s the Senate’s assistant ma- in a 2002 special election state senator, he, like jority leader, has held the after South Boston’s Ste- Lynch and former Sen. PROPERTY MANAGERS First Suffolk District seat phen Lynch left the First Bill Bulger, has overseen since 2002, representing Suffolk Senate seat for the annual St. Patrick’s South Boston, Dorchester, Congress, said he “really Day breakfast. His Sen- Studio and 1-Bedroom Apartments and Mattapan. “It has had no intentions of going ate district is home to a been an honor and the anywhere.” But the law wide variety of potential Available in the desirable thrill of a lifetime, truly, firm Nelson Mullins, seek- candidates who could suc- to serve in the Senate over ing to expand its govern- ceed him, including state Cedar Grove section of Dorchester. the past 11 years,” Hart ment relations practice, Reps. Martin Walsh of told the Reporter this week approached him several Savin Hill, Linda Dorcena weeks ago, he said. Forry of Lower Mills, From left: West Roxbury Irish Social Club President Mary Maloney of West His departure sets up a Studios reasonably special election for later “As difficult as it is to Russell Holmes of Mat- Roxbury, Mike Hart of Braintree, and Kathleen Lundy of West Roxbury. leave the job that I love so tapan, and Nick Collins Bill Brett photo this year, and Hart specu- priced; lated that Beacon Hill much, it is an opportunity of South Boston. All are lawmakers could seek to and a new challenge and Democrats. 1-bedroom units; The Irish Social Club align its date with the spe- a new chapter in my life,” heat and hot water included. The group tour will fly Delta Airlines West Roxbury’s through JFK airport to Dublin, and is ready for the future return from Shannon. The itinerary Gormley organizing includes overnight hotel stays in Dublin, Short walk to the Red Line. encies, elected officials By Jackie Gentile integfral role in keeping Donegal, Athlone, Galway, Killarney, threw their weight behind Special to the BIR the club alive through his ‘Gathering Ireland and Shannon, and features full break- Serving breakfast, lunch the Social Club’s cause. Free off-street Parking. The Irish Social Club of the toughest of recent fasts and seven dinners. All 13 City Council mem- Boston is back and offer- times. Mulvey Jacobson 2013’ expedition Crystal Travel’s Kelly says the spe- & dinner every day of the week bers, including original ing a thousand welcomes described her as the “cata- cial package price of $2499 “is a terrific advocates President Steve In one of the first local commitments Washing Machines to members, guests, and lyst” who, upon hearing value,” and includes many extra features Murphy, Matt O’Malley, announced for “The Gathering Ireland Kitchen open nightly inquisitive minds alike at of the club’s closing, said, at no additional cost. A full color brochure and John Connolly, sup- 2013,” West Roxbury’s own “Lord Mayor” and Dryers in building. its West Roxbury home. “Over my dead body.” is available by calling Richie Gormley at ported the licensure, as Richie Gormley, says he is assembling a The club acquired a per- Founded in 1945 by 617-327-0100, or by contacting Crystal until 10:45 p.m. did state Rep. Ed Cop- Mary Concannon and group of friends and neighbors to visit manent liquor license the Emerald Isle this spring. Travel at 617-327-4242. Call Michael at 617-364-4000 early last month and so pinger and state Sen. inaugural president Nora Mike Rush. Hart, the Irish Social Organized with the assistance of Jim the 119 Park St. fixture, Kelly at Crystal Travel, the trip will GERARD’S ADAMS CORNER which earlier had ob- According to its web- Club’s first home was in Geraghty Associates, Inc. site, the club at one time Dudley Square’s Hiber- feature nine days and eight nights in The BIR would like tained an entertainment Ireland, and the group will travel by 772 - 776 Adams Street license, is once again open boasted 15,000 members. nian Hall where folks par- Property Managers Although the roster lists ticipated in ceili dances, chartered motor coach across the island. to hear about your Dorchester, MA 02124 for business. Gormley, P.O. Box 52, Readville, MA 02137-0052 Temporary operating some 800 names now, Irish step, and evenings Jacobson, who is also the with local musicians. a funeral di- ‘Gathering’ plans 617-282-6370 licenses had been keep- rector who Tel: 617-364-4000 Fax: 617-364-3157 ing the club afloat after president of the West Starting in 1962, the or- If you are planning to participate in Roxbury Business and ganization began offering owns his own ‘The Gathering 2013’ with a group or by its unexpected closure in ancestral April 2011, but the time- Professional Association, members charter flights yourself, the Irish Reporter staff invites is confident that the mem- to Ireland. home in Co. you to let us know so that we can pass the limited permits are very. Roscommon, Subscribe Today to When the liquor license bership will continue to After Hibernian Hall word to those of our readers who might build up further in due shut down in the 1960s, is a frequent want to consider the venture themselves. was okayed, that meant a traveler to green light for the serving time. the club’s next stop was Just send an e-mail to us at info@ Boston’s Own Hometown Newspaper She and other officers on Stanton Street in Ireland, and bostonirish.com. of all alcoholic beverages he says he seven days a week until 1 also want to find new Dorchester where it ways of preserving Irish stayed through 1975. has designed a.m., while the entertain- an all-inclu- ment permit allows the culture, music, art, and From then until 1980, history. Their ears are events were held at the sive trip to re- ‘Irish hearts for Haiti’ Boston Irish club to host musical acts connect Irish open and listening. “You West Roxbury American and allow television pro- Bostonians gramming, among other make this your club,” Ja- Legion Post until a perma- benefit set for April 7 cobson added. “So come nent home was found on with the land The 4th annual Irish Hearts for Haiti activities. of their an- The liquor license ap- and let us know what Park Street in May 1980. benefit dance has been scheduled for you’re thinking.” Renovations have al- cestors. Sun., April 7, from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the REPORTER plication made its way to “My Gorm- A Subscription to the Boston Irish Reporter the Alcohol and Beverages “We’ll be able to really ready begun with two of Hotel Marriott in Quincy. Honorees will get the club up and roll- the club’s four bathrooms ley ancestors include he late Larry Reynolds Sr., Pat Makes an Ideal Gift for Any Special Occasion. Control Commission via came over in ing for what it should be having been rehabbed. Richie Gormley (Doc) Walsh, and Steve & Mary Wessling. the West Roxbury commu- pre-Famine Why Not Order One Today for Yourself, nity, the City Council, the – an Irish organization,” The kitchen will be re- Entertainment will be by Comhaltas said club president Mary modeled and the ceiling days in the 1830s, and my mother’s fam- Ceoltóirí Éireann, Erin’s Melody, Noel or for That Special Irish Someone in Your Life? mayor’s office, the Senate, ily came here from Leitrim and settled the House, and, finally, Maloney. She and Kathi tiles and carpeting will Henry’s Irish Showband, and the Haley Sullivan, whose title Ja- be replaced. There is a in Roxbury,” he says. He has “gone School of Irish Dance We accept phone orders with your Visa or Mastercard. the governor’s office. This home’ annually for almost 40 years, was no mean feat. cobson gave as Volunteer new sound system and TV Irish Club Sponsors include: Braintree Extraordinaire, picked up already in place as well. and purchased the family’s Roscommon Irish Music Club, Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Call 617-436-1222 Or “I mean, this was a big homestead 25 years ago. deal!” said Mary Mulvey the license from City Hall. “It’s a blank slate,” Ja- Eireann, County Donegal Association, Fax this order form to 617-825-5516 It “means so very much,” cobson said. “The mindset “I built a new house across the road , County Mayo Association, Irish Cultural Jacobson, the club’s cor- and it has a great view,” said Gormley. responding secretary. Maloney said. “It has is there to be welcoming Centre of New England, Irish Social Order today, and we will send a gift card in your name. given us the opportunity and open and bringing in “It’s located about nine miles from Ath- Club of West Roxbury, The Sligo As- “Now we can breathe and lone, and I can see the Westport train Enclose $35.00 for each gift subscription. [plan to] make sure that to bring the Club up to new people and meshing sociation, and the Knights & Ladies of standard.” and melding with the com- from my home there.” Saint Finbarr something like this never Gormley is working with his pal and happens again.” Member and fund-rais- munity.” Suggested donation is $20 per person,. business associate Tom Dougherty in For more information, call 617-206-4943, Name______After seeing the kind ing leader Kathleen Daley For more information, Adams is another power- visit irishsocialclub.org/ organizing the trip, which will leave or visit friendsoftheorphans.org. “Landfall,” Lithograph by John Skelton (1924-2009) of outpouring that came Boston on June 5 and return June 13. Matted and framed in custom moulding from their local constitu- house who has played an about.html. Address______measuring 29” x 22” $195 Rita O’Connell; her life was a busy time City______State______Zip______Rita V. (Layden) Boston Harbor Project; a genealogy research; and a his wife Julie of Medfield, O’Connell of Duxbury, host with her family for the founding member of the Christopher Layden and Gift from______formerly of West Roxbury, Cape Cod Irish Children’s Randolph Ski Club, North his wife Jennifer of West- died on New Year’s Eve at Program, which brought Conway, New Hampshire. wood, David Layden of the South Shore Hospital together children from both She also coordinated and Canton; dear great-aunt of Charge to Visa______Art of Ireland in South Weymouth. She Catholic and Protestant ran the St. Francis House Joseph IV, James, Kathryn, was 72. traditions for an extended annual fund raising dance Hannah and Matthew; de- 229 Lincoln Street (Rt. 3A) A graduate of North- summer visit in the United and was a member of the voted sister-in-law of Mary ______Mastercard eastern University, Mrs. States. Irish Social Club in West O’Connell Manning and her Hingham, Massachusetts, 02043 O’Connell was a busy wom- In addition, she was a Roxbury. husband Joseph of Cape an all her life: She was a member of the Holy Family Rita was the beloved Cod and daughter of the late 781-749-0555 manager of Capital Pro- Parish Choir in Duxbury wife of Dr. William T. Joseph T. Layden, Sr. and Card # ______curements at the MBTA; a for 20 years; a member of O’Connell; loving sister of Lillian (Winters) Layden. Hours: Tues. - Sat. 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., Sunday noon - 5:00 pm founding member of both the Knights and Ladies of Joseph Layden, Jr. and Her funeral Mass was the Irish Cultural Centre St. Finbarr, County Cork his wife Mary Ann of West- said at the Holy Family Exp______email: [email protected] and its library in Canton, Club; a volunteer for the wood; dear aunt of Caro- Church, with interment Mass.; co-chairperson of the Mass Tiara Association line Layden of Westwood, following at Saint Joseph’s www.aisling-gallery.com Deer Island Irish Memorial- with her expertise in Irish Joseph Layden III and Cemetery in West Roxbury. Rita V. (Layden) O’Connell Page 4 February 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com February 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 5 Publisher’s Notebook Commentary Point of View Let us hope In 2012, the Irish American Partnership The man from Cork brought the Babe to Boston By Peter F. Stevens Over seventeen major-league on immigration BIR Staff ‘Patsy’ Donovan boasted Hall of seasons, Donovan racked up raised $692,730 to support its mission “What’s Broken Can Be 2,246 hits, 1,318 runs, and 736 “We need Congress to act on a comprehensive ap- Fixed,” the full-page Red Sox ad Fame credentials:player, manager, RBI in 1821 games, with 207 proach that finally deals with the 11 million undocu- By Joe Leary two events honoring An Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Ire- blares. To launch that Fenway doubles and 75 triples. He hit mented immigrants who are in this country right now. Special to the BIR land’s Prime Minister, one here in Boston and one fix, the team’s brass has turned scout over a 64-year baseball career but 16 homers, but stole 518 “The good news is that – for the first time in many Five Irish universities, ninety-four primary schools in Chicago. More than 700 Partnership supporters to an old friend with a Hibernian bases and had a career batting years – Republicans and Democrats seem ready to in the Republic, fifteen primary and secondary schools attended the events. surname. Tito’s erstwhile pitch- was the second of Jeremiah and Senators when he was there), average of .313. He was also one tackle this problem together. Members of both par- in Northern Ireland, and twelve community groups “The Irish American Partnership has a great track ing coach, John Farrell, pried Nora Donovan’s seven children. he landed with the Pittsburgh of the best right fielders of his ties, in both chambers, are actively throughout Ireland received support from the Irish record in supporting worthy causes in Ireland,” said loose from his managerial stint He was three when his family Pirates, batting .300 or better day, gunning down 30 baserun- Patsy Donovan. working on a solution. And yester- American Partnership in 2012 – a total of 126 schools Kenny, “particularly in the area of education. I thank in Toronto, is hardly the first emigrated to Lawrence, Mas- for the next six years and doing ners in 1902. Library of Congress photo day, a bi-partisan group of sena- and organizations benefitting the members of the Partnership for everything they do Sox manager with Irish roots. sachusetts. As with many of the double duty as the team’s player- After disastrous manag- tors announced their principles from Irish America’s love of their to promote and support the great connection between Among the many with ancestry Irish children there, to help his manager in 1897 and 1899, earn- ing stops in Washington and suaded Sox owner Joseph Lan- for comprehensive immigration heritage. Ireland and the United States.” from the old sod, Jimmy Col- family survive, he went to work ing the label “most successful Brooklyn with subpar players, nin to sign Ruth “at any price.” reform, which are very much in Revenue for 2012 – $692,730 – Working closely with St. Patrick’s Teaching College lins guided the club (then the right from elementary school to Irish-born major leaguer” by the Patsy, always hardnosed and David Jones writes: “Donovan line with the principles I’ve pro- was up 15 percent over 2011 with in Dublin and Mary Immaculate Teaching College in Boston Americans) to its first the hardscrabble city’s cotton turn of the 20th century. competitive, yearned for “the never claimed to have discovered posed and campaigned on for the 89 percent spent on the Partner- Limerick, the Partnership has for many years funded World Series victory in 1903; mills. Young Patsy, however, Shipped to St. Louis, he led opportunity of handling a club Ruth—the young lefthander was last few years. At this moment, it ship’s mission in Ireland. science teaching research and science teacher training Bill Carrigan led Sox squads to had one chance to escape a life the league with 45 stolen bases where I would have free rein too talented for his exploits to go looks like there’s a genuine desire Says Mary Sugrue McAleer, courses in Western Ireland’s rural primary schools. Fall Classic titles in 1915-16; of endless hours and scanty in the 1900 season and served and financial backing to secure unnoticed.” Donovan, however, to get this done soon. And that’s Executive Director of the Partner- New 2013 programs have been funded and already and Hall of Famer Joe Cronin wages in the mills. On the as player-manager from 1901- talent.” was the man who brought the very encouraging.” ship: “This was a very successful begun in Mayo, and more will begin shortly in Limerick. took his turn in the dugout, too. baseball field, he was a fleet- 03. The baseball writer David He would get his chance with Babe to Boston. – President Obama, announcing his plan for reform- year for our organization. Our focus The Partnership Northern Ireland programs will None, however, literally hailed footed outfielder, base-stealer, Jones notes: “In a decade that the Red Sox. After taking a In a baseball career that ing the immigration laws, January 29, 2013 on education, specifically science continue supporting transitional schools in the pro- from the Emerald Isle except and hitter who first grabbed was infamous for rough play and job as a Boston scout in 1909, spanned 64 years, Donovan The national discussion over foreign nationals who Joe Leary education, was welcome in Ireland cess of moving toward serving all communities. The one – Patrick Joseph “Patsy” scouts’ attention in 1886 when rowdyism, Donovan was most he was hired to manage the went on to manage several mi- live and work here without proper legal documents has and endorsed enthusiastically by Partnership is a supporter of the Ulster American Folk Donovan. he starred with the Lawrence admired for his quiet dignity team in 1910 and 1911 and nor league teams and coached at last been brought into the public arena for political our national membership.” Park in Omagh, Northern Ireland, and several other Donovan only managed the club in the professional New and work ethic.” success was minimal with that at Andover’s Phillips Academy, debate in Washington. In August, speaking to members of the Partnership’s community programs. Sox for two seasons, 1910-11, England League. Standing 5’11” Leading the Cardinals to 159-147 record. Although he where he honed the talents of It is an issue that for too long has been delayed, board of directors meeting in Dublin, Ireland’s Minister Many donors take advantage of the Partnership’s after a splendid playing career and weighing 175 pounds in his a surprising 76-64 record in was replaced by Jake Stahl in a slick-fielding first baseman resulting in a two-tiered standard of living for many of Education Ruairi Quinn said, “We applaud what you program encouraging supporters to select the school that still has many baseball buffs prime, lefthanded at the plate 1901, hopes were high for the 1911, the front office respected named George Herbert Walker of our neighbors. are doing. Please let your members know that we need or area in Ireland they would like to assist. In most pushing him to the Veteran’s and in the field, Donovan was not next year as Donovan won high Donovan both as a man and as Bush. Donovan died on Christ- In the Boston neighborhoods of Dorchester and Mat- your help and we sincerely appreciate your support for cases, the institution or area selected is important to Committee as a “Deadball Era” a slugger even by Deadball Era marks for “treating his players a judge of talent and asked him mas Day 1953 at the age of 88 tapan, there are scores of residents who emigrated to Irish education.” the family. A relative may have emigrated from the star worthy of enshrinement in standards, but his abilities as honestly and fairly.” Then, all of to stay on as a scout. He agreed, (90, according to various sources our shores in recent years and continue to reside here The Partnership is a Boston headquartered 501C3 area, perhaps the family name is located there, or Cooperstown. He compiled a a slap-hitter proved prodigious. the team’s best players – except having come to consider Boston claiming that he fudged his age without legal authority. Some of them are referred to as charity dedicated to organizing Irish America on behalf maybe a mother or father went to that very school. The mediocre 159-147 record at the So, too, did his strong, accurate Donovan – jumped to the new his hometown. In 1910, he had as he started his playing career) “illegals,” but the more proper term is “undocumented,” of Ireland and our Irish heritage. The organization, Partnership forwards the funds, mentioning the donor’s team’s helm and an overall .438 arm and his base-swiping, 518 American League, signing with married another Lawrence in Lawrence and was buried for they are here without proper documentation. with a very small staff – one full-time and two part- generosity and requesting that an acknowledgement winning percentage including by his career’s end. the cross-town Browns. Gutted native, Teresa Mahoney, with there in St. Mary’s Cemetery. Calling them illegal is a derisive term that works time employees - draws support from throughout the be returned to Partnership offices, which, in turn, send managerial stops in St. Louis, To the delight of his family by the defections, the Cardinals whom he had three sons and a Former President Bush sup- to dehumanize and portray them as criminals. Truth United States and is particularly active in the Boston, the acknowledgement to the donor. Washington, and Brooklyn, and friends in Lawrence, his big- fell apart. In 1903, the team daughter. His decision was one ported a push to try to get his old is, most are persons who traveled here to our country Chicago, Albany, and Washington D.C. areas. The This is a satisfying way to connect with Ireland and hardly Hall of Fame stuff. As a league debut came in 1890 with finished 43-94, 46 ½ games out that would help bring Babe Ruth coach into the Hall of Fame in on US State Department-issued non-immigrant visas Partnership holds many events in these cities including has proven to be very popular. In 2012 nearly 30 schools scout, though, he had few peers, the National League’s Boston of first place; and Donovan was to the Sox. 2001, writing of his admiration allowing short term visits, for example as students or golf tournaments in Chicago, Albany, and Newport, were selected by Partnership donors. with one sportswriter lauding Beaneaters. His first stint in jettisoned by the front office. In 1914, Donovan the scout for “Patrick J. Donovan…a man tourists, and then made a decision to remain here. Rhode Island. The success of the Irish American Partnership is him as an “excellent judge of the Hub ended quickly when he Since he was pulling down an was dazzled by the pitching and of the highest character.” When their visas expired they become classified as There are eleven members of the board of direc- further affirmation of the heartfelt regard both Irish the ball player in the raw.” It’s was moved halfway through the $8,800 salary that made him the batting talents of Ruth, who was Donovan still hasn’t made it “overstays,” and fell into an anonymous netherworld. tors, from five different states and froim Dublin. For and Irish Americans have for Ireland. hard to argue that compliment – season to the powerhouse Brook- game’s highest-paid player, the playing for the minor-league into Cooperstown, even though Prior to 1996, overstaying a visa was treated as more extensive details see the Partnership website, because of Patsy Donovan, Babe lyn Bridegrooms, who went on to bosses found it an easy decision Baltimore Orioles. Drawing on he was one of the game’s best a relatively minor civil offense. If found to be in the irishap.org. Joe Leary is CEO and president of the Irish American Ruth and future Hall of Fame win it all, the only time he ever to make. his friendship with a Xaverian players at the turn of the cen- country without legal status, they could be deported, Last year, the Partnership was privileged to hold Partnership. pitcher Ernie Shore ended up played for a championship team. Donovan’s career was winding Brother who had coached Ruth tury. He would likely have pay a fine, and still apply to reenter the US. But that playing on the Fenway diamond. After stints with the Louisville down; his last full season on the at St. Mary’s Industrial School enjoyed the fact that in the Irish year Congress passed an imigration reform act impos- Born in Queenstown, County Colonels and the Washington diamond was in 1904 as player- for Boys, Patsy persuaded Ruth Baseball League, the highest ing harsh new penalties, including barring a return to Cork, on March 16, 1865, Patsy Statesmen (they became the manager with the Senators. that Boston would be a good fit prize is “The Patsy Donovan the US for as many as ten years, and those measures After we take our last at-bats, for him, and then in turn per- Batting Champion Award.” remain in force today. The president’s plan for immigration reform an- nounced this week includes four main goals: Continu- is that really the end of the game? ing to strengthen border security, cracking down on employers hiring undocumented workers, streamlining By James W. Dolan Some say that faith is a denial of reason, a weakness legal immigration; and enabling such persons to earn Special to the Reporter or opiate through which believers try to escape reality. citizenship. A close friend of mine died recently. He had been sick They are partly right; faith and hope are acknowledg- It has been eight years since the late Sen. Ted Ken- for a while so it did not come as a complete surprise. ments of something self-evident: that we are weak and nedy and Sen. John McCain authored the McCain- As we aged, we would often talk of the inevitability dependent creatures longing for strength, purpose, and Kennedy bill, and six years since the Secure Borders, of death and the importance of being prepared for it. meaning that can only be found in God. Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Reform Act of We joked we were in life’s on-deck circle, waiting As my friend rounded first in his last at-bat, I hope 2007 was introduced. Those measures and others had with others to be called to he saw a light in the outfield toward which he ran. As substantial support from Democrats and Republicans bat. From this at-bat nobody he got closer, the light enveloped him in a comforting alike, including President George W. Bush, Sen. Harry returns. You can only hope cloud of peace and love. In the distance he could see Reid, Sen. Lindsey Graham and other senators, the your turn in the batter’s box his parents and friends long since passed. so-called “Gang of 12.” will be delayed. I hope that he was filled with joy and fulfillment and Each time, compromises were made. And each time, It is dark. Only the plate the last thing he wanted to do was to return to life’s all proposals failed. is illuminated. He steps dugout. I hope he is in a better place and that one day This week, a new coalition of senators made known into the batter’s box. A few we will meet again and share a drink and a laugh in a their commitment to move ahead this year with im- practice swings and he’s heavenly tavern somewhere down the road. migration reform. Coming just one day before the ready. From out of the dark- If it is weakness to lean on that hope, than weak I president unveiled his proposals before an audience in ness comes the first pitch. am, and glad of it. If I’m right, hallelujah! If I’m wrong, Texas, there’s the hope that a bipartisan resolution to He swings and launches I’ll never know. these issues can be realized in this Congress. the sphere into the night. James W. Dolan is a retired Dorchester District This could be the time when the bickering comes to Dropping the bat, he heads Court judge who now practices law. an end and a realistic resolution to immigration reform James W. Dolan for first base and disappears becomes a reality. Let us hope. into the blackness. But let’s remember to not hold our breath. We speculated on what, if anything, lay beyond the last out. I argued that the existence of another real- Boston Irish – Ed Forry ity is no more incredible than the one we now occupy. A pageant for the ages That we exist at all is implausible, so why is it so REPORTER The inauguration of an American president is always inconceivable that existence in some other form and an impressive and moving event, and last month’s in some other place is fantasy? 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King’s 1963 “I have a dream” speech on accident generating an infinite series of coincidences – is William P. Forry, Contributing Editor the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and the inaugural more difficult for me to grasp than the more plausible of Barrack Obama. concept of intelligent design. Peter F. Stevens, Contributing Editor Let it be said, too, that Mr. Obama’s selection of If the universe, and our existence in it, is the product News Room: (617) 436-1222 Delaware’s Joe Biden to serve as his vice president of some complex and mysterious plan, the author of has proven to be an inspired choice. Back in Septem- that plan may have a second phase. If that is beyond Ads : (617) 436-1222 ber 2008, on a campaign stop in Boston, then-Senator belief, so, too, is this reality – yet we exist. 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Page 6 February 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com February 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 7 Boston Irish Reporter’s Here & There Immigration Q & A Irish International Immigrant Center What to know about An agency accredited by US Department of Justice By Bill O’Donnell leaders in the North and was proud to stand with her Gerry has re-enlisted for three more years as Sinn Irish Journalists Had Lance’s Number – While as she helped change the face of Ireland and history.” Fein party leader. That will bring him a few years the big media hotshots slavishly followed the exploits of “Rest in peace, my friend. You helped provide hope closer to 2020, the lads’ new “to do” date on a unity a green card interview and opportunity for thousands of people.” referendum. Meanwhile Gerry has 100 Franklin Street, Boston, MA 02110 professional cyclist Lance Armstrong, writing glow- Q. I applied to US Citizenship and Immigration ing tributes of the seven-time Tour de France winner, Another friend and supporter is Frank Costello, been taken to the woodshed by a few malcontents Telephone (617) 542-7654 Fax (617) 542-7655 an economic consultant now living and working out who didn’t care for his expensive trip to the States Services (USCIS) for lawful permanent resident two Irish journalists consistently wrote the truth. For (green card) status, based on my marriage to a US of Belfast. He offered the following comment on Mrs. for some surgery while the punters without a party to years, Paul Kimmage and David Walsh chronicled citizen. Now we have received a notice telling us to Website:iiicenter.org Email: [email protected] with growing skepticism Armstrong’s claims, debunk- McCormack’s passing: “Inez was one of the best people their name are left to languish on some long-forgotten in the effort for fair employment — stalwart, brave, appear for an interview. What does this involve? ing the success of the racing phenomenon and calling healthcare waiting list. In cases where the application for permanent relentless, and true to the courage of her convictions. A. into question the rider’s British PM Stonewalls on Finucane Open In- residence is based on marriage to a US citizen, the She called people into action. Without her there would Join Us for the 15th “Taste of Ireland” drug-free claims. Kim- quiry – Prime Minister David Cameron has some main purpose of the interview is to give a USCIS mage has spent at least a have been no fair employment Act and likewise, the fresh problems on his agenda such as escaping from officer an opportunity to meet with the husband and dozen years doubting Arm- MacBride campaign would have been minus a main the European Union, but he still hasn’t come through wife and determine whether the marriage relationship Celebration at the Cape Cod Irish Village strong’s assurances that signatory and advocate.” with a public investigation of the Patrick Finucane is genuine. In the past, the two normally were inter- his high profile victories A Portrait Of Rural Ireland – An updated sta- assassination in1989 that was long ago promised by viewed together from the start. Now, however, the US Massachusetts has be- The event begins at 1 p.m., nesses and art galleries, tion about accommoda- were accomplished with- tistical picture of the Irish Republic reflects trends the British. The most recent inquiry into the Belfast citizen petitioner will first be interviewed without the come home to millions of preceded by a free immi- and gift certificates to tion, please contact the out using PEDs or similar and threads of a changing but relatively stable Irish lawyer’s murder applicant spouse (but accompanied by the attorney if Irish immigrants through- gration and citizenship local restaurants. “This Cape Cod Irish Village performance-enhancing countryside. For instance, Co. Cork has the most was conducted by a British government-appointed the couple has legal representation). Then the green out its long history and advice clinic from 10:30 is a brilliant occasion for at 508-771-0100, or visit drugs. Kimmage, a former farms (14,222), Co. Dublin the least (798). Some 40 Queen’s Counsel and although a biting indictment of card applicant will be asked to join the interview with them came an abun- a.m. to 12:30 p.m. It is once families,” Cugno adds, their website, at capecod- Tour de France rider from percent of the national farm acreage can be found loyalist collaboration in Finucane’s death, it was not The interviews generally are quite brief, and the dance of traditional Irish again being hosted by the and a “perfect way to get irishvillage.com. Dublin, dismissed the re- in five counties: Cork, Galway, Mayo, Donegal, and open and the family still awaits justice. inquiry into the couple’s marriage typically consists dishes and desserts. To Cape Cod Irish Village in everyone out of the house cent Oprah TV interview as Kerry. In 2010, Ireland had 139,860 farms, represent- Judges and other British appointed agents of the of two main parts. celebrate the restaurants South Yarmouth. Partici- on a winter Sunday.” Citizenship Class “soft,” saying that a tougher ing an 18 percent decrease since 1991. While Ireland crown have not covered themselves with glory in run- The officer will likely ask the couple some questions that bring this Old Coun- pating restaurants have Mark your calendar for begins Feb. 7… there’s one-on-one by Oprah would has seen a decline in the number of farms, their size ning down the details and conspiracies involving the try taste to our tables, donated their efforts and Feb. 10 for what promises still time to register! Bill O’Donnell that pertain to the marriage relationship. The ques- have benefitted the sport. has increased. The average Irish farm is 33 hectares, death of innocent nationalists. tions can seem quite trivial, but they are designed to please join us at the 15th all proceeds will benefit to be a great afternoon The next class will run Armstrong has also been or 80 acres. This is over 50 percent larger than the The following is an astonishing statement made by elicit information that would be known to people who Annual “Taste of Ireland” the Irish International of food, music, and craic; for six weeks on Thurs- a target for over a decade of the Kilkenny-born Walsh, average in 1991. leading British Judge Lord Denning on the appeal really are living together as husband and wife. Inter- event on Sun., Feb. 10. Immigrant Center. maybe think about mak- days beginning Feb. 7. who has finally been vindicated after Armstrong’s Beef farming remains the dominant force in Ireland in 1980 of the conviction of the Birmingham Six, later viewing officers have been known to ask, for example, For a flat entry fee of While the food is the ing a weekend of it by stay- Afternoon sessions run admission that he was a regular drug user. Walsh where 6.6 million cattle were spread across 111,000 found innocent and freed after years in a British prison: who normally gets out of bed first in the morning, what $15, attendees will have main attraction for most ing at the Cape Cod Irish from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. and explained the Armstrong mystique by saying, “People farms. Co. Cork has 15 percent of the cattle. Beef “If the six men win, it will mean that the police were side of the bed the alarm clock is located on, and what the opportunity to sample people, the event is really Village, which is offering evenings from 6 p.m. to 8 gave Armstrong a latitude they don’t give their best production accounts for 55 percent of farms. There guilty of perjury, that they were guilty of violence brand of toothpaste is used. People in a real relationship Irish dishes from a wide a celebration of Irish cul- special package rates! p.m. Prepare for the exam; friends. Why? Because he’s powerful. Because he’s are 4.7 million sheep in Ireland, in 32,000 farms with and threats, that the confessions were involuntary and living together would know the answers to such range of Cape Cod area ture. “The afternoon will For more information receive assistance with rich. I was a bit of a crusader...trying to convince them the average flock of 148. The distribution of sheep is and were improperly admitted in evidence and that questions right away. Those in a sham marriage, on restaurants. Whether you be packed,” Ann Marie on the Taste of Ireland the ten-page US Citizen- that Armstrong was a fraud.” Walsh has recently found mostly in the west, in Counties Galway, Mayo, the convictions were erroneous. That would mean the the other hand, would be likely to react in a way that consider yourself a con- Cugno of the IIIC says, event, please contact Ann ship application; and ask been named Sports Journalist of the Year in Britain. Roscommon, Kerry, and Donegal. Home Secretary would either have to recommend they would be suspicious to an experienced interviewer. noisseur of Irish specialty and will feature live Irish Marie Cugno at 617-542- any questions you might Obama May Join JFK Wexford Tribute – Presi- Scoundrel Time For The Old Crowd – Once be pardoned or would have to remit the case to the Second, the officer will likely ask the couple what breads, seafood dishes, music, dancing, and a wide 7654, Ext. 32, or by send- have about the process. To dent Barack Obama is firmly scheduled to attend again (and no, it’s not a Mt. Everest thing) we take Court of Appeal. This is such an appalling vista that documentary evidence of the marriage relationship comfort food classics, range of activities for kids. ing an e-mail to her at learn more about the class this year’s G8 summit of world leaders on June 17 a closer peek at the perks & privileges of Ireland’s every sensible person in the land would say ‘It cannot they have with them, and then spend some time soups, or desserts, you’ll Raffle prizes include items [email protected]. or to register, please call and 18 on Lough Erne in County Fermanagh, North- ruling class, to wit: Bertie Ahern. I thought he was be right that these actions should go any further.’ ” examining it. The types of evidence will vary from have plenty to choose from. donated by local busi- For bookings and informa- 617-542-7654. ern Ireland. Four days later, in Dunganstown/New lying low and consoling himself at the loss of his Big couple to couple. Relevant documents would include Ross, Wexford, a few hundred miles south of the G8 Euro status at the speakers bureau after they decided RANDOM THOUGHTS any of the following: conference, there will be a dramatic 50th anniversary to move on, or given that he had to finally hand over The flag protests by unionists in the North and 1. Birth certificates of children born of the relation- Matters Of Substance celebration there of President Kennedy’s nostalgic his longtime Fianna Fail hideaway on the North side. other opportunists have cost Belfast retailers mil- ship, indicating that the applicant and spouse are the June 1963 visit to Ireland. The question that is be- Yes, I sensed he was back to watching his pennies. lions of euros and are sending a wretched message to parents. ing considered now by White House officials and the The former taoiseach’s latest headbanger is his de- prospective businesses about the North’s Instability. 2. Copies of federal and state tax returns with the ‘You don’t have to hit to hurt’ American embassy in Dublin some four months before cision to reverse his earlier pledge to give back some … Ireland is finally following Europe’s example and “married filing jointly” filing status. the home or in our close flags that someone is in behavior detailed here, the G8 in Fermanagh is whether it might be possible of his bloated pension (over $200,000 per annum) as issuing plastic drivers licenses. … An Irish trade 3. Evidence of joint checking, savings, or other ac- relationships is usually an abusive relationship. please know there is help, for the opresident and his retinue to add some days to some other former ministers have union is mounting a legal offensive against Waterford counts or assets (CDs, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, hidden, not just by hiding Sometimes we believe 24 hours a day, 7 days a the Irish trip to airlift Obama to Wexford in the Irish done. No, shorn of his car and driver, no big speaker Crystal for making its glassware abroad and not in retirement funds, etc.), or joint obligations on loans. bruises and such but by we deserve to be spoken week: SafeLink 1-877- southeast to join in the Kennedy event on June 22. bureau checks, and other humbling stumbles, the vet- Ireland. … The Brits are doing it again. They have 4. An apartment lease or a letter from the landlord other abusive behaviors to this way; other times 785-2020 or National DV One young Democratic president and his voyage eran of the Celtic Tiger era is keeping every farthing taken possession of the nationality of Daniel Day- indicating that both spouses live at the apartment or that can be harder to see. we are so used to being Hotline at 1−800−799− home to the land of his ancestors half a century ago of his pension. One never knows with the expenses of Lewis, who carries an Irish passport and lives in copies of rent receipts showing both parties’ names. What does abuse look treated like this, we don’t SAFE(7233). If you are not could be symbolically joined by another young Demo- a new office to replace the Fianna Fail digs and buy- Ireland. … The golfer Rory McIlroy of the Number 6. If the couple own a house or condominium, deeds like? Jane Doe Inc. offers know it’s not okay. There sure and still have ques- cratic president to mark the historic occasion of the ing a round for the boys in the back room, when that One world ranking has signed with Nike for ten years and mortgage and insurance documents showing joint supportive programs and are other blocks to getting tions, please call Danielle Irish government-sponsored commemoration of John stunning state payoff will come in handy. and $200 million. … Big question for former US Sen. tenancy and obligation. trainings to help us an- the help that you need: at the IIIC, in complete F. Kennedy’s visit. As my old friend, Boston radio’s late and lamented Scott Brown: Does he run for governor after Deval 7. Credit cards showing both spouses’ names on swer this question. They If you are a lesbian/gay/ confidence and without The possibility that President Obama could do a Jerry Williams said so often of the fat cats who Patrick concludes his second term or in this year’s the accounts. suggest that while there transgendered person, judgment: 617-542-7654, quick side trip to Moneygall following the G8 summit squirreled it away in the good times: “They’ll never special to succeed John Kerry? … The big, bad boys 8. Letter from an employer showing a change in is no typical profile of a you may be afraid to get Ext. 14, for a free consul- and then move onto Kennedy country in Wexford is run a dinner for him.” But Bertie, maybe! described as ‘dissidents” (but breakaway IRA thugs) records to reflect the spouse’s new marital status or domestic violence situa- help because people may tation and to explore your not out of the question. It is reported that first lady Pats Beat Writers Knew The Score – As a former have been warning the Irish serving in the British showing designation of the spouse as the person to tion, there are common learn about your sexual options. Change is always Michelle Obama is interested in a return to Mon- New England Patriots season ticket holder and 40- military and PSNI members that they are targets. be notified in event of accident, sickness, or other Danielle Owen dynamics that may be orientation; possible, let us help. eygall. Stay tuned. year armchair rooter, I never remember seeing more Try them and fry them, or throw away the key. … emergency. present either individu- If you are physically/ John Cullinane & The Ulster University Peace baffling, bizarre pro picks on the Pats-Ravens game A brewing medical disaster is in the offing for young 9. Evidence of life insurance policies where one spouse ally or in combination with mentally challenged or A Message is designated as the other’s beneficiary. By Danielle Owen Forum – Entrepreneur and Irish benefactor John than those that were made by the Boston Globe writ- Irish women smokers, with lung cancer passing breast each other: elderly, you may depend for Irish Carers ers who cover the Pats full time. The predictions by cancer as a leading cause of death. 10. Evidence of a medical or health insurance plan Many women and men Cullinane (founder of Cullinet, the Friends of Belfast, have been referred to me Isolation from family or on your abuser to care for IIIC staff are very aware and other associations too numerous to name) will be the top four beat writers on that playoff game made Is Facebook on your side? The social network’s that has coverage for the spouse. friends; you. You may not have 11. Evidence of communication between the parties seeking support for de- of the pressure that many heading to Derry in May for the Ulster University on the Friday before the Sunday evening game all printed terms of service and data use run to 14,000 Name-calling, put- other people to help you; of our Irish carers are ex- favored the Baltimore Ravens. Each of the Globe’s words. Do you know what you signed onto? Inciden- during their relationship, including letters, birthday pression, anxiety and/or Peace Forum. John, who has made Ireland, north for help with an addiction. downs, ridicule, and emo- If you are a male vic- periencing at the moment and south, his special concern, hopes to lay a wreath four seasoned football writers (forget the points) all tally, Facebook’s Irish operations had revenue of one and holiday cards, telephone records, e-mails, and tional abuse; tim of abuse, you may be other correspondences addressed to the parties. Sometimes during ses- in the Greater Boston on his uncle’s ship, the SS Laurentic that hit a mine picked the nine-point favored Pats to lose to Baltimore. billion euros but paid taxes of only 3 million euros. If Manipulation of chil- ashamed and scared that area. If you are concerned, And that they did, by a not-close 15 points to end New my math is right that’s three-tenths of one percent. 12. A religious marriage certificate if the couple was sions we come to realize off Buncrana in the First World War. John’s uncle, that a person is depressed, dren or other family mem- no one will believe you; stressed, or need someone his mother’s brother, Walter Fitzgerald was from England’s season. … Are the shameless Republicans red-faced for call- married in a religious ceremony. bers; If you are from another 13. Copies of gas, electric, telephone, cable, and other anxious, not sleeping, or to chat to, please call Dunmore East in Co. Waterford, one of the beauty The ultimately accurate selections were made by the ing Hillary Clinton a phony victim of “Benghazi Hurt or abuse of pets; country, you may be afraid Danielle Owen at 617-542- four writers, Greg Bedard, Shalise Manza Young, Flu” when she actually had a serious blood clot near utility bills showing both parties’ names (or at least is using alcohol or drugs spots of southeast Ireland. to cope with the stress Withholding medica- of being deported. 7654, Ext 14, or send an Irish Boxing Champ In One Fight ‘Comeback’ Christopher Gasper, and Jim McBride. All first her brain. Yes, fellows and gals, keep listening to the same mailing address). tion or assistance for 14. Evidence of joint ownership of an automobile or anxiety related to e-mail to dowen@iicenter. – Steve Collins, 48, the Irish-born double champion rate football people, especially Bedard. Rush and his cadre of radio destroyers. … Michael people with disabilities/ If you recognize any org. We are here for you, Scott Thurston (whom I do not know) was the fifth (title, insurance, registration). (If one spouse owns their partner’s abusive who began his career in Boston, is soon to meet Ameri- O’Leary and his Ryanair sometimes have low prices behavior towards them. elders; of the blocks described and want to help as we can. selector, and he picked the Pats to win. the car, at least it could be shown that the other is can boxing legend Roy Jones Jr (but there are fees) and a recent poll shows passengers They may not be believed Physical violence, above or any of the abusive If I were a little less lazy, I would pull the Pats covered as a driver on the insurance policy.) in a single-bout grudge match in Dublin or Lon- who fly the short-haul airline ranked Ryanair at the because their families or threats of, or acts of ho- coverage in the days leading up to the game just to 15. Evidence of vacations and other trips taken don. Collins claims that Jones avoided him during bottom in satisfaction. ...Billionaire Bill Gates was friends say “Well, you’re micide; his 15-year career and even at age 48, he is eager to see if the writers maintained their objectivity in their in Ireland recently and had nice things to say about together, including airline tickets and hotel bills. Painful or forced sex; 16. Evidence of major purchases made together, an addict/alcoholic; you’re face Jones in the ring. Collins was a popular figure in pre-game stories. I’d guess they did. the country’s commitment to charity and he liked just blaming your partner Monitoring activity like and around Boston in the early ‘80s and at home in How Are They Doing, Gerry & Sinn Fein – Ireland’s mid-range recovery plan. … Primate of All such as computers, televisions, major appliances, etc., reading e-mails, texts, including any financing documents. to justify your problem!” Ireland where he won 26 Irish titles in three weight Turning our attention to the political and judicial Ireland Cardinal Sean Brady has a new keeper sent Certainly, blaming is Facebook posts; divisions. He turned professional in 1986 and was the scraps from our Republican brethren, there are de- by the Vatican to help him in his planned departure. 17. Photographs that show both spouses together, Financial exploitation and with family and friends. These can be taken at the used by addicts, but if WBO’s middleweight and super middleweight world velopments. First off, Sinn Fein is upset about CNN’s The new coadjutor and successor-in-waiting is Mon- domestic violence is in- by stealing money, hurt- champion. The former champion, who since his retire- World Report describing Gerry Adams as “a former signor Eamon Martin. … Junior Paisley, sprig of wedding, at other functions or events, and throughout ing property or interfering their relationship. volved, recovery is es- ment has appeared in several movies and television IRA para-military commander.” Maybe CNN got him Reverend Ian, is a fierce defender of the monarchy pecially more difficult with work/ school; shows, now lives in St. Albans, England, where he mixed up with Martin McGuinness, who indeed fits and the Church of Ireland as a key player in the royal Occasionally the officer also will ask about the af- Jealousy and posses- fidavit of support (Form I-864) filed by the US citizen when you are anxious awaits one last match with the elusive Roy Jones. the description. Gerry’s party passed on any criticism succession redo underway, but Junior must have for- and in constant fear. And siveness; Inez McCormack, Legendary Irish Labor of CNN for using the less-onerous label, “The leading gotten that he is a Presbyterian. … After several failed spouse or a joint sponsor. If tax returns have been These behaviors and filed since the original application was submitted, it you don’t have to hit to Leader, Is Dead – One of Ireland’s premier labor Catholic politician in Northern Ireland.” Apparently burials for Aussie outlaw Ned Kelley, his family has hurt someone. Abuse in experiences are referred leaders and human rights activists has died after a the retirement of John Hume freed up that designa- finally received his remains and he will be interred is a good idea to have them at the interview. Also, to as warning signs or red 40-year career fighting for social justice and tion, but CNN forgot the Adams sinecure in the free in the family plot in Australia. it is advisable to have a few recent pay stubs for the fair employment. Inez was active in numerous trade state as a Louth TD. An Irishman living in Sydney, formerly of Limerick, financial sponsor, as well as an updated letter from unions and was perhaps best known in Northern Ire- Once again SDLP leader Alasdair McDonnell and just received an Irish orthopedic doctor’s appointment the employer indicating the salary currently earned. land and beyond when she served as the first female his party members have passed on any new spirit of after being on the waiting list for 17 years. … Legal If you have questions about this or any other aspect president of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. cooperation with Sinn Fein. It’s been eons since the silliness: Sean Fitzpatrick, who “borrowed” 100 mil- of immigration law, visit one of IIIC’s weekly clinics as advertised in the Irish Reporter for a free, confidential Among Mrs. McCormack’s close friends and allies IRA boyos of Sinn Fein, were singularly unkind to lion euros from the bank of which he was chairman consultation. locally was former Boston Mayor and US Vatican the medical doctor turned MP. and never paid it back, is looking for a delay because Ambassador who made the Gerry Adams has been campaigning hither and there are 24 million documents to be vetted before his Raymond L. Flynn, Disclaimer: These articles are published to inform FOLEY LAW OFFICES, P.C. following statement: “Inez McCormack was a fierce yon for a border poll as he continues to trumpet Irish trial can begin. And how about Irish billionaire Sean Unity, despite the real polls that places the unity ques- Quinn’s daughter, who went through half a million generally, not to advise in individual cases. Areas of Attorney John Philip Foley fighter for human rights and economic justice in law are rapidly changing. US Citizenship and Im- Northern Ireland. Together she and I campaigned tion on the long finger. It once was 2016, centennial dollars in less than a year but says she doesn’t have Permanent Residency & Citizenship • Family & Business of the Easter Rising, but that been back-burnered. migration Services and the US Department of State on both sides of the Atlantic for passage of the Fair a bill or invoice to show for her memorable spending Immigration • Labor Certification & Temporary Visas The unionists are tempted to agree to a poll on the spree. regularly amend regulations and alter processing and Employment law for the Catholic minority in the North filing procedures. For legal advice seek the assistance ALL Nationalities & AILA Members and throughout the US in behalf of the MacBride North’s constitutional future just to show up Sinn The good news, boys & girls: Less than three weeks Fein, but new secretary of state for the North Theresa until pitchers and catchers report to Florida. of an IIIC immigration specialist or an immigration Principles. I will not forget Inez McCormack’s courage lawyer. and determination in standing up to powerful political Villiers says no go. Page 8 February 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com February 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 9 Profile BC High’s Mary Madden, math teacher, had a goal: Boston irish Boston Irish Arts, Help my students to excel beyond their expectations Entertainment, ravel ore By Greg O’Brien class Gallivan Boulevard in St. Brendan’s Parish. Her T & M Special to the BIR mother, Mary (McIsaac), was a homemaker and the Veteran Boston College High School Principal disciplinarian of the family. “She was a loving woman, but you just didn’t cross her.” Reporter Stephen Hughes doesn’t play favorites at the presti- gious all-boys Jesuit prep on Morrissey Boulevard in The Madden children learned at an early age to Hollywood disrupts a rural Kerry village Dorchester, an institution rooted in the 16th century have a passion for life, a passion to help others. Not teachings of the Spaniard St. Ignatius Loyola. Unless, surprisingly, five of the siblings became teachers. of course, Hughes is talking about the best teacher he Growing up in Dorchester refined their street smarts, has encountered in his 30 years at the school. self-assurance, and the gut faith they needed to endure in Lyric Stage’s ‘Stones In His Pockets’ life’s challenges. And so with vigor, Mary took to the Hands down, that would be Mary Madden. One of is far from the glittering Olivier Award as the Best has been a member of We spoke recently about BC High’s first female teachers, Madden, a Dorchester softball fields and basketball courts, a star in a day when By R. J. Donovan school girls weren’t supposed to play sports. She was a Special to the BIR world they expected. Ul- New Comedy of 2001. the faculty at Emerson her work. Here’s an edited native, taught math at all levels for three decades in a timately, they decide to Courtney O’Connor is since 2002. Locally, she look at our conversation. character-building environment that, by her own admis- rugged forward on the Cardinal Cushing High School This month, Lyric Stage basketball team, and a pitcher on St. Brendan’s CYO Company of Boston is write a film of their own directing the production at has directed productions BIR: Has theater al- sion, put a far greater focus on getting students into to tell what actually hap- Lyric. Describing herself everywhere from Com- ways been a part of your Heaven than into Harvard. So what does math have fast-pitch softball team that won a state championship. presenting “Stones In His Years later, Madden was still striking out the sides Pockets,” the poignant but pens to a small town and as “an Irish mutt,” she has monwealth Shakespeare life? to do with God? “Math is a divinely created language its people when Hollywood roots stretching from Tip- Company to Coyote The- CO: I started going to that unlocks the mysteries of the universe,” she says. with a blistering fastball flung from an arm that very funny tale of what seemed to rear back to the sky before firing. Steve happens when a movie takes over. perary to Derry, Donegal, atre and Brandeis Uni- the theater when I was Madden did fine by Harvard standards, too. Many of Two actors (Daniel Carlow, and beyond. versity. For “Stones,” she young. I remember the her students are now distinguished doctors, lawyers, Hughes watched in awe. “In her 50s, Mary still had crew descends upon a vil- great stuff,” he recalls. “In softball pickup games behind lage in County Kerry. Berger Jones and Phil The Pennsylvania na- returns to Lyric where she first kind of big show I politicians, journalists, authors, and professional ath- Tayler) portray more than tive originally came to was associate director of went to see was “Annie” letes. But their teacher, now 73 and retired from the the school, she would shut down the baseball coach, As the story unfolds, basketball coach, and football coach, one two three. It two local guys, Charlie a dozen eccentric charac- Boston to study for her the 2010 award-winning and just like every other classroom since 2006 but carrying on in the school’s ters in the play, which ran master’s degree at Em- production of “The Life little girl, it captured my Courtney O’Connor di- advancement and alumni office, is even more revered was a humbling experience for them. She also would and Jake, secure jobs as rects the comedy “Stones light it up when pitching to some of her students. Zip, extras in the movie but for three years in London erson. She fell in love and Adventures of Nicho- imagination . . . I was for her legendary perseverance in working with strug- and received the coveted with the city, stayed, and las Nickleby.” In His Pockets” gling students zip, zip. It’s no wonder that no one crossed her.” soon find the film business (Continued on page 12) “Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of young men owe Madden just smiles as Hughes retells the story. “BC Mary Madden a great debt for not only getting them High,” she says, “is like no other school. I can’t imagine through high school algebra, but for also teaching them myself any other place.” the life lessons of hard work and a belief in oneself,” For a while she was. After graduating from Em- What are you going to do with your life? says Hughes, who is seated beside the reserved Madden manuel College in Boston with a teaching degree, she during a recent interview in a snug conference room. taught for three years in the Hull public school sys- “And because of Mary, these individuals came to know tem. In 1976, she answered a call from then BC High ‘I’m going to play music,’ said Colm Gannon that nothing was impossible for them. She loved them president Fr. Ray Callahan. “I need a math teacher,” so well that she succeeded in getting them to excel Callahan said. “And I’ve heard you’re a good one.” In beyond their expectations; she got them to become short order, Madden was off to Morrissey Boulevard. By Sean Smith “It’s definitely meant a lot to better students, better human beings than they ever “What is so unique about Mary is her deep and Special to the BIR be able to carry on this tradition dreamed of being. She never gave them a free pass, but profound love for her students,” say Hughes, who has There was never any doubt, which has been so important to she did whatever it took to get them to be competent served as principal for 11 years and taught at the school really, that Colm Gannon would my family,” says Gannon. “I got in mathematics. She did it with a firm insistence on before that. “Her love never got in the way of teaching; play music – nor any doubt as to to visit Ireland frequently and hard work and belief in their ability.” it enhanced her teaching.” what kind of music, nor which learn about the tradition there, Madden recently received BC High’s distinguished “Mary was the kind of teacher that all of us wanted instrument he would use to play but growing up in Boston, where Shields Medal for her exceptional generosity to the to be,” adds Charlie Drane, the school’s academic vice it. Not with a father who is an there is such a hunger for the school. principal. “Her standards were so high, she was so accomplished Irish accordion music, was ideal. There’s my “Mary Madden was simply the best classroom teacher rigorous, and yet she was so kind and caring. She had player, and an older brother Dad’s and my brother’s influ- at BC High,” Hughes declared at the award ceremony, an enormous and lasting impact on all of the teachers following suit. ence, of course, but my mother a point of fact at a school where 99 percent of graduat- here.” But then, Gannon hardly took me out to sessions and concerts around town, and I got ing seniors attend a four-year college or university. ‘A good teacher fills gaps. Math can be Madden blushes at such accolades, but acknowledges needed any nudging to take up That’s saying something when you look at the register her insistence on excellence. “I never let my students the box. Quite the opposite. to meet so many people who, like of BC High grads, and consider the range of instructors challenging, edifying, confusing, enlight- give up,” she says. “No matter what the circumstances.” “When I was 7, I’d be begging me, felt a strong connection to who have guided the likes of the late Richard Cardinal Often Madden visited her students at home or in the Dad to play the accordion – I’d Irish music.” ening, all at the same time. To achieve Gannon’s parents were both Cushing; former State Senate president and former at math, one must persevere. So I never hospital to offer tutoring and to let them know they practically chase him down until UMass president William Bulger; four-star General were an integral part of the BC High family. Such he would,” recalls Gannon, who Connemara natives: John, a and US Army Chief of Staff George W. Casey, Jr.; yelled. I just raised the bar and challenged reinforcement is infectious, she conceded. The school grew up in Boston’s Dorchester self-taught box player from the best-selling author Dennis Lehane; Olympic gold calls it recognition, respect, and affection. Recognition neighborhood. “From a young Droim, and Gerry, from Tuirin. students to exceed their expectations, of- John immigrated to the US in medalist Eric Vendt; former Boston Bruin head coach fering all the help they might need.’ in that the school’s graduates are leaders; respect in age, I just knew it was it was Mark Sullivan; Phil Lynch, former CEO of Reuters that the BC High program instills soundness of mind, something I’d get into. There’d 1959, and it would be more than America; and a spate of NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL – MARY MADDEN spirit and body; and mutual affection that leads to life- be conversations around the 20 years before he picked up the professional athletes. long bonds. Her former students still call on her often. kitchen table where I’d be asked, instrument again – the arrival Mary Madden remains modest about her accom- Einstein, who once observed, “I never teach my pupils; On this cold day in January, Madden clearly enjoys ‘So, what are you going to do of Colm’s older brother, Sean, plishments. Coaxing comments from her about her I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they reflecting on her remarkable career at BC High, but with your life?’ and I had the and then Colm prompted John teaching prowess is a bit like trying to squeeze a can learn.” something is missing. “I miss teaching,” she says. “I reply all ready: ‘I’m just going to revisit his music so he could rock; she is reticent to take a bow, perhaps due to her Throughout her teaching career, Madden focused on miss the students in the classroom. I’ve been blessed, to play music.’” hand it off to the next genera- second-generation Irish heritage. With Madden, it’s improving classroom conditions in which her students and am forever grateful for that.” Gannon’s youthful enthu- tion. If John wasn’t playing the all about her students. could learn. She had a fine role model in her father, Indeed she has been set apart, admiring colleagues siasm for his family music box himself, he would have his “I never yelled in the classroom,” she says. “I don’t Edward, who taught math, Greek, and Latin at BC and former students would be quick to note. For Mary tradition has proven to be long- boys listening to recordings of think it accomplishes anything other than raising a High when the school was located in the South End. A Madden, the woman who taught math with the rever- lasting and fully engaging, one estimable musicians like Seanin voice. Exercising a vocal cord is not good communica- graduate of Suffolk Law School, the elder Madden, son ence of scripture, life adds up in all ways. that led him to relocate to his Phat Mylea McDonough, Kevin Coyne, Finbarr Dwyer, Joe tion; building up confidence and self-esteem within a of Irish immigrants, did legal analysis for the federal ancestral Connemara and to Colm Gannon: “There’d be conversations around the kitchen table where I’d be asked, student body is. A good teacher fills gaps. Math can be government later in life. Greg O’Brien, a regular contributor to the Boston pursue a career that has in- Burke, and Martin McMahon. challenging, edifying, confusing, enlightening, all at the “My dad cared deeply about his work,” says Mary. Irish Reporter, is president of Stony Brook Group, a cluded a stint in “Riverdance” Early last month, Gannon re- The Burren “Backroom” series coming was an opportunity for Not only did John success- same time. To achieve at math, one must persevere. “He was an unbelievably wonderful man who led by publishing and political/communications strategy and a series of recordings – the turned to the Boston area to visit in Somerville, house concerts Gannon, who was married last fully pass on the music, and to So I never yelled. I just raised the bar and challenged example and held us all to high standards. He didn’t company based on Cape Cod. He is the author/editor of most recent being “The Rights family and friends and play a few in Medford and Worcester, and June, to reflect a little on his in- great effect (Sean is universally students to exceed their expectations, offering all the have to be strict. Everyone around him, from family several books, and contributes to regional and national of Man,” released this past fall. gigs, including a performance at a ceili in Braintree. The home- extricably linked life and music. (Continued on page 12) help they might need.” to students, just knew better.” publications. On the art of teaching, she borrows from Albert One of seven children, Madden was raised on working- By Sean Smith first album. Gurney, who of Strings, among others. and began exploring other Special to the BIR lived in Boston while As days get longer, More recently, she played genres as well. He has While it may have only attending Harvard Uni- fiddle on Steve Martin’s performed and/or toured 28, or sometimes 29, days, versity, came out with a Grammy Award-winning with such acts as Santana, Co. Roscommon Assoc. of Boston February (along with the well-received solo album the music heats up CD “The Row” and ap- Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean early part of March) can in 2011. Dublin native peared with his band on and Berrington Levy. seem like the longest O’Leary has been part of Car” – it hit no. 1 on the Henley and Kellen Za- “David Letterman” and • The Celtic quartet Annual St. Patrick’s Dinner/Dance month: closer to spring the thriving New York Irish iTunes charts – and kula for a house concert “Saturday Night Live.” Fellswater will perform EIRE than January, but often City Irish music scene for its accompanying humor- in Watertown [informa- Fiddler-singer-song- on Feb. 23 at the Loring- with cold, wintry weather the past two decades. ous video. Since then, tion available via e-mail writer Henley, a native of Greenhough House in Sunday, March 16, 2013 and days that gradu- • The young up-and- Og has achieved suc- at notlobreservations@ Boston, has drawn praise Jamaica Plain. Based in ally but oh-so-slowly get coming singer-songwriter cess with his pop-driven, gmail.com]. for the passion and diver- Massachusetts, the band 4-8 pm pub longer. Fortunately, the Sean Og, American- romance-themed singles Cellist Natalie Haas sity in her music, a result plays traditional tunes as Greater Boston area has born but Clare-bred, will “Promises We Held,” “The is well known for her of time spent in more well as modern composi- plenty of Irish and Celtic perform on Feb. 16 at Answer,” “Dreaming,” and partnership with Scottish than 20 places around the tions that reflect the heri- 795 Adams St. • Dorchester music events this period The Skellig in Waltham most recently “You’re So fiddle master Alasdair world – from Chicago to tage of Scotland, Ireland, to brighten spirits. Here’s [theskellig.com] and on True,” which reached the Fraser but also has played Cape Breton to Israel to Brittany, and Canada. a sampling: Feb. 17 at The Burren Irish charts top 20 and with the likes of Irish Romania, and elsewhere. Fellswater, whose past • Boston College’s Gael- [burren.com] in Somer- accumulated more than super-group Solas and Zakula, a multi-instru- appearances include BC- “President’s Choice” ic Roots series [bc.edu/ ville’s Davis Square. Both 40,000 YouTube views in Cape Breton fiddler Nata- mentalist grounded in MFest, the Blackstone gaelicroots] will present shows begin at 8 p.m. and a short time. lie MacMaster. Brittany traditional Appalachian River Theatre and the New Venue: Boston Irish Social Club the trio of Kathleen Con- are free. • Three events being or- Haas’s musical develop- music, has likewise in- New Hampshire Highland neely, Dan Gurney and Og was born into a ganized by notloB Parlour ment has been rooted in tegrated a contemporary Games, is comprised of Corned Beef & Cabbage Catered Meal Serving Lunch & Dinner Eamon O’Leary on Feb. family of musicians and, Concerts over the next few American/old-timey/blue- sensibility in his playing Betsy Ketudat (fiddle), 12, at 6:30 p.m. in the Gas- at age 17, gained interna- weeks showcase a blend- grass, and she performed and songwriting. Jim MacConduibh (gui- Music by Andy Healy Showband Tickets $40 son Hall Irish Room. Con- tional attention in 2010 ing of Celtic music with as a member of ground- Also performing at the tar, bouzouki), Sarah Every day, neely is a widely respected with the release of his other folk music influ- breaking Boston-based February 18 concert will MacConduibh (flute, musician and teacher who debut single, the fiddle ences. On Feb. 18, sisters Crooked Still as well as be guitarist Rene Del whistle) and Matthew Call Richie Gormley, President has often appeared at BC, and banjo-flavored “I Still Brittany and Natalie with Bruce Molsky and Fiero, who was influ- Phelps (bagpipes). 617-327-1011 7 days a week and last fall released her Love You Without Your Haas team with Lily Darol Anger’s Republic enced early on by the blues (Continued on page 13) Page 10 February 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com February 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 11

The County Donegal Association, Boston St. Patrick’s Day Dinner Dance Saturday, March 2, 2013 7:00 p.m. Florian Hall 55 Hallet St., Dorchester Hot & Cold Buffet Entertainment by Erin’s Melody Harney Academy of Irish Stepdance

Tickets $40.00 per person Hope to see you all there!

For tickets and info: President JP Doherty 617-605-9878 or Chairman Michael McCarron 617-696-1702 Or any officer of the County Donegal Association Page 12 February 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com February 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 13 What are you going to do with your life?

(Continued from page 9) cians to keep things in- the accordion – perhaps to Man” are taken from re- acknowledged as one of teresting for themselves.” no better effect than on the cordings of various musi- Boston’s best Irish accor- By the mid-1990s, Gan- “Cronin’s Reel/Tim Ma- cians whose influence goes dionists), but he wound up non (by then with an loney’s” set. McDonough clear back to his youth. almost as musically active All-Ireland title under and Blake certainly have And these aren’t simply as his sons, recording two his belt), Lech and fiddler their moments as well, LPs or cassettes, mind albums – “Melodeon,” Jesse Smith were play- such as their typically you, but reel-to-reel tapes, BCMFest (Boston’s Celtic Music Fest) celebrated which includes two duet ing a lot of gigs, not just tasteful backing in the 78s and even cylinder re- its first decade of showcasing Boston’s Celtic music, tracks with Sean and in Boston but elsewhere. “Sporting Nell/Drowsy cordings. “One of Johnny’s song and dance on January 11 and 12 at venues in Colm, and “Trasna Na Ireland seemed a natural Maggie” medley. Own,” for instance, came Harvard Square, beginning with a sold-out Friday dTonnta,” a duet album place to expand musical The ensemble pieces from a field recording evening concert in Club Passim that featured some with Colm that also fea- vistas, and in 1998 he are wholly enjoyable, that Dublin fiddler James of the area’s fine young Celtic musicians/composers. tures a pair of songs sung and Smith moved to En- and so are Gannon’s solo Kelly made of Chicagoan Festival-goers also enjoyed Irish, Scottish and Cape by John’s sister Maureen nis, where they stayed for tracks, notably the jigs Johnny McGreevy, while Breton social dancing at the Boston Urban Ceilidh, Creighan (now deceased) – a couple of years. Then “Banish Misfortune/Mor- the source of “The Green which included performances by the O’Shea-Chaplin and regularly co-hosting a Gannon got one of those rison’s.” This set, along Groves of Erin” was a 78 Academy of Irish Dance. popular session with Sean bona fide golden oppor- with the tunes “Paidin of Westmeath concertina Saturday’s “DayFest” program began in Club at The Burren. tunities: an invitation to O’Rafferty’s” and “Green player William Mullally, Passim with entertainment aimed at children and Exposed as Colm was to join “Riverdance.” He was Grow the Rushes,” among and a 78 of Sligo’s James families. The afternoon was full of concerts and par- the different styles of Irish a little unsure about tak- others, demonstrates “Lad” O’Beirne provided ticipatory events at Passim and nearby First Parish music – especially in and ing the plunge at first – “I Gannon’s enviable store Gannon with “The New- Church of Cambridge. The 2013 festival culminated The BCMFest 2013 finale concert featured a tribute to Larry Reynolds by faculty, students and friends around Boston, where he didn’t want to just do the of settings and variations castle Hornpipe.” It’s this with the Saturday evening finale concert in First of the Boston Comhaltas music school. would play with notables same tunes over and over four or five hours to the especially including his sure to catch the ear of attention to detail, and to Parish Church that included a tribute to Larry like Tina Lech, Jimmy again” – but decided it was next destination, and I’d own. anyone familiar with such tradition and legacy, that Reynolds by faculty, students and friends of the lo- Noonan, Frankie Mc- too good to pass up. be thinking, ‘I used to have For “The Rights of well-known staples of ses- deepens one’s apprecia- cal Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann music school that Donagh, Brendan Bulger, As a still young, up- to drive to gigs for four or Man,” Gannon is joined sion and ceili. tion for Gannon and his Reynolds co-founded. and Larry Reynolds – he and-coming musician, he five hours packed into a on most tracks by two es- Gannon also shows music. For more on BCMFest, see passim.org/bcmfest or got a thorough grounding found the experience eye- little car.’ Definitely gives teemed former De Dannan the Connemara predilec- Speaking of legacy: e-mail [email protected] in that of Connemara. opening. Four years in the you some perspective.” members, pioneering bou- tion for, as he puts it, While neither John nor “The most distinctive show “gave me an insight When his run with zouki player Alec Finn and “songs that make nice Sean is on this album, thing about the Conne- into the big-scale produc- “Riverdance” was over, bodhran master Johnny tunes when the words Colm’s wife Kelly plays mara style,” he explains, tion side of things,” says Gannon happily settled in “Ringo” McDonough, as are stripped away”: For concertina on the reel set “is that it has this great Gannon, and he was quite his father’s old stomping well as his long-time ac- instance, the air “Amhrán “The Merry Merchant/ sense of rhythm – which it impressed with the scale grounds of Droim, and complice, guitarist/pianist na Trá Báine” (written, he Miss McDonald’s/Drag gets from sean nos dance of the operation, and the into a less peripatetic John Blake. Finn’s charac- notes, by a Connemara Her Around the Road.” – and, at the same time, task of getting everything musical life. Not that he teristic modal, contrapun- woman near his part of One might surmise this sweet melodic variations. organized in a different hasn’t kept busy with gigs, tal style, in particular, is Boston) is marked by ex- portends a further pro- This came about because city every week. touring and – in addition perfectly suited to Gannon pressive, sean nos-like or- liferation of the Gannon dancers would tend to ask “It was different than to finishing a degree in (as it is to most everyone namentations and chords family’s presence in the for the same tunes as ac- what I was used to,” he traditional music perfor- Finn plays with), forming that tend more toward Irish music tradition. companiment, so putting says. “In fact, sometimes mance at the University a latticework of rhythm tenor than bass. in their own variations I’d hear a complaint about of Limerick – appearing and harmony around the As Gannon notes, most was a way for the musi- having to ride the bus for on a host of recordings, drive and exuberance of of the tunes on “Rights of Hollywood disrupts a rural Kerry village “A Celtic Sojourn” host (Continued from page 9) actors playing 150 roles. just two actors playing all stage in their lives, but very fortunate growing Brian O’Donovan wel- Joey Abarta performs CO: It was a production the roles. who understand how an comes the audience during “DayFest” at up that I went to see a unlike anything that I’d CO: It’s a little bit of a actor thinks and how an to the BCMFest finale lot of shows at the Wal- the 10th BCMFest last The O’Shea-Chaplin Academy of Irish Dance at BCMFest’s Boston Urban Ceilidh. Sean Smith photos ever worked on before. To different experience. Two actor moves brilliantly. concert. month. nut Street Theater (in me, one of the most amaz- actors, 15 characters, and But I think it does give Philadelphia). We had a ing things was that every I think about 8 or 9 differ- her a sense of what is pos- family friend who was the single person involved ent accents. sible. There are moments music director there, and with it felt the exact same BIR: Marie Jones, the when the actors switch As days get longer, the music heats up whenever a show would way – that this was one of playwright, began her characters for just one come in, he would send those unique and special career in Belfast work- line and then switch right my grandmother and my experiences – and they ing as an actress. Does back. Someone who’s not uncle to go see it. When we just poured themselves, that experience give her an actor may hesitate to Concerts galore mark he found out I was inter- heart and soul, into it. You writing a special edge for write that. ested, he started including could not have asked for an actor? BIR: Jones is also tickets for me. a better group of people CO: I think it gives her known for presenting the February calendar People are still Daniel Berger-Jones Phil Tayler BIR: to come together to work a different perspective. social and moral issues in (Continued from page 9) talking about “Nicholas to sites.google.com/site/ on it. Certainly we have play- a way that doesn’t force a Also at Loring-Green- notlobmusic. Nickleby,” which was a BIR: And now you go wrights who have never message as much as allow CO: I think that’s ab- choose to believe that it hough will be the fid- • The Burren’s “Back- spectacular effort, with 24 from a huge cast down to acted, never set foot on the audience discover it. solutely true. This piece will. And they choose to dle-banjo duo of Bron- room” series will sponsor has got so many different believe that telling the wyn Keith-Hynes and two shows in the upcom- layers – it’s examining story of everyone is as Catherine Bowness, on ing weeks. On Feb. 27, the film industry, it’s important as telling the March 9. Keith-Hynes, the series welcomes Sean examining the effect on story of the movie stars who recently performed Tyrrell – celebrated as the town, it’s examining – that the individual will at the 10th BCMFest, has singer, songwriter, story- societal issues, financial have just as much of an traversed the Irish, Cape teller, commentator, poet issues, and how (the film- effect on the fabric as the Breton, and American and gadfly – and opening ing) literally rips apart larger person. traditional music scenes act The Deadstring En- the fabric of some of these BIR: Your time in under the tutelage of semble. A native of Gal- relationships. But at the Ireland was memorable? such musicians as Beth way whose career spans same time, you’re laugh- CO: For the entire time, Telford, Jerry Holland, more than four decades, ing. . . . It feels very much, from the moment our Cleek Schrey, Matt Gla- Tyrrell has crafted his art to me, like the Irish way of plane landed in Ireland ser, John McGann and through exposure to the telling a story. You have – and I did not expect Darol Anger. The winner experiences of different to go to the darker place this – we got off the plane, of numerous Irish and cultures, musical genres to tell it, but you’re going started walking, started Scottish-style fiddle com- and literary heritage. to add that laughter and talking, started meeting petitions, Keith-Hynes is In addition to his well- humor, because that’s how people, and it was this part of the group Atlantic received solo albums of you have the strength to complete, unexpected Seaways, a collabora- his own candid, forthright continue. sense of “I am home.” tion of young traditional – even pugilistic -- songs BIR: Very Irish, indeed. People spoke the way I American and Scottish as well as traditional CO: When I was in spoke, they thought the musicians. material, he has taken Ireland years and years way I thought, they told a Bowness, from New part in such musical proj- ago, you would go to town story the way I told a story, Zealand, studied banjo ects as “Songs of Peace,” after town, and (they’d although theirs was more with Tony Trischka, Alan commemorating the life say), “Here’s where we charming (laughing). It Munde and Bill Evans and work of Francis were invaded this time, just really surprised me and at age 15 won the Ledwidge, who died in and here’s where we how much I immediately Uncle Dave Macon banjo the First World War, and were invaded that time” felt I was finally home. competition in Tennes- “A Necklace of Wrens,” a . . . What astonished me And I realized that some- see. She has toured with documentary on the life as well as frequent guest Irish singer-songwriter Sean Tyrrell, along with was the resilience of the thing was missing that I several acts and, in 2010, and poetry of Michael singer Liz Simmons. local band The Deadstring Ensemble, play at The Irish. At the end of the hadn’t known was missing she recorded her debut Hartnet. For tickets and other de- Burren “Backroom” series later this month. Also play, it’s that sense of re- before. album, “Village Green,” The Deadstring En- tails, see brownpapertick- at The Burren this month is young, up-and-coming silience that Charlie and R. J. Donovan is pub- which features original semble performs origi- ets.com/event/320203. US-born Irish singer Sean Og. March 7 will see a rare Jake have. The idea that lisher of OnStageBoston. compositions and col- nal acoustic music that (who was a member of an- region of Ireland that is you carry what happened com. laborations. encompasses Irish, Ap- appearance of Sliabh Notes, a trio of distin- other celebrated trio, Na centered around Lim- with you. You carry the *** In addition to the palachian, bluegrass, Fili), accordionist Dónal erick, Cork and Kerry. heartache with you. But “Stones In His Pockets,” concert, Keith-Hynes folk-rock and early music guished musicians who have each cultivated a Murphy (a founder of The band has recorded you move forward. And Feb. 15 - March 16, Lyric and Bowness will of- influences, led by guitar- Four Men and a Dog) and three albums; Irish Music you move in a positive di- Stage Company of Boston, fer separate-admission ist-mandolinist Flynn following throughout, and beyond, their native guitarist-vocalist Tommy Review hailed their 2008 strongest yet.” rection. They don’t know 140 Clarendon Street in workshops on Irish fiddle Cohen with Matt Hea- O’Sullivan, who focus on CD, “Along Blackwater’s whether or not their film Boston. Tickets: 617-585- and bluegrass banjo. For ton (guitar, bouzouki, Ireland. Sliabh -- pro- For tickets, see- nounced “Sleeve” -- Notes the storied music tradi- Banks,” as “scintillating” brownpapertickets.com/ will get made, but they 5678 or lyricstage.com. more details on this and mandolin) and Danny tion of the Sliabh Luachra and “unquestionably, the other notloB events, go Noveck (guitar, fiddle) is fiddler Matt Cranitch event/320214. Page 14 February 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com February 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 15 CD Review/ Sean Smith front on all the tracks (with the exception of a song contrast to that of “Ye Rambling Boys of Pleasure,” lovingly voiced by most female Irish Adams accuser Price dies Tracy Ryan, yet a somewhat curious addition), but singers, lending By Sean Smith the ensemble arrangements give the sets some ad- a certain gravi- Special to the BIR ditional vim. tas to the songs at 61; figure in tapes case Stevie Dunne, “Banjo” • The latest rebuttal to Witness the rhythmic overlays on the “I’m Waiting she sings, most of from 2001 to 2006, lauded After the Provisional for You/Thady Casey’s Fancy/O’Rourke’s” reel medley, which speak to the (Continued from page 1) banjo jokes (along with, say, Enda Scahill, Darren Ma- Boston College com- Price as “both a friend and IRA cease-fire of 1997 for example, or the one-two punch of Murray and legacy of Ireland’s loney, Eamonn Coyne, Angelina Carberry and Pauline missioned the collection a valued participant in paved the way for Ad- McGlynn on the jigs “Down the Back Lane/Only for land and people. Conneely, to name a few), Dunne, a Lough native now of such interviews with the Belfast Project.’’ They ams’s Sinn Fein party to Barney/Johnny O’Leary’s”; there’s a pleasing build On this album, living in Belfast, actually started off as a rhythm gui- veterans of Northern blamed the police’s pur- enter a new power-sharing and pace in a more leisurely set of contemporary the repertoire tarist inclined more to songs than tunes, but when he Ireland’s paramilitary suit of her testimony for government in Northern reels that starts with Dublin piper’s Darach de Brun’s runs from the tra- began picking out warfare on condition their hastening her death, and Ireland, Price denounced “Maple Leaf” and leads into Breton flutist Sylvain ditional and fa- melodies his uncle contents be kept secret vowed that their own le- Adams as a hypocrite who Barou’s “The Silver” before culminating in a Dunne miliar (“The Lark John steered him until each interviewee’s gal fight to prevent police had betrayed the cause of original, “Finian’s Arrival,” featuring some engaging in the Morning,” “Wild Mountain Thyme,” “The Bold to what would be death. Early last year, from receiving any tapes forcing Northern Ireland guitar and bouzouki by Michael McGague that, along Fenian Men”, Tommy Makem’s “Four Green Fields”) his instrument of Federal Judge William from the Boston College into the Irish Republic. with Graham’s bass, conjures up a jazzy feel. And the to contemporary works: The Saw Doctors’ anthemic destiny. Inspired Young ordered the uni- archive would continue And in a 2012 interview relish with which Dunne and crew invest the jig set “Green and Red of Mayo”; Danny Hannon’s “Mandela,” by the likes of versity to turn over the “with renewed vigor.’’ with Britain’s Sunday “The Humours of Ballyloughlin/Lark on the Strand” which sets Ireland’s tragic history in a post-Cold War/ Cathal Hayden, tapes to the police. Then, “Throughout the last Telegraph, Price accused is joyously palpable. apartheid context; and Mazz O’Flaherty’s “I Will Dunne shows ab- in October, the US Su- two years of our fight to Adams of sanctioning By the time the final track ends – a medley that kicks Stand Upon This Land.” If the overall effect is rather solute mastery on preme Court blocked the prevent her interviews the 1973 bomb attacks off with the glorious syncopated jig “Haley’s Favorite” solemn, Courtney does inject a bit of whimsy into the reels, jigs, horn- handover pending resolu- being handed over to the during a Belfast IRA and closes out with a fun bit of byplay between Dunne proceedings with a cover of the 1969 Peter Sarstedt pipes, and every- tion of a string of other police in Belfast, our great- meeting. “Adams started and Hayden on “The Chicken Reel” – you’ll be thank- hit “Where Do You Go to My Lovely” (also known as thing else, nailing connected lawsuits and est fear was always for talking and said it was a ing Dunne’s uncle for his wisdom. “The Gin and Tonic Song”). all those triplets and getting maximum effect out of legal challenges in lower the health and well being big, dangerous operation. But this is a trio, after all, and a very good one at each note. US courts. Her death could of Dolours,’’ Moloney and He said: ‘This could be a Mary Courtney & Morning Star, “Live from that, thanks to the presence of four-time All-Ireland On “Banjo,” the follow-up to his 2010 debut release trigger a new wave of legal McIntyre said in a state- hanging job.’ He said: ‘If the 33rd County” • A County Kerry native, Court- accordionist John Redmond and tenor banjo player “About Time,” Dunne surrounds himself with a most petitions on both sides, ment. ``Now that she is no anyone doesn’t want to go ney has been part of the New York City Irish scene Donie Ryan. They get a very justified turn in the impressive cast of backing musicians that includes with one already on the longer with us, perhaps [to London], they should for a few decades now, as a soloist and occasional spotlight on the jig “The Orphan” that follows “Lark guitarist Arty McGlynn, accordionist David Munnelly, federal docket. those who initiated this up and leave now through collaborator with Black 47, among others, and as a in the Morning,” plus a couple of tune sets (“The fiddler Stephen Hayden and two members of Beoga, [The Associated Press legal case can take some the back door at 10-min- member of the trio Morning Star, which she formed in Flowing Tide Set” and “Sheila Coyle’s/The Floggin’/ bassist Sean Og Graham, and bodhran/percussion- reported that on Jan. 28, time to reflect upon the ute intervals.’ The ones 1982. Courtney’s deep, mellifluous voice is a marked Sporting Paddy”), with Courtney supplying rhythm ist Eamon Murray. Dunne is quite obviously out in lawyers for Boston College consequences of their that were left were the on guitar or bodhran. Redmond and Ryan do equally filed a motion with the action.’’ ones that went. I was left well accompanying the songs – Redmond even lends First US Circuit Court Price joined the IRA as organizing it, to be the OC a Paris-in-springtime touch to “Where Do You Go to of Appeals in Boston not- a Belfast teenager, in part (officer commanding) of My Lovely?” ing that Price’s demise because her father, Albert, the whole shebang,’’ Price If one might quibble with some of the song choices means that she can no was a senior IRA figure. was quoted as saying. (how much do we really need another recording of “Wild longer be the subject of She led a 10-member IRA When asked later about Mountain Thyme”?), the performance of Courtney, any prosecution by police unit that planted four car Price’s criticisms, Adams Redmond and Ryan makes for a dignified, solid effort. in Northern Ireland. BC bombs in central London said he had “no concerns

is also asking that its own on March 8, 1973, includ- about any of those issues Hanz Araki & Kathryn Claire, “A Winter Sol- appeal of Young’s ruling be ing outside the Old Bailey because they are not true.’’ stice Celebration” and “As I Roved Out: Songs of dismissed as moot because criminal courthouse and Dolours married the • Araki and Claire are the leaders of the Pacific Spring” of Price’s death, the AP Scotland Yard police head- Belfast actor Stephen Rea Northwest-based Celtic Conspiracy, which gathers folk story said. quarters. Two detonated, in 1983, and they had two songs and tunes for thematic concerts and recordings, [In a statement about wounding more than 200 sons, but he divorced her as suggested by the titles of these two CDs (their two the filing, BC spokesman people. in 2003. other works are “Songs of Love and Murder” and “The Jack Dunn said Price’s Emigrant’s Song: The Laborer’s Lament”). Most of death ‘‘should bring a the material will be familiar enough to anyone with close to the pending case a moderate interest regarding the subpoenas in traditional music: for the confidential oral kind of a Revels-lite history materials from approach, if you will, the Belfast Project.’’ Dunn centering on Araki’s said the Mutual Legal As- flute, whistle and sistance Treaty on Crimi- bodhran and Claire’s nal Matters invoked by the fiddle and guitar as governments of the United well as their solo States and the United or combined vocals, Kingdom ‘‘provides that with some occasional the treaty does not pertain backing guitar, per- to matters in which the cussion, piano and government anticipates vocals. The musician- that no prosecution will ship is fine enough, take place. Given that Araki’s in particular, the singing quite ingratiating Dolours Price has died, overall (“Rosemary Fair,” “Country Life” and “Pleas- the university believes ant and Delightful” on “As I Roved Out”; “Remember that the case should be O Thou Man,” “Coventry Carol,” “Wexford Carol” on dismissed,’’ Dunn said. “Winter Solstice”), but – to my ears, anyway – dimin- [Christina DiIorio-Ster- ished somewhat by overuse of percussive instruments, ling, a spokeswoman for “The Seven Joys of Mary” being a prime example. US Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz, declined to com- AUTO BODY REPAIRS (617) 825-1760 ment to the AP. She said (617) 825-2594 prosecutors plan to file a FAX (617) 825-7937 response with the court.] On news of Price’s death, Ed Moloney, the Irish journalist who over- saw collection of the taped testimonies, and Anthony Free Pick-Up & Delivery Service McIntyre, the former IRA convict who actually 150 Centre Street conducted the interviews Dorchester, MA 02124 Looking to buy PUZZLE SOLUTION FROM PAGE 17 Burials in in the Massachusetts Boston Area? or Ireland Or perhaps your looking for that getaway out in the Berkshires. Gormley Funeral Home Jack Conboy Exclusive Buyers Agent 617-323-8600 781-799-7706

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W For a quick review, here are the Irish seasons: Geimhreadh /GAYV-ruh/ “winter” The Irish Earrach /EY-ruhk/ “spring” Samhradh /SOW-ruh/ “summer” crosswords are Fómhar /FOHR-uh/ “autumn” I think I warned you before not to say, Fall” when you a service of an mean the months of September through early December. “Fall” for “The time of year when the leaves fall” is an Ireland-based Americanism. website which In English there are two ways to count people. We can say “three people” or a “trio.” Indeed, we have several provides Irish ways of saying “two” when it comes to people – “two people” can be a “pair”, a “couple”, a ”duet”, or even a Family Coats of “duo.” Indeed, when describing musical groups, English can count performers all the way to “octet”. Arms by email. Irish has a similar system – only it goes all the way to ten and is obligatory when counting people and only You are invited when counting people. We cannot say in either language a “duo of cows” except jokingly, although English can to visit use “pair of” when counting “things”. Irish cannot. In Irish you must use the regular set of numbers when the number is followed by a noun. www. Irish, then, has two sets of numbers, one for counting people – just as English does for musical groups – and bigwood.com/ one for counting “things”. The Irish don’t limit themselves to music. They can use these forms any time that people heraldry Lough Inagh, left, across from Lough Inagh Lodge Hotel in Connemara, looks a bit otherworldly as the clouds roll away after a midmorning storm. The lake are involved. For example: “Three girls” is Trí cailíní but and the hotel are well known by fishermen in Ireland, who congregate there when fishing season is in full swing. Lough Inagh Lodge Hotel in Connemara “trio of girls” is simply triúr – no “girls” required. BUT recently won its second consecutive Gold Star as Ireland’s best country house. The small, comfortable hotel is in the Inagh Valley in Co. Galway. … (and there is always one) – you can use the regular Judy Enright photos numbers if they are followed by a plural noun – Tá trí ©-bigwood.com cailíní. IRELAND IN CROSSWORDS y udy nright plans every time I go and visit. This cozy country ened my long-submerged and easy to collect your didn’t they? B J E If you remember about Irish numbers is that when you ACROSS have taken friends and house offers an idyllic base artistic feelings,” he said. luggage there (free carts Bellingham is currently 9. Elf room passkey. (anag.) Galway beauty spot near Special to the BIR count in isolation – with nothing to refer to – you have to 1. A cell dustbin goes astray in Irish capital strong- family members there. All to escape from the rat race, The shop is open seven are available.) Rental car undergoing a four-million Letterfrack with 3 lakes and a famous abbey. (4,2,8) Would I ever steer you preface the number with A. This requires that numbers hold wherein is St. Patrick’s Hall used for many state have raved about the hotel, with a charming team led days a week, Ben added, counters are close by in the euro refurbishment, the 10. No, tough, many can be broken in Ulster region of wrong about Ireland and beginning with a vowel attach an h. So you have aon functions. (6,6) staff, food, ambience, and by owner Maire O’Connor from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. arrivals hall and there’s a story said, and is expected many lakes, known as the MacMahon country, . (6,8) all things Irish? No, I and ocht becoming A haon and A hocht. When counting 11. Electron deficient learner fails to start jungle the magnificent setting in and general manager See his work at connema- Londis shop there ,too (for to re-open this July as 15. Engaged in banter seated around. (6) never, ever would. objects the A is not required – Ocht cailíní. king. (3) the unspoiled, undevel- Dominic O’Morain, who rablue.com and also on that much-needed cup of a 22-bedroom four-star 16. Brute dug up the root crop. (5) So, I love it when I men- “One” a haon 12. Conditional return of plant container. (3) oped Inagh Valley. impress with their natu- Facebook at facebook.com/ coffee after the dawn ar- boutique hotel. The fam- 17. Grand let in prosperous Cork town, known as the tion my favorite tourist “One person” duine amháin /DOON-yuh wahn/ 13. Wants to be born a detective sergeant. (5) Because the hotel is rally warm and friendly connemarablueglass. rival.) Stepping outside ily hopes to add 40 more ‘Bath of Ireland’ where Thomas Davies was born. (6) attractions and accommo- “Two” a dhó 14. I moult badly in the last month in beautiful small, residents often hospitality. We crowned After visiting Ben’s gal- and breathing in the crisp, bedrooms within the next 18. “No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life As love’s dations and others agree. “Pair” beirt /berch/ Timoleague. (6) interact if they are so Lough Inagh Ireland’s lery and having a bite to early morning Co. Clare four years. The Corscad- young ——.” Moore. (5) For instance, Ireland’s “Three” a trí 17. Did the cow sound colourful when the boat was inclined and I’ve made Best Country House in eat at Mitchell’s, I keep air says “Ireland” to me den family also runs Bally- 20. Made haste along in Maghera navigation. (3) hospitality industry maga- “Trio” triúr /troor/ tied up? (6) several close friends there 2011 and we were so awed walking down Market somehow. Even in April, seede Castle in Co. Kerry. 21. Tip of the separate legend! (3) zine, Hotel and Catering “Four” a ceathair 19. “You write with ease, to show —— breeding. But over the years. One couple when we visited again this Street and stopped at there’s still a refreshing A popular wedding ven- 26. A contrived event will put a stop to growth. (5) Review, recently chose my “Quartet” ceathrar /kah-uhr/ easy writing’s vile hard reading.” Sheridan. (4) is from Hampshire, Eng- summer that we had to Derval Joyce, a small shop nip in the air. ue, Bellingham, which is 27. Sam’s coming over for the celebration. (4) favorite hotel – Lough In- “Five” a cúig 21. Ardfert rekindling involves long migratory march. land, and we meet up at return the Gold Medal for with the most interesting And, the roads leading to about halfway between 28. Southern, yet upset about what’s causing a pain agh Lodge in Connemara “Quintet” cúigear /koo-guhr/ (4) Lough Inagh whenever we a second successive year.” cards and gifts. I also make wherever you’re heading Dublin and Belfast, al- in the eye. (4) – as the best country house “Six” a sé 22. All one’s bail (anag.) Galway horse town with a can. We have become such For details, see the a point to visit the Clifden are not Dublin’s clogged ready has three marriage “Sextet” /SHESH-uhr/ 30. Tie in the back room of the hospital. (4) for 2012. This was the seisear well-known castle adjoining Garbally park. (11) good friends that the wife website: loughinaghlodge- Book Shop on Main Street, commuter arteries, but events booked this sum- “Seven” a seacht 32. Sap rising in Kerry resort four miles west of Tralee, second consecutive year 23. “There was —— ground where a man might linger, knitted gifts for my newest hotel.ie where I also find outstand- country roads that make mer, beginning in August. “Septet” seachtar /SHAHK-tahr/ with mineral springs. (3) that Lough Inagh won the For a week or two for time was not our master.” Ewan grandson and sent them CONNEMARA BLUE ing cards and books on it so much easier to ac- TRAVEL PLANS “Eight” a hocht 33. Take us out of 26 down with explosive result ini- Gold Medal, the top award. McColl -The Travelling People. (4) from England to Ohio. While you’re in Conne- local topics. climate to driving on “the Unless you’ve lived un- “Octet” ochtar /OHK-tahr/ tially. (3) They were also runner-up 24. Noble but not quite on time. (4) There’s a lot to do in mara, do stop by Connema- MORE FAVORITES wrong side” of the road. der a rock in the back of “Nine” a naoi another year. 25. Cut back and see where the zloty goes round. (6) the Inagh Valley. You can ra Blue, Market Square, I admit it. I love Aer And, here’s a message beyond, you have prob- No equivalent naonúr /NEEN-uhr/ CROSSWORD SOLUTION ON PAGE 15 Lough Inagh is simply 29. This do suit, up in workplace. (6) walk, hike, fish, cycle, or Clifden, to see the beauti- Lingus – for so many rea- to Aer Lingus, which ably heard about Tour- “Ten” a dé wonderful and more like 31. “Where fierce indignation can no longer tear his choose from many other ful work done by Ben Crow sons. There are, of course, appears to be cutting ism Ireland’s marketing No equivalent deichniúr /JEEN-uhr/ a home than a hotel. Ev- ——.” Epitaph of Jonathan Swift. (5) outdoor activities. The ho- in his gallery there. many other airlines that back on flights into Shan- initiative, “The Gather- “Eleven” a haon-deug eryone who works there is 32. Drunkard returns to south. (3) tel is among a select group I discovered Ben’s fused fly to Ireland but I always non, which serves the ing,” designed to boost No equivalent welcoming and charming 34. Soft approach by United Nations initially is a Irish Sayings … of grand houses in Great glasswork last fall while choose Aer Lingus because magnificent West! Please visitor numbers in 2013. Sometimes you might hear … and they make you feel as wordy joke. (3) “People live in each other’s shelter.” Fishing Houses of Ireland walking down the street they fly direct from Bos- never cut Shannon out More than 2,500 events, “Twelve” “A dozen” dháréag /GAH-reg/ though you are the only 35. Wants west tor. (anag.) Tyrone village near Coal- “The world would not make a racehorse of a donkey.” guest who ever checked in. (irelandflyfishing.com) to my favorite Clifden ton to Shannon (another of your Aer Lingus loop. including large festivals All of these numbers are masculine except “Pair” which, even when describing “men”, is feminine. This island and seat of Viscount Charlemont. (12) “You are not a fully fledged sailor unless you have The hotel’s 12 bedrooms and is noted for a fishery restaurant – Mitchell’s favorite), have an amaz- The economy of the West and a new show from the sailed under full sail,” “and you have not built a wall that offers outstanding Seafood, also on Market ing safety record, and a needs Shannon and some makers of Riverdance, will is a relic of Old Irish which had a separate system for – all ensuite – are spot- DOWN unless you have rounded a corner.” salmon fishing. Street. I was struck by his website that’s thorough of us weary travelers also be organized throughout “twos”. You can say “A pair” using beirt but “The pair” lessly clean, large, and 2. One nut I cracked. (4) “There is no strength without unity.” One guest wrote this of window display of brightly and extremely easy to need Shannon to make our 2013. is always a’ bheirt. comfortable. The bath- 3. Peruvian pack animal seen coming back through “You must live with a person to know a person. If you Lough Inagh: “In the most colored glass coasters, navigate. voyage that much more The Gathering is prob- Duine amháin means “one person only” and is used rooms are currently being Tuam all alone. (5) want to know me come and live with me.” remote hotel of Conne- each adorned with a lamb. I have flown back and pleasant. ably as good a reason as instead of the number “one.” updated to include walk-in 4. Upset trash can to find the means of writing. (3) “Praise the young and they will blossom” mara, surrounded by a Of course, I had to bring forth with Aer Lingus Another favorite, while any to visit Ireland but if If someone asks you, Cá mhéad duine? “How many showers – a real bonus for 5. Oh, R.U.C. tour ban row. (anag.) North Wexford sea- “The raggy colt often made a powerful horse.” landscape all lovers of the those coasters home. Ben many times but never we’re at it, is Dooley car the planned events don’t men (are there) ?”, you can answer Bhí seisear or Bhí older folks who don’t like side resort near Gorey with a 2 mile sandy beach. (8,7) “Age is honorable and youth is noble.” Very Ireland dream about, and his wife, Pauline, care- had a female pilot until rentals. I have been hiring convince you, how about sé daoine. If you are not sure, you might want to use climbing over the edge of 6. “Go to the — thou sluggard; consider her ways, and “Youth does not mind where it sets its foot.” the luxury of a marvelous fully packed my purchases last October. The trip was cars from Dooley for at the news that as many the word for “or”, nó. Bhí cúigear nó seisear –“There a wet bathtub to get out of be wise.” Proverbs Chap. 6 verse 6 (3) “Both your friend and your enemy think you will manor house together with and, believe it or not, all ar- seamless and the flight least five years and have as 2.5-million lambs will were five or six (people)”. In some dialects you might hear the shower. where the second number is 7. Sound of Ireland’s first republican? (4) never die.” the warmth and simplic- rived home in my suitcase as smooth as silk and I never, ever had any kind of be born on 30,000 sheep Bhí cúigear nó sheisear Lough Inagh’s meals lenited (aspirated). You will have to choose which you 8. “Nothing is —— done in this world until men are “The well fed does not understand the lean.” are delicious and sourced ity of a village pub in the in good shape – probably decided to find out more problem. Cars are new and farms across the Repub- “He who comes with a story to you brings two away rare old times that seem packed inside shoes. about Aer Lingus’s pilots. want to use but will be understood by all Irish speakers. prepared to kill one another if it is not done.” Shaw (4) locally. You can eat in the well maintained (I always lic over the next three We will not do this in this course. from you” eternal there.” It was interesting to Rosemarie Curran from cozy bar or elegant dining ask for a Skoda) and the months? Is there anything Notice that after Cá mhéad? the noun is always Sarah Grennan, edi- hear that Ben worked for room. Be sure to try my Aer Lingus responded to staff is friendly and accom- cuter than a green field full singular. “How much are these bananas?” Cá mhéad ADVERTISEMENT favorite appetizer –raw tor of Hotel & Catering 30 years in the UK police my query, saying, “We are modating. There might be of white frolicking lambs? Spring is a wonderful time an banana seo? oysters served with a Review, said, “Our Gold service, primarily in inner very proud of our history! cheaper rates elsewhere, You do remember the idioms with le and ar that we Guinness shot. Medal Jury can’t help but city Birmingham, before Grainne Cronin was the but I trust the quality to visit Ireland – but then learned the last two months. These included: I make a point to include fall in love with Lough In- moving to Connemara. first Aer Lingus pilot to of Dooley cars and have so is summer, fall and Cé bhí leat? “Who was with you?” Lough Inagh in my Ireland agh Lodge each time they “Just being here reawak- be recruited, in 1977. In never been disappointed. I winter. Photography by Bhí Máire liom. “Mary was with me.” 1978 and 1979, two more collect my lovely Skoda at If you’re lucky enough to D’imigh lei. “He went away.” female pilots joined Aer Shannon and enjoy it for be in Co. Clare at the end Bhuail mé le Seán. “I ran into Sean.” Lingus, making it three fe- the duration of my stay. of this month, be sure to Tá ocras air. “He is hungry” male pilots for the next 10 PROPERTY PRICES visit Doolin for The Russell Tá tart uirthi. “She is thirsty.” Image Photo Service years. Aer Lingus was the We hear that property Weekend that honors trad Tá fearg orthu. “They are angry.” second airline in Europe, prices here in the US are musicians Micho, Packie, Tá deifir orm. “I am in a hurry.” after SAS, to introduce turning around but is it and Gussie Russell. The Tá slaghdán orm. “I have (a) cold.” • Weddings • Anniversaries female pilots.” the same in Ireland? In weekend (Feb. 22-25) We will use these as well as some others both from past Rosemarie added that The Irish Times on Dec. 26, promotes the musical heri- lessons and the numbers above to practice. Use only the • Banquets • Portraits there are now 40 female we read about Bellingham tage of Clare and this year numbers for “people” in this exercise. pilots – 17 captains, 23 Castle, a 17th Century includes a Friday night Translate these into Irish: 1.) “How much are those • Reunions first officers, and two ca- castle (now a 21-room ho- talk about the history of potatoes?” 2.) “”This man has a cold.” 3.) “There are four det pilots in training. All tel) outside Dundalk, Co. traditional Irish music people at the door?” 4.) “Three or four men were at the told, Aer Lingus employs Louth, that recently sold and song. For more, visit shop.” 5,) “I’d like black coffee, please.” 6.) “Welcome • Groups • Families 476 pilots. for 900,000 euro. On 17 michorussellweekend.ie to spring!” 7.) “There were ten or a dozen people in the I mentioned earlier that acres with fishing rights How can you get to church building.” 8.) “Will there be six or seven in the • Special Occasions Shannon is my favorite on the River Glyde, the Ireland? Great deals station?” airport. You can often fly castle went on the market are available online and Answers: 1.) Cá mhéad na prátaí sin? 2.) Tá slagh- Boston-Dublin more easily in 2008 for 6.75 million through travel agencies dán ar an duine seo. 3.) Tá ceathrar ag an doras. but there’s something so euro! The buyers – the and also from the various 4.) Bhí triúr nó ceathrar ag an siopa. 5.) Is maith (617) 291-6609 “Ireland” about Shannon: Corscaddens, who also airlines that fly there. So liom caife dubh, gun raibh maith agat. 6.) Fáilte It’s small, comfortable, own Cabra Castle in Co. enjoy Ireland whenever do’n earrach! 7.) Bhí deichniúr nó dháréag sa hea- friendly, and it’s fast Cavan – got quite a deal, and wherever you go. glais. 8.) An mbeidh seisar nó seachtar sa stáisiún? The official photographers of the Boston Irish Reporter Page 18 February 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com Worldwide at www.bostonirish.com February 2013 BOSTON IRISH Reporter Page 19 BRETT’S BOSTON JOYCE’S DUBLIN: GONE WITH THE WIND? By Harry Brett By Thomas O’Grady first top-covered trams. tramcars to provide the Exclusive photos of Boston Irish people & events Special to the BIR While citing “four appar- discreet accommodations Punctuated with head- ent errors, one of them for women that Bloom The Charitable Irish Society hosted a lines to mark its being perhaps intentional,” sees lacking. Mr. Collopy President’s Reception at the Irish Room, set in conjoined newspa- Corcoran nonetheless explains his plan to his Gasson Hall, Boston College on Jan. 23. Guest per offices, the seventh gives Joyce high marks friend, a German Jesuit speaker was Professor Joseph Lee, renowned episode of James Joyce’s for his depiction of the named Father Kurt Fahrt: Irish historian and director of the Glucks- Ulysses, “Aeolus,” itself system at various points in “Let us say that a lady and man House at New York University, His talk punctuates the novel, Ulysses, and many of the a gentleman are walking focused on the legacy of the 100th anniver- announcing by way of basic facts in Corcoran’s down the street and have sary of the 1913 Dublin General Strike, long its sudden typographical narrative illuminate just a mind to go for a stroll in considered a prelude to the Easter Uprising shift—and indeed by its how imaginatively Joyce the Phoenix Park. Fair of 1916. first headline—that both took the geography that enough. But first one the characters and the lay literally beneath his thing has to be attended 1.) Tom Maunsell, Winchester; Catherine Do- 1. reader are now located feet and reworked it in to. They wait at a tram nahue, Milton; Maureen Connolly, Hingham; IN THE HEART OF THE his fiction. stop. Lo and behold, along Joseph L. Lee, New York University (event speak- HIBERNIAN METROPO- Writing specifically comes the Black Tram. er); Teresa Brady, Hingham; Jimmy Maunsell, LIS. about the opening of the The lady steps on board Medford, all Castlegregory, Co. Kerry Ireland Specifically, most of the “Aeolus” episode, Corco- and away she goes on natives; 2.) Joseph Lee, New York University; activity in the episode ran notes: “The four tracks her own. And the whole Paul McNamara, Charitable Irish Society presi- takes place in the vicinity coming past the Abbey beauty of the plan is this: dent; 3.) Neil Hurley, Somerville; John Rattigan, of Sackville Street (re- Street junction became she can get an ordinary Newton; 4.) Margaret Flagg, W. Roxbury; John named O’Connell Street six between there and An ‘iconic means of transport’: A Dublin Tram turns at the corner of Grafton tram back to rejoin her Connolly, Hingham; Cate McGrail, Belmont; in 1924), the main thor- the Pillar, the four in- Street and Nassau Street c. 1897-1904 (NLI, Clar 62). waiting friend.” 5.) Jeff Flagg, W. Roxbury; Barbara and Wayne oughfare of Dublin both ner ones going through Courtesy The National Archives of Ireland Obviously, Mr. Collopy’s Perkins, Milton; 6.) Caroline Heaney, Westwood; in 1904, when Ulysses is a series of crossovers to scheme is ludicrous. But Ann Geraghty, Dedham; 7.) Danielle Owens, set, and now. Anticipat- form four terminal stubs of just how Joyce engaged erence may still resonate All of which, remark- O’Brien’s linking it with Cambridge; Ann Mulligan, Brighton; 8.) Tom ing the buffeting flurry right in front of the Pil- in his imagination with today for readers with ably, eventually loops Dublin’s trams under- Carty, Dedham; Peter Fallon, Newton; 9.) Mike of busyness that Joyce’s lar’s entrance door. From what he once referred to as an ear for Irish music, back to the Dublin United scores the centrality of the Dwyer, Westwood; John Hegarty, Medford; characters Leopold Bloom these stubs began the “the catalogue of Dublin’s fewer and fewer Joyceans Tramway Company at tramway system to Dublin 10.) Msgr. Liam Bergin, Boston College; Jack and Stephen Dedalus journeys to all but one of street furniture.” will know firsthand that, the turn of the twenti- life a century and more Joyce, Wellesley; Jim O’Connor, Wellesley; 11.) the southside destinations Writing with Leopold at least until the late eth century. For just as ago, and in the process Maryellen Lyons, Back Bay; Charles Dunbaugh, will experience inside the figuratively blustery listed by Joyce.” How Bloom as the episode’s 1970s, the traffic island Bloom’s glance at Moore’s underscores how a book Beacon Hill; Carleton La Porte, Back Bay; 12.) fitting that an episode center of narrative con- which is home to Moore’s statue transports the Joy- like Corcoran’s Through “The Heightsmen.” 2. 3. newspaper offices nearby, the episode begins amidst defined by verbal bluster sciousness, Joyce packs statue was also home to cean reader all the way Streets Broad and Narrow hubbub in the literal and physical bustle and a lot into just the first a public men’s lavatory. back to Father Mahony’s can be so helpful for the center of that street, the shunting about inside two sentences registering Yet that essential bit of “Rogueries” in 1835, so latter-day reader com- hub of the Dublin Unit- the newspaper offices Bloom’s passing glance knowledge illuminates does Bloom’s sensitivity mitted to “reconstructing” ed Tramway Company: should begin in the cen- at Moore’s statue: “He not only Bloom’s (and to women’s needs carry the heart of the Joycean “Before Nelson’s pillar ter of Sackville Street; as crossed under Tommy Joyce’s) irreverent humor the reader forward to metropolis. Aptly enough, trams slowed, shunted, Corcoran notes further: “It Moore’s roguish finger. at Moore’s expense but 1961 and the publica- my browsing through changed trolley, started has been calculated that a They did right to put him also the next sentence in tion of The Hard Life by that book conveyed me for Blackrock, Kingstown tram could make upwards up over a urinal: meeting the episode: “Ought to be Flann O’Brien, one of the not only deep into DEAR and Dalkey, Clonskea, of 60 different movements of the waters.” Even a places for women.” As preeminent Irish novel- DIRTY DUBLIN (another Rathgar and Terenure, between O’Connell Bridge casual viewer of the statue Bloom’s throwaway mus- ists in the generation headline from “Aeolus”) Palmerston Park and and Rutland [Parnell] today will notice that ing reflects, Dublin Corpo- immediately following but also backward and upper Rathmines, Sandy- Square.” Moore is represented in ration, in a manifestation Joyce. Set essentially in forward in Ireland’s rich mount Green, Rathmines, Gradually superseded a “poetical” pose, with a of lingering Victorian “Joyce’s Dublin” (the nar- literary history. Ringsend and Sandy- by buses, taxis and private book in his left hand and prudery, in effect denied rative action takes place mount Tower, Harold’s automobiles, the tramway the index finger of his the fact of female bodily between 1890 and 1910), Thomas O’Grady is Cross.” system in Dublin had right hand conspicuously functions by affording no this darkly comic novel Director of Irish Studies Famously, while writing run its course by 1949; raised as if to emphasize public accommodations has as a subplot a scheme at the University of Mas- Ulysses, Joyce declared to so only the earliest of a particular point. But for them. by one Mr. Collopy to outfit sachusetts Boston. a friend, “I want to give a “Joyceans”—professional most casual readers of picture of Dublin so com- or amateur—would have Ulysses will not recognize 4. 5. plete that if the city one had firsthand experience that the word “roguish” day suddenly disappeared of the DUTC as Joyce alludes to an elaborate from the earth it could be knew it. In a sense, then, hoax perpetrated in the reconstructed out of my the trams, which actu- London periodical Fra- book.” Joyce’s intention ally appear in numerous ser’s Magazine in 1835 continues to resonate for episodes of Ulysses, em- by a literary Irish priest, readers of the novel in our body the theme of “gone Father Francis Mahony time, and Joyceans—both with the wind” (a phrase (1804-66). Having created professionals (mostly aca- spoken by a character in a fictional counterpart demics like yours truly) “Aeolus”) that latter-day named Father Prout and and amateurs (devotees daytrippers have to come also Oliver Yorke, the edi- of the written word)—con- to terms with in trying tor of The Reliques of Fa- tinue to walk literally in to reconstruct Joyce’s ther Prout, a collection of the literary footprints of Dublin. his purported literary and Joyce’s memorable cast of I was thinking that spe- cultural musings, Mahony characters. But as I can cifically last summer as I had Father Prout set out personally attest, more paused before a Joycean to prove, in an essay titled and more of those foot- landmark that has with- “The Rogueries of Tom stood time’s tax and toll: Moore,” that a number of 6. 7. 8. prints have disappeared— have gone as if blown away the statue of “Ireland’s Moore’s poetic verses are by Aeolus, the god of wind national poet,” Thomas plagiarisms of verses first whom Joyce evokes in Moore (1779-1852), that written in French, Latin Ulysses—as the city has stands on a traffic island or Greek—and as proof he morphed inevitably and next to Trinity College presented the originals . . continually during the in the center of Dublin. . which Mahony himself century-plus since Joyce Renowned for his “Irish had written. Evidently, began inscribing it on the Melodies”—mostly sen- in Joyce’s mind Mahony’s page. More and more that timental ballads set to own “roguery” would still reconstruction has to be traditional Irish airs— be familiar in 1904 to even undertaken in the mind’s Moore figures frequently an ordinary Dubliner like eye of the reader-turned- in Joyce’s writing, begin- Bloom. daytripper. ning with several refer- Likewise, Joyce allows To that end, I have been ences and allusions in Bloom plausible familiar- browsing around recently Dubliners and continuing ity with one of Moore’s in a book about Dublin’s through Finnegans Wake. most popular ballads, BOSTON - THE SATURDAY BEFORE THE WORLDS - “The Meeting of the Wa- trams, those clanging But in “Lestrygonians,” WITHIN 500 YARDS OF THE WORLD DANCE 10. conveyors of the citizenry the episode of Ulysses ters,” which evokes the immediately following “sweet vale of Avoca” in CHAMPIONSHIPS VENUE IN BOSTON. 9. of the “metropolis” during Joyce’s time. 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