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Editor’s Corner relatives names instead. I get it every year at the Famine Memorial Mass each month. I imagine the coffin ships, at least the ones who made it to shore, entering the mouth of the Cuyahoga. Those not sick John O’Brien, Jr. and below, are standing on deck, trying to imagine a new life in this Cleave- land, and scanning for a relative or another there to meet them. 16th, at 5 pm, at the Fam- The legend lives on, from profile. So Sorry Dr. Jeane! Some have ine Memorial, across from the Chippewa on down … … been warned the Flat Iron Café. The Flat Last month, we mis- Go dtí an mhí seo of scammers, Iron is another beacon in identified Dr. Jeane Collar- chugainn, slán a fhágáil and the eyes the night from 1910 on, for an as Dr. Judy in a picture (Until next month, good- have them. those fleeing or staying. and title in last month’s bye) Others have John other things on their “Follow me where I go, There are moments surreal, what I do and who I know; minds. The OhIAN O’Bent when you stand there and The 17th annual Greater welcomes new feel the ghosts drifting by. Cleveland Famine Memo- advertising partners Enterprises includes: Like Harry Potter, but with rial Mass is Saturday the www.twitter.com/jobjr www.facebook.com/ OhioIrishAmericanNews together we bring you the OhIAN. www.linkedin.com/in/ jobjr/ http://songsand- stories.net/myblog/feed/

Our hearts go out to the and a passel of other kids family of Betty McDer- who had other last names, mott, who passed away July but that she steered right 21st. Betty was the Irish anyway. Fest Gatekeeper with a soft ~ warm smile and an iron Congratulations to Alec De will. Another Guardian Gabriel and John Delaney, Angel resides with God. celebrating 20 years togeth- ~ er as The New Barleycorn! Our thoughts and prayers Congratulations to Pj to the family of Angela McIntyre’s celebrating their Murphy, who died July 10th Anniversary, at the 25th. Angela was the heart of Kamm’s Corner. 2017 United Irish Soci- ~ eties Woman of the Year, Congratulations to Bill & and mother to Dworken Maureen Rice, celebrating & Bernstein attorney Pat their 50th Wedding Murphy, and his siblings, Anniversary! SEPTEMBER 2017 “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com 3

in the society into which Joyce protagonists (Stephen Dedalus because it dealt with legal cases was born toward the end of and Leopold Bloom) thoughts. and I am a lawyer; second, be- the reign of Queen Victoria. Equally, the Maamstrasna mur- cause it was written by Adrian There are thirty-two cases that ders of 1882, which led to the Hardiman, a former Judge on are featured in Ulysses. They execution of an innocent man the Irish Supreme Court, who I involve eleven named judges (Myles Joyce) is a significant met, spent time with in the US and perhaps a further eight who theme in Finnegan’s Wake. and in Ireland, and who lectured are not specifically named, thir- The book’s appendix deals to my Irish history class at Holy Joyce in Court Joyce had his own obsession teen barristers, eleven named with the trial of Robert Emmet, Name High School, and third, By Adrian Hardiman with the law. solicitors, and more who remain a trial so nefarious in nature because the book deals with Head of Zeus Ltd. LSBN The law in Joyce’s work, Ul- anonymous. because of the lawyer who rep- James Joyce, arguably the most 9781786691583 372 pp. 2017 ysses primarily, and secondarily While many of the cases deal resented Emmet, that it still casts famous Irish writer of all time. with treason, murder, and po- a shadow over the English judi- This is a TOP SHELF selection. Rare is the book which a litical assassination, Joyce also cial system at the time. Emmet’s *Terrence J. Kenneally is an reviewer knows is in the pro- gives credence to much smaller speech from the dock after being attorney and owner of Ter- cess of being written, through cases in the recorder’s court or sentenced to be hanged, drawn, rence J. Kenneally & Associates familiarization with the writer, the police court, of charges like and quartered is included; Co. in Rocky River, Ohio. He and then have the honor of being drunk and disorderly. represents insureds and insur- reviewing his work. In the case Joyce was interested in civil as “Let no man write my epi- ance companies throughout of Joyce in Court however, the well as criminal law. The eigh- taph; for no man who knows the state of Ohio in insurance book was published posthu- teen civil cases mentioned in my motives dares now vindicate defense cases. He received his mously, as Adrian Hardiman the book include an action for them…when my country takes graduate degree in Irish Studies died suddenly in 2016. breach of promise of marriage, a her place among the nations of from John Carroll University Among the many accomplish- libel action, an action to enforce the earth then and not till then, and teaches Irish history and ments was a distinguished ca- payment on a policy of life in- let my epitaph be written.” literature at Holy -Name High reer as a barrister, appointment surance and actions for debt in School. He is also the President to the Irish Supreme Court in various forms. There are three reasons I like of Holy Name High School for 2000, author of many important Certain cases had a personal, the book Joyce in Court. First, 2017-18. judgements for the court, and social, and political resonance a Joycean devotee/scholar. It in Finnegan’s Wake, is not law in Ireland in Joyce’s version turns out the Supreme Court in the abstract, but the law of of June 1904. The execution in Judge had a private passion: individual cases, the law laid 1803 of the revolutionary Robert About Our the work of James Joyce, while down, practiced, and enforced Emmet features in the book’s Cover

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A Helping Hand “twinning” of the two communities, Achill in 1956. and the fond remembrances of that The elder Mr. It is not arcane knowledge that, while famed son of Mayo, boxer Johnny Joyce worked on Irish emigration to Greater Cleveland Kilbane, in sculpture and local folklore. the Cleveland has involved all of the 26 counties, Terry Joyce, the prominent labor lead- Convention Cen- A Firm people from far West and their de- er, adds to this historical continuum. ter as well as the Foundation scendants, particularly from County Terry is the Business Manager of Ford plant. It is by Ken Callahan Mayo and more particularly from Building Laborer’s Union Local 310 a familiar story Achill Island, Ireland are inordinately and is the President of the Cleveland among those west represented in our community. This Building Trade Council. Terry follows of the Cuyahoga: Leadership Cleveland. geographical and social phenomenon in the steps for the laborer of his late he met his future wife “Bridie” Jen- Joyce has, in addition, gathered a explains the abiding affinity of Cleve- dad, Terry “Kelly” Joyce, who arrived nings at the West Side Irish American group of musicians to record a live land Irish and the people of Achill, the in Cleveland from Mewillian, Currane, Club. His dad later oversaw the Club’s CD at The Harp, sending proceeds of move from Cleveland to North Olmst- the resultant CD to the Pope John Paul ed as the Club’s President. Center for the Autistic in Galway City. Young Terry graduated from St. Mel A former Cuyahoga County judge grade school and attended St. Ignatius High School. He attended Loyola University in Chicago. Terry spoke of the special challenges and benefits of being first generation Irish, of how grateful the immigrant is for assistance and opportunity. Terry was influenced by his dad’s apprecia- tion of hard work - “an honest day for an honest day” - and how the benefit of mutual assistance is realized, par- ticularly in the recently arrived, in the organized labor movement. It was this dedication to work and the willingness to lend a helping hand that created a solid and honest middle class and a stability to raise healthy Terry Joyce families. This philosophy continues to go “hand in glove” with the sense recalls in 2005 meeting Terry and his of social justice he received through cousin and other young athletes from Catholic education. West Mayo, in Cleveland to com- Terry is proud of his Irish heritage, pete in the International Children’s and strives to return to Achill every Games. They, from atop the Justice year, where he is known as “Terry Center, were awed by the size of Og,” a tribute to his dad. As his dad Lake Erie and were heard to exclaim would say: “If you don’t know where of the Browns Stadium - “Bejesus - you came from, you can’t appreciate American football!”; the children, where you have gotten.” mercifully, spared, in their innocence, Terry was elected as Business Man- of knowledge of the team’s recent ager of Local 310 in 2011, following a history. career of commitment to the organized Terry and his wife Nikki live with labor movement, including having their daughter, Aislinn, so named been elected President of the Cleve- from an older Irish term for dream or land Building Trades Council in 2008, inspiration, in West Park. acting as a delegate to AFL-CIO and In these times of political and social the COPE Scanning Committee. He turmoil, there is benefit in recalling has served on the Executive Board of that the building blocks of American the Cleveland “Citizen.” society - honesty, hard work, com- In addition, Terry has served as a munity, faith - continue to guide us, Trustee of the Irish American Archives as they have the Joyce family, into Society (where he was able to help the future. facilitate the donation of labor from * Mr. Callahan is a partner at Collins a variety of local labor unions, Norris & Scanlon LLP. He is a former Com- Brothers, and the Marous Brothers mon Pleas Court judge, on the Board Construction Company for the cre- of the Irish American Archives Society, ation of the Johnny Kilbane statue in and a Founder of the Cleveland Irish Battery Park). He is a graduate of 2007 Bar Association. MARCH 2017 “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com 29

John Carroll University Welcomes Three Gerard Manley Hopkins Speakers John Carroll University in welcoming three Gerard Manley Hopkins speakers, who will offer public lectures on Irish literature and history. (from left)Paul Muldoon and the T.S. Eliot prize-winner, Sinead Morrissey, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, join Oliver Rafferty, a nationally known scholar of Irish studies formerly Hopkins Chair at John Carroll. These events will help inform students in JCU’s Peace, Justice and Human Rights Program, which includes a trip to Ireland, Sinead Morrissey of Queen’s University, Oliver Rafferty of Boston College: doon of Princeton and The New Yorker: in May 2017. The lectures take place Belfast, Ireland: talk and poetry reading “Famine, Migration, and God”: a lecture talk and poetry reading. on John Carroll University’s campus in Wednesday, March 15, 2017 in Rodman on the Great Famine. Wednesday, March Monday, April 24, 2017 in University Heights, Ohio; all SEPTEMBERare welcome. A, 7 p.m. 2017 29, 2017 in Rodman “We’ve A, 7 p.m. Paul MulAlways- Donahue Auditorium Been at 7Green! p.m. ” www.ianohio.com 5 Tara Trips enough taught me how important it is to let Subway Ride others know that we By Tara Quinn see each other. SeeingThough and respect -he was quite well off, he could -al I’m sitting on the Sub- ing, this is where the way, taking the 2 uptown. journeyready of service see be -the injustices that would increase I have no plan; I just find TaraTrips gins. The eleven year learning the Subway is old in us wants to be empowering, and ex- seen,the connected devastation with, of the 1847 Famine and his ploring the city alone given a smile and a gives me quality time space that says, “You’re with myself. worthydeparture and you are from Ireland a few years later. He We make a stop and enough; you don’t twenty some middle- botherwill me; wouldtravel you well with a horse and cart. Still the schoolers get on the train. like the seat next to I watch as some adults me, your laughter does roll their eyes, move fur- By Tara Quinn notjourney bother me. In fact,will take days and he takes enough ther down the train, fully the world needs your uncomfortable with all brightness.” that comes when 11 year Seeingfood one for another himself and a bag of cooked po- olds overtake and make through glasses of re- noise. I spend the next specttatoes is the foundation to share with people along the way. 15 minutes watching theseTara kids; they the– beginning A 12of being myPart brother and Series further down the train. My perception of maximum service. It is the begin- are laughing and socializing, some are sister’s keepers; and respecting hu- that people were moving away was ning of being each other’s keepers. playing a hipper version of Rock Paper man beings because of the simple yet skewed, but the feeling of not being Though the Famine has yet not hit, the poverty Scissors, while others are restingfrom their profoundly the important Tara fact that Skryne their heads on each other. are human beings. Occasionally I make eye contact with My high school’s motto was “Learn, that surrounds him worries him and he knows a handful of these kids; wePreservation exchange Serve, and Lead.” I learned howGroup to be smiles; I see them. I move a seat over, of maximum service in those hallways; that many survive on lit- not to get away, but to give room so we were nourished in it. I continuously friends can sit next to each other. gave back, and in return was filled “Here is where it starts,” I think to with self worth and self-love. Not to tle better than starvation myself. Here is where we begin to “save” people, but to ask, “Is there question if we are ‘enough’;It’s to Augustques- something 11th, I can do theto help?” weather is tion if we are seen; to question if we But when I graduated, I stopped, rations. are worthy of the space mildwe take; ifand and I forgotin thousands that that was the deal here;of homes we are respected. Whether it’s on the that giving back was my rent here on All around the country, Subway or in a classroom or in the earth. I began to forget I was enough, grocery store line, they arearound watching, and Ireland felt unworthy people of the space Idiscuss was gathering information on how the taking up. Somewhere I thought I had similar conversations world responds to them. the possibilitynothing to give, of that making no one wanted it to Here is where it simply starts for me: me around; that they were moving were being had around Daniel O’Connell’s monster hearthstones. With march. The Great Famine has Daniel O’Connell already not yet struck, and the mildness claiming that Tara would of the August nights encourages be the biggest march people to take to the roads. yet, and as the historical In Moneygall, Barack Obama’s heart of Ireland, Tara had ancestor, Falmouth Kearney, his “an elevation in the pub- sister Margaret Cleary and her lic mind, which no other husband discuss going. Times part of Ireland possesses.” are hard for cobblers. With peo- All around the hearthstones, Fathers sighs as ple barely surviving on potatoes and goats milks, their sons and daughters pleaded to be let go. shoes are a luxury and fixing them is often done Mother looks up from the kettle on the hob at home. It would take them two days on foot smiling at their enthusiasm, looking over to her to get there but he’s a promise of a lift on a cart husband, “Ah shure, let them go.” from someone in the town. The Tara Monster March occurred at Tara, Tomas Feeney, Ronald Regan’s ancestor, speaks Ireland on the 15th August 1843. The estimated to his father, also Thomas Feeney, about the attendance is from 750,000 (English Officials) to possibility of getting a few days off work. Though 1.5 million (Daniel O’Connell), out of a popu- in Tipperary, it will still take lation of 8 million. It three days to get there. Still his was the world’s first father had needed help in June million-person march when the Cork march had been and Daniel O’Connell’s planned and promised him ish M peaceful repeal move- Li e Ir us ! if all his work were done, he ment influenced Gand- v ic could go to Tara. Thomas se- hi, Fredrick Douglass nior was heartbroken about his and Martin Luther son’s plans to go to England to King. make his fortune and could see Tara Skryne Preserva- the sense of an Irish Parliament tion group aims to protect the Tara Archaeolog- that might bring his son back home. ical Landscape from inappropriate development, Hours: In Cork, Henry Ford (of Ford Car fame) an- such as the proposed Leinster Orbital, which cestors decides to make the big trip. 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On This Day in Irish History land was confiscated by James Caulfield, Earl of Charlemont. His By Terrence Kenneally Cromwell; also known as the town house in Dublin now houses the “To Hell or Connacht “Act. Hugh Lane Gallery of Modern Art. 14 August 1598 - Battle of 29 August 1975 - Death of Eamon de 3 August 1916 - Sir Roger Casement the Yellow Ford, in which Irish forces un- Valera, president of Ireland from 1959- (51), humanitarian and militant nation- der Hugh O’Neill defeat the Crown in one 1973. alist, was hanged in Pentonville Prison. of the greatest Gaelic victories of the war. 31 August 1994 - The IRA announced ‘a SEPTEMBER 2017 Vol. 11 Issue 9 5 August 1888 - Death of Philip Henry 18 August 1728 - Birth in Dublin of complete cessation of military operations.’ Sheridan, U.S. General, and son of Irish Publishers immigrants. He earned the reputation of John O’Brien Jr. / Cliff Carlson being one of the greatest Union soldiers Editor John O’Brien Jr. of the time. Website and layout Cathy Curry Carlson 7 August 2001 - Funeral in Spain for Irish actor Joe Lynch, whose show Living Columnists with Lynch was broadcast in the 1950s on Behind the Hedge- John O’Brien, Jr. Sunday nights on Radio Eireann. Blowin’ In- Susan Mangan 8 August 1647 - Battle of Dungan’s Hill Cleveland Irish- Francis McGarry between Confederate Ireland and the En- Cleveland Cohmra- Bob Carney glish Parliament during the “Wars of the Crossword Puzzle- Linda Fulton Burke Three Kingdom.” The battle had political Don’t Forget Us-Lisa O’Rourke repercussions as the victory led to the Growing up Irish- Maureen Ginley collapse of the confederate cause and the Heart of the Issue- Bob Carney Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in 1649. Illuminations- J. Michael Finn Ire. Past & Present- Niamh O’Sullivan 9 August 1971 - The Prime Minister of Madigan Muses- Marilyn Madigan Northern Ireland, Brian Faulkner, intro- Off Shelf/On This Day-Terry Kenneally duced ‘internment’, giving authorities Our Sports Man- David McDonnell: the power to indefinitely hold suspected Out of the Mailbag- John O’Brien, Jr. terrorists. $1000 check presented to Eddie Cotter of the Dead Theologians Society, to Terry From Derry- Terry Boyle 12 August 1652 - “Act for the Settling aid their efforts in Ireland. Irish Bishop Alphonsus “Phonsie” Cullinan, Toledo Irish - Maury Collins of Ireland” allows for the transplantation of Waterford, Ireland, took time after Sunday Mass at the Dublin Irish to Clare or Connacht of proprietors whose Festival to mark this occasion. IAN Ohio Inc. is published monthly (12 issues a year) on the first day of each month. Subscription is by first class mail. 1 year $30, 2 years at $55 3 years $80. To subscribe go online at www.ianohio.com, or Email us at [email protected], or call us at 708-445-0700 or mail to address below. IAN Ohio is available for free at over 240 locations throughout Ohio. For information on the locations go to www.ianohio.com and click on the Ohio Distribution button.

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committing such il- room in America for Irish immigrants. arranged. When the proposal came be- legal acts they will “We will make you all citizens, but not fore the Cork Town Council, councilmen forfeit all right to so rapidly as you have made me a citizen passed a resolution to do nothing regard- the protection of here today. But after a little probation, we ing Grant’s visit. Several councilmen the Government or will make you all citizens, and give you alleged on the council floor that Grant to its interference an equal voice with ourselves in saying was anti-Catholic. in their behalf to Causing the controversy was that General Grant rescue them from Grant, as president, had supported a the consequences of their own acts.” failed amendment to the U.S. Consti- and Ireland On the positive side, it was political tution, titled the Blaine Amendment, The Irish song McNamara’s Band was pressure from Grant that was partially after its sponsor, James G. Blaine. The written in 1889 by Seamus O’Connor and responsible for the British “general am- measure, put forward in 1875, would John J. Stamford. The song was written nesty” of 1871 that resulted in the release have prohibited public funding of paro- for the owner of the Alhambra Theatre of 33 Fenian prisoners. Also, Grant issued chial schools. In a speech in Des Moines, in Belfast, the Irish-American entertainer presidential pardons to many Fenian Iowa, the President Grant affirmed the William J. “Billy” Ashcroft. The original officers who were caught attempting separation of church and state, and called lyrics were re-written when the song was another Canadian invasion after the 1870 for church property to be taxed. Grant recorded in the United States in 1945 by proclamation had been issued. was a Republican, the party which the Bing Crosby. The song became a big hit Just after leaving the White House in heavily Irish-American Democratic Party for Crosby. The American version of the March 1877, Grant began a world tour. regarded as pro-British, anti-Catholic song contains the lines: He travelled from May 1877 until Sep- and anti-immigrant. There are multi- When General Grant to Ireland came, tember 1879 – and Ireland was the twen- ple examples of President Grant being he took me by the hand, ty-first country on his itinerary. Grant sympathetic to Irish causes, as well as Says he, “I never saw the likes of Mc- was the first US President to visit Ireland. to Catholics. He was not overtly an- Namara’s Band.” Like many US presidents, President ti-Catholic. Nevertheless, his trip to Cork This raises the historical question – Did Grant had Irish roots. His Scots-Irish who shall make the laws and what laws was cancelled and was replaced by trip General Grant ever visit Ireland? Well, maternal grandfather, John Simpson, should be made.” to Derry. it turns out, he did visit Ireland and was born in Dergenagh, County Tyrone, The same welcome was experienced at Grant departed Ireland from Dunleary the visit was not without some political and had immigrated to America in 1760. every stop on the trip as the party moved on Wednesday, January 8, 1879. His visit controversy. Grant arrived in Dublin on January 3, on to Belfast on Tuesday, January 7. The highlighted religious and political differ- Hiram Ulysses Grant was born in Point 1879 from Holyhead, aboard the ferry The city was decorated with American and ences between Ireland and the US. Upon Pleasant, Ohio, on April 27, 1822, to Jesse Wild Irishman. He was accompanied by British flags. Again crowds thronged his return to the United States Grant Root Grant, and Hannah Simpson. Grant New York Herald journalist John Russell the streets, despite the bad weather. An launched another bid for the Republican graduated from West Point in 1843 where Young and General Edward F. Noyes, the elaborate luncheon was held in the City presidential nomination but he was not his name was mistakenly recorded as Ul- US minister to France, among others. The Hall and on Wednesday he visited several successful. After a year-long struggle ysses Simpson Grant, a name he adopted party was met by the Lord Mayor of Dub- linen warehouses and factories. Accom- with cancer, Grant died at 8 o’clock in the for the remainder of his life. lin, Sir Jonah Barrington, whose carriage panied by Belfast Mayor John Browne, morning on July 23, 1885, at the age of 63. As Commanding General during the brought them to the Shelbourne Hotel. Grant visited the city’s enormous Har- *J. Michael Finn is the Ohio State US Civil War (1864–69), Grant led the Later, Grant visited the Mansion land & Wolff shipyard. It was reported Historian for the Ancient Order of Hi- Union Army to victory over the Con- House, the Royal Irish Academy, the Bank that 2,000 workmen welcomed Grant, bernians and Division Historian for the federacy. Twice elected as US President of Ireland, the Chamber of Commerce, gathering around his carriage, shouting Patrick Pearse Division in Columbus, (he served from 1869 until 1877), Grant the stock exchange, Trinity College and “Three cheers for Grant!” Ohio. He is also Chairman of the Cath- led the Republican Party in their effort City Hall, where he received the freedom There was some controversy during olic Record Society for the Diocese of to remove the vestiges of Confederate of the city. In a short speech, Grant not- the trip. Grant had not intended to visit Columbus, Ohio. He writes on Irish and nationalism and slavery and protect Afri- ed that he had received similar honors Derry, but was expected to travel to Irish-American history; Ohio history and can-American citizenship. His presidency elsewhere but none gave him “more Cork. Diplomats had sent a letter to Cork Ohio Catholic history. You may contact has often been criticized for tolerating pleasure” because he was “by birth a officials shortly before Grant’s arrival in him at [email protected]. corruption and for the economic depres- citizen of a country where there are more Ireland, suggesting that a reception be sion that occurred in his second term. Irishmen . . . than there are in Ireland.” Even though Irish soldiers contributed On Monday, January 6, Grant left by Gaelic Imports greatly to the victory of the Union Army, train for Derry and, despite cold winds, 5633 Pearl Rd. Grant was not always on friendly terms snow, ice and rain, was welcomed warm- Parma, OH 44129 with the Irish. After the war General ly by crowds in Dundalk, Omagh, and 440-845-0100 Grant and General Meade were sent by Strabane. In Derry, ships in the harbor fax 440-845-0102 President Andrew Johnson to Buffalo, were decorated with flags and stream- 800-450-2725 New York in 1866 to stop the Irish Re- ers and police were required to hold the 
 

  publican Brotherhood (the Fenians) from crowds in check. invading Canada. Grant and his party made their way Irish Sausage, Irish Bacon, Soda Bread, Black Pudding, Sausage Rolls, Pork As president, Grant issued a proclama- with difficulty to Jury’s Hotel and then Bangers, Potato Scones, Imported tion in May 1870 in response to further to the City Hall, where he signed the roll, Groceries, Flags, Buttons, Jewelry, efforts by the Fenians to invade Canadian “thus making himself an Ulster Irish- Music and much more! territory. The proclamation read in part, man,” according to press reports. Grant “… I do hereby warn all persons that by told the crowd that there was plenty of www.gaelicimports.com Debut North American Tour

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Summer Tailwaggers 2017 already seeing an Irish breed! the driver had to swerve to avoid him. I event and see Wheaten’s doing what all the I told the owner of the IT that I had Wheat- did point out to my fellow travelers that it Border Collies in Ireland are doing. I know Dia Dhuit (general greeting in Irish) from ens, and she said they were “rare”. Rare…. was an Irish breed. my terriers have selective hearing, as most our home to yours; as most of you know I really they are an Irish breed? That night I We attended a herding demonstration do; it will be interesting to see them herd. traveled to Ireland in June for the very first was lucky enough to meet up with Deborah with Border Collies. It is so amazing what Maybe in the distant future Wheatens will time. Ireland was not on my husbands Evans-Berry and her boy Joe. Deborah co- that breed can do. I mentioned to the gentle- replace the Border Collies doing herding….. “bucket list,” so my traveling companion owns two dogs with my neighbor, Cathy, man doing the demo that Wheaten Terriers heck….. since the Bichon has replaced the was my friend of over four decades, Heather. and Joe was the dad of Cathy’s litter. are now getting an AKC title for Herding. Wolf Hound as the national dog of Ireland, I was looking forward to seeing many Okay, off to a good start, one Irish Terrier Someday I will have to attend a herding anything is possible I guess. and one Wheaten sighting in 12 hours. I quickly realized that the breeds native to Ireland all packed their doggie bags and immigrated elsewhere. One would expect to see Wheatens, Irish Setters and the infa- mous Irish Wolf Hound that is the symbol of Ireland, to be seen regularly. I did see a lot of Irish Setters, they were the symbol on the side of the city bus Bus Eireann! If you take the country of Ireland and ro- tate it sideways, it looks like a Bichon Frise. Move over Irish WoIf Hound, you have been replaced by a little white fluffy French dog. SpecialI saw Guest: more Bichons in the two weeks I was Debut North American Tour there than I see all year at the dog shows. dogs native to Ireland and talkingChloë to their Agnew All of my fellow travelers on the bus tour owners. CameraFormer in hand Starand notebookof Celtic wereWoman helping me look for Irish breeds. They ready, I was prepared for the article I in- pointed out every dog they saw; it was turn- “He has taken the Irish music scene tended to write. The morning I arrived I ing into a group effort to find Irish breeds. by storm. Now it’s time we shared walked out of the hoteI and l and saw an We did see one other Irish Terrier, he tried Irish Terrier! Wonderful, I just got in and running in front of our 42-foot tour bus and him with the rest of the world.” Daniel O’Donnell Starting September 8, CONCERTS IN: Rochester • Kingston • Toronto Detroit • Milwaukee Chicago • Wisconsin Dells Davenport • Pittsburgh Scranton • Boston

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Rising, we heard the ! First Prize $500 ~ Second Prize $250 $500 ~ Third Prize $250 ~ Honorable song, “Grace,” about ~Third Prize $100 ~ Honorable Mention Mention $100 ~ Honorable Mention the Love between $50 ~ Honorable Mention $50 $100 Grace Gifford and Level 2 – Grades 9-10-11-12 Complete set of Rules are on the web- Joseph Mary Plun- ~ First Prize $1,000 ~ Second Prize site www.ladiesaoh.com kett. There were many other songs about History and Music 1916; some exam- ples included “Meet Me by the Pillar”, Our History has been told both “Freedom Sons”, and “The Children orally and in the written form. Many of 16”, There are songs of immigration generations learned the history of their during the Great Hunger and other family, country and religion in the oral periods of Irish History. John O’Brien, tradition. This oral tradition included Jr. has told some of the stories behind stories and songs; the Irish had a very the songs. Let’s find more of these rich history of bards and seanachies. stories by students writing about the Throughout the world, our proud histo- relationships of Music and History in ry has been shared in songs and stories; the LAOH Contest. wherever the Irish made a new home The National Irish History Writ- this rich heritage was taken with them. ing Contest for students in Grades 6 Any month of the year, some city is through 12 and is sponsored by The hosting a festival featuring Irish music Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians, and dance. Riverdance and Lord of the Inc. The contest is comprised of two Dance companies have performed to levels: Level 1 is for students in Grade sellout crowds, even after their second, 6, 7, or 8, and Level 2 is for students in or third appearance in the same venue Grades 9,10, 11, or 12. Students who are or city. Irish Culture is appreciated enrolled in parochial, private, public or throughout the world who are home schooled are eligible to Here in the Midwest, the Irish Festival participate. Season is almost over. School is starting, Contest Timelines: and with it, The Ladies Ancient Order ~October 1, 2017 - Contest begins of Hibernians Irish History Contest is ~November 15, 2017 - Students are re- beginning for 2017-2018. The topic for quired to submit four (4) copies of their this year is, “Expressing Irish History essay to the LAOH Division Historian: Through Music.” contact Marilyn Madigan at memadi- I invite all Junior and High School [email protected] Students to enter this contest. Informa- Paper Length Guidelines: Level 1- Not tion can be found on the Ladies Ancient less than 500 words or more than 1,000 Order of Hibernians website: www. words. Level 2- Not less than 750 words ladiesaoh.com, under the Irish History or more than 1,500 words. National tab. Students can also contact me at Awards will be announced March 31, [email protected] 2018. While attending festivals, I sang along All students interested in entering the with many songs that told stories of our 2017- 2018 LAOH Irish History Writing proud Irish History. One song that has Contest at either Level 1 or Level 2 are historical significance in the Decade to adhere to the 2017-2018 published of Commemorations is “Come Out Ye LAOH Irish History Writing Contest Black and Tans,” written about the Irish Rules and Guidelines. War of Independence. Last year, as we National Awards Level 1— Grades celebrated the Centennial of the Easter 6-7-8

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Big Dig pleasure to cycle, walk or run. It is very heavily used locally We are not alone in our ap- too, making it one of the more We have become part of the preciation of the park. Almost visited of the national parks. tribe of dreaded weekend war- every time that we have been Historically, it offers a glimpse riors. We blame the Cuyahoga in the park we have met with of how an area that was once the Valley National Park’s Towpath. obviously puzzled cyclists, western frontier of the United If it wasn’t so darned beautiful, maps in hand, trying to route States emerged as an artery breezing along its sandy, tree- themselves. for commerce and exploration. for workers desperate enough and said Mass in a home. lined paths, we would probably My husband and I have been Besides recreation, part of the to do the hard work of clearing There were two homes con- do something much lazier, like repeatedly surprised by the mission of the park is promot- trees and digging trenches, they sistently mentioned as hosting brunch. But it is beautiful and a out-of-state visitors to the park. ing sustainable farms, which advertised in Ireland, often for Mass; the McAllister and the both speak to the history and far more employees than they Dunn homes. The Dunn res- to the current shop local, farm- needed in order to repress wag- idence was the one on Green to-table movement. es and worker conflict. Street. I did find a receipt of Being an admirer of the late An early reporter in the area, payment from Alfred Kelley, a politician John Seiberling, I William Donohue Ellis, de- principal foreman on the canal, became interested in the park scribed the workers as “great, to a John Dunn. Whether or not a long time ago. He was one flat-muscled stone-faced” Irish that is of the same family can of the Stan Hywet Seiberlings, immigrants who “dropped the only be guessed. and a thoughtful statesman. The trees and grooved the land.” It The workers were paid a pit- Towpath becoming a recreation- is said that for every three miles tance and kept going by jiggers al area and a National Park was of canal there is an Irish person of whisky. At certain points in a project that he championed who lost his life in the building time they encountered incred- from the beginning. of it. ibly harsh working conditions. Seiberling and others deserve However, the Irish are given There is documentation of an credit for having the vision to very little credit for the work outbreak of malaria, called Black make the then dormant tow- they did and the founding of our Tongue, that killed many, and path a recreational open space. community. Curiosity drove me another incident when workers It was a different group of men to look into this and led me to were asked to haul out decay- who had the initial vision two the Akron home of the fighting ing matter from a basin which hundred years ago. They want- Irish, St. Vincent-St. Mary. Sure- ignited an immense amount of ed a way to move goods and ly, there would be a link from sickness. people easily through a dense, the canal to the initial settlers It was stated that they did not hilly forest. Vision aside, the in Akron. all speak English. From 1825 to real work of the canal was the I contacted several published 1827 there were around 2,000 backbreaking clearing of land local historians and I was told men digging and cutting in the and digging of the big ditch, that the Irish had “nothing to do Cleveland to Akron area. So which was done chiefly by with founding of the city, they there should be some type of newly arrived Irish immigrants. owned no property,” a pretty burial records? But that is not October 4th | Happy Days Lodge In the early 1820s, the stage provincial view of history. While the case. was being set for the Famine I could not find one person by Some men were buried where in Ireland, primarily due to the name that could be linked in- they fell on the canal. Some were English colonial/landlord sys- disputably from the canal to the buried in the Furnace Street tem. When the US was looking early settlers of Akron, there is shanty town area. Human re- enough general evidence there mains were found in that area to connect the historical dots. when the railroad was built St.Vincent’s itself is the big- fifty years after the canal. Some gest clue. The Akron home of of the workers were buried in the fighting Irish morphed from Glendale Cemetery in the older a house on what is now Green sections; H, P & Q. Street, by the St. Vincent-St. Finding these graves the first Mary football field. Ohio had time around was a bit of a only a small Catholic population shock, since they are almost at that time and priests travelled all anonymous, giving only around saying Mass in homes. gender, approximate age and The Irish were settled in a nationality. I believe that some kind of shanty town flank- of those workers stayed, worked ing the canal in Akron, in the in businesses around the canal downtown area around Furnace and had families here. Street. 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Memorial Mass for In a statement, Adams Irish language rights, marriage consult on the legacy propos- of Brexit with the congressio- said, “I told both the equality, the Bill of Rights, leg- als—in an effort, Adams said, nal leaders and State depart- Martin McGuinness Congressional Friends of acy matters and anti-sectarian is intended to sideline legacy ment, its implications for the in Washington, D.C. Ireland Committee and measures.” issues. He called this a “cynical Good Friday Agreement, and By Sabina Clarke the State Department that Adams also talked about his ploy to delay implementing the the two economies on the A Memorial Mass for for- Sinn Fein is fully committed to upcoming meeting with the legacy proposals.” island of Ireland. mer Deputy First Minister of the restoration of the politi- British Secretary of State, Adams also discussed the issue Northern Ireland Martin Mc- cal institutions but that this James Brokenshire, and the Guinness was held on Tuesday, must be on a sustainable basis. imperative on his government July 25th, at St. Peter’s Church, The institutions have to work to honour its obligations under in Washington, D.C. Among for everyone. They must be the Good Friday Agreement and their refusal to honour commitments it made in the Stormont House Agreement on legacy three years ago. “In particular,” he said, “the British government has denied the inquest courts and the Police Ombudsman’s office the funding they need to fulfill their legal responsibilities. It 2018 Irish Advertising Calendar has stymied the proposal by the Lord Chief Justice, Declan Morgan, for dealing with the Advertise your business or organization inquests that have yet to take with our beautiful Irish Calendar. Joe Smith, Gerry Adams, Emmet McGuinness, place relating to ninety-seven Fiachra McGuinness deaths. Many of these deaths Includes your imprint, beautiful photos, top Irish events, Map with info, go back decades.” and much more. the attendees were McGuin- based on respect, integrity and Regarding legacy issues, Ad- ness’ sons, Emmet and Fiachra, equality. ams pointed out that the Brit- Share your Irish heritage! Your Imprint Here accompanied by Sinn Fein “The Irish and British govern- ish Secretary of State said that www.AhernIrishCalendars.com President Gerry Adams. ments have a key role to play in his government would now Size-11”x17” Afterward, Adams met with re-establishing the institutions, the Congressional Friends especially given that many of of Ireland on Capitol Hill the rights issues are outstand- and the State Department to ing from the Good Friday and discuss the current impasse subsequent agreements. in the Northern Ireland Peace “Sinn Féin is determined that Process. in any future negotiation, progress must be made on

Big Dig along a forested path. I hope that Continued from last page their voices are heard and their sacrifices appreciated. St. Malachi’s Church. *Lisa O’Rourke is an educator I think of them sometimes from Akron, with a BA in En- while cycling on the path. Some- glish and a Master’s in Reading/ times I imagine them disgusted Elementary Education. She is that their hard work has become a student of everything Irish, a pastime for their progeny. primarily Gaeilge, and runs But what true Irishman would a Gaeilge study group at the begrudge pleasure? Then I imag- AOH/Mark Heffernan Division. ine them pleased to see their She is married to Dónal and has ancestors comfortable enough two sons, Danny and Liam. Con- to afford a sunny day of cycling tact Lisa at [email protected]. Festival Focus! 15th Annual Kansas family tree, Irish dog area, cultural City Irish Fest hedge school stage, Tir Na nOg (chil- September 1 - 3 dren’s area/Irish arts & crafts), Irish marketplace, watch Irish 300 world-class musi- artisans and historians cians, dancers, folklorists, at work, meet Pitts- storytellers, comedians burgh’s Irish organiza- and performers will en- tions, session tent, craft tertain on NINE different beer pub, ceili dancing, KCIF stages, featuring: The special Irish Mass Elders, We Banjo 3, Gaelic Sunday at 10 am, Irish Storm, The Academic, conversation, Irish mu- High Kings, Young Folk, sical instrument demos, Socks in the Frying Pan, Irish Extreme Zone, Jig Jam, Bashands, Flannigan’s Right Hedge School, Curragh Racing, Hook, Byrne & Kelly and many more. Blarney Bingo, Irish Brigade (Civil Plus: Cultural displays & interac- War re-enactors), and more. Cele- tive workshops, Culture Stage and brate Gaelic Mass on Sunday. Irish Culture Cafe offering history, per- authors’ corner and much more! formances, genealogy, displays and Visit www.pghirishfest.org more than 20 interactive Facebook.com/ September workshops , Comedy PittsburghIrish- Stage, shopping, eth- Festival Twitter: 2017 nic food, genealogy, @pittsburghirish Whiskey Tasting, Beer Instagram: @pghir- 8 • 9 • 10 Tasting, Children’s ishfest for info. Fun Village with inflat- for the entire family. ables, crafts, stages & games, Rock Climbing 18th Annual Walls, inflatables, Irish Fest Quest, Irish Mar- Muskegon ketplace, Art in the Park, Whiskey Irish Music Festival Tasting Tent, Catholic Mass 9:30 September 15 - 18 a.m. Sunday, Art in the Park, The Snug, Boulevard beer tastings and Jameson Irish Whiskey tasting. Featuring: We Banjo 3, The Crown Center Square – Downtown Elders, Lunasa, Goitse, Old Blind Kansas City: www.kcirishfest.com Dogs, Ten Strings and a Goatskin, GAELIC STORM SCREAMING ORPHANS Dave Curley, Danny Burns, The All your local favorites and more great acts to be announced! 27th Annual Pittsburgh Moxie Strings and much more. MIMF is kicking off the festival Irish Festival a day earlier this year by adding September 8- 10 a Pub Preview Party on Thursday Featuring night. Irish & Celtic music on four Live international and regional Irish music, Featuring: Scythian, Skerryvore, covered stages! Continuous live world championship Irish Step Dancers, Screaming Orphans, Makem and music, Plus: the Celtic Kitchen and Spain, The Step Crew, Ruaile Buaile, Pub serve authentic Irish food and authentic Irish cuisine and beverages, Socks in the Frying Pan, local favor- drink, an Irish Marketplace, High- Dogs Native to Ireland, children's activities, ites Corned Beef & Curry, The Wild land Games, children’s activities, Genealogy tent and much more! Geese, Donnie Irish, and more! cultural center, and session tent. PLUS: Workshops The Michigan Feis, an and performances, Irish dance competition, Educational Ireland, is held on Saturday. AT THE RIVERPLEX Irish wedding display, Sunday features a 9am Next to Sandcastle beverage tasting area, Catholic Mass, followed delight in dance and by a traditional Irish 1000 Sandcastle Drive, PghIrishFest.org music performances, breakfast. Located at West Homestead, PA 15120 412.422.1113 feast on Irish cuisine Heritage Landing in and celtic beverages, downtown Muskegon. discover your Irish www.michiganirish.org. SEPTEMBER 2017 “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com 13

the passing of their husband. from County Cork. In fact and Catherine do not prove Bridget Murphy moved to a there were 2,639 Murphys in that, but they do support it. home with additional rooms Cork in 1901; Wexford had I have not found the and additional income. She 1693; Kilkenny 888. Kerry county of origin for the oth- managed this and she managed 787. No other county was er Murphys, 1860 or 1870. that, like business. Her chil- over 500. 124 Murphys in a ½ Collectively, the 1860 5th dren found work and spouses. barrel. Inculpatory, perhaps. Ward Murphys do show Mrs. Colleen Regan of Two of the six Murphy 27 Murphys in the 5th Ward in commonalities: Irish birth; County Cork was by chance Scholars would perhaps households left the 5th Ward. 1860. 65 Murphys in the 5th limited internal migration; next to me at the Shady Nook. object to the selection of They were both boarders, Ward in 1870. Why? Where they stayed in the 5th Ward. She is a regular, I learned, at Murphys as an initial surname which means relative neigh- from? I do not yet know. That could be economic, that bar. I am a regular, in to research, based on a stout borhood stability. Cornelius As we research the 5th Ward, and/or a sense of communi- general. Or, as my Cuban sharing that indistinguishable stays in the 5th, with his we ask the data to tell us of our ty; diversity of occupation friends say, “en general.” cognomen. I am going with German wife with no maiden past. We glean what history and household structure; The chance was more so that a “random sample.” What is name. Why couldn’t he find has not silenced. Cleveland upward mobility and Catho- we were on directly adjacent telling, stouts notwithstanding, a nice Irish girl? Would that oral history tells us the 5th lic burial. More importantly, stools. She graciously pur- is the two Murphy widows; have made him more Irish? Ward supported, or attempted they speak to a history for- chased libations for me and my an understudied plight but I took a break from the to support, St. Columbkille gotten. Most importantly, friend. She became a Miller in a logical commonality for library and walked to the pub for the Corkians. Eugene I hope they speak to you. the states, nothing to do with a families of Irish laborers. and ordered a Guinness. Thing granary. I thought it wonderful The widow Bridget Murphy is, not every pub has Murphy’s if all Corkians were so gracious. occupied house #252 in 1870 on tap. Cans, perhaps. Tap, no. The following afternoon I in the 5th Ward. Her moth- I can’t always wait for Sheila sat in the library thinking of er, father and husband were to book the Upper Hall. But I Mrs. Miller. I also thought of both in Ireland, as was she in ordered a Guinness to prove what a Murphy told me, “I August of 1826. Mrs. Murphy my research is not biased. I still don’t know Murphys from the immigrated to the USA in think that having a pub walk- 5th, just Murphys who plead 1852. She was one of 8 Bridget ing distance from the library the 5th.” Their legal right. I Murphys who immigrated to with Murphy’s on tap is a sign. was thinking of Mrs. Miller, as the port of New York between Eugene Murphy found I attempted to trace a part of 1846 and 1852. Her children a nice Irish girl. He was, the Cleveland Irish narrative. were all born in Ohio: John however, in Ireland. He was The 5th Ward had 4 Murphy now 17, Mary now 14, Cor- baptized on July 14th, 1814. households that were in both nelius now 12. Mrs. Murphy His father was Michael, his the 1860 and 1870 censuses. rented two rooms to John mother was Catherine Gal- As Professor Apter noted, “We McGee and Owen Mullholland, livan. He was a cobbler. learn by presence and absence.” both born in Ireland. She had In 1860 Eugene and Cather- Patrick and Ellen, family #536. moved from dwelling #809. ine lived in dwelling #582 in Eugene and Catherine, family I always liked the name the 5th Ward with Martha (9), #592. Catherine (widowed), Cornelius, better than Sue. Ellen Gertrude (7), Daniel (5), family #596. Bridget (wid- By 1880, young Cornelius Agusta (?)(3) and Catherine (9 owed), #892. Thomas and Murphy married Barbara and months). By 1870 Catherine George who were boarders and had an 8 month old daughter, was a widow. They moved to family #980. Simon and Rosa Adeline. Barbara was born dwelling #1236 in the 5th Ward. who were boarders and family in Ohio and her parents were Martha, Gertrude, Daniel #1115. That was 1860. Mrs. born in Germany; no maiden and Catherine (Kate) were still Miller was not born a Miller. name noted. Cornelius was a at home. John was born in Ellen Murphy is historical- machinist. They lived off of 1865. Daniel and Kate were in ly the wife of Patrick. Born Superior and Phelps, still in the school. In 1880 the family was in Ireland, however, I could 5th Ward. He was buried in St. on Davenport Street near what not find her maiden name; a Joseph’s Cemetery, East 79th would become Dead Man’s full person, half a history. and Woodland, on September Curve. Daniel was a railroad “I think a child should be 2nd, 1889. His mother was fireman. Gertrude was a store allowed to take his father’s buried in St. John’s Cemetery, clerk. Catherine was a dress or mother’s name at will, on East 69th and Woodland, maker. John was a laborer for coming of age. Paternity is on October 18th, 1904. Worswick and Lewis. Eugene a legal fiction.” The census Pre-summation summation: was still dead. In 1873 Cather- takers in 1860 obviously did frowned upon in some circles, ine lived alone at 157 Oregon not read Joyce. The bias of the but not to preclude a summa- in the 5th Ward. In 1903 Daniel historical record does add to tion of proper momentation. was dead too. Buried in St. the convolution of research. So what is history saying? John’s Cemetery. I need to look Eugene’s wife Catherine’s There were women and at those cemetery records. maiden name was Callaghan. families who could survive Eugene and Catherine were 14 IAN Ohio “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com SEPTEMBER 2017

tle for something as mundane as profanity? That the devil may break your spine If you think about some of the following Briseadh agus brú ort ( brish ah ah gus Speak Irish phrases, you’ll see the bestower of the curse brew ort) Strife and stress upon you Labhair Gaeilge means business! You would have to be pretty Go mbrise an diabhal do chámha (guh upset with some one to wish the cat would mrish ahn deel duh cah nuhv ah) By Bob Carney eat them and then the Devil eat the cat! I’m not sure why, but everyone at Speak That the devil will break your bones Irish Cleveland classes seem to pick these Droch áird chúgat lá gaoithe (droh up rather quickly, I hope it’s not me! ayrd oo-gat lay gay-ee) Go n-ithe an cat thú, is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat! May you be badly positioned on a windy day (guh nee-ha ahn caht hoo, iss guh ahn deel ahn caht) Titim gan eirí ort (tee-tim gon ai-ree ort) (if you’ve been on the May the cat eat you, and the devil eat the cat! May you fall without rising west coast of Ireland on a Nách mór an diabhal thú? (knock rainy, windy day in November, this is mean!) It’s said you don’t fully speak a language un- more ahn deel hoo) Droch chrích ort (drohk ree ort) til you can curse in it. Now I’m not speaking of Aern’t you the devil? Bad ending upon you profanity, which is the norm for most English Imeacht gan teacht ort ( ih mah- Mallacht mo chait ort (mah lohkt muh speaking Americans, I’m talking about cursing! kt gon chohkt ort) caht ort) My cat’s curse on you Mark Twain said, “Profanity is the inability to May you leave without returning Go n-imi an droch aimsir leat ( guh nih mee drohk express oneself verbally.” Lately I’ve been read- Ualach sé chapall de chré na húire ort ( oo- aym sheer lyat) That the bad weather leaves with you ing a number of books written about life and loch shay kah pall dih kree na who rr ort) Go mbeire an diabhal leis thú (guh mer uh ahn deel literature on the Great Blasket Island. Tómas Ó Six horseloads of lesh hoo) May the devil take you with him Crohan, Peig Sayers and Muiris Ó Súilleabháin graveyard clay upon you ( one of my favorites!) D’anam don diabhal (dahn um dun deel) were masters of the Irish language (Peig Say- Tuirse ort (tursh-ah ort) Your soul to the devil ers had no english); they wrote as they spoke. That you may tire Imigh sa diabhal (im ee suh deel) “It’s glorious weather, Sean. The air at the bot- Fán fada ort (fahn fa da ort) Go to the devil tom of the sky is as yellow as gold, and the re- Long may you be astray flection of the rock is out in the water. There is Léan ort (lee-ahn ort) Now, I know the readers of the Ohio Irish Amer- not a breath blowing, but calm and beauty, and Sorrow betide you ican News are not the type of people that ever lose the fish so plentiful at the surface of the water” Go mbrise an diabhal cnámh do dhroma their temper, or would ever have occasion to use any ( An Old Woman’s Reflections, Peig Sayers). (guh mrish ahn deel cah-nuv duh roma) these phrases … but just maybe the next time you’ve Now, with that mastery of language, why set-

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17th Annual Famine Memorial Mass is September 16th

The Greater Cleveland Famine Memorial hosts its 17th Annual Famine Memorial Mass on Satur- day September 16th at 5:00 pm. The Famine Memorial is located on the banks of the Cuyahoga, right across from the Flat Iron Café. The memorial was placed in the year 2000 by members of the Famine Memorial Committee, led by my to honor those who lost their lives in, or fled Ireland from, the great famine on 1845 to 1850, including the infamous Black ’47. A time capsule was placed a few feet away, with notes and letters, family histories and special tokens, collected by members of the com- munity. The tiem capsule is to be opened in 2050. All are welcome to the outdoor mass; please park on the street, not in the lot, to leave room for the celebration of the mass.

ACROSS 29 Little ______River (Shannon) Kilkenny, Wexford - 114.5 mi 4 River _____ (including Rivers Mourne, Offaly, Tipperary - 36 mi 14 River _____(Co. Louth) Cavan, Strule & Camowen) Tyrone, 30 River Blackwater (_____) Cavan, Meath, Louth - 34.75 mi Derry, Donegal - 80 mi Meath - 42.5 mi 15 River _____(Shannon) Cork, 5 River ______(Erne) Monaghan, 31 River _____Tipperary, Laois, Limerick, Kerry - 46 mi Cavan - 41.75 mi Kilkenny - 87 mi 18 River ____(Shannon) Cork, 7 River ______Kildare, Offaly, Meath, 32 River ______Cavan, Leitrim, Limerick - 39.5 mi Louth - 70 mi Roscommon, Longford, Westmeath, 21 River ____ (County Donegal) (Foyle) 11 River Clare (______) Mayo, Galway, Offaly, Tipperary, Clare, Donegal, Tyrone - 39.25 mi Roscommon, Galway - 58 mi Limerick, Kerry - 224 mi 22 River ____(Shannon) Cavan, 12 River ____ Roscommon, Longford, Westmeath- (55.5 mi Galway - 83 mi DOWN 23 _____ Blackwater (Ulster) Tyrone, 13 ______River Sligo - 38 mi 1 River ___ Sligo, Mayo - 62.5 mi Monaghan, Armagh - 57 mi 16 River ___ (Louth) Cavan, Meath, 2 River ______(Munster) Kerry, 24 River ____(M. Blackwater) Cork, Louth - 37.75 mi Cork, Waterford - 104.5 mi Waterford - 40 mi 17 River ______Cork - 45 mi 3 River ______Laois, Kildare, 26 River ______(Shannon) 19 River _____ Wicklow, Carlow, Kilkenny, Carlow, Wexford, Clare - 36.5 mi Wexford - 73 mi Waterford - 119 mi 28 River _____ Down, Antrim - 53.5 mi 20 River _____ (Shannon) Cork, 6 River ____ Cavan, Fermanagh, 30 River _____(including flow through Limerick - 38.75 mi Donegal - 80 mi L. Neagh) Down, Armagh, Antrim, 21 _____ River Monaghan, Armagh, 7 River ______(Shannon) Westmeath, Derry -99 mi Louth- 38.25 mi Offaly - 49 mi 23 River ____ (Corrib) Mayo - 39.25 mi) 8 ______River (including Bilboa River) 25 River ______Wicklow, Kildare, (Shannon) Tipperary, Dublin - 82 mi Limerick - 34.75 mi 27 River _____(includes Lough Leane 9 River ___ Cork - (55.5 mi and River Flesk) Kerry - 47.25 mi 10 River _____Tipperary, Waterford, 16 IAN Ohio “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com SEPTEMBER 2017

Michigan An Gorta Mor Monument Irish Famine Mass - September 17, 2017| by Patrick Maguire The St. Patrick’s Division #01 of the AOH & LAOH State Boards and many Ancient Order of Hibernians in Len- divisions and other groups, along with awee County is celebrating its annual the Toledo Hibernians donated, as did memorial mass and ceremony at its An many individuals. Their names are Gorta Mor Monument on Sept. 17, in the inscribed on a large bronze placard lo- Irish Hills of Michigan. The mass will cated on the grounds at the monument. bear the names and coat of arms of the take place at St. Joseph’s Shrine, located The Monument was designed and four provinces of Ireland. approximately $9,000. in the heart of the Irish Hills district built by Sculptor Ken Thompson, owner Some time ago, members of our di- Please consider making a donation on Route 12 in Brooklyn, beginning at of Flatlanders, in Blissfield, Michigan. vision realized there was no guarantee towards this fund. To donate, please 2:30 p.m. Following the mass, a short Its primary focus is a post and lintel our local AOH division would be able make check payable to the “Lenawee ceremony will take place on the church structure constructed from two lime- to take care of the monument forever Community Foundation.” On the grounds of Michigan’s only An Gorta stone columns that support a lintel. The more, and there was a need to establish a memo portion, make sure to write “An Mor Monument. All are welcome to lintel, originally from Penrose Quay in perpetual fund for its future care. After Gorta Mor Irish Famine Monument attend. At this ceremony, attendees Cork Harbor, Ireland, is one of several much searching, our division decided Fund.” will be encouraged to place a wreath of steps emigrants crossed before setting to establish a fund with the Lenawee The address is: The Lenawee Com- remembrance in honor of our ancestors sail for a new life in a new land. It is Community Foundation. This fund will munity Foundation, P.O. Box 142, 606 who perished during that dreadful time suspended over a large, empty bronze make the cash available as necessary at N. Evans Street, Tecumseh, Michigan in Ireland’s history. bowl that symbolizes the absence of the request of the five member board 49286. Or you can donate on line; www. The Irish Hills has a large number food during the “Great Hunger.” who will oversee the ongoing needs for lenaweecf.com. Click the donate button of Irish immigrant descendants living The sculptor is immediately sur- the monument. and put in the amount. In “Add Special in the area, in part because the scenery rounded by cobblestones from Donegal, The Lenawee Community Founda- Instructions to Seller,”’ you can name reminded them of the lakes and green Ireland and encompassing the cobble- tion is a non-profit organization which a specific fund or cause, which in this rolling hills of Ireland. The An Gorta stones is a circle or “path” of slate that handles funding for many organizations case will be An Gorta Mor Irish Famine Mor Memorial, also known as the “The represents the journey from Ireland to in the community. The fund has already Monument Fund.” Great Hunger Memorial,” was a project America. The hardscape turns from a received generous donations from the For more information, contact St. of the Lenawee County St. Patrick’s Di- circle to a square, bordered by 32 pavers Michigan AOH State Board and other Patrick’s Division President Gary Mc- vision, spearheaded by Patrick Maguire, bearing the names of the 32 counties of local individuals. Our goal is to raise Cullough at (517) 902-4689, Division president of the division at the time. Ireland in Gaelic and English. Beneath $12,000 to $15,000 by the end of the cur- Recording Secretary Patrick Maguire The fundraising efforts to build this each paver is a reliquary containing a rent year (2017) as seed money for this at (517) 270-4296 or the Foundation at monument began in 2002. The Michigan stone from that county. The four corners fund. As of today, the fund has reached (517) 423-1729.

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nuns were when my dad would come in to get “The way I grew up, it always felt that way to me. I us for the parade - no note, nothing. learned that no matter what happens, we will still be Irish and “Everyone at Holy Cross was Irish. We family. It works f or us. American Roots went to St. Joe’s, but a lot of the Euclid kids When I was looking for a house, I left the west side and By John O’Brien, Jr. were from Mayfield - St. Francis. My dad I looked east. My family is on the east side; my brother is went to St. Joe’s too. Growing up I was a big a coach at Willoughby South. My mom is there, my family; Notre Dame fan. Dad would take me every why would we look anywhere else? year; it was what we did. I associate the Irish “My brother Matthew is married to Erin Coyne. Her dad Irish & American Roots Grow and football, the college football experience. I have a Mickey was a friend of my dad’s, and is also a founder of #IrishLove fighting Irish tattoo on my calf. the Irish American Club East Side. Erin and Jamie Sulli- “I played football and basketball at St. Joe’s, then van are first cousins: Kevin’s mother is a sister to Jamie’s Live: Brian Duffy; Laugh: Jamie went to Edinburgh, where I played guard in basketball. mother. Sullivan; IrishLove: Kevin Coyne I wanted to be a basketball coach. I became an intern in communications for a major local TV station in Erie, Jamie Sullivan Roots can sprout anywhere. Many of those featured in PA; I was hired a month into the internship, it worked this OhioIANews American Roots column have roots in so well. I am fortunate. Jamie Sullivan was born in Geauga County, and has Ireland, and family in America. Those roots, when planted, “Edinboro is only 15 minutes south of Erie. I was a three sisters. She is a 2004 graduate of the Ohio Center for nurtured, and sprinkled with faith, can seem to be brilliant, Broadcasting and is married to Chris. but random flowers. But really, if the apple doesn’t fall She recalls always being into radio, and began at 18 far from the tree, wouldn’t the trees often sprout to shout years old with WQAL and WDOK. in the same forest? “My first memory was as a four-year-old, going to the Cleveland’s Own Brian Duffy and Jamie Sullivan, and parade with my family. My uncle Gene Sullivan had a band #Irishstrong Kevin Coyne are all related, all in the public with his two brothers in the early 1940s: Gene Sullivan eye, and all are leaving this world a much better place for Orchestra, with Ray and Hugh. They played at the Marcus their generous and caring active attitude about life. Their Bradley Circle Ballroom on East 7th, a 10-person band. roots, right here in Cleveland ripple. “They were on WTAM, with a live broadcast from1939 Each has a unique but mingled perspective; they are to 1942. They played at Cedar Point, Euclid Beach Park. dedicated to leaving their indelibly fun and generous I have their music. mark on their Cleveland home. Those ripples reach far, “The Sullivan family extends so much further than reach home, and now, reach you. I would’ve ever known; I am doing research. They are from Longford and Sligo, for generations back. Now, it Brian Duffy gives me so much more of an appreciation for when I was growing up. “To my dad and grandmother, Kathleen Ftzpatrick, “When I have kids, I am telling you they are going to being Irish was always there; it was a part of who we dance! I want to see their curls bounce. Growing up, be- were. They’re from Achill. Growing up, we spent a bunch volunteer AAU coach for eighteen years. I met my wife, ing raised Catholic, my family going to church; I always of time at the Irish American Club East Side (IACES). My Donna Esposito; we are married for 28 years. We met in identify with being Irish. I’ve always been so proud of that. mom and dad are founding members; there is plaque in 1989 at Edinboro. Donna is exactly the kind of woman I “When I was young, I was asked what is your favorite the party room with their names on it. was looking for. She had a great personality to make up day of the year? I always said St. Patrick’s Day; for, for me, “The parade is my first memory of the Irish American for the fact that I don’t have one. She’s the best thing I’ve that’s more family getting together, more people. I have Club East Side, I have memory going there a lot, going on ever done. family in Ireland; I can’t wait to meet them! most weekends. There was always something, a pipe band “I thought communications was a way to get into coach- “Growing up Irish, my family comes together. I didn’t or something, at least monthly. I remember how mad the ing. I never saw communications or being on TV as the take the DC job until after St. Patrick’s Day. My family end goal. I thought I could stay close to sports. I enjoyed owns multiple businesses. We are so proud to say, and it. I enjoy the creative process of telling stories. I cover the I represent, Irish pubs: their gear with their name on it, Browns, Buffalo, Pittsburgh. shamrocks; that’s my cousins business and I talk about it. Being Irish to my kids is important to me. History kind I love the connections to back home, no matter where I am. of repeats itself. We have at least once a week a discussion “We have this connection instantly. For me, that is such while at dinner, with the kids - are you more Irish or a cool thing, a really cool side. No matter where I am, I more Italian? always can find a connection to my family. “The kids have always gone to the parade. I haven’t “I hope when my kids are young to instill in them that done as well as my dad did in fostering the Irish side of they know from where we come. I want them to know our family. The Irish are such an important part of Cleve- that when they are young. land. My kids know how important to me being Irish is. “My eight year old nephew did a story on our history. Every Thursday is Irish Night 7 – 10pm “It is important to me to be an example of what my I learned so much, some of which I didn’t know. I want Open Seisiún – values are, to my kids; loyalty, being together as a family. them to know this is who we are. So proud that this is Traditional musicians of all ages welcome! Friends are going to come and go. You move to different who we are; no matter where you go, you have someone $ neighborhoods; without question, without pausing, they who is family. 3 Guinness & Jameson on Thursday Nights have that knowledge that they have the family to turn to. “As a family we are so big, and growing: Ronan, Quinn, Come enjoy our patio, “Family is the most important thing they have and will Cormac. All the names mean something. You don’t have to expanded wine selection and new dinner menu! have throughout their lives. Their brothers and sisters are know anything about me but my name; you don’t have to the ones that can turn to, they will never fail; they will know us, just my name, and you know, Brian and I, ‘we’re 16719 Detroit Ave. Lakewood, OH 44107 always be there for them. the two Irish people on the show.’ SEPTEMBER 2017 “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com 19

“My cousin was a reporter; she docu- to us. I would give a toast to a couple that just Love Marketing, which is aimed at small mented all the family history; I made it “I got my start in the restaurant business got engaged. local businesses trying to increase their into story. My roots are the Sullivans from at Mularkey’s Irish Pub, with owner John “So I yelled really loudly, ‘Hey listen Facebook presence. Sligo and Longford. My maternal two times Bowers. Our Pub’s would not be what they up! Raise your glasses’ and the whole pub “Being Irish has always been known as great grandfather, Patrick Sullivan and are today without that guy giving me a shot got quiet. We all raised our glasses; I gave being friendly and outgoing, social; that Bridget Mullen (Jamie’s middle name is at bartending years ago. a toast and people were saying thank you is what we strive to do on a daily basis! Bridget), came from Ireland to Cleveland, “My earliest memory of Jamie Sullivan and how awesome that was. I thought to Being Irish in your community is having my grandparents to Cleveland Hts. is always having such an outgoing per- myself, wow this could be a signature thing trust within your community and that is sonality; we always said she is made for at the pub! what our parents and grandparents have Kevin Coyne TV. My favorite story of Jamie is when she “20 years later, I have people asking me instilled in us as kids. These values are what was young she would always say, “Hi, I’m to write a toast for them for their wedding we carry-on to our children. Kevin Coyne is my first cousin. My mom Jamie Montague of Channel 5 News. Now or a party that they are having. The best “To say hello to people; to shake hands and his are sisters. Being Irish means fam- watching her on TV is just awesome; I am toasts are on St. Patrick’s Day, and the day with people; to sit back relax and enjoy ily; that is what is connected us. It leads so proud of her. of the Ohio State versus Michigan football great Irish music; to know where we are our faith. “Brian Duffy’s brother Matt is my sis- game - because we are Michigan fans and from in Ireland and how to keep the Irish Kevin Coyne is a funeral director, an ter’s husband. Brian is amazing to just sit I love to bust chops in those toasts. heritage alive is what we value, and live, entrepreneur, a former Croagh Patrick’s “I am a funeral director, working with every day.” Pub owner, and an on-the-fly, impromptu, my dad at the McMahon Coyne and Vi- toastmaster, whose legendary toasts on tantonio Funeral Home. After seeing how bar tops and a few other select locations many families look up to my father as I are renowned throughout the area. He is do, I knew I wanted to be in the business also the founder and mastermind behind right away. #irishlove – encouraging good people to “I started using the hashtag #irishlove join together, support each other, and most slogan many years ago, with the idea that of all, Celebrate our blessings. Pay if for- if you keep saying that, people are going ward, and the blessings seem to multiply. to think it, and they will use it themselves, Kevin is the 3rd leaf on the Cleveland which people use all the time. #irishlove Irish & American Roots shamrock we can mean many things. I recently started celebrate this month. Kevin’s grandpar- a small social media business called Irish ents, Michael and Loretta Coyne, are from Tourmakeady, Co Mayo, Ireland. His moth- er’s grandmother was also from Mayo, a Sullivan. Kevin is one of five children: Megan, Kevin, Erin, Seamus and Michael Pat- rick, usually called McPat. The Coyne family is in the funeral business (McMa- hon-Coyne-Vitantonio Funeral Homes in Willoughby and Mentor), and in the restau- rant business; they own the Wild Goose, which is the best pizza in #CLE, and The Peter Corrigan at Bunnacurry Morehouse, which is southern food. They down and talk one-on-one; he can tell you recently opened Fiona’s, which is a coffee story after story. I especially love when he shop and bakery. tells stories of his father, Kerry Duffy, and Here is a bit from our interview with what a tough Irishman he was. I also love Kevin: watching him on the news in the mornings “We have many cousins still residing in because, just knowing him, I know what Ireland. I have always known of my Irish he’s thinking when he does some of the roots from when I was a young boy going stories on the news. to the Eastside Irish-American club with “Being Irish to me means so much; it my father and helping straightening chairs, is my heritage; it is essentially where we wash glasses, clean, whatever had to be are from, our roots! Our whole family is done. My dad would always listen to Irish so proud to be Irish. We are always trying music in his car and still does to this day. I to celebrate with the community and let get teased at the pub because I always have people know what being Irish is about. Irish music playing and people ask how “It’s not just about drinking beer. It’s can I listen to this all the time. I do I love it. through song and dance and gathering of “Watching my dad as a funeral director friends. Just go to Cleveland Irish Cultural in town, helping families, in seeing how Festival; it is a perfect example of what much they appreciated everything he did being Irish is about. AOH State President Ron Hagan, AOH State Vice President Bob Harper, for them, made me want to be who I am “I love to give Irish toasts! It started Mícheál MacDonncha, Lord Mayor of Dublin, AOH National Vice today. Knowing that the family can count when I bartended at Mullarkey’s: John President Danny O’Connell, Division President Ed Norris, Division Vice on us in their time of need means the world knew I had a loud voice and he asked if President Chris Konik 20 IAN Ohio “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com SEPTEMBER 2017

Scéal Máith Ó Leabhar an Tsaoil A Good Story From the Book of Life)

There is a little ritual that takes place The pup is named for one of my favorite most evenings in my house; the work places to visit in Ireland, Doolin. Dooley, day is done, dinner’s over and I pretend as my grandkids call him, can barely to reach for a book and make my way contain himself as we make for the door, to a chair to sit. It’s just a game though, spinning and bouncing, running between three pairs of eyes and three wagging and under the other two. Once the door tails know what we’re really going to do. opens, it’s as if he were shot from a cannon I’ve talked a little bit before about my (a very short cannon ) as he makes for two Irish Wolfhounds, Cian and Morri- their favorite soccer ball. ghan, but this past February, I brought I’m not sure how the hounds know that the elusive firefly! Next lap the positions and possesion home a puppy. Not a wolfhound, but a he needs to run first, but they head to A loud clap of my hands and Cian and may have changed. Wolfhounds are very Cairn Terrier, a male who looks a lot like the farther corners of the yard to explore Morra run my way, I give a short kick of fast, but not for very long, soon they’re at my grandfathers last dog , almost forty while Dooley “exercises” me. His enthu- the ball, and they’re off. They run around my side, as Doolin trys to interest them years ago. siasm usually gets the better of him and my neighbor’s decorative pond, around in a new game of chase with him. As we At six and a half months, he’s a sturdy he tumbles as he trys to catch and run the backside of our shed and thunder past walk to the house, he’s still jumping up 10lbs. compared to Cian’s 150 or Morra’s with a ball almost as large as he is. After me up around the side of the house and on Cian, trying his best to convince him 140 lbs. Anyway, as I grab my shoes, ten or fifteen minutes, he turns his atten- back again. Most of the time, Morra’s out there’s still time to play. everyone stays so close they’re almost tion to attacking my wife’s daylillies and front with the soccer ball in her mouth, I’ve had many dogs in my life, all have knocking me over as I try to slip them on. chasing butterflies, or if it’s late enough with Cian fast on her heels. had their own unique personalities. Cian loves people, he loves to attend the Irish festivals (esp CICF) and parades. I think his favorite part of any walk or outing is when people stop to visit with them. Morrighan is a very sweet girl, always eager to please, she follows Cian’s lead and behaves as he does in situations new to her. That brings me to Dooley, 10 lbs of furry, constant energy. As he looks into your eyes to see what game we might play, his feet are stamping and his little tail is wagging at light speed. This little dog loves life and he attacks every oppor- tunity to enjoy it to the fullest. He doesn’t worry about anything but now, life in the moment! I think my dogs are smarter than me; I tend to put things off unless there’s a tangible benefit. I’m not the type to sit and watch a sunset, I’ve got things to do! This summer I lost a couple of good friends, much too early in their lives. Their passing gave me something to think about as I watch my dogs LIVE LIFE. So if you see me chasing butterflies with three very smart dogs, please understand.

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she pounded out the notes with- students to write. Paul penned Island apricots. They were unlike out rhythm or beauty. My touch a touching memoir of his Irish any I had ever had. For Italians, was lighter, and to my narcissis- grandmother. apricots are like ambrosia. How tic ear, more beautiful. My friend, His mother died when he was did Rosalie know? however, could memorize every a small boy and he grew up in Experience, and the pleasure piece that she learned. I could a family of sisters who doted of living a long, healthy life filled not. My brain was too filled with over him. He used to love to sit with reading and writing, culture words and emotions. There real- with his grandmother when she and the arts, friendships and Learn for teaching, reading and writing ly was no place for notes. brushed her long white hair, like family is a gift. This is the lesson is as natural to me as breathing. At our eighth grade talent a queen from a fairy tale. Paul that Paul and Rosalie brought a Lifetime Reading, both for pleasure and show, we both played our own remembered her hair smelled of to our class. Inspiring us all to Last week, one of my fourth- knowledge, is as necessary to renditions of Joplin’s “The Enter- lavender. appreciate our unique journeys grade reading students asked my existence as the flow of blood tainer.” I am sure our classmates At the close of my session and to never stop seeking the me, “Mrs. Mangan, why do through my veins. Writing is were bored and unaware of our this summer, Rosalie, one of my joy that a life filled with learning you still take piano lessons? an indulgent escape, a chance sparring. My friend quit playing dear students who lives on an can bring. Does your mom make you?” I for me to create. I am no longer before she reached high school. island off the shores of Lake Erie *Susan holds as Master’s De- laughed and responded, “Well, required to practice mathematics I continued. brought me a sack of apricots. gree in English from John Car- I have been taking them since I beyond my strong fourth-grade We remained friends and Her island, she said with pride, roll University and a Master’s have been six, why stop now?” skills. Piano, however, is a dif- could each appreciate one anoth- was famous for them. After two Degree in Education from Bald- The girl shrugged her shoulders ferent beast. er’s talents. My friend Sue had days of ripening in the sunny win-Wallace University. She may in agreement, pleased with the While sitting with my teacher, this amazing capacity to make heat of my marble windowsill, be reached at logical response. I have to think and concentrate people laugh. She was reckless I tasted the sweet flesh of Erie [email protected] I thought about her insightful so hard that a slight rim of sweat and fun-loving. I was studious query later that evening as I breaks out on my brow. My and more serious. tried to practice for a few min- hands stiffen with anxiety as I We both went to different utes. Exhausted, I could hardly attempt a complex run of notes. colleges. She died of spinal concentrate on the Bach piece I When playing a new piece of meningitis before her nineteenth The Irish in Action had been studying for months, music for my teacher, a few lines birthday. I lived and have always and the dim light coupled with of notes largely unpracticed and treasured our memories growing Are you running for an my impending need for bifocals quite imperfect, my mind begins up together. Though something elective office? There are over 1.4 million was limiting my understanding to drift. of a cliché, the words ring true, people of Irish descent in Ohio; 475,000 of the notes. Why do I still take I think about riding a horse in a life is indeed short. Find your lessons? meadow in early autumn, about passion and never stop learning. in Greater Cleveland; 175,00 in Cuyahoga I have known my piano teach- my thoughts for a new cookie Over the past few years I have County: Want to reach them? Advertise in er, the talented and accom- recipe, about the glass of Dry been teaching creative writing plished parent of one of my Riesling I will have in the eve- classes to adults at Bayarts in Bay the Ohio Irish American News: akarpus@ former students, for over twenty ning. By this time, I drift back to Village, Ohio. I attempt to bring ianohio.com to reach the Irish community years. Never will I forget the day attention, the metronome sitting inspiration and humble insight Cleveland; [email protected] to reach when our paths first crossed. atop the piano is still ticking, my to my students. I help them see I was walking down the side- teacher is looking at me curious- where they may not know to the Irish community throughout Ohio. walk after teaching school all ly, and I am completely off-key. look; to show them that their day and nearly collided with I take piano lessons to ward muse lies in the hum of daily life, a blonde, curly-haired mid- off my latent ADD, attention and how to uncover dle-school aged boy who was deficit disorder, and to prevent the extraordinary riding his bicycle. He swerved Alzheimer’s disease. I take pi- amid the ordinary. I and fell into the lawn. Worried, ano because I am enchanted by help them find con- I told him I was sorry. the musical words: crescendo, fidence, peace, and With a candid expression in legato, a tempo, molto vivace. I satisfaction. For this his bespectacled light-blue eyes, take piano because I am obsessed I am truly grateful. he said, “Why, it wasn’t your with Bach. I take piano because I Two of my stu- fault?” Three years later, the boy love to learn. dents are nearing or ended up in my eighth-grade When I was a young girl, my past eighty years of English classroom. I told him best friend Sue decided to take age. One, a lovely he looked familiar to me and piano lessons, just like me. Chil- gentleman named we laughed when I recalled the dren are a bit complex, however. Paul, has spent years memory of when our paths quite They tend to lead or follow. They writing about his literally collided. He told me his admire their friends, yet become experiences grow- mother was a piano teacher, and jealous at times. My friend cop- ing up and older in I thought it would be great to ied me. Cleveland. During renew my study of piano. I had a piano, so her mom one of our summer Piano is the one aspect of my bought her a piano. I took les- classes, I brought life where I truly have to think. sons, so she took lessons. Her in a sprig of laven- At this point in my journey, technique annoyed me because der and asked the 22 IAN Ohio “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com SEPTEMBER 2017

of age, has been playing the pipes since my jaw dropped as I recognized him from the age of six. Sribes and Scribblers. I asked him about taking lessons and without hesitation he OhioIANews: Andrew, how does a six accepted me as a student. I walked out of year old know anything about bagpipes, there knowing I had a teacher! by Bob Carney let alone learn to play them? I started a week later, and spent the next Andrew: My Uncle Mike Fowler was a three years learning the fingering and em- firefighter in North Royalton and played; bellishments. On my ninth birthday I got The Highland Pipes and ant instrument before battle to inspire his he always brought his pipes and played a big box from Glendale Arizona from my Andrew Fowler troops. He even had coins made with the at family gatherings, birthdays and hol- Uncle Mike. I had a feeling I knew what it By Bob Carney image of the pipes cast on them. idays. According to my parents, I was was inside. I had been looking for a set of After the first century, bagpipes could enamored with them from the first time I pipes because I was going to be competing A few years ago my wife Mary and I be found from India to Spain and from heard him play. in the fall. I remember opening the box had been hiking in Killarney National France to Eygpt. Just as language and My uncle moved to Arizona right about and thinking this is the greatest gift ever! Park in Co. Kerry; we had just come dialects vary from region to region so the time I was looking to play myself. OhioIANews: You also play the bass down a trail adjacent to Torc Waterfalls, too did the bagpipe, over thirty different Where I went to pre-school and kinder- drum, how did that start? fairly early on a late October morning. types have been recognized. The High- garten, Scribes and Scribblers, where Andrew: Michael and I were on our The fog was just starting to clear out on land Pipes are easily the most identifiable, my Mom was a teacher and principal, is way to practice ( we still carpool! ) and the lake when the sound of a lone piper followed by the Uilleann Pipes. where I first met Michael Crawley. I was he asked me to try something. He start- could be heard. It’s not clear when the pipes arrived ed to beat out a rythm on the dashboard The music of his pipes and the beauty in in Ireland and Scotland, but we can as- and asked if I could do it. I was eleven by front of us was a spectacular combination sume they followed civilization and the then and could follow him fairly easily. on that cold misty morning. I’ve heard settlement of both lands. The Irish are He said, “you’re going to be our bass bagpipes many times before and since, said to have played the pipes for Edward drummer!” but that occasion still comes to mind I at Calais in 1297 and at the battle of It seemed to click with me pretty well whenever I hear a solitary Falkirk in 1298. Chaucer and I won some awards with the band as piper. The music of the pipes made mention of the pipes the bass. I spent about three years playing can transport many of us in England’s 14th century. bass and pipes with the 87th and then through time and space. Henry VII and Henry VIII took some time off and played football The Highland Pipes or Piob both enjoyed bagpipes. in high school. I wanted to see if football Mhor are a part of Irelands’ Shakespeare refers to the might be my calling, it wasn’t; I had fun and Scotlands’ history and “drone of the Lincolnshire and liked it, but missed the band and went heritage. The history of the Bagpipe” in his play Hen- back in 2011. pipes themselves is not en- ry IV. I don’t think my coaches and friends tirely clear. The Scots made the pipes really understood my decision until I in- The construction of early a large part of their culture vited them to come see us perform. Com- instruments was done with and have kept pipe music petion has taken me places in Canada, all organic materials that were alive as a main part of over the U.S., and even to Scotland and unable to withstand the ef- their musical tradition. The Ireland. It’s not just an instrument, it’s a fects of time. Another factor however, is Scottish Highland Pipes consist of three way of life. It really becomes like family, that music historians have for the most drones, which produce a constant sound, it is family. part ignored many of the instruments of a chanter with the nine notes of the pipe OhioIANews: You’re a piper for the the common people around the world. It’s scale, and a bag, originally made of sheep in kindergarten at the time and Michael 87th and bass for Great Lakes, how did not until 1619 that an illustration that re- or elk skin, that is pressed with the arm would play there at St. Patrick’s Day, I you get involved with the West Side Irish sembles the “modern” bagpipes appears when the piper needs to take a breath, would go up to him and ask him “ can you American Pipe Band? in The Oxford History of Music. allowing for continual sound. play this tune or can you play that tune?”. Andrew: In 2013 they just had a new The earliest depiction of what may be a The Uilleann Pipes (ell-in), named for Later he told me he was blown away bass player come on board. By that time bagpipe is a terra-cotta figure housed in the elbow in Irish, are blown from a bel- that a five year old knew these tunes. I’d competed on bass for a number of Berlin’s Staatliche Museum. It’s believed lows on the right arm. The air is collected I didn’t ask for lessons at that time. years. Some of the players in the band to have originated in Alexandria around and controlled from a bag under the left Fast-forward a year, I was at the library knew who I was. I went to practice one the first century B.C. The instrument arm, pressure feeds the air to the reeds of in Parma and there was a piper playing day and just started to work with the bass is highly debated by scholars as to its the chanter and up to three drones along along with Irish dancers entertaining the player from the bottom up. He had no mu- true function, a rudimentary breathing with three regulator stocks fitted with kids. I asked him about lessons and he sical background whatsoever, he’s a great apparatus used for fishing or a musical keys. Extreme co-ordination is required to refered my Mom and I to a piper named player now, but usually when I start with instrument. utilize the two full octaves and different Michael, who had a shop on Pearl Road. a student and ask them, they’ve had choir The bagpipes came to Europe from keys available. The pipes are played in the So we went to the store hoping I could or band or orchestra. So for about a month North Africa as a result of the expansion sitting position and in skilled hands are a get lessons. Now, I’d been turned down we sat and tapped out rythms on a table of the Roman Empire. We’ve all heard mini-orchestra on their own. by other pipe instructors because of my while the band practiced in another room. that Nero fiddled as Rome burned, but These differences make the Highland age; most teachers won’t take anyone OhioIANews: How did you end up as more likely Nero would have played his Pipes the pipes of the pipe and drum younger than nine, so I was nervous when Pipe Major with them? beloved bagpipes. Dio Chrysostom wrote bands we know and love. A young man we walked in. Andrew; Up until the following spring of Nero’s passion for the pipes in 115 A.D., I have the pleasure of calling a friend, I remember the bell on the door rang I was just a private teacher for the bass, claiming that Nero would play the peas- Andrew Fowler, now twenty-four years and Michael walked out from the back, Continued on next page SEPTEMBER 2017 “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com 23

us, as I look at my own students, whenever we little time we have. enter the surreal world of Waiting for Godot. I’m Suddenly, it made sense. Time is not ‘on your side, Terry From Derry sure my eyes went straight to the clock when he because none of us can control the time we have. by Terry Boyle started discussing Beckett’s existentialism. The leaden feet of time crawled as we dissected every sentence of Lucky’s nonsensical speech. Theology, philosophy, philology, you name it, Time is on your side, yes, it is Beckett had dumped the whole of the ologies into one big soliloquy that didn’t even have any punctuation. While my brain was racking itself to stretch out to How many occasions have we heard that Rolling comprehend the mystery of Beckett, I had completely Stones track and thought, is it? You will forgive me for forgotten about time. The slow march of ticking hand musing in this article, but one of my absolute favourite had somewhere along the line rushed to the finish of playwright’s is Samuel Beckett. Originally from Dublin, class without me even noticing. Beckett rose to prominence in Paris, France with the pro- Something inside me felt cheated. Had I been fed duction of his play, Waiting for Godot. When I teach this Beckett and not wanted to regurgitate? Why? It was play in class, invariably, students either groan, or look like a Joycean epiphany. Now, it made sense. quite forlorn, as their eyes become increasingly trans- Time is not our enemy, nor our friend, it just is. Be- fixed on the clock hoping that just this once the great god tween birth and life, we try to create meaning in order of time (Chronos) might devour time in record speed. to not feel the oppressive force of time and yet, it still It makes no difference that Beckett was a Nobel Prize haunts us. winner. And, who cares, if he was a friend of James Joyce I ask my students how many clichés they can think who also worked for the French Resistance against the of that deal with time; kill time, waste time, fill in time Nazis. The pedigree of this man does not inspire the etc. We are obsessed with time, whether consciously or slightest enthusiastic sigh. unconsciously. We hate to become aware of time. For one thing, he’s so bloody difficult to understand, Whenever class is finished, students rush to pull out not to mention, his plays never have a satisfactory their phones, checking FaceBook, Snapchat, messages, ending. Who would ever want to go and see a play or simply put in their earphones to listen to music; any- about two men waiting for some character who never thing to avoid the sense of being in time. We create little turns up? It baffles and perplexes their young minds to games to help distract us from this oppressive awareness. contemplate why such a topic should be deemed worth When we’re younger, we live our lives in the future the scholastic effort. tense, and conversely, as we get older we look back, While the fainthearted consult Wikipedia (summa- since we’re running out of years. Time makes a mockery ry), others opt for a Youtube performance of the play; of our existence as we watch old Chronos devour what inevitably they give up when they find out that nothing of significance happens. And, who could blame them. The Highland Pipes I remember when I was first introduced to Beckett’s and Andrew Fowler work. I was a first year undergraduate who was still in Continued from previous page love with Emily Bronte and Wuthering Heights. For me, the world of fiction was populated with tempestuous sto- then the piping teacher was stepping down and asked ries; structured with a clear plot, rich characters, and of if I could take over the pipe corp. I thought it would course a sumptuous conclusion. It was how fiction was broaden my horizons and would be a good oppotunity. meant to be; a call to worship at altar of a well-told story. They had always been a parade band, but I asked them Nothing had prepared me for Beckett’s Happy Days. at our first practice if they were happy with the band or The title alone was totally misleading. A woman, Win- did they want to push to the next level. They said they nie, is buried up to her waist in the first act and up to her wanted to get better. neck in the second. For almost the whole 80 minutes, she Sean Lawry, Nikki Hulec and I discussed the future prattles about the most trivial and important things with of the band. We took it from more of a social club that absolutely no clear sense of direction, apart from repeat- gathered at St. Patrick’s Day and the Cleveland Irish Fes- ing the same ideas with slight changes to the language. tival to a serious musical ensemble. We practice weekly To all intents and purposes, her speech was like and learn new tunes. We’ve begun to attract like minded watching a hamster go around and around on its wheel, players and the band keeps getting better! appearing to move but going nowhere. I swore that It’s not just how you play, it’s appearance and attitude I would never read another Beckett work as long as I as well. When you’re in your uniform walking around an lived. I looked the booklist for every class like a coeliac event like the CICF, even if you’re walking by yourself, looking to spot a gluten filled product. My life had to people are watching you, you’re representing the band. be Beckett free or I would suffer for it. I guess the most fulfilling part of playing with the It wasn’t until I was a post-graduate that my allergy West Side IA is watching Michael Crawley watching me to the playwright was well and truly cured. Now, a bit teach a group. I’ve taken the instruction I’ve recieved my more mature, and prepared, I took a Masters in Mod- whole life and now I can share it with others. ernism. As we worked our way through Eliot, Joyce, Pound, Woolf etc., I fortified myself to engage with the Slán go Foill! absurdity of Beckett. No doubt, our professor looked at [email protected] 24 IAN Ohio “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com SEPTEMBER 2017

The nurse called back to her work. She explained Seated in the front row was the doctor, saying there that she was an acrobatic a little old Irishman who When Irish Eyes was a man in the waiting dancer and he wanted to broke into a big smile at room who claimed that he know what that meant. She this statement. Very angry, Are Smiling! was invisible. The doctor said she would be happy to the priest said to the jovial replied, “Tell him, I can’t show him the kind of thing old man, “What’s so fun- Brought to you see him today.” she did on stage. ny?” by Maury Collins ~ She stepped out of the con- “Well,” spoke up the old- As soon as she had finished fessional and within sight ster, “I’m not a member of A little boy was waiting thanked the boy kindly, parochial school, a bright of Father Sullivan; she went this parish.” for his mother outside the complimented him on young girl named Lena into a series of cartwheels, ~ ladies room of the gas sta- how bright he was and shook the dust of Ireland leaping splits, handsprings Sign in an Irish pub: “This tion. As he stood there, he said, “I’m the new pastor off her shoes and made her and backflips. Kneeling establishment closes at was approached by a man in town. If you and your way to New York, where near the confessional, wait- 11 o’clock sharp. We are who asked, “Sonny, can mommy come to church ing their turn, were two open from 10 a.m. until you tell me where the Post on Sunday, I’ll show you middle-aged ladies. They 11 p.m. and if you haven’t Office is?” how to get to Heaven.” witnessed Lena’s acrobatics had enough to drink at that The little boy replied, The little boy replied with with wide eyes, and one hour, the management feels “Sure! Just go straight a chuckle; “You’re kidding said to the other: “Will you that you haven’t really been down this street two blocks me, right? You can’t even just look at the penance trying.” and turn to your right. find the Post Office!” Father Sullivan is givin” out ~ It’s on the left.” The man ~ this night, and me without Tell me, Patrick, how did me bloomers on. you manage to get so very ~ drunk last night?” asked before long, she became Did you hear about the the parish priest. “Well a successful performer in Irish boomerang? It you see, Father, it was like show business. Eventually doesn’t come back … but this. I got into very bad she returned to her home sings sad songs about how company after winning town for a visit and on a much it wants too. a bottle of whiskey at a Saturday night went to ~ raffle.” confession in the church The good Father was warn- “But you were with Mick which she had always at- ing his listeners about the Mulligan, Sean O’Toole, tended as a child. suddenness of death. “Be- and Peter Ryan and they In the confessional, Father fore another day is ended,” don’t drink.” “That’s what I Sullivan recognized her he thundered, “somebody mean, Father...” and began asking her about in this parish will die.” There are over 1.4 million people of Irish descent in Ohio; 475,000 in Greater Cleveland; 175,00 in Cuyahoga County: Want to reach them? Advertise in the Ohio Irish American News: [email protected]. SEPTEMBER 2017 “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com 25

wretched times. leaders of the Easter Rising here in Ireland refer to our Abandon all hope, ye who also use powerful phras- modern police stations enter here. Dante’s famous es in their last moments. as ‘the barracks’; an over- words describing Hell. I Eamonn Ceannt wrote looked legacy? will share these words with in a final letter to his wife Frank Gallagher describes the five serpents carved from Kilmainham Prison: the scene in Dublin’s Man- in stone writhing over the “I hope to see God’s face sion House in the immedi- trating the torment of the Words Vz. front door of Kilmainham even for an hour in the ate aftermath of the vote on Great Hunger in Ireland, Prison. It is the image these morning.” These days it is the Treaty, when the result, Photographs 1845 – 1852. John Mitchel’s Many years ago, when snakes mean to convey to all too easy for us to forget a close 64 approving and explanation of how, despite I still lived in Dublin, I newly arrived inmates. But the strong religious beliefs 57 against, has just been a father receiving employ- shared a fun argument when forced to choose, I of those living in the early announced: “There was ment on a Public Works with a man who worked as believe the words them- 20th century. Ceannt pro- complete silence. Nobody Scheme, the man was often a photographer on one of selves are more dispiriting. vides us immediate enlight- moved, nobody cheered, not paid properly, therefore Ireland’s national newspa- The story of Thomas F enment with this last wish. nobody even spoke. Min- meaningful assistance elud- pers. Frank’s theory was Meagher’s civil war Irish These were family men. utes passed.” I cannot ed his family: “…and so in- that in attempting to recall Brigade attempting to battle They prove it with brief forget that unadorned stead of dying in December the past, photographs were their way to the stone wall heart breaking words. description. they died in March”; tpo outstanding. One single im- on top of Marye’s Heights Pearse, at the end a son What photograph could be- me, spine chilling, defying age could conjure up in its in Fredericksburg is well rather than a revolutionary, gin to capture the haunting the imagination. entirety any past event, in known, but Irish Fenian writes simply to his moth- terror of such a scene? Utter Walter Macken’s novel, all its misery or all its glory. poet John Boyle O’Reilly er: “I will call to you in my silence as the true conse- The Silent People, contains True, it could not analyse captured the scene mag- heart at the last moment.” quences of this vote become many humble quotes, in- every nuance and detail, clear to those present. stantly assisting the reader but studying a photo would There is one instance in to grasp the prevailing “It was only when you read on that transport you back instant- which I will allow victory atmosphere. “You can walk ly. However, I’ve always you realised the Irish Republic to Dublin photographer on drowned corpses from favoured sound bites [al- Frank. No words can de- the Aran Islands to Grosse was lost in the small print.” though I’m not keen on that scribe the horror or poi- Island in Quebec ... There is modern expression]; brief nificently in his At Fred- Tom Clarke, aged 59 yet gnancy of the destruction a road of skeletons, shifting sentences or a snatch of ericksburg - Dec 13, 1862: looking 70 after his life-long of New York’s Twin Towers with the tide from here to words that evoke deep feel- “Twelve hundred they struggle for Irish freedom, in September 2001. Virtu- Ellis Island .” ings and lost memories in a came, and two hundred go stresses in a note to his ally all of us can see in our Those words challenge me stronger and better way. back….” wife: “I’m full of pride my mind’s eye any number of still to make the effort to I will attempt to prove my President Lincoln’s brief love.” Love for family, for photographs portraying the visit Grosse Isle. I have theory with the first such exclamation on hearing of his country. How could you tragedy. No words needed. regularly recommended quote I recall noticing. It the Union losses also gives photograph such pride? Photographs transport us this book to visitors to explained clearly to me us instant insight into the These word-images con- back to wherever we were Kilmainham Prison over what the atmosphere of the ghastly circumstances: “If tinue into the civil war. A in the world that day when the years. Then again, Second World War must there is a worse place than character in Walter Mack- we first heard, saw and read Macken’s haunting: “If sea- have felt like. I spent my Hell, I am in it.” Three en’s The Scorching Wind the news. However, let us weed and sand weren’t free early teens in Holland, 25 Irishmen in Meagher’s discussing the Anglo Irish return to John Mitchel and in the world weren’t all men years after the war; I had 88th New York soundly Treaty points out with the years of hunger, death slaves?” And: ”It takes only no personal experience of illuminated their situation perception: “It was only and forced emigration in three weeks to starve. This it whatever. But my Dutch after the fight to General when you read on that you Ireland. Personally I have is for the poor.” friends’ parents had, and Hancock, when the lat- realised the Irish Republic yet to recognise anything Charles Gavan Duffy of the the authors of books we ter admonished them to was lost in the small print.” which comes even close to Young Ireland party, and read in school had. “To close up on their company: Another explains: “There painting a more profound editor of The Nation news- write poetry after Aus- “General, we are a compa- are centuries of oppression or damning image than the paper, described Ireland chwitz is barbaric”, said ny.” Could a photograph between the meaning of beginning of Mitchel’s open during the Famine as “a Theodor Adorno. I got it. portray that reply more these two words, Station letter to the poor during the corpse on the dissecting There are many examples of succinctly? and Barracks.” I myself Famine: “My dear surplus table….” An accurate, com- short, sharp quotes illus- Some of the executed have heard older people brethren…” pelling snapshot of those 26 IAN Ohio “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com SEPTEMBER 2017

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