November 2012 Boston’s hometown VOL. 23 #11 journal of Irish culture. $1.50 Worldwide at All contents copyright © 2012 Boston Neighborhood News, Inc. bostonirish.com BIR cites Rep. Neal, Muses, and Feeneys The Boston Irish Reporter hosted its third annual Boston Irish Honors on Fri., Oct. 19, at the Seaport Hotel on the South Boston waterfront. The event, which marked the 22nd anni- versary of the BIR, drew more than 350 persons to the mid-day luncheon. In his prepared remarks, publisher Ed Forry said, “In hon- oring these exemplary families and individu- als who em- body the fin- est qualities of our people, we seek to h o n o r t h e memories of our ancestors who came here in bygone days when it was far from clear that we could make this place our home. How proud those early immigrants would be of their descendants, who have made Boston a welcoming place— Larry Reynolds leading a session at the Green Briar Irish Pub in Brighton. not only for new waves of Irish Photo courtesy of Bill Brett, from “Boston: An Extended Family” © 2007 entrepreneurs and workers, but for people from around the globe. “Today’s honorees — the Muse family, the Feeney brothers and Remembering Larry Reynolds, fiddler: US Rep. Richard Neal—are agents of idealism and ingenu- ity who represent the best of the ‘He never, ever got tired of the music’ Boston Irish experience. They no room for all of them to come simply passed along by word of are devoted to a level of profes- By Sean Smith Ui Cheide, a sean-nos singer sionalism in their chosen fields and say goodbye to him. mouth. The planned six-hour from Leitirmoir, sang “Com- Special to the BiR Reynolds died on Oct. 3, leav- wake for Reynolds at the Joyce ing Home” as the pallbearers that makes us proud to call them He was the big, amiable fellow ing behind an extraordinary Funeral Home in Waltham went slowly walked the coffin down our own. Their commitment to from Galway who worked with six-decade legacy as musician, into overtime by three hours. the aisle. They paused while public service and civic-minded wood in his profession and in his organizer, and pioneer in the His funeral, held on Oct. 11 at the musicians, spanning several philanthropy serve as models music, and who seemed to know, Boston Irish music scene. The Saint Jude Church in Waltham, generations, played the air “For for us today and harken back to personally, just about anybody Waltham resident, a carpenter was equally well-attended: The Ireland I’d Not Tell Her Name” our own roots as a people who who’d ever so much as touched by trade and fiddler by inclina- crowd – including a bevy of before launching into a set of — even in times of need— dug a fiddle, accordion or flute, or tion, was 80 years old. musicians with instruments in reels, beginning and ending deep to help others.” sang an Irish song. Within mere hours of his hand as well as a columnist and with “The Galway Rambler.” A package of photos and sto- In fact, Larry Reynolds knew, death, tributes and reminis- photographer from the Boston Reynolds’s lifetime coincided ries about the Honors luncheon and touched the lives of, so many cences began flooding the In- Globe – spilled outside onto with a remarkable renaissance begins on Page 18. people that there was literally ternet and social media, or were Main Street. His friend Mairin (Continued on page 11) US Supreme Court halts handover of IRA tapes – for now By aSSociated pReSS the school give the Justice De- Stephen Breyer ends Nov. 16 if uters dispatch, the matter before partment portions of recorded there is no formal appeal to the the Supreme Court concerns only WASHINGTON – The US interviews with convicted IRA Supreme Court. interviews with Dolours Price, an Supreme Court has temporar- car bomber Dolours Price. Price Citing international mutual IRA member who was jailed for ily blocked Boston College from and other former IRA members assistance treaties, the Justice her part in the 1973 bombing of turning over to the government of were interviewed between 2001 Department wants to turn the London’s Old Bailey courthouse Northern Ireland interviews that and 2006 as part of The Belfast records over to the Northern that injured more than 200 academic researchers recorded Project — a resource for jour- Ireland police, a move that has people. The court’s decision in with a former Irish Republic nalists, scholars and historians evoked strident opposition from her case will likely determine Army member. studying the long conflict in those who fear that such a move the fate of the other interview On Oct. 17, the high court Northern Ireland known as “The will damage the peace process in material, said Eamonn Dornan, stayed a lower court order that Troubles.” the North. an attorney for the researchers. 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The Hurley building is the by Night,” the Roaring Twenties gangster page-turner melted.” worst of them all, but it makes you hate all of it, City that will also be a big-studio film some day soon, but The first third of the Hall, the plaza, all of it. You have to go to pictures to any sting that Lehane might suffer from the blunt sum- “Live by Night” satisfies see what was there.” mary is soothed by the source: The New York Times our local fix. Charac- Even so, one of the reasons Lehane “comes home” in Book Review noting that his latest novel has debuted ters dart off streetcars his books so frequently is because Boston remains a at No. 8 on the paper’s bestseller list. and into flophouses in city whose past is a constant feature of its present— No big surprise there. Dorchester’s most celebrated Scollay Square. They from the neighborhoods to downtown. man of letters since old Eddie Everett himself has frequent speak-easys “I can be a bit of homer,” Lehane admits.