October 2015 ianohio.com 2 IAN Ohio “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com October 2015 Editor’s Corner to fall in love: #LiveMoreLifeBe- everybody is doing better, yet MoreIrish! still, many are struggling. Every Congratulations to Cleveland St. year we budget for supporting TheThe ShamrockShamrock CottageCottage Patrick’s Gaelic Football Club on the little guy, paying it forward to An Irish, Scottish & Welsh Gift Shop winning the 2015 North American those who can’t afford to adver- County Boards National Cham- tise, but need to, to get support pionship! Held for their cause. GUINNESS MERCHANDISE every Labor Day “Follow me where I go, We pay forward NOTRE DAME MERCHANDISE Weekend, in ro- what I do and who I know; what was paid tating cities, the O’Bent Enterprises includes: past. Our bud- ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS John O’Brien, Jr. Championships www.twitter.com/jobjr get for that was feature Gaelic www.facebook.com/ $10,000 this year. 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Then St. Pats for we have been there, and know [email protected] Chicago the 9th thru the 11th; the defeated Saint Louis Gaelic Ath- the way out. Fund and friend rais- Mayo Ball on the 10th; The High letic Club 3-16 to 1-4 (25 to 7). On ers must feed the hungry and those John M. Luskin, Owner Kings at Music Box Cleveland Saturday, St. Pats beat the Denver in need. Hard times tried to bury on the 10th, sold out, a 2nd show Gaels 4-12 to 5-2 then beat the LA us, but they didn’t realize we were has been added for that day; Irish Wild Geese 5-8 to 2-10 (23 to 16). seeds. Green thumbs indeed. Councillor Rose Conway Walsh is On Sunday, St. Pats won over San Slán, speaking at Pj McIntyre’s on the Francisco Eire Og 3-11 to 1-6 (20 John 11th. Speak Irish Cleveland kicks to 6), to win it all. This team is off every Tuesday at PjMcIntyre’s, hallmarked by great effort, great Carbon Leaf is at Music Box Sup- sacrifice and great camaraderie. So About Our Cover per Club Cleveland on the 22nd … sorry I couldn’t join you in person, and the list goes on and on. Check but Way To Go Lads! #IrishStrong creator out the Out & About Ohio section Across our readership area in Kevin Coyne and within for even more. It’s so easy Ohio, PA, NY, KY, MI. and IL, most The Hound October 2015 “We’ve Always Been Green!” www.ianohio.com 3 J Flynn was the head of the cards, I’ll deal.” Gramps just about the price of an ice house. He had immigrated would say. I would get the cream.” He made a big groan, Living With from Drumshanbo, Leitrim, cards and we would play as he got up from his chair, Lardie Ireland in 1901. My grandma, right there at his chair. he would grab my hand and by Richard Lardie Elizabeth Mulvanerty Flynn The pipe smoke smelled pull me out the door for the (Rossy, Leitrim, Ireland 1901), wonderful. He would deal walk to the corner drug store. ran the place. Then there was the cards on his knee and I I was so proud when he told my dad, mom, and us four kids. would fight to hold the cards people that his grandson had Carthy, Johnny Dollar, The We also had two men in in my little hand. I know he won enough money play- Times Were Whistler, to name a few. the attic transitioning in from was a good card player but ing cards to buy his own ice Different The great part about radio Ireland most of the time. Once somehow I was always able cream. We would walk home The times were different then. was that my Fat Man looked they got a job, they moved to go down before him. He together while he talked about It was 1948, and life seemed like I wanted him to and yours out and someone new would sometimes didn’t even show the Indians and what a great to have gone slower. We had looked like you wanted. It move in. So this little house me his hand because he said it team they had. I nodded a lot no Television to command our was all in our minds. Johnny on E 95th Street had six adults was so bad. He would give me but mostly concentrated on attention and fill our days with Dollar looked just like me. and four children. My memory a penny for every hand I won. licking my ice cream to make mindless “entertainment” that When we were sent to bed we is that it wasn’t crowded. The After a few hands he would sure I didn’t lose any of it. we would forget by tomor- would sneak down the top adults may have felt different. say. “How many pennies have I wish I could have one more row. News was delivered by flight of stairs and sit there We read a lot. My Grandpa ye?” I would respond with walk with him. So much left the daily papers once a day, out of sight from the living always had a book going. He excitement that I had five pen- unasked. Love ya Gramps. not six channels 24/7 tell- room and listen to the radio, would sit in his chair, read- nies. “Well” says he. ”That’s ing us how bad our world unbeknownst to the adults. ing and smoking his pipe. was. Mail came once a day In 1948 the Indians won the The Indians game would be not every minute like e-mail, World Series. I remember being on in the background and twitter, Facebook updates. able to be anywhere on the we were all expected to keep We had a one telephone but street and hearing the games ourselves busy. He was very it was a party line. That meant because everyone was on the patient and would put his you had to check if the other front porch with the radio blar- book down anytime you people on that line were on the ing thru the window. When the wanted to talk. I also learned phone before you could make Indians scored, my dad would to play cards and gamble at a call. The primary source of yell over to Joe McDonald and his knee in that living room. home entertainment was read- they would cheer together. How bout a game of rummy, ing and the radio. Our radio Someone down the street Dickie?” That would bring was a huge piece of furniture would chime in and add to the me running from anywhere that sat against the wall in the neighborly togetherness. Those within earshot. “Fetch the living room. (I had never heard were neighborhoods then. of a family room back then). Your neighbors became The shows were probably not almost your best friends be- as good as I remember, but to h M cause you were kind of stuck Iris a six year old everything was in your neighborhood. There Li e us ! great. I would lie on the floor were no freeways or turnpikes v ic with my chin in my hands and so people stayed home and listen to: The Lone Ranger (I learned how to get along. Now, always called him the Long if you move into a new home Ranger), Sky King, Hopalong you can get in your car and Cassidy, Tales of the Texas go visit your old friends. We Rangers, Henry Aldrich, Arthur don’t have front porches to Godfrey, Blondie, Burns and sit on when it is hot. (Plus we Allen, Sgt. Preston, Roy Rogers, have air conditioning). We Gene Autry, Dennis Day, Dick go into our fenced patio in Tracy, Fred Allen, Fibber Mc the back yard and we don’t Gee, Duffy’s Tavern, The Fat have to talk to our neighbors. Man, “There he goes, cross People are always lament- Hours: the street into the drugstore, ing the good old days because steps on the scale, weight 250 times were simpler then. I don’t Mon-Wed pounds. WHO IS HE? the Fat think times were simpler, we 11am-Midnight Man.” I loved that beginning; were simpler. We spent more 414 South Main St. The Shadow (Who knows what time with each other. Now Thur-Sat Findlay, OH 45850 evil lurks in the hearts of men? we spend time on the com- 11am-2am THE SHADOW KNOWS), puter, the TV, the internet, the Gang Busters, Groucho Marx, phone.