Triskele Nonprofi t Organization Center for Celtic Studies US POSTAGE PAID Triskele MILWAUKEE, WI Phone: 414-229-6520 P.O. Box 413 PERMIT NO. 864 Fax: 414-229-6827 Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413 ttriskeleA nnewslettererwsletteri ooffs UUWM’sWM’sk CCenterentere fforor CCelticeltlic SStudiestuedies e-mail: [email protected] Website: www.uwm.edu/Dept/Celtic VVolumeolume V IssueIssue I BBealtaineealtaine 22006006 Triskele Editorial Staff: Center Facilitates Wisconsin John Gleeson, Sarah Kissinger, Cat Murphy Delegation To Ireland Photo Credits: John Gleeson, Center for Celtic Studies Jean Bills, Tess Burkart, Michael Cudahy, When Michael Cudahy, Milwaukee businessman, John Gleeson, Meg Gleeson, Sarah Kissinger, philanthropist, and proud son of John Cudahy, fi rst U.S. Larry McNaughton, Cat Murphy, Ambassador to Éire, decided to take state offi cials to the Eamonn O’Neill, Bill Watson Emerald Isle, Chancellor Carlos Santiago asked the Center for Celtic Studies to help set up the schedule. Working Please send us your e-mail address if you would closely with Irish Consul General Charles Sheehan and prefer to receive Triskele or updates about current Terry Miller, Director of UWM’s Overseas Progams and events via the Internet. Partnerships, we were able to pull together a busy but fruitful fi ve-day trip to Ireland earlier this year. L to R: John Gleeson, Monsignor Halligan, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, Write to: [email protected] to have your name The mission of the delegation was to look to Ireland for Michael Cudahy, Irish President Mary McAleese, Governor Jim Doyle, Tim added to our e-mail list or to change your current Sheehy, President, GMBA, Chancellor Carlos Santiago mailing or e-mail address. best practices in economic development, education, and creation of positive business climate. From our fi rst Whereas, in the nineteen eighties, whole graduating meeting, with Marion Coy, Director of the Galway-Mayo classes left Ireland due to a lack of job opportunities, now Institute of Technology, to the last meeting with Irish half a million people have moved to Ireland, attracted by President Mary McAleese, the delegation was left with the “Celtic Tiger” economy, two-hundred thousand of whom a real impression that Ireland’s leaders have a common are returning exiles. Today, unemployment is a choice not faculty quiz vision with a shared purpose, i.e. the betterment of an a scourge. Irish lifestyle through quality education and sustainable The delegation visited companies such as Hewlett-Packard economic growth. With Kathy Callahan - Adjunct Assistant What is your most treasured possession? and Boston Scientifi c, and we were provided with detailed Professor in the UWM History Department I have two: one is a photograph of me, my dad and Ernie For example, in education, high standards are the rule. informational presentations by the senior executives of Banks, the other is only a memory of the day Wynton High school graduates approach college as an opportunity the Industrial Development Authority, Enterprise Ireland, What is your greatest fear? Marsalis played “Happy Birthday” on his trumpet for me! to become well-skilled adults. College fees are largely paid HETAC, and the Department of Education. Dr. Connor Lawyers. (Don’t tell my brother-in-law) by the state. The word we heard repeated more than any Brady, President of University College Dublin, Eamonn What do you regard as your lowest depth of misery? O’Cuiv, Minister for Gaeltacht and Community Affairs, and Which living person do you most admire? other was “nimble” - describing the ability to move forward, When the Cubs lose. adjust, and respond to the needs of the global economy. Noel Tracy, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, all hosted Nelson Mandela. briefi ng lunches in our honor. The Honorable Catherine What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? In which of the Celtic regions would you like to spend Byrne, Lord Mayor of Dublin gave a reception for the I would tell you that I hate that I procrastinate, but I don’t a year of your life? delegation, and invited along students and faculty from have time. Galway/Aran Islands. The beauty is unsurpassable. the UWM Celtic Studies/Theatre Department Winterim program, who happened to be in Dublin at the same time. What is your greatest extravagance? What is the quality you most like in a human being? An afternoon of uninterrupted novel reading. Honesty. Apart from the wealth of information, the warmth of the welcome and the generous extent of the hospitality our What is your greatest regret? What is your motto? delegation also gained some insight into the Irish Voting for John Anderson. What doesn’t kill you makes character. As we were leaving Aras an Uachtarain you stronger. following a cozy fi reside chat with President McAleese to What or who is the greatest love of your life? head across the road for a reception graciously hosted by My husband, John. Who is your favorite Celtic U.S. Ambassador Jim Kenny and Margaret, his Wisconsin- music performer(s)? born wife at their historic Georgian residence, Governor Which talent would you most like to have? Mary Black. Doyle turned to me and asked, “John, are there no I have always wanted to be a country singer, mostly so I Wisconsin Delegation, UWM Students and Faculty at Dublin Lord Mayor’s unpleasant people in Ireland?” and to be honest, at that could wear sequins and rhinestones. Reception What recent Celtic- moment I could not think of one! related book would you If you could choose what to come back as, what would recommend? FFáilte!áilte! CCroeso!roeso! MMannbet!annbet! KKroesan!roesan! WWelcome!elcome! it be? I would recommend Maureen O’Dowd’s book A History of Queen Elizabeth I or a house cat. It’s a toss up. Women in Ireland 1500-1800. 442160-482160-48 ttriskeleriskele ppc.inddc.indd 1 55/31/2006/31/2006 99:23:18:23:18 AAMM VVolumeolume V IIssuessue I TTriskeleriskele PPageage 2 VVolumeolume V IIssuessue I TTriskeleriskele PPageage 1111 ccs lecture series items of note Throughout the year the UWM Center for Celtic studies hosts numerous events exploring the wonders of the Celtic World. Most of these are free and open to the public. Fall gatherings will include informal sessions featuring Celtic traditional scots wha hae Winter Solstice at Newgrange music Masters, “A Coole Evening with Lady Gregory,” our annual Samhain celebration, lectures including Graeme Southeastern Wisconsin boasts not just one, but two festivals Newgrange tumulus is the oldest building in Europe, the Morton on Scottish Migration to north America, all at the Hefter Center. There will also be a Samuel Beckett exhibition celebrating Scottish heritage. They bookend the summer interior of which is visited by the rays of the rising sun incorporating readings, fi lms and a seminar. To be kept up to date on these and all our events just e-mail gleeson@uwm. nicely so you’ll be able to attend both of these wonderful during the winter solstice. Now, you can experience this edu. One of the spring highlights was the launch of James Liddy’s On the Raft with Fr. Roseliep some poems from which events. magical phenomonon for yourself! we have included among pictures from recent events. The Irish Offi ce of Public Works has instituted a lottery Time Present Scottish Fest: The Milwaukee Highland Games to select a group from all those who would like to be Adoring the male, what precisely is it Satuday, June 3, 2006 - Old Heidelberg Park (9am to 9pm) present in the chamber at dawn on the 21st of December - the young girl in the boy in fl ower. See spectacular bagpipe bands, sample great each year. The Center for Celtic Studies has a limited Scottish food, watch beautiful Highland number of offi cial lottery application forms and to receive Dancing, and see working sheepdogs. yours free, just send a self-addressed stamped, business- Watch unique athletic events, march in the sized envelope to: colorful Parade of Tartans, sing and dance at Center for Celtic Studies the Ceilidh or volunteer to help at the event. Professor Liam Kelly, Irish Art Historian University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee For more information call (414) 422-9235. Online at: Eamonn O’Neill with Loreto Guinan, Bog Expert with our own Seosaí Nic Rabhartaigh P.O. Box 413 http://www.milwaukeehighlandgames.com and Heritage Offi cer for County Meath Milwaukee, WI 53201 All Souls Day New Year’s Eve Author Angela Bourke with Michael Gillespie My parents died and are buried at the screening and discussion of the Irish The Wisconsin Highland Games I had a dream that Jim Hazard had put fi lm “The Rocky Road to Dublin” with stone-barmen all around them, Labor Day Weekend, Sept. 1-3, 2006 (Times vary by day) a poem for me inside a golden biscuit tin. their glasses fi ll again: I bring fresh limes to their graves. A weekend of Celtic culture at the Waukesha County Expo Center! Highland Pro Defunctis dancers, pipers, and drummers, the caber Let us invoke the dead toss, tugs of war, border collies herding for fi ve minutes of memory sheep, a knight in full armor, living history, a in pajamas underpants when they took them off marketplace full of exotic goods, a pub with fi ne ales and the music of the British Isles, competitions in the harp, the longbow, the feats of strength - all this awaits Aislingí you at the celebration. For more information, visit them Newgrange from the Air - Older than the Pyramids, Newgrange is the site of much Celtic mythology, folklore and legend. Kay Boyle/Frank O’Connor’s daughter online at: http://wisconsinscottish.org/games.html Bob McWIlliam, Eamonn O’Neill, Guinness Historian hitchiking among lorries, ‘Is there a phone near here John O’Sullivan, Cat Murphy, Paddy Murray, and we need to ring Co.