Buffaloirishtimes An Irish Christmas

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November 2012 - December 2012
Gaelic American Athletic Association
Buffaloirishtimes
Riviera Theatre Presents Col. Patrick O’Rorke
Eileen Ivers’ An Nollaig: Memorial Dedicated at
An Irish Christmas
St. John Fisher College
The Col. Patrick O’Rorke Memorial Society and St. John Fisher College
celebrated the Col. O’Rorke Memorial
Dedication on Sunday, September 23,
2012.
The Memorial was dedicated to
acknowledge the kick-off of the College’s new Irish Studies program, which
will feature an annual “Col. O’Rorke
Seminar” concerning the contributions
and experiences of the Irish Americans
during the Civil War period.
Patrick O’Rorke was born in County
Cavan in 1837, emigrated to Rochester
in 1842 and graduated first in his class
from West Point in 1861. A Colonel in
the Union Army during the Civil War, he
fought valiantly and was killed on Little
Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg on
July 2, 1863. The O’Rorke Memorial Society and the College honor his patriotic
sacrifice.
New Radio Series for the Diaspora and
Irish-Language Students Worldwide
Cruinneog is a new series on RTÉ
Raidió na Gaeltachta aimed in particular at the international Irish community around the world, including
Irish-language students. The program,
presented by Cearbhall Ó Síocháin, will
cover stories from around the globe, and
welcomes listener contributions.
Eileen Ivers captures the spirit and
magic of the season in her heartwarming holiday show that features traditional
Irish songs, original tunes and holiday
favorites specially arranged by Eileen
and her band, Immigrant Soul.
Ticket prices are $30 and $35 and
tickets can be purchased through the
Riviera Theatre box office at 692-2413,
Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm and Saturday,
10am-2pm or ordered on our website,
www.rivieratheatre.org.
Buffalo Irish Times
Gaelic-American Athletic Association
245 Abbott Road
Buffalo, NY 14220-1305
The Historic Riviera Theatre presents Eileen Ivers’ An Nollaig: An Irish
Christmas on Friday, December 14, 2012
at 8:00 pm for one performance only.
Cruinneog (pron: Krin yogue) means
globe, and the show will cover stories of
interest to the international Irish community, such as the voting rights of Irish
abroad for example, and different Irish
festivals throughout the world. The
program team hopes to be in touch with
Irish-language circles, international Irish
societies, and Irish centers wherever they
may be. The show will also cover some
of the tools available to those researching
their ancestors, and some of the different
historic societies in Ireland. Cruinneog
is broadcast on Saturdays at 11am Irish
time, and you can tune in online at www.
rte.ie/rnag, or listen via RTÉ Radio
Player www.rte.ie/radioplayer.
Upcoming items on the show will
include, for example, a report by Bríd
Higgins Ní Chinnéide on life in San
Francisco, a piece on the history of emigration from Ireland to England, a review
of the Abbey Theatre production of The
Plough and the Stars which is to tour the
UK this autumn, and analysis of the first
debate in the US presidential election by
Rhona Ní Chearbhaill in New York. Presenter Cearbhall Ó Síocháin is
from Dublin, and he hopes, through the
show, to extend the hand of friendship
to the many RnaG listeners outside of
Ireland. He also intends to use the latest
Soundcloud technology to invite listeners
to record the sounds of their world, and
to share them with the Cruinneog community. If you have a story you would like to
share, you can get in touch with program
at [email protected], you can follow them
on Twitter @cruinneogrnag, and listeners
can also be in touch through Facebook on
the Raidió na Gaeltachta (oifigiúil) page.
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Letter from the Editor
I love old photos. The sepia-colored
old-timey ones, the ones where the carefully-styled women and men gaze through
time with the grim faces of people going
to great pains not to move and ruin the
photo. I like them because these people
are so unlike real people—real people
laugh, they smile, they squirm, they blink
at exactly the wrong time. But they were
real, and even though they’ve achieved
visual immortality with a photograph,
without stories and connections to people
who will still tell their stories, they may
as well be ghosts.
My great grandmother, Mary Ethel
Shea, lived to be 102 years old, and I
remember standing in front of her on the
occasion of her 100th birthday, and being
baffled by the changes she had seen in
her world. She was a woman like any
other, and yet just having experienced all
that she had – the inventions, the wars,
the medical advancements—made her
remarkable. Her life was absolutely extraordinary—she had known people who
fought in the Civil War! She’d had lived
through a time when women weren’t able
to vote!—and yet there she was in front
of me.
Writer Jason Kottke calls these people
“human wormholes”– people who are
links to a past that we can only imagine,
connecting a distant, lost time to the present. The wailing of a professional keener,
the flush of a face brought on by a name’s
Irish Catholic connotations, or the cock
of a bowler hat, one among many on a
crowded street – these are details of a life
that has passed away, but there are still
people who are artifacts in themselves,
who are a direct link to the past. Living in
this age of digitized life and unimaginable advances, we need a link to a simpler
world, if only to put the amazing lives we
lead into context.
As time chugs on and we all get older,
photographs, documents and stories take
the place of voices, gestures and memories. The unmoving faces in yellowed
photos may seem serious and impassive,
but something, be it a blur of movement
or a hint of a smile, betrays the fact that
these people were as lively as you and
I, that they were feisty and sensitive and
bawdy and remarkable as anyone you
know now.
Our facebook pages tell our stories
in real time, but as advances eclipse
our technology time and time again,
it reinforces the truth that that for our
legacies to endure, we have to be more
than images—if you want proof, I’ll give
you my parents’ box full of 8mm films,
unwatched ever since the reel-to-reel projector went down. Some day people will
look at 2012 and shake their heads—after
all, Old Grandma Shea’s childhood was
spent without electricity, just as mine was
spent without the internet (something that
already surprises some young people).
This issue’s pages are filled of
memories and stories, remembrances and
celebrations, and best of all, old photos.
I hope you see something lively in those
eternally-opened eyes.
Lift A Pint To The Brothers McCourt:
A Couple Of Blaguards at ICTC
The Irish Classical Theatre Company
continues its 2012-2013 Season with
A Couple of Blaguards, which will run
Thursday, October 25 through Sunday,
November 18, 2012. Penned by the
great Frank McCourt (Pulitzer Prize,
“Angela’s Ashes”) and his brother Malachy McCourt (“A Monk Swimming”),
A Couple of Blaguards is directed by
ICTC Guest Director Gordon McCall
(Shining City).
Hilarious and heartwarming, this
devilishly humorous show by the
“blaguards” themselves delights. It’s a
story told by master racounteurs and is
liberally laced with music, parody and
song. Toss in a pinch of anarchy and a
tall tale or two in for good measure, and
this irreverent comedy traces the broth-
ers’ unlikely journey from the streets of
poverty-stricken Limerick to fame and
fortune in New York City.
Director Gordon McCall, currently
Associate Professor of Theatre and
Head of the Graduate Directing Program at Purdue University, Indiana, has
directed in the United States; Australia
and Canada, where he served as Artistic
and Executive Director of Montreal’s
Centaur Theatre. He is steeped in Irish
Theatre and has directed in Ireland, most
notably at the Abbey, Ireland’s National
Theatre Company.
Starring as the Brothers McCourt
are Chris Kelly as Frank and Christian
Brandjes as Malachy.
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Production Stage Manager Renee
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Katie Mallinson, Technical Director
and Lighting Designer Brian Cavanagh,
Set Designer Dyan Burlingame, Sound
Designer Chris Cavanagh, Costume Kari
Drozd and Hair and Make Up Designer
Susan Drozd.
Performances will take place at The
Andrews Theatre, the home of the Irish
Classical Theatre Company, 625 Main
Street, Buffalo, Thursday, October 25
through Sunday, November 18. Performances are Thursday through Saturday
at 7:30PM with matinees on Saturday at
3PM and Sunday at 2PM.
Don’t forget that ICTC’s Irish
Passport allows you to buy 4 tickets to
use as you please for only $100. And
each 4-pack also includes a fifth ticket
for you to introduce a friend to the Irish
Classical Theatre Company.
The Irish Passport may be purchase
in person at the ICTC Box Office, 625
Main Street, Buffalo, or by calling
716.853.ICTC (4282).
In Memory: Peggy McDonald New Novel An Irish Country
Wedding Sure to Delight
On September 17, 2012 Mary (Peggy)
McDonald (Née Barry) passed away
peacefully in her home surrounded by
family, at the age of 82. Peggy lived a
very full life in Buffalo, NY along with
summers in Hanford Bay, NY.
Peggy was the wife of the late Alfred
F. McDonald, and is survived by seven
children: Mary Parker, Kathy Shanahan,
Patty Wozniak, Kevin McDonald, Brigid
McDonald, Tim McDonald and Will
McDonald. She was the Grandmother of
fourteen grandchildren.
Peggy was born the eldest of five
children in Buffalo’s Old First Ward to
Irish immigrants Daniel Barry of Killarney Ireland and Margaret Talbot of
Tralee Ireland.
Peggy was her parents’ “communicator” with all the relations that they were
separated from in Ireland. Through her
years of writing letters on her parent’s
behalf, an everlasting bond was formed,
that spurned several trips for her and her
family to Ireland and the relations from
Ireland to the United States.
Peggy raised and doted on her seven
children, and when they were all entered
into school she went to work for the City
of Buffalo Department of Education for
almost a quarter century. Besides listening and singing to Irish music with her
family and friends at her home or at the
Buffalo Irish Center, Peggy loved keeping attune to Buffalo politics. When her
best friend Barbara Fahey’s son Eugene
ran for Common Council, Mayor and
then State Supreme Court Judge, she became passionate about getting the word
out to friends and acquaintances to offer
support. She loved the spirit of a good
political battle and would say that if she
and Barbara Fahey were born in a different time, they both would have been in
Congress. During a snowstorm in January 1997 when most people were shut in,
Peggy ventured out to the Buffalo Irish
Center to attend a reception for the Irish
Ambassador to the US, Dermot Gallagher hosted by Congressman Jack Quinn.
She said she would not have missed it.
Peggy retired in 1991 and became a
full time grandmother, story teller and
youth sports cheerleader for her fourteen grandchildren. During her summers in Hanford Bay, people would get
her familiar wave from the little white
cottage porch she relaxed on, and come
up to say hello. If they were lucky they
would be back on their way to the beach
in a couple of hours. Over the years she
hosted three summertime Irish Hooleys
at her cottage featuring the band Kindred,
along others. She was also a devout Catholic and loved her church Saint Thomas
Aquinas in South Buffalo.
Peggy had a true Irish Catholic
funeral service at Saint Thomas Aquinas
Church. Her family friend, Reverend Father William Bigelow was the celebrant.
A party was held immediately following
at the Buffalo Irish Center. Peggy will
be enormously missed by all who were
lucky enough to know her.
An Irish Country Wedding is a heartwarming tale from New York Times bestselling author Patrick Taylor.
Love is in the air in the colorful Ulster village of Ballybucklebo, where Dr.
Fingal Flahertie O’Reilly has finally proposed to the darling of his youth, Kitty
O’Hallorhan. There’s a wedding to be
planned, but before O’Reilly can make it
to the altar, he and his young colleague,
Barry Laverty, M.B., must deal with the
usual round of eccentric patients—and
crises both large and small.
Being a G.P. in a place like Ballybucklebo often means more than simply
splinting broken bones and tending to
aches and pains. It can also mean helping a struggling young couple acquire
their first home, clearing the name of a
cat accused of preying on a neighbor’s
prize pigeons, and encouraging a bright
Thomas J. Masterson and Jill Sliz were married on August 25 at Our Lady of
Charity Catholic Church, followed by a celebration at the Buffalo Irish Center. Congratulations T.J. and Jill!
working-class girl who dreams of someday becoming a doctor herself. And, if
you’re Barry Laverty, still smarting from
a painful breakup, there might even be a
chance for a new romance with a lovely
school teacher, if her passionate political
convictions don’t get in the way.
Much has changed in Ballybucklebo,
and bigger changes are in store, but the
lives and practices of these Irish country
doctors remain as captivating and irresistible as ever.
An Irish Country Wedding is a charming tale of an Ireland now gone but never
forgotten, and will infuse warmth on
even the chilliest of fall evenings.
Check your local bookstore for availability.
Correction
It was brought to our attention that there was an inaccuracy in the article remembering Charlie Treanor’s involvement in the effort to secure the county stones, it was
noted that Tom Higgins traveled with Charlie; Ed Patton in fact accompanied Charlie
on that trip; Tom Higgins was the Chairman of the Site Committee and Ed Patton was
his assistant.
Ed Patton offered his memories of the endeavor and of Charlie Treanor:
[Sheriff Higgins] always was a vital part of our committee and knocked down
many barriers to our efforts and set up many vital meetings in City Hall for us. Since
I was also the historian for the committee’s efforts I have every major document that
pertains to that effort in my possession along with various artifacts and hundreds of
photographs taken by myself. That includes the only aerial photographs of the monument upon its completion. The aerial photos were entirely because of Sheriff Higgins
efforts. Thanks to Kevin Caffery I was able to shoot a number of photos of the monument from up above. A stirring site indeed.
To spend a week with Charlie traveling and sharing a room and many hours driving him around was something that I will treasure to the day I die. Any accolade you
could apply to him would hold up in any court of public opinion. To be privileged to
share in his knowledge, wit and wisdom for the whole week of that special trip should
be anybody’s aspiration.
The Last Professional Keener in Miltown Malbay
By Kevin J. O’Brien
In Ireland, the invention of keening is
attributed to the goddess Brigit, daughter
of the Dagda. Her son Ruadan mac Bres
was killed by the smith Goibniu for being
a spy. He was pierced by a spear in front
of her, and she let out the first keening
heard in Ireland. After Brigid, all fairy
women—bean sidhe—would keen for the
dead in a like manner, especially those
with ties to mortal families.
Keening is not simply wailing,
though—it is a controlled use of highpitched singing of laments performed by
women who are trained in this art. These
women are actually professionals, paid
(usually in food and drink) to attend the
wake.
Keening cannot be performed until
the wake, when the soul is thought to
have finally left the body. To sing while
the soul may still be present would alert
the hounds of hell, who might sweep
down and grab the soul.
In the seventeenth century, the Catholic church sought to ban keening, viewing it as pagan and undignified. While it
was certainly pagan (though much folk
custom usually is, if one can think of pagan as meaning an earth-based practice),
it was not undignified.
From all reports, the practice of
keening is dying out, as are most ancient
customs these days.
On one of my past trips to Ireland I
was visiting one of my father’s cousins,
Sr. Bríd at the Mercy Convent in Ennis,
County Clare and we were discussing
my father’s grandmother, Katie Conole
Moroney. Katie died in 1944 at the age
of 88 years. Sr. Brid shared many stories
about Katie Moroney with me on that
day, but the one I cherish the most was
the announcement that my great grandmother was the last professional Keener
in Miltown Malbay, County Clare,
Ireland.
Sr. Bríd told me that Katie was “…in
high demand, and it was an honor to have
Katie keening at your family’s wake,”
and that one could be at the other end of
the town and hear Katie keening away,
and it was something you would likely
never forget.
Katie and Tom Moroney raised 12
children, with 10 going to America to
marry and raise families. Katie and Tom
had 51 American-born grandchildren and
they never had the chance to hug or even
see one of them.
Riding of the Pooka
As told by the late Michael Linehan of Ballyhoolihan, Northwest Co. Co
Introduction and illustration by Donna M Shine
What is Ireland without its captivating folktales, told by those who have the
gift of colorful embellishment, especially
during the holidays? Michael Linehan
was one of those talented people, known
a seanchai, who could spin a yarn that
could be envisioned to the smallest detail, leaving the listener hungry for more.
So, imagine sitting in a darkened
room by a glowing turf fire, and dark
shadowy images dancing on the walls.
As the fire’s heat begins to melt the cold
from your cheeks, the room is quiet with
anticipation, and the words of Michael
Linehan begin to awaken your imagination as he takes you on his magical
adventure of the pooka.
***
I have a famous man in Ballydesmond, Eamon. I didn’t know the man,
like, but another man Phaedrig did.
Eamon would not be afraid to go outside
the door once it got dark. Everyone was
afraid of…God, what they were afraid
of: fairies, ghosts, and what have you.
But, when Eamon got in the corner to
tell stories, like, Phaedrig said he was
the master storyteller, none more braver
to solve any kind of problem for others.
But, I thought this was a great one that
Phaedrig talked about.
I suppose everyone was very superstitious of ghosts and fairies and so on.
But anyway, Eamon was not afraid of the
pooka! We all know what a pooka was,
right? Out of the Irish myths, you see, the
pooka was well-known. But, the pooka
was a terror of people at night time, you
see, as he was a small fairy pony that
would ride the fairy wind. And, what
he was merely supposed to do was, he
would run between your legs and pick
you up on his back, and away he’d go
through the night, through the hedgerows
and ditches and mud, right on through
the night, but always returning you to
where you started. Everyone would be
terrorized by the pooka! Anyway, Eamon
was not a man to be scared by anything
like that.
Phaedrig told the story that there were
these brothers that were living not too
far away up in the isolated boggy area,
like. And they were in a terrible state
and they couldn’t open the door, I mean
like, for fear of the pooka, you see! So,
Eamon was a man, of course by his own
judgment anyway, he was the man that
everyone came to if they had a problem,
like. That was in his own imagination, oh
yes, that was clear! Yeah, but he solved
all problems, like. Anyway, the boys
came down to Eamon in a terrible state
this day, to tell him their story about the
pooka and that they were in an awful way
and couldn’t go outside at all after dark
for fear of the pooka!
So, Eamon listened for a while, like,
and he considered the whole thing and
said, OK lads, he said, hurry all the way
home now, he said. I’ll call up tomorrow
night.
So, Eamon got his ash plant which,
an ash plant was a stick, a young ash tree
twig, that they would make into a whip,
yeah. Well, Eamon got his ash plant anyway and he went up around to their place
and he went seeing about up to the house,
as it was coming on to dusk, like. At dusk
was the time the pooka was supposed to
come, you see.
So, he called the brothers anyway,
alongside the door, like, and locked the
door, you see, to keep them out of the
way. He’d look after the whole thing! So,
anyway, then after that then, the pooka
came flying! Regarding, put Eamon up
on his back and away they go, he said.
Eamon opened up, he said, with the
ash plant, you see, and he gave it to him
left and right, he said, across the hips, he
says he, and down he went through the
country, he said. Down through Dromscarragh, he said, and gave a lashing
as hard as he could, left and right as he
went! Down, he said, through Cullen,
and the pooka jumped right over the
Blackwater River with Eamon still on his
back!
Staying along the Blackwater River,
Eamon was still in control the whole
time, like, pushing the pooka to go faster
and faster as the pooka had never gone
before. Normally, the pooka would be
in control, but not this night! They rode
through the dark, down the side of the
mountains, down to Caherbanagh near
the Paps Mountains of County Cork.
Then, from around there, the pooka
turned and headed up and down the hills.
And Eamon shook and kept the plant
going the whole time, driving him harder
and harder! He said coming up the hill,
he said, why, you could see there was
smoke coming right out of the pooka’s
ears!
But then, Eamon kept driving, and
kept giving the pooka the ash plant to the
last, and right up in time and back where
he wouldn’t be up on the pooka! But, by
the time he arrived back, anyway, the
pooka was beaten! Eamon got off and
gave him a kick up his behind and he
said he had claimed the pooka and had
solved the problems for the lads.
And that is why the pooka has never
been seen in that part of Ireland again!
Now, that’s an imagination!
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Irish Sites: Birr Castle
By Shane Devlin
GAAA Irish Library
Re-Opens
The following dates are scheduled for the remainder
of 2012:
Oct 6, 13, & 16, 2012
Nov 3 & 10, 2012
Dec 1, 8, & 20, 2012
Normal Library Hours: 1st & 2nd Saturdays of
each month October thru June, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
and the 3rd Tuesdays, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM, located inside the Buffalo Irish Center, 245 Abbott Rd,
Buffalo, NY 14220. (Stay tuned to WBEN 930 AM
for snow or emergency closings. If the Buffalo Irish
Center closes, so goes the library.)
For individual appointments please call: Mary C.
Murphy (716) 834-4965 or Donna M. Shine (716)
662-1164 or email Diane Blaser at dianeblaser@
hotmail.com .
Birr Castle is located in the County
Offley near the mid-section of Ireland.
Its grounds are surrounded by a tall
stone wall with two gate entrances in the
village of Birr. The castle is private and
occupied by the Parsons family since the
1620. The estate of about 120 acres has a
visitors’ center and museum and is open
to the public.
The day of the visit to Birr castle was
a typical cool Irish day; the breeze was
slight and occasional mist was in the
air. The tour of the estate was in a golf
cart with a roof and plastic roll down
sides that could be used if the weather
changed.
The tour of the grounds started at the
visitors’ center and was scheduled to cover the entire estate. The view of the castle
was first. It is a three-story building with
high windows that overlook the grounds.
The area around the castle has a moat
separating it from the grounds, which
was dug during the famine times to create work for the residents of the village.
The tour continued to an iron suspension
bridge which is the oldest of its kind in
Ireland, and crosses the River Camcor,
which had a waterfall upstream. The
castle grounds were difficult to maintain
due to lowland waters, and so dams,
canals and sluices were constructed and
a waterwheel built to pump water out to
a lake. Water was also pumped out to the
Little Brosna River. By 1879 a turbine
was installed in the Camcor River and
electricity was generated for the estate
house and for the village of Birr.
The tour road winds throughout the
estate. All along the trail are over one
thousand trees and shrubs that have been
imported from all over the world. Each
one is labeled with a tag indicating its
species and where it was from. Our guide
would stop and explain the origin of the
tree, its characteristics, growth pattern
The End of the “Old Rock”
By Michael J. McMorrow
One day, perhaps in the early 1950s,
my father, Michael J. McMorrow, called
his office in the Ellicott Square Building, Buffalo, New York. During court
recesses, it was routine to telephone from
the courthouse to see if any new business
had walked in or if appointment schedules had changed. This day he would be
in for a surprise!
The secretary advised that his mother,
Ellen McNulty McMorrow, had called
and insisted upon a formal appointment
toward the end of the day, but without
hint of the subject matter. Needless to
say, my father was a bit puzzled for nothing like this ever had occurred. More
than likely, his afternoon dragged on as
curiosity grew. At last, he rushed to the
office and there she waited in the full regalia of an old Irish widow, clad in black
from head to toe.
[As an aside, and example of Irish
“upward mobility,” she well knew the location of the office. For a time in the late
teens or early twenties, she worked as a
charwoman at night scrubbing the floors
of this prestigious office building on her
hands and knees.]
Escorted into his office, she got right
to the point: “Do I have your permission
to sell the farm?” He was astounded. The
unspoken assumption since the return
from Ireland in 1913 was that the farm,
along with the name and Latin name.
Two trees stood out to us—one was
slender, about ten feet in height and new
shoots would spring up about a foot from
the main tree. Over several years it would
form a grove of identical trees, requiring
constant care to prevent a large grove
from forming. The other tree was a tall
dark bark tree called the iron tree. It attracts lightening but no damage occurs to
the tree. The guide made about fifty stops
and his knowledge was exceptional as he
gave many details and explanations.
The next stop was at the telescope.
This amazing unit was constructed in the
early 1840s by the Third Earl of Rosse,
William Parsons. It consists of two solid
walls about fifty feet in height and separated by about twenty-five feet. In the
center was the large telescope mounted
in a shallow pit. It is held in place with
cables. Stairways go up each side wall
with a viewing platform on one side.
“Shancarrick” [in the Irish, “old rock”],
had been sold, likely to buy the fares
back to Buffalo.
Not so, it turns out. For decades the
farm had been leased, either formally or
informally, in writing or orally – to cousin Rita Sheridan. Her time-to-time letters,
it turns out, were not solely updates of
happenings and gossip from Ireland, they
brought the rent.
Everything became clear in an instant.
My grandmother had four children, three
girls and a son, my father being the
youngest. The “old Irish ways” dictated
that land passed to the eldest/elder/only
son in the family and girls were expected
to wed and leave the family homestead.
In effect, she had held the land in trust
for my father over the many years.
My father readily consented and in
The telescope is raised or lowered with
the cables. The telescope would move
vertically from west to east and had a
restricted horizontal rotation. The tube
barrel measured fifty-four feet in length.
The telescope’s reflecting metal mirror is
six feet in diameter. It would often have
to be polished to remove film buildup
that decreases the reflecting ability. The
telescope is referred to as a seventy-two
inch reflecting telescope.
The activity at the time was to observe the moon and Jupiter. The viewing
time was limited to one to two hours and
weather played a significant roll. Stunning discoveries were made here, like the
mysterious whirlpool nebula. Other distant fuzzy objects were found that were
clusters of stars. Many of the images
were drawn to preserve their finding.
The Birr Castle offered a day of enlightenment and discovery.
short order effected the sale to Cousin
Rita through a solicitor in Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim (who, incidentally, was a
non-relative named “McMorrow”).
The evening of grandmother’s appointment is recalled in the family. My
father had reflected on events on the way
home that evening. Clearly distracted
throughout supper, he kept blurting out
phrases such as “What is wrong with that
woman?” and “Did she think I actually
was going to close the office and take up
farming in Ireland?” and the like.
At the time, nobody laughed at those
outbursts or the event prompting them.
Over time, memories softened and mention of “the farm” merely led to a goodly
amount of chuckles and head-shaking.
IRELAND LAMPOONED US 27:
From Athone to Cashel
By Donna M. Shine
“Rise and shine” would have been a
great motto for this 21st day in September, except the only shine this morning
was our last name: SHINE! It was cloudy
and quite dreary but the temperatures
were on the mild side. James and I should
have been up at 7:45am by our alarm, but
instead were awakened at 6:00am by the
roommates on the other side of the wall.
Those walls were so very thin, we could
have sworn that someone else was sleeping in the same room with us! James had
to run down to the car park to extend our
time so we could enjoy a relaxing full
breakfast before venturing out and about
in Ireland.
Upon his return, James and I enjoyed
our full Irish breakfast, packed our bags
and headed down the stairs of Marie’s
B&B in old Athlone, Co. Roscommon.
As we made our way down the narrow
stairwell with suitcases in tow, I peered
out a small window and burst into laughter at what I saw! There, on the adjoining
rooftops, were gnome figurines, all over
the place! A gray, furry ball of a cat was
curled on part of the tin roofing, where
just below, in a nook between the rocks,
was a crossed-eyed gnome with his finger
under his nose as if the cat had…well,
you know…let’s just say had a bad odor!
Another smiling gnome, perched on rock
only a couple feet away, stared towards
the window that we peered through, with
a ‘thumbs up’ at the presumed stinky
situation. What a silly but memorable
backyard garden!
Moving on by half-nine, and travel-
ing down the N62, I began to feel the
excitement of anticipation of visiting my
ancestral townland of Thurlesbeg, Co.
Tipperary. I knew it would be a great experience when we passed a sign that read,
“SLOW DOWN – SPECIAL SPEED
LIMIT 50 km”! Now there’s even special
speed limits!...as opposed to what, unspecial ones? Life’s jokes are all along the
roadways, I swear!
Passing through Ballynahown, there
were beautiful roses and colorful gladiolas in explosive blooms. Near Farbane,
we could see an eerie fog, lingering near
the ground, crawling along the vast bog
turf farms. The closer we approached
to Cloghan, stacks of peat revealed
themselves as the source of what we
thought was that fog. These peat piles
were stacked so high on both sides of the
road, the canyon-like passage permeated
the air with the sweet smell of turf. It
was amazing to see so much land being
farmed for peat in these midlands.
Ah, my Tipperary! A windmill farm
breached the horizon with its mechanical whips as the Silvermine Mountains
rose to proclaim their majesty. Ireland’s
beauty abounded, and we were humbled.
Major road construction with portable
red-lights caused delays in our journey.
Many walls were knocked down to make
way for the new, more modern roads.
Changing to the R660 to Holy Cross, the
roads became quite rough and the drivers, quite rude! Whatever happened to
manners and courtesy while driving?
Passing through Boherlahan on our
approach to the Rock of Cashel, I felt
I was home again. Blue sky started
to make its way through the thinning
clouds, but the darkness in their shadows silhouetted the castle against their
brightness. What will this visit bring?
What new friends will we meet? What
new calamities will transpire, given our
track record for this trip, so far? At least
the hold on my credit card had been
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released…not without tremendous frustrations! But, I was not going to borrow
trouble. I was ready to face that which
was waiting, come what may…I thought
I was prepared. But, I was not prepared
for what happened at the Legends Guesthouse where I had booked the next three
nights. Only me…only me!
SAMANTHA’S
WORLD
By Donna M Shine
Mommy, can you hear me?
I hear nothing that you say;
Daddy, can you hear me?
Is it really time to play?
Your mouths are always moving, yet,
No words ever reach my ears;
The silence all around me,
Brings out your greatest fears.
You took me to the doctors,
New science, they did try;
Magnets and wires, with programmed
chips,
I thought that I would cry.
What are these things, behind my ears,
That beep if they fall off?
Your staring! What did I do wrong?
All I could do is scoff.
But wait, the doctor turned them on,
And something’s in my ear;
“Samantha?” Someone called my name,
So soft, but I could hear!
I scared myself a couple times,
My laughs and cries made sound;
When Grandma came to say, “Hello”
I simply made a frown.
I watch all lips, as words come out,
I know not what they mean;
Before, I’d watch your teeth and tongues,
And stare at what I’d seen.
But now, I have a chance to learn,
To help me on my way;
I’m really excited, that maybe now,
Big sis, Robyn, and I can play.
Who’s in these Pictures: Around 1900,
First Ward of Buffalo
These photos were submitted by Larry Dunn of 66 Parkwood Ave., Kenmore, NY 14217. He is seeking any information great or small on these people – if you have information, please contact him at the address above to email [email protected].
The 1st picture on the left is Mike Dunn (b.1856 Avon NY) Buffalo, NY (my Grand Father).
The 2nd picture includes Mike Dunn again, along with an unknown little boy & a man to his right who may be Philip Brady (b. 1837 Ireland (Mike Dunn’s father in-law)).
The 3rd picture may be a young Lawrence Michael Dunn (b. 1895 1st Ward), with an unknown gentlemen.
The 4th picture may be Mike Dunn with another unknown gentleman.
The 5th picture may be Elizabeth McDonald with unknown woman.
Philip Brady & Elizabeth Weir had 5 children: Elizabeth (Sheridan), Margret (Doohen), Barney, Mary A (Doyle), & Rose (Dunn).
Philip owned, lived in and operated a Rooming House/Tavern at 133 Carroll St. Buffalo, NY during the early 1900s. Among the girls below is Rose (Brady) Dunn & one of
her sisters, though it is unknown which one is which in these photos. These five pictures represent two Brady girls at different ages. The two on the far left are older pictures
of the ones on the far right.
The girl in the middle is a Brady girl at an older age. Any information on the individuals in these photos will be greatly appreciated.
Be Prepared For Surprises
By Kathleen McCarthy
Never be surprised when you find out
facts about your family that are contrary
to what has been passed down from
generation to generation. My maternal grandfather appears to have been
a master at recreating himself and his
background.
Samuel Hamilton McCloskey came
at age 26 to Philadelphia from Glasgow
in 1892. He was able to get training as
an iron molder, a skill that eventually
brought him to Gould Industries in Depew, New York. He took time away from
working to join a Pennsylvania Regiment
during the Spanish American War. His
military record in the National Archives
indicates that he was born in Glasgow,
and that he was a Presbyterian. When I
informed my mother, shortly before her
death, of what I found in his military
record, she sighed with relief, “Of thank
God he was a Presbyterian; I thought he
was
a fallen away Catholic!” Whatever,
P
age 8
his religion, he married my grandmother,
Mary Kelly of Cork City, in St. Francis
of Assisi Church in Philadelphia in 1900.
The other piece of family lore was that
his mother was Margaret Hamilton, a
good Scots woman.
I knew that Samuel had a brother
Patrick who settled in New Jersey, and an
older sister, Mary, who lived in Philadelphia. My mother never mentioned a
last name for Mary. I learned it when I
found an affidavit from her in the file for
a military pension for which my grandmother applied following Samuel’s death
in 1918. (He died an accidental death
in Erie, PA where he had taken a new
position for Gould Industries.) Mary’s
married surname was Monk. I found her
and her husband, Andrew, also an Irish
immigrant, in the 1900 census. In further
research, I found that they had only been
married two years before in the Cathedral
in Philadelphia. Mary was a spinster in
her 40’s and Andrew was a widower in
his late 50’s.
Glasgow area. The data shows the mother
alone with seven of the nine children.
Wanting to know more about Andrew,
I found that he served in a Pennsylvania regiment in the Civil War and was
wounded in the Battle of Antietam. That
led me to search for a pension file which
might give me more clues about the McCloskeys. I received Andrew’s Monk’s
entire pension file from the National
Archives, and it was a big one to say the
least. Even though he was able to run a
coal business, he suffered for years from
the wounds caused by shrapnel. In 1919,
following his death, Mary applied for
a widow’s pension and had to provide
an affidavit on her background. Amidst
all the paperwork for Andrew, I found a
document which revealed that Samuel
was born in Londonderry, and that he
had 6 other siblings! The last child was
born in 1873 and the 1881 Census for
Scotland shows the family living in the
I did some digging through the
Mormon records and found that Samuel
was born in Ballykelly, near the city of
Derry, and that his father was Patrick and
his mother was Margaret KELLEY! I
verified his mother’s name when I obtained Mary Monk’s death certificate that
showed her mother was indeed Kelley
and not Hamilton.
I understand why Samuel recreated himself in order to get ahead in his
work. Nevertheless, it saddens me to
know what he must have faced when
he thought he would find a better life in
America. It is a good lesson that today
we must “welcome the stranger” who is
coming to our country for a better life.
Cul na Gaeilge (Irish Language Corner)
Scoil Cultúir na hÉireann has established a summer ‘conversation circle’ at both locations.
Newman Center every second Tuesday, 1:30pm – 3:30pm
The Irish Center every Wednesday in June, July and August, 7:30pm – 9:30pm.
background and place of residence in Irish
Topic Three: The Family
Topic Four: Your House and accommodation
Topic Five: Pastimes/Hobbies
Topic Six: Daily Living
The Teastas Eorpach na Gaeilge syllabus will be the focus
of these informal conversations. If you have been following
the lessons in this corner of the Irish Times and would like
to practice what you have been studying please join us as we
use this material in everyday conversational settings.
Topic Eight: Cúrsaí Oibre, Matters of Work – We will
study the second third of this lesson
In past issues of the Times we have covered seven and one
third of the eight topics:
If you wish to review or ask questions about any of these
previous lessons please call me at 310-0840.
Topic One: Meeting People, where you learned conversational phrases to use when you meet people
As always Scoil Cultúir na hÉireann students are delighted
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Topic Seven: Buanna agus Scileanna
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