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est. 2006
January 2020 • Volume 14 - Issue 1
Sunset on the Titanic Pier,
Cobh Harbor
twice a month. Thank you. I hope the
proof you find in the pudding is that we
Editor’s are on the right path, still evolving, with
Corner technology, and making a difference SAFE HOME
for those that live, work and play in and
By John O’Brien, Jr. around Ohio.
Find the creamy desert or other foods
in Katie Gagnes Cooking Up a Hooley January 2020 Vol. 14 • Issue 1 JOHN TOGHER
Happy New Year!
Founders
in the Kitchen on page 24, Tastebuds Cliff Carlson & John O’Brien, Jr.
Age 93, native of McGee (all of Ireland and England);
Restaurant’s bold big move on page Creggane, Ballycroy, uncle and great uncle of many.
Publisher John O’Brien Jr.
W
10-11; Columbus Legends introduce a Editor John O’Brien Jr. Co. Mayo, Ireland. John was the only one of his
hat a year 2019 was; the The word proof is more synonymous
good, the bad and the ugly with test than evidence. The pudding
new Irish Whiskey in Columbus Irish
on page 16-17; the year in Irish sports
Design/Production
Website
Christine Hahn
Rich Croft @VerticalLift
Beloved husband of
the late Julia (nee
siblings to immigrate to the Unit-
ed States. He proudly maintained Voted Best Stone Oven Pizza
all presented themselves,
but the good won out in the end. We
is good or bad and the trial of eating in Taking the Fields of Glory in Vincent
will decide it; rather than evidence that Beach’s column on page 26-27; profiles, Akron Irish
An Eejit Abroad
Columnists
Lisa O’Rourke
CB Makem
Leneghan); loving
father of Mary Ellen
his Irish roots throughout his life
through active membership in the Downtown Willoughby
had a tremendous year in growth, in would prove it is in fact pudding. preparation, Old Dublin and the newest At Home Abroad Regina Costello English (Joe), Veronica DeClemente West Side Irish American Club,
quality and, best of all, in paying it for- “It was a particularly apt phrase be- U.S. Navy Graduate, Caitlin Collins, Behind the Hedge John O’Brien, Jr. (David), William (Debbie), Berna- where he was instrumental in build-
ward, due to that growth and quality. cause pudding did not mean a creamy granddaughter of Toledo Irish colum- Blowin’ In Susan Mangan dette Campbell (Tim), and John ing their Olmsted Twp. facility. In
Cleveland Comhra Bob Carney
I see so many of you out & about Ohio, dessert, it was the term for a kind of nist Maury Collins; and so much more, Cleveland Irish Francis McGarry
J. (Karyn); adored grandfather of 1984 he was honored as the Man of
and sincerely appreciate the comments mixture of meat and seasonings stuffed throughout this first issue of our four- Columbus Irish Maureen Ginley Joseph (Maura), Michael and Brian the Year for the Cleveland St. Pat-
and helpful suggestions, which we into a casing like sausage. And with teenth year. Happy Anniversary indeed! Cooking Up a Hooley Katie Gagne English, Tarrah (Tony), Bridgette rick’s Day Parade. John and Julia
have incorporated to provide the best meat in the very early 1600s, when the For the good & welfare, we are de- Crossword Puzzle Linda Fulton Burke (Ricky), John (Julie) and Kayla (Jay) raised their children to participate
Dublin Diaries Margaret Mary Hicks
OhioIANews we can. The proof is in first example of the idiom appears in lighted to have crossed a very meaning- Fields of Glory Vincent Beach DeClemente, Ryan (Catherine), Kelly in everything Irish including mu-
the pudding. print, or in the 1400s, when the OED ful Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Illuminations J. Michael Finn (deceased) and Megan Togher, TJ and sic, dancing and the St. Patrick’s
Gramarist says that “The idiom states the phrase originated, it was very Year – our wishes for health, wealth and Kids Craic Dottie Wenger Danny Campbell, Sheamus (Kath- Day Parade. John will always be
Madigan Muses Marilyn Madigan
is usually stated the proof is in the easily contaminated. One would not happiness is extended to each of you. Off Shelf/On This Day Terry Kenneally
erine), Katie and Patrick Togher; remembered as small in stature but
pudding and means that the end result know if it was going to be good or bad We also extend best wishes for a quick Out of the Mailbag John O’Brien, Jr. great-grandfather of Padraig, Nia- mighty in his actions. Passed away
is the mark of the success or failure of until one ate it.” recovery to Terry from Derry Columnist Speak Irish Bob Carney mh, John David, Riley, Ricky III, on Thanksgiving, November 28,
one’s efforts or planning… We greatly appreciate your consuming Terry Boyle, undergoing back surgery Terry From Derry Terry Boyle Lillian and London; son of the late 2019. The Togher Family would like
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the corners and inscribed in French Irish Legion mained. Out of approximately 2,000
with “Liberté des Consciences – In- Continued from facing page men who had marched to join the
Illuminations dépendance d’Irlande (Freedom of
Conscience – Independence of Ire- his friend as a boy in Ireland.
Grand Army, only 117 were left. The
survivors of the Legion had managed
By J. Michael Finn land).” On the reverse side of the flag The Legion also saw action at the to save their banner and eagle from
was written, “Napoleon I, Empereur Battle of Flushing in the Walcheren capture.
des Français, a La Légion Irlandaise Campaign of 1809, suffering many ca- The Irish Regiment was eventually
(Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, to sualties due to malaria. The campaign disbanded on September 28, 1815 by
Napoleon’s Irish Legion
the Irish Legion).” was an unsuccessful British expedition King Louis XVIII following Napo-
The Legion was also awarded one of to the Netherlands intended to open leon’s exile after the Battle of Waterloo.
Napoleon’s cast-bronze eagles. It was another front in the Austrian Empire’s This ended a 125-year-old tradition of
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struggle with France during the War
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exile from Ireland of the Irish Jacobite generals in the French army for the eagle by Napoleon. The Irish regiment took part in the their flags and battalion eagles, were
army under the command of Patrick creation of a new Irish military unit, The Imperial Eagle symbolized the German Campaign of 1813. At Gold- destroyed. The remaining rank-and- Group Irish music instruction in the greater Cleveland area
Sarsfield to military service in France, Napoleon approved the formation very soul of the regiment and they berg, the regiment lost 400 men to file soldiers were sent to the 4th Royal All ages and melody instruments welcome
as agreed in the Treaty of Limerick on of a light infantry battalion, La Lé- were pledged to defend it to the death. cannon fire after forming squares to Foreign Regiment (the forerunner of
October 3, 1691. Since that early time,
the term Wild Geese is used in Irish
gion Irlandaise (The Irish Legion), to
participate in a planned invasion of
The eagle was displayed at the top of
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repel a cavalry attack. In a skirmish
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the famous French Foreign Legion).
Those members of the Irish Legion, McNamaraSchool.com
history to refer to Irish soldiers who Ireland. The French had launched two carried into battle, its loss would bring the Legion was caught by the Imperi- as they died for Napoleon and France,
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armies. invasion with the belief that Britain’s When the French navy was defeated the ammunition ran out. They were at the Battle of Landen in 1693. As he
The original French Irish Brigade, naval superiority would be reduced by by the British at the Battle of Trafal- forced to swim to safety. The regiment was dying he drew his hand from his Students will learn to Group Lessons
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and that’s how I got into Irish music, bands on the weekends. I was enam- After leaving Central’s head coaching
Cleveland her family came here from Achill.
Is that how you became part of
ored with those guys.
By this point, I think I was eleven Toledo Irish
job, Tom McHugh went on to coach at
Kenyon College from 1967 to 1983. He
Comhrá Marys Lane? or twelve, one of my jobs at home was was selected Ohio Athletic Conference
By Bob Carney Brittany’s best friend is Christy, to take the trash out. I would leave By Maury Collins Football Coach of the Year in 1981. He
Í@BobCarneyGTR bandmate Pat Mulloy’s wife. They the garage door open a couple of Í @MauryCollins also coached baseball and served as
were saying how back in high school, feet and when my parents fell asleep, Athletic Director.
they would talk about marrying a I would roll out the door with my In retirement, Tom McHugh was
Brent Hopper couple of musicians and raising their
kids together. Now, we live about a
mile away from one another and Pat
guitar and walk to the fish shack.
I’d get there just as the bands were
finishing up, around midnight. The Thomas F. “Tom” McHugh R.I.P.
chairman of the Knox County Dem-
ocrats and served as a member of the
Board of Elections. He worked on
Music is a language, universal, and I both play in Marys Lane. guys would show me a couple of licks fundraising campaigns for the United
but with different dialects, some Brittany had told me “You’re going on the guitar. December’s Toledo Irish column was the season for health reasons. While at Community Fund and for Easter Seals.
extreme, others very subtle. Texas to love this band, they’re really Every week, I would learn some- about former Mayor, John McHugh. Notre Dame, Leahy had six undefeat- Tom served on the Big Brother-Big
guitarist Jimmie Vaughn put it best good.” They were remarkable! That’s thing, new chords and so forth. Just before the December issue came ed seasons, five national champion- Sister Board of Directors and was a
when he said, “There’s only two types how my being in Marys Lane came Today I try to do that for young out, John’s brother, Tom McHugh, ship teams and an unbeaten string of key organizer in building the Mount
of music, the kind ya like and the about. musicians I encounter. passed away. Both brothers are a part of thirty-nine games in the late 1940s. He Vernon Colonial City Classic College
kind ya don’t.” The sound of the band has evolved My parents eventually caught on to the Toledo Irish history. finished his career with a record of 107 Basketball Tournament.
Multi-instumentalist and vocalist since you joined. what I’d been doing and showed up Thomas F. “Tom” McHugh, age 87, of wins, 13 losses and 9 ties. Tom McHugh He also was a member of St. Vincent
Brent Hopper is well versed in many Tessa and I joined at the same time, one night. They talked to me and told Mount Vernon, passed away peacefully The year-end publication on the 1953 Ohio and Tom was named the Coach of de Paul Church, The Knights of Colum-
dialects and performs in the Cleve- hopefully I’ve been a benefit to the me to go before the shows and quit on Wednesday, November 27, 2019, at Notre Dame Football season said this the year. bus, The Notre Dame Monogram Club,
land area with a number of locally band. sneaking out. That became a regular the Knox Community Hospital with about Tom; Tom McHugh was the most A player on his Central Catholic The Old Homestead Club, The Moose,
based groups. He is also called on How do you like living in Cleve- thing for me, I learned a lot on the family by his side. He was born on May potent second-string fullback in the teams from 1958 through 1961 was The Elks, and The Hiawatha Golf Club,
to join many of the artists playing land? guitar from those guys. 13, 1932, in Toledo, Ohio, to the late country this year. He averaged some John Keller, younger brother of his No- where he was “chairman of the Round
in Cleveland from other parts of the We’ve been in the house in Bay Who else influenced you as far as James and Catherine (Ruddy) McHugh. five yards a crack in backing up Neil tre Dame teammate, Dick Keller, Tom Table”.
U.S. and Ireland. Village since 2011, it’s the longest music? He was the younger brother of John. Worden. McHugh led all carriers in described John Keller as his best back. Tom led a very productive life and
It took a few meetings with Brent I’ve ever lived in one spot. I like it; Early on blues and roots music, my Tom had a very successful high the Navy’’ contest and also starred by They remained friends over the years is survived by his daughter, Kathy
Brent Hopper
before I was able to get him to talk a Brittany’s family is amazing, very mom listened to a lot of folk, Pete school career. His nickname was “Ten scoring two touchdowns in the North until John Keller passed away on May (Mark) Larkins and son, Kevin (Mary
little about himself. He is much more supportive. Hopefully, now that our Seeger, Peter, Paul and Mary. My yard Tommy” because that was his Carolina game. Chances are Tom 31, 2015. An example of Tom McHugh’s Ann); seven grandchildren, Claire,
eager to talk about other musicians South Florida when I was seventeen. son is getting older, he just turned stepdad was into acid rock. Bluegrass average gain per run. He received a full would have been a starter on any other loyalty and character; he would on Roy, Christie, Erin, Mark, Alyjah, and
and groups he has played with or I was playing six nights a week. That two, she’ll be able to get back out and was always around in North Caroli- football scholarship to Notre Dame college team. occasion call John’s widow, Joan just Savannah; three great grandchildren,
thinks highly of. It’s also the way he was the introduction to my musical play more often. na. University, where was the second-string Tom was selected by the Chicago to see how she was doing and to offer McKenzie, Aurora and Benjamin; and
performs; his job, he told me, is to career. When did you start playing mu- I saw David Grisman play when fullback, punter and kicked extra Cardinals in the 1954 NFL Draft He support. sister, Margaret Gibney. His wife, Ida
make the band or the artist he’s with You’re still playing Grateful Dead sic? I was about three when I started I was eighteen and I had to have a points. played one season for the Ottawa Tom was elected to the Central Cath- passed in 2007.
even better. For Brent, it’s all about music, aren’t you? on piano, I’m self taught for the most mandolin. Reggae and Irish trad, I 1953 was Tom’s senior year at Notre Rough Riders. olic Hall of Fame in 1983, along with May he rest in Peace.■
the music. Yeah, even with Marys Lane, we try part and play by ear. Even then if like a lot of different things. Dame. That was the year that the Notre There was another Central Catholic Dick Keller. Dick’s brother John Keller
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up? keeps things interesting. music or melodies, I could play them, you work with? the sideline, Johnny Lattner won the Dame team. Dick Keller, right halfback, was elected in 2007, becoming the first More pics, and larger print too!
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Brent: I was born in Greensboro, We had another Dead tribute band my daughter can do this too. Marys Lane of course, with Britta- Heisman Trophy, and Notre Dame was moved up to the second team post father and son members of the Hall of
North Carolina. My parents divorced called “The Grass is Dead” in ’97. We By the time I was nine, I wanted ny in Achill Crossing, West Awake. undefeated, with one tie. behind Johnny Lattner on the basis of Fame.
when I was three years old, and I took tunes and redid them with more to play guitar. My first guitar came Pat Sheperd, Andrew McManus. The game on Oct. 24, 1953 wasn’t his fine running in the last half of the
went to kindergarten there. They of a bluegrass feel and tempo. Brit- out of a comic book store, my mom Guys from Ireland, I’m honored to be supposed to be played in South Bend. season. He saw extensive action in the
both remarried, and my mom and tany joined that band in 2005 and had taken me there to look at comic touring with Derek Warfield and the The game was slated to be played in Navy and North Carolina contests.
step-dad took me to Florida to a very toured around the country for about books, but I saw this busted up old Young Wolfetones. Georgia. But in the pre-Civil Rights His 77-yard run from scrimmage
small beach town about a half hour a year. guitar for sale, I think it was thirty Recently I played with Siobhán era South, Georgia Tech wouldn’t host in the North Carolina tussle that was
south of Daytona where nothing That’s how Brittany and I got togeth- dollars. The action was horrible on it! O’Brien, I’m not leaving Cleveland, the Irish because two black players — called back was the longest of the year
much was ever going on. My dad er, her playing on the mandolin blew But, I told my mom I really wanted but I’m moving forward. I love the Wayne Edmonds and Dick Washington for the Irish. He lettered as a sopho-
stayed in North Carolina, so I would me away. Her band started that year to learn how to play, I have to have Irish community here and I support — were on the Notre Dame team. So, more, but developed emphysema and
kind of go back and forth. I left home and we came to Cleveland and played this. She was like, “That’s a lot more as many bands that I can that come the game was moved to South Bend. asthma and didn’t play again. He died
on my sixteenth birthday with my all over the Cleveland area. In Febru- than a comic book!” but I persisted here.■ Leahy collapsed and was given last at age 27.
guitar on my back to pursue music. I ary the following year our daughter and she bought it for me. I slept with rites by Father Edmund Joyce, then in Tom married his high school sweet-
travelled all over the country, wher- was two months old and we all went that thing in my bed, I played it till Live music needs our support to his second of thirty-five years as Notre heart, Ida Dorfmeister in 1956, return-
ever the wind took me. on our first east coast tour, North my fingers bled! Every second that I continue to thrive in Cleveland. Fol- Dame’s executive vice president, before ing to Toledo to become the head coach
My parents remarried when I was Carolina, Viginia, Georgia, Florida. was home I was picking out melodies. low Brent on Facebook @BrentHop- Leahy was rushed to St. Joseph Hos- at Central Catholic High. He coached
eighteen and now they’re living in That became a pretty solid thing We lived on a two lane road on perMusic pital. Notre Dame won the game 27 to there for 8 years ending on 1964. His
Ashville, in the mountains. for us for about five years, till our a peninsula, there was nothing for 14. The following week Coach Leahy record was 51 wins, 23 losses and 4 ties “Bringing a bit of Ireland to the 5 points”
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Tom practice law, honor his heritage and originators of the St. Patrick Day parties
Firm his profession, and support many char-
itable and cultural causes, he also finds
the stuff of legend. At a JCU event, Tom
met Robert Briscoe, the first Jewish M adigan
Foundation the time to serve on the Ohio Supreme
Court’s Board of Bar Examiners. Twice
Mayor of Dublin, and later met his son,
Ben, through Sam Miller, who Tom per-
Muses
By Ken Callahan
a year Tom formulates exam questions suaded to attend as an honoree for the By Marilyn Madigan
Í@KennethRCallahanJr and then grades the answers of the test Party. Sam encouraged Tom to bring an
takers. He is truly a man of many talents annual guest from Ireland for the event
Thomas J. Scanlon who gives freely of those talents and his
time. Tom is one of the most generous
people I will ever have the good fortune
known throughout Greater Cleveland as
“The Scanlon Party.”
Tom was part of a group includ-
Preparations Linda and Bill Carney, Deneen O’Reilly, Dan and Shannon Corcoran.
During the months of January, Saint, St. Patrick. Come out to march or
If you have not yet purchased “The will be Thomas J. to know.” ing Jack Coyne, Pat Leneghan, Packy February and March, visit the clubs; make your preparations to attend one
Day We Celebrate,” edited primarily Scanlon. The Scanlons arrived in America well Hyland, Gerry Quinn and others who Every January at the Irish Ameri- sponsoring the St. Patrick’s Day Parade you will be amazed at the number of or all of the celebrations leading up to
by Dr. Margaret Lynch and published The consistent before many of us; Tom’s dads grand- first sought to support political can- can Club East Side and the West Side since 1958. The UIS consists of an individuals participating, from the very the big day. ■
under the auspices of the Irish Ameri- attributes that father, Michael Scanlon, was born in didates, but later evolved to create the Irish American Club many individuals Executive Director, Directors Emer- young to those who have marched for
can Achieves, I would urge you to do so. seems to have Ireland in 1803 and died in Cleveland on Irish-American Charitable Foundation. are preparing their Units for the St. itus, Deputy Directors and Delegates decades. Our community is blessed by Get More to the Story
While the book tracks the history of the been shared by October 26, 1885. Michael and Honeria To list the various Irish American Patrick’s Day Parade. Preparations for representing the more than thirty Irish their commitment and dedication to More pics, and larger print too!
Cleveland St. Patrick’s Day Parade, it’s leaders of the Flanagan produced Tom, Patrick and groups Tom Scanlon has assisted either the Parade really start in the fall by the organizations belonging to the UIS. honoring our heritage and our Patron @www.ohioianews.com
whole is far more than those parts: with Irish American Mary Ann Scanlon. The Scanlons were financially, through business advice or United Irish Societies of Cleveland, In this long history of the UIS, only
real, original scholarship and an intellec- community in long landowners and residents of the in creating will, by numbers or omis- commonly known as the UIS. three women have served as Executive
tual rigor rare for a popular history, the Northern Ohio, Scranton Road and Tremont area. sion, defy every mention. Tom almost The delegates of the UIS determine Director: Deneen O’Reilly, Shannon
book tells the history of Irish Catholics
in Cleveland in an unparalleled histori-
regardless of
era or object of
Honeria (“Ann”) were members of
the then-Irish Parish of St. Augustine
single handily founded the Irish Amer-
ican Law Society of Cleveland, which
the Parade Theme and chose the Parade
Honorees. The theme of the 2020 Pa-
Corcoran and Linda Carney. Two of
these women have the honor of follow-
Check out archive issues of the
cal definition of the struggles of the early endeavor, are an at W. 14th Street; a stained-glass win- sponsors biennial symposia in Cleveland rade is “IRELAND’S SCENIC COAST- ing the example of their fathers. Ohio Irish American News online at
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immigrants, through the Civil War, the enthusiasm for a project’s fruition and dow continues to bear their names. For and Ireland, a group the lawyers from LINES”. Congratulations to the 2020 Shannon and Linda have the priv-
tensions that shaped and propelled a the dedication, vision and commitment reasons lost to the mists of time, perhaps around the US now look to as a model Parade Honorees: Grand Marshal Tom ilege of serving in the same capacity
distinct ethnic community into a group for the desired result to obtain. some family fissure, Tom’s parents, Tom for an American Irish Society Scanlon, Irish Mother Kathleen Man- of their Dads: Dan Corcoran and Bill
that continues to contribute inordinately Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Sr. and Marie Grady, did not migrate Yet tens of thousands of this commu- gan, Parade Co-Chairs Chris Cooper Carney. This demonstrates how St.
to the life of the greater community. Maureen O’Connor: “The name Tom out to West Park but moved instead to a nity recognize Tom Scanlon as provid- and Maureen Mohney. Patrick’s Day is truly an Irish family
And like all historical phenomena that Scanlon is synonymous with Cleveland 5-bedroom home in Our Lady of Good ing the central spoke of leadership, the The United Irish Societies have been holiday.
evade extinction, the Irish American Irish Legal Community. His leadership Consul Parish in the Old Brooklyn area spiritual epicenter of connectiveness.
community story is not static but instead in forming the Irish American Legal of Cleveland. Thomas J. and Anita M. (Marciante)
a story that continues to unfold through Society of Cleveland is recognized and Tom’s dad was fortunate in the throes Scanlon were married September 14,
time, through the lives of the living. Our greatly appreciated by its members. His of the Depression to be employed as a 1963, while he was awaiting bar exam
shared history is woven by personages enthusiasm for any project that he is conductor/brakeman for the New York results. They have four daughters - Eliz-
large and small, with various eras bear- involved with ensures its success be- Central Railroad; before he died when he abeth M. Donnelly, Colleen A. Miller,
ing particular marks of those who pre- cause he motivates people to want to be was 6, Tom recalls attending events at the Cynthia D. Roether and Kimberly S.
ceded us. But when the future historian involved. West Side IA on Madison. His brother, Klein.
seeks to recount the central leaders of the “Philanthropy aside, Tom is recog- Johnny Scanlon, died in 2012, while his The recently elected Administrative
Cleveland Irish American community of nized for his skill and knowledge as he sister, Sister Elizabeth Marie, a Notre Judge for Cuyahoga County Common
the last half century, surely among them practices his profession. Not only does Dame nun who has spent her vocation Pleas Court Brendan Sheehan, states:
teaching at a number of institutions, “Tom Scanlon is a dedicated Irishman
resides in Chardon. who puts everyone else above him-
Tom Scanlon is in every respect a self. He is a great lawyer and exemplifies
self-made man. He earned and paid his generosity in all he does. Tom Scanlon
way through St. Ignatius High School started a tradition of having his St
from 1956-1959; and graduated in three Patrick’s Day party honoring many
years from John Carroll, earning his BA dignitaries from Ireland. Mr. Scanlon’s
in the Arts and Business/Poly Sci. He love for the Irish community can be seen
was awarded a J.D. from Marshall Law in and everything he has done in his legal
1963, where he graduated cum laude, and career.”
was Editor of the Law Review. I am honored to have been partners
Tom was a financial analyst in the day with Tom Scanlon these last years, as he
LIVE MUSIC for Tremco Manufacturing and was in continues his law practice at Hawkins
EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT charge of the law library. He began work- and Hawkins Co. LLC. And more than
(Schedule in Out & About) ing at Shapiro Persky doing business, tax that, I share as with so many others the
and Probate from 1963 to 1970. pleasure of his valuable friendship. ■
1114 Center St. Cleveland, OH 44113 In 1971, he formed a partnership with
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I
was never one to ask your last on my own. My passion has not changed, except land that left unaccompanied, unaware
name and I’d hardly ever tell you I had to do it my way, and for the last that I wish to write about my experi- and unsure what was waiting for them
mine. McGinty was a tough name eighteen years, with the help of many ence in the restaurant business and in America. After a long silence, both of
to live up to, and an impossible name family members and friends, I’ve had trust me, none of it is dull or boring. It us smoking, contemplating the water,
to escape from. I was the second oldest the privilege to do just that! Tastebuds would be impossible to give these sto- he said “Ah, so you’re a Yank then?”
of six children, sandwiched between Restaurant in Cleveland’s Downtown/ ries their proper telling if I didn’t step I nodded the guilty apologetic yes
a perfect older sister Megan, and an Chinatown neighborhood opened on away. Remembering Tastebuds fondly, that feels like confession when speaking
all-American athlete brother Brian, my thirtieth birthday and has been and missing Cleveland terribly will give to a native, and he told me that long
followed by Molly, Erin and Maggie. cranking out tastier, healthier, faster me clarity, help me to write and will
Megan and I shared a bedroom and a lunches Monday through Friday, 11am give me that “abiding sense of tragedy” “Getting in trouble
dresser growing up and it was covered until 2pm ever since. that will sustain me “through tempo-
in medals and trophies, mostly from My younger sister, Erin Mc- rary periods of joy” that Yeats spoke of! was easier with a
Irish dance, some from sports and Ginty-Perk, has been with me as a It is the call of the Wild Atlantic Way
academics, but all hers. Had they given silent partner, helping to develop and that I’ve been hearing, a a whisper at
name like McGinty,
awards for best come backs toward grow the business since its inception in first, then louder with each passing everyone knew
teachers, most creative hair styles or 2001. In fact, it was Erin who named year. The first time I heard it, I was
most disruptive in class, perhaps I Tastebuds after a restaurant in Newport twenty-seven years old, smoking a cig- someone in my family
would have had some brass to show off Ireland that we nearly crashed into after arette on a boardwalk in Cobh, Ireland.
as well. renting a car and driving for the first I was standing near the last port of call
and would be more
Brian’s dresser was much the same, time in Ireland in 1997, back when we of the Titanic, just after viewing the than happy to provide
but strictly sports trophies, plaques, were young and naïve enough to think exhibit.
medals and team pictures. People who almost crashing was hilarious! I was crying, imagining how the sad- a detailed report of
knew my siblings and my parents ex-
pected great things from me and were
my deviant activities”
What’s in a Name?
often disappointed.
Getting in trouble was easier with ago, one of my ancestors had made a
a name like McGinty, everyone knew terrible mistake and it was up to me to
someone in my family and would be make things right again. He said I need
more than happy to provide a detailed to be brave and board a big ship and
report of my deviant activities, from by Bridget McGinty sail back to Ireland for good next time!
smoking and drinking, to shop lifting As he walked away, he turned laughing
and cutting school.
The only real interest I had back then As I prepare to ascend to my new ness of leaving home, leaving Ireland
and said, “Just please Miss, if you do…
mind the icebergs!” CONWAY LAND TITLE COMPANY
was in busting out on my own. The
thing I wanted most as a child was to
career as writer and pursue my dream
of moving to Ireland, I will be stepping
must have turned toward anticipation
and excitement of coming to America
I laughed and didn’t give that conver-
sation another thought until recently.
Erin & Bridget 162 Main Street Painesville, OH 44077
be eighteen! As I suspected, that’s when back, behind the scenes. Erin will be and then absolute horror when the Ti- It’s funny, words like that seem to swirl What’s in a Name Allen and her generous and welcoming
my life really began making sense. taking the spotlight and center stage tanic began to sink. A man approached around the subconscious like pixie Continued from facing page family. Again, and this time in Cork, I
Living by my own rules, I found my and I have the utmost confidence that me asking to bum a fag. He noticed my dust waiting for you to believe in their found my people, I found my passion,
people and I found my passion, and it Tastebuds will thrive under her leader- tears and asked in a thick Irish brogue magic. Minillo, whom I worked for at Ninth and it all revolved around food, and
all revolved around food! As happy as ship! Erin loves providing exceptional what I was thinking about. When I was nineteen years old a Street Grill in the Galleria, told me I this time, it included writing.
I was in the restaurant business, I still service and has made extraordinary I told him I was thinking mostly generous and kind restaurateur, John would own a restaurant someday. That My whole life, I’ve been fighting for
heard the call of the wild, to bust out hospitality her passion! about the brave young women of Ire- Continued on facing page thought was just as absurd to me at 19 my independence, wanting desperately
years old, as moving to Ireland was at to express myself, and have people bust
27! through my rugged nature to see the
Every Friday and
The birth of my son Ari five years beauty inside. Is that not the embod-
ago inspired me to get serious about iment of Ireland? Here I am, being
moving to Ireland. Ari spent his first called to Cork, the Rebel City! And for
Saturday Night,
Christmas there, clapping along to live the first time in my life I see my last
music in the pubs and singing to sheep name as an asset.
from the car window as we drove from I long to hear “Now, which McGinty L to R: Liam, Seanna, Neil and Declan
town to town, castle to abbey. are you?”, to which I will proudly an-
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visited Santa at The Westport House.
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shopping and drank hot cocoa at the me to call her home after all these years
Kennedy’s Theatre at Playhouse Square Christmas Market in Galway. The spell away.” ■ ERIN GO BRAGH
Downtown Cleveland was cast, and I returned the following
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pawned their clothes for food-money more were buried without markers.
and walked miles to get it. Those with- The British had not dealt well with the
Off The Shelf out work took to boiling seaweed, eating
grass, infected potatoes, and foraging
famine – and I feel a pang of guilt that
I’m English.
By Terry Kenneally
for nettles and blackberries. In June 1847 the British govern-
Í@TerryKenneally Towards the end of 1846 very little ment passed the Poor Law Extension
food was coming into the country Act. It required that tenant farmers
because the British government feared had to contribute through rates to
that orders placed abroad would raise maintaining their peasant labourers,
NIGHT BOAT to TANGIER dank light of the terminal make ges- prices against British buyers. By No- many of whom had finished up in the
By Kevin Barry tures of the long-sufferance and who- vember people in Ireland were dying workhouse or on outdoor relief. It was
Doubleday Pub. ISBN they are born to such gestures, and of starvation. Many took refuge in the cheaper for them to get rid; for about
offer them easily.” The two are looking workhouses – previously hated insti- half the cost of keeping a peasant in
9780385540315 2019 255 pp. for Maurice’s estranged daughter, Dilly, tutions that implemented strict rules, the workhouse he could be exported to
Selected as one of the Times ten best a twenty-three-year-old “dreadlock but at least provided food, although Canada. Emigrants generally sailed in
books of 2019, Night Boat to Tangier is Rastafari”. They heard the young wom- usually not of good quality, in exchange sturdy cargo ships, crudely adapted for
a witty new take on Samuel Becketts, an, who runs with a crowd of similarly for work. By Christmas 1846 half of the passengers, with little thought being
Waiting for Godot, a play in which maned hippies, is due at the station, workhouses were full, and in February given to their comfort. Others went
two characters, Vladi- either leaving for Tangier 1847 the Destitute Poor (Ireland) Act, on ships that didn’t comply with legal
Walk East Until I Die
mir and Estragon, wait or returning from there. popularly known as the Soup Kitchen standards – known as ‘coffin ships’;
for the arrival of some- The back story of the Act, was passed. But soup was a poor they were overcrowded and were not
“...state-of-the-art Irish music as aggressively one named Godot, who book is a series of excur- substitute for those used to consuming provided with adequate supplies of
infectious as you’ll ever hear.” - DIRTY LINEN never arrives, and while sions into the men’s pasts, a large quantity of potatoes, and many food and water. On the Cork-to-Que-
waiting they engage in a which start to fill the The E8 European long-distance path Things changed in 1845. An airborne people died of starvation – others died bec sailing 20% died on board, or soon
variety of philosophical reader in on their inti- begins on Dursey Island, County Cork, fungus came across the Atlantic in the of disease. Typhus, also known as black after they landed. Those who did make
Sunday, February 23, 2020 - 3:30 pm discussions. mately linked criminal Ireland and passes through eleven coun- holds of ships. It attacked the potato fever, spread throughout the land; it generally obtained free passage down
MEDINA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Kevin Barry’s book and romantic histories. tries to end in Istanbul. I have currently crop in Belgium, Holland, France and infection was caused by the excrement the St Lawrence to Montreal – to where
851 Weymouth Road, Medina, OH is a grim but compas- Each cycle loops the walked 1,490 miles east Germany, leaving fields from lice. Relapsing fever was also those who could afford it crossed the
Tickets & Info: KBBproductions.net 440-554-2394 sionate new novel about reader back to the present along the path towards a stinking, rotting black prevalent; caused by a bacteria trans- border into the United States.
two weary, old Irish in possession of some Turkey. mess. The blight was first mitted by the damaged body of a louse Inside the St Kevin’s church is a
drug smugglers named freshly alarming piece of On 24th June 2013, reported to have arrived entering the victim’s blood stream. plaque that declares it was built in 1843
Maurice Hearne and information: what Mau- on the border of County in England on the Isle of Scurvy, dysentery and famine dropsy by Father Thomas Hore who, in 1850,
Charlie Redmond, who rice did to alienate his Carlow and County Wex- Wight in August. Spread all contributed to the deaths of thou- led 400 families from Counties Wexford
sit waiting in a run-down beloved wife and daugh- ford, as I crossed the River by the wind, it reached sands each week. and Wicklow to a new life in America.
Spanish ferry terminal in the port city ter (if Dilly is indeed his daughter, since Derry, I came upon a stone Ireland in September The famine also had an impact on They set off by horse and cart on the first
of Algeciras, waiting for the one man’s nothing is certain here); what dreams plaque imbedded in the where it first appeared in landlords, because their tenants were stage of the journey to Dublin, taking
estranged daughter, who may not show they tried to follow with their ill-gotten ground, marked with these the countryside around unable to pay them the rent for the with them a stock of agricultural imple-
up. gains. poignant words: Before the Dublin. By October, as hovels in which they lived. Many were ments. Having crossed the Irish Sea to
The book opens with Maurice and Night Boat to Tangiers (which was on bridge and this road ex- the crop was dug up and becoming bankrupt, while others Liverpool, they eventually sailed on the
Charlie sitting on a bench in the ferry the long list for this year’s Booker Prize) isted the River Derry was the destruction discov- realised that better profits could be had clipper ship Ticonderoga, taking 70 days
See all the shenanigans this month @Hooley on pages 28-29 station. “Two Irishmen somber in the is both a grim and compassionate novel crossed by means of a ford ered, the British Prime by turning their lands over to pasture to reach New Orleans. Some of the fam-
which, like his previous novels, Beatle- located at the end of a lane Minister, Robert Peel, for cattle and sheep grazing. Some ilies decided to settle there, while others
bone and City of Bohane have marked that came over Drumderry learned of the serious- landlords ruthlessly evicted peasants by travelled west to Refugio in Texas. The
MENTOR BROOKLYN
Barry as an extremely talented writer. I Hill. Here emigrants from ness of the problem in dragging them from their cabins that main party however went north by pad-
found the book to be a top shelf read. ■ Clonegal parish had their last views Ireland and realised that famine was a were then demolished with battering dle steamer up the Mississippi to Little
of their native valley and the Wicklow real possibility. Various attempts were rams to prevent their re-habitation. Rock in Arkansas. Some remained there
7861 Reynolds Road 10310 Cascade Crossing Terrence Kenneally is an attorney Hills; here too they made their final made at famine relief: public works pro- During the potato famine of 1845 while others settled in Fort Smith and
and owner of The Kenneally Law Firm good bye to their relatives. The place is grammes were introduced, designed to to 1849 it’s estimated that around one St Louis, Missouri. Just 8% of those who
440-942-6611 216-362-7700 in Rocky River, Ohio. He specializes in known as GEATA NA nDEOR, or in enable the peasant to earn money to buy million people perished. followed Father Hore to America settled
insurance defense litigation and rep- English: THE GATE OF TEARS. food; depots were opened that stocked Two days later, having walked on the in a place in Iowa that they named after
resents insureds and insurance compa- The potato had been the staple diet of Indian corn, imported from America, path further east to Tinahely I met a their homeland in Ireland – Wexford. ■
nies throughout Ohio. Terry received his the land labourer up until the famine, that the peasants claimed gave them local historian and author, Jim, who
WESTLAKE MONTROSE Masters from John Carroll University in
Irish Studies and teaches Irish Histo-
ry and Literature at Holy Name High
combined with buttermilk it provided
all the proteins, calories and minerals
needed. Over 60% of Ireland’s potato
diarrhea. took me to the famine graveyard at
The blight returned the following year Whitefield and to St Kevin’s church
and by March 1846 the peasants took in Killaveney. The graveyard is on the
Mike Pinnock’s book, ‘Walk East Until
I Die: A Trek through Irish History and
Beyond’ is available from Amazon. See
24940 Sperry Drive 145 Montrose West Ave. School where he is also the President. crop was consumed by labourers and things into their own hands by sacking site of the old penal church that was also https://www.walkeastuntilidie.com
their families; all that was needed was a food shops, stealing livestock and at- burnt to the ground during the 1798
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Níl an aimsir go maith. (neel an am-sheer guh mah) The weather isn’t good.
Tá an aimsir go maith. (taw an am-sheer guh mah) The weather is good.
An bhféadfá cuidiú liom? (un vayd-faw cudge-oo lyum) Can you help me?
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Cá raibh tú? (kaw rev too) Where were you?
Cén uair? (kayne oo-ir) When?
Cad é? (kad ay) What?
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