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June 2018 • Volume 12 - Issue 6 Cork Summer Show 2018 highlights this 12th Annual
and Technology sectors. nationals and EU nationals status is
A threat to Irish jobs lies within the a stitched collage, and some find that
EDITOR’S CORNER Young & Irish rural and skilled labor divisions. 17% of it may fall apart during the demands
Ireland’s exports go to the UK, making and densities of forming the UK’s new
Safe Home Dear Immigrant
By Mary Kate Campbell them the European Union nation most policies and procedures. Especially since
vulnerable to Brexit’s importing and the British government has stated they
exporting effects. The want to enact stricter
June 2018 Vol. 12 Issue 6 United Kingdom’s While Ireland has policies on the move-
Brexit and Irish
Founders Prime Minister The- already experienced ment in and out of
Janie Mac our heart’s breaking
with all the wakes and funerals.
Campbell, to the fold last issue. Her
first column was a confirmation of
Cliff Carlson & John O’Brien, Jr. resa May has stated
that she wants trade some effects, the
the UK.
The status of Irish
Employment
Publisher John O’Brien Jr.
When I was entering St. Ignatius HS what I saw in her, and why I wanted Editor John O’Brien Jr. and business behav- nationals post-Brexit
for the first time, my dad came into her to join our team. Check her out Design/Production Christine Hahn ior to change very lit- entirety of Brexit’s is still unclear. And
my bedroom to give me a pep talk on Website Rich Croft @VerticalLift
every month, “Young & Irish” … by tle, but the advantage impact is uncertain the 300,000 Irish that
the first morn. Other than his image, Mary Kate Campbell. This month she Columnists of tariff-free trading live and/or work in
the lone surviving memory is, “At is on page 3. Akron Irish Lisa O’Rourke As another school year has passed relationship with the UK. One of the belongs to members of the EU, therefore the UK may find themselves in the firing
At Home Abroad Regina Costello
the end of each day, be sure you have Great Health wishes to Madigan Behind the Hedge John O’Brien, Jr. and the class of 2018 has made their major questions being—how will jobs the UK should not expect the EU to line of restricted rights and access.
made the world a better place for your Muses Columnist Marilyn Madigan, Blowin’ In Susan Mangan way across the stage, thousands of new and the economy be affected? offer these same terms once they leave. It While Ireland has already experienced
having been here.” I try to live that; recovering from hip replacement sur- Cleveland Irish Francis McGarry Irish college graduates are ready to enter Ireland faces positives and negatives is predicted tariffs will increase and that some effects, the entirety of Brexit’s
Cleveland Comhra Bob Carney
these people did, in loads. gery. May you return to your usual Columbus Irish Maureen Ginley
the professional world, but what kind from the British exit when it comes to trade between Ireland and Britain will impact is uncertain until the arduous
Thoughts and prayers is taking a full of joy self soon. Soft prayers to Crossword Puzzle Linda Fulton Burke of job market will they be stepping in employment. One positive effect is the drop significantly. negotiations process is complete and the
beating on social media. For those of Terry from Derry Columnist Terry Fields of Glory Vincent Beach to? Brexit, the United Kingdom’s exit increase in business. With Ireland’s While Prime Minister May has stated relationship between Ireland and the
faith, there is no stronger sentiment: Boyle, whose Mam is struggling with Heart of the Issue Bob Carney from the European Union, has been the corporate tax rate being one of the that Irish citizens will maintain their UK develops anew. ■
Illuminations J. Michael Finn
faith is love; it has no boundary, no health issues. Irl. Past & Present Niamh O’Sullivan
buzz of Europe since the referendum lowest in the world at 12.5%, the desire free movement in and out of the UK and
limit; it never wavers, and no end Madigan Muses Marilyn Madigan was passed in June 2016, with a 51.9% in for UK-based companies to keep a their right to work standings, nothing hirty ears of T Y
date. It is all powerful, for it includes
the greatest power of all, God.
Hope to see you at a festival near
you,
Off Shelf/On This Day
Out of the Mailbag
Terry Kenneally
John O’Brien, Jr.
favor of vote.
The departure is on track to occur
foothold in the EU, and the uncertain- has been set in stone or publicly rein-
ty of how the UK will conduct busi- forced. Many are concerned that these
raditional rish usic T I M
TaraTrips Tara Quinn
You could say all the emotions you Go dtí an mhí seo chugainn, slán a Terry From Derry Terry Boyle on March 29, 2019. Many gray areas ness post-exit, Ireland has already seen rights to be freely employed in the UK
are feeling for their pain – I love you; America. I will always be a festival fhágáil Toledo Irish Maury Collins surround the impact that this will have a 30% increase in the number of jobs are at risk.
I am sorry; May God hold them in fanatic, and attend as many as I can. (Until next month, goodbye) Young & irish Mary Kate Campbell on the remaining EU nations and their in the Accounting, Finance, Banking, The laws that make-up their Irish
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McManus started, but I had had this great adven-
Cleveland Continued from previous page
West Side Irish American Club
ture. It was a great way to learn about
other people, their cultures, beliefs and
Comhrá around backpacking. music. It was really a wonderful experi-
By Bob Carney “I met a backpacker in a hostel who ence. Live Music & Food in The Pub every Friday
Í@BobCarneyGTR was selling his van, so I bought the van
and an inflatable mattress and traveled
“Things hadn’t picked up at all at
home. I moved to County Antrim; it’s
to the south to Christchurch. The area very beautiful there. I’d grown up being UPCOMING EVENTS
Andrew McManus
had been hit hard by earthquakes, it was a very keen surfer, I think that’s the one
a beautiful city but was in ruins when I thing I miss about Ireland, putting on
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arrived there. I was able to get work in a wet suit and being able to surf in the July 8th
demolition there. The whole time I was Atlantic. Open Mic Night in
Annual Family
Singer-songwriter Andy McManus is Catholic and I played Gaelic football and in New Zealand, I’d been handing out “Catherine and I were getting very
the Pub 7pm
fairly new to the Cleveland area, and it’s
Irish folk music scene. He is also a gifted
hurling, but also field hockey. My father
played field hockey for Ireland; I was the
my resumé, but there really wasn’t work
there either.
serious, and she came to live with me.
We’re both artists and did craft fairs
Picnic
artist in glass (Broken Glass Design) too. only Catholic playing on my team, and “No one was building, but in Christ- for a few months while I continued to 23rd - Steak Shoot 7:30
A love of Irish and Celtic mythology is wouldn’t have been welcome if not for church, there was the opposite, demoli- look for work as an architect. I had been
evident in both his music and his art- my father. Catholics played football and tion had to be done before any rebuilding looking in Cornwall and Devon, very
work. Professionally, he is an architect at hurling; Protestants played field hockey, could begin. I did that for a few months, celtic areas and by the seaside as well.
Bialosky Cleveland. cricket or rugby. Things were very segre- thinking eventually I’d get a job as an “I felt very much at home there because
Andy spoke with us about his begin- gated then, but are changing now. architect when the rebuilding started. of that strong celtic identity. We both
nings in Armagh in the north of Ireland, “I attended St. Patrick’s High School When I planned my trip, I knew by loved it with the history and all. I was
the journey that brought him to Cleve-
land and his upcoming first appearance
in Armagh and received my Bachelor of
Arts in Architecture at the University of
mid-August I wanted to be back home
in Ireland for my sister’s wedding. The
able to work there with a firm that was
doing holiday homes for people from
GENERAL
at the 2018 Cleveland Irish Cultural Liverpool. I went to Queens University timing for that is also how I happened to London. We wanted better opportuni- MEETING
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Festival. in Belfast for my masters. After that, home; I never really had any intention jokingly asked if I’d cycled all the way meet my wife, Catherine. ties for our future together.
“I was born in County Tyrone. My I found work as an architect, around of moving about. I loved to travel, but from Ireland, at first he thought I was “Catherine is from Willowick, Ohio. “I’d heard the stories about Cleve- of every month.
parents moved to Armagh when I was 2006. I worked for three years in Dun- always thought that I’d live in Armagh. a delivery man or something, but then I’d met her online on a site for artists and land: burning rivers, mistake on the Since 1931
very young. My father is Protestant, but gannon, County Tyrone and was able to “In 2008, the recession kicked in and offered me a job. I worked there for designers. She’s always had a very keen lake and so on. Catherine told me that
my mother is Catholic. We were raised live at home. I enjoyed working close to it looked like I’d be made redundant about a year. interest in Irish and Celtic mythology. was in the past and as I researched 8559 Jennings Rd., Olmsted Twp., Ohio 44138 | wsia-club.org
in the firm. It was a global recession, “It was a great experience, I lived in a She wanted to visit sites in Ireland and things, you could see the momentum,
but the construction industry was hit very trendy area of London and walk- Britain, like the Hill of Tara and New- the building and plans for the future.
particularly hard. We went to a four ing around, I’d stopped in a wine bar grange and visit the castles in Ireland Where I work now, midtown, every-
day work week and then to three days. where a musician was playing. I asked if and England. thing is on the up, but property prices
It looked inevitable that I’d lose my job, they needed any more musicians and I “So I invited her to stay with me and are still affordable. Everything pointed
so I started to look elsewhere for work. got a regular gig playing there. my parents. She said that would be great, to moving here, plus Lebron was mov-
“My sister lived in London at the time “In 2010, the recession hit again, the and then she would be going to stay in ing back! That was two years ago, that’s
and I thought it would be exciting to firm laid everyone off at the end of the London after that. I told her a couple of how I ended up here in Cleveland.
experience living and working in a big year, there wasn’t work for architects days after I land, I’d be attending my sis- “I met Conor ( Conor Boylan, Five
city for awhile. I felt it would be good in the U.K. at that time. So I moved ter’s wedding and if she was interested in Points Coffee and Tea ), who offered
for my career and allow me to work on back home to Armagh with my parents experiencing an Irish wedding she would me a gig, playing every third Saturday.
larger projects. I sent out my resumé and got back into my art a bit more. I be welcome as my ‘plus one.’ Then John O’Brien, Jr., who offered me
and had a few interviews and accepted thought about opening my own firm, “After the wedding we went to a lot of the opportunity to play at Cleveland
an offer. but it was a terrible time, there wasn’t the sites she had come to see. This was Irish Cultural Festival in July.
In London I met with the firm that enough work. 2011, she was supposed to go to London “Michael Crawley and Brent Hopper
was supposed to hire me, they brought “I was thirty years old at this stage; and stay with her cousin, but there were were kind enough to let me play on one
me in and said they needed to hold I was at a bit of a crossroads. I didn’t riots going on in the city, people were of their breaks one night at Gormley’s.
off hiring me because the project they know if I should change my career or breaking shop windows and the like, Michael has recomended me to many
brought me in for was cancelled by the travel to find work. I found out until We were watching this going on on the other places around town. Last year I
client. Fortunately, I was staying with the age of thirty-one you could get a T.V. was walking around the festival, think-
my sister and her fiance, or I probably working holiday visa in New Zealand. “Catherine called her cousin who told ing what a great event to hear all these
would have been on the first plane I used my savings and planned a trip to her not to come, it wasn’t safe. So she musicians playing, never thinking I’d
home. see the world. stayed with us an extra week and that be one of them, be able to participate
“I borrowed my future brother-in- “I went to the middle east, I’ve a was the start of our relationship. this year! Since then, Catherine is also
laws bike and mapped out all the firms cousin who lives in Israel; I stayed with “My relationship with Catherine was doing some freelance work for the
in the city and cycled door to door, him there, then to Jordon. I spent five growing, she had come to visit me in OhioIANews!
handing out my resumé. Eventually I weeks in Southeast Asia, Thailand and New Zealand for a week, and on my way Visit Andy at AMcManusMusic.com;
got a job by pure luck, someone was Vietnam. Then to Australia and New home, we decided to meet in Seattle. view his art at Broken Glass Design and
leaving a firm and I happened to meet Zealand, when I got there I traveled Catherine went back to Cleveland and Catherine’s beautiful photography at
the boss as he was walking out. He
Continued on facing page I was back in Ireland, exactly where i CatherineMcManus.com. ■
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She had a great sense of humor and One year, Jarlath (one of my brothers) At Home Abroad his stomach pumped. Strange thing my mother to Fiona as we bake, and on Irish soil, traditional dinners of
could be really funny. She loved to write and I found the hiding spot - unknown Continued from previous page is.... the guy actually loves the smell I love that she has as much interest bacon and cabbage, seafood chowder
A H , t ome and paint. She was a proud Irish woman to each other, and as luck would have it, of petrol to this very day. in the stories as she has in the task at and smoked salmon, and daily jaunts
A broad who enjoyed Irish politics and looked
forward to going to Dublin for the selec-
there sat a tin of Quality Street.
This was quite a find because unlike
the tin over Christmas break with much
anticipation, her enthusiasm changed
My oldest brother Kieran was a
huge animal lover and kept bring-
hand. She and my son Neil magically
appear in the kitchen as I take the
in the Irish countryside.
I smile when all three unconscious-
By216.647.1144
Regina Costello • jobrien@ianohio.comtion conventions. the boxes of chocolates, fudge, truffles, to one of bad temper when she saw ing home stray cats and dogs. She treats out of the oven. ly use Irish phrases that my mother
Her family was very important to her. After Eight Mints and more, the tin that the container was half empty. couldn’t understand why they kept We gingerly pick up a couple from would use frequently, “ cut that out! “
Birthdays and Christmas time in our could be easily opened and more impor- She assumed the shop keeper or the hanging around. Little did she know the hot pan, split them open while “you’re such a rascal!” “Mom will give
At Home Abroad Part 3
home are among my fondest memories, tantly, easily resealed without anyone staff ate them and resealed the tin. She that Kieran was sneaking them scraps loading them up with a good lump of out to you if you don’t stop!” Terms
roof is submitted for edits or acceptance; please let us know your changes, becauseorof her and all the effort and love being any the wiser. In addition, the was really mad and angrily shut the from the table. butter and a generous dollop of jam. of endearment and phrases from my
al as soon as possible. Please reply to this email. she put into them. On our birthdays she chocolates were individually wrapped, tin saying that she would take it back As a teenager I recall getting up on Needless to say, we cannot eat them younger years expressed today in
would bake a “sponge” cake and frost it so no fear of them going stale. to the shop to complain. At that point, Saturday mornings to bake with her. fast enough! A true taste of childhood Cleveland, my home abroad. ■
My mother has been a lot on my in Castlerea and Merlin Park in Galway. delicately with freshly whipped cream Independently of Jarlath, I snuck out Jarlath and I owned up to the thievery. She baked scones and apple tart that is much appreciated at home
or 2.
mind in recent weeks. She died on April My Dad acquired TB in his hip in his after adding additional cream in the a handful of the sweets every few days. We all cracked up at the hilarity of it (pie) on the weekend. I loved spend- abroad. Regina is a Graduate from the Na-
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hospitalized for four center, along with preserves and slivered After taking them, I resealed the tin and in fairness to my mother, her an- ing that time with her. It was just the As the years roll by, I become more tional University of Ireland, Galway
without her than I was with her. I take a years. Please reply
It was during thatASAP to he
time that this email
strawberries. A couple of needful and using sellotape (clear sticky tape) that noyance was short lived, and she too two of us while everyone else was still aware of my family and the life I had and a Post Graduate from the National
lot of comfort thinking about her amidst met my tomother.
let us know what changes requestedare gifts were eagerly opened. You mimicked the original tape so it looked enjoyed the humor of the incident. in bed. back in Ireland, with the realization University of Ireland, Dublin. She is the
the sadness and regret of her having a She really
needed enjoyed her career. While were made to feel very special on that like new. Jarlath was up to the same We kept her busy. She smelled petrol I can still taste those goodies. She that annual trips home are truly a former Curator of the Irish American
short life. However, I find joy in sharing at Merlin Park, life was quite strict for day and it was always met with much shenanigans. (gas) one day from another brother, baked brown bread and soda bread privilege. I am glad that my two kids Archives at the Western Reserve Histor-
memories and stories about her with the nurses. She and her buddies used to excitement and anticipation. However, he being older, smarter and Brendan. Turned out he was loitering every other day during the week. I are interested in their Irish heritage, ical Society, former Executive Director
my kids. I think this is so because I have climb out the windows and go into the Coming up to Christmas my mother having some money, purchased a small- around in the garden shed. He didn’t recall the massive sacks of flour that are great friends with their cousins of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument
made a home abroad. city center at night to the dances. I loved would buy several boxes of chocolates er packet of Quality Street every week or come to her feeling sick, but she got she kept in a little cubby under the and know tidbits from my mother’s Commission and former Executive
My mother loved life. She grew up on to hear about that side of her young life. for the Christmas holidays and she so to replace what he took. But he wasn’t the aroma as he walked past her, stairs in the hallway. life. I am also glad that my husband Coordinator of the Northern Ohio Rose
a farm in Castlerea, County Roscom- My mother had a big heart and a would hide them, for two reasons. One, replacing them in a very effective man- which filled her with fear and had him Today I bake with my daughter. equally enjoys the Irish culture and Centre. She can be reached at rcostel-
mon, and later worked as a nurse in the strong personality. She worked hard and to surprise us. And two, to keep us away ner, because when our mother opened taken straight to the hospital to have The event is bitter sweet. I talk about relishes his first pint of Guinness lo@ameritech.net
1950s at two TB hospitals, St. Patrick’s never procrastinated about anything. from them. Continued on facing page
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For hundreds of years, people with and immigrated to this country. We
Cleveland Toledo Irish
psychiatric, neurological, and medical
conditions were often removed from
know that she was admitted to Toledo
Asylum in 1889 from a Cleveland State
Irish society, sometimes for a lifetime. In
Toledo, many were sent to the state
Hospital only a year after the Toledo
Asylum opened. She was probably one of
By Francis McGarry By Maury Collins hospital to live out their days. From 1888 many sent to the new facility to be closer
until 1973, those who to home. Her obituary
died and weren’t claimed appeared in the Sandusky
1880 Part 2 Toledo’s Irish Born, Forgotten, Now were buried in one of two
cemeteries.
paper, suggesting that she
was originally from that
Being Remembered and Honored
1,994 people who had area.
been forgotten in life were Maggie’s native tongue
The Anglo-Afghan War concluded in carried food to feed the Irish. also forgotten in death, was Gaelic, she spoke
1880 and the First Boer War began. En- In 1880, the harvest improved, and The 2018 Toledo State Hospital(TSH) 1888 and 1973. Almost 20% are people buried in graves identified English, but couldn’t
gland had fought the Zulus in 1879. The calamity was averted. Parnell took lead- Cemetery Memorial Program was held were not native to this country. by small concrete blocks read or write. She never
Irish were not alone in their resistance to ership of the Home Rule League. Irish on May 19th. The Lucas County Hi- So this year’s program honored those marked only with the married. Maggie passed
the oppression of the British Empire. nationalism was re-organizing; it was bernians participated in the ceremony. individuals who traveled here to make number of their burial. away in 1935 at the age of
The Ballot Act of 1872 ensured a secret transported across the Atlantic. In 1880 This year, they honored those patients this their home, but, due to behavioral Even these anonymous 108. She must have been
ballet, and in 1880, Gladstone was elected the Irish National Monthly was published who emigrated from other countries, changes, were admitted for care, and grave markers were eventually lost under- a woman with incredible strength and
Prime Minister. The right to vote was in Cleveland. Michael Spelman was the experienced behavioral conditions, and never left. Reasons for admission could ground after decades of neglect. determination to have survived in such
limited to those who owned property val- proprietor and P.K. Walsh the manager were then admitted to TSH. When they have included psychiatric disorders, The city grew up around the ceme- a challenging and treacherous environ-
ued over 12 pounds. Only half of the Irish and editor. died, they were buried in the hospital addictions, medical or neurological teries, and the people buried there were ment, at a time when illnesses such as flu
could vote. The 14th and 15th Amend- In America, labor was organizing. The cemeteries, sometimes because there was conditions, brain injuries, post-traumatic forgotten. In 2005, The Toledo State and TB were common among patients. If
ments expanded the right to vote in Great Railway Strike occurred in 1877; a Cleveland Irish Kennard House Bank Street W 6th in 1870. Courtesy of no one to claim them, or due to financial stress, age-related dementia, or even what Hospital Cemetery Reclamation Project you add the 22 years she was in Cleveland
America. Gladstone established the Irish third of those strikers were Irish. Min- the Cleveland Public Library issues, or even loss of family contact due we would consider to be very mild con- (TSHCRP), under the auspices of NAMI to the 36 at TSH, that totals 58 years as
Coercion Act in 1881 which eliminated ers led a riot in San Francisco in 1878. to length of stay or even the stigma of ditions like eating disorders, postpartum of Greater Toledo. TSHCRP began work- a patient. Maggie is buried under brick
habeas corpus in Ireland. Coopers in Cleveland held strikes in 1867, economic and political catalysts. children of the Famine Irish who did not having someone at the state Hospital. depression, anxiety, etc. ing in cooperation with the University of #1366 in the New Cemetery
The 1870 Land Act gave tenants greater 1869 and a riot in 1871. In 1878 they The 1860s had 435,778 Irish immi- flee. They settled throughout Cleveland The TSH cemeteries are in South Tole- New cemetery (1922-1973) has 23 from Toledo (the owner of the properties which Annie Judge was born in Ireland in
legal rights. Ireland had 5,412,000 walked out at Standard Oil. Stakes were grants. The 1870s had 436,871 Irish and in the area from the East Bank of do, on property now owned by UTMC. Ireland. Old cemetery (1888-1922) has contain the cemeteries) and Northwest 1834. By 1870, she was an inmate of the
inhabitants in 1870; over half were tenant high on both sides of the pond. immigrants. 1880 records 1,854,571 Irish the Flats to Public Square: Bank, Water, They contain burials of past patients from 10. There is a total of 372 people identi- Ohio Psychiatric Hospital (previous- Erie County Infirmary in Perkins, Ohio.
farmers and 85% of those were tenants The Earl of Leitrim was killed in 1878. born. Immigration from 1880-1890 was Superior, St. Clair and Lake. That small Toledo State Hospital, now called North- fied so far who were born elsewhere and ly known as Toledo State Hospital) to She was single and couldn’t read or write.
at will. Agricultural prices had suffered Fredrick Cavendish, the Chief Secretary 655,482. In 1890 there were 1,871,509 area had over 900 Irish born, almost half west Ohio Psychiatric Hospital (NOPH). immigrated to the USA out of a total of restore the two cemeteries and proclaim By 1880, she was a patient in the Ohio
since 1873. of Ireland, was killed in 1882. The Molly Irish-born, the highest in American of all inhabitants. 1,994 known burials took place between 1,994 burials. the honor due the people buried there. Asylum in Columbus, indicating her
The American economy was in a reces- Maguire’s were murdered in 1878. Pres- history. That is only a net increase of The Kennard House was on the corner Grave markers are being located and illness was more than the Erie County
sion (1873-78) and began exporting more ident Garfield was assassinated in 1881 16,938. Where did the other 638,544 of Bank and St. Clair. The Weddell 1880 Part 2 James Curry was at 442 Superior. Mr. raised above ground, monuments and a Infirmary could handle. She was likely
grain to Ireland. Crop failures in Ireland and Ned Kelly in 1880. Irish immigrants go? House was on the corner of Bank and Su- Continued from previous page Malley and Mr. Reidy shared a saloon bench have been installed, followed by a among the 101 patients from the Ohio
in 1879, especially in the 17 counties of In 1880, the Industrial Council of Some were dearly departed. The 1880 perior. In 1880 Bank Street (W. 6th) had across the street from the Cathedral at footpath in the near future, and families Asylum that were transferred to the Tole-
the west, made the already economically Cuyahoga Co. met the second Monday mortality rate per 100,000 was 23.5 in 553 inhabitants and a saloon owned by a semi-monthly “over” 99 Bank Street on 446 Superior. Brennan and Gallagher’s are finding their lost ancestors. The first do Asylum on January 6, 1888, when the
vulnerable population suffer from hun- of the month at the Industrial Hall at 91 Cleveland, compared to 31.9 in NYC and Moriarty. 195 are listed as Irish born. 97 Tuesday evenings in 1874 when it was Hall was at Superior and Erie, The Forest burial was on June 14, 1888 (Burial Mark- hospital first opened. Her obituary shows
ger. Irish Americans remitted 1 million Seneca. John McGrath was President 27.2 in Chicago. A death rate of 30 per people are non-Irish immigrants. Irish owned by JS Harris. City United Land and Building Associa- er #1 in Old Cemetery, first person to that she had long been forgotten when
dollars to assist those 600,000 famine of the Cooper’s Union #1. The Irish 100,000 would still have over 150,000 surnames dominate and over 30 people It appears to be the Hibernian Hall tion met there. Philip O’Neil was presi- be buried was Irish). Some of the stories she died in 1899. Annie is buried under
victims in 1879-80 and American ships kept coming to America as a result of missing Irish. A rate of 30 is unbelievably have no country of origin. referenced in the October 4th, 1876 AOH dent. Irish and Irish American business- about Irish born patients include: marker #207 in the Old Cemetery.
high for the decade with decreases in Weddell House had 112 occupants and document supplied to the State of Ohio es were ubiquitous to the area. John was born in Ireland. He was a Volunteers and donations are welcome
smallpox and diphtheria. 14 were from Germany and France. 61 for the Incorporation of Religious Orders. President Garfield was elected on a seaman by trade, but due to arteriosclero- in the effort to restore and improve the
Re-emigration? No. These missing occupants have Irish parents listed. 15 A. Burke was listed as the chairman and platform of temperance, the restriction sis, was admitted to TSH in 192,2 at the cemeteries. Information is available at
immigrants were silenced by a census have no parents listed and have Irish MJ Moore as the clerk. Patrick King, of immigration and employment of age of 70. There weren’t many options for the web site: www.toledostatehospital-
that underrepresented immigrants due surnames. 20 occupants are listed as Pat McNearny and Michael Walsh were immigrants and civil service reform. The the elderly who were in poor health back cemetery.org. The Toledo State Hospital
to language or locations of origin. It American with Irish surnames. Ken- elected trustees. The Irish Literary and confluence of immigration, Catholicism, then, and so many were admitted to psy- Cemetery organization also desires to
The Home of Fine
European & American was easier to write down O-H-I-O if you nard House had 69 total occupants, up Benevolent Society also met “over” 99 labor and Irish nationalism alarmed the chiatric hospitals. He died there less than reconnect with families of persons buried
Comfort Food LIVE spoke E-N-G-L-I-S-H. to 56 Irish. The American House was on Bank on Mondays. William Gleason was elite Protestant power structure. U.S. a year later, and is buried under marker in the two cemeteries. They have only
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Additionally, certain immigrants did Superior adjacent to the Weddell House president and Owen Kane was secretary. census figures indicated that 80 percent #932 in the Old Cemetery. connected with one family of the Irish
TUESDAY: Tacos & Margaritas
WEDNESDAY: Wing Night not identify as Irish and acknowledge the and over half of its 40 inhabitants were Mr. Cully was not the only Irish folk of the licensed saloons were owned by Isabelle was admitted in 1904 at the age burial so far. If people believe they might
THURSDAY: Burger Night fact that Ireland has 32 counties. Samuel Irish born. with a saloon in the area: Patrick Moran, first-generation Americans. of 48. She came from Crawford County. have someone from their family’s past
SUNDAY: Brunch, 9am-2pm Daily Happy Clemens was “Scots-Irish” and published Bank Street was home to the Acade- 44 Superior; Thomas O’Neil, 40 Superior; It was big business for the Irish and She was an Irish immigrant with a diag- who was a patient at Toledo State Hospi-
Hour The Prince and the Pauper in 1881. my of Music, Merchant’s National Bank James O’Neil, 30 Superior; William Body, America. A third of federal revenues nosis of Psychosis with Mental Deficiency tal, they might be able to help, even if the
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2 Domestics, Cleveland received 3,225 Irish immi- and the Herald Newspaper. 99 Bank 129 Superior; T.E. Costello, 133 Superior were from whiskey and beer. The - Imbecility. Isabelle died 29 years later of person wasn’t buried in the two cemeter-
Fri-Sat: 11:30am-Midnight Sunday: 9am-9pm 4 Glass of Wine grants in 1880-1884, representing an Irish
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Street was the St. James Restaurant and a restaurant at 135 Superior. Just a bit temperance movement was founded to nephritis, inflammation of the kidneys, ies.
6757 Center Rd. (Route 303) Valley City, OH 44280 increase of 27%. These Irish immigrants owned by James Cully, proprietor of the farther east was DJ Higgins at 335 Superi- combat this “infidel foreign population” and myocarditis at the age of 77. She is Facebook connection: https://www.
were not ‘Famine Irish’ in the American Cleveland Hotel. AOH Division #1 met or, across the street from City Hall. and the fear that “Anglo-Saxon civiliza- buried under marker #1266. facebook.com/ToledoStateHospital
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www.GandalfsPub.com • www.Facebook/Gandalf’sPub sense. These Irish immigrants were the Continued on facing page James Harding was at 339 Superior and tion would disappear.” ■ Maggie was born in Ireland in 1826, Cemeteries ■
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certain customs are needed to seal My parents find joy in a familiar pair
Firm BLOWIN’ happy fate. One custom that remains to
this day is that the bride is adorned with
of swans who breakfast at dawn right
outside their window and the bale of
Foundation IN “something old, something new, some-
thing borrowed, and something blue.”
turtles that bask in the late morning
sun on the bank of the lake. My parents
By Ken Callahan By Susan Mangan
Yet another easy fix is that the groom find comfort in knowing that they are
Í@KennethRCallahanJr Í@SueMangan may not lay eyes on his bride from mid- still together after a lifetime, whether
night on the eve of the wedding until he that lifetime lasts for another hour, a
Colleen Corrigan Day Betrothed
sees her beatific form gliding down the day, or year.
aisle and toward his waiting hand. Ah, On my parent’s wedding night,
as my grandma Rose used to sigh, “Ain’t my father returned to the two-story,
love grand?” brownstone Chicago apartment in
For Colleen Corrigan Day, being the brothers became Cleveland Police Do you remember that night tian wedding ceremonies. Perhaps that is the key to courtship which he grew up, with his bride. As
a compelling presence in the Irish Officers, and later settled in the storied When you were at the window In our contemporary society, be- and a successful marriage, that the fate would have it, the apartment was
American community is not enough; St. Thomas Aquinas Parish, residing at With neither hat nor gloves trothed couples who wish to add an couple looks to the example of grand- locked and not a key was to be found.
she is also driven to leadership in E. 82 and Superior. Nor coat to shelter you? element of folk culture or who practice parents and parents whose relationships The night was exceedingly hot for early
Catholic education, in political life, Colleen’s dad, the recently deceased I reached out my hand to you Wiccan or Neo-pagan customs may have stood tests of illness and loss; those June and my parents were tired from
as a broadcaster, and in all manner Patrick J. Corrigan, attended Cathedral And you ardently grasped it, include the ribbon tying ritual into their couples who have faced daily challenges their busy day and still dressed in their
of causes large and small, and all the Latin High, served with distinction in I remained to converse with you wedding attire.
while in total dedication to family as a Korea, and was able to attend John Car- Colleen Corrigan Day and family Until the larks began to sing. My dad looked at my mom and
daughter, wife and mother. roll on the GI bill. Meanwhile, Colleen’s said, “We have no where to go but up.”
Colleen’s paternal grandfather, maternal grandparents did what was (Eugene O’Curry 1796-1862) Perched behind my mother, the two
Thomas Corrigan, of Tonragee, Achill, apparently mandatory for a generation a hall evidently endowed with instilling involved in a run for elective office; climbed a ladder and through an open
arrived in Cleveland with his brother of Cleveland Irish Americans: Patrick metaphysical powers of attraction in thus, on the advice of several well- Magic is present in early June. The window. Safe on the landing inside the
Patrick in 1914, on rumors of available Ginley met and fell in love with Shelia people. known individuals, Colleen, then a day dims later than at any other time of second floor of the apartment, my moth-
work. Said rumors were true, and after Lavelle (of Dooega, Achill) at a dance at The Ginleys were active in starting the resident of West Park, took a shot at the year. A sweet fragrance of old roses er watched my father shimmy through
serving their new country in WWI, the old West Side Irish American Club, fledgling St. Charles parish in Parma, the Cleveland Ward 21 council seat and wisteria clings to the still cool air at an open window at the top of the door.
where Patrick and Celia began their that was won by Mike Dolan. But it dusk. June is a time for lovers, bride- Once inside, he opened the door for
married life. Patrick began working as a was in the midst of the campaign that grooms and their brides. my mother and guided her through the
firefighter in Cleveland and later became Colleen met her future husband, Brian Shakespeare wrote about the more threshold. I never asked if they made it
an investigator at EEOC. Colleen’s mom Day; she believes their shared faith comedic aspects of love and courtship to their honeymoon night or if they col-
and dad had 6 children: Patrick, Martin, brought them together. The couple was in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; a tale lapsed in a heap on the cool hardwood
Joseph, herself, Dennis and Shelia Corri- married in 2007. Brian, too, is from in which fairy queen Titania falls in love floor.
gan, all destined to ride the Green Wave an Irish family of 8, who grew up in with a donkey, enchanted mortals seek So this tale of true love continues.
at Holy Name High School. In growing St. Michael’s Parish in Independence, true love from mere friends, and fairies My mother and father welcome each
up. The Corrigan’s learned from their later moving to Parma where he was trounce about their forest world with day with morning birdsong and close
Irish American Cuisine parents that nothing is given and the a 12-year veteran of City Council. He mischievous intent. Navigating love the night with a tender clasping of
values of faith and hard work. now serves as the Parma City Auditor. amidst a supernatural world with magic hands and a gentle kiss. As equals, they
Open 11:30am Monday-Saturday Colleen recalls, however, with fond It has been at her alma mater of to employ is complicated enough, how wedding ceremony. Unfortunately, in and disappointments, but still managed protect, guide, and nurture one another,
Lunch & Dinner Specials memory, the summer of 1982 where she
spent the season traveling on her first
Holy Name that Colleen has discov-
ered her life’s mission, growing, in
does a modern couple stay together for a
lifetime?
the pressure filled world in which we
live, it will take more than a few silken
to find humor in the absurdity of life
and love in one another’s weakening
until that day when the ties that held
them secure for so many years on this
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trip to Ireland with her nana, Celia Gin- her 10 years there, the co-educational The ancient Celts sought to ensure stays to keep love and loyalty afloat. eyes. That is the secret to a successful mortal ground are released. As Oberon
ley, living, working, swimming, climb- high school and its mission, but also the union of man and wife through Perhaps the key lies in the choosing of marriage. recounts at the end of A Midsummer
25519 Eaton Way, Bay Village, OH 44140 ing and immersing in rural Ireland and engaging young people on trips to Ire- “hand-fasting” ceremonies. A pagan the partner. In the Superstitions of the My parents were married sixty Night’s Dream, “Now, until the break
Achill; she was 12 years old and between land on various trips with Holy Name, practice which dates back to 7000 B.C., Irish Country People, Padraic O’Farrell years ago in June. They have raised of day . . .Which by us shall blessed be .
grades at St. Charles. The experience St. Ignatius and Walsh High Schools, hand-fasting was an important cere- recounts some endearing folk practices two children and have provided my . . ever true in loving be . . . ever shall in
created lasting friendships, a bond and guided by people such as the late mony in which a Druid priest would tie for selecting one’s mate. He writes that brother and me with college educations safety rest.” ■
to the island and a lifelong commit- Steve Malloy, the Terry Kenneally and braided silken cords around the wrists “to ensure a lasting love, a youth brought and post-graduate degrees. They have
ment to learning, international travel others, exposing students, as indeed and hands of the engaged couple. This a sprig of mint along to a meeting with sheltered, guided, and loved us uncondi- *Sources Consulted: Barnet, Sylvan.
and the desire to share it with young she was herself exposed as a girl, to the marked the public declaration of the his sweetheart. He held it until it became tionally. The Complete Signet Classic Shake-
people. still-wild west of Ireland. couple’s love and intent to marry. moist and then held the girl’s hand for Life was not easy as my parents tended speare. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
After attending Holy Name, Colleen In between, she has been the long If after a year’s time the couple no ten minutes during which there was to the well-being of aging and sickly Publishers. London: 1972.
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State and found work with the Cleve- re-elected for the State Senate Central and the couple was free to choose other the difference between a mint leaf and matter the travail, my parents stood by Remembered Kisses: An Illustrated
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of the lakefront Cleveland Grand Prix. and Sammie, for whom she and Brian, roots in this pagan custom. As the years Whole Foods. Alas, so much for folk to look for light amid approaching dark- Internet Source: Waterlily Wed-
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