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=== 'I'm Grand. I'm Grand.' by John J.O'Callaghan
=== Evocation of a Patriot and a Prophet by Roibeard McElroy
=== When Doolin Comes by Kishe Wallace
=== The Kerry Patch in Saint Louis by John B. McGinnis
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Hello again,
Ireland continues to bounce along the bottom 
of the recession and the consequent harsh 
economic remedies. What is it about the Irish 
that there were no widescale riots or general 
strikes to accompany this severe pain? Is it 
apathy? Are we still too aware that the tap of
emigration can be turned on and off at will 
should we need it? Or is it that the economic 
gains made before the bust have raised the 
overall standard of living to such an extent 
that the fall, when it came, was really not 
that severe? Judge for yourself!

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and an evocation to an Irish Patriot. As well 
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MORE BUDGET CUTS AND TAX INCREASES ON THE WAY

The cost of the EU/IMF loan packages to keep 
the country running are becoming more apparent 
as time progresses. Hot on the heels of a new 
property tax comes the news that at least 2.1 BN 
Euro in cuts are expected in the December budget 
with tax set to increase by a further 1.5 BN Euro.

It is clear that the pain is not yet over for the 
beleaguered Irish taxpayer with a new property 
tax of 100 Euro introduced. While this amount may 
seem modest it is the principal that is at stake 
here. A tax on property is very controversial in 
Ireland with the old system of 'rates' being 
abolished in 1977. The new tax is expected to be 
increased greatly in the coming years and was 
insisted upon by the EU/IMF. Every homeowner will 
be required to pay the property tax with a grading 
system likely to be introduced, meaning those with 
larger and more valuable houses will pay more.

It is expected that State assets of up to 2 BN 
will also have to be sold in order to balance 
the books. Personal income tax will also be 
increased in the budget, capital gains tax will 
likely be increased while tax relief for pension 
payments reduced. Social Welfare payments face a
cut which may prove problematic for the Fine Gael 
and Labour coalition government, given that the 
Labour Party will be come under great pressure to 
oppose any significant reductions. Savings in 
expenditure on welfare is critical given that the 
Central Bank has revised downwards it forecast for 
economic growth for 2011 to just 0.8%.

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES REVEALED

The Irish Presidential election will be held on 
October 27th later this year. The one-time 
favourite to win the race was independent Senator 
David Norris but his campaign is now teetering on 
the brink of collapse as revelations about past 
representations he made to Israel come to light.
The Senator wrote to the Israeli authorities 
seeking clemency for his former partner who was 
eventually convicted of statutory rape. Several 
senior members of his campaign team have resigned 
while several of the 14 T.D.s (members of the 
Irish parliament) who had supported his candidacy 
said they were reconsidering their position.

The problems with the Norris campaign run deeper 
than this controversy. According to the Irish 
electoral system for the Presidency any candidate 
must have the recognition of 4 Local Councils or 
20 TD's. Most political parties thus select their 
own candidate making it very difficult for an 
independent to ever be elected. The Norris 
campaign has already been damaged by the 
publication of his views on paedophilia and 
sexuality.

Fianna Fail have yet to announce their candidate 
but they must surely know that they have zero 
chance of success. Just five months after leaving 
office the Fianna Fail brand is still toxic and 
it is obvious that the party will need every 
penny of funding it can get to run its next 
General Election campaign. Fielding a Presidential 
candidate of their own would likely cost the party
in excess of 1 MN Euro, funds the party can 
ill-afford to waste. They had considered 
supporting the David Norris campaign but this
now looks very unlikely.

Fianna Fail has set up a committee to examine the 
possibility of running a candidate but this seems 
like a fool's errand at this stage of the 
political cycle.

Of the other candidates the Labour Party have a 
very strong candidate in Michael D. Higgins while 
Fine Gael have nominated Gay Mitchell. The Special 
Olympics chief Mary Davis is also well regarded 
and is running as an independent. 
 
Should David Norris withdraw from the race then 
the focus will likely shift onto Michael D. 
Higgins who certainly has a higher profile than 
Jim Mitchell of Fine Gael.

TAX INSPECTORS TARGET MUSIC GIGS

The recent high-profile concerts at Slane and 
Oxegen have been targeted by tax officials who 
are investigating the expansion of the 'black 
economy'. At future such events the tax agents 
will be observing the staff running stalls and 
deciding if cash income is being under-reported 
or if the staff on the stalls are perhaps in 
receipt of welfare payments. It is a sign of 
the times that welfare and tax fraud have 
increased greatly in recent years.
 
Welfare Minister Joan Burton is also considering 
a Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) system of 
welfare payments that is used in other countries. 
Such a scheme would incentivise welfare 
recipients into ensuring that their children 
attend school, attend medical immunization 
programs, and other State requirements.

SMOKING BAN IN CARS A POSSIBILITY

New laws are being introduced that will ban 
smoking in cars that contain any person under 
the age of 16. Irish Health Minister James Reilly 
has been keen on introducing the ban for some 
time and now looks set to get his way. Needless 
to say the proposed new laws have been welcomed 
by the Irish Cancer Society while being rejected 
by the smoking lobby group 'Forest Eireann'.

BATTLE OF DINGLE IS SETTLED

The battle by residents of Dingle town in County 
Kerry to have the name of their town retained as 
Dingle and not the Irish equivalent of 'An 
Daingean' has been settled. The original name of 
Dingle will be reinstated after a 6 year battle. 
 
The Gaeltacht town was officially renamed as 
'An Daingean' by the last government but the
campaign to have that decision reversed 
has finally prevailed.

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'I'M GRAND. I'M GRAND.'
by John J.O'Callaghan
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Years ago, when I owned a small farm in Ireland, 
I was taking one of my cows to the Limerick Meat
Market when me and the cow were hit by a truck
and tossed three feet up in the air and into a 
deep ditch by the side of the road.

When I recovered I sued the truck driver. However, 
the truck driver employed a hotshot lawyer who 
gave me a very hard time in court.

'But, Mr.O'Callaghan', the lawyer said, 'The 
Patrol Officer's statement clearly says that when 
he asked you how you were at the time of the 
accident, you said, 'I'm grand. I'm grand.' 'You 
surely can't deny that, now, can you?' 

'Well, it was like this you see,' I responded, 
'I had decided to take my brown and white speckled 
cow to the market. I was walking down the Limerick 
road in broad daylight, under a clear blue sky 
when...'

'I didn't ask you for all the details,' the lawyer 
interrupted. 'Just answer my question. Did you or 
did you not say to the police officer at the scene 
of the accident, 'I'm grand.'?

'Well, as I was trying to tell you,' I said, 
'I was taking my brown and white speckled cow to 
the market, and minding my own business, when all 
of a sudden...'

The lawyer interrupted again and said 'Judge, I am 
only trying to establish the fact that, the 
plaintiff told the Highway Patrolman he was 
feeling grand. Now several weeks later he claims he 
was badly injured in the accident. Your honor, I 
suggest this is a fraudulent attempt to extract 
unwarranted damages from my client. Since the 
plaintiff can't deny that he said what he said, I 
ask the court to dismiss the personal damages 
claim.'

'I'd like to hear the full text of what 
Mr.O'Callaghan has to say,' the judge said.

'Thank you, your honor,' I replied. 'As I was 
saying, I was walking down the Limerick road in 
broad daylight and as sober as a judge, when Mick 
Murphy's truck came around the corner and drove 
right into me and my cow. Both of us were tossed
upside down into the ditch. My neck, my leg and 
my arm were hurting real bad and I was afraid to 
move.

'But poor Molly was worse than me. In fact, she 
was moaning and groaning worse than a wild 
banshee. I must have blacked out from the pain 
because when I awoke I saw the Patrol Officer
take one look at Molly, pull out his gun and shoot 
her in the head!

'Then he looked down at me. The smoking gun was 
still in his hand. I thought he had a strange look 
in his eyes as he said, 'Are you hurt very bad, 
son?'.'

'Now, what would you say?'

Copyright John J.O'Callaghan, 2003. 
johnoc29@aol.com

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EVOCATION OF A PATRIOT AND A PROPHET
by Roibeard McElroy
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One of the unsung heroes of Irish history is 
James Fintan Lawlor - a man whose influence fans 
out like a tentacle of many parts: Lalor, the 
writer and wordsmith whose precision with words 
was a quixotic quill which weaved mesmeric 
patterns, whose mind and intellect were like a 
lynchpin for the finer things in life to take 
tangible form, whose legacy can be read and 
discerned in the proclamation, whose presence can 
be felt in the words of Pearse and Connolly, in 
addition, to the Land League and Michael Davitt.

James Fintan Lawlor truly was a man ahead of his 
time, the fact that he was just 42 when he died, 
means that Ireland was robbed of a powerful light 
and a powerful vibration had ceased to resonate 
in the isle of emerald dreams. Lalor was connected 
to the land at some deep subconscious and visceral 
level. It was like he had dwelled in the depths 
and bowels of the earth for infinity. He seemed to 
perceive every nuance and sensibility as if his 
faculty was possessed of the maternal instinct for 
her bounty. He seemed to apprehend the thief that
would dare take away the essence of the land and 
its mystique. Lalor was the guardian of Ireland's 
lifeblood - her raison d'etre!
 
The boycott went all around the world, after it 
was first utilised during the agrarian/land wars 
in Ballinrobe, County Mayo, in 1879. Whilst the 
Land League and the outstanding Michael Davitt 
rightly reaped the kudos, the undoubted oracle for 
such a tactic - in its embryonic stage - was Fintan 
Lalor! For it was he who argued in 1849, during the 
great Irish Famine, in the heady post Young Ireland 
days, for its enaction. During the deep dark night 
of his twilight - the final year of his presence on 
this plane of existence, Lalor premised the tactic 
of defying the landlord through an, at first 
Gandhiesque type of passive resistance 
(accelerating it into full blown physical force, 
if necessary), in which withholding the rent or 
tithe would force the landlord into submission and 
callow capitulation! This was the first articulate 
sounding and evocation of what became known as the 
boycott! In many ways, just like the poet, James 
Clarence Mangan, and to a lesser extent, fellow 
poet Thomas Davis, had both personified the soul 
of the famine, so too did Lalor!

'Ireland her own, and all therein, from the sod to 
the sky. The soil of Ireland for the people of 
Ireland, to have and to hold from God alone who 
gave it - to have and to hold to them and their 
heirs forever, without service or suit, rent or 
render, to any power under Heaven.' 

This famous quote of Lalor, could be described as 
a pioneering oracle for the immortal words of the 
Proclamation:
'We declare the right of the people of Ireland to 
the ownership of Ireland, and the unfettered 
control of Irish destinies, both sovereign and 
indeafisible.'

Such are the parallels, it's almost as if Connolly 
and Pearse had travelled back in time, or were his 
earnest students, and were kneeling down in 
respect and humble servitude before their master! 
He was the sage of the Irish maelstrom, he was the 
guru for those who followed, the path he marked 
out was zealously and religiously followed by the 
apostles of 1916, he was the pastor or shepherd 
in the rural wilderness of Ireland's heartache. 
The seed that he planted, bloomed graciously with 
Davitt and the Land League in the 1870's/'80's, 
and then blossomed and burgeoned in 1916 with 
Pearse and Connolly into a tidal wave of profound 
positivity.

Oh for the Midlands! What genes embroiled 
themselves in the genealogy of County Laois to 
produce such greatness? For at the dawn of the 
nineteenth century, a child was born, who lived 
but 42 years, yet in that time, through the 
power of his quixotic quill, the vast, uncountable 
and ingenious wonder of his mind, the ultra long 
luminescent funnel of his vision, the infinite love 
of his passion, the mystical and almost psychic 
attachment to the earth, and the land of Ireland, 
that he bore and carried within his heart, 
succeeded in carving a tapestry of infinite light. 
James Fintan Lalor was a prophet, a visionary, 
whose perennial vision needs to be sung and played 
once and for all! His vision just like the 
aforementioned Connolly is as relevant and valid 
today, as in his own lifetime, as for Davitt and 
the era of the Land League, as for Connolly and 
Pearse and Clarke and the men of '16. For that 
bi-polar duality, that fusion of the two belief 
systems: the Land Question and the National 
Question into one solid unit and mass, as 
personified by Fintan Lalor himself, can still 
resonate today via a seismic movement to bring 
back the land and its constituents to its rightful 
owners: the people!

Roibeard McElroy

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WHEN DOOLIN COMES
by Kishe Wallace
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Doolin comes to me at night
Just a faded memory
Yet I've never known such fright
Since it appeared to me
Never been to Ireland
Never seen the shore
Never danced along its sand
Nor touched the Inishmore
And yet it calls to me all day
And visits me in dreams
It lures in some enchanting way
Beyond common Irish themes.

I long to see a faerie castle
On the Connemara side
I'd love to catch a leprechaun
Before he runs to hide
I'd take that pot of gold along
Into a pub on O'Connell Street
And pay the pipers for a song
As fiddlers tap their feet
Doolin, I will say a prayer
To meet you in due time
Watch for me in mists so fair
Of Irish rain, sublime
I'll drench in it, I'll
Soak my hair and smile all
Along—I'll stay awhile
'Till the sun comes out and 
Then I'll think about 
The legends that are calling through
The Aran island skies of blue

Kishe Wallace 
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THE KERRY PATCH IN SAINT LOUIS
by John B. McGinnis
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By 1842, a group of Irish immigrants from County 
Kerry, Ireland named and settled in the area 
known as the 'Kerry Patch' just North of downtown 
St. Louis, MO.

Other Irish immigrant neighborhoods that once 
existed in the surrounding area included 'Clabber 
Alley', 'Poverty Pocket', 'Wild Cat Chute', 
'Castle Thunder', and 'Battle Row'.

 
The Irish immigrants who lived in these areas were
ridiculed and discriminated against in housing and 
jobs. They were left with no choices in employment 
and forced to take jobs that were dangerous, dirty 
and socially frowned upon. Examples: policemen, 
firefighters, firemen that stoked engines,etc. 
According to the book 'The Streets of St. Louis' 
by Wm. and Marcella Magnan, It was understood
in business that 'a good slave was worth about 
$1700.00'. 'Companies preferred hiring an Irishman 
whose wages were often less than 1 dollar a week'. 
'There was no use risking the life of a valuable 
slave on a dangerous project when an Irish worker 
could do it.'

However, there were a few socially acceptable 
Irish families who rose to power in business and 
government such as the Mullanphy's who were 
probably the most notable due to their 
philanthropy.

They helped fund Irish immigration from Ireland to 
the US among other numerous charities. They 
furthermore established a house called 'The 
Mullanphy House' on the corner of Howard and 
N.14th in the 'Kerry Patch' neighborhood to help 
newly arriving Irish immigrants get the help 
needed to establish a place in society.

Like most ethnic ghettos the Patch had its 
'king', and one such was named Sheehan. The 
City of St. Louis had a City Alderman Sheehan in 
the 1990's, the name is not a very common one, 
I assume he was related to the 'King of the Patch'
if his family was from St. Louis.

I became interested in the 'Kerry Patch' 
neighborhood when I discovered that my family, 
after immigrating from County Mayo in Ireland, 
lived there. Although, I don't know the history 
of my family's place in the neighborhood, I feel an
attachment and desire to discover as much history 
about the area as I can.

As a new St. Louis Firefighter, stationed at 
Engine house 9 located at N.9th and LaBeaume my 
still district included the 'Kerry Patch' 
neighborhood. I fought my first structure fire on 
N. 15th St. in the 'Patch'. I wasn't aware of my 
kindred connection to this area until transferring 
to another firehouse.

Most of the houses and structures of 'Kerry Patch' 
are no longer standing and are now vacant lots 
and run down buildings.

One newer apartment complex called 'The O'Fallon 
Place Apartments' is located right in the heart 
of this area.

All of the Irish Churches are now razed and there 
is very little sign of a former Irish neighborhood 
except the school and some Irish street names 
although I did notice a nearby business that I'm 
certain has Irish roots just because of its 
name, 'Sligo Steel'.

John B. McGinnis

Bibliography: Most of this information was taken from 3
sources:
1. 'The streets of St. Louis' by Wm. B. and Marcella C. Magnan
2. 'Gateway Heritage' reference 1988-90 Vol. 9-10 
3. Internet address:
http://stlouis.missouri.org/neighborhoods/history/north/text22.htm

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PHRASE: Ni h-e la na baisti la na bpaisti
PRONOUNCED: nee hay law na bawshtee law na bawshtee
MEANING: A rainy day isn't a day for the children 

PHRASE: Is e do bhaile do chaislean 
PRONOUNCED: iss ay duh vol-yah duh cosh-lawn
MEANING: Your house is your castle

PHRASE: Tir gan teanga, tir gan anam 
PRONOUNCED: teer gon tyong-ga, teer gon on-umm
MEANING: A country (land) without a language, 
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George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, (renowned Irish
Nobel Prize winner, author of Pygmalion and 
co-founder of the London School of Economics).

    'The more I see of the moneyed classes, 
    the more I understand the guillotine'

    'The government who robs Peter to pay Paul 
    can always depend on the support of Paul'

    'Better keep yourself clean and bright.
    You are the window through which you 
    must see the world'

I hope that you have enjoyed this issue.

Until next month,

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