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May 2012
Mi na Bealtine
Emerald Society Officers
President
Hugh A. Ryan
(305) 858-1992
1st Vice-President
Donald E. Harrington, Jr.
2nd Vice-President
Sean P. Hayes
Treasurer
John P. Doherty
Historian
Daniel L. Fitzgerald
Recording Secretary
Kassandra “Kassie” Doyle
Immediate Past President
Christopher P. Kelley
Directors Patrick L. Duffy
Sean M. Ferrell
Donald E. Harrington, Jr.
Sean P. Hayes
Christopher P. Kelley
Joseph W. McManus
Philip F. Morrissey
William O’Brien, Jr.
Paul Reilly
A. David “Skip” Russell
Hugh Ryan
Judi Tierney Sherry
Erin Lynn Sieber
Donald Slesnick III
Noel McManus Stillings
Richard Welch
Co-Editors
Barbara & Joe McManus
(561) 338-8848
Upcoming:
Wed May 23 6:30pm, Installation Dinner, Jungle Island, M’Arthur Cwy
Thur June 7 6:30pm SFES Board Meeting, Miami Yacht Club.
Sat June 16 Bloomsday: 5:30 pm Books & Books / JohnMartins
Fri June 29 Social: Irish Folksinger Cahir O’Doherty at a venue TBD
Wed July 4 Fourth of July Parade, Key Biscayne
Member Tel: (305) 949-8400 E-mail: [email protected]
www.emeraldsocietySFL.com
Emerald Society Installation Banquet
Emeralds, this is one of the premier events of our Society. New President Hugh A. Ryan and the 2012 Officers and Direc-tors (see column at left) will be duly inaugurated. by Christopher P. Kelley. Bob Meyer will be Master of Ceremonies. President Ryan will announce his platform for the coming year. Chris Kelley will be honored for his service. New Emeralds who will receive their Emerald pins are: Robert Ahern, Shauna Doyle de Brun, Michael G. Corcoran, Ge-rald “Jerry” Doyle, James ”Jim” Driscoll, Robert B “Bruce” Dunlap
and his spouse, Patricia L. “Tricia” Munhall, David Giles Jr., Bryan Sean Gougherty, Meghan Knol, Barbara Luban, Tom Lynch, Cath-erine McManus, Melissa Meade, Donald Slesnick III, Marc Stead, and Megan Walsh. The food, conviviality and craic will be overflow-ing as will the cash bar.
Judi Tierney Sherry, Chair, has announced a ticket price of $40 pp, payable to the “South Florida Emerald Society’, 9320 SW 102 Street, Miami FL 33176. Please RSVP to Judi (305 271– 2750) [email protected] by Wednesday May 16.
The South Florida Emerald Society
President Hugh Ryan
Officers and Board of Directors
Invite you to the
2012 Installation Dinner
Wednesday May 23, 2012
6:30 pm
Jungle Island
Jacaranda Room
1111 Parrot Jungle Trail
MacArthur Causeway
Miami, Florida
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St. Patrick’s Day Committee Inc.
The St. Patrick’s Day Committee is a not-for-profit 501 (c) 3 organization affiliated with the South Florida Emerald Society, which, in turn. Is a 501 (c) 7 fraternal organization in the IRS Code. We are devoting a separate section of the Shamrock News to the activi-ties conducted under the umbrella of the St. Patrick’s Day Committee Inc.
As explained above, we Irish are arbitrarily divided by the requirements of the IRS—so that donations to the St. Patrick’s Day Com-mittee are tax-deductible while membership and participation are open to all. In contrast, our parallel organization— The SF Emerald Society—is a dues-paying, fraternal organi-zation formed by its members in 1952 to come together to socialize within the Irish community..
.Message from Presi-
dent Charlie Davis:
Judi T ierney Sherry wants copies of all your photos of the 2012 Festival for the numerous col-lages in the 2013 Festival Book. Email J u d i a t j u d i [email protected]
All you budding writers should be looking ahead to submitting your manuscripts to Judi Tierney Sherry, Editor, for the 2013 Festival Book. But no travelogues, please.
Sylvia Breton and Louise Sekman would like to remind everyone to save their white elephants for the Tinker’s Faire.
Mark your calendars for Saturday March 9, 2013 for our next Festival. Think about vol-unteering for the Festival and/or placing an ad In the Festival Book.
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St. Patrick’s Day Festival 2012
Judi Tierney Sherry
Reata Cassidy and
Jean McEnany
Bill O’Brien and Friends
St. Andrews Pipes and Drums Ann McShane and Reata Cassidy
Photos by Bill Cassidy
Poetry Corner
The Kerry Dancers
This month we bring you a sprightly tune, com-posed by James Lyman Molloy of County Offaly in 1879. Molloy composed several other songs such as “Bantry Bay”. This tune was played in The Quiet Man with John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara (See Quiz p. 5 also)
Let’s Greet These New Emeralds!
President Hugh Ryan has announced that Chris Kelley and he will jointly orchestrate the Membership Committee to address the approximately 50,000 Irish-Americans in Mi-ami-Dade County.
The Board has recently approved the appli-cations of the following new members:
Tom Lynch. Welcome back!
David “Dave” Giles Jr. is a native of Pittsburgh. He is in a consulting business based in Washington DC but lives in Weston. He has four children. His GGrandfather was a Monaghan from Cork and his maternal side includes Con-ways and Shrivers. Paul Reilly is his sponsor.
Meghan Knol is a student at Barry Uni-versity and resides in the Brickell area. Her maternal ancesters were Poages from County Antrim. Her sponsor is Kassie
Doyle.
Barbara Luban is also a native of Pitts-burg. Married to Peter, they have two children and live in South Dade. Barbara very kindly supplied her Irish genealogy of Hoppers, Cochrans, Allens, Gibsons, Snowdens and McDermotts, from Derry and Stewartstown. Her sponsor is Sean
Hayes.
Catherine McManus is a Case Manager with the State of Florida 11th Judicial Circuit in downtown Miami and lives in the Brickell area. Her GGrandfather was Edward McManus from County Ferman-agh and her maternal GGrandfather was Peter McDonough of County Cork. Her sponsors: her father Joe and sister Noel.
Donald Slesnick III (more in June News-letter)
Bryan Sean Gougherty (more in June Newsletter)
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Chorus
Oh, the days of the Kerry dancing
Oh, the ring of the piper’s tune
Oh, for one of those hours of gladness
Gone, alas, like our youth, too soon!
When the boys began to gather
In the glen of a summer’s night
And the Kerry piper’s tuning
Made us long with wild delight!
Oh, to think of it
Oh, to dream of it
Fills my heart with tears!
Was there ever a sweeter Colleen
In the dance than Elly More
Or a prouder lad than Thady
As he boldly took the floor.
Lads and lasses to your places
Up the middle and down again
Ah, the merry hearted laughter
Ringing through the happy glen!
Oh, to think of it
Oh, to dream of it
Fills my heart with tears!
When the boys began to gather
In the glen of a summer’s night
And the Kerry piper’s tuning
Made us long with wild delight!
Oh, to think of it
Oh, to dream of it
Fills my heart with tears!
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Meet Hugh Ryan-
Emerald Society President!
Hugh A. Ryan, a fourth generation Miamian,
graduated from Coral Gables Senior High (1991)
and Florida State University (1995). Hugh married
Erin 10 years ago and they have two children:
Frances (4) and Vincent (3).
After seeing how Hugh conducts an Emerald
Board meeting, you can appreciate his success in
the business world. Shortly after graduating from
college, Hugh established the Hugh A. Ryan Con-
struction Co., which specializes in historic preser-
vation and restoration. His recent projects in Coco-
nut Grove with which Emeralds may be familiar
are: The Barnacle (Commodore Ralph Munroe’s
residence) State Historic Site, and The Kampong
(David Fairchild’s residence).
Hugh’s second business, Ryan Del Rio Proper-
ties, LLC. is a real estate development company
focusing on acquiring, rehabilitating and operating
apartment buildings, all with historic charm, in the
Little Havana and Shorecrest neighborhoods. . His
third business is DCP-Miami Native Plant Con-
sultants, set up to spread his knowledge of the
natural vegetation of the Greater Miami area.
Hugh Ryan has earned awards & recognition for
the restoration of historic homes & buildings in
Miami and Coral Gables. Additionally, he has
served on Dade Heritage Trust, the City of Mi-
ami’s Code Enforcement Board, Miami-
Shenandoah Neighborhood Association, was re-
cently appointed to the City of Miami’s Historic &
Environmental Preservation Board and serves as a
director of newly formed Preservation Miami.
His hobbies include fishing, guitar, home brew-
ing and South Florida native plants.
An Gorta Mor ( Great Hunger)
Irish President Michael Higgins spoke about the Irish Famine (1845-50) at Faneuil Hall in Boston on Saturday. An estimated 100,000 Irish immi-grants fled the Famine to Boston in 1845-49. Mary Smith reports that the customary Gaelic Famine Mass memorializing the Irish Famine will not be held in Hollywood this year.
Hugh and Erin Ryan
Irish have the
“Time of their Lives "at Irish Times
Thirty-five Emeralds and guests had a great time and enjoyed the conversa-tion at Irish Times in South Miami on April 19. Among those attending were: Paul Reilly, Mary Gerhardt, Reata and Bill Cassidy, Bill O’Brien, Char-lie and Mary Ann Nichols, Jan Paris, Roberta Scott, Ellie Telford, the McManus sisters: Noel Stillings and Catherine McManus, Oliver Kerr, Chuck Daley, John Doherty, Ed As-mus and Patti O’Rorke, Ann McShane and Bud Harrigan, Clo-dagh and Jim Michel, Bill Owens, David Vecchio, Eleanor Maure, Anna Louise Mucci, Tom Lynch, Luz Lynch, Kassie Doyle, Meghan Knol, Hugh Ryan, Judi Tierney Sherry, Robert Meyer, and Ed and Gloria
Cooke.
Thinking of Seeing Ireland?
Bill O’Brien recommends:
Tour of Ireland 9/15-23/12
WEB—www.yarditravel.com
Mary Ann Kerr recommends:
Musical Tour of Ireland 10/06-14/12
WEB—www.musicaltoursofireland.com
James Kelly, one of Ireland's most re-
nowned fiddlers, will serve as the artist-in-
residence at HistoryMiami from April - June
2012. James has since toured three continents
and, in 2006, was named "Irish Musician of
the Year" .He moved to Miami from Dublin
in 1984. Mr. Kelly will appear at HistoryMi-
ami, 101 W. Flagler St., Downtown Miami
at:
12-5pm Saturday May 12. Family Fun
day; Irish Expressions
1pm Saturday June 2. Irish Music through
the Ages
Admission. The parking garage is to the west at 50 NW 2nd St.
President Hugh Ryan has discussed a col-laborative partnership with Robert Harkins of HistoryMiami (Miami History Museum).
Top Mary Ann Kerr’s Whiskey Cake
This recipe is for the topping to be added to the whiskey cake on p. 40 of the 2012 Festi-val Book.
1. Heat 1/4 cup butter (1/2 stick),1 cup sugar and 1/2 cup whiskey in a pan and bring to a boil.
2. Remove cake from oven, poke holes in top of the cake with a skewer and pour this syrup over it.
3. Let cool for 20 minutes, remove to cake plate and sift with confectioner’s sugar.
1. John Ford’s The Informer(1935) featured what principal actor?
2. John Ford’s The Quiet Man (1952) star-ring John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara was filmed in what Irish town?
3. Frank McCourt’s memoir Angela’s Ashes (1996) which won a Pulitzer Prize and was made into a movie by Alan Parker took place in what Irish city?
4. In the Name of the Father (1993), starring Daniel Day-Lewis, was unusual for its venue. What was it?
5. David Lean’s Film Ryan’s Daughter, (1970) featuring Robert Mitchum and Trevor Howard, was filmed in what Irish Counties? (answers on page 6)
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Helen’ s Quiz
Helen Lennon asked for a quiz; here it is.
Condolences
Jimmy Flynn
Jimmy, a former Emerald, lately of Satellite Beach, died March 28 at the age of 77. Jimmy was a self-made successful en-trepreneur who owned the Chamber Lounge, around 38th and Collins, on Miami Beach for a number of years. The Emeralds held a social there.
Here, Jimmy is shown in top hat and cane, singing karaoke, at his favorite watering hole, The Cove.
Condolences to his wife Duane Keenan Flynn, his daughters Kathleen and Karen, his sisters and brother and many nieces and nephews. A memorial Mass was held April 2 at Holy Name of Jesus Church in Satellite Beach, followed by an Irish Wake at Nep-tunes Restaurant, formerly The Cove. R.I.P.
(From Florida Today, March 31)
Celtic Culture
Board Meetings
The next Board meeting will be at 6:30pm Thurs-day June 7 at the Miami Yacht Club on Watson Is-land. President Hugh Ryan will preside and expects a sense of decorum and respect for the opinion of others. Attendance of all Board members is expected and all Emeralds are welcome.
At the May meeting, President Ryan announced the appointment of Donald Slesnick III as Director for a 2-year term. There are currently vacancies on the
Board, if you are interested, call Hugh.
Annual Dues
Dues statements for 2012 have been mailed to all Emeralds by John Doherty; over 120 have responded
so far, but 40 are in danger of suspension after May.
If you have not already done so, make out your check to the South Florida Emerald Society and mail it to the address below.
1. Victor McLaughlin (1886-1959)
2. Cong, County Mayo
3. Limerick
4. Kilmainham Jail, Dublin
5. Counties Clare and Kerry
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The South Florida Emerald Society, Inc.
PO Box 836225
Miami, FL. 33283-6225.
Where are today’s rebels who could articulate
a fresh agenda for Ireland? Have they emi-
grated?
agenda for Ireland? Have they emigrated?
Answers to Helen’s Quiz (page 5)
Health and Welfare
Dan Fitzgerald, our Emcee Extraordinaire, Past President (twice) and Historian recently spent 14 days in the hospital but is now at home recuperating. Best wishes for a speedy recovery, Dan!
