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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 2712750) judi- [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

Emerald Society Installation Banquet · 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

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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

[email protected]

WEB—www.yarditravel.com

Mary Ann Kerr recommends:

Musical Tour of Ireland 10/06-14/12

[email protected]

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!