Part Seven of Eugene Dunphy’s series on Irish Ballads
In early November 1921, during the course of a meeting of the Board of Guardians, in Trim, County Meath, Councillor John King read aloud the contents of a letter written by an unfortunate woman (unnamed) who had ended up in the Trim Workhouse.
She implored board members to consider doing two things this winter: to provide the women of the workhouse with warm shawls, and to ensure that the cold milk, served twice a week with their ‘dinner’ (bread only), was heated. Concluding her letter with a line from a beautiful song, she said that if these requirements were not met, ‘we never will be able to plough the Rocks of Bawn’.
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This fall s election could mean a historic first: The election of Boston s first person of color as mayor. It could also be one of the few elections in more than a century without a single Irish-American candidate on the ballot, now that at-large Councilor Michael Flaherty is busy collecting signatures for a re-election bid and state Sen. Nick Collins says he s not running for City Hall.
Technically, the last time Bostonians had a mayoral ballot with no Irish-American candidates was 1997, when nobody dared take on Tom Menino. But before that, you have to go back to 1897, when Josiah Quincy defeated Edwin Upton Curtis to become mayor (in a rematch of their 1895 race, back when mayors had to run every two years). In 1899, Thomas Hart beat Patrick Collins (who two years later would defeat Hart, becoming the second Irish-American mayor, after Hugh O Brien, who became Boston s first Irish and first Catholic mayor in the 1880s).