1999 Men's Gymnastics Team

Back Row: head coach Kurt Golder, Daniel Diaz-Luong, Kenny Keener, Ethan Johnson, Tim Dehr, Jesse Coleman, Louis Levine, Adam Hattersley, Scott Vetere, asst. coach Mike Burns

Front Row: trainer Erica Roth, Justin Toman, Brad Kenna, Kevin Roulston, Randy D'Amura, Bryan Pascoe, Jose "LaLo" Haro, Josh Levin, trainer Bakara Lewis

1998 Men's Gymnastics Team

Back Row: Edwin Ledgard, Tim Lauring, Tim DeGraw

Middle Row: undergrad. Asst. coach Jason MacDonald, Adam Hattersley, Chris Peyton, Ethan Johnson, Tim Dehr, asst. coach Mike Bums, Jesse Coleman

Front Row: head coach Kurt Golder, Kevin Roulston, Kenny Keener, Randy D'Amura, LaLo Haro, Bryan Pascoe, Justin Toman, trainer Jen Nauman

2000 Men's Gymnastics Team

asst. coach Mike Burns, student trainer Jaye Peterson, Tim Dehr, head coach Kurt Golder, Jesse Coleman, trainer Sue Seith, asst. coach Mike Racanelli

Fourth Row: Kevin Roulston Kenny Keener, Josh Levin, Daniel Diaz-Luong

Third Row: Conan Parzuchowski, Jamie Hertza, Adam Hattersley, Kris Zimmerman

Second Row: Jose "Lalo" Haro, Scott, Vetere, Justin Toman

Front Row: Ethan Johnson, Bran Pascoe, Brad Kenna, Louis Levine

Michael Partington with Guest Artists Ronald Patterson, violin Carole Terry, harpsichord Donna Shin, flute Kevin Callahan, guitar February 28, 2010

Concert Program

Kevin Barry and the Anglo-Irish Propaganda War

Most Irish people, when asked what they know of the life and death of Kevin Barry, will pause for a moment while they recall the words of a famously maudlin ballad. A few points will emerge: ‘a lad of eighteen summers’ … ‘British soldiers tortured Barry’ … ‘refused to turn informer’ … ‘hanged him like a dog’ … ‘another martyr for old Ireland, another murder for the crown’. That they know anything at all about Kevin Barry is testimony, among other things, to the power of popular music for the making of political propaganda. Along with Father Murphy, Seán South and Fergal O’Hanlon, Kevin Barry figures in the pantheon of nationalist Ireland’s popular historical heroes, largely because somebody happened to write a good song about him. In many ways this is unfortunate, for Barry and the rest were once living people, and the process of iconographifying them in popular balladry, like all forms of political propaganda, serves not to clarify their roles in the historical events in which they played a part, but rather to obscure and distort them. So it is worth reconsidering the story of Kevin Barry, for a number of reasons. To begin with, his short life reached its climax at a vital moment in the long struggle for Irish self-government, a moment when the violence unleashed in 1916 burst forth again with renewed savagery on both British and Irish sides, involving in the Barry case the deaths of four young men aged between fifteen and twenty.