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Breaking News
Apr. 25, 2013

Saturday night event set for 7 pm at John Hancock Hall in Boston's Back Bay
A group of college-age Irish dancers in Boston have organized an April 27 fundraising evening of Irish music & dance to benefit the Richard Family Fund. Little six year old Jane Richard, a Clifden Academy dancer, was seriously injured in the Marathon tragedy. She is the sister of Martin Richard, the 8 year old who lost his life in the bombing.

Breaking News
Apr. 24, 2013

Breaking- April 25, 2013- Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny will address graduates of Boston College in Boston, Massachusetts, at the school’s 137th annual Commencement Exercises on May 20. Boston College President Rev. William P. Leahy, SJ, will present Kenny with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the ceremony, where 4,400 Boston College students will receive their undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Boston Irish Commentary
Apr. 8, 2013

The fight between Markey and Lynch for a US Senate seat is mere child’s play against the ‘good old days’ of Irish politics
By Peter F. Stevens
BIR Staff

It won’t be like the “good old days” of Boston Irish politics. No matter how many stiff jabs that Ed Markey and Steve Lynch launch at each other in their Democratic duel for John Kerry’s former US Senate seat, the contest between the pair of “neighborhood guys” will prove Marquis of Queensbury compared to yesteryear. In no way will the race resurrect the wild roundhouses, uppercuts, and below-the-belt shots that once erupted in virtually any Boston political brawl that featured heavyweights as James Michael Curley and John “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald, as well as such contenders as James Ambrose Gallivan.

Arts and entertainment
Apr. 8, 2013

By R. J. Donovan
Special to The BIR

Karen MacDonald is one of Boston’s most accomplished and awarded actor-director-teachers. From the angst of Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons” through the struggle and survival of Brecht’s masterpiece “Mother Courage,” the fun and frivolity of “The Drowsy Chaperone,” profiling the life of Rose Kennedy in “The Color of Rose,” and a multitude of Shakespearean classics, diversity is practically her middle name.

From the Bench
Apr. 8, 2013

By James W. Dolan
Special to the BIR

Pope Francis has his work cut out for him. In a secular world, how does he reconcile Christian orthodoxy – more particularly Catholicism – with democracy, capitalism, gay rights, women’s rights, abortion, and a culture that sometimes seems obsessed with sex and violence?

Traveling People
Apr. 8, 2013

By Judy Enright
Special to the BIR

There was a time not so long ago in Ireland when bicycles and feet were the primary modes of transportation, especially out in the rural areas. Of course, there were motorized vehicles then, too, but certainly not the numbers that there are today. And, bicycles were mostly useful, old-fashioned, and clunky – not sleek racing machines.

Breaking News
Apr. 24, 2013

Breaking- April 24, 2013 -
The offices of Ireland's consulate in Boston were open for business today, after a nine day closure caused by the April 15 terror bombing.

Here and There
Apr. 8, 2013

By Bill O’Donnell
Fermanagh Rentals Sky High for G8 Summit – It’s not as if you’re looking to rent a home next to the course hosting golf’s Open championship, or to reserve a plush suite at a national political convention or a seaside villa in Hawaii, but the cost of a place to lay your head during the June G8 summit meeting in Northern Ireland is off the screen. Owners near, and sometimes not so near, the luxe Lough Erne Golf & Spa Resort in Fermanagh, a scenic wonderland, are signing on for living accommodations during the international summit that range from $3,000 to $18,000 a week.

Around Town
Apr. 8, 2013

US, Canada help boost Irish tourism to healthy numbers
More gains seen for 2013 as ‘Gathering’ takes hold

BIR Staff
More than one million people from the US and Canada – a 3 percent increase on the previous year – visited the island of Ireland in 2012 acclording to figures recently released from Ireland’s Central Statistics Office. Gioven those numbers, revenue to the Irish economy from North America increased year-to-year by a strong 9.3 percent, to 742 million euros.

Today's News
Mar. 16, 2013

Former President Mary McAleese: Will be Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies at BCFormer President Mary McAleese: Will be Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies at BCFormer President Mary McAleese will come to Boston College this fall as the Burns Library Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies, the university announced on March 15. The Belfast native, who was the first Northern Irish native to hold the presidency, will teach a course and present public lectures while pursuing research in BC's Burns Library Irish Book and Manuscript Collection.

McAleese — now studying for a doctoral degree in canon law at the Gregorian University in Rome — took office in 1997 and proclaimed “Building Bridges” as the theme of her presidency. She advocated for peace and reconciliation through regular trips to Northern Ireland and by hosting visitors from the North at her official residence.

“Coming to Boston, using that wonderful Burns Library, talking with students and faculty members from a variety of disciplines, including my beloved Irish Studies,” said McAleese, “will be for me a seminal opportunity to enrich and deepen the insights I can bring to my own research and also hopefully to add a little to the insights of others.”

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