Harney School Dancers perform at Alpha-1 Foundation benefit

By BostonIrish.com Newsroom
March 8, 2020
BostonIrish.com Newsroom

Several hudred guests celebrated Irish Heritage by observing an early St. Patrick’s Day with friends and family to benefit Alpha-1 research and programs on Saturday, March 7, 2020 at the Boston Marriott Newton

The evenng featured a traditional corn beef and cabbage Irish dinner with live music by “Hogan’s Goat”, Irish step dancers from the Harney Academy of Walpole MA, The evening also recognized this year’s recipients of the 2020 “Shillelagh” award,Dr Virgina Clark, M.D of the University of Florida.

United Way's Mike Durkin honored by South Boston's Paraclete Ctr

By irishadmin
March 6, 2020
United Way of Greater Boston & Merrimack Valley CEO Mike Durkin received the Paraclete Founders Award in Feb 27 2020 ceremonies at Boston College High School. Since 2008, the local United Way chapter under his leadership raised more than $550M. He is pictured at the event (3rd from left) with Ambassador Ray Flynn, New England Council head Jim Brett and City Councillor Ed Flynn.(Boston Irish photo by Harry Brett.)

March Album Reviews

By Sean Smith
March 4, 2020
Sean Smith

Gatehouse, “Heather Down the Moor” • This quartet’s second album carries the same appeal as its first: masterful technical proficiency among the musicians, but also those indefinable yet invaluable qualities – spirit and temperament – with which they invest the music.

The Saint’s month offers a plethora of delights on the island of Ireland

By Ed Forry
March 4, 2020

By Judy Enright

 

Strike up the band and let the celebration begin! It’s March, that most welcome precursor of spring which, as they say, breaks winter’s back. And along with bidding snow, ice, and cold farewell for another year, comes the pleasure of celebrating St. Patrick with lively songs, stories, and parades here and all over Ireland.

In the harbor, a testament to An Gorta Mór

By John McColgan
March 4, 2020
John McColgan

An Gorta Mór – Ireland’s ‘Great Hunger’ – saw an estimated 1.5 million people die of starvation and disease between 1845 and 1852.  Another 2 million emigrated, and many of them perished from the plagues they fled: thousands during Atlantic crossings, and thousands more on the shores of their destination. This monument commemorates the men, women, and children of the Great Hunger who sought deliverance in the New World only to perish while in quarantine on Deer Island in Boston Harbor.

 

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