L Street Center likely will close for up to 18 months during rehab

By BIR Newsroom
October 9, 2019
BIR Newsroom

BY JACK GOLDMAN
REPORTER CORRESPONDENT
The Curley Community Center in South Boston – known to many as the L Street Bathhouse – will likely close for up to 18 months beginning as soon as next fall as the 80-year-old beachfront property undergoes a $15 million renovation designed to modernize and protect the well-used facility.
That was the message from city officials to center members and community residents at a public meeting on Monday evening.

‘From the Floor’ tracks the moods and feelings that go into Irish dance

By Sean Smith, Special to the BIR
October 9, 2019
Sean Smith, Special to the BIR

By Sean Smith
Special to the BIR
A spur-of-the-moment creative impulse by two Greater Boston residents during a Thanksgiving sojourn has now, nearly four years later, culminated in a unique video project that offers a new perspective on traditional Irish dance.
“From the Floor” is the brainchild of Jackie O’Riley and Rebecca McGowan, performers and teachers who specialize in sean-nós and other older, “low-to-the-ground” styles of Irish dance, marked by improvisational stepping and footwork.

William Barr has earned his niche in the Hall of Shame

By Peter Stevens
October 9, 2019
Peter Stevens

As impeachment looms, Trump turns to his
trusty phalanx of Irish Americans for cover

BY PETER F. STEVENS
BIR STAFF
Political predictions are all too often a fool’s errand. A month or two ago in this space, I asserted that President Trump would never be impeached, thinking that Democratic spinelessness and GOP fealty to, and fear of, the president would allow the administration of Donald Trump to profess his successful mantra to his cowed or irate foes: What are you —meaning Democratic leaders and many in the media—going to do about it?

Happenings this month- October, 2019

By Richard Archer, Special to the BIR
October 4, 2019
Richard Archer, Special to the BIR

Thurs., Oct. 3 – The Irish Network (IN Boston) and the Boston Public Library present an evening with Jack Cashman, author of "An Irish Immigrant Story.” The Central Library, 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Fri., Oct. 4 –The Irish Network in Boston invite members to join them aboard the "L. E. Samuel Beckett" while it is docked at Pier 1, Charlestown (behind the USS Constitution) from 6.30 p.m. to 8 p.m. RSVP irishnetworkboston@gmail.com.

Irish Music & Arts Calendar- October 2019

By Sean Smith, Special to the BIR
October 4, 2019
Sean Smith, Special to the BIR

The Irish Cultural Centre of New England in Canton will feature a combination book launch and concert with Tara O’Grady, a multi-genre singer who recently published an on-the-road memoir, “Migrating toward Happiness: The Soundtrack to My Spiritual Awakening,” on Oct. 10 at 7:30 p.m. The daughter of Irish immigrants, and past winner of the Irish Voice’s Most Influential Woman honor, New York City-based O’Grady has released five albums, with original music and traditional Irish songs marked by arrangements that evoke the Jazz Era.

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