Heading to New York this month? Check out Irish theatre offerings

By R.J. Donovan, Special to the BIR
June 28, 2019
R.J. Donovan, Special to the BIR

By R. J. Donovan
Special to the BIR

If your summer vacation plans include a trip to New York City this month, you’ve got some great theatrical entertainment choices.

“The Ferryman,” playing at the Bernard Jacobs Theater on West 45th Street, just won The Tony Award for Best Play.

Written by Jez Butterworth and directed by Academy and Tony Award winner Sam Mendes, “The Ferryman” is set during The Troubles in Northern Ireland in 1981.

Fàrsan leaves no doubt about what they’re about: Celebrating ‘Gaelic Traditions in the New World’

By Sean Smith, Special to the BIR
June 28, 2019
Sean Smith, Special to the BIR

By Sean Smith
Special to the BIR
At their worst, band slogans and taglines can be unenlightening or overly hyperbolic: “Changing what you thought you knew about music!” or “Guaranteed to melt faces for generations to come!” But the New England-based quartet Fàrsan hits the mark with theirs: “Gaelic Traditions in the New World.” Clear, concise, cogent.

SUMMER BCMFest - Ship in the Clouds will take part in the finale July 7 at Club Passim

By Sean Smith, Special to the BIR
June 28, 2019
Sean Smith, Special to the BIR

By Sean Smith
Special to the BIR
Gigs have been few and far between for Ship in the Clouds, a Boston-based traditional Irish music quartet that formed last year. Given, however, that its three Boston members are working at pretty demanding full-time jobs, and that the remaining member lives and works in New York City, well, it’s understandable.

When Eamon de Valera filled Fenway Park

By Peter F. Stevens
June 28, 2019
Peter F. Stevens

EMK Institute marks centennial of Irish rebel’s visit to Boston
By Peter F. Stevens
BIR Staff
One hundred years ago, on June 29, 1919, cheers erupted from at least 40,000 throats at Fenway Park. for a thin, bespectacled man as he strode toward home plate. They chanted his name, but it was not the one usually bursting from Fenway crowds—star left-handed pitcher and slugger Babe Ruth. The name on everyone’s lips was “de Valera.” The famed Irish rebel had come to plead his homeland’s cause to the Irish of Boston.

When Eamon de Valera filled Fenway Park

By Peter F. Stevens
June 28, 2019
Peter F. Stevens

EMK Institute marks centennial of Irish rebel’s visit to Boston
By Peter F. Stevens
BIR Staff
One hundred years ago, on June 29, 1919, cheers erupted from at least 40,000 throats at Fenway Park. for a thin, bespectacled man as he strode toward home plate. They chanted his name, but it was not the one usually bursting from Fenway crowds—star left-handed pitcher and slugger Babe Ruth. The name on everyone’s lips was “de Valera.” The famed Irish rebel had come to plead his homeland’s cause to the Irish of Boston.

ICCNE names Burke as executive director

By BIR Newsroom
May 30, 2019
BIR Newsroom

Steve Burke was recently named executive director of the Irish Cultural Centre of New England (ICCNE). He will direct the ICC’s fundraising and membership campaigns, as well as oversee the utilization of the 46-acre campus’s four athletic fields, artistic performance spaces, banquet hall, library and genealogy center, traditional Irish cottage and on-site restaurant and pub.

Introducing Laoise Moore, Boston’s new consul general

By BIR Newsroom
May 30, 2019
BIR Newsroom

The Irish community is welcoming a new Consul General, Laoise Moore, who arrived in late May to the Consulate offices in Copley Square, “I’m delighted to be taking up my new post,” Moore told the BIR in an email. “I’ll be accompanied by my husband Michael and our daughter Anna, and we’re really looking forward to the next few years in Boston.

Apollo 11’s Michael Collins, Jeff Bezos will participate in JFK Space Summit

By BIR Newsroom
May 30, 2019
BIR Newsroom

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing and President Kennedy’s vision that launched the effort, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum will host Apollo 11 Lunar Command Module pilot Michael Collins and Blue Origin Founder Jeff Bezos as they take part in a daylong symposium on June 19 at the Library.
The JFK Space Summit will highlight the history that led to the first Moon landing, current scientific and technological space initiatives, and the future of space exploration.

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