Reconciling a break in key relationships takes a full measure of humility and grace

By Ed Forry
May 30, 2019

BY JAMES W. DOLAN
Special to the BIR
Reconciliation. What a marvelous healing word. It implies humility, understanding, forgiveness, and renewal. It affirms the repairing of a breach in a relationship. Most meaningful relationships will fray from time to time, and some will fracture for reasons that may at the time seem almost irreconcilable.

Cardinal O'Malley Cardinal compares 1847 on Deer Island to the situation along our borders today

By BIR Newsroom
May 30, 2019
BIR Newsroom

In giving his blessing at the inaugural ceremonies for the Great Hunger Memorial, Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley compared the 19th-century Irish children who arrived on “orphan ships” to “those children at the borders of our country who are fleeing oppression and hunger, and whose parents are making a supreme sacrifice to save their lives and give them a new future.”

DEER ISLAND IRISH MEMORIAL ADDRESS

By John McColgan, Boston City Archivist
May 30, 2019
John McColgan, Boston City Archivist

Presented at the Deer Island Great Hunger Memorial dedication
May 25, 2019 Copyright, John McColgan
An Gorta Mor, Ireland’s “Great Hunger”, saw an estimated 1.5 million people die of starvation and disease. Another two million emigrated. Many of these perished from the plagues they fled - thousands on the ocean journey, thousands more on North America’s shores, and thousands in quarantine, in places like Deer Island in Boston Harbor.

For the Friel Sisters, music isn’t all lessons and rehearsals; it’s also about making new friends and finding inspiration

By Sean Smith, Special to the BIR
May 30, 2019
Sean Smith, Special to the BIR

BY SEAN SMITH
SPECIAL TO THE BIR
From a purely transportational standpoint, the Friel Sisters’ recent stay in the Boston area had its difficulties: They arrived late for their sound check at one gig, and a few days before going back home to the UK, they learned that the airline on which their return flight was booked had gone under.

‘Slán’ to the iconic Green Briar, ‘Fáilte’ to the Burren’s new gig

By Sean Smith, Special to the BIR
May 30, 2019
Sean Smith, Special to the BIR

BY SEAN SMITH
SPECIAL TO THE BIR
April was a cruel month indeed for Boston’s Irish music community, as word circulated that three area Irish sessions were coming to an end, including, arguably, the most iconic of them all, the Monday gathering at the Green Briar Pub in Brighton.
Also on the list were Harrington’s in Wakefield and the monthly session at the Canadian American Club in Watertown.

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