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.

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.

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