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By BIR Newsroom
August 27, 2018
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Magdalen Restorative Justice Ex-Gratia Scheme
Expression of Interest
If you worked in the laundry of a ‘Magdalen’ institution while a resident in one of the adjoining institutions and would like to know if you might be entitled to benefits under the scheme, you should apply for and complete an “Expression of Interest” form.

From Kieran Jordan: A note full of thanks, a testament to what the will can make happen

By Ed Forry
July 31, 2018

The dance artist Kieran Jordan returned recently from a week at the Willie Clancy summer school, a legendary Irish music and dance festival in Milltown Malaby in Co. Clare. It was a trip for herself, her husband Vincent Crotty, and 25 of her dance students that she had been planning for more than a year. But as recently as late June she was not certain she could ever take that trip.

August CD Reviews

By Sean Smith, Special to the BIR
July 31, 2018
Sean Smith, Special to the BIR

Connla, “The Next Chapter” • The second full-length album from this young Northern Ireland quintet shows a band that has distilled numerous traits of the Irish folk revival: a bit of Flook here, some Moving Hearts there, traces of Solas, Lúnasa, perhaps some Grada, and so on. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that – we all draw inspiration from somewhere, so why not from the best? Nor is this to imply that Connla’s sound is derivative or lacking in originality.

A look at the man behind the Playbills

By R.J. Donovan, Special to the BIR
July 31, 2018
R.J. Donovan, Special to the BIR

It’s opening night for Disney’s “Aladdin” at The Boston Opera House. A distinguished looking gentleman with silver hair stands in the lobby with friends. Several thousand ticket holders pass by him, never realizing the subtle impact he’ll have on their evening.

That gentleman, Tim Montgomery, is president and CEO of New Venture Media Group, publishers of Playbill Magazine in Boston.

A Q&A with the multi-talented Eric McDonald

By Sean Smith, Special to the BIR
July 31, 2018
Sean Smith, Special to the BIR

Medford native Eric McDonald, 31, has become one of the more prolific performers in the Boston and New England folk/traditional music scene. Now based in Portland, Me., McDonald – an accomplished guitarist, mandolinist and vocalist – has played in a duo with Scottish/Cape Breton-style fiddler Katie McNally and as a member of contra dance trio Matching Orange, among many other collaborations, and more recently in Irish/Celtic trio Daymark and the long-running Scottish band Cantrip. He’ll be appearing with the latter group on Aug. 29 at 7:30 p.m. as part of The Burren’s Backroom series.

IIIC’s Gobnait Conneely is dead

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July 31, 2018

Funeral services were held on July 20 at St. Theresa church in West Roxbury for Gobnait Conneely, who died on July 11 after a long illness. A native of Mervue in Galway, where as a young woman she was crowned “Miss Galway,” Ms. Conneely emigrated to Boston in 1982 at the age of 21, and was undocumented for more than 10 years. In the 1990s she received a “Donnelly Visa” and later became a US citizen, an event she said was “one the proudest moments of my life.”

St. Augustine Chapel and Cemetery ready for a robust 200th anniversary

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July 31, 2018

The Catholic parishes of South Boston will join together in celebrating the rich history of St. Augustine Chapel & Cemetery beginning on Sept. 15, with a 4 p.m. Mass celebrated by Cardinal Sean O’Malley. The chapel, now in the care of the Gate of Heaven and St. Brigid Parish Collaborative, is still a very active worship site celebrating funerals, baptisms, weddings and a weekly Saturday vigil Mass.

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