August 3 First Friday networking at Irish Consulate

By staff
July 24, 2018
staff

Boston’s Irish Consulate has announced its next ‘First Friday’ Networking Breakfast on Friday 3rd August from 8am to 9am at the Consulate General of Ireland, Boston. Call in for coffee and connect with the Irish & Irish-American community. Stop by for scones and hear the latest community, cultural and business news. Come in for a cup of tea and promote an event of interest to the Irish diaspora.

Enjoyment reigns at Enniskillen’s Manor House Country Hotel

By BostonIrish.com... (not verified)
June 28, 2018

This Enniskillen hotel is definitely not just another run-of-the-mill accommodation. A magnificent and imposing structure, Manor House Country Hotel sits atop a rise and greets you at the end of a sweeping drive. The friendly front desk staff welcomes you and assigns you a spacious room overlooking Lower Lough Erne.

On the desk in your room, you happily discover a small tray of delicious gourmet chocolates alongside a handwritten welcome note from General Manager John S. O’Neill. How very nice!

For actor Kevin Chapman ‘true north’ will always be Inwood Street, Dorchester

By Bill Forry, Reporter Manager
June 28, 2018
Bill Forry, Reporter Manager

Inwood Street is a classic Dorchester side street, densely packed with three-deckers, but still somewhat insulated from the bustle and bus traffic of the Bowdoin Street business district a block away.

Kevin Chapman no longer lives here, but Inwood is still home for the actor and producer who is best known for playing either a cop or a criminal (sometimes, both) on TV and film. Now 55, he is so connected to this street that he named his film company, Inwood Street Productions.

BIR’S JULY CALENDAR OF IRISH/CELTIC EVENTS

By Sean Smith, Special to the BIR
June 28, 2018
Sean Smith, Special to the BIR

In addition to Summer BCMFest [see separate story], this month also will see the annual New Bedford Folk Festival (July 7 and 8), which regularly features Irish/Celtic and related music. Among this year’s performers are Newfoundland guitarist-vocalist Matthew Byrne; Emerald Rae, Massachusetts-born fiddler, singer and songwriter; Northern Irish quintet Connla; Cape Breton fiddler, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist J. P.

For Open the Door for Three, the music comes down to the personal connections

By Sean Smith, Special to the BIR
June 28, 2018
Sean Smith, Special to the BIR

Where music is concerned, the Irish music trio Open the Door for Three – Maine-based spouses Liz Knowles (fiddle) and Kieran O’Hare (uilleann pipes, flute, whistle) and their friend, Irish-born Chicagoan Pat Broaders (bouzouki, vocals) – takes it personally.

Life’s de-lovely for J. T. Turner in ‘Anything Goes’ at the Reagle

By R.J. Donovan, Special to the BIR
June 28, 2018
R.J. Donovan, Special to the BIR

Reagle Music Theater in Waltham continues its 50th anniversary season with the Cole Porter musical “Anything Goes,” which will be playing from July 5 to July 15.

Set on a luxury liner sailing from New York to London, the breezy, tap-dancing spectacular follows the comical on-board antics of a dazzling evangelist-turned-nightclub-singer, a second-rate gangster in disguise, a lovelorn Wall Street broker, a stuffy British nobleman, and more.

The score includes such standards as “You’re the Top,” “I Get a Kick Out of You,” “It’s De-Lovely” and more.

Look around you and you will see the positive impacts of immigration

By Joe Leary, Special to the BIR
June 28, 2018
Joe Leary, Special to the BIR

The United States of America is the most powerful country on earth. Our economy is doing very well, there are plenty of jobs for all who want to work, and our military is by far the strongest of all nations. We are the most desirable country in the world in which to live, so it is no surprise that many in the rest of the world want to come here to raise their families.

You’re baking a cake, and the customer has to pass your morality test? No, sir!

By James W. Dolan, Special to the Reporter
June 28, 2018
James W. Dolan, Special to the Reporter

When is a cake not a cake? When it becomes a matter of conscience or freedom of religion. The refusal of a Colorado baker to make (or create) a cake for a same sex marriage does not rise to that level. But even if it did, that does not outweigh the compassion and respect due others who, in the exercise of their civil rights, ask for a service or product that in no rational way could be viewed as an endorsement or approval of the marriage.

Rooting for Katie: As she fights MS, friends rush to help

By Dan Sheehan, BIR Staff
June 28, 2018
Dan Sheehan, BIR Staff

“Every day it feels like I’ve run three marathons.”
That’s how Katie Kelly O’Donnell describes the extreme exhaustion, physical and mental, that she has to cope with every day. “It’s hard to explain,” she says. “I’ve actually run a marathon before, and I’ve never felt nearly as tired as this.”

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