Boston College Symposium panels to discuss ‘John Hume: His Vision and Legacy for Ireland’ Day-long forum set for April 28

By BIR News Room
March 30, 2018

In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement and the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, the Center for Irish Programs at Boston College will host a day-long symposium on April 28.

April 6 Boston dinner will support Ireland’s amateur athletes

By Bill Forry
March 30, 2018
Bill Forry

The Boston Friends of the Gaelic Players Association will host their second annual dinner event on Fri., April 6, at the Intercontinental Hotel in Boston. The event seeks to build on the incredibly successful inaugural event last spring that drew a packed crowd to meet and hear from an all-star line-up of Ireland’s sports heroes past and present.

St. Patrick’s Day ’18 in Southie New site, hosts; usual fare on the tables, and at the mic

By Colin A. Young, State House News Service
March 30, 2018
Colin A. Young, State House News Service

The more things change, the more they stay the same. The annual St. Patrick’s Day breakfast in South Boston, a chance for Massachusetts public officials to try their hand at stand-up comedy and to get a few jabs in against others, was in a new location this year with a new set of co-hosts, but the fare was still eggs, sausage, a few good one-liners, and plenty of duds.

Still no deal on Irish border amid preps for Brexit moves

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March 30, 2018

Associated Press
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has reassured Ireland that it can rely on Germany in Brexit talks as the European Union and Britain struggle to find a way to maintain an open Irish border after the UK leaves the continental organization.

Merkel met with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar in Berlin on March 20, a day after EU and British negotiators said there had been no breakthrough on the Irish border issue, despite announcing progress on the outlines of a transition deal after Brexit day in a little more than a year’s time.

Walk the Boston Irish Heritage Trail Tours March 17,18

By BIR Newsroom
March 11, 2018
BIR Newsroom

This St. Patrick’s Day weekend, learn the true history of Boston’s Irish community dating from the 17th century by taking a guided tour of the Boston Irish Heritage Trail. Organized by the Boston Irish Tourism Association, the 75 minute tours are led by seasoned guide and local historian Ted Kulik, covering 10 sites in downtown Boston that mark the Irish odyssey from the Revolutionary War through the present.

‘YOU WALKED RIGHT IN’ ‘Illegal’ and ‘Undocumented’ Irish immigrants in historical reality

By Peter F. Stevens
March 2, 2018
Peter F. Stevens

When it comes to the immigrants of yesteryear – especially Irish immigrants to America’s shores – historical distortions and outright lies abound. A huge number of Irish Americans refuse to accept any comparisons between their sacred ancestors from the old sod and the undocumented immigrants of today. Today’s Nativists hurl the argument that in the grim years of the Potato Famine, the waves of Irish streaming into America from “coffin ships” or across the Canadian border were not ever officially branded “illegal immigrants.”

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