Ireland’s best pubs, restaurants take star turns

Ed Forry
By Ed Forry
November 28, 2017

The Royal Dublin Society (RDS) is a philanthropic organization on Merrion Road, located just a few blocks from the American Embassy in Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. Established in 1731 as “the Dublin Society” with a mission to support cultural and economic affairs in the country, the society is housed on 40 acres, with a 7,000 seat arena, meeting rooms, bars and restaurants and an exhibition hall that is a major venue for concerts and other events.

The Boston Irish Honors 2017 Exemplary Boston Irish Journalist: Kevin Cullen

By Kevin Cullen
November 1, 2017
Kevin Cullen

Editor’s note: When Boston Irish Reporter publisher Ed Forry approached Kevin Cullen about accepting a Boston Irish Honors award for his exemplary career in journalism, Kevin told Ed that he would “jot down a few words” of background information on his life and times. Those “few words” follow:

I was born in the old Richardson House, which was then part of the Boston Lying-In Hospital that later merged with Brigham and Women’s Hospital. My mother was from South Boston and my father was from Malden, where my family settled and where I grew up.

Boston Irish Honors 2017 Exemplary Boston Irish Family: Nora, Annmarie, and Bill Kennedy

By Peter F. Stevens, BIR Staff
November 1, 2017
Peter F. Stevens, BIR Staff

ACROSS THE GENERATIONS
Bill, Annmarie, and Nora Kennedy open their hearts
and their philanthropic spirit to help ‘the least among us’

For Bill, Annmarie, and Nora Kennedy, it’s all about community, about giving back and treating everyone – no matter an individual’s means and station – with compassion, dignity, and respect. While the term “family values” has morphed into cliché among cynics, the words have never been cliché to the Kennedys.

Let’s take a quick tour of Clare, starting with the Cliffs

By Ed Forry
November 1, 2017

Nothing says success like the Cliffs of Moher in Co. Clare, Ireland’s top tourist attraction.
Ten years ago, a new visitor and interpretive center opened there, and from then on the Cliffs have enjoyed ever increasing attendance, a fact highlighted by the more than a million visitors who have come by every year for the past four years.

A comical intervention by some critical friends

By R.J. Donovan
November 1, 2017
R.J. Donovan

If you foresee disaster looming in a friend’s romantic relationship, is it fair game to speak up?  And if you do speak up, will your criticism ruin your own relationship with that friend?
Those are the challenges faced in “Robyn is Happy,” kicking off the fifth season at Hub Theatre Company of Boston. Performances run through Nov. 11 at the First Church of Boston. All performances are “pay-what-you-can.”

Moynihan’s fiddle, Chaimbeul’s harp insinuate themselves into a listener’s ear

By Sean Smith
November 1, 2017
Sean Smith

There’s nothing in the Musician’s Universal Handbook that says you have to be friends with your bandmates: creative differences, artistic temperament, hours of rehearsal, schlepping to and from gigs – all that can be pretty demanding on a relationship. But the fiddle-and-harp duo of Brighton residents Jenna Moynihan and Mairi Chaimbeul doesn’t have many problems on that score, the two sharing not only an address but also a fondness for long train rides and, according to Moynihan, “1990s dance parties,” among quite a few other things.

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