Irish groups meet, plan joint Facebook page

By BIR News Room
April 30, 2015

Members of Irish organizations across New England at the Consulate in Boston. Photo courtesy Connell GallagherMembers of Irish organizations across New England at the Consulate in Boston. Photo courtesy Connell Gallagher

Boston’s Irish Consulate hosted a meeting last month in its offices at 535 Boylston Street with an agenda to establish new and deeper links among the many Irish organizations across the six New England states.

One result was that meeting participants agreed to establish a “Deep Green” private Facebook page, monitored by the Consulate, to help coordinate event plans for the Irish groups.

‘Belpot’ games set for Belfast this Thanksgiving weekend

By BIR News Room
April 30, 2015

College Hockey Tourney modeled on Boston's Beanpot
On Thanksgiving weekend 2015, hockey teams from Brown, Colgate, Northeastern and UMass-Lowell will travel to Belfast for a major international hockey exchange that will include several educational and sporting events hosted by the visiting college students and the Belfast Giants hockey team. Mayor Martin Walsh announced the news on April 10 as part of his first sister city Boston-Belfast partnership event.

Filmmakers seek help from Irish Americans: A chance to help the ‘Peacemaker’

By Peter F. Stevens, Reporter Staff
April 30, 2015
Peter F. Stevens, Reporter Staff

His work is of world importance – literally so. Padraig O’Malley is known as “the Peacemaker,” and for years, the John Joseph Moakley Professor of International Peace and Reconciliation at the University of Massachusetts Boston has worked tirelessly to promote conflict resolution in the world’s deadliest locales, which include Iraq, Nigeria, Kosovo and Northern Ireland.

Walsh to tout plans for 'Belpot' hockey tourney in Belfast

By Staff
April 9, 2015
Staff

Plans are in the works for Northeastern, UMass-Lowell, Brown and Colgate to face off in a hockey tournament in Belfast later this year. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and leaders of Belfast, Ireland plan to join local college hockey officials to make an announcement Friday outside the TD Garden, which is hosting the NCAA Frozen Four this weekend.

Reflections on the ‘Smack 47’ letter – Comparing it to the ‘Irish Cable’ of 1920 is flawed reasoning

By Peter F. Stevens
April 3, 2015
Peter F. Stevens

What does the recent furor over the 47 Republican senators’ missive to Iran’s ayatollahs have to do with the United States and Ireland?
Nothing – at least until defenders of the 47 started talking smack about the time 95 years ago when 88 members of the US House of Representatives sent a cable to British Prime Minister David Lloyd George and the British Parliament protesting the brutal treatment by the British of Irish prisoners who had been stripped of all rights and held without arraignment or trial.

Enough already, Mr. O’Dowd

By Trina Vargo
April 3, 2015
Trina Vargo

By Trina Vargo
The week of March 16 was so seven years ago. Irish America publisher Niall O’Dowd may be loud, but that doesn’t make him right, or representative of most Irish Americans.
In his never-ending need to ingratiate himself with the Clintons, he inducted Hillary Clinton into his Irish America Hall of Fame during that week. All that did was to remind everyone that when Clinton ran against Obama in 2008, she and her camp falsely claimed she played an instrumental role in the Northern Ireland peace process leading up to the 1998 Belfast Agreement.

‘Family Reunion’ at the White House: Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Kenny of Ireland at St. Patrick’s Day Reception

By President Barack Obama
April 2, 2015
President Barack Obama

Speaker of the House John Boehner, President Barack Obama, and Taoiseach Enda Kenny walked together down the steps of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. on March 17, 2015. Photo courtesy White HouseSpeaker of the House John Boehner, President Barack Obama, and Taoiseach Enda Kenny walked together down the steps of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. on March 17, 2015. Photo courtesy White House
President Barack Obama hosted 
Prime Minister Enda Kenny in White House on March 17. The two leaders offered the following remarks in the East Room that afternoon following their meeting.

PRESIDENT OBAMA:  Hello, everybody!  This is a good-looking crowd…. Happy St. Patrick’s Day, everybody. 
There are too many distinguished Irish and Irish-Americans here tonight to mention, so I’ll just offer “a hundred thousand welcomes” to the White House.  But I want to offer a warm welcome to our special guests:  Taoiseach Kenny and his lovely wife, Fionnuala.  Ireland’s Ambassador to the United States, Anne Anderson; and her counterpart, our man in Dublin, Kevin O’Malley.  
I also want to take a moment to recognize those who do the hard work of waging peace.  Theresa Villiers, the UK’s Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is here.  Please give Theresa a big round of applause.  As is America’s Consul General in Belfast, Greg Burton.  And Richard Haass, two men who helped bring the Stormont House Agreement to fruition, and we are very grateful to them.

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