Ambassador Claire Cronin embraces her paternal roots

By BostonIrish Newsroom
June 12, 2024
BostonIrish Newsroom

Irish American Partnership gives $10,000 to school in grandfather’s hometown

It was a homecoming of sorts for the US Ambassador Claire Cronin, who spent a celebratory morning on May 14 in Moville, Co. Donegal alongside Principal Liam McDermott of Scoil Eoghain National School. She was delighted to meet with 240 pupils and the teaching staff, as part of a presentation by the Boston-based charity the Irish American Partnership. Cronin’s grandfather, Hugh McLaughlin, was born on the Inishowen peninsula in 1886 and emigrated to the United States in 1912.

Queens Univ GAA teams visit Canton this weekend

By BostonIrish.com Newsroom
June 11, 2024
BostonIrish.com Newsroom

The Irish Cultural Centre of Greater Boston in Canton is hosting Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) teams from Queen’s University this Saturday and Sunday (June 15, 16) for the first time in more than 40 years, offering an exciting opportunity for local families and enthusiasts to be a part of a historic match at the ICC and enjoy some Gaelic football!

Local Fiddler Mari Black to show her Cape Breton side: At Club Passim concert with Troy MacGillivray on June 20

By Sean Smith, BostonIrish Contributor
May 21, 2024
Sean Smith, BostonIrish Contributor

Well-traveled and accomplished Boston-based fiddler Mari Black and Nova Scotian fiddler/pianist Troy MacGillivray – one of the leading lights in Cape Breton music for most of this century – team up on June 20 at Harvard Square’s Club Passim for a special collaborative concert, “Fro

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