Anger, Disgust Drive Irish Voters to Send Fianna Fail to Sidelines

By by Joe Leary
March 1, 2011
by Joe Leary

By Joe Leary
Special to the BIR
DUBLIN – Foreclosures, higher taxes, higher health insurance costs, and huge pay cuts for most everyone over the last several years had created an Irish anger that demanded change, and right away. In addition to those woes, there was a broad disgust and a deep loss of pride at the government having to borrow from European banks to bail out Irish banks. On Feb. 25, Ireland’s voters complied resoundingly with the call for change and sent the former leaders of Fianna Fail into oblivion.

Singers, Dancers, Harpists Aplenty Conjure Up ‘A Little Bit Of Ireland’ at Reagle Music Theatre

By R. J. Donovan
March 1, 2011
R. J. Donovan

By R. J. Donovan
Special to The BIR
Take an international step-dancing champion, add a dazzling fiddler from Galway, 19 heavenly harpists, one Broadway star, comedy galore and a 30-member choir and you’ve got “A Little Bit Of Ireland,” the St. Patrick’s Day musical revue presented by Reagle Music Theatre March 11-13.

Published Reports Bring More Bad Publicity, Add to Ireland's Woes

By by Bill O'Donnell
March 1, 2011
by Bill O'Donnell

By Bill O’Donnell

Reading More, Liking It Less – If you are an Irish citizen you would be forgiven if you took little solace in the bruised cliche that all publicity is good publicity. That is demonstrably untrue and especially so with two articles last month in major US publications that savaged the Irish economic crisis and its perps, and a second article that inflicted yet more damage on that country’s reeling Catholic Church.

Boston's First Irish Cop: Remembering What Barney Did

Ed Forry
By Ed Forry
March 1, 2011

By Ed Forry
Barney McGinniskin was the first Irish cop in Boston. He arrived in Boston’s North End from County Galway in the 1840s, and found work as a laborer, until finally, on Nov. 4, 1851, he was hired by the city and he put on the blue waistcoat of a Boston police officer.
BIR contributing editor Peter Stevens told his story in these pages in 2008: “Boston had its first officially appointed Irish cop. Not surprisingly, his presence soon ignited a political, social and cultural furor in the land of ‘Yankee icicles.’

Patrick Crotty, RIP, father of Artist Vincent Crotty

By Ed Forry
February 8, 2011

The death has occurred on February 6, 2011 in Ireland of Patrick
Crotty of Old Court, Kanturk, Cork. The father of noted Boston artist
Vincent Crotty, he is lying in repose in his residence. Reception
into the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Kanturk at 1:30 pm on
Wednesday, February 9, for Requiem Mass at 2 pm. Burial afterwards in
St. Patrick's Cemetery.

Introducing ‘The Sole Mates,’ Free Spirits of Dance and Music

By by BIR Staff
February 4, 2011
by BIR Staff

New Ensemble to Perform in Cambridge Jan. 20
By BIR Staff
Boston-based Irish dancer and choreographer Kieran Jordan will present her new collaboration, “The Sole Mates,” for one night only this month before the group hits the road in March for an 11-gig tour of Germany and Switzerland.

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