A Meditation on the Lonely

By BostonIrish.com... (not verified)
September 1, 2009

I am at an age where a few of my friends have lost their wives. The period of adjustment appears deeper and longer than for wives who lose their husbands. But then I've always believed that women alone are more independent and self-sufficient than men.

Women play a much larger and important role in extended relationships than men are inclined to publicly acknowledge. Most men also believe it is in the natural order of things that they will be the first to die, so they don't prepare for the loss of a spouse.

Says Bridget Shaheen, of Lazarus House in Lawrence: 'I Am Fully Satisfied in Doing What the Lord Wants Me to Do'

By Greg O'Brien
September 1, 2009
Greg O'Brien

An old Irish proverb graces Bridget Shaheen's modest office in Lawrence: "It is in the shelter of each other that the people live." In the shelter of Lazarus House Ministries on humble Holly Street, executive director Shaheen, who walks the Christian talk on how to love, oversees the provision of immediate support, food, training, shelter, and medical and dental care to those who have none in this working class city of immigrants that ranks the poorest in New England.

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Shannon Heaton's Passion: 'To Get to Put My Sass On'

By R. J. Donovan
September 1, 2009
R. J. Donovan

Are you one someone who sings at the drop of a downbeat?  Aside from the social aspects of sharing a tune, would you like to explore the skills involved in traditional Irish singing?  Then the Irish Song Circle Workshop at Springstep in Medford may be for you.

Jointly taught by Shannon Heaton and Liz Simmons, the Song Circle is a six-week course touching on the techniques and emotional connections involved in the art of Irish singing.

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BCMFest notes

By Sean Smith
September 1, 2009
Sean Smith

Bonny "Babes" - There'll be a distinctive Caledonian feel to this month's BCMFest Celtic Music Monday concert, which features some of Greater Boston's most outstanding female musicians in the Scottish tradition. "Babes in Scotland," which takes place Sept. 14 at 8 p.m. in Harvard Square's Club Passim, will explore the new and the old in Scottish music and song, and how centuries-old traditions have joined with contemporary influences to create exciting sounds.

End of Summer Doesn't Mean Nothing's Going On

Ed Forry
By Ed Forry
September 1, 2009

As this prolonged summer comes near its end, there remain several events to attract folks outdoors before the snows of winter arrive. With Labor Day late this year, the traditional Waterfront Irish Festival in Newport will take place on the holiday weekend, September 5, 6 and 7. There will be five stages of entertainment, with performances from the likes of Eileen Ivers, Black 47, The Makem Brothers & Spain Brothers, Calley McGrane and The Exiles and many more.

By Ed Forry
August 30, 2009

'CITY ON A HILL STANDS LESS TALL' AS KENNEDY LAID TO REST

By Jim O'Sullivan
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE

MISSION HILL, AUG. 29 - Mourners saluted Sen. Edward Kennedy as a
champion for the downtrodden and a deeply committed family man who
donned the duties of his slain brothers, his sons recalling a caring
father and President Barack Obama praising the longest-serving member
of the family dynasty as a "happy warrior" during a stirring funeral
Mass Saturday.

Remembering Ted Kennedy

By Staff
August 26, 2009

By Bill O’Donnell

Photo by Susan Walsh, Associated Press (May 2008)Photo by Susan Walsh, Associated Press (May 2008)I was not a Kennedy insider, never on the Hyannisport compound guest list but we were contemporaries and as adults with only a couple of years separating us, Ted Kennedy, as the President’s brother and a fledgling if well-wired senator, could not be ignored. My first up-close event featuring the youngest Kennedy son was the All-New England Salute to President John F. Kennedy at Boston’s Commonwealth Armory on October 19, 1963.

Vincent Crotty Art Exhibition on Cape Cod

By Ed Forry
August 4, 2009

Cork-born artist Vincent Crotty will have a summer exhibition of new
oil paintings, with images of Ireland, New England, and beyond. The
show runs from August 12 - 23 in South Yarmouth, Cape Cod. Among
recent works are "Boston Harbor, Lewis Wharf", "Irish Set Dancing In
the Catskills", and"A Dog In County Kerry Sunshine". Opening
reception with the artist on Friday, August 15 from 5-7 pm, and
Susan and Steven Lindsay will play a concert of Irish music at the
same venue at 8 pm, following the art opening. Venue:Cultural Center

The Summer of 2009 in the North Shows There Are Miles to Go to a Lasting Peace

By Robert P. Connolly
August 2, 2009
Robert P. Connolly

While the season has not taken Northern Ireland to brink of civil war, as happened all too often during the turbulent 1990s, this summer certainly illustrates that many tensions, sectarian and otherwise, continue to bubble in the Northern cauldron.

Summer has always been the most dangerous season in the North, with Protestant fraternal organizations, led by the Orange Order, holding hundreds of parades celebrating Protestant King William of Orange's pivotal 1690 victory over Catholic rival James II at the Battle of the Boyne.

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For Him, a Window Becomes His World

By BostonIrish.com... (not verified)
August 1, 2009

The old man sits at the window looking out as the rain traces patterns as the drops glide across the pane. This has become his world.

Once he inhabited the land beyond the glass but time and infirmity now confine him to a small apartment. Far removed from what once was a full and active life, he sits alone most days with his memories and the slice of the outside world framed by the window.

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