A Gold Medal for founders of Ireland Famine Museum: Eire Society salutes Jim and Caroilin Callery

By Elizabeth B. Shannon, Special to Boston Irish
March 4, 2026
Elizabeth B. Shannon, Special to Boston Irish

 

Ever since the early 1990s, academic research and scholarly publications on the causes, nature, and broad impact of Ireland’s Great Famine have grown immensely and served to break the public silence that surrounded the famine experience in Ireland and within its global diaspora.

‘Penelope’ tells audience what’s going on with her as she waits on her man

By R.J. Donovan, Special to BostonIrish
February 3, 2026
R.J. Donovan, Special to BostonIrish

At the height of the Covid quarantine, playwright-composer Alex Bechtel was separated from his partner.  She was in Boston; he was in Philadelphia. The isolation, the longing, and the waiting weighed heavily on them both.

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