A time to salute the spirit of tireless St. Patrick: His compassion, vigor, service, and giving ways

Ed Forry
By Maureen Forry
March 4, 2026

 

March arrives with its familiar sense of pride and anticipation. As St. Patrick’s Day approaches, our community is preparing once again to celebrate our Irish heritage, culture, and tradition through parades, music, family gatherings, and time-honored rituals that connect past and present. But at its core, this season has always been about more than celebrating.

The Connollys of Aisling Gallery treasure their fine Irish artworks – and each other

By Cassidy McNeeley, Boston Irish Staff
March 4, 2026
Cassidy McNeeley, Boston Irish Staff

 

From the outside, Aisling Gallery and Framing looks like just another comfortable home in Hingham. But after you walk past the flock of sheep statues in the front yard, up the front steps with a US flag on one side and an Irish flag on the other, and step through the front door, you feel as if you’ve been transported across the Atlantic Ocean.

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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