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According to Aine Foley, Providence, Rhode Island, could be the
next big place to spend your J-1 year!
She is a current University of Limerick student completing her third year placement at Energy Electric Contractors. As a Construction Management... Read more
Around Town
Q. I live outside the United States, but I am a US citizen. If I or my spouse have a child abroad, is it possible for them to obtain US citizenship? If so, how?
A. This question, like many legal questions, depends on the facts of the specific... Read more
Around Town
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BIR History
A new guided-missile destroyer will honor the name ofMedal of Honor Recipient Capt. Thomas G. Kelley
“It is a tremendous honor, and I am truly humbled…”
The modest words are those of Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Captain (ret.) Thomas... Read more
Boston Irish Commentary
By Peter F. StevensBoston Irish Contributor
“A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbor.”
– Jonathan Swift
The above quote flows from the pen of an... Read more
Boston Irish Commentary
President Biden made a stealthy, but stirring visit to Ukraine’s capital city in February, greeting the war-torn nation’s leader, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and touring Kyiv on foot as air raid sirens blared in the distance. It was a brilliant piece of... Read more
Around Town
A look at upcoming Irish/Celtic (and Celtic-related) music events in Greater Boston – and yes, there are rather a lot.
•The annual “St. Patrick’s Day Celtic Sojourn” production will be on stage at four locations this year: Shalin Liu Performance Center in... Read more
Arts and entertainment
There are fiddle duet albums, and then there are magnum opus-level fiddle duet albums.
On “Brightly or Darkly,” the second recording by Boston-area musicians Nathan Gourley and Laura Feddersen, their fiddles sync up together, sometimes harmonize, play... Read more
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He’s prepping Cork’s Callum ‘King’ Walsh for 10-rounder vs. Spain’s Ruiz on March 16
When legendary boxing trainer Freddie Roach first stepped into the ring to fight professionally, he was known as “Irish” Freddie Roach and wore green trunks that his... Read more
Publisher's Notes
Mr. James S. O’Brien, of Lowell, formerly of Scituate, died March 1, 2023. He was 84.
Jim was born on October 20, 1938 in New Haven, Connecticut. He grew up in Hamden. Hamden High school is where his lifelong passion for football began.
Jim attended... Read more
Boston Irish Commentary
Immigration as political issue … Bertie’s back … Biden’s running again WICKLOW – When I wrote in this space at Christmas, there were widespread protests in Ireland at the government’s often hastily conceived moves to house thousands of refugees and ... Read more
Boston Irish Commentary
Plumbing the myths, and realities, of an Gorta Mor,and why the whole story has for so long been ignored “Those in power write the history, those who suffer write the songs.”– Robbie O’Connell
Readers of BostonIrish know that the Great Hunger, an Gorta... Read more
BostonIrish feature story
In the most recent edition of Boston Irish Magazine, Associate Publisher Travel Editor Maureen Forry-Sorrell took up an issue that many families face when traveling: How to ensure that disability needs will be met along the way. Using her own family’s... Read more
BostonIrish feature story
As an Irish person who has adopted the United States as his home away from home, I am probably more in tune with the echoes of our collective national history than I might have been, had I never left. The global impact of wave after wave of emigration... Read more
Around Town
Citing Kevin Cullen, a columnist with the Boston Globe, for his decades-long coverage of events on the island of Ireland, especially in the North during troubled times and as the 1998 Good Friday Agreement came to pass, the Eire Society of Boston will... Read more
Publisher's Notes
By Ed ForryBoston Irish Publisher
The month of Saint Patrick is here at last. Boston’s Irish stay connected with many events throughout the year, at the Irish Cultural Centre, the Irish Pastoral Centre, the Rian Center for Immigrants, and gatherings at... Read more
Elsewhere
On Saturday 8th October 2022, thousands of people came together in Ebrington Square, Derry, to sing a very special song with a very special person, Here's the magical moment the LegenDerry Phil Coulter sang his iconic song, The Town I Loved So Well, with... Read more
Traveling People
When Belfast was designated as a UNESCO City of Music, the well-known musician Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol said, “Belfast heart beats verbally with music, it is in our DNA.”
Tourism Ireland brought a group of performers from Northern Ireland to Boston... Read more
Arts and entertainment
Two very special productions are onstage this month at the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York. Both have connections offering interest to Boston audiences. Manhattan is easily accessible as a day trip or a quick overnight theater visit via Amtrak. And... Read more
Arts and entertainment
Karan Casey admits it: She was nervous.
Yes, she’s been performing for decades in front of audiences big and small, in her native Ireland, the UK, the US, and many other places. But at January’s Celtic Connections in Glasgow – one of the premier Celtic... Read more
Arts and entertainment
Damon Leibert, a former Boston-area resident now living in Maine, has quite the resumé: a fiddler in Irish bands that performed at beloved local venues like Tir Na nOg and The Skellig; the driving force behind the rebirth of Somerville’s Davis Square... Read more
Around Town
2023 Gold Medal Dinner — celebrating the author and journalist, Kevin Cullen
Saturday, April 22, 2023 at 6pm at Seaport Boston Hotel
The Eire Society of Boston 2023 Gold Medal Dinner & Award Ceremony
Honoring Gold Medal Award Recipient Kevin Cullen,... Read more
Boston Irish Commentary
On initial consideration, one might see an attraction like Caherconnell Stone Fort as perhaps another fort, similar to Dun Aengus or any other of the many stone age remnants dotting the Irish landscape. We were delighted to learn that Caherconnell offers... Read more
Elsewhere
U2’s Bono and wife Ali Hewson discuss their relationship, meeting Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and faith in this extended clip of "Person to Person" with Norah O'Donnell.
Boston Irish Commentary
In the weeks leading up to my most recent visit to Ireland, my thoughts kept drifting to my mother, who passed away in 2004. Mum’s parents hailed from County Mayo and County Leitrim and had resided in the states for several years before starting a family... Read more
Traveling People
This is the first in a series of essays, exploring Ireland as a family with a disabled child.
Our first stop along the West Coast of Ireland was in County Clare- specifically Bunratty Castle and Folk Park.
I had visited Bunratty many years back, during a... Read more
Around Town
Jon Cronin is universally described as a calming presence, as generous financially as he is unflappable in temperament and not afraid to “show up” and work in the trenches for the many causes he supports.
A Cork man who came to Boston in the late1980s,... Read more
Elsewhere
From: The Irish Times, 5/9/22
It’s wild.
Northwest Mayo is the most remote place in Ireland. It contains the largest stretch of land uncrossed by a road, as well as the second largest.
“There’s something about it,” explains Barry Murphy, whose boutique... Read more
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Located at one of the acclaimed series’ original filming locations at Linen Mill Studios in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, Game of Thrones Studio Tour takes fans closer to the Seven Kingdoms than ever before. Guests can step inside the iconic Great Hall at... Read more
Today's News
The Irish Passport Service has rolled out an online passport application system for all applicants - including children and 1st time applicants - applying from the United States.
This service is now live and is available at dfa.ie/passports
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