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Boston to Dublin and Shannon From $369 r/t including taxesTravel Feb 1 – Mar 31, 2024
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December 18, 2023 – CANTON – Today, the Irish Culture Centre of Greater Boston (ICC) announced that Patrick Faherty, a real estate attorney from Quincy, MA, has been appointed to its Board of Directors. A long-standing supporter of the ICC, Faherty will... Read more
Letter from Dublin /Timothy Kirk
Ormond Quay, Dublin – We live off Ormond Quay on Dublin’s Northside and it occurred to me recently that I did not know who this Ormond was. History is written in the place names around Dublin. Just as Boston renamed King... Read more
Letter from Wicklow/Larry Donnelly
I previously ventured in this space that public attitudes toward and consequent government policy to combat climate change might represent the single biggest difference in the worldviews of Americans and Europeans. I... Read more
2024 Nollaig na mBan Women's Leadership Celebration - Boston
Friday, January 5, 2024
8:00 AM 9:30 AM
Boston Harbor Hotel - Wharf Room (map)
Google Calendar ICS
We are delighted to welcome Executive Producer and Award-winning Actor, Geraldine Hughes as... Read more
About Mary McSweeney
Cead Mile Failte and welcome to my Ireland. Fate has dealt me a wonderful hand, to be born in Killarney in the Irish way of life and have the ability of artistic expression is a gift which I’m grateful for. I have sketched and painted... Read more
The Eire Society of Boston, in collaboration with the Burns Library at Boston College, cordially invites all to join with them to celebrate Irish musician and composer, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, on Sunday December 3.
There will be a screening of a one-hour... Read more
Q. I recently became a US citizen through naturalization and want to obtain a passport to travel. How do I go about acquiring one, and what if I have a family situation back home that requires me to travel on short notice?
A. While USCIS gives you a... Read more
Olivia McAleese, a final-year student at Queen's University Belfast majoring in Food Quality, Safety, and Nutrition, embarked on an enriching journey to the Town of Nantucket's Health and Human Services Department for her third-year J-1placement. Her... Read more
More than 300 guests packed the Boston Seaport Hotel’s ballroom last Friday (Oct. 27) for the 13th annual Boston Irish Honors luncheon, which highlights men, women, and families of Irish ancestry who “embody the best qualities of the Irish.” The event is... Read more
October 16, 2023 – CANTON – This Saturday, October 21st from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., The Irish Cultural Centre (“ICC”) of Greater Boston will host the highly anticipated 4th Annual Boston Irish Beer Festival.
The event will take place throughout the 46-... Read more
Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel laureate in literature, passed away in 2013. He is often called the greatest Irish poet since W.B. Yeats. To mark the tenth anniversary of his death, the Charitable Irish Society and the Eire Society of Boston... Read more
Alyssa Franks is a J-1 who spent her year in Boston interning at Beacon Pointe Wealth Advisors. She came to the states to get a better idea of her career’s direction, and also meet people who could give her guidance on that journey. The J-1 visa... Read more
The public is cordially invited to attend the Commemoration of the 174th Anniversary of the wreck of the Brig St. John on Sunday, October 8 at 1:00 pm. Begins with a memorial Mass at Saint Anthony of Padua Parish in Cohasset, MA followed by refreshments... Read more
The Frank and Mary Byrne Memorial Commemoration will take place on September 30, 2023 at 1 pm at Old Saint Mary's Cemetery, 103 Pine Street, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA.
We will have tents at the commemoration, so you can keep dry if there is light... Read more
Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch and the City of Quincy invite the public to enjoy an evening of music and song on Saturday, September 30th with internationally acclaimed Irish Tenor Ronan Tynan.
Ronan Tynan will return to Quincy for another performance on... Read more
The Edward M. Kennedy (EMK) Institute for the US Senate on Dorchester’s Columbia Point was the setting on Tuesday for a four-hour program that served as a commemorative celebration of the monumental 1998 breakthrough that resulted in relative peace in the... Read more
Eire Society Members
We are back! Back to school Back from Covid
Members: Kindly mark your calendars for a few upcoming events.
October 8, Sunday: Brig St. John Memorial event, Cohasset (Details soon).
October 28, Sunday, 2pm: Padraig O'Malley - ... Read more
Before he left office, Gov. Charlie Baker signed into law the establishment of a permanent day of awareness for Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC), a rare but aggressive disease. This year, IBC Awareness Day will take place in Massachusetts on Tues., Oct.... Read more
