Deer Island Irish Memorial Dedication is this Saturday

By Ed Forry
May 23, 2019
Ed Forry

The Irish Memorial on Deer Island is ready for this Saturday’s dedication ceremony.
The event starts at 10:00 AM on Saturday, May 25, 2019 and it is free and open to the public. There will be plenty of free parking and refreshments will be served after the dedication ceremony.

Driving Directions: Bennington Street in East Boston to Route145 North, then you take Pleasant Street to Shirley Street to Elliot Street in Winthrop. If you are using GPS to get to Deer Island use this address:
190 Tafts Avenue, Winthrop, MA 02152.

Remembering Bill O'Donnell

By BIR Newsroom
May 3, 2019
BIR Newsroom

BY FRANCIS COSTELLO
SPECIAL TO THE BIR
To describe Bill O'Donnell as one of a kind is to short-change this estimable man’s life and times.
Honorable and decent to the end, he was deeply proud of the America he loved - and whose uniform he wore - and of the Irish heritage he embraced in all its aspects. A man of many talents, Bill was also modest. An Marine who served during the Korean War, he declined military honors for his funeral, telling his family: “Look, I never got shot at!”

Connemara oysters? You can read all about them here

By BostonIrish.com... (not verified)
May 3, 2019

BY JUDY ENRIGHT
SPECIAL TO THE BIR
“Shucks,” David Keane might have said to his wife and family back in 2014. “Maybe we should buy an oyster farm.” Five years later, he’s happily shucking oysters for visitors touring DK Connemara Oysters Ltd. in Ballinakill Bay, Letterfrack. The farm had been owned by a French firm and was run down when the Keanes bought it. But after five years of hard work and dedication, it is now rejuvenated, employs eight local workers, offers tours, and ships oysters across the world.

Reviews of Music on CDs- May, 2019

By Sean Smith, Special to the BIR
May 3, 2019
Sean Smith, Special to the BIR

CD REVIEWS
BY SEAN SMITH
Flook, “Ancora” • One of the truly inimitable Irish music acts to come out of the 1990s, Flook released three marvelous albums between 1995 and 2005, then broke the hearts of their multitude of fans by disbanding three years later to pursue other things, like domestic and family life. But when they resurfaced in 2013 – appearing at the Fleadh Cheoil in Derry, among other places – a new recording seemed only a matter of time. The anticipation was worth it.

BIR’S Calendar of Irish Music events for May 2019

By Sean Smith
May 3, 2019
Sean Smith

The Burren Backroom series has another full calendar of Irish/Celtic music, starting on May 5 with a 4 p.m. matinee performance featuring a pair of spousal duos. West Coast-based Noctambule is Marla Fibish and Bruce Victor, a quiet but steady presence in Irish traditional music also known for their acoustically eclectic settings of poetry by the likes of Service, Tennyson, Neruda, and St. Vincent Millay with mandolin, mandola, bouzouki, cittern, guitar, and tenor guitar; Fibish in particular has drawn accolades for her mandolin playing.

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