BRETT'S BOSTON: Richie Gormley named to head Irish Social Club

By Ed Forry
November 29, 2018
Ed Forry

On Sunday, November 18, West Roxbury’s “Lord Mayor” Richard Gormley was sworn in as the new president of the Irish Social Club.
The owner of the Gormley Funeral Home, he has an ancestral home in Ballybrogan, Co. Roscommon.
The event began with a Mass of Remembrance of past members, followed by the installation ofGormley and fellow officers and members of the board of directors. The traditional Sunday evening music and dancing followed.

BRETT'S BOSTON: Richie Gormley named to head Irish Social Club

By Ed Forry
November 29, 2018
Ed Forry

On Sunday, November 18, West Roxbury’s “Lord Mayor” Richard Gormley was sworn in as the new president of the Irish Social Club.
The owner of the Gormley Funeral Home, he has an ancestral home in Ballybrogan, Co. Roscommon.
The event began with a Mass of Remembrance of past members, followed by the installation ofGormley and fellow officers and members of the board of directors. The traditional Sunday evening music and dancing followed.

Mary McAleese, Anne Anderson to headline IrishAP January Breakfast

By BIR Newsroom
November 4, 2018
BIR Newsroom

Nollaig na mBan, or Women’s Christmas, is held each year in January throughout Ireland to celebrate women’s leadership within the family and community. The Irish American Partnership will commemorate this tradition with a breakfast highlighting Irish-American female leaders and the positive impact they have worldwide.
The 2019 breakfast will feature Mary McAleese, 8th President of Ireland in conversation with Anne Anderson, Former Ambassador of Ireland to the US.

TALKING TURKEY Fact or fiction about the mythic Feast of the Pilgrims?

By
November 2, 2018

Seasonal images of the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians gathered at long wooden tables piled with platters of food abound. You might think that Thanksgiving traditions do not reflect anything Irish, but you would be wrong in that assumption. In fact, several scholars contend that without the Irish, the first Thanksgiving might never have happened.

You can vote to eliminate the smell from the Washington sewer

By Joe Leary
November 2, 2018
Joe Leary

Washington, DC, has been called a swamp by many people, but it has now descended into sewer status and its smell is spreading throughout the world. Take for examples the horrendous personal conduct of the president, the Republican hypocrisy on the making of the rising deficit, the complete politicization of our immigration policy, and the disgraceful Kavanaugh hearings last month.

November CD Reviews

By Sean Smith, Special to the BIR
November 2, 2018
Sean Smith, Special to the BIR

Altan, “The Gap of Dreams” • One of Donegal’s greatest natural resources returns to the firmament with this, its 13th studio album. Where Altan’s previous release, “The Widening Gyre” (2015), was Irish-Americana fusion (with guest stars like Alison Brown, Jerry Douglas, Tim O’Brien, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and Boston’s own Darol Anger), “The Gap of Dreams” is a paean to the group’s birthplace and celebrates the indispensability of music, songs, dance, and stories to past generations coping with the demands of rural life, as well as famine, conflict and emigration.

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