Hundreds join for St Augustine Cemetery 200th anniversary

By BIR Newsroom
September 28, 2018
BIR Newsroom

St. Augustine Chapel and Cemetery in South Boston began a year-long bicentennial celebration with a ceremony and Mass on Sept. 15.
The cemetery, dedicated in December 1818, was the first Catholic burial ground in Boston, and the chapel is the oldest surviving Catholic church in the Boston archdiocese.
After the cemetery was opened, many Catholics arranged to re-inter the bodies of relatives on its grounds. About 1,000 people are buried there.

‘BRIDGET SUCH A ONE ...’ October brings the anniversary of a tragic immigrant saga

By Peter F. Stevens, BIR Staff
September 28, 2018
Peter F. Stevens, BIR Staff

The tragic wrecking at sea of the Brig St. John 169 years ago is an event that resonates especially in 2018 with America tearing along its political, racial, ethnic, and religious seams.
The catastrophe engulfed desperate Boston-bound immigrants off the shore of Cohasset on October 7, 1849. As disaster hit, common humanity trumped Nativist prejudice for an all-too-brief moment.

A Supreme Court donnybrook and an unlikely buddy story

By Peter F. Stevens, BIR Staff
September 28, 2018
Peter F. Stevens, BIR Staff

So not one of the 11 GOP senators on the Judiciary Committee is “man” enough to question Professor Christine Blasey Ford, who has alleged that federal Judge Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her some 36 years ago. As of this writing, Senators Charles Grassley, Lindsay Graham, Orrin Hatch, John Cornyn and their committee cronies plan to bring an “outside female prosecutor” to interrogate Ford about her allegations.

First things first for an effective DA: Job is about deterrence and public safety

By BostonIrish.com... (not verified)
September 28, 2018

By James W. Dolan

In the rush to reform the criminal justice system by converting what some might view as petty offenses to civil infractions and dismissing cases to avoid the imposition of a criminal record, one must not overlook the role of a district attorney as chief law enforcement officer of a county. In that office, prosecutorial discretion allows some latitude, but within limits.

It looks like a ‘Brexit’ is on the way; for the British, an awful lot is at risk

By Joe Leary
September 28, 2018
Joe Leary

For better or worse, Britain’s divorce from Europe and Ireland seems to be an unstoppable force. It remains to be seen if the separation will be a tragedy or a success. We may not know for many years, or until another European war breaks out. Of course it also may be that the British will reverse themselves in future years.

BC’s Burns Library event launches ‘The Cambridge History of Ireland’

By Dan Sheehan, Special to the BIR
September 28, 2018
Dan Sheehan, Special to the BIR

Amidst a collection of texts and artifacts from past Irish generations, historians and fans of history gathered at Boston College’s Burns Library on September 20 to celebrate the launch of “The Cambridge History of Ireland,” the first volumes on the subject of Irish history by the renowned university.

Thomas Bartlett, the general editor of the collection, spoke to just how necessary it was to provide the world with a new abridged history of the island of Ireland.

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