OF POLITICS AND THE SUFFOCATION OF MORALITY

By Peter F Stevens
September 1, 2018
Peter F Stevens

Flashing red lights abound as an autumn reckoning looms
BY PETER F. STEVENS
BIR STAFF
Like “the flashing red light” metaphor that National Security Advisor Dan Coates employed to warn of ongoing Russian disruption of our elections, the immortal words of Ireland’s Daniel O’Connell, “The Liberator,” define this fractious moment in America’s history: “Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.”

The Titanic Experience in Belfast is a ‘Must-See’ attraction

By Ed Forry
September 1, 2018

BY JUDY ENRIGHT
SPECIAL TO THE BIR
Is there anyone on earth who hasn’t heard about the Titanic hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage in 1912 with the resulting loss of more than 1,500 lives? If so, the uninformed must be living in the back of beyond! It would be nearly impossible to miss hearing something about the ill-fated liner after all the books – reportedly more than 500 – films, and TV exposure since that long-ago mid-April night and early morning in the Atlantic.
TITANIC
EXPERIENCE

The Titanic Experience in Belfast is a ‘Must-See’ attraction

By Ed Forry
September 1, 2018

BY JUDY ENRIGHT
SPECIAL TO THE BIR
Is there anyone on earth who hasn’t heard about the Titanic hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage in 1912 with the resulting loss of more than 1,500 lives? If so, the uninformed must be living in the back of beyond! It would be nearly impossible to miss hearing something about the ill-fated liner after all the books – reportedly more than 500 – films, and TV exposure since that long-ago mid-April night and early morning in the Atlantic.
TITANIC
EXPERIENCE

Four will receive Boston Irish Honors at October luncheon

By Bill Forry
August 29, 2018
Bill Forry

BY BILL FORRY
REPORTER EDITOR
A couple who have spent decades helping Boston kids stay safe and achieve their dreams; a Catholic priest who ministers to the city’s most vulnerable; and a pioneering physician with roots in Dublin will be the honorees at next month’s Boston Irish Honors luncheon, the season’s premier celebration of Irish-American achievement in Massachusetts.

A Government of Ireland measure brought to you by the Department of Justice and Equality

By BIR Newsroom
August 27, 2018
BIR Newsroom

Magdalen Restorative Justice Ex-Gratia Scheme
Expression of Interest
If you worked in the laundry of a ‘Magdalen’ institution while a resident in one of the adjoining institutions and would like to know if you might be entitled to benefits under the scheme, you should apply for and complete an “Expression of Interest” form.

From Kieran Jordan: A note full of thanks, a testament to what the will can make happen

By Ed Forry
July 31, 2018

The dance artist Kieran Jordan returned recently from a week at the Willie Clancy summer school, a legendary Irish music and dance festival in Milltown Malaby in Co. Clare. It was a trip for herself, her husband Vincent Crotty, and 25 of her dance students that she had been planning for more than a year. But as recently as late June she was not certain she could ever take that trip.

August CD Reviews

By Sean Smith, Special to the BIR
July 31, 2018
Sean Smith, Special to the BIR

Connla, “The Next Chapter” • The second full-length album from this young Northern Ireland quintet shows a band that has distilled numerous traits of the Irish folk revival: a bit of Flook here, some Moving Hearts there, traces of Solas, Lúnasa, perhaps some Grada, and so on. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that – we all draw inspiration from somewhere, so why not from the best? Nor is this to imply that Connla’s sound is derivative or lacking in originality.

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