Bill Bulger Jr named to lead Irish Pastoral Ctr

By Daniel Sheehan
April 12, 2018
Daniel Sheehan

by Daniel Sheehan
The Irish Pastoral Centre has a new director in William M. Bulger Jr., who last week joined the Dorchester-based organization that focuses on helping immigrants make their way in their new settings.
A South Boston native, Bulger is the namesake son of William M. Bulger, the former president of both the state Senate and the University of Massachusetts. He brings to his new job years of experience in the law and banking fields, backgrounds that he says will help him further develop the organization and streamline internal operations.

It's A Boy! Irish Consul General Quinlan's 1st baby has arrived

By Ed Forry
March 31, 2018
Ed Forry

Ireland's Consul General to Boston Fionnuala Quinlan has given birth to her first child, a son born here in Boston on March 29, just two weeks after she began on maternity leave just before St Patrick's Day.
"Caelan Séamus Síva Ganti has arrived!,"Acting Vice Consul Susan Geraghty Krusell said in an email. "Caelan was born on Thursday, 29 March 2018, weighing 8 lbs 3oz. He, Fionnuala and Ravi are all doing well and they will be heading home from the hospital this weekend. The Consulate is so pleased to welcome our newest citizen."

As favorite Irish places go, mine is beautiful Achill Island

By BostonIrish.com... (not verified)
March 30, 2018

It is especially difficult to pinpoint a favorite place in Ireland because there are so many wonderful spots everywhere. But, after 20-plus years of traveling to and renting a house in the West, I have to say that Achill Island in Co. Mayo is my favorite, with Connemara a very close second.

With ‘Sparkjoy,’ Rachel Reeds steps up her nurturing of the Cape Breton fiddler tradition

By Sean Smith
March 30, 2018
Sean Smith

When she first came to the Boston area 16 years ago, Michigan native Rachel Reeds probably couldn’t have found Cape Breton Island on a map, and she certainly didn’t know anything about its distinctive Celtic music tradition.

But that was then.

Nowadays, Reeds is for all intents and purposes an honorary member of Boston’s illustrious Cape Breton community, a fixture at Watertown’s Canadian American Club of New England – a hub of Cape Breton cultural and social activity – and a well-established performer and teacher of Cape Breton fiddle.

Clowning around in The Big Apple Circus

By R.J. Donovan
March 30, 2018
R.J. Donovan

 Spring is in the air and that means The Big Apple Circus is coming back to Boston.  After a brief hiatus last season, the world renowned, one-ring wonder returns for its 40th Anniversary Tour, playing under the Big Top at Assembly Row in Somerville.  Performances run from April to May 6.

The line-up of international, award-winning artists includes high wire legend Nik Wallenda and his family, trapeze artists The Flying Tunizianis, master juggler Gamal Garcia, acclaimed acrobats The Anastasia Brothers, contortionist Elayne Kramer, equestrian trainer Jenny Vidbel, and more.

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