Movement seen for memorial on Deer Island for quarantine dead

By BIR Newsroom
January 1, 2018
BIR Newsroom

There’s progress to report on efforts to establish a memorial to the Irish who fled on “famine ships” in the mid-19th century only to lose their lives in quarantine in Boston Harbor. More than 800 Irish men, women and children died and were buried in graves on Deer Island, and a committee has been at work to create a memorial.

‘HIS DUTY WAS DONE TO THE LAST’ (1st of two parts)

By Peter F. Stevens
January 1, 2018
Peter F. Stevens

On Jan. 16, 1908, BPD officer Lynch made the ultimate sacrifice

First of two-parts

“For God’s sake, keep him away and don’t let him shoot me again!” shouted Patrolman John T. Lynch at Officer John P. Doyle, who had rushed across icy, snow-cloaked Arch Street to the corner of Summer and Kingston streets as three shots pealed though the chill evening air of Jan. 16, 1908.

Aidan Browne is building a legacy of Irish sport in Boston

By BIR Newsroom
January 1, 2018
BIR Newsroom

BY TYLER MCMANUS
SPECIAL TO THE BIR
Aidan Browne, a partner at the Sullivan & Worcester law firm, is a “go-to” person with vast experience representing US and Irish companies. So when he received a call in 2015 from Fionnuala Quinlan, the Consul General of Ireland in Boston, it was not an unusual event.
“Aidan, I have some people from Dublin in town,” she said. “It’s the founder and CEO of the Gaelic Players Association (GPA) and one of his colleagues. Would you mind meeting them?”

The illusive search for happiness in ‘Three Sisters’

By BIR Newsroom
January 1, 2018
BIR Newsroom

BY R. J. DONOVAN
SPECIAL TO THE BIR
Apollinaire Theatre Company kicks off the New Year with a production of Chekhov’s “Three Sisters,” as adapted by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts. Directed by Danielle Fauteux Jacques, performances run through Jan. 21 at Chelsea Theatre Works.
In this dark human comedy, the Prozorov sisters – Olga, Maria and Irina – are stuck in a provincial Russian outpost after the death of their father, a general in the Czar’s army.

Don’t bet big on anything that involves the Brexit negotiations

By BIR Newsroom
January 1, 2018
BIR Newsroom

BY JOE LEARY
SPECIAL TO THE BIR
More confusion, anger, and misleading statements mark the continuing process to facilitate Britain’s leaving the 27-nation European Union, which would be humorous if it were not so important to the people of Ireland. The British have voted to leave the organization that was created to initiate cooperation and healthier economies amongst European countries that had many years of war between them. However, the people of Northern Ireland, still a part of Britain, per the 1922 partition of Ireland, and Ireland itself voted to stay with Europe.

Ode on Ageless Virtues Learned and Lived

By Ed Forry
January 1, 2018

BY JAMES W. DOLAN
SPECIAL TO THE REPORTER
About a dozen members of the BC High class of 1956 gathered recently for lunch at Amrheins. Attendance at the annual event has diminished as class members have died or become disabled. The inevitable passage from youth to old age has taken its toll on the boys who, fresh faced and energetic in 1952, exited the former MBTA Northampton Station and walked to the old BC High on Harrison Avenue in the South End. It was there that we spent our first two years before moving to the new campus on Morrissey Boulevard.

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