Ireland offers winter-time delights, and, sometimes, snow

By Ed Forry
January 1, 2018

BY JUDY ENRIGHT
SPECIAL TO THE BIR
Most of us visit the Emerald Isle when fields and hillsides are sparkling with brilliant shades of green. So a snowy mantle across the land may seem a bit out of place. But, this is winter and, yes, it does snow in Ireland.
In “Dubliners,” as James Joyce noted, “Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves.”

BIR's January Calendar of Irish events across Boston

By Sean Smith
January 1, 2018
Sean Smith

THE BIR’S ARTS CALENDAR OF IRISH/CELTIC EVENTS
January 2018
The BCMFest Nightcap concert, “From Spark to Flame,” will be devoted to the stories that define the lives of musicians and singers, according to festival organizers. The concert, which takes place on Jan. 21 at 7 p.m. in The Sinclair (52 Church St. in Harvard Square), is the closing event for BCMFest (Boston Celtic Music Fest), celebrating its 15th anniversary with a four-day feast of music, song and dance that begins January 18.

A mayoral milestone – 115 years from Collins to Walsh

By Peter F Stevens
January 1, 2018
Peter F Stevens

BY PETER F. STEVENS
BIR STAFF
At the moment that Martin J. Walsh took his second oath of office as Boston’s mayor on New Year's Day, he further entrenches his status in the long line of Boston Irishman to hold the office. It was 115 years ago, Jan. 4, 1902, that Patrick Collins was sworn in as Boston’s first Irish mayor of the twentieth century. He had come a long way.

Fearful times across Boston for undocumented

By Peter Stevnes
January 1, 2018
Peter Stevnes

Feds are grabbing immigrants, then deporting them speedily
BY PETER F. STEVENS
BIR STAFF
President Donald Trump is keeping his pledge to unleash US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to ferret out illegal immigrants, and the impact of the directive on Boston’s Irish community has swelled over the last year. The immediate future looms even worse for Irish who have overstayed their visas or fallen into other undocumented and illegal categories.

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