October's Here and There

By Bill O’Donnell
September 30, 2016
Bill O’Donnell


Team Ireland Looks At Billions In Tax Dilemma – As everybody surely knows by now a European Union ruling wants Apple Corporation to pay Ireland 13 billion euros in unpaid corporate taxes for the 2004 –2014 decade. Sounds easy enough but the Irish government, which would receive the money, does not want to accept the windfall.

TURNING BACK THE TIDE OF HATE: For today’s Irish Americans, 1856 offers crucial lessons

By Peter F. Stevens
September 30, 2016
Peter F. Stevens

The first 2016 presidential “debate” – more World Wrestling Federation than political discourse – is history. If recent past is prologue, Hillary vs. Trump II and III will decide whether or not a Nativist candidate will take up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in January 2017. For any Irish Americans with even a shred of historical memory, the very real prospect of a Trump victory should give pause.

How about a presidential ‘do-over’?

By BostonIrish.com... (not verified)
September 30, 2016

Why is it election choices are often so unattractive that voters feel they have to choose between the lesser of two or more flawed candidates? I propose a constitutional amendment that would permit the electorate to express its dissatisfaction with the candidates on the ballot. It would require the addition of another choice, marked simply “Do-Over.”

New team takes hold of the reins at the Irish American Partnership

By Joe Leary
September 30, 2016
Joe Leary

For almost 30 years, the Irish American Partnership, which was founded in Ireland “to organize Irish American support on behalf of job creation, education, and economic development in Ireland,” has assisted the island’s primary schools, universities, and special programs in meeting their goals.

And now, with the partnership being led by a new team at the top and the naming of three prominent Irish Americans to the board of directors, the organization is fully prepared to build on the strength and reputation that has been created over the last three decades.

Mrs. Walsh to be feted at Oct. 29 IPC banquet

By BIR News Room
September 30, 2016

Mary WalshMary WalshThe Irish Pastoral Centre will honor Mary Walsh at its annual fundraising banquet on Sat., Oct. 29 at 6:30 p.m. at Florian Hall in Dorchester. The event will include live music and dancing with a performance by the group Devri.

Tickets and sponsorships can be arranged by visiting ipcboston.org.

Mary (O’Malley) Walsh was born in the small Gaelic speaking village of Rosmuc, Co. Galway. The eldest of seven children of Joe and Mary Anne O’Malley, she moved to Dublin at age 15, where she worked for a year and a half before emigrating to the United States.

It was at the Intercolonial dance hall on Dudley Street in Boston that Mary met her husband to be, John Walsh. John had also come over from his family home in Carna, Ireland only 14 miles from her own, to find work in America. After a two year courtship, they were married in 1965 and made their home on Taft Street in Dorchester. There they raised two sons, Martin and John.

Summer hiatus was the right medicine

Ed Forry
By Ed Forry
September 30, 2016

Like many pre-baby-boomers, when I reached my 60s I first began to notice that my walking gait was not what it once was. My daily excursions took longer to complete, a hike around Castle Island’s sugar bowl became more of a stroll, and walking alone at my own pace was preferable to slowing down a companion.

There were even a few times when I stumbled and fell in mid-stride, once on a curb at a favorite restaurant, and another when I hit the ground after my foot caught on a raised brick sidewalk in front of a watering hole in Lower Mills.

Irish cultural identity focus of EMK parley

By Maddie Kilgannon
September 30, 2016
Maddie Kilgannon

A panel moderated by Kevin Cullen (left) of the Boston Globe discussed Irish identity 100 years after the Easter Rising on Tuesday at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the US Senate in Dorchester. From left: Former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern,  ReA panel moderated by Kevin Cullen (left) of the Boston Globe discussed Irish identity 100 years after the Easter Rising on Tuesday at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the US Senate in Dorchester.

A discussion about the cultural identity of the Irish in the wake of the Easter Rising of 1916 and about current events in the country at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the US Senate in Dorchester on Tuesday night (Sept. 27) was marked by the appearance of former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern and favorable mentions of the late US Sen. Kennedy’s role in aggressively pushing the peace process on the island two decades ago.

Boston Irish Honors to hail seven who salute their heritage

By BIR News Room
September 30, 2016

A former United States senator, the region’s newest Irish American CEO and his wife, and a pioneering Boston Irish family will be the honorees at this month’s Boston Irish Honors luncheon, the season’s premier celebration of Irish-American achievement in Massachusetts.

The luncheon, which serves as the anniversary celebration for the Boston Irish Reporter, will be held at the Seaport Boston Hotel on Fri., Oct. 28.

“This inspiring luncheon allows us to recognize and celebrate exemplary Irish individuals and their families who share our heritage in Boston and Ireland,” explained Ed Forry, the founder and publisher of the Irish Reporter.

Former US Senator Paul G. Kirk, Jr., who succeeded his longtime friend and mentor Edward M. Kennedy upon his death in 2009, will be honored as an outstanding public leader in Massachusetts. An attorney, Sen. Kirk served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, a trustee at Stonehill College, and as co-chairman of the non-partisan Committee on Presidential Debates. A great-nephew of the late Bostoon Cardinal William O’Connell, Sen. Kirk is the son of Josephine Elizabeth (née O’Connell) and Judge Paul Grattan Kirk Sr., who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

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