Walsh to join Cardinal O'Malley on July trip to Knock

By Jennifer Smith, Reporter Staff
February 17, 2016
Jennifer Smith, Reporter Staff

Mayor Martin WalshMayor Martin WalshMayor Martin Walsh will journey to the Knock Shrine in Ireland this July with Cardinal Sean O’Malley, a return to his roots and site of great personal significance, the mayor’s office told the Reporter on Wednesday.

"I am delighted to be joining Cardinal O'Malley as part of the pilgrimage from Boston to Knock Shrine for the rededication ceremony of Our Lady's Basilica, a shrine which has personal meaning for not only myself but Irish people everywhere,” Walsh said in a statement. “This visit will highlight the strong economic and cultural ties that Boston shares with the West of Ireland. I look forward to participating in this historic event and to continuing to work to strengthen our connections with Knock and all of Ireland."

Walsh traveled to the Emerald Isle in 2014, his first international trip as mayor of Boston, for 10 days across the country of his family's origin.

Easter Rising topic of BC forum with Rep. Richard, Neal, Mayor Walsh

By Jack Dunn
February 9, 2016
Jack Dunn

Springfield Congressman Richard Neal and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh will share their insights on Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising at an event at Boston College’s Gasson Hall on February 22 at 6 pm. “Reflections on the 100th Anniversary of Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising,” is sponsored by Boston College and the Boston College Center for Irish Programs. Provost and Dean of Faculties David Quigley will offer opening remarks.

Irish films win acclaim at Sundance Film Festival

By Jennifer Smith
January 29, 2016
Jennifer Smith

A scene from the film Sing Street. Photo courtesy of Sundance Institue.A scene from the film Sing Street. Photo courtesy of Sundance Institue.

Among the dozens of foreign films screened at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, Irish features offered some of the strongest and strangest showings. The Emerald Isle consistently churns out a mix of charming quirk and compelling narrative at the festival in snowy Park City, Utah each year, and its unusually high number of offerings this year have been met with positive buzz and clamorous applause.

There are many things that will make 2016 an interesting year

By Joe Leary
January 29, 2016
Joe Leary

With all the trauma caused by the recent erratic turns of the world’s stock markets, investment executives and those responsible for Ireland’s economic well being have become very nervous about 2016.

While Wall Street experts keep saying don’t panic, stay the course, even the smallest of investors have lost $5,000 and $10,000 and more.

Quinnipiac’s Great Hunger Museum gets $16,800 grant for new exhibit

By BIR News Room
January 29, 2016

Grace Brady, left, executive director of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University, the artist Brian Tolle, and Curator Niamh O’Sullivan were among attendees at last month’s opening for the new exhibition, “In the Lion’s Den: Daniel Macdonald, Ireland and Empire.”Grace Brady, left, executive director of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University, the artist Brian Tolle, and Curator Niamh O’Sullivan were among attendees at last month’s opening for the new exhibition, “In the Lion’s Den: Daniel Macdonald, Ireland and Empire.”
Hamden, Conn. – A $16,867 grant from Connecticut Humanities will help Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University present a new exhibition, “In the Lion’s Den: Daniel Macdonald, Ireland and Empire,” this year from Jan. 20 to April 17.

This exhibition, the first of its kind in the United States and the most comprehensive ever mounted, will reevaluate the undeservedly forgotten 19th-century Irish artist, Daniel Macdonald (1820-1853).

“Macdonald holds the distinction of having produced the only known painting of the Great Hunger,” said Grace Brady, executive director of the museum. “We anticipate a great response from visitors both here and abroad.”

The centerpiece of the exhibition, Macdonald’s “An Irish Peasant Family Discovering the Blight of their Store” (1847), is crossing the Atlantic for the first time, according to Niamh O’Sullivan, the museum’s curator.

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