BIR cites five for Boston Irish Honors

By Ed Forry
October 31, 2013

The Boston Irish Reporter hosted its fourth annual Boston Irish Honors on Fri., Oct. 25, at the Seaport Hotel on the South Boston waterfront. The event, which marked the 23nd anniversary of the BIR, drew more than 300 persons to the mid-day luncheon.

A Walsh vs a Connolly for Boston's new Mayor

By Gintautas Dumcius
October 31, 2013

Gintautas Dumcius

Before the gloves came off late in the Boston mayoral race – City Councillor At-Large John Connolly pointing to negative mailers from an outside group trashing his upbringing and state Rep. Marty Walsh accusing the Connolly campaign of phone calls testing negative messages about him – the candidates more often than not agreed with each other on the issues.

Another round of naysayers weighs in on Boston's Irish Famine Memorial

By Bill O'Donnell
October 31, 2013

Bill O'Donnell

By Bill O’Donnell

OF POLITICIANS AND PUGILISTS

By Peter F. Stevens BIR Staff
October 31, 2013

Peter F. Stevens BIR Staff

Echoes of the Past in Boston Politics and Sports

The stirring story of a team and its city

By Ed Forry
October 31, 2013

As I write these words, the marvelous run of this year’s Boston Red Sox is just a few hours shy of its conclusion.
Tonight, our Olde Town Team will take to the field at Fenway for a World Series Game 6, leading three games to two, and Boston awaits in hopeful anticipation that tonight’s game will be a victory, even as images come to mind of one more Duck Boat Victory parade on the streets of downtown Boston before this week comes to an end. Or maybe not.

Gaelic Roots will host O’Hare-Knowles concert, ceili with Michael Tubridy

By BIR News Room
October 9, 2013

A performance by the innovative duo Liz Knowles and Kieran O’Hare, and a return appearance by Chieftains co-founder Michael Tubridy highlight this fall’s Gaelic Roots Music, Song, Dance, Workshop and Lecture Series at Boston College.

The series, directed by Sullivan Artist-in-Residence and master fiddler Séamus Connolly and sponsored by the Boston College Center for Irish Programs, brings to campus acclaimed musicians and experts in Irish, Scottish, and other related Gaelic music traditions for free public events.

Eliot Street Coffeehouse plans Nov. 1 opening

By BIR News Room
October 9, 2013

BY SEAN SMITH
SPECIAL TO THE BIR

A union of two local folk/acoustic music series has created a new Boston-area venue whose offerings will include Celtic performers.

The Eliot Street Coffeehouse will kick off on Nov. 1 with Fellswater, a Massachusetts-based ensemble that plays music of Scotland, Ireland, Brittany, and Canada. On Nov. 22, Eliot Street will feature The Bombadils, a Canadian quartet with a repertoire from Irish, Canadian, bluegrass, and old-timey traditions, along with their own material.

Gare St Lazare’s ‘Waiting For Godot’ set at ArtsEmerson

By BIR News Room
October 9, 2013

BY R. J. DONOVAN
SPECIAL TO THE BIR

The Gare St Lazare Players Ireland return to Boston from Oct. 31 through Nov. 10 to present Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting For Godot” as part of ArtsEmerson’s World On Stage Series. Ranking among the foremost interpreters of Beckett’s work, Gare St Lazare is led by Artistic Directors Conor Lovett and Judy Hegarty Lovett. Together, they have built an international reputation while touring to more than 25 countries across six continents.

The Burren is making ready for the ‘Leo & Anton’ show

By BIR News Room
October 9, 2013

Leo Moran and Anthony Thistlethwaite are co-founders of two of the more beloved, manifestly Irish pop-rock bands of the past couple of decades: Guitarist-vocalist Moran was a charter member of The Saw Doctors, while the multi-instrumentalist (sax, mandolin, bass, etc.) Thistlethwaite helped establish The Waterboys. Both groups went on to achieve considerable critical and popular success, in Ireland and elsewhere, including the US.

Introducing the Cork Foundation, a welcome sign

By BIR News Room
October 9, 2013

BY JOE LEARY
SPECIAL TO THE BIR

In a welcome sign of renewed confidence in the slightly improving Irish economy, leaders in Cork are aggressively working on a new program to provide jobs for all working people in their county. Twenty business, educational, and political leaders have united behind an ambitious foundation to provide start up and secondary funding to new and expanding job- creating businesses.

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