By R.J. Donovan, Special to BostonIrish March 6, 2023
R.J. Donovan, Special to BostonIrish
Two very special productions are onstage this month at the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York. Both have connections offering interest to Boston audiences.
By BostonIrish.com... (not verified) March 3, 2023
Brian Donnelly, a former congressman, state representative from Dorchester, and US ambassador who helped thousands of immigrants through the passage of a visa program that he sponsored, died on Tuesday, Feb 28 at his home in East Dennis on Cape Cod. He was 76, days short of his 77th birthday.
President Biden made a stealthy, but stirring visit to Ukraine’s capital city in February, greeting the war-torn nation’s leader, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and touring Kyiv on foot as air raid sirens blared in the distance.
Citing Kevin Cullen, a columnist with the Boston Globe, for his decades-long coverage of events on the island of Ireland, especially in the North during troubled times and as the 1998 Good Friday Agreement came to pass, the Eire Society of Boston will award him its Gold Medal at a dinner and award ceremony on S