For Matthew Power, risk is often its own reward

By Greg O’Brien, Special to the Reporter
March 6, 2012
Greg O’Brien, Special to the Reporter

Matthew Power is a study in risk and redemption. The 49-year-old Boston insurance man – he is executive vice president of Lexington Insurance Company, the nation’s premier excess and surplus carrier— has been well acquainted with the concept since his days as a youth on the streets of West Roxbury during Boston’s bruising busing crisis.

Addergoole Parish remembers a ‘very sad human story’

By BostonIrish.com... (not verified)
March 5, 2012

14 from its pews boarded the Titanic, only 3 survived; Memorial Week is April 8-15

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Catherine Bourke, Nora Fleming, Delia Mahon, Annie McGowan, John Bourke, Annie Kate Kelly, Pat Canavan, Delia McDermott, Mary Mangan, Kate McGowan, James Flynn, Bridget Donohue, Mary Bourke, and Mary Canavan.

The names don’t mean much to most of us but they bring tears to the eyes of many in the North Mayo parish of Addergoole. The Addergoole Fourteen, as the group is known, struck out from the hills and valleys around Nephin Mountain 100 years ago next month – some in jaunting carts, others on foot – and crossed the Windy Gap into Castlebar where they took the first of several trains to Queenstown (now Cobh.) There they settled into steerage (third class) on the RMS Titanic to laugh, chat, dance, and sing as they prepared for the long ride to America and their bright new lives.

13th Annual Irish Film Festival, Boston is Underway

Ed Forry
By Ed Forry
March 5, 2012

By Ed Forry
An Academy Award-winning short film made in Northern Ireland, a new feature film made in County Tip starring American favorite Martin Sheen and supporting actor Stephen Rea, and a documentary about Barack Obama’s Irish cousins and his mother’s roots in Moneygall, Co. Offaly, are among the lead attractions at this month’s annual Irish Film Festival, Boston.

Obama Proclaims it's Irish American Heritage Month

By Ed Forry
March 5, 2012

Proclamation

IRISH-AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH, 2012
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION

For centuries, America and Ireland have built a proud and enduring partnership cemented by mutual values and a common history. Generations of Irish have crossed the Atlantic in pursuit of prosperity, and today nearly 40 million of their proud descendants continue to make their indelible mark on the United States of America. Their stories, as varied as our Nation's people, humble us and inspire our children to reach for the opportunities dreamed about by our forebears

Kenny re-assures Boston: The Irish know about adversity, and we’ll beat this crisis, too

By Ed Forry
March 5, 2012

By Ed Forry
BIR Publisher
Ireland held a national election last March that changed the face of government. Amidst every indication that the boom years of the “Celtic Tiger” had long since passed, the worldwide economic meltdown struck Ireland with catastrophic consequences.

BC fights judge’s call for more Belfast tapes

By Bill Forry
March 5, 2012

By Bill Forry
Managing Editor
Boston College has appealed a US District Court judge’s order to turn over seven additional tapes from their Belfast Project archives to British authorities, opening up a new front in a complex, year-long battle to preserve the university’s pledge to keep the controversial records of IRA and Loyalists interview subjects secured — to the extent of US law— until the deaths of individual participants. The latest appeal, which will likely be heard in June, marks what could be a climactic turn in the legal struggle.

Civil Liberties Union plans to support BC archivists in brief

By Staff
February 23, 2012

By Melissa Tabeek
Special to the Reporter
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Massachusetts filed a motion last week requesting an extension of time in order to prepare an amicus brief in support of two former researchers for Boston College embroiled in an ongoing fight to keep historical records involving the conflict in Northern Ireland from being released to the British government.

UPDATED- BC files appeal in Belfast Oral History Case

By Staff
February 21, 2012

STATEMENT FROM BOSTON COLLEGE REGARDING TODAY’S APPEAL OF THE BELFAST PROJECT SUBPOENA
"Boston College today filed an appeal of the District Court's most recent decision (issued January 20, 2012) requiring the University to turn over all or parts of the interviews of seven individuals who took part in The Belfast Project, an oral history project on the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Weep not, Pats fans, you were in it at the end

By Staff
February 10, 2012

By Clark Booth
Maybe it should be arranged that for the foreseeable future – until at least either Tom Coughlin or Bill Belichick pack it in or Eli Manning and Tom Brady wander off to their ultimate reward in Canton, Ohio – we might have annual renewals of this thing the Patriots and Giants have lately concocted for our deep winter amusement. I say these two need to go at it, hammer and tong, again and again at the end of every season until one of them has won four out of seven.

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