Letter from Wicklow/Larry Donnelly/March 2023

 Immigration as political issue … Bertie’s back … Biden’s running again
 
WICKLOW – When I wrote in this space at Christmas, there were widespread protests in Ireland at the government’s often hastily conceived moves to house thousands of refugees and protection seekers from Ukraine and beyond in hotels and other unused or underused facilities.  The most prominent of these gatherings was in Dublin’s East Wall area, but they have taken place in cities, towns, and villages across the nation.

He Loves the Irish Comedy Tour, But Music Is No Joke for Damon Leibert

Damon Leibert, a former Boston-area resident now living in Maine, has quite the resumé: a fiddler in Irish bands that performed at beloved local venues like Tir Na nOg and The Skellig; the driving force behind the rebirth of Somerville’s Davis Square Theater as The Rockwell; commercial recording studio co-o

Her new album is titled “Falling Forward,” but Schneckenburger is happy to look back

Her stay in the Boston area was a relatively brief one, but the area’s folk/traditional music scene made an impression on Vermont fiddler-vocalist Lissa Schneckenburger, and she returned the favor.

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