Sean-nós Irish dance workshop set for Sunday, Dec.11

by Kieran Jordan
Special to BIR
Sunday, Dec. 11 is the next Sean-nós Irish Dance Workshop at Boston Percussive Dance in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This time, everyone is welcome to bring a guest for free! Sean-nós dance is a spontaneous expression. It's social, playful and very interactive. As one musician said recently, "It's great when you can hear the feet talking back to you!"

New voices, new sounds added to the mix for Christmas Celtic Sojourn

By Sean Smith
December 5, 2011
Sean Smith

Northern Irish traditional singer Len Graham, Boston-area fiddle band Halali, and cross-genre Canadian singer Ruth Moody of The Wailin’ Jennys join the cast for the ninth annual “Christmas Celtic Sojourn,” the popular holiday-themed showcase of music, dance, songs, and stories in the Celtic tradition that kicks off a four-city tour Dec. 9 before its customary run at Boston’s Cutler Majestic Theatre December 16-18.

A fond farewell, Liam and Pauline

Ed Forry
By BostonIrish.com... (not verified)
December 5, 2011

by Ed Forry
BIR Publisher
In 1990, when first we began to publish this newspaper, the plan was to tell “the stories of Boston’s Irish.” We noted then that there were scores of stories about the culture of Boston’s broad and diverse Irish culture that were going untold in the general media, and since we were born and raised in that milieu, it was an area that called out for coverage.

Nollaig Shona Dhuit (Happy Christmas to you)

By Joe Leary, Special to the BIR
December 5, 2011
Joe Leary, Special to the BIR

The celebration of Christmas in Ireland is a remarkable occasion. Not only is it the commemoration of the birth of the baby Jesus and, in fact, the beginning of the Catholic Church as we know it today, but for the Irish it is also a homecoming, a reunion of friends and family that is looked forward to with special anticipation throughout the year.

Humans should define ‘reasonable’

By BostonIrish.com... (not verified)
December 5, 2011

by James W. Dolan
Special to the BIR
The recent Boston Globe series on OUI cases illustrates the significant disparities that arise as judges, jurors, and everybody else grapple with the notion of what is “reasonable.”
In a criminal trial, the standard of proof is beyond a reasonable doubt. What may be a reasonable doubt for some, may not be for others. The most celebrated illustrations of that fact are the O.J. Simpson case and, more recently, the Casey Anthony verdict.

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