July Still Means Troubles in Belfast

By Joe Leary
August 2, 2010
Joe Leary

The July parades in Northern Ireland celebrate a Protestant military victory over a Catholic army at the Battle of the Boyne in the Republic of Ireland over 300 years ago. The marches are an in-your-face expression by some of Northern Ireland's Protestants to maintain their appearance of superiority over Catholics.

An anti-Catholic organization called the "Orange Order" is chiefly responsible.

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“Boston Irish Family Honors” Luncheon Set for October 7

By Ed Forry
July 22, 2010

Event Summary- The Boston Irish Reporter, the region's leading chronicler of all things Irish-American, will celebrate 20 years of chronicling “The Stories of Boston's Irish”. The Reporter will observe this important milestone with a Celebratory Luncheon on Thursday, October 7, 2010 at Boston's Seaport Hotel/World Trade Center.

8th annual Blackstone Valley Celtic Fest This Saturday, July17

By Ed Forry
July 15, 2010

The 8th annual Blackstone Valley Celtic Festival takes place on
Saturday, July 17 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Indian Ranch in Webster
MA, with a line-up of Celtic music.
Performers include Fiddlers 3, Fergus, the Gobshites and Jug
O'Punch. Also appearing: the McInerney School of Irish Step Dancing,
and the Worcester Fire Brigade Pipes & Drums. The all-day festival
includes children's activities and entertainment, traditional food
and fare, The festival is located on Webster Lake, where swimming is

Castlemartyr Resort has it all, and then some

By BostonIrish.com... (not verified)
July 2, 2010

By Judy Enright
Special to the BIR
How do you spell luxury in Co. Cork? C-a-s-t-l-e-m-a-r-t-y-r, that’s how!
We spent a recent Saturday night at Castlemartyr Resort and very highly recommend this wonderful place. While the resort is utterly luxurious, it is anything but pretentious. Even the traveler like me, who hasn’t packed fancy duds, feels completely at home and most welcome.

When In Paris . . .

By By Thomas O’Grady,
July 2, 2010
By Thomas O’Grady,

A particularly satisfying moment in James Joyce’s Ulysses occurs in the third episode of the novel, when Stephen Dedalus, unhappily sharing living quarters in a Martello tower in Sandycove with the irreverent Buck Mulligan and miserably holding down a teaching position in a private boys’ school in nearby Dalkey, recalls his sojourn in Paris cut short by a summons to his dying mother’s bedside back in Dublin almost a full year earlier: “My Latin quarter hat.  God, we simply must dress the character.  I want puce gloves.  You were a student, weren’t you?  Of what in the other devil’s name?  P

All in the (BCMFest) Family

By BostonIrish.com... (not verified)
July 2, 2010

A column of news and updates of the Boston Celtic Music Fest (BCMFest), which celebrates the Boston area’s rich heritage of Irish, Scottish, Cape Breton music and dance with a grassroots, musician-run winter music festival and other events during the year. —Sean Smith
– As far as the Boston Celtic Music Fest is concerned, there’s no such thing as an age difference: BCMFest events have featured performances by pre-teens, senior citizens, and everyone in-between, including mamas and papas, grandmas and grandpas, and kids big and small.

Irish Theatre Fest at ArtsEmerson in 2011

By BostonIrish.com... (not verified)
July 2, 2010

Abbey, Druid Theatres Will Be Featured Along With World  Premiere on Rose Kennedy
By R. J. Donovan
Special to The BIR
This fall, there’ll be a new cultural organization joining the Boston arts community. ArtsEmerson has been established by Emerson College to bring an eclectic program of legendary and pioneering international theater, film, and music to town.

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