A death in Our Family: Aunt Elinor (1914-2010)

By BostonIrish.com... (not verified)
June 3, 2010

By Tom Mulvoy
Associate Editor
Last Saturday morning, two days shy of her 96th birthday, Elinor (Harrington) Barron died where she had prayed she would – in her home of 52 years in the Waban neighborhood of Newton. It was the end of a life that began in May 1914, three months before the Guns of August announced the beginning of The Great War, and that endured through close to a century’s worth of turmoil and high drama in the larger world.

Whatever Became of John McCain?

By BostonIrish.com... (not verified)
June 3, 2010

By James W. Dolan
Special to the Reporter
There is no denying that Senator John McCain is a true American hero. He was badly injured when shot down over North Vietnam and then endured five years of imprisonment, deprivation, and torture. He said he “broke,” but if so, it was only after resisting to a point far beyond what could reasonably be expected of anyone.

Positive Change in Northern Ireland: A Steady Rise in Nationalist Vote

By BostonIrish.com... (not verified)
June 3, 2010

By Joe Leary
Special to the BIR
The recent British Parliamentary elections indicate a dramatic new phase in Northern Ireland’s journey towards peaceful change. New leaders in London, a continuing increase in National/Republican votes, Unionist parties in disarray, and the promise of lower corporate tax rates all portend change. It appears much is happening to set the stage for movement towards a United Ireland.

Election Fallout Stirs Talk of a Union of Unionists

By BostonIrish.com... (not verified)
June 3, 2010

By Robert P. Connolly
Special to the BIR
For years, the political playbook for Northern Ireland’s unionists stressed saber-rattling and offering up the hardest of hard-line stands. After all, the party that dominated unionist politics for decades, the Ulster Unionist Party, once had its armed wing and in the aftermath of partition made clear that Northern Ireland was a Protestant state and that Catholics were a barely tolerated and little-trusted enemy within the North’s borders.

Around Town- June, 2010

By Ed Forry
June 3, 2010

Rev. Daniel J. Finn, pastor extraordinaire of St. Mark’s Parish in Dorchester and a persistent advocate for immigrant rights and causes, especially Irish affairs, is now in the real estate business.
Four score and seven years after it was founded, his parish’s grammar school will be closing its doors this month, a casualty, like so many other urban Catholic parochial schools, of a dramatic decline in attendance as memories of full-to-overflowing classrooms and streets chock full of involved parishioners fade into the far distance.

Bulger Plea: Get Involved

Ed Forry
By Ed Forry
June 3, 2010

Former UMass President Bill Bulger was guest speaker last month at a community breakfast hosted by Mt. Washington Bank. Speaking to a gathering of some 300 local business and civic leaders, Bulger used the occasion to voice a lament for the current tone of public discourse in public issues. Here’s an abridged version of his remarks:

Mary Callanan On Stage: From Pink Flamingos To Red Hot Mama

By R. J. Donovan
May 16, 2010
R. J. Donovan

The actress and singer Mary Callanan is currently appearing in the campy and colorful off-Broadway hit, "The Great American Trailer Park Musical" at SpeakEasy Stage.  When the curtain comes down at the end of the month, she'll move on to star in the one-woman show "Sophie Tucker: The Last of the Red Hot Mamas" at New Rep.

Remembering An Gorta Mór- the Irish Famine

By Ed Forry
May 14, 2010

Remembering An Gorta Mór- the Irish Famine
On Sunday May 16 from 12:00P.M.-12:05P.M., wherever you are take the
time to pause and reflect. in union with the Irish people around the
world in remembrance of An Gorta Mór
On Sunday May 23 from 2:00P.M. at the Boston Famine Memorial, there
will be a remembrance of those who suffered during this tragic time
in Ireland,. with prayers offered by Father Peter Nolan.
On Tuesday May 25 there will be a brief observance at the Memorial

The Scottish Fiddle Tradition Has a Champion in Hanneke Cassel

By Sean Smith
May 1, 2010
Sean Smith

First, just to dispel any rumors or urban folklore that may be percolating: No, Hanneke Cassel has never played with U2, in concert or anywhere else.

"I wish!" laughs Cassel, a native Oregonian who has been living in Boston for the past several years - that is, when she's not bringing her special brand of Scottish fiddle music to almost all corners of the earth.

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