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.

‘inSession’ – Checking Tommy Doyle’s in Harvard Square

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

By Sean Smith
Special to the BIR

NOTE: Following is the first installment of an occasional series, “inSession,” which will profile regularly occurring Irish and Celtic music sessions in, or reasonably near, the Greater Boston area.
Tommy Doyle’s
Where: 96 Winthrop St., Harvard Square, Cambridge
When: Thursdays, 6:30-9:30 p.m.
Began: Fall of 2008

At Last, After 38 Long Years, People of Derry Absolved

By Joe Leary, Special to the Reporter
July 2, 2010
Joe Leary, Special to the Reporter

The tragedy of British arrogance towards Catholic Ireland over the past many centuries has never been more thoroughly revealed than in the official government report issued on the “Bloody Sunday” shootings and killings in Derry, Northern Ireland, on Jan. 30, 1972. Twenty seven unarmed Catholic protesters were shot by British soldiers just after four o’clock that afternoon – and 14 of them died.

Only One Gun a Month? A Travesty!

By Ed Forry
July 2, 2010

By James W. Dolan
Special to the Reporter
There is strong opposition to a bill under consideration in the House that would restrict Massachusetts residents to buying only one gun a month. Filed by Governor Deval Patrick and supported by the law enforcement community, this modest effort is an attempt to limit the number of guns in circulation in light of recent shootings in Boston.

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