Heaney’s Tollund Man Revisited

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June 3, 2010

By Thomas O’Grady
Special to the BIR
Recently, I happened upon an interview with Seamus Heaney published more than thirty years ago in the literary journal Ploughshares. Having read countless other interviews with Heaney over the decades, most of them involving variations on the thematic territory of his poetry’s relationship to the political and sectarian divide in his native Northern Ireland, I wondered if I would find much new in this one.

Boston Irish Events Around Town This Summer

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June 3, 2010

June 11-13 – Worcester Irish Music Festival, Hibernian Cultural Centre & Fiddlers’ Green, 19 Temple Street, Worcester. worcesteririshmusicfestival.com.

June 14 – JFK Forum: Time Magazine, Henry Luce and the American Century. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum Columbia Point, Boston. 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. | Free | Register: 1-866 JFK-1960 | jfklibrary.org.
Columbia University History Professor Alan Brinkley discusses his new biography of Henry Luce with Harvard Professor Jill Lepore.

Jean Butler Happy In Post-Riverdance Life

By by Bill O'Donnell
June 3, 2010
by Bill O'Donnell

By Bill O’Donnell
In the mid-1990s, Jean Butler and her dance partner, Michael Flatley, were the talk of the entertainment world from The Point on Dublin’s Liffey to Manhattan’s Radio City Music Hall. “Riverdance” was the show to see (and see again) and she was the perfect partner for the creative, self-absorbed dance maestro. Together they caught lightning in a bottle and her ethereal beauty, incandescently memorable, was every step the equal of Flatley’s genius on the dance stage.

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

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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?

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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

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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

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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.

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