Sister publication provides latest news on Haiti's earthquake, local response

By Ed Forry
January 17, 2010

The BIR's sister publication, the Boston Haitian Reporter, has been providing up-to-the-minute coverage of Haiti's earthquake and rescue efforts since Tuesday afternoon. We invite our readers to visit the BHR website for information on how Boston's Irish community can be of assistance.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Haiti, our Haitian-American friends and relatives and all who have a connection to the region.

The 7th BCMFest Is Upon Us With a Back-to-Basics Theme

By Sean Smith
January 7, 2010
Sean Smith

IT'S TIME -- The 7th annual BCMFest is all set to go, with a weekend full of music and dance showcasing some of Boston's best performers in the Irish, Scottish, Cape Breton, and other Celtic-related traditions. The festival, which runs January 8 and 9, will take place in Harvard Square with events at Club Passim and nearby First Church, and at Springstep in Medford.

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Seaghan McKay -- Projecting His Art, and Then Some

By R. J. Donovan
January 7, 2010
R. J. Donovan

Seaghan McKay is a man of many talents. Born and raised on the Cape, he attended both Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Boston College.  For the past decade he has been on staff at Brandeis University, where he designs multimedia content for the performing arts, teaches computer drafting to graduate design students, and serves as Lighting Supervisor in the university's acclaimed theater department.

Wider Horizons Offers New Career Path for Irish Youth

By Katie Forberg
January 7, 2010
Katie Forberg

When Maureen Gates received a phone call asking if she would like an intern from Ireland, she didn't waste a moment to jump at the opportunity. Gates works on the EagleEyes project at the Boston College Campus School and for the past decade she has helped develop technology for educational and communication purposes for students with severe physical disabilities. After visiting Cork City to implement the technology in a school there, Gates thought it would be beneficial to try to strengthen that relationship.

From Boston to Ireland to Nantucket Sound

By Bill O'Donnellc
January 7, 2010
Bill O'Donnellc

Boston-Aided Foyleside Centre Thrives -- Opened 15 years ago in the city of Derry, it was a super shopping complex that initially drew criticism from many in the North when construction began. They said it was too large, too tempting a target for the paramilitaries, the glass atrium facade would never withstand IRA attack, and on and on. But it was built, a stunning 400,000 square feet of retail shops that defied the odds and might never have come to fruition if it hadn't been for critical links established in the 1980s between Boston and Derry.

Stepping Where My Grandfather Trod

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By Ed Forry
January 6, 2010

Is this the year to make that long-delayed trip to Ireland? I asked myself that question at the beginning of 2009, and as in previous years, the answer was a resounding "maybe."

Somehow, a trip back "home" to the land of the grandparents has always been a plan. Sure, I had made several trips to Ireland over the past two decades, each time having a great vacation but every time resolving to spend more time in advance planning and less time on the Irish roads, living out of a suitcase packed in the "boot" of a rental car.

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As Leaders Work on Recession Woes, They're Creating Future Benefits

By Joe Leary
January 6, 2010
Joe Leary

Every once in a while we have to be told to "slow down, you are going too fast; stop and think." Sometimes it is a speeding accident, or an exciting idea gone wrong, or a personal excess that should be controlled.

In Ireland's case it was the soaring economy, leaping home prices, and, in the face of free-flowing money, the rushing greed of more than a few Irish to get their shares.

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For Gerry Adams, It Was a Year of Trials at Work and at Home

By Robert P. Connolly
January 6, 2010
Robert P. Connolly

First came the startling news that the republican leader's brother, Liam Adams, was on the run, charged with having sexually abused his daughter for an eight-year period that began when the girl was 4. He was reported to be hiding in the Republic of Ireland and Gerry appealed to his brother to return to Northern Ireland to face the charges lodged against him.

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Newton-Kenya Exchange: Enriching Sounds of Music

By Sean Smith
January 5, 2010
Sean Smith

It seems so natural, such an everyday event, says Lindsay O'Donovan, for an adult to share music with a child, to sing and dance together – as O'Donovan has, whether with her own four children or the kids of relatives and friends.

But there are far too many children in the world who seldom, if ever, know the pleasure of sharing music, and O'Donovan hopes to change that, even if it's just in a little corner of Africa.

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