New South Shore Irish Heritage Trail in the works.

By BostonIrish.com Newsroom
July 2, 2020

BostonIrish.com Newsroom

South Shore towns from Weymouth to Plymouth hope to get a major tourism boost from a proposed Irish Heritage Trail that will highlight sites of interest to Irish-Americans and visitors from Ireland and around the world.

News from The Éire Society of Boston:

By Eire Society of Boston
July 2, 2020

Eire Society of Boston

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‘Down with Them!’ A rallying cry from the Broad Street Riot of 1837

By Peter F. Stevens, Boston Irish Staff
July 2, 2020

Peter F. Stevens, Boston Irish Staff

In June and July of 1837, trouble simmered in Boston, and the unrest exploded on the sultry afternoon of June 11 near and along Broad Street downtown. Fire Engine Company 20 had just returned to its station on East Street, having quelled a blaze in Roxbury.

Aidan Rooney in a Country Churchyard

By Thomas O'Grady, Special to BostonIrish
July 1, 2020

Thomas O'Grady, Special to BostonIrish

In 1938, the year before he died, preeminent Irish poet William Butler Yeats spelled out in his valedictory poem “Under Ben Bulben” explicit instructions for the epitaph he wished to have cut into the slab of local limestone that would mark his grave:

Remembering Jean Kennedy Smith, dead at 92.

By BostonIrish.com Newsroom
July 1, 2020

BostonIrish.com Newsroom

Jean Kennedy Smith, the second youngest, and the last survivor, of the nine children of Joseph and Rose Kennedy, died on June 18 at her home in Manhattan. She was 92.

Eavan Boland dies at 76 in Dublin - an appreciation by a former student

By Michael McGonagle, Special to BostonIrish.com
July 1, 2020

Michael McGonagle, Special to BostonIrish.com

Poetry fans in Ireland and the world over continue to mourn the death of Eavan Boland, one of her country’s leading poets and a champion of women in the arts who died in late April at age 76. Ms.

Logic and real politick prevail: We have a new Taoiseach who has a tough and thankless job on his hands

By Larry Donnelly, Special to Boston Irish
July 1, 2020

Larry Donnelly, Special to Boston Irish

WICKLOW, Ireland – In many ways, everything has changed utterly since I wrote about February’s general election here in Ireland in the inaugural edition of

Ireland has a new government; Fianna Fail’s Martin will lead coalition

By Danica Kirka, Associated Press
July 1, 2020

Danica Kirka, Associated Press

Centrist politician Micheál Martin is Ireland’s new prime minister, a post he gained by fusing two longtime rival parties into a coalition four months after an election that upended the status quo.

With actual Pride Parade cancelled by COVID-19, ‘Irish for Pride’ steps up

By Rian Immigrant Center
July 1, 2020

Rian Immigrant Center

In the absence of the Pride Parade this year, members of the ‘Irish for Pride’ group still came together on June 13 to celebrate the event virtually as a way to

From Co. Fermanagh to Boston: Her second home with the Rian family

By Rian Immigrant Center
July 1, 2020

Rian Immigrant Center

As a third-year student in Computer Technologies at Ulster University, Rebekah Richmond took full advantage of the opportunities provided to her on her J-1 visa, completing a software engineering internship in Greater Boston. Growing up in a small village in Co.

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