With shutdown, Ireland is confronting COVID-19; still seeing a 'kick-start when the time is right'

By irishadmin
March 30, 2020

It was no surprise really to read recent comments by Niall Gibbons, CEO of Tourism Ireland, about the group’s focus on 2020, especially in light of the Covid-19 outbreak and the Irish government’s move to completely shut down the country to save lives. 

The Boston Irish Calendar of Celtic Music/Dance Events April 2020: A sparse collection that comes full of ‘maybes’

By Sean Smith, Special to BostonIrish
March 27, 2020
Sean Smith, Special to BostonIrish

Not surprisingly, what would normally have been a robust calendar of Irish/Celtic/traditional music-related events in Greater Boston last month was decimated by the coronavirus crisis.

Italian native digs deep to plumb the essences of the Irish session: BU anthropologist Ferraiuolo explores its traditional ‘communality and subjectivity’

By Sean Smith, Special to BostonIrish
March 27, 2020
Sean Smith, Special to BostonIrish

And you thought an Irish music session was a bunch of people playing tunes in a pub.

For performers on the Irish/Celtic scene, lost gigs hurt, but the music doesn’t stop; social media gives some a way to play on

By Sean Smith, Special to BostonIrish
March 27, 2020
Sean Smith, Special to BostonIrish

March was shaping up as a typically busy month for area musicians like Declan Houton, Kate McDermott, Stuart Peak, and Colm O’Brien, denizens of the Greater Boston Irish/Celtic scene – which, as everyone knows, is at high operating capacity during what is often called “St.

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