Two Legends, Two Thursdays, One Place: Boston College recently featured concerts by fiddlers Frankie Gavin and Kevin Burke

By Sean Smith, BostonIrish Contributor
November 27, 2023
Sean Smith, BostonIrish Contributor

 It wasn’t actually planned that way, but last month in the space of a week, Boston College’s Gaelic Roots series hosted two of the most celebrated Irish fiddle players of the past five decades. On Nov. 2, Frankie Gavin and accompanist Catherine McHugh performed in BC’s Connolly House, and then on Nov.

Brendan O’Neill, Saving Shakespeare From Obscurity in “The Book of Will”

By R.J. Donovan, Special to BostonIrish
November 1, 2023
R.J. Donovan, Special to BostonIrish

We’ve all heard of William Shakespeare, playwright, poet and actor.  The Bard of Avon. But have you heard of Henry Condell and John Heminges? Probably not. Yet history tells us that without the last two, we might never have heard of the first.

Gov. Healey, Rooney clan, ‘arts-power-couple’ Crotty lauded at ‘Irish Honors’

By BostonIrish.com Newsroom
October 31, 2023
BostonIrish.com Newsroom

More than 300 guests packed the Boston Seaport Hotel’s ballroom last Friday (Oct. 27) for the 13th annual Boston Irish Honors luncheon, which highlights men, women, and families of Irish ancestry  who “embody the best qualities of the Irish.” The event is organized by Boston Irish Magazine, a publication that is owned by the Forry family of Dorchester, who also publish The Dorchester Reporter.

The BostonIrish Calendar of Irish/Celtic Music Events November 2023

By Sean Smith, BostonIrish Contributor
October 29, 2023
Sean Smith, BostonIrish Contributor

•The high-quality, well-loved and equally well-attended slate of concerts that Brian O’Donovan organized, nourished, and emceed for so many years at the Burren Backroom will now live on there in his name. And the Brian O’Donovan Legacy Series will get off to quite the start on Nov.

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