Stoughton’s Tanya Stanley is NE region’s candidate in Rose of Tralee Festival

By BIR Newsroom
August 1, 2019
BIR Newsroom

A Stoughton woman will represent Boston and New England this month at the international Rose of Tralee Festival in Co Kerry, Ireland. Tanya Stanley was named to represent the six-state New England region at a May 27 competition at the Irish Cultural Centre of New England.

DA Rollins to discuss her views on criminal justice in Ireland in September

By BIR Newsroom
August 1, 2019
BIR Newsroom

Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins will visit Ireland in September to join a panel at a three-day program in Co Wexford, the BIR has been told.
Boston-born Larry Donnelly, a law lecturer at UC Galway, and Dr. Robert M. Mauro of Boston College, co-directors of the Kennedy Summer School 2019 in New Ross, Co Wexford, announced that Rollins will be among more than 50 speakers invited to the program, described as “A festival of Irish-American history, culture and politics,” set for September 5- 7 in New Ross, the ancestral town of the Kennedy clan.

Ex-Sox CEO Harrington named to Irish American Baseball Hall of Fame

By BIR Newsroom
August 1, 2019
BIR Newsroom

In a ceremony in late June, the Irish American Baseball Hall of Fame inducted its Class of 2019, which includes two-time NL MVP Dale Murphy, Phillies broadcaster Tom McCarthy, Atlanta Braves manager Brian Snitker, former Boston Red Sox CEO John Harrington, John Fitzgerald, a founder of The Baseball United Foundation, and Danny O’Connell, who scored the first-ever West Coast run in major league baseball history.

The inside story of the veterinarians behind the Mescan Brewery

By Ed Forry
August 1, 2019

BY JUDY ENRIGHT
SPECIAL TO THE BIR
Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer; if one of those bottles should happen to fall, 98 bottles of beer on the wall.
We are probably all too familiar with that old song. How many of us gritted our teeth as our kids worked their way (usually in the car on a long trip) from the first to the final bottle?
Well, you may not find 99 bottles of beer on each and every wall in an Irish pub- – with the number of breweries in Ireland now, you might find even more.
MESCAN BREWERY

CD Reviews for August 2019

By Sean Smith
August 1, 2019
Sean Smith

BY SEAN SMITH
Liz Carroll and Jake Charron, “Half Day Road” • Yeah, I thought there’d been something missing these last several years: Last time Liz Carroll released a new album was 2013, back when the Patriots still only had three Super Bowl titles. That’s a pretty long stretch to go without hearing a blast of new music from the Chicago-born, Grammy-nominated, National Heritage Fellowship-winning, All-Universe fiddler, who is justifiably celebrated as a composer of tunes as well a superb interpreter of the Irish tradition.

Riverdance Summer School: Inspiring the next generation

By R.J. Donovan, Special to the BIR
August 1, 2019
R.J. Donovan, Special to the BIR

BY R. J. DONOVAN
SPECIAL TO THE BIR
I recently had the unique opportunity to attend the Riverdance Academy Summer School Program on the campus of Boston University. Rest assured I was not there as a dancer, but as an observer. It proved to be an uplifting experience.

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