An Chuirt Hotel is a special place in gorgeous Gweedore, Donegal

By Ed Forry
May 30, 2019

BY JUDY ENRIGHT
SPECIAL TO THE BIR
Gweedore, in northern Co. Donegal, is probably not a location too many of us American travelers have discovered. Sadly, most visitors stop their northern trek in Donegal Town and that’s a real pity because Gweedore is in a most beautiful part of this wild and wooly county.

City Records: 1176 Irish interred on Deer Island, 1847-1852

By BIR Newsroom
May 29, 2019
BIR Newsroom

Last First Age COD DOD
Ahearn Mary 16 Typhus Fever 01/07/48
Ahearn Margaret 28 Typhus Fever 02/23/48
Ahearn Daniel 30 Typhus Fever 06/14/48
Aigin Mary 60 Exhaustion 04/21/1851
Aldrich Mary 0 Intususception 05/21/50
Allen Charles 26 Dysentery 10/07/49
Alphedo Andrew 19 Typhus Fever 07/23/47
Anglin Jeremiah 31 Consumption 03/29/48
Ashcroft William 60 Ulcers 08/12/50
Asop Francis 40 Dysentery 02/05/49
Atkinson Stephen 20 Typhus Fever 08/19/49
Austin Catherine 20 Typhus Fever 09/22/47

Celebrate Bloomsday June 18 at Irish Consulate

By Ed Forry
May 24, 2019
Ed Forry

The Irish Network Boston will partner with the Consulate General of Ireland on Tuesday, June 18, 2019, 5- 7 pm, for a special evening celebrating Bloomsday. Scenes from Ulysses will be brought to life by David Gullette, showcasing the wit and frivolity distinctive to Joyce's work. David Gullette is Professor Emeritus of English at Simmons College, where he taught Modern Irish Literature for many years, including a James Joyce course. He is also a poet, actor, and playwright, and Literary Director of the Poet's Theatre in Cambridge.

Deer Island Irish Memorial Dedication is this Saturday

By Ed Forry
May 23, 2019
Ed Forry

The Irish Memorial on Deer Island is ready for this Saturday’s dedication ceremony.
The event starts at 10:00 AM on Saturday, May 25, 2019 and it is free and open to the public. There will be plenty of free parking and refreshments will be served after the dedication ceremony.

Driving Directions: Bennington Street in East Boston to Route145 North, then you take Pleasant Street to Shirley Street to Elliot Street in Winthrop. If you are using GPS to get to Deer Island use this address:
190 Tafts Avenue, Winthrop, MA 02152.

Remembering Bill O'Donnell

By BIR Newsroom
May 3, 2019
BIR Newsroom

BY FRANCIS COSTELLO
SPECIAL TO THE BIR
To describe Bill O'Donnell as one of a kind is to short-change this estimable man’s life and times.
Honorable and decent to the end, he was deeply proud of the America he loved - and whose uniform he wore - and of the Irish heritage he embraced in all its aspects. A man of many talents, Bill was also modest. An Marine who served during the Korean War, he declined military honors for his funeral, telling his family: “Look, I never got shot at!”

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