Bostonirish.com Website Review

nollaig na mban, or women’s christmas, is held each year in january throughout ireland to celebrate women’s leadership within the family and community. the irish american partnership will commemorate this tradition with a breakfast highlighting irish-.. read more. out with the old, in with the old it’s a time of comings, goings for trump’s irish-american ‘help’. as we bid adieu to 2018, a pair of irish-americans were saying their goodbyes to the denizens of the political fever swamp that is washington d.c. soon to be a former speaker of the house, paul ryan chose to slink out of town with his reputation in.. read more harbor to memorialize some 850 irish who sought refuge in the mid-19th century only to die in quarantine on deer island within sight of the by ed forry old friend bill o’donnell checked in by phone from his home in rhode island just before christmas. for more than two decades, bill was a stalwart in these pages, and his monthly column, erudite and informed, was always a joy. his insightful.. read more karan casey has long been a heart-on-her-sleeve type of person, whether she’s singing or speaking, and this past year has seen her do plenty of both. one of ireland’s most high-profile female singers of the past two decades, a co-founder of groundbreaking.. read more kevin burke, “an evening with kevin burke” • burke surely needs no introduction, but his introductions might. fortunately, for those who have never experienced him in a live setting, this album spotlights both his musical and public speaking talents. of.. read. the lankum approach: ‘you let the song go where it wants, and you just let that happen’. there’s something about the phrase “between the earth and sky” that really works for the dublin quartet lankum – which will make its boston-area debut jan. 11 at club pas*im in harvard square – and not just because that’s the name of their most recent.. read more as a te*nager interested in history overall, and irish history in particular, i used to pester my father, born a subject of an english