A trio of upcoming performances to highlight here, including new album launches by the Carroll Sisters and Copley Street, and ...

PRIMAVERA By Nuala Ní DhomhnaillTranslated by Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith Everything changed when she passed by.I tell you, she would make the grey stones cry for ...

Widely hailed accordionist/melodeonist and sean-nos singer Diarmuid Ó Meachair, a Cork native who’s won and been nominated ...

The Kennedys on their wedding day, Oct. 7, 1914A century ago this week, most Boston newspapers of the day reported on page one of the wedding of Rose F. Fitzgerald, daughter of ex-Mayor John F.

The accompanying article was first published in the Boston Irish Reporter in the summer of 2004. Its focus was a new book by Susan Gedutis that spoke to a time in the city’s history when Irish music ...

“Black ‘47” – just two words at first glance. In all of Ireland’s history, however, few phrases resonate with such horror. As peasant families in all corners of Ireland struggled to survive in the ...

2023 is a landmark year for Boston-area quintet Scottish Fish, which is commemorating its first decade as one of the most energetic and creative acts to take root in the local Celtic music scene this ...

By Judy Enright Special to the BIR It’s hard to fully appreciate the amazing colors and complex details in the late artist Harry Clarke’s magnificent stained glass windows The Immaculate Conception ...

In early June, I made a snap decision, one that involved passports, a flight, and a quiet promise to myself. My son and I were going to fly to Dublin to mark the end of his middle school years and the ...

When it comes to the immigrants of yesteryear – especially Irish immigrants to America’s shores –historical distortions and outright lies abound. A huge number of Irish Americans refuse to accept any ...

Program Thursday, June 23, 2022, 7:00 - 8:30 PMJoin the Edward M. Kennedy Institute, John & Pat Hume Foundation, and the Consulate General of Ireland in Boston for a conversation commemorating the ...

Seisiún, an Irish music and cultural gathering, will be presented at The Stage at Suffolk Downs on Saturday, September 6 and Sunday, September 7, 2025, in partnership with The Bowery Presents, Liam ...