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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This past February, the movie “Till” was screened at the White House for President Biden, First Lady Jill Biden, and their guests. Among the team that brought the powerful true story of Emmett Till ...

Jon Cronin is universally described as a calming presence, as generous financially as he is unflappable in temperament and not afraid to “show up” and work in the trenches for the many causes he ...

The South Boston-born orthopedic surgeon Dr. Dennis Burke was honored by Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Milton (BID Milton) in October at a fundraising dinner at the JFK Library in Dorchester. The ...

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 ...

There are fiddle duet albums, and then there are magnum opus-level fiddle duet albums. On “Brightly or Darkly,” the second recording by Boston-area musicians Nathan Gourley and Laura Feddersen, their ...