Boston Irish
WEBSt. Brendan’s club relies on generation churn to help keep Gaelic games alive. The St. Brendan’s Gaelic Athletic Club-Boston, founded in 2008, resembles a family – one big Irish family, that is. The youth club offers both hurling and football, but most of the athletes prefer the latter. Gaelic football is an Irish team sport played...
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WEBCharitable Irish Silver Key event set for Oct 23. By BI Newsroom. August 20, 2024. The Charitable Irish Society will host the 23nd Annual Fundraising and Silver Key Awards Reception on Wednesday, October 23, 2024 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. at the UMass Club, One Beacon Street, Boston, MA. The Society will honor two distinguished individuals for ...
About the Boston Irish Magazine
WEBThe Boston Irish Reporter, an Irish American monthly newspaper published for 30 years, 1990-2019, circulated to subscribers and at newsstands throughout Boston and New England. Bostonirish.com is the online home of the Boston Irish Reporter. In 2020, the monthly publication was succeeded by Boston Irish, a quarterly magazine with a robust ...
Irish Television tells the story of Boston's Irish
WEBApr 2, 2020 · In this new series journalist Seán Mac an tSíthigh travels to the most Irish of cities in America- Boston at a time when the Irish communities’ position as the most powerful immigrant community in Boston is in doubt.#GaeilBhostonFor over 150 years generation after generation of Irish have flocked to America’s most Irish of cities- Boston. With an Irish American mayor in city hall, the ...
THE JOURNEY OF THE ‘IRISH GIRL’ From Achill Island to Boston…
WEBJun 22, 2021 · The girl’s auburn tresses, roseate wind-kissed complexion, and startlingly blue eyes remain frozen in time. From the moment over a century ago that the famed American artist Robert Henri (1865-1929) immortalized her on canvas on Achill Island, Mary O’Donnel’s pretty and innocent visage testifies to a remote Irish landscape that, art historian Margaret Stenz writes, for the painter “was ...
Boston St Patrick's Parade- A Procession of many hues & hurdles
WEBMar 7, 2021 · Boston St Patrick's Parade- A Procession of many hues & hurdles. It’s off—again. This March, the skirl of pipes, the beat of drums, and the tramp of thousands of feet will not echo above the streets of Southie. For the second straight year, Covid-19 has brought the traditional procession to a halt, preventing Boston from being awash in ...
Around the Town - Boston Irish
WEBSt. Brendan’s club relies on generation churn to help keep Gaelic games alive. The St. Brendan’s Gaelic Athletic Club-Boston, founded in 2008, resembles a family – one big Irish family, that is. The youth club offers both hurling and football, but most of the athletes prefer the latter. Gaelic football is an Irish team sport played...
BIR History - Boston Irish
WEBUntil the late 1880s, Christmas was hardly merry for Boston’s Irish. BIR History From 1800 to 1850, Irish immigrants could scarcely have picked a worse place than Boston to celebrate Christmas. The Puritans loathed “Popish” Yuletide rituals so much that, in 1659, the Massachusetts General Court had enacted laws against...
Boston Irish Honors- Celebrating a Shared Heritage
WEBDec 9, 2022 · From its origins, this event has been a celebration of our shared Irish heritage with an emphasis on men and women— past and present— who have excelled and inspired us with their personal and professional achievements, generous spirit, wisdom and wit. Over the last dozen years, some of Irish America’s best-known and beloved people and families have graced the Seaport ballroom stage. This ...
Save the Date for Boston Irish Honors '21
WEBAug 18, 2021 · BostonIrish.com and Boston Neighborhood News, Inc., the region’s leading chronicler of all things Irish American, has announced the return of the 11 th annual Boston Irish Honors luncheon on Friday, October 29, 2021 at the Boston Seaport Hotel. The popular event, designed to celebrate the heritage of Boston’s Irish people and their families, is expected to be one of the largest Irish ...