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Fiddler and vocalist Christine Delphine Hedden, a mainstay of Greater Boston’s Irish/Celtic music scene, will debut an ...
Bill Monks uses humor, pathos to portray the essence of a neighborhood in Dublin Every once in a while, a book captures the ...
When Rebecca O’Carroll graduated from University College Dublin with a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing, she was not entirely sure what would come next. With friends raving about ...
Today, it sits just outside the most ethnically Irish of American cities, but in the mid-19th century, Boston College was basically a local school in Boston's South End neighborhood providing a Jesuit ...
An Gorta Mor, Ireland’s “Great Hunger”, saw an estimated 1.5 million people die of starvation and disease. Another two million emigrated. Many of these perished from the plagues they fled - thousands ...
The Irish Cultural Centre (“ICC”) of Greater Boston announced several Irish Language events that will take place in the coming weeks, including an Irish language pop-up and Irish Language classes!
Both parents of the couple witnessed the ceremony. Ms. Agnes Fitzgerald served as maid of honor for the bride, 24 at the time and another sister, Eunice looked on. Serving as best man for the groom ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...