This space has been extremely negligent of late about keeping up with new or recent Irish/Celtic-related music albums.

It’s been a decade since North Carolina-born fiddler Maura Shawn Scanlin first crossed paths in Boston with Maryland guitarist Conor Hearn (she was a New England Conservatory student, he was enrolled ...

On April 2, 1912, the renowned Belfast shipbuilders Harland and Wolff had completed the required sea trials on their latest project, the “Titanic.” With hundreds of ships to their credit, this was one ...

More than 350 guests gathered at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Dorchester Friday Oct 5, 2024 for the 14th Boston Irish Honors luncheon, an event organized by Boston Irish ...

•This is the month that we can all go to Hell – Fiddle Hell, that is. The immensely popular traditional/folk music festival will take place from Nov. 7 to Nov. 10 at the Westford Regency in Westford, ...

The Irish Cultural Centre is excited to announce a special event honoring Co. Clare’s All-Ireland Championship Hurling Team on November 12 th at 6:00pm. This gathering will celebrate the achievements ...

The BIR's sister publication, the Boston Haitian Reporter, has been providing up-to-the-minute coverage of Haiti's earthquake and rescue efforts since Tuesday afternoon. We invite our readers to visit ...

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 ...

Michael McGrath (pronounced McGraw) is a lucky guy. And he knows it. The Worcester native first came to the attention of Boston audiences in Gerard Alessandrini’s musical spoof “Forbidden Broadway” ...

A student of the classics and ancient Greece, Tom Hynes delights in the story of Pheidippides, the Athenian herald who in 490 B.C. announced the Greek victory over Persia in the Battle of Marathon. As ...

Make no mistake: Christine Hatch, Aisling Keating, Melinda Kerwin, and Nancy Beaudette are grown-up women, with families and jobs and other adult stuff like that. But every so often, the four are ...