The Broadway musical “The Wiz” will play Boston’s Citizens Opera House from August 12 – 24. This marks the groundbreaking ...

The O'Donovan Clan Cultural Association Assembly will take place Sepember 5-7, 2025 in Clonakilty and Skibbereen, West Cork. Descendants of O'Donovan and Donovan ancestry will gather for history and ...

“The Saw Doctors offer wistfulness, humour and small-town nostalgia.” New York Times Celebrating 35 years on the road, acclaimed Irish rock band The Saw Doctors ...

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 ...

Boston-area resident Maggie Holtzberg’s job involves looking after one of Massachusetts’s most prized attributes: its folk traditions.As manager of the Folk Arts & Heritage Program for the state’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Letter from Dublin/Timothy Kirk Catholicism in Ireland: An assessmentBack in early 2020, we had tickets to see Christy Dignam, the legendary lead singer of the ‘80s and ‘90s band Aslan, play at the ...

It’s rather cool for an early summer Tuesday evening, but Tommy McCarthy is feeling the warmth.After all, this is the night of the week when he and his wife, Louise Costello, along with their daughter ...

“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 ...