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 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.

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 ...

The Boston Irish Reporter, founded in 1990, is an Irish American monthly newspaper published from 1990-2019, and circulated to subscribers and at newsstands throughout Boston and eastern New England.

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 ...

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 ...

‘These thoughtless, head-strong, imprudent people’ : In June 1847, the mass arrival of Famine Irish ignited Nativist resistance in cold-roast Boston In June 1847 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

It’s far beyond time for Israel to halt the killing and the suffering of civilians in Gaza, open up routes for humanitarian relief, and hold off a famine that could wipe out people trapped in the war ...