It’s been a decade since North Carolina-born fiddler Maura Shawn Scanlin first crossed paths in Boston with Maryland ...

On April 2, 1912, the renowned Belfast shipbuilders Harland and Wolff had completed the required sea trials on their latest ...

The Irish Cultural Centre is excited to announce a special event honoring Co. Clare’s All-Ireland Championship Hurling Team ...

More than 350 guests gathered at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Dorchester last Friday afternoon for ...

•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 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 ...

The accompanying article was first published in the Boston Irish Reporter in the summer of 2004. Its focus was a new book by Susan Gedutis that spoke to a time in the city’s history when Irish music ...

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 ...

You’d be hard-pressed to find a more fitting but controversial symbol of Boston Irish success this or any St. Patrick’s Day. As a recent drive past the site affirmed, it still stands in Jamaica Plain ...

“Like the Olmsted Emerald Necklace and Smuggler’s Notch and the Shelburne Museum, Dick Flavin is one of New England’s great and unique treasures, albeit one of the region’s most animated figures,” ...

‘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, Boston simmered with political, ...