Christy Moore in full flow at Vicar Street Letter from Dublin: Winter Journal, March 2022 Letter from Dublin/Timothy Kirk,It has been a rocky road back to normality in Dublin. In early December, the citybostonirish.com Letter from Dublin/Timothy Kirk It has been a rocky road back to normality in Dublin. In early December, the city started to be itself again. Buskers were back on Grafton Street and live music returned to the pubs. Then the Omicron wave…

COP26 in Glasgow was a disappointment to environmental activists but history will record it as a key step in combating climate collapse. …

Ireland Emerges from Pandemic and Brexit Stronger -and Closer to France- than Ever Ireland endured the longest pandemic lockdown in Europe. The vaccination program started later and more slowly than most countries due to supply chain challenges and the limited leverage the small country had with vaccine producers. Surprisingly, Ireland…

“In fairness”… “In all fairness” … “To be fair” … “Let’s be fair” … “Be fair now, lads!” … “Fair play” … “Fair play to you” (or to her, to him, to them et al). All are common phrases referring to the concept of fairness that is invoked in everyday…

It won't be easy, but make no mistake: The unification of Ireland will happen "The attraction of the possible is in the end more powerful than that of the unattainable" - Patrick KavanaghBy Tim…www.bostonirish.com The attraction of the possible is in the end more powerful than that of the unattainable. -Patrick Kavanagh A united Ireland. Irish unity. A Nation Once Again. Notions that have animated the Irish and the Irish diaspora for generations evoke both excitement and anxiety at what their pursuit might unleash…

So, I’ll sing farewell to Carlingford And farewell to Greenore And I’ll think of you both day and night Until I return once more Until I return once more — Tommy Makem Every nation has a stake in US presidential elections and no country had more at risk this year…

Irish Americans: Follow the Light of Biden’s Lantern out of the Darkness History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up And hope and history rhyme – Seamus Heaney By Tim Kirk Special to…

GenXer Revisits To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman in the George Floyd Era Aspirational Hope or Hiding history? For white Gen-Xers who grew up in the 70’s and 80’s, our ‘memories’ of the civil rights movement- of Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King, and the Freedom Riders…

By Tim Kirk, Special to Boston Irish July 27, 2020 DUBLIN — A waiter at an outdoor coffee place that I frequent in the city asked me a couple of days ago: “Do people freak out when they hear your accent?” Later that day, we were in line at the…