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  1. ILIR meets in Boston
    April 09, 09

    A large crowd gathered at the Irish Cultural Center of New England in Canton, Massachusetts on Monday night to hear from the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform (ILIR).

  2. 350 Boston Irish turn out for ILIR meeting
    April 07, 09

    Over 350 Boston Irish braved a dark dreary evening to come to the Irish Cultural Center of New England in Canton, MA for a meeting on immigration. The meeting had been organized by the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform (ILIR)

  3. Irish Festivals for Everyone
    March 10, 09

    The summer Irish festival season is now in full swing, and from the small-scale offerings to massive three-day music events, there's one for you, nationwide. This week the Irish Voice picks some tried and tested highlights.

    July 13-15 sees the annual Irish American Heritage Festival in Chicago.

  4. Boston Fest Connects
    March 10, 09

    IN August, Tommy Makem was scheduled to perform at two large Irish Festivals (ICONS in Massachusetts and the Milwaukee Irish Fest) where his memory will be invoked often by the many performers at each festival.

    Coming up this weekend on August 10, 11 and 12 is the newly reorganized Irish Connections Festival at Canton, Massachusetts under the new title of ICONS: Irish Cultural Festival on the grounds of the Irish Cultural Center of New England. On Saturday evening there will be a tribute to Makem at 8 p.

  5. Good Job Boston CCE
    March 10, 09

    CONGRATS to the Hanafin Cooley Branch of CCE in Boston which mounted a marvelous night this past Sunday in Norwood at Concannon's Village to honor two local Galwegian leaders in Larry Reynolds and Mike O'Connor.

    A packed house of over 300 turned out to recognize the work of musician Reynolds, the Comhaltas stalwart in Beantown and O'Connor, the president of the Irish Cultural Center of New England, based in Canton, Massachusetts, who were presented with personal paintings by the Galway artist Vincent Crotty.

    In fact the front doorway to Concannon's was adorned with Crotty's commissioned artwork of an Irish dance hall scene for the ICCNE this summer, which also symbolized the festive atmosphere and intense Irish pride and hospitality when the Boston Irish get together in a place like this.

  6. Weather Doesn't Dampen Boston Fest
    March 10, 09

    MOTHER Nature has been very cruel to the Gulf and Caribbean areas this hurricane season, and so very devastating in the short and long term for the people who live there.

    Complaining about the damp weather that beset the ICONS Festival in Canton, Massachusetts this past weekend would pale in comparison, even though the itinerant event that has moved from June to August to September this year in an attempt to seek the perfect conditions that would allow the weekend event to properly exploit its many assets.

    No doubt, the heavy rain on Friday night and its softer showers on Sunday sandwiched Saturday's day of comfortable reprieve dampened the attendance - and the grounds - for the ambitious festival and the bottom line.

  7. News Irish Gov't Gives Grants of $15 Million
    March 09, 09

    During his visit to the U.S. last week, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Micheal Martin, announced more than $1.

  8. Lukas Oldie But Goodie
    March 09, 09

    "You don't want to write about that," wrote Luka Bloom in an e-mail when I asked him for an interview on "Tribe," the album he released a few years ago that has finally made its debut online over here.

    "I'm already onto other things. I'm just mixing a new album in New York, so let's save up the ink for that!"

    Fair enough, but when you are as talented as Luka Bloom and incapable of recording a dud album, a music critic will never have a shortage of ink in which to sing your praises.

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