family album | The Road to Bright City
My grandfather John Bernard “Barney” Hynes and his brother, Thomas J. Hynes emigrated in their early teens from Lochrea, Galway, Ireland to Boston, Massachusetts in 1875. They were children of the famine –…
hibernia • Hall of Fame
Introducing Afro-Cuban-Celtic music Irish America Hall of Famer Arturo O’Farrill and his Jazz Alliance/Belongo were recent recipients of the Mellon Foundation’s $35 million Jazz Initiative. Jazz, the only purely American art form, has…
Mother Teanga
The Irish language has roots stretching back at least 5,000 years and shares words with…
O’Toole in Charge
Boston Police Commissioner Kathy O’Toole serves as top cop to the nation’s oldest police force…