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By Michae P.l Quinlin champion Liam Harney brings on March 15, 16, 17, led by [email protected] his award winning academy to experienced historical guide perform. Ted Kulik. The 75 minute tour overnor Deval Patrick The Irish Cultural Centre in covers 300 years of Boston’s has declared March 2014 Canton is offering a full illustrious Irish history. The Gas Irish Heritage Month schedule of Irish music, pub tours start at the visitor center in Massachusetts, and sessions and other family on Boston Common, and tickets everywhere you turn there are activities, from March 14-17. can be purchased at the center. green events sprouting up The fun, retro-ballad IrishHeritageTrail.com. through the snow and ice that singing, punk trad band Tin lingers on the landscape. Can Hooley performs at the SOCIAL GATHERINGS Here is an overview of some Canadian American Club in The American Ireland Fund www.irishecho.com / Irish Echoof / MARCHthe 12 - 18, 2014 / best events taking place Watertown on March 14. On holds its Young Leaders in Massachusetts and across the March 15, the JFK Library in celebration on March 13 at the New England region. Dorchester features a free Boston Harbor Hotel. The Irish performance by Maureen Green Networking Society and the MUSIC IN MASS. O’Leary School of Irish Irish Consulate host the annual The Dropkick Murphys, Dancing. St. Paddy’s Day Party on March Boston’s favorite punk-Irish On March 17 Matt & 14 at the Boston Society of band, is lifting the rafters at the Shannon Heaton perform The Irish Rovers. Architects (BSA). House of Blues on Lansdowne traditional songs and tunes at The Irish American Street, on March 13-17. Fans the Beat Hotel in Harvard followed by a reading at the Partnership annual breakfast travel from all over the country Square, and across town that Thomas Crane Public Library in takes place on March 17 at the to rock out with the hard- night, Katie McD from Galway, Quincy on March 19. Boston Harbor Hotel. driving, rambunctious, a recent Berklee grad, performs Kathleen Kennedy The Charitable Irish Society fun-loving band in their home at the Beehive jazz club in the Townsend appears at the JFK holds its 277th annual dinner on town. South End. Library on March 21 to discuss March 17 at the Algonquin St. Patrick’s Celtic Sojourn In Worcester, Blackstone the diplomatic trip to Japan Club in Boston’s Back Bay. concerts, hosted by Corkman Cuil plays at the Hibernian President Kennedy planned to PARADES Brian O’Donovan, whose Cultural Centre. take in 1964. It’s part of the JFK popular radio show Celtic On March 19, singer/fiddler Forum series at the library. Lawrence: Saturday, March 15, Sojourn runs Saturdays on Sharon Corr plays at the hip Vicki Kennedy, head of the 2014 @ 1:00 pm; Abington: WGBH. Now in its 9th year the Brighton Music Hall in Boston’s Edward M. Kennedy Institute Sunday, March 16, 2014 @ 1:00 lineup features two acts from Allston/Brighton and Olympia Snow, former U.S. pm; Boston: Sunday, March 16, Ireland - the Alan Kelly Gang neighborhood, and across the Senator from Maine, have a 2014 @ 1:00 pm; Scituate: and Irish trad duo Caitlin nic river in Somerville, Galway conversation at the JFK Library Sunday, March 16, 2014 @ 1:00 Gabhann and Ciaran o singer Sean Keane performs at on Bipartisanship and pm; Quebec, Canada: Saturday, Maonaigh, plus Galician piping the Burren Pub in Davis Square. American Unity on March 26, March 22, 2014 @ Noon; master Carlos Nunez. On March 23, the Irish part of the JFK Forum series. Holyoke: Sunday, March 23, The concerts take place at Rovers from Dublin are giving Katie McD. 2014 @ Noon; Manchester, NH: the Hanover Theatre in their farewell Boston-area FILM AND ARTS Sunday, March 30, 2014 @ Worcester on March 14, then concert at Carey Hall in Reel, led by Claudine Langille, Noon. On March 20, the annual Irish head over to the Sanders Lexington. performs at Killarney Irish Pub Theatre in Harvard Square for in Ludlow, VT. Film Festival Boston kicks off at EXHIBITS the Somerville Theatre in Davis shows on March 15 & 16. MUSIC AROUND On March 21, Yonkers TheJohnF.Kennedy Master fiddler Seamus NEW ENGLAND fiddler Jimmy Devine and Square, and runs through Presidential Library in Boston’s Connolly headlines the Reagle On March 16, the Blackstone friends perform at the Irish March 23. The festival features Dorchester neighborhood has a Theatre of Greater Boston’s River Theatre in Cumberland, Ceilidhe Club in Cranston RI, some of Ireland’s best short moving exhibit called, A Nation annual “A Bit of Ireland” RI features the popular Celtic and the following night, March films, documentaries and Remembers, a display of concert on March 15-16 in band Pendragon, and on March 22, fiddler Kevin Burke also feature films, along with artifacts from the funeral of Waltham, along with members 16 they bring in three Celtic performs there. engaging talks and workshops President John F. Kennedy, of Boston’s Comhaltas Chapter, harpists, including Patrick Ball. about the Irish film industry. running until March 30. led by the Reynolds brothers. On March 16 Irish band Gypsy AUTHORS AND LECTURES On March 29, an all-day The Lawrence Heritage All-Ireland step dance Irish famine scholar Christine Irish Film Festival, organized by State Park in Lawrence has an Kinealy is speaking at the AOH Division 8, runs at exhibit titled “The Reverend Lawrence Heritage State Park Lawrence heritage State Park, James T. O’Reilly OSA and his on March 23, as part of the city’s featuring the best Hollywood influence on Lawrence,” Irish Heritage Month organized favorites on the Irish. organized by Frank Ford of by the AOH. AOH Division 8. It runs Chris Klein, author of IRISH HERITAGE TRAIL through March 30. Strong Boy: the Life and Times WALKING TOUR of John L. Sullivan, is reading at The Boston Irish Tourism Find year round details on the Falmouth Historical Society Association is offering guided Irish activities in New England on Cape Cod, on March 18, tours of the Irish Heritage Trail at IrishMassachusetts.com.