Culture

By Earle Hitchner "Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life." That warning comes from Bertolt Brecht's play "The Mother," and the l...

By Elaine Ní Bhraonáin The Irish Arts Center was one of the first places I visited when I moved to New York in early June 2003 and I knew straight ...

By Joseph Hurley "The Merchant of Venice" by William Shakespeare • Directed by Daniel Sullivan • Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte Theater, ...

By Earle Hitchner Last week I wrote very briefly about Natalie Merchant's "Leave Your Sleep," featuring the Irish traditional band Lunasa on four t...

By Karen Butler Irish-American funnyman Colin Quinn is bringing his unique and hilarious perspective on world history to Manhattan's Bleecker Stree...

By Peter McDermott For all our connections to the NYPD, it was a Greek-American lieutenant that captured Irish hearts. Adult viewers had "Kojak" re...

By Earle Hitchner Presenting traditional music and dance of the highest quality, the Washington, D.C., Irish Folk Festival abruptly ended in 2000 a...

By Joseph Hurley "Lascivious Something" By Sheila Callaghan • at the Julia Miles Theater, 424 West 55th St., NYC • Through June 6. Marsha Ginsberg'...

BOOKS/Peter McDermott A few weeks ago, an enthusiastic American reader of Benjamin Black's "Elegy for April," and its predecessors in the Quirke Se...

By Karen Butler Irish-American comedian Conan O'Brien recently experienced a bittersweet return to New York to talk up his new late-night chat show...

BOOKS/Peter McDermott David Talbot's David Talbot's "Brothers: the Hidden History of the Kennedy Years" found a great many admirers after it was pu...

By Earle Hitchner From humble beginnings on a small farm in Ballinakill, East Galway, where the family thatched cottage had no electricity, gas, or...