I often take a train to New Haven nowadays, and since I find trains very relaxing I invariably feel drowsy as we pull out of Grand Central Station....

At an out-of-state wedding recently, I fell into conversation with a cheerful gentleman whom I didn’t know from Adam. Or Eve for that matter. Upon ...

Maggie Higgins may have been the most consequential American woman. When it comes to the change she wrought, they don’t come much more important th...

One night, while departing the stage in the late, lamented Village Pub in The Bronx, I was approached by a gentleman who remarked: “When all is sai...

The Christian Brothers in Wexford were not fans of the Normans. They regarded these conquerors who arrived from Wales in 1169 as some subspecies of...

So Paddy Reilly’s has reopened. Welcome back. Though your absence was short, you were missed. It’s not just that New York City is daily becoming le...

Everything changed in November 1976 when The Sex Pistols released Anarchy In the UK. Punk was born. Yeah, yeah, I know Punk began in CBGB’s a coupl...

"I’m going up the country, Baby, don’t you wanta go, Going to take you some place, Where you’ve never been before, I’m going, I’m going, Where the ...

Pierce Turner and I used to share a flat in an old town house in Rathmines, Dublin. Once very upscale, the area had fallen on hard times and was di...

They are often linked together by nationality, era, and musical intensity, yet it would be hard to think of two personalities less alike than Rory ...

Back in 1969 when Bernadette Devlin outraged conservative Irish-America with her socialist views and support for African-American civil rights, did...

For years I couldn’t bear to pass by the John Varvatos store on The Bowery. My psychic alarm bells would go off when I was within a couple of block...