Opinion
KIRWAN Musings and Mutterings in a Country Graveyard
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....
September 07, 2023
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
KIRWAN: Don't Sweat It In The Subway Darling
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 ...
August 24, 2023
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
KIRWAN: A Life Dream That is Now a Reality
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...
August 11, 2023
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
KIRWAN: Jiving With Those Long Ago Teddy Boys
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...
July 28, 2023
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
KIRWAN: Finding Local History in a Faraway Place
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...
July 17, 2023
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
KIRWAN The Welcome Return of Paddy Reilly's
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...
June 29, 2023
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
KIRWAN: Good Vibrations Coming to IAC
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...
June 16, 2023
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
KIRWAN: Forever Going Up The Country
"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 ...
June 01, 2023
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
KIRWAN: Tale of a Rathmines Bath Tub
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...
May 18, 2023
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
KIRWAN: Legends Linked on Multiple Levels
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 ...
May 04, 2023
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
KIRWAN: Remembering A Trio of Rebel Women
Back in 1969 when Bernadette Devlin outraged conservative Irish-America with her socialist views and support for African-American civil rights, did...
March 23, 2023
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
KIRWAN: Memories of a Divine Palace of Punk
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...
March 09, 2023
by Larry Kirwan