Culture

This September we will celebrate our 10th year of the Annual Irish American Movie Hooley at Wilmette Theatre just outside Chicago. This film festiv...

A unique homage to place combining words and music requires social media age dexterity but armed with a Spotify account I found myself back home in...

Congratulations to Kerry on their victory over Derry last weekend! A great victory against a competitive Derry team and a portentous one for this c...

The New York Irish Center presents three continuous hours of music and dance set against Manhattan’s skyline at the annual Queens Irish Heritage Fe...

Once upon a time in Ireland — at least at the time I made my first trip in 1984, and even a decade later — a salad was not a salad as we know it to...

Hey, did you hear that the Catskills Irish Arts Week is turning 30? Yes! 30!! This July 15-19, North America’s largest summer school for traditiona...

It will be possible this weekend to catch not just one street event dedicated to Bloomsday, but two — one on Saturday and the other on Sunday. Ulys...

Irish singer-songwriter Susan O’Neill is making a brief New York stopover with last night’s show at Green Room 42 performing with Mick Flannery, an...

I’ve heard from a number of men that “the best gift you can give Dad on Father's Day [this Sunday, June 16, in 2024] is a full stomach” — preferabl...

The farmers are happy. And so is the Irish Arts Council. Director Cara Holmes was aware that the latter was interested in ideas for documentaries m...

The legendary fiddle and piano player Charlie Lennon died Saturday at University Hospital Galway. The long-time resident of Spiddal, Co. Galway, wa...

After more that 20 years of living in New York City and riding the subway I expected nothing to surprise me - not a mugging, not a half-naked man p...