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Barry Ward and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor in “Maze.” By Michael Gray The Maze prison in Northern Ireland, in rural County Down, is infamous as the location...

Anne Griffin. PHOTO BY JOHN BOYNE Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott Some author biographies are filled with past jobs; the more of them the b...

Liz Carroll and guitarist/pianist Jake Charron. PHOTO BY ROBERT HAKALSKI By Daniel Neely Last fall, the Burns Library’s Irish Music Archives at Bos...

Stephen G. Butler. Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott Stephen G. Butler had on his bedroom wall during his youth in Woodside, Queens, a “poste...

Rhiannon Giddens is a recipient the MacArthur Genius Grant and is sponsored by Ireland’s Music Network. By Colleen Taylor On both sides of the Atla...

Gina Costigan, who is currently performing in “The Ferryman” on Broadway, will read Seamus Scanlon’s “The Long Wet Grass,” at UFT on March 21. PHOT...

By Gerry O’Shea “The Pope: Francis, Benedict, and the Decision that Shook the World” by Andrew McCarten; published in hardcover by Flatiron Books; ...

By Daniel Neely On March 31, 1976, the Cork to Dublin Travelling Post Office Train was robbed of over £200,000 in Sallins, Co. Kildare. The police ...

Catherine Ryan Howard’s “The Liar’s Girl” has been nominated for the 2019 Edgar Award for Best Novel. Page Turner / By Peter McDermott Ali Smith, a...

Maura Mulligan. By Irish Echo Staff Have you ever found yourself in the 23rd minute of someone’s presentation wondering if, and hoping, that the en...

Joe Hurley on stage. Rocker Joe Hurley will host his St. Patrick’s season perennial on next Wednesday evening, March 13, at City Winery in 155 Vari...

Alfred Hitchcock, pictured in 1955, directed a screen version of “Juno and the Paycock” in 1930. By Peter McDermott “Juno and the Paycock” was perf...