Rockaway Craic for 11th year
As the halfway point to St. Patrick’s is marked today, Craic Fest continues its cultural celebrations this week to mark the occasion. A one-day eve...
Dublin Cookery School Offers Taste of the Classics
Eurotoque chef Alix Gardiner set up her first practical cookery school in Ireland more than 30 years ago, and she’s taught more than 5000 students ...
Vallely's book puts bodhrán in fresh, compelling light
This week I’m off the sounds and into the pages! Coming off the book stack this installment is “Beating Time: The Story of the Irish Bodhrán” by Fi...
IFHF fall program begins Sept. 20 with Schools Collection talk
The Irish Family History Forum will kick off its fall program on Saturday morning, Sept. 20, with a presentation entitled "Researching the Irish Sc...
Fr. Coughlin, rightist priest, had huge following
In a previous column I mentioned the great show at the Jewish Museum, “Ben Shahn, On Non-Conformity,” that runs until through Oct. 26 at the Jewish...
The Pass
The local GAA club has launched a book, for to celebrate the centenary. They’ve done a nice job on it. Loads of pictures, old and new. There’s a gr...
Conway's album 'Wallace Avenue' tells a compelling story
In the media yoke this week is “Wallace Avenue,” the new album from fiddle virtuoso Brian Conway. Named after the street he grew up on in the Bronx...
Gut-wrenching account of the Troubles
I have met numerous people who romanticized and glorified the violence that occurred during the Northern Irish Troubles that claimed more than 3,60...
Stunning high-octane collection
Ah, it’s the close of summer, the time of year when the kids go back to school, the weather begins to shift ever so slightly, and everyone gets bac...
Irish passion, New York City confidence
If there’s one thing at the top of Vivienne Sayers O’Callaghan’s impressive to-do list, it’s rewriting the narrative. “They’d always ask me about t...
Late Season Tomatoes, Yum!
At this time of year, you can pretty much count on me to be writing about ways to use all the late-season tomatoes that linger, thankfully, for a f...
Tom Mooney was cause celebre
You would not figure that a visit to New York’s Jewish Museum would uncover the forgotten story an Irish-American cause celebre of the 1920s and ‘3...
