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This Christmas, like every Christmas, Irish people will be listening to Shane McGowan’s immortal 1987 Pogues’ ballad “Fairytale of New York.” Liste...

As we creep toward the full bloom of the holiday season, I continue to keep my ears open for albums that this column’s readers will find interestin...

Christmas in Ireland has always carried in it something of a contradiction. There is feasting and celebration aplenty but often the revelry is foll...

A few years ago, I gave a book talk/cooking demonstration on Irish holiday foods at a local library. One of my personal favorites is mincemeat, an ...

This is a slightly adapted extract from “Untangling the Shadows: Searching for the Voices of My New York Irish Ancestors,” a memoir by Charles R. H...

The Bowne House is “a beautiful little home.” So said Mayor Fiorella La Guardia in one of his famous broadcasts on WNYC. He said he’d been in old h...

Shane MacGowan’s recent passing was a huge blow to Irish music. An electric performer and one of the all time legends, MacGowan not only took liber...

It’s that time of year again! That is when the Poor Mouth Theatre Company presents a holiday panto in the Bronx. The company’s 10th annual pantomim...

In the media player this week is “Sailors on the Rock,” the debut album from John Nolan, John Reynolds, and Bruce Foley, three musicians who would ...

Find a story you really, really want to write. That’s the view of Anne Madden, as we can see from her answers below, and it helps to explain how sh...

The recent riots in Dublin, sparked by the stabbing of three children and a care assistant by a naturalized Irish citizen from Algeria, raised the ...

Love it or hate it, fruitcake is one of Christmastime’s most iconic foods. I make no apologies for being one who loves it, and over the years I’ve ...