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Tom Vaughan-Lawlor in “Maze.” By Frances Scanlon It's hard to believe but throughout April 2019 a number of events will observe the twenty-fifth an...

Gina Marie Guadagnino. Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott Gina Marie Guadagnino’s debut novel “The Parting Glass” has been described as “‘Down...

Darina Allen. PHOTOS BY MARGARET M. JOHNSON Ireland Hopping / By Margaret M. Johnson Three of Ireland’s leading chefs crossed the pond last week to...

Barry Ward as Gordon Close in “Maze,” which is opening tonight in New York. By Evan Short The legacy of the conflict is daily news in the Northern ...

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 ...