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Scones: Sweet, Savory, Delicious
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Scones: Sweet, Savory, Delicious
Blueberry Scones. NICOLE FRANTZ/DREAMTIME Recipes / By Margaret M. Johnson Believed to have originated in Scotland in the early 1500s, scones were ...
Writers should ‘save it for the page’
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Writers should ‘save it for the page’
Daniel James McCabe. Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott The just published “The Writing Irish of New York” is a collection of autobiographical...
Dublin’s TradFest showcases finest musicians and venues
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Dublin’s TradFest showcases finest musicians and venues
Kieran Hanrahan on one of his album covers By Michael Quinlin One of Ireland’s great winter events for music lovers is the Temple Bar TradFest in t...
Dwelling Place’s warm welcome
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Dwelling Place’s warm welcome
Some of the group from Nollaig na mBan NY that visited the Dwelling Place of New York. PHOTOS BY MARGARET MCCARTHY By Karen Daly The last event of ...
Dublin’s TradFest showcases finest musicians and venues
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Dublin’s TradFest showcases finest musicians and venues
Kieran Hanrahan on one of his album covers By Michael Quinlin One of Ireland’s great winter events for music lovers is the Temple Bar TradFest in t...
Grennan CD is polished collection
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Grennan CD is polished collection
By Daniel Neely A couple of things to look at this week that approach traditional music in noteworthy and contrasting ways. First up is Katie Grenn...
Comedy theater production finds humor in death
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Comedy theater production finds humor in death
Brand new one act show "The Maid" humanizes the absurd reactions one family has as they cope with their grief on the night their loved one chooses ...
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin: Echoes from the Well
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Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin: Echoes from the Well
The author, right, with the late Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin. By Mel Mercier I met Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin for the first time in the mid-1970s, at the RT...
An unflinching portrait of decline
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An unflinching portrait of decline
Elaine May in “The Waverly Place.” PHOTO: BRIGITTE LACOMBE By Orla O’Sullivan Elaine May is known as a comedy legend. In “The Waverly Gallery,” how...
Duo’s CD is astonishingly beautiful
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Duo’s CD is astonishingly beautiful
Renée Anne Louprette and Ivan Goff will perform selections from the album at New York City’s Church of St. Ignatius (Park and 84th) on this Sunday ...
Czech vision built Waterford Crystal
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Czech vision built Waterford Crystal
Enda Kenny presenting a bowl of shamrock to President Obama during his first official visit to the White House as Taoiseach on St Patrick’s Day 201...
Salon hosts book launch
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Salon hosts book launch
Colin Broderick. PHOTOS BY CAT DWYER Salon Diary / By Karen Daly Co-hosts Jenifer Margaret Kelly and John Kearns presided over a night of special C...

 



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