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From left, IAC Executive Director Aidan Connolly, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and IAC Vice Chair Pauline Turley. PHOTO BY AMANDA G...

Book Review / By Peter M. Walsh There are bar stories and then there are “bar stories.” Once they are started, the facts erode and the myth explode...

Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely Starting off this week with news of an album Lúnasa fiddle player Colin Farrell has made with flute player Dan ...

Maura Mulligan who was honored yesterday at Borough Hall in Brooklyn. Salon Diary / By Gordon Gilbert For the second time, the IAW&A salon convened...

Gerald Dawe. Music Notes / By Colleen Taylor Talking and writing about music is a delightful paradox of an exercise. Naturally, people love to disc...

Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott When historian Breandán Mac Suibhne was born in Dungloe, his father went to a neighbor, Denis Gallagher, to...

By Daniel Neely Last March, the brilliant traditional singer Karan Casey was the guest on Shannon Heaton’s “Irish Music Stories” podcast (shannonhe...

Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh's recent CD is “Foxglove & Fuschia.” Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely I begin with sad news of the passing of the great u...

Joan Walsh. The Irish Stand will reconvene on this Friday evening at Manhattan’s Riverside Church, with Joan Walsh, CNN political analyst and natio...

Hayley Mills and Gina Costigan in “Party Face.” PHOTO BY JEREMY DANIEL By Orla O’Sullivan As a woman awaits her party guests her mother repeatedly ...

PHOTO BY MARGARET M. JOHNSON Ireland Hopping | By Margaret M. Johnson In late 1759, Kildare-born Arthur Guinness decided to "try his luck in Dublin...

Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely Meaning “to twist” or “change direction,” “Cas” is the evocative title of traditional supergroup Lúnasa’s brand...