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Emcee Colum McCann and actor Patrick Fitzgerald perform during a reading from “Ulysses” outside Ulysses on June 16 last year. PHOTO: PETER MCDERMOT...

“There was no plan,” Marina Carr says of her career. PHOTO BY YOUSEF KHANFAR By Orla O’Sullivan Marina Carr’s peaceful presence is at odds with the...

Luton-born, County Sligo resident Theresa O'Grady is a much in-demand performer and tutor. Her album “BANJO’ista” is everything one could want to h...

Ahead of his address to the opening of the New York-New Belfast Conference, Oscar-winning film director and Belfast native Terry George, pictured h...

Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott In an piece that ran in the Irish Echo two years ago, Bobby Kennedy biographer Larry Tye referred to a chil...

June 16 may be the most famous day in the Irish literary calendar, but three days earlier Yeatsians everywhere mark the birth of the Nobel laureate...

“The Coral Suite” is an album that contains great riches for those who want to dig in. By Daniel Neely Regular readers of this column know that I a...

ANNAPUSTYNNIKOVA | DREAMSTIME.COM IRELAND HOPPING By Margaret M. Johnson When traveling around Ireland, you’re never far away from a restaurant or ...

Honor Molloy. “Irish Teachers On and Off the Page” will the theme in this year’s UFT Irish American Committee Frank McCourt Lecture, on next Thursd...

With “Realign,” Slow Skies affirms her reputation as a composing powerhouse. Music Notes / By Colleen Taylor With Ireland—and particularly, Ireland...

FairPlé has several parallel movements in the arts. Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely On Saturday, June 9, the Irish Arts Center will be one of t...

Brian John Spencer, left, with two of his subjects. PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER BOOTH Salon Diary / By Karen Daly The mid-May IAW&A Salon brought drama, p...