Culture

In the 1820s and 1830s, no priest was more loved and revered by the Irish community than a Gaelic-speaking Cuban priest, the Rev. Félix Varela. Tho...

Each year in September, an New York City-based organization called “The Village Trip” stages a multi-sited festival to “celebrate arts and activism...

The Celtic Junction Arts Center (CJAC) announces developments that further its mission to celebrate, preserve, and promote Irish cultural arts in M...

A pleasant high summer’s evening saw a great turnout for a mid-August salon at The Ellington in uptown Manhattan. Tonight’s host was Katharine McNa...

KNEECAP has smashed through the $1million mark at Irish and UK box office, after opening in Britain at the weekend. The eponymous movie about the W...

I grew up eating wonderful desserts my mother baked nearly every day — crisp sugar cookies, fudgy brownies, rich banana bread. Nothing fancy or too...

A couple things to let readers know about this week. I’ll start with the Irish Music Traditional Archive’s just-launched hour-long video interview ...

In 2019, Rosie Schaap left her home in Brooklyn, a place that is world famous, to live in Glenarm, Co. Antrim, a village that even some in Northern...

“Equally horrified” was the combined response from Brian Friel’s agent in New York and his editor at the New Yorker magazine to his news that he’d ...

First off, congrats to everyone who went over to compete at the Fleadh this year! Special congratulations to Los Angeles’s own Rio Navarro, who pla...

Forty years ago last week, I had my passport stamped at Shannon Airport with the official greeting: “Permitted to land in Ireland for three months....

It’s a measure of Manchester City’s preeminence right now that they’re the bookies’ favorites to win the 2024-25 Premier League title. Yes, they ar...