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I sat down in a Queens restaurant recently with playwright Honor Molloy for Hobnobs, tea and conversation. Talk of “Dublin Noir,” Molloy’s latest p...

James Patrick “Jim” Conroy was born in Dublin in 1897 and died in Southern California in 1981. His path early in life was typical of many of those ...

West Cork, the area stretching (west to east) from the Beara Peninsula to Kinsale, is filled to the brim with candy-colored villages, rugged landsc...

When we revert back to the romance of the past, it evokes an eventual disdain for ourselves; not merely for the falsifications and self-deception s...

There were plenty of curious glances on Sunday, Oct. 29, as a steady stream of men and women, carrying mysterious bags and boxes, filed past the ch...

A couple of big, exciting concerts coming up to let readers know about, one in New York and the other in Chicago. The first is Tony DeMarco’s “New ...

It began as a collected series of interviews with regular Americans. Four years later, in 1978, it was a musical that was nominated for six Tony Aw...

We’re all conspiracy theorists, or at least we are in our personal lives. So argues Aoife Gallagher in her book “Web of Lies: The Lure and Danger o...

In 1970, both Rory Gallagher and guitar great Jimmy Hendrix played the Isle of Wight Festival. At a post-festival press conference, a reporter aske...

Recently, the Ward Irish Music Archive, the largest repository of Irish music and dance in the United States, put out a call for papers for an exci...

It will be a busy arts night in New York City on Monday with artistic director Michael Mellamphy presenting Origin Theatre Company’s annual gala, w...

“A distance achieved, thanks to the mystery of time, must not change events, landscapes, human figures into a tangle of shadows growing paler and p...