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Colm Meaney and Timothy Spall in a scene from “The Journey.” IFC FILMS By Michael Gray The peace process in Northern Ireland is now two decades old...

Dr. Ellen Rowley. Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott In this week of Bloomsday, one can detect Joycean undertones in scholar Ellen Rowley’s st...

GREGORY21 | DREAMSMTIME.COM IRELAND HOPPING / By Margaret M. Johnson In additional to celebrating “Flag Day” today, it’s also “National Strawberry ...

Two Cities’ Mags Garvey and Mark Ferguson are equal parts Dublin and London, but Berlin makes them a tale of three cities. By Colleen Taylor The li...

Capturing the summer-school experience on film. PHOTOS BY RACHAEL KEALY By Geoffrey Cobb As a somewhat successful writer, I get asked this difficul...

Some of the actors in rehearsal. By Orla O’Sullivan Beck Lee, perhaps best known to readers as the publicist for Origin’s 1st Irish Festival, has h...

Artisan Row’s “Wild Winds” is CD of contemporary music with a cosmopolitan flair. By Daniel Neely There are many bands out there today that stake t...

By Daniel Neely In the player this week is “This Day Too: Music From Irish America,” a new recording from the Winches, Terence, Jesse, and Michael,...

The Merrion. Ireland Hopping / By Margaret M. Johnson We all know there’s much more to a great breakfast than a “full Irish,” and for anyone who’s ...

Elián Gonzalez today. PHOTO BY ROSS MCDONNELL By Frances Scanlon It's all over but the resounding applause for "Elián" at its world Premiere docume...

The County Waterford-based Anthony Summers’s influential book “Not in Your Lifetime” initially grew out of interviews he did in the late 1970s for ...

Heidi Talbot. By Colleen Taylor Back when I hosted “Ceol na nGael” on WFUV, one of my favorite singers to spin on a Sunday was Heidi Talbot. A dist...