Culture

I want to open this week by congratulating Donie Carroll for the successful concert he put on last Friday at the New York Irish Center that helped ...

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...

Matthew Parkinson-Bennett, publisher of Little Island Books in Dublin, left, discussed books for children and young adults with three of his author...

The second floor of the Churchill, 45 East 28th St., in Manhattan, is the venue for an October Saturday afternoon reading of two plays — “Dublin No...

Like in many other areas, including Belfast, where a few exhibition matches were played in 1895, 1921 and 1925, women’s soccer was slow to attract ...

Repeat business. That was the measure of success for Mary Burke, the long-time banquet manager of Rosie O’Grady’s, which closed for business on Jul...

Over the summer I ran into bodhrán player Anna Colliton, who in the course of a chat told me that she was putting together a bodhrán instruction bo...

Dan Barry is waiting for that tap on the shoulder, even after 28 years at the New York Times. It would be from someone higher up, someone on the ma...

The Battle of Gettysburg is up for discussion at the next gathering of the Irish Family History Forum, and specifically the Irish Brigade’s partici...

There has been entirely too much heartbreak recently in the world of traditional music and it just seems to keep coming. Just after writing about t...

The premiere of the Irish language version of Seamus Scanlon’s award winning play The Long Wet Grass | An Féar Fada Fliuch took place in Queens at ...

It’s official: the fall equinox and the first day of autumn arrived on Saturday, Sept. 23, at 02:50 A.M. EDT in the Northern Hemisphere, and nearly...