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Miriam Donohue. PHOTO: ABI DENNISTON By Colleen Taylor It might be said that Galway produces the greatest and latest in trad music and Dublin the f...

John Curry lived for a time at the Municipal Lodging House on East 25th Street, Manhattan. Cardinal Dolan decided recently that Curry’s remains wou...

Lisa Goldberg & Silpa Sadhajun dancing a soft & hard shoe reel with button accordion player Patty Furlong and fiddler Marie Reilly providing the ac...

Patrick Fitzgerald in the role of Dr. Noël Browne in “Rebel in the Soul” at the Irish Rep. PHOTO BY CAROL ROSEGG By Orla O’Sullivan “He’s part of o...

Caramelized onion-spinach-blue cheese tart. Ireland Hopping | By Margaret M. Johnson When I’m really stuck for a quick spring supper, I turn to egg...

By Colleen Taylor It’s always going to be a good week when one of your favorite artists releases a new single. This week, it was Róisín O with her ...

Members of the under-12 New York Céilí Band refining their sound at the House of Irish Music and Dance in Woodlawn, in preparation for Fleadh compe...

The fun begins again on Sunday afternoon at Ripley Grier Studios for the celebration of Bealtaine, the Celtic fire festival heralding summer. The p...

Johnjo Phelan and Annie Hayes on their wedding day in 1936. This is the latest installment in Tom Phelan’s series about growing up in a farming fam...

Augustus Saint-Gaudens was born in Dublin during the Famine to an Irish mother and French father. By Geoffrey Cobb Why do we Irish celebrate our wr...

Cormac Begley. By Daniel Neely It’s a new week, and for the past few days I’ve been listening concertina player Cormac Begley’s great, new self-tit...

Gavin James performing at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin. By Colleen Taylor Dublin singer-songwriter Gavin James tends to market himself as an openi...