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Lankum underwent a recent rebranding. PHOTO BY JUDITH BURROWS By Daniel Neely On Friday, the band Lankum’s new album “Between The Earth And Sky” ap...

BHOFACK2 | DREAMSTIME.COM Ireland Hopping / By Margaret M. Johnson Chances are if you celebrated Halloween over the past few days, you encountered ...

Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott “We met in Dublin in September 1969. I was looking for an apartment. A somewhat reluctant landlady showed m...

Featured in many bizarre conspiracy theories in connection with JFK's assassination, Louis Steven Witt, aka the Umbrella Man, was in fact a peaceful right-wing protester against President Kennedy's foreign policy, which he and many in Dallas saw as "appeasing" communists. The umbrella was an allusion to Neville Chamberlain, who as British Prime Minister, pursued the policy of appeasement of Nazis in the late 1930s.

Kevin Roche pictured in the 1960s with a model of the Ford Foundation’s 42nd Street headquarters in Manhattan. By Michael Gray In the field of arch...

Pierce Turner playing at the National Concert Hall in 2015. He will return to the Dublin venue on Jan. 16. Meanwhile, he will perform at the 11th S...

Front row: Brian Dennehy and Phil Donahue; middle row: Marlo Thomas, Arlene Alda and Elaine May; top row: Rosie O'Donnell, Alan Alda and the 2014 O...

Steve Martin playing banjo at the Irish Arts Center’s 2017 Spirit of Ireland Gala. PHOTOS COURTESY OF IRISH ARTS CENTER The Irish Arts Center’s 201...

By Daniel Neely At the moment I’m listening to “A Quare Yield,” the recent album from banjoist Alan Reid and fiddle player Rachel Conlan. It’s a lo...

Phil Harrison. PHOTO BY TIM MILLEN Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott Among those giving film director Phil Harrison an admiring and warm welc...

Derry’s Cara Dillon is synonymous with mastery of the folk tradition— with sweetness, feeling, and musical poignancy. By Colleen Taylor Cara Dillon...

OLHA AFANASIEVA | DREAMSTIME.COM Ireland Hopping | Margaret M. Johnson Fresh or dried, figs are it! While not native to Ireland, they’re no longer ...