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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...

Ernie O’Malley and Helen Hooker shortly after they met in 1933. The photo was taken at her studio where she was doing a sculpture of his head. By P...

Joseph O’Connor, on left on the picture, with the teachers and students in the inaugural UL Frank McCourt Creative Writing Summer School in 2016. B...

Jim Sheridan. ROLLING NEWS.IE By Frances Scanlon There is Irish disappointment at the late withdrawal of “No Stone Unturned” from the 16th annual T...

Local artist captures field of rapeseed near Ballycotton, East Cork. MARGARET M. JOHNSON Ireland Hopping | Margaret M. Johnson The dilemma you face...

Bill Ochs. By Daniel Neely A memorial celebration for the great Bill Ochs will be held at All Souls Unitarian Church in Manhattan (79th Street and ...

John Munnelly ended the evening with four songs. By Karen Daly A great audience for the April Salon at Bar Thalia on Thursday, April 6 was rewarded...

Patrick J. Mahoney is co-author with Neil Hogan of “‘From A Land Beyond the Wave’: Connecticut’s Irish Rebels, 1798-1916.” Page Turner / By Peter M...

Tom Phelan on a recent trip to Mountmellick. PHOTO BY PATRICIA PHELAN This is the latest installment in Tom Phelan’s series about growing up in a f...