Culture

Kyle Alden. By Colleen Taylor “The West,” in all its mystery and ruggedness, is a strong fixture in both the American and Irish cultural imaginatio...

Track Dogs had two radio hits in Ireland in 2016. By Colleen Taylor “Groovy” is not a word I often use in this column, but that’s just the adjectiv...

ANNAPUSTYNNIKOVA | DREAMSTIME.COM Ireland Hopping | Margaret M. Johnson If we were in Ireland this week, we’d all be scurrying to find the perfect ...

A scene from this year’s “Celtic Appalachia” at the Irish Arts Center. PHOTO: IAIN TOFT By Daniel Neely For the last six years, “Celtic Appalachia”...

Participants in the Fordham University symposium on Feb. 28, 2016 that preceded the Waking the Feminists’ launch in the U.S. By Orla O’Sullivan As ...

Jimmy Breslin, left, pictured with Pete Hamill at the 2014 NYU Glucksman House Gala Dinner, at which Hamill was honored. JAMES HIGGINS / HIGGINSPHO...

Their father would look in on them after his workday ended. He’d ask the three children if they had said their night prayers. On one occasion, the ...

Dr. David Brundage, the author of "Irish Nationalists in America," has taught at University of California, Santa Cruz, for more than 30 years. Page...

Wife-and-husband team Alison Perkins and Nicolas Brown. CAROLINE SHANKS By Daniel Neely The St. Patrick’s Day season is once again upon us, and hid...

Fish-smoker Frank Hederman with a smokehouse in Belvelly, Cobh, Cork, at the Midleton Farmers' Market. By Margaret M. Johnson During my first visit...

Young Tom Phelan at home on the farm in the early 1950s. By Tom Phelan [This is the latest in the author’s series about growing up in Mountmellick,...

Actor Gabriel Byrne. ROLLINGNEWS.IE By Peter McDermott The Irish have famously long memories. So said writer and comedian Maeve Higgins when discus...