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Ireland Hopping / By Margaret M. Johnson Few people passing through Kilkenny fail to stop — or shop — at Nicholas Mosse, the renown Bennettsbridge ...

Garry Hynes, who won a Tony for her direction of “The Beauty Queen of Leenane” will direct the production that opens tomorrow at BAM’s Harvey Theat...

Oldtime Records meets an elite standard when reissuing music. By Daniel Neely As a huge fan of early Irish music recordings and of Irish traditiona...

Hibernia: an outdated concept? By Colleen Taylor This week, I experienced one of the most humbling surprises in the course of my time reviewing Iri...

The author in front of the statue of Marcus Daly in Butte, Mont. By Harry Dunleavy The State of Montana, known in Spanish times as Territoria De La...

Two Ulster writers, Brian Friel, left, and John Montague, spoke when the latter was conferred with an honorary doctorate in UCD on Bloomsday 2011. ...

Kevin Rowsome is in the fifth generation of a famous piping family and his daughters are part of the sixth. By Daniel Neely The name “Rowsome” is o...

Liam Neeson dropped “16 or 17 pounds” for his role as Jesuit missionary Fr. Ferreira in "Silence." PARAMOUNT PICTURES By Karen Butler Ballymena-bor...

DANIELLE MCCOLLUM | DREAMSTIME.COM Recipes | Margaret M. Johnson For more than 100 years, brunch — derived from the words “breakfast” and “brunch” ...

By Daniel Neely Frank Harte was one of Ireland’s greatest traditional singers and perhaps its greatest song collector. A source for musicians like ...

By Colleen Taylor Historically speaking, 2016 had many ups and downs, but musically speaking, 2016 was full of highlights. Here are my five favorit...

By Joseph Goodrich “By Women Possessed” by Arthur Gelb and Barbara Gelb; Putnam hardcover; 896 pp; $50. “The demand that I make of my reader,” Jame...