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Maeve Gilchrist By Michael Quinlin Boston --- It is that time of year, when New England overflows with the perfect harmonies of Celtic music and Ch...

Liz Hanley, Leni Sloan and John Roberts. By Daniel Neely Christmas time is always an exciting part of the New York’s Irish calendar. Among the deli...

Rep. Joe “You lie!” Wilson of South Carolina By Peter McDermott Political correctness is in the eye, ear and mind of the beholder. For example, it ...

Caitríona O’Leary spent years studying and singing the work on “Wexford Carols.” By Colleen Taylor I recently came across an album that combines so...

Cranberry Pudding. MONKEY BUSINESS | DREAMTIME.COM Recipes | By Margaret M. Johnson Thanksgiving may be done and gone, but delicious cranberry reci...

Laoisa Sexton and John Keating in “The Pigeon in the Taj Mahal.” TREVORMURPHY.TV By Orla O’Sullivan “C’m here, I’ll tell you a question,” Laoisa Se...

Cara Dillon. By Colleen Taylor Cara Dillon’s Christmas album is finally here, but it’s not at all what I expected. Usually when an album comes arou...

Mike Flanagan, on right, Louis, center, and Joe emigrated with their family from Waterford City to New York in 1911. By Michael-John DePalma In mid...

Eugene O'Neill. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS [First published on October 12, 2011. See postscript below. For a recent Q & A with Barbara Gelb, go here.] By ...

Arthur Gelb and Barbara Gelb in Trinity College Dublin. © GELB PERSONAL COLLECTION 2016 Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott Nine years after th...

At a special show at Yeats’s Lissadell House in Sligo in 2010, Leonard Cohen spoke of the privilege of performing where the “master poet” walked, w...

Pauline Conneely is an important figure in the Chicago trad scene. By Daniel Neely As a banjo player, I am always delighted when a great new banjo ...