Culture

Mick Moloney. PHOTO COURTNEY KING/EMERALD By Colleen Taylor This week, Dublin will commemorate the centenary of the Easter Rising. Naturally, music...

Weldon House postcard from the 1940s. Ads in the Brooklyn Eagle. By Pat Fenton The smells, and music and memories of places we remember are who we ...

Seán Farren, left, and John Hume talking to the media a few days before the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. ROLLING NEWS.IE Page Turn...

Lucy McDiarmid. PHOTO: XANTHE ELBRICK In 2015, the Irish Echo asked Lucy McDiarmid about her book “Poets and the Peacock Dinner: the literary histo...

Comedian Maeve Higgins, on left of picture, actor-playwright Honor Molloy, at the end of the table, and playwright Lisa Tierney-Keogh, at the podiu...

The High Kings. By Colleen Taylor Having spent St. Patrick’s Day in about 10 different cities and countless different music venues, it remains my f...

[caption id="attachment_82931" align="alignnone" width="300"] Martin O'Grady, left, and Erin Loughran, on right, with student on McLean Avenue.[/ca...

Colum McCann in Woodside after Sunday’s 2016 St. Pat’s For All Parade, of which he was co-grand marshal with Loretta Brennan Glucksman. Page Turner...

Some of the attendees at the Fordham University symposium to help launch Waking The Feminists in New York on Feb. 28. By Orla O’Sullivan The femini...

Nav, who is originally from Tipperary, Mandy, a native Iowan, and Ryan enjoy a family Saturday afternoon in the Shannon Pot. PHOTOS: PETER MCDERMOT...

Slow Moving Clouds. By Daniel Neely Slow Moving Clouds is an excellent, fascinating new group that draws on and re-imagines traditional Irish, Nord...

Mongoose on stage. By Colleen Taylor This week, I’ve been enjoying the “jolks” of a mongoose—and that’s a sentence only partly punned. The young Du...