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SRO Saturdays at Lillie’s
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SRO Saturdays at Lillie’s
Dan Neely, on the banjo, said of this photo: “Jimmy O’Kelly took it a while back. It was a particularly good day when a lot of great musicians happ...
Skirball reaches elusive targets
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Skirball reaches elusive targets
For Michael Harrington, social media represents opportunity as the "arts are so visual." By Orla O’Sullivan It’s the biggest theatre you’ve never h...
Global themes grounded in Cobh
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Global themes grounded in Cobh
Pat Kinevane in "Underneath." By Orla O’Sullivan Pat Kinevane, who pioneered the “show in a bag” idea, lives his life from a bag. “Thank God I live...
'Echoes of Erin’ hits East Coast
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'Echoes of Erin’ hits East Coast
The cover of New York fiddler Dana Lyn and guitarist Kyle Sanna’s fabulous new album “The Great Arc.” By Daniel Neely Gailfean is an excellent new ...
Cool Irish acts get showcased in NYC
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Cool Irish acts get showcased in NYC
HamsandwicH. By Colleen Taylor Ireland’s sounding pretty cool these days. Two of the island’s freshest-sounding groups have released even newer hit...
Director picked ‘regal,’ ‘scary,’ ‘bad-ass’ Mara
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Director picked ‘regal,’ ‘scary,’ ‘bad-ass’ Mara
PHOTO: WARNER BROTHERS By Karen Butler British filmmaker Joe Wright has been taking a lot of heat for casting Rooney Mara as Tiger Lily in his Pete...
Hemingway, JFK links explored
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Hemingway, JFK links explored
Tina Santi Flaherty is the author "What Jackie Taught Us." By Orla O’Sullivan There was an affinity between Ernest Hemingway and President Kennedy ...
CD focuses on women’s history
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CD focuses on women’s history
Ellen O'Byrne DeWitt established Columbia Records' Irish catalog. By Daniel Neely Women in the early days of recorded Irish music is the focus of “...
Still there, after all these years
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Still there, after all these years
The author goes down memory lane at Weldon House. By Pat Fenton For 33 years, my father Andrew Fenton worked for Con Ed down on Hudson Avenue in th...
DJ Gallagher is national star
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DJ Gallagher is national star
Former “Ceol na Gael” host Kerri Gallagher, placed 3rd, and Shannon Rowbury was 2nd in the 1,500 meters at the USATF Championships and went on to r...
Bath is farmer’s war room
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Bath is farmer’s war room
Peter Maloney and Rufus Collins in a scene from “The Quare Land.” PHOTO: CAROL ROSEGG By Orla O’Sullivan A man walks into a bath… Well, not quite, ...
McManus is on winning streak
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McManus is on winning streak
Playwright John McManus, front, with the cast of "The Quare Land," Rufus Collins, left, and Peter Maloney. PHOTO MICHAEL GOTTLIEB By Orla O'Sulliva...

 

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