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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 ...

Birgit Huppuch and Michael Laurence in “Poison,” presented by Origin Theatre Company at the Beckett Theatre PHOTO BY LOU MONTESANO By Orla O’Sulliv...

Cara Dillon, a steadfast favorite of the columnist's. By Colleen Taylor I feel compelled, this week more than ever, to celebrate women. Here are so...

The Noreside Studio in Yonkers By Daniel Neely A couple of things to cover this week. We’ll start with “Noreside” from the brilliant guitarist John...

Karen Daly. PHOTOS BY CHRISTOPHER BOOTH By Karen Daly and Maureen Hossbacher Music – pop, jazz, theater, Irish, folk – filled the air at the early ...

By Sean Devlin Irish actress Sarah Street’s acting resume isn’t short on top-level performances on stage and screen. Now Street and her group, the ...

Karen Daly played Winifred Carney. By Maura Mulligan Yours truly has been presenting Samhain celebrations since the early 1990s when I taught Irish...