Culture

By Daniel Neely If it seems like Irish music dominates the traditional Celtic scene in New York, it’s because it does: here in New York City there ...

[caption id="attachment_80072" align="alignnone" width="300"] Sarah McQuaid plays exclusively in dadgad, a type of toning for the Celtic guitar.[/c...

Donal O'Kelly and Sorcha Fox in a scene from “Little Thing, Big Thing.” By Orla O'Sullivan What might a criminal and a nun have in common? That's o...

"On her birthday," by Seamus Scanlon Seamus Scanlon. He left Belfast around 2 am. Light traffic. He liked driving at night... no school runs, no ru...

[caption id="attachment_80020" align="alignnone" width="300"] Dan Barry extolled the virtues of Ireland's national game in the New York Times recen...

By Daniel Neely Formed in 1983, Buttons and Bows is one of the great groups playing traditional Irish music today. Made up of Séamus McGuire (fiddl...

[caption id="attachment_79992" align="alignnone" width="300"] The work of John Blek (leaning forward) and the Rats probes the dark and the light.[/...

[caption id="attachment_79978" align="alignnone" width="300"] Jack O’Connell, who will play Jimmy the Bartender in “Stoopdreamer,” was at the launc...

[caption id="attachment_79955" align="alignnone" width="300"] Pat Fenton's play "Stoopdreamer" opens Friday night for 21 performances at the Cell T...

[caption id="attachment_79936" align="alignnone" width="300"] A refreshing and decidedly un-gimmicky album celebrating community and musical bonds....

[caption id="attachment_79894" align="alignnone" width="300"] “Black ‘47” by Michael Farrell depicts the imagined trial of Charles Trevelyan.[/capt...

Between the Lines / By Peter McDermott [caption id="attachment_79868" align="alignnone" width="300"] Jeremy Corbyn.[/caption] I’ve been having an e...