Culture

Silver Screen / By Karen Butler Double Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis has admitted that playing America’s 16th president in “Lincoln” was initially ...

Between the LInes / By Peter McDermott In a 1998 Newsday article about a Queens neighborhood, a local said: "We’re not Utopia, but we’re the closes...

Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely Jesse Smith has been a part of a lot of great albums. There’s “Think Before You Think” with Danú (2000), his so...

Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely I came across an album in my apartment last week that I really should have gotten to months ago, Gráinne Hollan...

Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott In 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt appointed David Gray, a member both of the WASP elite and his own fam...

By Charles Hale One of the outgrowths and benefits of the Irish American Writers & Artists’ salons has been the increasing number of collaborations...

At the opening night of the Irish Film New York last month, Lelia Doolan was a hard woman to catch. But, eventually she had some time to sit with t...

This past summer Irish rocker Joe Hurley, curated OurLand, a dynamic outdoor celebration of Irish heritage at Lincoln center. Now it’s Liam Ó Maonl...

Last week, I spoke with Tony Lawless, a fiddle and guitar player from Dublin who runs Tradconnect.com, a very impressive (and free!) website whose ...

Niamh Hyland may not always have been sure what path her life would take, but she knew that it would involve music. Tall, with short-cut auburn hai...

Patrick Clifford’s story is one that is familiar to many Irish-American music makers. From childhood accordion lessons in the Bronx with legendary ...

For Irish-American actor Aidan Quinn, who most recently starred in the cancelled NYPD drama “Prime Suspect,” the prospect of playing a New York pol...