Culture

For more than a decade, Donie Carroll, one of New York City’s great musical fixtures, has organized an annual fundraising concert in support of Mer...

The sins of our actions have come home to roost in a comedy that sets course for catastrophe, yet narrowly escapes its fate, raising controversial ...

The hopes and dreams of Mets fans have died their annual death. There was to be no Subway Series this year. The first and only time the Metropolita...

A bit of a trad-adjacent column this week! First bit of news is the announcement that the Cork International Choral Festival’s 2025 Seán Ó Riada Co...

Saint Paul, MN – This fall, Celtic Junction Arts Center is proud to offer audiences the best in contemporary Irish music and film with its Sunday E...

Did you know there are over 100 types of squash including summer squash (most common varieties are zucchini, crookneck, and scallop), ornamental sq...

“I think of him now, as I did then, as driven by an insatiable desire for art-making, looking, studying, talking.” The words are from Wales-based t...

Lots of great music out there these days which means I’ve got some great stuff to look forward to writing about and this week is no exception. In t...

Recent Irish immigrant to New York Joseph Pelan landed a job with BBC News’ “Talking Movies,” not long after arriving. He has answered a few questi...

At Dublin’s 48 Gardiner St. Lower, a plaque honors the boyhood home of Greek-Irish writer Patrick Lafacadio Hearn, who is barely known in Ireland, ...

Novelist Alice McDermott will receive the 2024 Eugene O’Neill Lifetime Achievement Award at a New York ceremony next Monday evening, Oct. 21. The I...

This week I’ll lead with a mighty congratulations to Fiona Ritchie, who at the end of last month stepped away from “The Thistle & Shamrock,” the NP...