Culture

“The only thing that really works there is a mixture of the cultures.” So said Jimmy Fay about Belfast, where he is the executive producer of the L...

County Wicklow ticks all the boxes when it comes to its place in Ireland’s Ancient East: it’s one of the three coastal counties, along with Wexford...

Katie Taylor has brushed off any talk of retirement after confirming a rematch with Chantelle Cameron is being lined up for November. The Bray boxe...

It will be James Joyce meets “Jeopardy” this Sunday at Bloom’s Tavern on Manhattan’s East 58th Street A quiz has become part of the eclectic mix at...

Each month, the Irish Traditional Music Archive showcases an artist composing new works in the traditional idiom in a series they call “Saothar.” L...

Perhaps no place in the world sells more Irish Coffees than the Buena Vista Bar in San Francisco, California, which serves around 2,000 on any week...

"I wrote this book to help you learn more about Ireland and to help you decide which topics interest you so much that you will want to look for eve...

Soon after his most famous work was published in 1922, James Joyce began work on his most mystifying, "Finnegans Wake." It took 17 years to complet...

It’s always a good week when I have a new release from Nuala Kennedy to write about, and it just so happens that in the media player this week is a...

Galway writer Seamus Scanlon has been awarded a Queens Arts Fund New Work grant by the New York Foundation for the Arts to present the bilingual En...

Patrick Kavanagh has been referred to as the most important Irish poet in the decades between W.B. Yeats’s death and the rise of Seamus Heaney. And...

County Kildare is often called “the centerpiece of Ireland’s Ancient East,” with every town and village packed with heritage sites ranging from ear...