Culture

[caption id="attachment_67063" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Jamie Kierans (left) and Demian Bichir star in the new Irish film The Runwa...

[caption id="attachment_67032" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Soul of concentration: Mike Rafferty on the uilleann pipes. "][/caption] On...

[caption id="attachment_66923" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Seamus Heaney."][/caption] We Irish are very proud of our four Noble laurea...

[caption id="attachment_66919" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="A young Barry Fitzgerald (right) starred in the 1935 Irish silent film, "Gu...

[caption id="attachment_66887" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Mike Rafferty."][/caption] On Tuesday, September 13, the day Mike Rafferty ...

A Night With George By Donna O'Connor & Brenda Murphy • 1st Irish Festival 2011 • Times Square Arts Center, NYC • Through October 2, 2011) The solo...

Cannon's Blackthorn, 49 North Village Ave. Rockville Centre, NY, will present popular Irish American singer Andy Cooney and his band on Thursday, S...

[caption id="attachment_66776" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="John Updike giving the Jefferson Lecture in 2008, the year before his death...

Irish folk hero Finn McCool, or Fionn mac Cumhaill, may have acquired his gift of wisdom from a salmon, but smart cooks know they can always rely o...

[caption id="attachment_66738" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Joe Derrane (sitting front and center) with many of the performers from "A ...

The first voice I heard on the morning of September 11, 2001 was an Irish one - specifically, a Belfast one. After what would be the last truly nor...

[caption id="attachment_66613" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="The shot seen 'round the world."][/caption] The supreme courage displayed b...