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Between the Lines / Peter McDermott We've mentioned in the Echo the alliances involving writers and musicians in recent times - most notably betwee...

London-born, Portland resident fiddler Kevin Burke, now age 60, has lost none of the spellbinding silkiness in his playing. Though his parents hail...

I was at home in Ireland last week renewing my visa. The weather was unbelievable -- so amazing that I didn't want to come back to New York. That's...

“The House of Blue Leaves” By John Guare • Walter Kerr Theatre, 218 W. 48th St., NYC • Open-Ended Run Alone among the plays of the Irish-American d...

"Did you hear about the two blondes who walked into a building?" Seamus Begley asked the audience. "Wouldn't you think one of them would have seen ...

Michael Leach's latest book "Why Stay Catholic?" is about the "good stuff in Catholicism. Beautiful Catholic ideas we never hear about, even from t...

"War Horse" By Nick Stafford • At the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center, NYC • Open-Ended Run You probably won't ever forget the ears. If y...

By Peter McDermott I saw my first ever vulture when climbing the Volcán Maderas in Nicaragua a year ago. The first in the flesh, that is. And it wa...

Is this the Era of Acquiescence, the Decade of Docility, or the New Gilded Age? Not if Jesse Winch and Nat Hentoff have anything to say about it cu...

"Janie Condon: Raw & Unchained" Directed by Gus Kaikkonen • St. Luke's Theatre, 308 West 46th St., NYC • Through May 3, 2011Doing stand-up comedy s...

Remember the surfeit of albums with the word "Celtic" or "Celt" in their titles? They bobbed like buoys in a slick-green sea swollen by post-"River...

I am back in New York after a short break. I was at Wisconsin University, Madison for the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) last week. I...