Culture

If you are Irish, or Irish American, and came of age in the late 1970s, U2 has a special place in your heart. Bono, U2’s lead singer, has just publ...

If it’s the third week in March it means that the Saint Patrick season is once again upon us! It’s the time of year when our traditional musicians ...

At the 23rd Annual St. Pat’s for All Parade 6 March Roderic O’Gorman, T.D., the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth,...

It may be a cliché, but everyone really is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day! Aran knits, tweed caps, shamrock-emblazoned scarves, and any apparel with ev...

In “Whale,” a story in John McCaffrey’s collection “Automatically Hip,” a high-school student tells the class that his grandfather was a typesetter...

An enjoyable evening of film, music and literature took place at the Ellington on West 105th Street, hosted by IAW&A Vice President, Brendan Costel...

Mick Moloney, who as most readers will know passed away last July, is one of the legendary figures in Irish music. No one, save the great Francis O...

My father died after a long illness in 2016. The news of his final days came while I was on a mini-tour that took me to Florida and Las Vegas. I sa...

Pillow talk has never felt quite so clinical, or revealing, than in the U.S. premiere of “Conversations After Sex,” a one act as explicit as the na...

When the members of Northern Ireland Legislative Assembly gathered on July 1, 1998, it wasn’t the DUP or Sinn Féin that challenged the new system f...

They met “40 something” years ago, Rigoerto Torres told me, speaking of himself and his partner in art John Ahearn, while we chatted one recent aft...

Starting this week with a quick note to say that I just learned Mick Mulvey (who is originally from London but who now lives in Carrick-on-Shannon)...