Culture

Folks, with the news of Seamus Begley’s recent death I took time this past week to go back through his catalog and listen to some of his older work...

It snowed in parts of Ireland last week, closing schools and causing havoc on roadways, especially in the west of the country. Weather like this is...

As the Origin’s 1st Irish Festival draws near to another end, the thrilling spectacle of this year’s chilling season has been the sight of live the...

The year 2023 has been a real challenge for traditional music thus far. Only two weeks into this new year we’ve seen several noteworthy deaths that...

At the halfway stage of the 2023 1st Irish Festival, Fishamble Theatre Company returns from on high to present the U.S. premiere of Eugene O’Brien’...

“The Smuggler,” which comes from the pen of a playwright from Galway and is performed by a Cork-born actor in the vernacular of Dublin, “is very mu...

It's August 1939. Europe’s boiling up to war. But Ireland’s having none of it. That’s a starting point for Honor Molloy’s new play “Dublin Noir,” w...

Genealogy can be a fascinating and rewarding hobby for people of all ages. However, getting family and friends interested in our research can often...

The 15th Annual 1st Irish Theatre Festival is under way, having been launched on Monday night at the Irish Consulate in New York. Here we have extr...

The Washington D.C.-based Solas Nua is presenting “Imbolc,” a new work written and performed by County Galway singer Maija Sofia, on Feb. 1, at 8 p...

Serious tea drinkers and wellness enthusiasts celebrate “National Hot Tea Month” in January. During the month, many extol the virtues of tea drinki...

When I was a child, my mother would join her friends, Mary Murphy, Nelly Tarpy and others to “go visiting” on January 6th for the holiday known as ...