Culture

Visitors to Belfast in recent times find it to be a modern, bustling European city, replete with diverse culinary options and musical entertainment...

From a cooperative weaving mill founded in 1732 on the banks of the Avoca River in Wicklow, to a thriving handweaving business in the 1970s, to a c...

Unlike the 16th, the 26th of this month doesn't have any particular literary resonance. However, a week from Monday, Honor Molloy and Joseph Goodri...

For as long as I’ve been able to talk, I have been a storyteller. And while telling stories always came very natural to me, the act of writing stor...

The New York Irish Center will host the 2023 Craic LGBT Film Fest tomorrow evening, June 15. It will feature screenings of Mark O’Halloran’s “Rialt...

We’ve had quite the week in New York. Some here might relate, then, to the old Irish proverb: “Na trí cairde is fearr agus na trí naimhde is measa:...

“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...