Culture

"I wrote this book to help you learn more about Ireland and to help you decide which topics interest you so much that you will want to look for eve...

Soon after his most famous work was published in 1922, James Joyce began work on his most mystifying, "Finnegans Wake." It took 17 years to complet...

It’s always a good week when I have a new release from Nuala Kennedy to write about, and it just so happens that in the media player this week is a...

Galway writer Seamus Scanlon has been awarded a Queens Arts Fund New Work grant by the New York Foundation for the Arts to present the bilingual En...

Patrick Kavanagh has been referred to as the most important Irish poet in the decades between W.B. Yeats’s death and the rise of Seamus Heaney. And...

County Kildare is often called “the centerpiece of Ireland’s Ancient East,” with every town and village packed with heritage sites ranging from ear...

Starting this week with the sad news of the untimely passing of Barry Lynch. Lynch was a gifted multi-instrumentalist, involved over the years with...

The Origin Theatre Company’s annual reading series “Plays in May" (formerly “Mondays in May”) continues with “Coritsol” on next Monday, May 22, at ...

Do all your U.S.-based records for your Irish immigrant ancestors only list “Ireland” as the place of origin? Are you unable to trace your ancestry...

There is much to be grateful for, so I continue to muster fortitude in navigating through this maze called “life.” I now think it's in my blood! Ho...

Congratulations to the the Mid-Atlantic Region of Comhatas Ceoltóirí Éireann on another successful Mid-Atlantic Fleadh! It was a heartwarming scene...

One of four Celtic Fire Festivals, Bealtaine celebrates fertility and the beginning of summer in Ireland and other Celtic lands. The word “Bealtain...