Culture

The San Francisco-based author Ethel Rohan will interview first-time novelist Louise Kennedy as part of Bookshop West Portal’s Irish author intervi...

The excitement of a restriction-free Halloween in New York City was palpable everywhere on Oct. 31, but you didn’t have to take part in the revived...

In 1962, President John F. Kennedy declared in a speech at Yale that “the greatest enemy of truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived, ...

Down’s Hunter changed U.S. education Today corporal punishment is not a part of most children’s education thanks in part to Irishman Thomas Hunter,...

Readers, I’ve had Niamh Dunne’s new solo album “Tides” in my media player this week, and if it’s something new-fangled and cool that you’re after a...

County Wexford-born artist Helen O’Leary will give a talk entitled “COST,” on next Tuesday, Nov. 8 at 6:30 p.m. ET as part of New York Studio Schoo...

“The next Jackson County executive will face a long list of complicated, important issues: construction of a new jail, an aging downtown courthouse...

Fresh figs are thought to have been used as early as 2000 B.C. One of the first fruits to be dried and stored, figs appear regularly in both the Ol...

A little while back, I received a parcel from the Irish Traditional Music Archive that contained, among other things, a handsomely presented two CD...

Peter Quinn was once visited by agents of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. So he reveals in his memoir “Cross Bronx: A Writing Life,” which has ...

Martin McDonagh’s new film “Banshees of Inisherin” arrives in New York City cinemas this month, boosted by film-festival fanfare and press rumbling...

A quite remarkable book recently came my way called “Cry of a People Gone: Irish Musicians in Chicago 1920-2020” by Richie Piggott. The result of “...