Culture

Just back from another Catskills Irish Arts Week adventure. Loaded with crack, it was once again a very busy time that featured a great staff and a...

The founder of Conservativism’s most important journal, the National Review, William Buckley made intellectual conservatism respectable for the fir...

Justice Daniel Cohalan (1865-1946) was a key figure in the Irish-American nationalist movement during the Irish revolutionary period. Cohalan was b...

Let me be the first to remind you that, depending on when you read this, there are fewer than 165 days until Christmas! Shocking, I know, but you c...

Though few people today remember his name, millions of people around the world know Thomas Crawford’s most celebrated creation, his massive statue ...

Some unfortunate news to start: Seamus Tansey, the Sligo flute great, has passed away. A true master, Tansey was one of the music’s finest musician...

New York had long held a fascination for Joseph Jones, or Seosamh Mac Seoin, as he’s known in Irish language circles, since he was a young child gr...

Paul Gorry, a prominent Irish genealogist, and Brendan Scott, manager of the website Roots Ireland, had only ever been in contact via email before ...

Folks, last week the Irish Traditional Music Archive launched “From the Bridge: a view of Irish traditional music in New York,” a “major digital ex...

Declan O’Rourke will be back at his New York home away from home next week. The new Irish Arts Center hosts the Dublin singer-songwriter for concer...

The ever-effervescent Ruth Negga brings a sharp, defining performance to a bloodbath of bland in Sam Gold’s latest production of “Macbeth” at the L...

United Nation: The Case for Integrating Ireland by Frank Connolly (Gill Books, £14.99) How do you solve a problem called Identity? It’s a state of ...