Culture

On the other side of Christmas is Yuletide, the twelve-day festive season that marks the span between the birth of Christ on December 25 (the first...

Sophie Toscan du Plantier had a choice: a peaceful hideaway, nestled amidst rolling green hills, or one in a wilder, coastal, more remote part of I...

Congratulations to Manhattan’s own Swift Hibernian Lounge (www.swiftnycbar.com), which celebrated its 26th anniversary last week. Swift’s is one of...

Mam performed her usual magic over the open fire that Christmas Day in 1951 when I was 11. At dinnertime the glazed turkey, drumsticks in the air, ...

The Celtic Junction Arts Center of Minneosta has paid tribute to its "poet laureate" Ethna McKiernan (70) of St Paul who passed away last week. A p...

Ten days and counting to Christmas! After two rather miserable years of smaller gatherings and quieter celebrations, we can all only hope that Chri...

From growing up to grown, from childhood to young adulthood and even now, in what I will euphemistically call middle age, I have been asked this qu...

It’s dark. You’re in aisle seat E1 in the tiered seating of the new Irish Arts Center, 726 11th Ave. You feel a finger being run down your upper ar...

The Poor Mouth Theatre Company is returning with its pantomime in the Bronx this week. It’s the pantomime, or panto, in the Irish and British sense...

Traditionally, the biggest and most important festival in the Christian calendar is Christmas, and nowhere is it greeted more enthusiastically than...

There have been scores of feature films made about Northern Ireland’s Troubles, but very few of them seem to capture the perspective of the ordinar...

Seamus Scanlon’s “The Butterfly Love Song” film had its 20th festival outing at the Underground Cinema in Dublin on Nov. 14, where it won four awar...