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I grew up eating wonderful desserts my mother baked nearly every day — crisp sugar cookies, fudgy brownies, rich banana bread. Nothing fancy or too...

A couple things to let readers know about this week. I’ll start with the Irish Music Traditional Archive’s just-launched hour-long video interview ...

In 2019, Rosie Schaap left her home in Brooklyn, a place that is world famous, to live in Glenarm, Co. Antrim, a village that even some in Northern...

“Equally horrified” was the combined response from Brian Friel’s agent in New York and his editor at the New Yorker magazine to his news that he’d ...

First off, congrats to everyone who went over to compete at the Fleadh this year! Special congratulations to Los Angeles’s own Rio Navarro, who pla...

Forty years ago last week, I had my passport stamped at Shannon Airport with the official greeting: “Permitted to land in Ireland for three months....

It’s a measure of Manchester City’s preeminence right now that they’re the bookies’ favorites to win the 2024-25 Premier League title. Yes, they ar...

Belfast rappers Kneecap established themselves as a riotous success in their native city and a rising force all over Ireland in the past three year...

“Keepers of the Steps,” an Irish dance historical preservation, archive, and outreach program, has quickly grown to be a cornerstone program for th...

On the last Sunday in July when thousands were climbing Croagh Patrick in my native County Mayo, the women of Nollaig na mBan NY and friends celebr...

This is a good year for anniversaries in the GAA, who themselves are celebrating their 140th anniversary. The Ladies Gaelic football Association ar...

An informed public had reason to be grateful last week that we still have a media with the resources to check stuff. The New York Times, most promi...