Culture

“Two By Synge” – namely “The Tinker’s Wedding” and “In The Shadow of the Glen” – began a couple of weeks back and continues at the W. Scott McLucas...

Joanna Clare is a young fiddle player who grew up in Rochester, N.Y., and moved to Baltimore in 2018, where she’s become an important part of the t...

I have been illustrating and painting our natural environment and parks in my spare time for the last 20 years and have always been keen to explore...

Irish American Writers & Artists’ March virtual Salon, effortlessly led by California songwriter and playwright Lori Cassels, gathered a wonderful ...

“Ireland 1922,” published by the Royal Irish Academy, is comprised of 50 essays from 50 contributors, who each focus on an aspect of an extraordina...

“It was a glorious time.” That’s how David James described his stay in the West Clare cottage of fellow poet Thomas Lynch. His more than a month ne...

“Taken by the sea he so loved.” These are the bittersweet words inscribed on my late husband’s tombstone. Nic was a born seaman and thrived the mos...

The Republic of Ireland had an excess mortality rate of 12.5 per 100,000 people during 2020 and 2021, according to a major global study in the Lanc...

I’ll start this week with a hearty congratulations to the great balladeer Jimmy Crowley, who I recently learned has published his 1,000th column ab...

By Rachel Gotto I had already been in labor for two days. Each contraction brought with it gripping pain but little else. I was determined to give ...

Recently, I was on a flight heading home from Lisbon, Portugal when I heard two Irish voices behind me. It turned out that the men had just watched...

Nothing is more synonymous with Easter than chocolate! From simple eggs and bunnies to sophisticated desserts like tarts, cakes, and cheesecakes, c...