Culture

In the deck this week is Dermot Byrne and Yvonne Casey’s most recent project, “As We Feel It.” A true duet CD, its delightfully straightforward art...

“No one says anything to the three women who have taken off their bikini tops, though people look at them with interest, with disapproval. They sit...

The press in Ireland has been buzzing about a controversy involving six priceless stained-glass windows by Irish artist Harry Clarke located in ico...

On Saturday, April 16, the Irish Family History Forum will present a webinar entitled: “Stories from Ellis Island: Those Who Were Held.” Profession...

Last week I received an email from Don Meade, a multi-instrumentalist who has been one of traditional music’s fiercest supporters for decades, that...

Sometimes the interviews on TV don’t do it. People have become immune to the horror, in Vinnie Nauheimer’s view. Twenty years ago this week, his fa...

Scallops, what Wikipedia calls “a cosmopolitan family of bivalves” and what Julia Child called “a creature of the sea that keeps house between two ...

A biting requiem for a bygone dreamer is heard wailing through the walls at the Irish Repertory Theatre this week, as the bell tolls for the modern...

Recently there have been heated discussions about the shameful role of many places in the British Isles in the transatlantic slave trade. One of th...

Uilleann pipers are traditionally an insular bunch. They have their own customs, their own habits and a way of interacting with one another that se...

In praising “Bone and Marrow/Cnámh agus Smior” as a “landmark collection,” Foster Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford Ian McBrid...

Today the Way of St. James, an increasingly popular pilgrimage trek to the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain not only draws mor...