Culture

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...

Concertina player extraordinaire Brenda Castles, who has been sighted quite a bit around New York City as of late, has a brand new album out and it...

“It started first as an investigation into one Irish Jewish writer’s life and interests, and then became transformed into a fervent quest for a los...

Michael Collins and Richard Mulcahy didn’t quite handpick the men they sent out in early 1918 to organize the Irish Volunteers. It was a self-selec...

Ooh, it’s a good one this week! Up first, we have “The Dreamer,” the new tune book from Chicago-based pianist and accordion player Marty Fahey. Fah...