Culture

I lived in Tribeca then. I was training for the 2001 New York City marathon and every morning I’d run past the ferries, past the office people, ste...

The story has a humble beginning. It was in 1951, in a small town in Ireland’s Southeast, when a group of friends decided that instead of just list...

This is how the world ends: not with a “bang,” but with an interlude of anger and laughter, before all has gone quieter, darker and still. That is ...

Deaths just seem to come in threes, don’t they? Just after learning about the passing of Robin Morton and Tony MacMahon last week came news of the ...

The sun rose to welcome each new September day inviting locals as well as visitors to Achill Island’s Keem Bay. The rain stayed away, so sheep didn...

“Made by God” will be presented on this coming Sunday at Ryan’s Daughter, 350 East 85th St. (between 1st and 2nd Avenues), New York, N.Y. from 3-6 ...

It’s official: autumn is here, and that means so are the “U-Pick” signs. Even if you’re not in an apple-picking area, you can still pick them up at...

At IAW&A’s late September virtual Salon, writer Maureen Hossbacher smoothly organized and hosted a stellar evening of poetry, song, story and histo...

It seems that no matter what time of year you visit Dublin, the cranes are always in full bloom. And now, there’s an application on the table that ...

New York and USA stories figure prominently in a fascinating new book on the GAA – written by people at the heart of the association nationwide. "G...

Jim Conway, a retired civil servant from Lurgan, Co. Armagh, had heard of George William Russell, the Lurgan-born poet and painter, but considered ...

At age 22, Gordon Bennett Jr. in a letter thanked his parents for their sacrifices and their example. It was 1940, and the ultimate sacrifice was s...