Culture
IAW&A Salon goes transatlantic
Imelda O'Reilly. Salon Diary / By Karen Daly A few hundred people on both sides of the Atlantic viewed and raved about IAW&A’s mid-September Transa...
September 29, 2020
by Karen Daly
Culture
Welcome Autumn with All Things Apple
Apples season has begun. Recipes | By Margaret M. Johnson Autumn officially arrived Tuesday at 9:30 a.m., the beginning of a season that’s generall...
September 25, 2020
by Margaret M. Johnson
Culture
An anthropologist analyzes the seisiún
The seisiún may not be as egalitarian as it appears. Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely Last week I was reading an interesting and reasonably rece...
September 24, 2020
by Daniel Neely
Culture
Running mates share a family name
Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris both have a Finegan great-grandparent in their family tree (officially changed later to, or ofte...
September 23, 2020
by Peter McDermott
Culture
Lardoolin Gets A Special Mission
How many people said at the beginning of lockdown that they were going to write that novel or screenplay or volume of poems they'd been planning fo...
September 23, 2020
by By Peter McDermott
Culture
Hughes’s ‘Belfast Blues’ goes digital
Geraldine Hughes "Belfast Blues" debuts this evening as part of the Irish Repertory Theatre's Digital Fall Season and continues through Sept. 27. G...
September 22, 2020
by Peter McDermott
Culture
New film to take on an old topic
Aoife Williamson will direct "Work." By Peter McDermott Before Eve, there was Lilith. Indeed, the latter goes way back. She was the Sumerian Queen ...
September 21, 2020
by Peter McDermott
Culture
Traitor who continues to intrigue
William Joyce. By Geoffrey Cobb On the morning of Jan. 3, 1946, the governor of Wandsworth Prison came to condemned man William Joyce’s cell to inf...
September 18, 2020
by Geoffrey Cobb
Culture
Halfway to St. Patrick’s Day !
Irish stew. Recipes | By Margaret M. Johnson Today marks the second most celebrated day on the Irish calendar, the day optimists call “Halfway to S...
September 17, 2020
by Margaret M. Johnson
Culture
Trad artists impacted by fees increase
Terry Moylan's book includes lyrics, melodies, liner notes, and commentary from Frank Harte’s nine albums. Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely Last...
September 16, 2020
by Daniel Neely
Culture
Dancers aim to ‘Stamp Out Covid’
In step, six feet apart. By Maura Mulligan I hadn’t seen my New York City Dance students since early March, except when they showed up on screen fo...
September 15, 2020
by Maura Mulligan
Culture
Heslin to lead NYIC
George Heslin. By Peter McDermott A new era begins at 10-40 Jackson Ave. on Oct. 1. While the New York Irish Center has been largely empty and sile...
September 14, 2020
by Peter McDermott