Culture

Chuck Feeney’s lack of pretension comes from his working-class background in New Jersey. By Geoffrey Cobb Perhaps no other American better personif...

Apple bacon salad. Recipes | By Margaret M. Johnson Cool weather doesn’t mean the end of salad season, not by a long shot! Adding crisp apples, tan...

Bridie and Séamus on their wedding day. By Maura Mulligan When he thinks he’s alone and calls her name, she goes to his side. She takes his arm and...

"Orange Is the New Black” and “Star Trek: Voyager” star Kate Mulgrew. Irish American Writers & Artists, Inc. has announced that Kate Mulgrew will r...

Zoë Conway is among the star instructors at the O’Flaherty Retreat from Oct. 18 through Nov. 8. PHOTO: ZOECONWAY.COM By Daniel Neely I want to lead...

Eileen Scully is the author of “In the Company of Men: How Women Can Succeed in a World Built Without Them.” Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermot...

A woman takes a break from gardening to answer a 1940 census enumerator’s questions. U.S. CENSUS BUREAU By Peter McDermott A major heritage resourc...

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...

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...

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...

Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris both have a Finegan great-grandparent in their family tree (officially changed later to, or ofte...

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...