Culture

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...

Geraldine Hughes "Belfast Blues" debuts this evening as part of the Irish Repertory Theatre's Digital Fall Season and continues through Sept. 27. G...

Aoife Williamson will direct "Work." By Peter McDermott Before Eve, there was Lilith. Indeed, the latter goes way back. She was the Sumerian Queen ...

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...

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...