Culture

The Spanish Flu, the pandemic that swept the world at the end of the second decade of the 20th century, has been mentioned a lot in the context of ...

Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely For the past couple of weeks there’s been a lot of gloom in this column, so this week I thought I’d try write s...

Maura Mulligan, right, presenting a donation raised by Nollaig Na mBan to Sr. Joann Sambs of the Dwelling Place of NY. PHOTO BY MARGARET MCCARTHY B...

The tribute to Percy French in Ballyjamesduff, County Cavan. By Gerry O'Shea Every culture needs a place and time for masks and costumes, rituals a...

Columnist Daniel Neely, with banjo, is among those performing at a Saturday afternoon session in Astoria, Queens, in August 2018. With social dista...

Tune Supply. By Daniel Neely NEW YORK, March 15 -- We are living in interesting times. We, as a country, have a very bumpy ride in store for the fo...

Tadhg Ó Meachair, left, Joanna Hyde and Dave Curley. By Colleen Taylor new international trio has designed their own iteration of transatlantic fol...

Former television writer Felicity Hayes-McCoy is the author of the Finfarran books. Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott In an essay at the back...

AW&A welcomes Ray Hegarty from the SAOL Project of Dublin. Clockwise from top left are Board Member John McDonagh, President Maria Deasy, Board Mem...

Lankum pictured before a performance at Berlin on New York's Lower East Side in October. PHOTO BY PETER MCDERMOTT By Daniel Neely Award-winning Dub...

Turtle Bunbury's latest book is "Ireland's Forgotten Past." Page Turner / By Peter McDermott “The Night of the Big Wind,” which took place on Jan. ...

Tommy Tiernan, right, and Mike McCormack in “Cumar: A Galway Rhapsody.” By Peter McDermott To sustain a living in the arts involves “risk and dange...