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"The Dimming of the Day" is an album from Uaine, a new band made up of well-known musicians By Daniel Neely It’s a difficult time right now, but as...

New Ireland manager Stephen Kenny, left, his assistant Keith Andrews, and Jim Crawford, who has stepped in as manager of the Under 21 squad, were p...

The Shelbourne Hotel. Recipes | By Margaret M. Johnson The Shelbourne Hotel on St. Stephen’s Green has been the social center of Dublin since it op...

A sign helping with social distancing in St. Stephen’s Green in central Dublin on March 24. ROLLING NEWS/LEAH FARRELL By Colleen Taylor “In the tim...

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...