Dou's album is powerful arrival
If it’s the middle of July then it means it’s time for the Catskills Irish Arts Week, which at this very moment is in full swing up in East Durham,...
July 18, 2025
by Daniel Neely
Culture
BOOKS: Inspired by an IRA legend, 'Monaghan' enlarges our view of what it is to be human
In the classic short story ‘Guests of the Nation’ by Frank O’Connor, the narrator and his fellow soldier have befriended the two British hostages t...
July 18, 2025
by Rus Bradburd
Novelist in search of an identity
“This Side of Paradise’ unfurled like a banner over an entire age." So wrote A. Scott Berg in his biography “Max Perkins: Editor of Genius.” Its mo...
July 17, 2025
by Peter McDermott
Young, idealistic and clueless
Way back in 1963 I had returned to St. Patrick’s Seminary in Carlow from my Christmas vacation at my home in Ballina, Co. Mayo. The craic was good ...
July 16, 2025
by Seamus Clarke
Culture
Curtain up on Irish Premiere of Prison Play by Oscar Winner Terry George
THE Irish premiere of a play by Academy Award winning writer and director Terry George — long resident in the US — is set for the Belfast's Lyric T...
July 12, 2025
by Staff Reporter
Manager Keane signs O'Dowda
Ferencváros have confirmed the signing of Republic of Ireland international Callum O’Dowda from Cardiff City. The 30-year-old left-sided midfielder...
July 11, 2025
by Sean Creedon
Irish surprises in Andalusia
We came to San Lucar de Barrameda in Andalusia, Spain, to visit a friend who had left New York to make this once-booming southern Spanish town her ...
July 11, 2025
by Geoffrey Cobb
'Are you going for a jar?'
The proprietor of O’Shaughnessy’s of Glin, Co. Limerick, aka the Ivy House, likely never said, “Have you no homes to go to?” He must’ve known that ...
July 10, 2025
by Peter McDermott
Mission Accomplished: Check-in at The Wilder
I recently spent a few days in Dublin on a mission to do as many things as possible that I never got to do on previous visits. Stroll around the “h...
July 09, 2025
by Margaret M. Johnson
Carrick-on-Shannon duo have classic partnership
In the media yoke this week is “The Missing Guest,” the absolutely brilliant new album from flute player Mick Mulvey and fiddle player Shane Meehan...
July 08, 2025
by Daniel Neely
Musicians lift the 'June Gloom'
The fog had covered Jack London Square where Slainte Oakland is located. Many have the misconception of California as the proverbial ‘Sunshine Stat...
July 03, 2025
by Lori Cassels
Breen's solo statement delivers
In the media yoke this week is “Sooner or Later,” the most recent album from the brilliant fiddle player Tara Breen. A musician with an impeccable ...
July 03, 2025
by Daniel Neely