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Joseph O’Connor will return with the Frank McCourt Creative Writing Summer School in June. By Peter McDermott Writer Joseph O’Connor has long been ...

Tara O’Grady performing with the Black Velvet Band. PHOTO BY DAN BROWN Salon Diary / By Karen Daly IAW&A joined charismatic singer Tara O’Grady to ...

Annie Reilly. By Geoffrey Cobb T.S. Elliot once noted that April was the cruelest of months, but who cares what he said anyway, for he was nothing ...

Ye Vagabonds’ Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn. By Daniel Neely On Saturday, I spent the evening over at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall space to see the ...

SALLY SCOTT | DREAMSTIME Ireland Hopping | By Margaret M. Johnson If rhubarb hasn’t made its official appearance yet where you live, you can expect...

Some members of the Kilfenora Céilí Band in the studio. Music Notes / By Colleen Taylor There’s no better gateway to nostalgia than a céilí band co...

Tara O’Grady will sign books on this Friday at Kew &Willow Books, 81-63 Lefferts Blvd., Kew Gardens, Queens, New York City, at 7 p.m. PHOTO BY RICH...

Bina McLoughlin. Film Review / By Peter McDermott Bina McLoughlin was unhappy that her application to the minister for a house-renovation grant was...

John Kearns and Annalisa Chamberlin. PHOTOS BY DAN BROWN Salon Diary / By Karen Daly Poet Marcia B. Loughran summed up the mid-March IAW&A Salon at...

Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely I want to start off this week by recognizing New York-based concertina player Mattie Talty, who passed away on ...

Book Review / By Gerry O'Shea “We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It: A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood,” by Tom Phelan; published by Gallery Books in hard...

Professor Kevin Kenny, the author of "Diaspora," will speak about the Paxton Boys, an 18th-century Pennsylvania militia, at Glucksman Ireland House...