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In approaching “Burning Down,” Ashley Davis said “Go big…because why not?” Music Notes / By Colleen Taylor There are musicians who are steadfast—wh...

Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott “The Long-winded Lady” contributed sketches to the New Yorker’s “Talk of the Town” column that are celebrat...

Mushrooms on toast. DESISLAVA VASILIVA | DREAMSTIME.COM IRELAND HOPPING | By Margaret M. Johnson I’ve just returned from a cruise that included sto...

Jesse Smith's nuanced eye is at work in many trad posters and album covers. By Daniel Neely Walk into a place like the Druid pub in Cambridge and o...

Liam Ó Maonlaí is touring the U.S. this month. PHOTO BY TARA KEANE By Stephanie Wells Liam Ó Maonlaí has been the charismatic front man for the int...

Mikel Murfi. PHOTO BY VITALIY PILTSER By Brendan Costello "I Hear You and Rejoice" at the Irish Arts Center, through Oct. 21 (in rotating repertory...

Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely Jerry O’Sullivan, the acclaimed uilleann piper from Yonkers, is known for his work with Green Fields of America...

James Frecheville as Feeney. PHOTOS COURTESY OF IFC Film Review / By Michael Gray The people of Ireland can be justly proud of the achievements of ...

Mikel Murfi stars in “I Hear You and Rejoice” and “The Man in the Woman’s Shoes” at the Irish Arts Center. PHOTO BY PAT REDMOND By Orla O’Sullivan ...

Dubliner Shane O’Regan, who has had glowing reviews for his New York debut, learned some relevant family information when in Belgium doing research...

Mark O'Connor. By Mike Houlihan Film buffs claim D.W. Griffith made the first gangster movie in 1912, “The Musketeers of Pig Alley,” starring Lilia...

Anna Maxwell Martin, left, stars as Wendy Parry and Vicky McClure is Susan McHugh in “Mother’s Day.” By Mike Houlihan “Out of terrible circumstance...