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Gregory Crouch. Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott If you’ve never heard of the leading 19th century industrialist John William Mackay, it’s b...

David Keenan promises to hit the studio once his U.S. tour finishes this week. By Mike Finnegan “There’s a muse on every street corner, flipping a ...

Irish culinary legend Myrtle Allen died last week at age 94. Ireland Hopping | Margaret M. Johnson Newspapers throughout Ireland reported on June 1...

Chris McMullan, left, and Andy McGibbon of the Bonnevilles. By Geoffrey Cobb An ocean and thousands of miles separate Ireland from the hill country...

The sculpture of President Kennedy by David Lewis outside the JFK Museum in Hyannis. Inside, there is a miniature of the original proposal: the pre...

Emcee Colum McCann and actor Patrick Fitzgerald perform during a reading from “Ulysses” outside Ulysses on June 16 last year. PHOTO: PETER MCDERMOT...

“There was no plan,” Marina Carr says of her career. PHOTO BY YOUSEF KHANFAR By Orla O’Sullivan Marina Carr’s peaceful presence is at odds with the...

Luton-born, County Sligo resident Theresa O'Grady is a much in-demand performer and tutor. Her album “BANJO’ista” is everything one could want to h...

Ahead of his address to the opening of the New York-New Belfast Conference, Oscar-winning film director and Belfast native Terry George, pictured h...

Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott In an piece that ran in the Irish Echo two years ago, Bobby Kennedy biographer Larry Tye referred to a chil...

June 16 may be the most famous day in the Irish literary calendar, but three days earlier Yeatsians everywhere mark the birth of the Nobel laureate...

“The Coral Suite” is an album that contains great riches for those who want to dig in. By Daniel Neely Regular readers of this column know that I a...