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Eggs and Spring!
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Eggs and Spring!
Caramelized onion-spinach-blue cheese tart. Ireland Hopping | By Margaret M. Johnson When I’m really stuck for a quick spring supper, I turn to egg...
Róisín O: ‘It’s time to speak out’
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Róisín O: ‘It’s time to speak out’
By Colleen Taylor It’s always going to be a good week when one of your favorite artists releases a new single. This week, it was Róisín O with her ...
Atmosphere to be electric at CCÉ
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Atmosphere to be electric at CCÉ
Members of the under-12 New York Céilí Band refining their sound at the House of Irish Music and Dance in Woodlawn, in preparation for Fleadh compe...
Celtic renaissance
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Celtic renaissance
The fun begins again on Sunday afternoon at Ripley Grier Studios for the celebration of Bealtaine, the Celtic fire festival heralding summer. The p...
Love writ shyly
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Love writ shyly
Johnjo Phelan and Annie Hayes on their wedding day in 1936. This is the latest installment in Tom Phelan’s series about growing up in a farming fam...
Saint-Gaudens: brilliant, prolific
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Saint-Gaudens: brilliant, prolific
Augustus Saint-Gaudens was born in Dublin during the Famine to an Irish mother and French father. By Geoffrey Cobb Why do we Irish celebrate our wr...
True solo displays surprising variety
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True solo displays surprising variety
Cormac Begley. By Daniel Neely It’s a new week, and for the past few days I’ve been listening concertina player Cormac Begley’s great, new self-tit...
Modern pop angst at its best
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Modern pop angst at its best
Gavin James performing at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin. By Colleen Taylor Dublin singer-songwriter Gavin James tends to market himself as an openi...
After the revolution
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After the revolution
Ernie O’Malley and Helen Hooker shortly after they met in 1933. The photo was taken at her studio where she was doing a sculpture of his head. By P...
An unforgettable adventure
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An unforgettable adventure
Joseph O’Connor, on left on the picture, with the teachers and students in the inaugural UL Frank McCourt Creative Writing Summer School in 2016. B...
Irish to forefront  at Tribeca festival
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Irish to forefront at Tribeca festival
Jim Sheridan. ROLLING NEWS.IE By Frances Scanlon There is Irish disappointment at the late withdrawal of “No Stone Unturned” from the 16th annual T...
Springtime in Cork:  East Cork, Part II
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Springtime in Cork: East Cork, Part II
Local artist captures field of rapeseed near Ballycotton, East Cork. MARGARET M. JOHNSON Ireland Hopping | Margaret M. Johnson The dilemma you face...

 



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