Culture

Arts Minister Heather Humphreys speaking at the Irish Consulate in Manhattan last Friday. By Orla O’Sullivan Creative Ireland­­­­—a government arts...

Rodney Dickson and Bùi Phương Ngọc at the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, Queens. PHOTOS BY PETER MCDERMOTT By Peter McDermott The Noguchi Muse...

Brendan O’Shea’s “Midatlantic Ghost” shows he has a tremendous understanding of how and why people listen. By Daniel Neely Down in the Lower East S...

John Duignan and Conall Ó Breacháin are friends with a love of music. By Colleen Taylor Recent online polls show “We Cut Corners,” a musical duo fr...

Patricia Phelan went on a trip to Switzerland, the home country of her great-grandfather Auguste Charrot. By Patricia Phelan My heritage is 75 perc...

Ireland Hopping / By Margaret M. Johnson Few people passing through Kilkenny fail to stop — or shop — at Nicholas Mosse, the renown Bennettsbridge ...

Garry Hynes, who won a Tony for her direction of “The Beauty Queen of Leenane” will direct the production that opens tomorrow at BAM’s Harvey Theat...

Oldtime Records meets an elite standard when reissuing music. By Daniel Neely As a huge fan of early Irish music recordings and of Irish traditiona...

Hibernia: an outdated concept? By Colleen Taylor This week, I experienced one of the most humbling surprises in the course of my time reviewing Iri...

The author in front of the statue of Marcus Daly in Butte, Mont. By Harry Dunleavy The State of Montana, known in Spanish times as Territoria De La...

Two Ulster writers, Brian Friel, left, and John Montague, spoke when the latter was conferred with an honorary doctorate in UCD on Bloomsday 2011. ...

Kevin Rowsome is in the fifth generation of a famous piping family and his daughters are part of the sixth. By Daniel Neely The name “Rowsome” is o...