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Liam Neeson dropped “16 or 17 pounds” for his role as Jesuit missionary Fr. Ferreira in "Silence." PARAMOUNT PICTURES By Karen Butler Ballymena-bor...

DANIELLE MCCOLLUM | DREAMSTIME.COM Recipes | Margaret M. Johnson For more than 100 years, brunch — derived from the words “breakfast” and “brunch” ...

By Daniel Neely Frank Harte was one of Ireland’s greatest traditional singers and perhaps its greatest song collector. A source for musicians like ...

By Colleen Taylor Historically speaking, 2016 had many ups and downs, but musically speaking, 2016 was full of highlights. Here are my five favorit...

By Joseph Goodrich “By Women Possessed” by Arthur Gelb and Barbara Gelb; Putnam hardcover; 896 pp; $50. “The demand that I make of my reader,” Jame...

Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott Danny Morrison’s “Then The Walls Came Down,” which was first published in 1999 to favorable reviews, went o...

Danny Morrison, author of "Then The Walls Came Down." PHOTO BY BOBBIE HANVEY By Danny Morrison This an extract from “Then The Walls Came Down,” a c...

Caitriona O’Leary PHOTO BY LAELIA MILLERI By Colleen Taylor The past few years, it’s become something of a column tradition for me to share my Celt...

Kevin Burke is a familiar presence in Irish traditional music. By Daniel Neely I gave a spin this week to “The Pound Ridge Sessions,” the new album...

The Phelan farmhouse, right, in more recent years. By Tom Phelan In our farmhouse on Strahard Lane in Mountmellick, Co. Laois, the kitchen was also...

Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy with their children. By Colleen Taylor Nowadays Canadian fiddle superstar Natalie Macmaster is incomplete witho...

MARCIN JUCHA | DREAMTIME.COM By Margaret M. Johnson If you love Christmas like I do, you’ll want to jump right into the kitchen to check your suppl...