Culture
Actors to stay in limelight for 2016
Brendan Gleeson. PHOTOS BY ROLLING NEWS . IE By Michael Gray The fanfare for Irish films and filmmakers at the recent Sundance Film Festival amplif...
February 08, 2016
by Michael Gray
Culture
Four styles, one top-notch sound
Charm City Junction. By Daniel Neely Charm City Junction, a Maryland-based group that has recently released its self-titled debut, calls what it do...
February 05, 2016
by Daniel Neely
Culture
Principle or pride at stake?
A scene from The Irish Repertory Theatre's production of “The Burial at Thebes” with Colin Lane as the Guard, Rebekah Brockman as Antigone, Katie F...
February 03, 2016
by Orla O'Sullivan
Culture
Holding out for 100 days
Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermot It may have been one of history’s strangest invasions, but it is also, according to author Des Ekin, one of ...
February 02, 2016
by Peter McDermott
Culture
Teachers with sterling reputations
Kieran Jordan. By Daniel Neely Boston is one of the great Irish music scenes in the United States. It has a very strong Comhaltas presence, there a...
February 01, 2016
by Daniel Neely
Culture
Young Wonder in avant garde
By Colleen Taylor A band name like Young Wonder seems like a smart way to begin a music career. Two years ago, that’s just what a duo from Cork did...
January 29, 2016
by Colleen Taylor
Culture
To school, with Uncle Jack & Red
Tom Phelan. BERNIE KEATING PHOTOGRAPHY By Tom Phelan [An excerpt from an upcoming memoir, “Working for JohnJoe”] Like the Eskimos, who have learned...
January 28, 2016
by Tom Phelan
Culture
Rep stages Heaney’s update on ‘Antigone’
Seamus Heaney pictured in 1995 after he won the Nobel Prize. ROLLING NEWS By Orla O'Sullivan Charlotte Moore was expecting 20 critics, including on...
January 26, 2016
by Orla O'Sullivan
Culture
A Delicious Celebration
Poached Egg PHOTO LOUGH ERNE RESORT By Margaret M. Johnson If you love good food, you’ll want to visit Northern Ireland in 2016, recently announced...
January 25, 2016
by Margaret M. Johnson
Culture
Moloney recalls Stateside shows
By Colleen Taylor It’s impossible to talk to Paddy Moloney without a big grin on your face. When I called the music legend and Chieftains leader in...
January 22, 2016
by Colleen Taylor
Culture
Exquisite Egan CD delivers
By Daniel Neely I want to start out this week by congratulating Tommy McCarthy and Louise Costello, proprietors of The Burren in Somerville, Mass.,...
January 20, 2016
by Daniel Neely
Culture
Women tell it like it was
At both the Dublin and New York launches of “Models for Movers” by Íde O’Carroll, left, Galway-born painter Lisa O'Donnell, center, exhibited her p...
January 19, 2016
by Peter McDermott