Culture

The rarely seen 1983 film “The Black and the Green” will be featured in a program of screenings this weekend at the Anthology Film Archives in New ...

[caption id="attachment_71770" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Maura Mulligan"][/caption] Even before it was officially launched at the Ir...

The Irish American Studies Committee of the United Federation of Teachers will host its inaugural Frank McCourt Lecture on Thursday, May 31, at 5 p...

Alice Milligan and the Irish Cultural Revival By Catherine Morris The Four Courts Press, Dublin 342 pp., $70 I fell on this book like a ravening wo...

[caption id="attachment_71661" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Jane Casey."][/caption] The former children’s books editor and now full-tim...

[caption id="attachment_71657" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Brían Ó hAirt."][/caption] Just out is “In Two Minds,” a CD collaboration b...

[caption id="attachment_71654" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Mary Courtney performs in An Beal Bocht every Friday night."][/caption] In ...

At an elegant dinner party back in post-war Paris, the papal nuncio found himself seated across from a woman with a low-cut dress that showed a lot...

[caption id="attachment_71524" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Maxine Linehan in "Brontë; a Portrait of Charlotte.""][/caption] "Brontë; a...

In New York City, we’re privileged to have strong institutional support for traditional music. Organizations like Irish Arts Center, Glucksman Irel...

I once tried to learn how to play the bagpipes in the hopes of joining a local pipe band. I didn’t last very long. There weren’t enough hours in th...

[caption id="attachment_71474" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Margaret Loesser Robinson (Violet), Janie Brookshire (Ann/Ana) and Laurie K...