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Books / By Peter McDermott In a note on terminology before he begins his "Belfast Boys: How Unionists and Nationalists Fought and Died Together in ...

By Joseph Hurley “Elling” From Novels By Ingvar Ambjornsen • With Denis O’Hare (pictured on the left above) and Brendan Fraser, directed by Doug Hu...

By Earle Hitchner As emcee and frequent backstage manager, I missed most of the concert tribute to Joe Derrane inside Stage One of the Fairfield Th...

By Peter McDermott Don't expect ever to buy an art masterpiece on the streets of New York. That's advice from Tom Bevan, a Belfast-born sculptor wh...

By Karen Butler [caption id="attachment_21927" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Zach Galifianakis, left, and Robert Downey star in the buddy ...

By Karen Butler The Irish Arts Center will be transformed into the hottest comedy club in New York City for one night this month, thanks to Terence...

By Earle Hitchner The greatest comeback in the history of Irish traditional music took place on May 29, 1994, at the 18th annual Washington, D.C., ...

By Peter McDermott The Year with No Summer, 1816, was particularly severe on those who'd made a new life in the Virginia Military District. There w...

By Earle Hitchner Over the past month I’ve written three “Ceol” columns about albums involving either fiddler Caoimhin O Raghallaigh (“Comb Your Ha...

BOOKS / By Peter McDermott The two-part column on about Irish noir fiction a few months ago generated plenty of feedback, confirming that people do...

By Peter McDermott "A Visit from the Goon Squad," opens with the robbery of a purse in a hotel bathroom. The perpetrator is Sasha, one of the main ...

By Earle Hitchner Most music critics of long standing (actually, long sitting, given how we usually work) receive occasional letters from readers f...