Culture

The farmers are happy. And so is the Irish Arts Council. Director Cara Holmes was aware that the latter was interested in ideas for documentaries m...

The legendary fiddle and piano player Charlie Lennon died Saturday at University Hospital Galway. The long-time resident of Spiddal, Co. Galway, wa...

After more that 20 years of living in New York City and riding the subway I expected nothing to surprise me - not a mugging, not a half-naked man p...

The Irish Family History Forum will present “Written in Stone: In Depth Study of a Gravestone” as part of its Saturday morning program on June 15. ...

Ooh, it’s that time of the year when the summer releases come fast and hot. Yes, festival season brings a veritable shower of new music and as you ...

Depicting disability onstage is often an endeavor rife with disappointment. With centuries of performance tradition built on a foundation of exclud...

Lansdowne Yonkers face a familiar foe in the EPSL playoffs at Tibbetts Brook Park this Saturday night [8 p.m. kickoff] in fourth seed Doxa FCW, a G...

I recall a fine priest who ministered when I was young in my home parish in Kenmare, Co. Kerry. In response to perennial questions about God’s role...

In the media player this week is “Littoral” by uilleann piper Leonard Barry, a seriously good piper who has done some outstanding work over the yea...

Legend has it that more than two thousand years ago Druids left oak-smoked salmon as an offering to the great Dagda, God of the pagan Irish. In the...

“It’s grueling. It’s exciting. It’s brutal. And it’s absolutely amazing.” But most of all, said Mark Geary about the life of a troubadour, “It’s a ...

Big night on Friday at the New York Irish Center in Long Island City, Queens, where Don Meade presented the great fiddle and flute player Frankie G...