Culture

A couple weeks back, I led an event at the Irish American Heritage Museum in Albany called “An All Ireland Affair: The Music of the Famous Flanagan...

It was a warm evening in the Bay Area and the crowd in Slainte Oakland welcomed another Irish American Writers & Artists salon on April 9. Your dia...

Rhubarb only makes a brief appearance in spring, from as early as March in Ireland to as late as May in other areas where it’s grown. It’s here in ...

This year, Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann’s annual Mid-Atlantic Fleadh (https://ccemidatlantic.com/) took place April 25-27 at the Crowne Plaza Prince...

By John Matthews In September of 2023 my nephew Jack called. “Uncle Jack, I want to ride my bike across the country to help lung cancer patients.” ...

On a quiet week, 60 hours. That’s one estimate of the time Conor Hawkins spends at the five-star Curtiss Hotel, the Banshee pub and the Sky Bar in ...

Co-hosted by Nollaig na mBan team members Mary McIntyre and Dee Nolan, our Bealtaine celebration at the Westbury Pub on West 38th last week was an ...

The right person, in the right place, at the right time. That in essence explains how the University at Buffalo came to have the largest James Joyc...

A beautiful spring night brought out some of the usual suspects and a few new friends to enjoy the ambience of the Ellington restaurant on 105th & ...

Ironically, the artist who best captured the subtle and ephemeral beauty of the West of Ireland was an outsider. Belfast-born Paul Henry painted ca...

In the media yoke this week is “50 Odd Years Revisited,” the newly-released reissue of Jimmy Power and Josephine Keegan’s 1985 album. Power was one...

Asked what his book “Flight of the Eternal Emperor” is about, James Rogers replied, “Atonement on the part of Jeseque, fear of death on the part of...