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Salon Diary / By Charles Hale "Artists Without Walls," a new initiative created by Charles R. Hale, co-founder of the Irish American Writers & Arti...

Each time I discover a talented Irish artist who is bringing their music to America it's like unwrapping a Christmas present. I admire the packagin...

Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely For the past several years, New York City's Irish Arts Center has presented "An Irish Christmas," Mick Moloney'...

Silver Screen / By Karen Butler Double Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis has admitted that playing America’s 16th president in “Lincoln” was initially ...

Between the LInes / By Peter McDermott In a 1998 Newsday article about a Queens neighborhood, a local said: "We’re not Utopia, but we’re the closes...

Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely Jesse Smith has been a part of a lot of great albums. There’s “Think Before You Think” with Danú (2000), his so...

Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely I came across an album in my apartment last week that I really should have gotten to months ago, Gráinne Hollan...

Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott In 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt appointed David Gray, a member both of the WASP elite and his own fam...

By Charles Hale One of the outgrowths and benefits of the Irish American Writers & Artists’ salons has been the increasing number of collaborations...

At the opening night of the Irish Film New York last month, Lelia Doolan was a hard woman to catch. But, eventually she had some time to sit with t...

This past summer Irish rocker Joe Hurley, curated OurLand, a dynamic outdoor celebration of Irish heritage at Lincoln center. Now it’s Liam Ó Maonl...

Last week, I spoke with Tony Lawless, a fiddle and guitar player from Dublin who runs Tradconnect.com, a very impressive (and free!) website whose ...