Culture

Organizers of the upcoming conference in Tuam, Co. Galway, are hoping that visitors from the U.S. will drop by to listen to some of the talks in a ...

Champion accordionist James Keane was only 14 years old in 1962 when he co-founded the Castle Ceili Band with his brother Séan and their friend Mic...

Some Bloomsday happenings in the New York area were scheduled for last Friday, June 15, to stay within the working week. But the event hosted by Ul...

For many, the epitome of a great recording of traditional Irish music is one with a genuinely “live” feel. Noel Hill and Tony MacMahon’s “I gCnoc N...

Once upon a time a musician from Dublin dropped out of school to busk on the streets of his city. The next few chapters of his story are full of gr...

Michael Fassbender says it was his portrayal of Bobby Sands – the Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer, who led the 1981 hunger strike in a ...

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Todd Pate began Tuesday night’s Irish American Writers & Artists’ Salon at the Cell reading an excerpt from his “non-fiction novel” in progress, “M...