Culture

[caption id="attachment_69890" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Declan Burke."][/caption] In Declan Burke’s latest U.S. release, “Absolute ...

[caption id="attachment_69887" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Ashley Davis."][/caption] Ashley Davis grew up on the plains of Kansas wher...

Janet McTeer. Janet McTeer says she was delighted to hear she and her “Albert Nobbs” co-star Glenn Close had been nominated for Oscars for their po...

Write about what you know, they say. Well, Tom MacDonald at least begins with where he knows. He runs a parish food panty, Harvest on Vine, in his ...

[caption id="attachment_69768" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Paddy Moloney pictured on a visit to WFUV’s “Ceol na nGael” studio."][/capt...

[caption id="attachment_69736" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Leo Moran, left, Davy Carton, center, and their fellow Saw Doctors recently...

Some eyebrows were raised recently when “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” got an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. The 9/11-themed vehicle, star...

[caption id="attachment_69620" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="County Meath’s Michael Brunnock has lived in New York for the past decade."...

Saul Alinsky’s name came up again recently, and again, and again. Indeed, a Democratic Party activist told me that he heard Newt Gingrich mention h...

[caption id="attachment_69614" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="A scene featuring Mexican wrestlers in “Lucha Libre,” a film by Moira Tiern...

[caption id="attachment_69611" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Robert Kanigel. "][/caption] In his last book but one, Robert Kanigel looke...

[caption id="attachment_69583" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Ciarán Hinds stars in ‘The Woman in Black’."][/caption] British film star D...