Culture

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The first voice I heard on the morning of September 11, 2001 was an Irish one - specifically, a Belfast one. After what would be the last truly nor...

[caption id="attachment_66613" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="The shot seen 'round the world."][/caption] The supreme courage displayed b...

[caption id="attachment_66534" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Eoin Colfer."][/caption] Eoin Colfer's entry into the world of crime fictio...

[caption id="attachment_66531" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Dean and Elaine celebrate New Year 2011. "][/caption] I left New York at th...

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[caption id="attachment_66498" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Singer, guitarist, and composer Daithi Sproule."][/caption] My first exposu...

As always, it's great being in Ireland. Obviously the weather is brutal but that never gets to me -- it's to be expected! I am able to get lot of P...

"Sister Act" • Produced by Whoopi Goldberg, Directed by Jerry Zaks • Music: Alan Menken, Lyrics: Glenn Slater • Broadway Theater, NYC • Open-ended ...

Thomas E. Kennedy's latest work "Falling Sideways" is a rare commodity, commented the Washington Post's Jonathan Yardley recently, a "literary nove...

The most hallowed and dog-eared collections of Irish traditional tunes are those compiled by Bantry-born, longtime Chicago resident Francis O'Neill...

Dublin's reforming Archbishop Diarmuid Martin might approve of the novel "The Brothers' Lot," which is set in a Dublin school run by the Brothers o...