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Poetry is a lie that tells the truth. No matter how autobiographical it may seem, no matter how enriched it is by actual people or incidents, verse...

Irish theater director Garry Hynes says she has been looking forward to bringing her critically acclaimed production of Sean O'Casey's infrequently...

The Parting Glass By Dermot Bolger • With Ray Yeates • Directed by Mark O'Brien • at the Barrow Street Theatre • Through July 31, 2011 Boiled down ...

Frank Duff joined the civil service in Dublin in 1908, and his most interesting work in his early career there was on the land acts: "a revolution,...

Every so often, I encounter a newspaper review so stupefyingly stupid that I wonder if the writer and his or her editor forgot their meds at the sa...

I remember when I arrived in New York for the first time. I had my J1 visa in my passport, $1000 in my pocket and my head was full of my American d...

The Roscommon-born Fr. Michael O'Flanagan is one of the great mavericks in Irish political history. A vice-president of Sinn Féin during the tumult...

Tryst By Karoline Leach • Director: Joe Brancato • Irish Repertory Theatre • Through August 2, 2011) The Irish Repertory Theatre, confronted with a...

In the late 1970s, on the night of St. Patrick's Day, I saw The Irish Tradition, a trio comprising button accordionist Billy McComiskey, fiddler Br...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Between the Lines / By Peter McDermott I'm a sucker for conversion stories: paths from non-belief to belief, ...

Eva the Chaste By Barbara Hammond • With Aedin Moloney • Directed by John Keating • Fallen Angel Theatre Company, lurman Theatre, Theatre Row, NYC ...

Irish "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" castmates Domhnall Gleeson and Evanna Lynch say they remain enchanted with the magical world created f...