Culture

By Earle Hitchner Presenting traditional music and dance of the highest quality, the Washington, D.C., Irish Folk Festival abruptly ended in 2000 a...

By Joseph Hurley "Lascivious Something" By Sheila Callaghan • at the Julia Miles Theater, 424 West 55th St., NYC • Through June 6. Marsha Ginsberg'...

BOOKS/Peter McDermott A few weeks ago, an enthusiastic American reader of Benjamin Black's "Elegy for April," and its predecessors in the Quirke Se...

By Karen Butler Irish-American comedian Conan O'Brien recently experienced a bittersweet return to New York to talk up his new late-night chat show...

BOOKS/Peter McDermott David Talbot's David Talbot's "Brothers: the Hidden History of the Kennedy Years" found a great many admirers after it was pu...

By Earle Hitchner From humble beginnings on a small farm in Ballinakill, East Galway, where the family thatched cottage had no electricity, gas, or...

THEATER The Irish Repertory Theatre presents White Woman Street, by Sebastian Barry, directed by Charlotte Moore, May 7 thru June 27, at The Irish ...

Boston WNTN-AM 1550 Comhaltas Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann promotes Irish traditional music and dance throughout the world. The weekly radio program...

BOOKS/PETER MCDERMOTT You might have heard of the O'Connor family of Dublin. The eldest is Joseph who has written several novels, such as "Star of ...

CEOL By Earle Hitchner In 2006, at age 12, jazz-pop singer Nikki Yanofsky performed in front of more than 100,000 people at the Montreal Internatio...

Boston WNTN-AM 1550 Comhaltas Comhaltas Ceoltoirri Eireann promotes Irish traditional music and dance throughout the world. The weekly radio progra...

Theater The Irish Repertory Theatre presents White Woman Street, by Sebastian Barry, directed by Charlotte Moore, May 7 thru June 27, at The Irish ...