Culture

I recall a fine priest who ministered when I was young in my home parish in Kenmare, Co. Kerry. In response to perennial questions about God’s role...

In the media player this week is “Littoral” by uilleann piper Leonard Barry, a seriously good piper who has done some outstanding work over the yea...

Legend has it that more than two thousand years ago Druids left oak-smoked salmon as an offering to the great Dagda, God of the pagan Irish. In the...

“It’s grueling. It’s exciting. It’s brutal. And it’s absolutely amazing.” But most of all, said Mark Geary about the life of a troubadour, “It’s a ...

Big night on Friday at the New York Irish Center in Long Island City, Queens, where Don Meade presented the great fiddle and flute player Frankie G...

Gov. Mario Cuomo stepped up to the mic at the University of Notre Dame on Sept. 13, 1984, just two months after he’d given an electrifying keynote ...

I’ll start out this week by congratulating everyone who competed in this year’s Mid-Atlantic Fleadh, which concluded on this past Sunday out in Par...

For its next meeting on Saturday morning, May 18, the Irish Family History Forum features author and leading genealogist Rhonda McClure who will de...

Mother’s Day, a national holiday celebrated on the second Sunday of May in the United States, was created by Anna Jarvis in 1908 to recognize the c...

Best of luck to all the competitors at Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann’s Mid-Atlantic Fleadh! For those who mightn’t know, this weekend is the big even...

On a sun-lit Sunday afternoon, April 28 to be exact, members and friends of Nollaig na mBan NY gathered at The Westbury Pub (20 West 38th St., Manh...

Fulbrighter, file, first-class ambassador of the Irish language, community organizer…and the list goes on for Spiddal native, Seán Ó Coistealbha, a...