Culture

It seems like the entire American nation is focused on the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk and whether it signals a return to the political vi...

Some of the world’s most popular spices – nutmeg, cinnamon, allspice, cardamon, and cloves among them – are often associated with comfort foods, fe...

Elaine Feeney will read from and discuss her third novel “Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way” on next Tuesday, Oct. 28, at 3:30 p.m., at Loris Forum, Mart...

The beginning of our theatre’s season appears to be brimming with Beckett, from Broadway to the Bowery. I can’t imagine why. Maybe it’s the playful...

In the media yoke this week is “Into the Loam” by concertina player Cormac Begley and fiddle player Liam O’Connor. This one was really interesting....

Dr. Elizabeth Stack is reading, writing and researching. She’s teaching again, too, having been appointed as remote, part-time education director o...

In the media yoke this week is “Vol. 1: Catchin’ the Tune” by The Irish Tradition. The trio, which included Billy McComiskey (button accordion and ...

Unrepentant Fenian Bastard – I first heard the refrain blaring from a small transistor radio on the Garvaghy Road in Portadown, Armagh. It was the ...

A President from the great state of New York serving one of his two nonconsecutive terms in the White House. A precocious political talent running ...

On an autumn Monday evening in 1978, the Zambian soccer national team were awed by a display of technical brilliance from one of the greatest legen...

The story of Irish America’s role in the Troubles is too often told from the perspective of New York or Boston. The Next One Is for You, by Ali Wat...

In 1979, at the time when Northern Ireland was under siege by a civil atrocity we know as the Troubles, a song was playing on the radio by an Engli...