Culture

Folks, in the media player this week is “Threads of Gold,” the debut album from Adrienne O’Shea. O’Shea is based in St. Paul, Minn., and has been t...

University of Connecticut Professor Mary M. Burke has written a book that the field of Irish Studies in the United States will find hard to ignore ...

Folks, it’s the week of June 26. And so, the Catskills Irish Arts Week, which runs July 16-22, is fast approaching – have you registered yet? If no...

Michael McKillop is a bar to bar salesman. Or at least he was on his recent 8-week sojourn in New York City, bringing the good news of Lir whiskey....

The Craic Fest is joining forces with the St. Pats for All to present LGBT Session tomorrow night, Jan. 29, at 7 p.m. The New York Irish Center is ...

What’s with the sky’s strange color? And the smoky air? They were the questions guests were asking once safely inside the welcoming doors of the ne...

Folks, leading off this week to report that piano accordion player extraordinaire Jimmy Keane was Enda Scahill’s guest on this month’s installment ...

“I’m very glad that we don’t have to evacuate,” Pauline Turley, vice chair of the Irish Arts Center, quipped midway through this year’s lunch, “Cel...

Visitors to Belfast in recent times find it to be a modern, bustling European city, replete with diverse culinary options and musical entertainment...

From a cooperative weaving mill founded in 1732 on the banks of the Avoca River in Wicklow, to a thriving handweaving business in the 1970s, to a c...

Unlike the 16th, the 26th of this month doesn't have any particular literary resonance. However, a week from Monday, Honor Molloy and Joseph Goodri...

For as long as I’ve been able to talk, I have been a storyteller. And while telling stories always came very natural to me, the act of writing stor...