Culture

Jane Austen event at 92nd Street Y.

Making their U.S. debut at New York City’s Joyce Public House on Saturday, March 29, are the Collectors, a new group visiting from Ireland that fea...

As speculation of a U-turn by the American Irish Historical Society on its shock move to oust executive director Dr. Elizabeth Stack continues to m...

There are few buildings in New York City that have witnessed more Irish American history than Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Mulberry Street north ...

Mother’s Day has been celebrated in Ireland on the fourth Sunday in Lent (March 30 this year) since 1924 when it was introduced by the Irish Women’...

In the planning of a move from his long-time Paris apartment during the winter of 1938-39, James Joyce radically downsized his personal library. “I...

The Irish of Minnesota are in mourning this week for Séamus (Jimmy) O'Sé, a beloved figure whose impact on the world of Irish dance will resonate f...

I've got a real treat in the media yoke for readers this week. “Dan Gurney & Christina Dolphin,” the new album of traditional music performed on fl...

“Good fences make good neighbors,” wrote Robert Frost. What he didn’t say was that porous fences can lead to murder. In Ireland, farmers’ land is n...

“As the twenty-first century opened, Irish was everywhere all at once—on television, the internet, stages, screens, and bestseller lists,” Marion R...

Though Seán Ó Riada almost singlehandedly changed the course of Irish traditional music, few people today fully appreciate his massive legacy. The ...

Harry S. Truman was famously from Independence, Mo. He lived much of his life there, and it’s where the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Muse...