Culture

Spiced, sweet desserts like this cake have been a part of Irish holiday celebrations for centuries and were highly prized because they included spices and dried fruits, once difficult and expensive to obtain. Irish cooking legend Darina Allen, founder of the Ballymaloe Cookery School, called it “the cake of the year”

“Jack Was Kind,” a solo show written and performed by Tracy Thorne, makes its debut in New York having gained momentum via a path common to small b...

Last Tuesday, I had the distinct pleasure of attending the U.S. launch of “From the Bridge: A View of Irish Traditional Music in New York,” the Iri...

Barry Keane of Butler University won the Great Lakes Regional Cross Country men’s race in Terre Haute, Ind. on Friday. Keane, a senior from Waterfo...

Chances are you’re in the home stretch of your Thanksgiving dinner shopping, and another good bet is that you’ve already grabbed one of more types ...

“I never thought it would be me crossing. I thought such a journey was bigger than me, that I’d never manage it or have reason to. I was all for st...

Many Irish Americans recall that the County Kilkenny-born James Hoban was the architect of the White House, but few recall the name of Major Genera...

Irish-American Writers & Artists presented the 2022 Eugene O’Neill Lifetime Achievement Award to Larry Kirwan in recognition of his exemplary contr...

First off, congrats to We Banjo 3’s Enda Scahill for being one of the 2022 winners of the Steve Martin Banjo Prize! Launched in 2010 by actor/comed...

The San Francisco-based author Ethel Rohan will interview first-time novelist Louise Kennedy as part of Bookshop West Portal’s Irish author intervi...

The excitement of a restriction-free Halloween in New York City was palpable everywhere on Oct. 31, but you didn’t have to take part in the revived...

In 1962, President John F. Kennedy declared in a speech at Yale that “the greatest enemy of truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived, ...