Culture

Down’s Hunter changed U.S. education Today corporal punishment is not a part of most children’s education thanks in part to Irishman Thomas Hunter,...

Readers, I’ve had Niamh Dunne’s new solo album “Tides” in my media player this week, and if it’s something new-fangled and cool that you’re after a...

County Wexford-born artist Helen O’Leary will give a talk entitled “COST,” on next Tuesday, Nov. 8 at 6:30 p.m. ET as part of New York Studio Schoo...

“The next Jackson County executive will face a long list of complicated, important issues: construction of a new jail, an aging downtown courthouse...

Fresh figs are thought to have been used as early as 2000 B.C. One of the first fruits to be dried and stored, figs appear regularly in both the Ol...

A little while back, I received a parcel from the Irish Traditional Music Archive that contained, among other things, a handsomely presented two CD...

Peter Quinn was once visited by agents of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. So he reveals in his memoir “Cross Bronx: A Writing Life,” which has ...

Martin McDonagh’s new film “Banshees of Inisherin” arrives in New York City cinemas this month, boosted by film-festival fanfare and press rumbling...

A quite remarkable book recently came my way called “Cry of a People Gone: Irish Musicians in Chicago 1920-2020” by Richie Piggott. The result of “...

It takes the derisive and cynical mind to express the thought that all order must collapse, and that the indulgence of our dreams are destined to c...

Irish musician, songwriter and record producer Enda Gallery will headline his first solo concert in the United States at the New York Irish Center ...

Larry Kirwan is a man who needs no introduction, but he’s going to get one anyway next Monday evening in the beautiful Skylight Room, upstairs at R...