John Lee, co-creator of the successful Irish Stew podcast, looks back on the show so far in anticipation of season 4 launching at the end of this month. While others baked bread during the pandemic, ...
This post describes how and why the political salience of Irish-American identity has declined enormously over the last century, and what can be learned from that experience. An excerpt: Today is St.
WITH the love of Valentine's Day in the air, I really want to focus on positive things. I want to tell you about an Irish couple, an 87-year-old husband and his 93-year-old wife, who grew up in ...
You can't celebrate St. Patrick's Day without a bit of Irish dancing, and on Monday, you could get some lessons right from the pros. Dancers from the production of "Riverdance 30: The New Generation" ...
Her Irish eyes are smiling, but it’s her native tongue that has captured New Yorkers’ attention. Born and raised on a farm in County Cork, Ireland, Vivienne Sayers O’Callaghan moved to Ridgewood, ...
To get a measure of how much Ireland has done right since the middle of 2010, there are many places one can look: bond yields that once tracked Greece are now at 8% compared with Greece’s 28% and GDP ...
Irish author Naoise Dolan has hit out at Presidential candidate Heather Humphreys for ‘repeatedly refusing’ to learn Irish. The former Minister of the Gaeltacht is the Fine Gael candidate for the ...
From Kneecap and CMAT ag canadh as gaeilge, to 'An Cailín Ciúin' at the Oscars, and people spontaneously using the language every day, Irish has erupted — our education system is scrambling to catch u ...
What a pleasure it is to be able to open a book and relax into the flow of a beautifully written narrative. This is how it was with Nuala O'Faolain's bestselling memoir, Are You Somebody?, and this is ...