SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – The carving and lighting of pumpkins is an Irish tradition that stems back to a Celtic folktale about a man named ‘Stingy Jack’ who tricked the devil more than once.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and for many of us that means going to the same shows, seeing the same movies and doing the same things we’ve done in years before. It’s called tradition, and ...
“The Irish are known for being natural-born storytellers, from our rich folklore to our ability to retell a tale and make everyone in the room feel like they were there with us.” Since I started to ...
“The Irish… And How They Got That Way” at Playhouse on Park is a pleasant, harmless concert with a whole lot of between-song patter — or conversely, a lively 2 1/2 hour lesson about Irish history and ...
Right from the start, there is no doubt where we are. Narrow, gray streets in the dim daylight of winter, peat hills between cramped villages, a crow sitting on a church spire: this is western Ireland ...
“Small Things Like These” is a slim book by an Irish writer, Claire Keegan, that tells the terrifying and true story of the abuses of the Magdalene laundries over centuries in the Emerald Isle. Now, ...
Early on in today's interview with author Paul Lynch, he says he was careful not to specify whether his dystopian novel Prophet Song is set in the future. Instead, the gripping tale of an Irish family ...
The Irish Classical Theatre Company, no longer content to draw its Irish material strictly from the ancient annals of Irish drama, has lately been on the hunt for contemporary material from the ...