There was world renowned musician Yo-Yo Ma on center stage, playing an audacious solo of …
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Grandma Walsh’s Wake
After the viewing in the funeral home—
all the young cousins marauding through the …
Maybe they should call it the Father and Son Dance Film Festival!
After all, it was …
Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have shown for the first time that two genes involved …
Megan Smolenyak, the roots detective, takes a look at Jimmy Fallon’s Irish side.
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Bridget O’Donnell of Cork, Ireland, my great-grandmother, was sent out to Boston by her father …
I love to drive around Ireland, especially if I have the luxury of time. I …
Exchange Place
by Ciaran Carson
Ciaran Carson is a writer preoccupied with memory and perception. The author …
In 982 the King of Connaught, Aedh Ua Dubhda (or Hugh O’Dowd), “died an untroubled …
It rained yesterday. That might not be a big thing in Ireland or New York …
There is a well-known Irish saying: ar scáth a chéile a mhaireas na daoine that …
And so it begins. A new year, and already a happy one with the election of an …
There was much rejoicing among Golden-Age film lovers on December 18, 2013, when they learned …
Peter O’Toole
(1932-2013)
Peter O’Toole, the actor who rose to international fame nearly overnight as T.E. Lawrence …
An excerpt from the memoir “Tipperary to Tibet,” a collection of Irish stories by Joseph …
Thomas Cahill is a bestselling author and scholar whose landmark book, How the Irish Saved …
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