I want to lead this week’s column with the heartiest congratulations to the great flute maker Patrick Olwell, who has just ...

When Gerry Carthy crashed his car on St. Michael’s Drive 40 years ago partway through a cross-country road trip, Santa Fe didn’t have much of an Irish music scene. In a way, Carthy — a tenor banjo ...

If you’ve ever heard Celtic tunes reverberating through Wachenheim’s second floor, you’re not going crazy — it’s just the ...

You might need a little luck of the Irish to pull it off, but slipping out of a party or leaving a bar without saying goodbye isn’t always rude, etiquette experts say. With St. Patrick's Day ...

Many people associate Irish music with folk songs played in pubs, poignant lyrics rooted in oral tradition, distinctive instruments like the fiddle, the penny whistle, drums and the uilleann pipes, a ...

It’s a question that comes up often in my work as an etiquette coach. In an era when younger people are often criticized for “ghosting” in friendships, dating and work, disappearing without ...

If you ask Kozo Toyota how he discovered Irish music, he offers a surprising answer: Tokyo Disneyland. “I loved the atmosphere of the Western area,” Toyota said on a recent Zoom call from his home in ...

Like many a musician, for Irish flute player and vocalist Shannon Heaton and her husband Matt, playing music has never been just about music. The couple, an integral part of Boston’s Celtic music ...

The case of Seamus Culleton – who was detained by US immigration agents in Boston in September 2025 – is proving a diplomatic headache for the Irish government ahead of a visit to the White House on ...

An Irish man who has been in US immigration detention for five months has said he fears for his life and is confined in appalling conditions, as international scrutiny grows over the treatment of ...

The Irish revolution, however you choose to define it, was the founding event in modern Irish history. Even with the passage of a century, it continues to cast its glow across our land and, of course, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Julie Taymor’s abridged production of Mozart’s opera has been trimmed down to 90 minutes as the Metropolitan Opera bids to recruit a new generation. Credit... Supported by By ...