The Reverend is bound for the Dublin Racing Festival after a winning hurdles debut having switched from the Flat. The five-year-old enjoyed a successful career on the level when based with William ...

Long before meteorology and climate science, Irish people looked to the natural world to forecast the weather and make sense ...

Millions around the world celebrate St. Patrick’s Day mostly as a secular holiday, but when we look into who St. Patrick was and the Christian origins of this holiday, we can celebrate it in a much ...

Have tightened their grip on April. The mountains too have come nearer. They are hospitable. For speaking in church Latin. He has not stopped declining. He has not stopped conjugating. He is still at ...

The publication of “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” is an occasion to celebrate the Nobel Prize winning poet whose work extends Ireland’s extraordinary literary lineage. Heaney takes his place alongside ...

It’s unusual, if not rare, for a work by an acclaimed poet to appear in the pages of a national newspaper, only for it to vanish without trace, then resurface, 18 years later, and go on to become one ...

An Irish family living in Jamaica are ‘counting their blessings’ after emerging relatively unscathed after Hurricane Melissa raged through the Caribbean island. But Dubliners Orlagh Kilbride, her ...

“Top of the morning to you — and the rest of the day to yourself.” Begosh ‘n Begorrah, St. Patrick’s Day is on the way. So, Happy St. Paddy’s Day to all my Irish friends. Of course, we all know that ...

Margaret McCarthy describes “In the Becoming” as a “full circle moment.” The volume subtitled “Poems on the Deirdre Story” can find its roots in her time as an undergraduate at the School of Visual ...

The bar area at the new Blessings Family Restaurant in Colonie, with co-owner Sean Willcoxon at far left. He and a business partner recently took over what for decades was called Blessing’s Tavern and ...