St Patrick’s Day has morphed from being a celebration of the Irish abroad to becoming an opportunity to raise Ireland’s commercial and political profile, even in places where Ireland usually has ...
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 ...
Brooklyn native Séamus Ó Fianghusa has never uttered a single word of English to his nine-year-old daughter Áine. He attributes her current fluency in Irish to the fact that “before she was even born, ...
Three Irish bars for the 21st century reveler just in time for St. Patrick’s Day. By Luke Fortney Some people make a point to visit McDonald’s when they travel, to try McSpaghetti in the Philippines ...
In 1936, Irish Bostonian entertainment lawyer Tom Bergin founded L.A.’s first Irish pub, the Old Horseshoe Tavern, on Wilshire Boulevard. The bar was later renamed in his honor and relocated to its ...
On St. Patrick’s Day, Boston heads out in force to paint the town green. In our local Irish pubs and restaurants, staff are pouring more pints of Guinness and serving up more fish and chips than at ...
Well, New Jersey, St. Patrick’s Day 2026 is almost upon us, and that means so much more than beer died shamrock green and slapped-together corned beef sandwiches. It’s time we once again celebrated ...
In Northern Ireland, where the Irish language is a proxy battleground between Unionists and Nationalists, dual-language signs have become a “key point of contention at Stormont”, said the BBC. In ...
BELFAST — In a colorful modular building monitored by CCTV cameras, Ciara Moore sat in front of seven squirmy 4-year-olds and did something that some people here in the capital of Northern Ireland — ...
The ethnic milestones and makeup of the Supreme Court have long been topics of fascination, from the notion of a “Jewish seat” filled by those who followed Justice Louis Brandeis as the first Jewish ...