Celebrating Legendary Cartoonist Charles Addams and his Addams Family Through an Upcoming Animated Film Due This October

Celebrating Legendary Cartoonist Charles Addams and his Addams Family Through an Upcoming Animated Film Due This October

A day spent in Westfield, New Jersey provided a unique look into Charles Addams — the creator of the Addams Family — a pop culture phenomenon which thankfully didn’t slip away from the public consciousness. Long before The Addams Family...
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Cork’s Favorite Son Billy O’Callaghan Explores a Coney Island of The Mind in His Latest Book

Cork’s Favorite Son Billy O’Callaghan Explores a Coney Island of The Mind in His Latest Book

“My Coney Island Baby” author: Billy O’Callaghan publisher: Jonathan Cape (UK), Harper (USA) Ireland has long been home — physically, culturally and metaphysically — to those with literary ambitions. Much of what defined the written avant...
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The Inagural Rave Theater Festival Launches This Month

The Inagural Rave Theater Festival Launches This Month

Rave Theater Festival August 9 – 25, 2019 The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center 107 Suffolk Street New York, NY 10002 Spearheaded by Tony Award-winning producer Ken Davenport,  Rave Theater Festival is a platform for emerging playwrights, actors, and ...
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Irish Singer/Actress Jessie Buckley Expresses Herself In The Recent Film “Wild Rose”

Irish Singer/Actress Jessie Buckley Expresses Herself In The Recent Film “Wild Rose”

“Wild Rose” director: Tom Harper cast: Jessie Buckley, Sophie Okonedo, Julie Walters Never has there been a summer with so many music films, jukebox musicals and rock n roll spotlights. Several movies such as “Rocketman” have hit the top of...
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Dublin Chef Takes on London Food Scene with New Restaurant

Dublin Chef Takes on London Food Scene with New Restaurant

A chef from Tallaght is breaking barriers in London’s food scene with an Irish-inspired menu and a female-dominated kitchen. Anna Haugh, 38, recently opened Myrtle in London’s Chelsea borough, her first restaurant as an owner, and said training in Irish...
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Dublin Crypt to Reopen on Tuesday For First Time Since Theft of Mummified Head

Dublin Crypt to Reopen on Tuesday For First Time Since Theft of Mummified Head

A crypt at a historic Dublin church is to re-open next week for the first time since the theft of its mummified remains. The head of an 800-year-old mummy known as The Crusader was stolen, along with another skull, from...
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Wreckage of WW2 P-38 Lightning Excavated in Monaghan

Wreckage of WW2 P-38 Lightning Excavated in Monaghan

The first-ever licensed excavation of a Second World War US fighter plane in Ireland has taken place in a Co Monaghan field. A team including a Second World War aviation historian, Queen’s University Belfast surveyors and pupils from Foyle College...
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Stonewall 50 and World Pride Celebration Honored People of Ireland in New York City

Stonewall 50 and World Pride Celebration Honored People of Ireland in New York City

Irish gay activist Brendan Fay presented the 2019 luminary award to Consul General Ciaran Madden this past Sunday. Brendan Fay, founder of the Irish LGBT group Lavender and Green Alliance Alliance and St. Pats For All, was invited by Bruce...
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McAleese Calls for Tougher Approach to Social Media Giants

McAleese Calls for Tougher Approach to Social Media Giants

Mary McAleese has called for a tougher approach to social media giants after photographs of two teenagers convicted of murder were published online. Mrs McAleese, who is a professor of children, law and religion at the University of Glasgow, said...
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Ciarán O’ Reilly On The 30 Years of Making Art With The Irish Repertory Theatre

Ciarán O’ Reilly On The 30 Years of Making Art With The Irish Repertory Theatre

  For  Irish Rep co-founder Ciarán O Reilly, establishing the theater was difficult enough but sustaining it for these 30 years with his able artistic partner Charlotte Moore has been even more of feat. Starting with Sean O’Casey’s “Th...
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