Ireland

Burger King Says No To Horsemeat; McDonald's Says Yes To Sustainable Fish

It's been quite a week for fast food companies around the world. After finding traces of horse and pig DNA in meat last week, British grocery chain Tesco recalled all its meat products made from a questionable producers. Now, Burger King has dropped Silvercrest Foods, one of its main meat suppliers ... More >>

Why Irish (Ex-Scientologist) Eyes are Smiling

We have a St. Patrick's Day special report for you today, and we hope it's early enough in the day that half our readers aren't soused already. This week, yet another story about how badly Scientology is faring in Ireland reached us as the Irish Examiner reported that the mission in Dublin is exist ... More >>

TRACKING DEVICE

New works from around the world

LUCK OF THE IRISH

The hit indie film Once moves Off-Broadway

Celebrate Bloomsday in NYC, Get Drunk For Free

​James Joyce's epic novel Ulysses is set on Thursday, June 16th in Dublin, Ireland, and every year since 1954, literary nerds around the world have gathered together to celebrate Bloomsday. The holiday is named for the novel's protagonist, Leopold Bloom. Typical celebrations of Bloomsday have ... More >>

Grimsvotn Volcano Eruption Forces Barack Obama to Leave Ireland Early

​An Icelandic volcano called Grimsvotn (so much easier to say than that other Icelandic volcano) about 120 miles east of Reykjavik has been erupting since Saturday, with ash now approaching Scotland and Ireland, where Barack Obama and co. are visiting. This means they'll leave Ireland tonight, ... More >>

England and Ireland Are Friends Again!

​It's been 100 years since a British royal set foot upon the Republic of Ireland -- in 1911 King George V spent 6 days in Dublin -- but the Queen of England is taking that leap because the longstanding bad blood between the two countries has started to seem a bit silly, and what were they figh ... More >>

Yellow Tail Sues Little Roo For Marsupial Label; Aussies Create First Space Beer

​The producer of Yellow Tail, the country's best-selling imported wine, is suing the maker of Little Roo for trademark infringement. Apparently, Little Roo's kangaroo logo is too similar to Yellow Tail's wallaby. [Wall Street Journal] Ireland's struggling economy has devastated sales of Guinn ... More >>

DO THE TWIST

The impossible feats of Circa

DEEP END

Take a dive into this existential work

Confirmed: Happy People Are Nicer; Australians Are the Happiest and Nicest

If this was a regular sighting, you'd probably be happy too.​Charities Aid Foundation has taken a look at countries doing charitable things -- giving money, helping a stranger, or volunteering time -- and guess where the U.S.A. ranked? Number five. Which is not horrible, but also maybe not as ... More >>

$12 Coffee at Café Grumpy; No Kids Allowed at the Empire Room

​The Country Cooking of Ireland by Colman Andrews, a co-founder of Saveur, won the James Beard award for Cookbook of the Year, while Real Cajun by Donald Link took top honors in the U.S. category. [ABC News] The anti-corn syrup movement started in the natural and organic food world, but has n ... More >>

Rodrigo y Gabriela

Airline Might Charge For Bathroom Visits!

​Spirit Airlines just announced a fee for carry-on bags put in the overhead, but now the Dublin-based Ryanair is going several nervy miles above that. They're considering charging people every time they use the bathroom on short flights!

Spring Guide: Grúpat's Irish Oddballs Swoop Into the Chelsea Art Museum

Why Was Alec Baldwin Rushed To The Hospital?

​When Alec Baldwin's 14-year-old daughter Ireland couldn't rouse him late last night, she called 911 and the Emmy winner ended up at the hospital. There was talk of a possible OD, but apparently Alec had simpy taken some sleeping pills. He was released not that long afterward. But questions ... More >>

Rodrigo y Gabriela

STREET SMARTS

Sebastian Barry’s The Pride of Parnell Street

Popcorn Gets Booze Flavoring

An enterprising University of Missouri student has created a line of alcohol-flavored popcorn called Pub Corn.[CNN]According to figures from the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, the cube steak is experiencing a resurgence in popularity.[NY Times]Noting that the Texas and Georgia peanut produc ... More >>

Voyage for Freedom: A Celebration of Frederick Douglass's Historic Trip to Ireland

THE LONG REHEARSAL

Frank McGuinness's Gates of Gold

Cheeky WWII Comedy Improbable Frequency Employs Exhausting Wordplay, Awful Puns

IRISH INTRIGUE

Arthur Riordan and Bell Helicopter stage a historical musical comedy

SILENCE IS GOLDEN

3epkano provides the soundtrack to a silent-film classic

Talking with Enda Walsh

Bedbound playwright scripts the new Ireland

LET’S GET BOLLOXED!

Three nights of Irish rowdiness with the Pogues

Letters

Good Ole Dog

When Irish eyes are smiling they're probably in Astoria

Who Would Eat Such Tripe?

Highs and lows of stomach-lining dining

Fathers and Sons

Ireland's changed, but Friel's poignant comedy rings true

Yin-Yang on the Bowery; Good Drinks and Yummy Eats Too

Film

Vinegar and Water

A bawdy time of sailors, street cats, women, bootleggers, and thieves

Art

Film

Blarney and 'Friends'

Say What?

Erin-Go-Bars

It's forever Sunnyside on Saint Patty's Day

This Farmer's A Charmer

Eligible SWM Seeks Hibernian Honey for Pastoral Passion

Irish Lives and Livers

From Opposite Sides of a Small Island, Two Small Sad Plays

Forward in Reverse

Theater

Tom Murphy’s Eire Force

Drinking and Thinking Through the Dublin Theater Scene

Sports

I Want It That Way

Dual to the death

Don’t Cry for Me Mother Ireland

Eire Apparent

Pick a Rescue

Bellevue Views

Railroad apartment in tenement building