Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, Randee Dawn shares how a book of folk tales by W.B. Yeats was a "lightbulb moment" for her, and helped her ill grandfather DFlux Photography, LLC; CAEZIK SF & ...

“I had been curious about the Irish side of my biracial family heritage,” says Ken Yoshikawa, author of From a Hole in the Ground, debuting Sept. 27 at Northwest Children’s Theater. “So I leapt at the ...

"What the old man says by the fireside, the young man shouts in the street" is a timeless Irish proverb about wisdom, influence and the power of passing knowledge from one generation to the next.

Irish playwright Conor McPherson’s The Weir opens at the Palm Beach Dramaworks this weekend, which means you can expect a gritty narrative full of folklore and mystery. In the Weir, a group of men ...

County Kerry filmmaker and writer Shaun O'Connor and West Cork singer-songer Alan Daniel Tobin have joined in collaboration to launch a new multidisciplinary project of film and music 'The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Ireland in John Patrick Shanley’s “Wild Mountain Thyme” is like something out of a fairy tale, and Emily Blunt and Jamie ...

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne knew she wanted to be a writer from a very early age, and believed she had the perfect plan to achieve this goal: “Read everything.” This, of course, proved to be a little too ...

On St. Patrick’s Day, we’re taking a look at the story of Irish folk hero Cú Chulainn, a combination of Hulk’s powers and Thor’s hubris. The X-Men’s Banshee might be the most famous Irish hero in ...

“The Irish are known for being natural-born storytellers, from our rich folklore to our ability to retell a tale and make everyone in the room feel like they were there with us.” Since I started to ...

It was the 1990s, and Pop-Pop was dying. Pop-Pop was my grandfather, wrestling with late-stage diabetes, and he didn't have long to live. This news hit me hard; I'd appointed him years earlier as the ...