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 ...

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 & ...

Folklore, literature, and archaeology all play into why leprechauns are often pictured with pots of gold.

“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 ...

Did you know the first ever shoemaker was from Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary? In the Anthology of Irish Folk Tales, Aideen McBride relays the tale of The First Ever Brogue Maker. It was once a normal ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. County Kerry filmmaker and writer Shaun O'Connor and West Cork singer-songer Alan ...

“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 ...

The superior Secrets of the World multicultural storytelling series adds another excellent volume with this collection of tales from Ireland. Venerable storyteller and folklorist Lenihan sets an ...

“The Irish… And How They Got That Way” at Playhouse on Park is a pleasant, harmless concert with a whole lot of between-song patter — or conversely, a lively 2 1/2 hour lesson about Irish history and ...

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 ...