Chicago Teens Earn Top Honor at International Peace Festival
Local dancers with the Trinity Academy captivate thousands to earn the acclaimed title of "Most Honored Group" at the 46th Annual World Festival of Folklore held last week in Schoten, Belgium.." [More]
 

Discovering Ireland…in New York
By Maura Conlon-McIvor
I was Maura long before my birth. My father, a New York-born FBI agent, had savored the name since first hearing it in law school, hoping someday to bequeath it upon a daughter. [More]
 

Academically-Inclined Mullen Keeps Eye on Bouncing Ball
By Jim Foley
Ever wish you could go back to freshman year and start high school all over again? What if you promised yourself you’d be more focused, study harder, get better SAT scores and take honors classes? [More]
 

Seeking Out Memories in the Auld Sod
By Mel Miskimen
I told my mother that before she hit 75, I would take her to Ireland to see the tiny town (Callan) where her grandfather was born. I said this to out-gift my sister. She had presented Mother with a pair of Waterford brandy snifters. I had gotten her a nice card. [More]
 

Finding the ‘Good Old Days’ With Reality, Not Romanticism 
By Martin Hintz
What has 360 windows, a secret door and a collection of handmade agricultural artifacts dating back more than a century. The answer is easily obvious when driving down the long, winding lane leading to the Museum of Country Life in Turlough Park, Castlebar. [More]
 

At Danny’s, It’s Always Eggrolls
By Kristin King Stapleton
My lust for travel has not — yet — gotten me as far as China. But by the time I was 24, I had trained in the Cordon Bleu style of cooking in London, and graduated there from Leith’s School of Food & Wine. I was immediately hired for a (disastrous) job as a cook/housekeeper in the fashionable Chelsea district. [More]
 

Ye Banks and Braes of Bonnie Bucklebo 
By Patrick Taylor
Ballybucklebo, home of Dr. Fingal Flahertie O’Reilly and an assorted cast of characters whose intellects on their communal best days would make the inmates of the old bedlam Asylum look like a collection of dons from a Cambridge college. [More]