February 2025

Sometimes, under the right conditions, you can become the very thing you hate. Life is rarely that simple, or the Irish Heritage Theatre’s upcoming production of playwright Martin McDonagh’s “The Beauty Queen of Leenane” would be incredibly short. Instead, the path to a ghastly, deeply sad predestined fate can be winding indeed. And therein lies a brilliant story. McDonagh’s tale paints a vivid portrait of two women living together in Connemara, County Galway – the […] Read More

At the heart of journalist Mark Bulik’s exhaustively researched book, “Ambush at Central Park: When the IRA Came to New York,” there is the story of a bold plot to kill an informer, one Patrick Joseph “Cruxy” O’Connor, who had made his way to New York City in hopes of eluding the Irish Republican Army’s grasp. But there is so much more to this book. You’ll learn rich details about the operations of the Cork […] Read More