DUBLIN — The Irish are renowned for their way with words. But the nation of bardic poetry, James Joyce and W.B. Yeats has proved a latecomer to the wordiest of music genres, hip-hop. “It’s always been ...

Editor’s Note: The “Irish Rhapsody” concert has been postponed due to coronoavirus concerns. The calendar helped provide focus for the Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra’s next concert. Spring ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Novelist Roddy Doyle's "The Commitments" about young people starting up a soul band in the harsh times of 1980s Ireland has made it to the stage as a "jukebox" musical filled with ...

Laughter will fill the air in downtown Pittston on Monday night. And it won’t be because of the Guinness beer. Well, not totally because of the Guinness. The Greater Pittston Friendly Sons of St.

Frank Doyle grew up in Brooklyn, and Brooklyn is cool these days. So you have to assume Frank Doyle is kind of cool, right? Not really. Doyle didn’t have much money growing up. But he had the Brooklyn ...

Some might think an Irish version of the quintessentially English “A Christmas Carol” a wee bit misguided, considering the fractious history between the two countries. However, in the spirit of the ...

Two scientists at Amazon used artificial intelligence to help them make Alexa Irish. The team trained Alexa on accents generated by text-to-speech models. This then helped them identify distinctive ...