Legendary band Black 47’s New York City shows, which have been going on for the past 20 years, have been described as “a rite of passage for all New Yorkers.”

Her third studio album may be on hold at the moment, but sometime-singer Lindsay Lohan is already dying to join forces with pop star Lady Gaga.

Irish-American comedian Colin Quinn will be generating laughs for charity while performing at Laugh For Sight, the annual charity benefit showcasing some of the world’s best stand-up comedians performing to raise money to combat degenerative eye diseases.

Sometimes when you get chatting to a person who has emigrated from Ireland, you can catch a glimpse of the country’s own evolution over the last thirty or so years. That’s very much the case with Buncrana, County Donegal man Turlough McConnell, whose writing and music took him first to Dublin and then on to New York.

The Irish have made their mark on Manhattan for centuries, building the skyscrapers, policing the streets and eventually running city hall. That’s why when you visit the Big Apple you won’t be short of fascinating historical sites of enduring importance to the Irish.

The great review in The New York Times on Monday for "The New Electric Ballroom," the new play by Irish playwright Enda Walsh, further reinforces the remarkable story of Irish success in New York in recent years.

Andy Lee's (19-1) preparations for his fight against France's Affif Belghecham (19-3-1) on November 14 at the University Arena in Limerick are going to plan in New York.

The increase of bi-national marriages and relationships as a result of globalization has exacerbated the tragedy of child abduction across international borders.

“Ardnaglass On The Air,” the comedy farce by Jimmy Kerr and directed by critically acclaimed writer and actress Geraldine Hughes, will be presented as a fundraiser by the New York Irish Center.

April Drew: Though money makes our lives tick , at the end of the day it’s family that counts. The recession has brought people closer to each other and, after all, isn’t it the relationships we share with our family and friends the most important thing in this life?

Mike Bloomberg hasn't been re-elected Mayor of New York City, yet, but giant Irish bookmaker Paddy Power has been taking no

Mischa Barton got caught up in a fight at Halloween party when someone threw a drink over her after she accidentally stepped on his foot.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame turns 25 this year, and past inductees like U2 will perform at Madison Square Garden in New York City to celebrate.

A sudden family death in Ireland, an upcoming wedding and all kinds of emotional upheaval. Irish Voice reporter April Drew has had an eventful week, and here, as she prepared to leave New York for Ireland, she describes the sad scenes at the JFK departure lounge.

After years of drink, drugs and debauchery in New York and San Francisco’s well-known Irish haunts, author Colin Broderick finally cleaned up his act and wrote a searing new book about his life. Then, as though by magic, came Barack Obama’s literary agent and a major book deal.

Internationally acclaimed singer/songwriter Paul Brady is the guest of honor at this year’s National University of Ireland, Galway Gala Dinner.

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Sport Northern Ireland will be sending over representatives to tempt NYC runners to sign up for next year’s marathon in Northern Ireland by jangling the carrot of an all-expenses-paid trip to the 29th running of the Deep RiverRock-sponsored Belfast City Marathon on May 3, 2010.

Complacency and poor service have damaged Irish business, but successful entrepreneurs can help out. So said Jerry Kennelly, a millionaire businessman from Tralee, speaking in New York Tuesday.

'It's time Queens had an Irish football field.' Good news for Irish sports players and fans as New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg backs planned pitch for Queens.

Irish tourists are still traveling to New York City in droves despite the recession. Tourist organization NYC Visit has reported that they expect the number of Irish visitors to the city to drop by just 5 percent this year.

On Saturday, October 17, rain or shine, the Shannon Gaels Gaelic football club of Queens will host its first annual field day in Sunnyside Gardens Park (49th Street and 39th Avenue). The special guest will be New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein announced his proposal to create a high school named in honor of the late Pulitzer Prize winning author Frank McCourt at a memorial service to celebrate McCourt’s life and work held at Symphony Space in upper Manhattan last week.

April Drew: You'd think that emigrating to the U.S., Canada or Australia from Ireland would be easy. We speak the same language. Right? Think again! The Irish seem to speak a foreign language no matter where they are. Take a read and see what you think.

An unmistakably Irish memorial service was held in upper Manhattan on Tuesday night when the life and work of the incomparable Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish-American writer, was commemorated in story and song.

Michigan resident Tanya Star McCall may have terminal cancer, but thanks to Irish supergroup Celtic Thunder, she is living life to the fullest degree.

Irish-American actress Lindsay Lohan has plans to finally head back in to the studio to finish her third album as soon as she can get back to New York to do it.

The death of Ted Kennedy precedes by three weeks the end of John Sweeney’s 14-year tenure as president of the AFL-CIO. Together, these events signal the end of an epoch in American political history: that of Irish American leadership of the nation’s liberal institutions and Democratic organizations.

There are only two teams left in the New York Senior football County Championship: Down and Cork. Eugene Kyne preview the game and wonders what team will popping the champagne this Sunday in the 125th anniversary year of the GAA in Ireland and the 95th year of football in the Big Apple.

Celebrity divas take note: U2 superstar Bono was spotted patiently waiting for 90 minutes for a table at a restaurant in New York

A woman breastfeeding her daughter claims she was thrown out of Lily O’Brien’s Irish chocolate café on Bryant Park in New York City on Tuesday, September 29.

It is fitting that the 1969 Nobel Prize for literature went to the Irish playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett. After all, in works such as "Waiting for Godot" and "Endgame," Beckett alternated between tragedy and comedy, drama and farce. The same could be said about 1969.

Although the surname Joyce may automatically be associated with author James Joyce, the name has an ancient past, with both Irish and Norman antecedents. Derived from the Brehon personal name Iodoc, which is a diminutive of iudh meaning lord, the name was adopted by the Normans in the form Josse.

The ancient O'Maille or O'Malley name is said to be derived from the Gaelic words "maille" meaning gentle or smooth, and "maglios" meaning chieftain, which is fitting as the O'Malleys were once the chieftains of the baronies of Murrisk and Burrishoole in County Mayo.

The Reidy family surname (also Reedy, Riedy, Reid, and O'Reidy) is an Anglicized version of the Gaelic name Riada. The family was part of the Dalcassian sept and in early Gaelic times lived in the southwest of Ireland, in the Munster counties of Clare and Kerry.

The McCain family name originated in the Gaelic as O'Cathain, and is derived from Cathain, who was a ninth century ancestor of the King of Tara. Conchobar, son of Fergal Mac Mael Duin of the O'Neills, formed the O'Cahan sept, which came to be known as the "Warrior Clan of Ulster." The O'Cahan clan served as subordinate kings to the O'Neills who granted them the titles "King of Kianaght, King of Limavaday, and King of Fir-na-Creabh.

The name Dunne is derived a color - donn, the Gaelic word for brown. This is relatively unusual since the vast majority of Gaelic names are based on relationships, i.e.

"Will you hold my hand?" asked Lauren Murphy as she braced herself to greet her husband's mourners. Lauren was speaking to Paddy Moloney, founder of the Chieftains, the Grammy award winning musical ambassadors of Ireland.

We here at IrishCentral took on the painstaking job of staring at countless images of attractive Irish men and women to determine the 10 hottest. And now here they are: the Hottest 10 Out of Ireland – enjoy!

Recently I took a ramble into New York City on a Saturday afternoon to take a look and listen at a session at Lillie’s, an Irish Victorian bar and restaurant named for the colorful and well traveled actress and socialite Lillie Langtry who bridged the 19th and 20th centuries.

Irish people urgently need to pull together says former Irish president Mary Robinson. A self-confessed optimist, Robinson said that the Celtic Tiger had pushed Irish people apart.

Though this column has never received a question from a surviving spouse of a deceased U.S. citizen whose marriage was less than two years old at the time of death, there have been several cases reported in the national media of a so-called “widow penalty” in U.S. immigration law preventing the surviving spouse from becoming legal here.

This month the Tony winning Irish actor Jim Norton joins a megawatt Broadway cast that includes Cheyenne Jackson and Kate Baldwin in “Finian’s Rainbow,” the classic American musical that raises the rafters and sends you home singing. The cast talks about gearing up to take Broadway by storm.

Irish actor Liam Neeson has decided not to attend this year’s Toronto International Film Festival for the world premiere of his new film “Chloe.”

Notre Dame's offensive line improvement means that quareterback Jimmy Clausen will get the protection he needs to have a standout season.

Next Monday is Labor Day, the unofficial end of summer. Dedicated in honor of the worker, it is also appropriately called the "workingman's holiday." In celebration of the holiday, have an outdoor barbecue with these delicious kebabs.

Crime journalist and novelist Dominick Dunne, who often wrote about the Kennedy family’s scandals, died at the age of 83 just hours after Senator Ted Kennedy passed away on Wednesday.

Some of us read, some of us take up a sport, but Thomas Keown from Co. Down spends all his free time rescuing, housing and educating parentless street children in Africa.

Sen. Ted Kennedy died shortly before midnight Tuesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass., at age 77. Kennedy had fought brain cancer, and according to his son had lived longer with the disease than his doctors expected him to.

Irish boxer John Duddy will return to New York on October 10 in a bout at Madison Square Garden This is his first fight since splitting from promoters Irish Ropes in a length row over finances and a possible world title shot in Belfast.