The Misread City

COMING from BBC America this summer is a new series called Copper , created by Tom Fontana ( Oz , Homicide , Borgia ) and set in 1860s New Y...

MONDAY marked seamus heaney's 70th birthday. i know this blog is in danger of drowning in a sea of green -- between morrissey and john l...

LET'S have a big irish "cheers" for oscar wilde, winner of my "world's coolest irishman" poll, which just expire...

TODAY this blog and its followers celebrate st. patrick's day, a holiday a lot of upper-middle-class people -- including many educated i...