Life’s passion: Peggy Montes, 88, carries a passion for empowering women and educating children through the museum she ...

Take for example, Mary Swanzy’s painting, Pont du Gard (€25,000-€35,000), which is for sale at Adam’s Important Irish Art ...

Jones’s roaring debut novel, first published in 1983, is a tour of the bad ol’ days of New York City and Detroit, with a ...

dancing to a fiddler’s music with a barefoot girl — an experience that prompted him to quote Irish poet John Francis Waller: “Search the world all around, from the sky to the ground ...

According to neighborhood lore recounted in the Tribune, Mayor Walter Gurnee had campaigned there in the early 1850s, dancing to a fiddler’s music with a barefoot girl — an experience that prompted ...

Imbuing his work with a volatile mix of tenderness, aggression, sophistication, and obscenity, the Roman poet left a record ...

Her mother, Mother Dianna De La Garza, has shared that she is of Irish and English descent. Olivia Wilde vacationed in Ireland growing up and took her stage name from Irish poet Oscar Wilde.

Born in Gettysburg in 1815 to an Irish father and biracial ... Griffin was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2014. She was ESPN’s top women’s basketball analyst from ...

How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace for Women; By Vanda Krefft Algonquin Books; 279 pp., $29 ...

The Courant’s arts picks for March 9-15 includes Irish-themed concerts and stage events for St. Patrick’s Day week, double bills and a Pi Day celebration.

Rick Kogan, who attended the city’s first St. Patrick’s Day Parade in 1956, reflects on seven decades of St. Patrick’s Day celebrations in Chicago.

Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran star in Rebecca Frecknall's production of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" at the ...