The dish is actually a product of Irish immigrants in the United States. And no, there’s no corn involved.

With St. Patrick’s Day just around the corner, it’s an excellent time to become better acquainted with D.C.’s Irish establishments

With St. Patrick’s Day just around the corner, it’s an excellent time to become better acquainted with D.C.’s Irish establishments

Cleveland Park’s Ireland’s Four Fields is sticking around, at least for another few months.

It’s 10 a.m. on a Thursday and you’ve got a beer in hand, a fake green beard on your face, and The Dropkick Murphys in your head. Must be St. Patrick’s Day! But even though it’s the norm, you don’t have to celebrate St. Paddy’s at a vaguely Irish frat party-like event. While our roundup below does include plenty of opportunities for boozing (including all-day parties), there are also sporty challenges, Irish meals, a movie with Irish accents, some Irish-themed comedy, and more.

Annie Grier and Matt Dougherty in Scena’s production of Conor McPherson’s Dublin Carol. Ghosts, demons, and various otherworldly entities populate the plays of Conor McPherson, but the only spirit at work in Dublin Carol, which Scena Theatre is currently presenting in its professional Washington premiere, comes in a bottle labeled “Jameson”. Of course, drink is also a staple of McPherson’s work: the playwright, a recovering alcoholic himself, has long been concerned with the place…

Rena Cherry Brown, Jennifer Mendenhall, and Nanna Ingvarsson in Solas Nua’s production of Marina Carr’s “Woman and Scarecrow.” “The whole point of living is preparing to die,” says one character at a pivotal moment in Solas Nua’s new production of Woman and Scarecrow. It’s not just the point of life, but the point of the play itself, most of which is spent inside the mind of an unnamed woman as she spends her final…