It happens nearly every night I go out for an evening at this gentle season of the year. Often I am in pubs or clubs where I am not known, just another passing stranger of the night, a small bearded ...

Our columnist's pride as “Silent Night Christmas in the Trenches 1915” pops up on the smash hit, Irish singing group Celtic Thunder. Warm greetings from a chilly Clare with the winter solstice biting ...

The names Joseph Mohr and Franz Xaver Gruber have largely vanished into the annals of Christmas tormentors, but their greatest triumph lives on. “Silent Night,” which Mohr wrote the lyrics for (in ...