Culture
Holmes is where the heart is
By Earle Hitchner "Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life." That warning comes from Bertolt Brecht's play "The Mother," and the l...
July 14, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Remembering a valued friend
By Elaine Ní Bhraonáin The Irish Arts Center was one of the first places I visited when I moved to New York in early June 2003 and I knew straight ...
July 07, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
'Merchant of Venice' sells Pacino short
By Joseph Hurley "The Merchant of Venice" by William Shakespeare • Directed by Daniel Sullivan • Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte Theater, ...
June 30, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Setting Meter to Music
By Earle Hitchner Last week I wrote very briefly about Natalie Merchant's "Leave Your Sleep," featuring the Irish traditional band Lunasa on four t...
June 23, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Quinn mines history for laughs
By Karen Butler Irish-American funnyman Colin Quinn is bringing his unique and hilarious perspective on world history to Manhattan's Bleecker Stree...
June 16, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Irish crime fiction has something for everybody
By Peter McDermott For all our connections to the NYPD, it was a Greek-American lieutenant that captured Irish hearts. Adult viewers had "Kojak" re...
June 16, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Gannon, Smith, Blake are a trio in tune
By Earle Hitchner Presenting traditional music and dance of the highest quality, the Washington, D.C., Irish Folk Festival abruptly ended in 2000 a...
June 09, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
An island romance
By Joseph Hurley "Lascivious Something" By Sheila Callaghan • at the Julia Miles Theater, 424 West 55th St., NYC • Through June 6. Marsha Ginsberg'...
June 02, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Ireland finds its place on Noir map
BOOKS/Peter McDermott A few weeks ago, an enthusiastic American reader of Benjamin Black's "Elegy for April," and its predecessors in the Quirke Se...
June 02, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Conan back on the late shift
By Karen Butler Irish-American comedian Conan O'Brien recently experienced a bittersweet return to New York to talk up his new late-night chat show...
May 26, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Dispute no more
BOOKS/Peter McDermott David Talbot's David Talbot's "Brothers: the Hidden History of the Kennedy Years" found a great many admirers after it was pu...
May 26, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Rafferty wins National Heritage Fellowship
By Earle Hitchner From humble beginnings on a small farm in Ballinakill, East Galway, where the family thatched cottage had no electricity, gas, or...
May 19, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff