Culture

A beautiful spring night brought out some of the usual suspects and a few new friends to enjoy the ambience of the Ellington restaurant on 105th & ...

May 09, 2025 by Maureen Hossbacher

Achill changed Henry's painting

Ironically, the artist who best captured the subtle and ephemeral beauty of the West of Ireland was an outsider. Belfast-born Paul Henry painted ca...

May 08, 2025 by Geoffrey Cobb

'50 Odd Years' reissue is a treat

In the media yoke this week is “50 Odd Years Revisited,” the newly-released reissue of Jimmy Power and Josephine Keegan’s 1985 album. Power was one...

May 07, 2025 by Daniel Neely

Jeseque wants to play her part

Asked what his book “Flight of the Eternal Emperor” is about, James Rogers replied, “Atonement on the part of Jeseque, fear of death on the part of...

May 06, 2025 by Peter McDermott

Casey for Freeport talk on May 17

The Irish Family History Forum has announced that Dr. Marion R. Casey will be speaking on "Transforming the Irish Image" at its Saturday morning, M...

May 02, 2025 by Irish Echo Staff

Tiny cemetery in Astoria, Queens has intriguing history

Our New York Irish history can often lie hiding in plain sight, especially in Astoria, Queens. If you peer between the cracks of a chain link fence...

May 01, 2025 by Geoffrey Cobb

Culture

St Paul, MN transatlantic trailblazer who transformed Irish America to be inducted into Hall of Fame

Celtic Junction Arts Center in St Paul, MN is celebrating the news this week that late scholar and cultural advocate Dr. Eoin McKiernan is to be in...

April 30, 2025 by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir

War ends, bar abandoned

Fall of Saigon, 50th anniversary, art installation Ho Chi Minh City. Queen Bee.

April 29, 2025 by Irish Echo Staff

From trad to transformative

A couple things in the media yoke this week. First of is the eponymous debut album from the band Tempest. “Tempest” is a four piece from the north ...

April 29, 2025 by Daniel Neely

Culture

Peter Walsh, 78

Peter Mallon Walsh, who died on April 18, 2025, was a beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle. He would also want to be remembered ...

April 28, 2025 by Irish Echo Staff

Tales of romance, trips, if onlys

To our surprise, last month's salon began with Slainte pub in Oakland also hosting an Irish whiskey tasting. The spirit from Dingle seemed a favori...

April 25, 2025 by Lori Cassels

Donegan has been playing, composing for 50 years

I have often wondered why Ireland hasn’t produced more gifted jazz musicians like Cork pianist John Donegan. Researching Irish jazz history, I lear...

April 24, 2025 by Geoffrey Cobb

Culture

BOOKS: Buffalo's Eternal Emerald Thread

Ahead of the Heroes of Irish America Awards in Buffalo, NY, author Tim Bohen reflects on the city's storied Irish links. Irish immigrants flocked t...

April 23, 2025 by Tim Bohen

Young people test their mettle

A couple things to mention this week. First, I was over at the New York Irish Center in Long Island City last Friday to see Padraig Rynne, Tara Bre...

April 23, 2025 by Daniel Neely

Lynch is enjoying his New York acting career

Kevin Oliver Lynch once aspired to be a doctor. Then he figured out that what he really wanted was to play one on TV – and especially in something ...

April 22, 2025 by Peter McDermott

Emigrant Bank is 'valuable' roots source

The Irish Family History Forum’s Saturday morning meeting for this month, held tomorrow, will focus on the topic “Emigrant Savings Bank Records: A ...

April 18, 2025 by Irish Echo Staff