Baby brings luck in Limerick, glasses raised in Oakland
The Irish-American Heritage Month Celebration Salon greeted salon-goers on a warm 70 degree night, with outdoor diners enjoying the uncharacteristi...
March 27, 2026
by Logan Reyes
Some deserve posthumous infamy, Alinsky does not
Journalist Nicholas von Hoffman recalled in his book “Radical” that he and Cesar Chavez were recruited on the same day to work for the Industrial A...
March 26, 2026
by Peter McDermott
IAW&A Showcase
New York IAW&A will host a curated Writers' Showcase with selected presenting readers and their recent publications at Houghton Hall, 22 East 30th ...
March 25, 2026
by Irish Echo Staff
Yeates eulogizes Weldon, Keane
On Friday, the Folk Music Society of New York presented Dublin-based singer Macdara Yeates at the St. Paul & St. Andrew United Methodist Church as ...
March 24, 2026
by Daniel Neely
Culture
BOOKS: United Ireland debate highlights need for clear, credible plan from Dublin
For and Against a United Ireland. By Fintan O'Toole and Sam McBride. Blackwell's. For most readers of The Irish Echo, the prospect of a united Irel...
March 23, 2026
by Jack McCarthy, Princeton, NJ
Culture
Hitting a high note on World Down Syndrome Day
Derry-based songwriter Colm Warren has re-emerged with a new single and video aiming to speak up for families living with Down syndrome. Warren’s n...
March 20, 2026
by Anthony Neeson
Welcome to Spring!
Astronomical spring officially begins on Friday at 10:46 AM eastern time (meteorological spring began on March 1). The spring equinox marks the mom...
March 20, 2026
by Irish Echo Staff
Relive trad craic on high seas!
It seems that special things happen every March as the wave of the St. Patrick Day season crashes over us. One of them is that this year’s TG4’s pr...
March 19, 2026
by Daniel Neely
Identity politics as a laughing matter
“Ulster American” is another triumph by the Irish Rep. The play comes at you from field left. We are waiting for fictional playwright Ruth Davenpor...
March 18, 2026
by Orla O'Sullivan
Currier & Ives cultivated Irish-American market
Currier & Ives sold fantasy and it sold reality. And that’s generally the approach the lithographic company took to Ireland. Kevin O’Rourke has wri...
March 17, 2026
by Peter McDermott
The Old Print Shop's favorite theme is New York itself
When traveling salesman Harry Shaw Newman stepped into the Old Print Shop at 150 Lexington Ave. for the first time, he couldn’t have known it was t...
March 17, 2026
by Peter McDermott
Bowne story on film
“John Bowne lived his religion, he didn’t only preach it.” So said Mayor Fiorella La Guardia in an Oct. 7, 1945 broadcast from 37-01 Bowne St. in F...
March 17, 2026
by Irish Echo Staff
