Roots experts in the spotlight
Paul Gorry, a prominent Irish genealogist, and Brendan Scott, manager of the website Roots Ireland, had only ever been in contact via email before ...
July 08, 2022
by Peter McDermott
A treasure hunt around Europe
In the prologue to Richard O’Rawe’s second novel, Hermann Goering washes down a morphine tablet with some red wine. He puffs on but doesn’t inhale ...
June 30, 2022
by Peter McDermott
War was friend against friend
Picture caption: Military representatives, from left, Seán Mac Eoin (pro-Treaty), Seán Moylan (anti), Eoin O’Duffy (pro), Liam Lynch (anti), Gearói...
June 22, 2022
by Peter McDermott
Moloney is back on Irish Rep stage as Molly Bloom
"I think I ran out of something to read.” Aedín Moloney was 10 going on 11 when she picked up “Ulysses.” “We were a no-TV house,” the actor recalle...
June 17, 2022
by Peter McDermott
Solutions that make sense
“It’s like bailing out the flood without turning off the faucet.” That’s how Áine Duggan describes New York City’s approach to the problem of homel...
June 08, 2022
by Peter McDermott
Civilized society needs gun control
[This piece was originally published in the Irish Echo on Jan. 16, 2013, against the backdrop of the debate sparked by the Sandy Hook massacre.] Fi...
June 02, 2022
by Peter McDermott
Dickson paintings for Dublin, thanks to McKee
Last month, the Hugh Lane Gallery’s Barbara Dawson made a visit to a studio located on a quiet street in north Brooklyn. Her host was abstract expr...
May 26, 2022
by Peter McDermott
Love story based on true events
James McVeigh’s first novel begins in a Belfast at war. James McCann meets a spirited and beautiful young woman named Rose Rafferty and a romance d...
May 25, 2022
by Peter McDermott
A long journey to a better life
“Nowadays you can go on Google and look up pictures of Australia.” So said theatre director Nicola Murphy, throwing into stark relief the leap of f...
May 19, 2022
by Peter McDermott
Irish gather, ponder in 'The Lobby'
Someone leaves, and the person they’re looking for arrives. That happens more than once in “The Lobby,” it being a comedy farce. The opposite was t...
May 10, 2022
by Peter McDermott
Most notorious and most riotous
”Between the years 1848 and 1851 over 4,000 Irish females took passage on ships from Ireland to Australia under the Orphan Emigration Scheme, estab...
May 05, 2022
by Peter McDermott
Elliott is ready for NYC return
You could say it’s been two steps forward and one step back for Dan Elliott. But that might minimize just how tough the Covid era has been on him a...
May 04, 2022
by Peter McDermott