Ray O'Hanlon

Ray O’Hanlon is Editor of the Irish Echo. A graduate of University College Dublin, he has been a journalist for more than four decades and is a published author, his latest book being “Unintended Consequences: The Story Of Irish Immigration To The U.S. And How America’s Door Was Closed To The Irish” (www.MerrionPress.ie).

Latest Stories

The Building, The Collection, The Very Essence The Building, The Collection, The Very Essence
There's more than bricks, mortar and artifacts involved in the debate and discussions surrounding the Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University ...
February 18, 2022 by Ray O'Hanlon
New Bid for Hercules Mulligan Bridge New Bid for Hercules Mulligan Bridge
The pleas to Governor Andrew Cuomo did not generate a positive result. But backers of a plan to name a bridge in Lower Manhattan after Irish-born R...
February 08, 2022 by Ray O'Hanlon
Foreign Affairs Defends, Concedes Foreign Affairs Defends, Concedes
Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs has defended its record with regard to working on behalf of the undocumented Irish in the U.S. But it has c...
January 28, 2022 by Ray O'Hanlon
Irish Fishermen Take on the Russians Irish Fishermen Take on the Russians
The Russians are coming. So are the Irish fishermen. Scores of Irish fishing boats are planning to head for the area of the Atlantic where a Russia...
January 27, 2022 by Ray O'Hanlon
Honoring the Story of New York's State Police Honoring the Story of New York's State Police
There are families. And there are families. Thomas Mungeer is interested in families - the kind you find at home, and the kind you work with. Munge...
January 21, 2022 by Ray O'Hanlon
Neal Top Aid Tranghese Departs Neal Top Aid Tranghese Departs
His work over the years has been very much in the background but Billy Tranghese has been a staunch friend of Ireland. Just like his boss, Congress...
January 14, 2022 by Ray O'Hanlon
FDNY Rapid Response Saved Lives FDNY Rapid Response Saved Lives
As horrific as it was, the death and injury toll in the Bronx apartment building fire on Sunday, January 9, could have been much higher. The speed ...
January 12, 2022 by Ray O'Hanlon
Being Irish, And Being In Good Company
News
Being Irish, And Being In Good Company
It's December and I am in, well, august company. That would be one hundred others who contributed to the book "Being Irish, 101 views on Irish Iden...
December 22, 2021 by Ray O'Hanlon
EDITORIAL: A Viral Grinch At Christmas
Opinion
EDITORIAL: A Viral Grinch At Christmas
Not too long ago there was an expectation that Christmas 2021 would be more "normal" than Christmas 2020. And in significant ways it will be as, un...
December 22, 2021 by Ray O'Hanlon
EDITORIAL: All We Want.... EDITORIAL: All We Want....
As the song line goes, "all I want for Christmas is my two front teeth." If only it was something so simple on the eve of Christmas, 2021. A new ve...
December 15, 2021 by Ray O'Hanlon
EDITORIAL: Unfortunate Tenement Timing
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Unfortunate Tenement Timing
The story appeared in the New York Times early in June. The Tenement Museum on Manhattan's Lower East Side, like all institutions open to the publi...
December 08, 2021 by Ray O'Hanlon
Irish American Heroes of Pearl Harbor Irish American Heroes of Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor, an event that changed the course of world history, took place eighty years ago today. What makes Pearl Harbor so differ...
December 07, 2021 by Ray O'Hanlon

 



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