Buffalo moving to the next level with Joyce treasure troves
The right person, in the right place, at the right time. That in essence explains how the University at Buffalo came to have the largest James Joyc...
May 13, 2025
by Peter McDermott
Friends gather for a spring salon
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
Mid-Atlantic Fleadh gets new look for 2025
Buffalo moving to the next level with Joyce treasure troves
Friends gather for a spring salon
Achill changed Henry's painting
'50 Odd Years' reissue is a treat
Jeseque wants to play her part
Casey for Freeport talk on May 17
Tiny cemetery in Astoria, Queens has intriguing history
War ends, bar abandoned
From trad to transformative
Tales of romance, trips, if onlys
