Culture

By Daniel Neely Folks who have been engaged with Irish traditional music over the last four decades or so will be well acquainted with the name Car...

Aidan Gillen and Laoisa Sexton in "“I Didn't... I Wasn't... I Amn't." Laoisa Sexton, who was for some years based in New York, is returning from Ir...

The Yeats poem “Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen” has inspired an eponymous art exhibit a hundred years later. By Irish Echo Staff An art exhibit that...

Aisling Ni Fhlaithearta By Mike Houlihan Ireland is a preview of heaven. There is no more beautiful place in the world than Eire. And Galway is Ire...

Alex Boatright and Shannon Dunne. By Daniel Neely Have you been paying attention to We Banjo 3’s fiddle player Fergal Scahill’s tune-a-day project ...

Aoife Williamson Galway author and City College Downtown educator, Seamus Scanlon, will host an evening of theater, film, reading, discussion - and...

The Hudson Valley Irish Fest will take place on Saturday, September 28 By Irish Echo Staff The Hudson Valley Irish Fest returns to Peekskill’s Rive...

Caption with Jennings jpg: Kevin Jennings, president of the Tenement Museum in New York City. Photo courtesy of the Tenement Museum. By Irish Echo ...

Croke Park will be packed again this Saturday evening It’s back to Croke Park for the All Ireland football final replay. The replay is set for an u...

A still from “The Man Who Wanted to Fly.” By Mike Houlihan “Genius is eternal patience.” So said Michelangelo. He would know of course, lying on hi...

The stout once flowed at 47th Avenue, but these days Nycon New York Concrete Supply is responsible for most of the productive activity on that bloc...

Michael Scanlon. Ballina, Co. Mayo, native Michael Scanlon worked in administration and sales for the Irish Echo in the mid-1990s. In this piece, h...