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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...

By Daniel Neely Shane Meehan is a fiddle player from Carrick-on-Shannon Co. Leitrim (now living in Cork) who recently released his solo debut “’twi...

Cillian O’Sullivan plays James and Victoria Meade is Ruby in “Misty Button.” By Mike Houlihan What are the odds of a 35 to 1 shot winning a race? “...

Croke Park awaits the Dublin and Kerry teams. Inpho photo. By Gerry O’Shea The All-Ireland football finals in 1955 and 1975 are remembered with gre...

Tara O'Grady and Dink Bruce in front of his 1949 Chevy pickup truck. By Tara O'Grady Ernest Hemingway came to me in a dream recently. He was wearin...

Mary Goggin. PHOTOS BY CHRIS BOOTH Salon Diary / By Karen Daly Walking into the Cell on sultry late summer day, we might not have predicted that th...

Cherish the Ladies leading the way at the fleadh. By Colleen Taylor The Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2019 concluded on Sunday, Aug. 18, with some beau...