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Garinish Island. PHOTOS BY MARGARET M. JOHNSON Ireland Hopping / By Margaret M. Johnson PART 1 For more times than I can count, I drove right past ...

Seo Linn is a Dublin-based band from Kilkenny. By Colleen Taylor The dominant narrative surrounding the Irish language is one of difficulty. For th...

Stuart Bailie. Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott The Irish Times said that Stuart Bailie’s latest book “is based around a premise so simple y...

Jane Mayer is the author of “Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right” and a New Yorker staffer whos...

Cherish the Ladies. By Daniel Neely Catskills Irish Arts Week 2019 has come and gone, and it was exceptional! Celebrating its 25th anniversary with...

The writer's parents, Marcella, “Marcy,” and Pat, on their wedding day in 1953. PHOTOS COURTESY PATRICK SHELDON By Patrick Sheldon Nothing prepared...

Big Tom McBride pictured in Barry’s Hotel in Dublin in 1998. The singer, who died in 2018, was called the king of Irish country music by President ...

Seamus Heaney will be remembered at PoetryFest. The 2019 Spirit of Ireland Gala will honor Elvis Costello on Oct. 18, the Irish Arts Center has ann...

Edward Conlon became established with his “Cop Diary” in the New Yorker magazine and his memoir “Blue Blood.” His latest novel, “The Policewomen’s ...

Rosie Carney, who has made to NPR’s top 100-song list, will return to the U.S. to record some new music. DANIEL ALEXANDER HARRIS / SACKSCO.COM By N...

PISTACHIO TEA CAKES. PHOTO: MARGARET M. JOHNSON By Margaret M. Johnson A drive from Bantry to Glengarriff. . . Glengarriff to Kenmare. . . Kenmare ...

Mike Houlihan By Irish Echo Staff Are you the next John Ford? Well, if you think you might be, Mike Houlihan would love to hear from you. He is loo...