Culture
Inspired by tradition on 34th Street
A view of the interior of the Long Hall on East 34th Street in Manhattan. PHOTOS BY PETER MCDERMOTT By Peter McDermott The Long Hall is a name to r...
November 09, 2018
by Peter McDermott
Culture
Woodside pubs thrive in diversity
Sean Og Tavern, 60-02 Woodside Ave. PHOTOS BY PETER MCDERMOTT By Bianca Giacobone A stout man with a grey moustache scoops up meat and potatoes fro...
November 08, 2018
by Bianca Giacobone
Culture
#IAmIrish to open at NYIC
Lorraine Maher. PHOTO BY TRACEY ANDERSON The New York Irish Center is celebrating racial diversity among the Irish diaspora with the launch of its ...
November 07, 2018
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Burke’s live ‘evening’ is majestic
Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely Back in 2012, I wrote about a series of solo performances Kevin Burke had been doing called “The Naked Fiddle.”...
November 06, 2018
by Daniel Neely
Culture
Claire ‘more content’ in S4: Balfe
Caitriona Balfe on the set of "Outlander." Season 4 began last night. PHOTO COURTESY OF STARZ By Karen Butler Irish actress Caitriona Balfe says Cl...
November 05, 2018
by Karen Butler
Culture
The explosion that rocked Jersey City
Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott One hundred years ago, the terrorists who struck in the United States tended to be either Italian or German...
November 02, 2018
by Peter McDermott
Culture
Views into past on Lexington
By Peter McDermott Most enthusiasts of photography take their time moving around the streets of New York, camera in hand. Not Michael Di Cerbo — mo...
November 01, 2018
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Immigrants celebrated at Salon
Carmel McMahon. PHOTOS BY KATHLEEN WALSH D’ARCY Salon Diary / By Karen Daly Thanks to Charlotte Moore and Ciaran O’Reilly and their associates at t...
October 31, 2018
by Karen Daly
Culture
The long view
John Horgan has been a working journalist, senator, TD, MEP, university professor and author. In 2007, he was appointed Ireland’s first press ombud...
October 30, 2018
by Peter McDermott
Culture
Big events for Madden, Cassidy
Joanie Madden, pictured front left with Cherish the Ladies, will receive the Eugene O’Neill Lifetime Achievement Award on Monday, Nov. 12. Traditio...
October 29, 2018
by Daniel Neely
Culture
Never Too Early To Start a Christmas Cake
PHOTO BY MARGARET M. JOHNSON Ireland Hopping | By Margaret M. Johnson The ancient Celtic harvest feast called Samhain (pronounced SAH-win) marks th...
October 26, 2018
by Margaret M. Johnson
Culture
A gift motivated by guilt
Writer Anne Higgins Petz has followed up her 2012 “Irish Crosswords: Puzzles that Bring You a Taste of the Emerald Isle” (she’s been a crossword se...
October 25, 2018
by Anne Higgins Petz