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Niamh Hyland and Michael Brunnock. By Irish Echo Staff Niamh Hyland and Michael Brunnock met quite by chance, courtesy of a date one of them was on...

“The Stars of the Commitments” first made their name in the iconic movie directed by Alan Parker. Music Notes / By Colleen Taylor Ken McCluskey has...

The Martin Hayes Quartet. Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely Is there a person more hard wired into the nuanced world of traditional music at this...

PHOTO BY KERRYGOLD Ireland Hopping / By Margaret M. Johnson With Thanksgiving approaching, the thought of what “sides” to serve with turkey looms l...

LEGHONWNEY DRAMA GROUP presents Wake in the West By playwright, Michael J. Ginnelly's Saturday, October 27 at 8pm and Sunday, October 28 at 2pm. St...

The following is an extract from Seamus Beirne’s “In Search of Brigid Coltrane,” published on Sept. 6 by Fireship Press, is a historical thriller s...

Sue Hubbard’s latest novel “Rainsongs” has just been published in the U.S. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE AUTHOR Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott “‘R...

Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely With Stevie Dunne’s newest, “Live at the Crosskeys Inn,” in the player this week, it’s the “glory-beaming banjo...

Gina Costigan. By Irish Echo Staff “The Blood Flow Game” by Seamus Scanlon of City College's Center for Worker Education has a free rehearsed table...

By Gerry Adams Last week I attended the launch of Christine Kinealy’s authoritative and revealing two volumes on the life and times of Frederick Do...

By Daniel Neely One of the interesting things about traditional music is that despite the shared repertory of tunes and songs, there exists a great...

Micheal O’Siadhail. PHOTO BY MICHAEL SHEEHAN By Peter McDermott The Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual at Loyola University, Chicago, presen...