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Aida Leventaki, left, and Finty Kelly star in Eris Khouzam's “Booze.” By Orla O’Sullivan “Booze” is far too good of a play to have been written by ...

By Daniel Neely John Kerr is a Virginia-based flute player and a dancer well known to the Washington DC scene (and beyond) who has just published “...

By Daniel Neely In the player this week is “Firewood,” the new album by fiddle player Jake James and it’s absolutely fantastic. James has put toget...

We Banjo 3. PHOTO BY DAVID NORTON By Colleen Taylor Nowadays, if you want to hear good bluegrass, you’ll have to look east across the Atlantic, as ...

Sr. Joann Sambs, executive director of the Dwelling Place of New York. PHOTOS BY DAN BROWN By Carmel McMahon Nollaig Na mBan NYC is a group of arti...

The basilica at Knock. By Maura Mulligan Walking around the grounds of Knock Shrine, a few days ago with an old friend, Terence Flanagan, who is a ...

The triumphant Irish Baseball team By Irish Echo Staff Tokyo, a town that knows its baseball, just got a little closer for the Irish national baseb...

W.B. Yeats By Irish Echo Staff A collection of unpublished letters written by William Butler Yeats that was stolen in the 1970s and returned “anony...

Falls Restaurant, Sheen Falls Lodge, Kenmare IRELAND HOPPING | By Margaret M. Johnson Part II If you haven’t heard the news yet, you’ll be thrilled...

“A Deep Pool” is the latest offering from Seamus Sands Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely In the player this week is “A Deep Pool,” the newest fro...

Poet Caoilinn Hughes’s debut novel is “Orchid & the Wasp.” PHOTOGRAPH BY DANIJEL MIHAJLOVIĆ Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott When asked to d...

Westport at night. Music Notes / By Colleen Taylor People go to the west coast of Mayo for the views—Achill, Clare Island, the Great Western Greenw...