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The Wolfe Tones pictured on stage. Alex Fell writes in the foreword to her latest book “it is not possible for a band to be much more successful th...

Marisa Tomei being interviewed during the Galway Film Fleadh. PHOTOS BY ADRIAN REYES By Jeanne L. Logan While events on the world stage fret and st...

“Bear with Spoon and Egg.” By Peter McDermott The title of Irish sculptor Patrick O’Reilly’s second exhibition at Gallery Valois America in New Yor...

Kevin McPartland. Salon Diary / By Mark William Butler PHOTOS BY DAN BROWN The celebration came a day early at the Irish-American Writers & Artists...

Joanie Madden. Musician Joanie Madden has been announced as this year’s recipient of the Eugene O’Neill Lifetime Achievement Award. The Irish Ameri...

An aerial view of Ballyfin. IRELAND HOPPING | By Margaret M. Johnson Part 1 [Part 2 will be published in the Irish Echo on Aug. 1] It’s now mid-Jul...

Richard Flanagan’s seventh novel, “First Person,” was published recently in the United States. His sixth, “The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” won ...

Musicians of all ages were much in evidence in East Durham. By Daniel Neely If you weren’t up in East Durham, N.Y., last week for the Catskills Iri...

The Tokyo premiere of “The McGowan Trilogy,” by New York-based Galway author Seamus Scanlon, took place today at the Setagaya Public Theatre. The t...

The High Kings. Music Notes / By Colleen Taylor How can a band commemorate a decade while sounding brand new? There may not be a clear answer, but ...

Author Michèle Mendelssohn outside the Wilde family home at 1 Merrion Sq., Dublin. Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott “The book you are holdin...

Colette Forde in her own play “Innit,” which is currently on at the SoHo Playhouse. By Orla O’Sullivan The plays of two young women spotted in Irel...