Culture

Titanic Belfast. IRELAND HOPPING By Margaret M. Johnson The evening of April 14, 1912, was a freezing, moonless Sunday night in the north Atlantic....

By Joseph Goodrich When I was a college student in 1980s Minneapolis / Saint Paul, it wasn’t unusual to meet someone who had worked with Sir Tyrone...

Éamon de Valera. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS By Irish Echo Staff Eamon de Valera’s high-profile return to the city of his birth will be one of the topics u...

Róisín O and John Broe, who together are Thanks Brother, have released a stunning music video to accompany “We Are Different.” PHOTO BY DARA MUNNIS...

Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely A well-kept desk is a model study in in tectonic flows. Piles accumulate and as things move around, as they do,...

Tara Lee. By Irish Echo Staff The interest in Friday night’s Craic “Taste of Dublin” at the American Irish Historical Society on Fifth Avenue has b...

[vc_row 0=""][vc_column][vc_column_text 0=""]Melissa Gilbert in “My Brilliant Divorce.” PHOTO BY CAROL ROSEGG By Orla O’Sullivan “I sleep in the mi...

PHOTO: PORK BE INSPIRED Ireland Hopping / By Margaret M. Johnson Unlike other holidays with a fixed date, Easter takes place on the first Sunday af...

Clare O'Malley and Jennifer McVey in “Riders to the Sea,” one of the plays in “Three Small Irish Masterpieces” at Irish Repertory Theatre. PHOTO BY...

From left, IAC Executive Director Aidan Connolly, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and IAC Vice Chair Pauline Turley. PHOTO BY AMANDA G...

Book Review / By Peter M. Walsh There are bar stories and then there are “bar stories.” Once they are started, the facts erode and the myth explode...

Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely Starting off this week with news of an album Lúnasa fiddle player Colin Farrell has made with flute player Dan ...