Culture
LISTEN: Visiting Belfast in '26 - check out Irish Stew's Titanic City podcasts first
Award-winning podcasters John Lee and Martin Nutty have released the first of their exclusive interviews with the movers and shakers who have made ...
February 01, 2025
by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
Threads in the tapestry of my ancestors' lives
Many of us know little, if anything, about our ancestors. Often, we don’t even know their names. My own ignorance about my ancestors mirrored that ...
January 31, 2025
by Charles Paul Collins
Parade grew with city's Irish
The New York Saint Patrick’s Day parade has a long, fascinating history. Boston claims the oldest celebrations of St. Patrick’s Day dating from 172...
January 30, 2025
by Geoffrey Cobb
Mullane's fabulous 'Evoke' is in traditional music's avant garde
In the media yoke this week is Damien Mullane’s new album “Evoke.” An album of exceptional musicianship and extraordinary vision, it’s certainly ro...
January 29, 2025
by Daniel Neely
Culture
Texas Irish Writers Plan Dublin-Belfast Summer Workshop
From August 10-17, 2025, novelist S. Kirk Walsh (of the national bestseller The Elephant of Belfast) and award-winning poet and Fulbright recipient...
January 28, 2025
by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
Oats are January 'Grain of the Month'
Considering the freezing temperatures and snowy conditions that seem to be everywhere this month — literally, from Kansas City to Killarney — it’s ...
January 24, 2025
by Margaret M. Johnson
Superb pure-drop played with class by Gavin and Gannon
Folks, for the past 17 years Knoxville, Tenn., has played host to an outstanding annual event called the “Tune Junkie Weekend” and as fate would ha...
January 24, 2025
by Daniel Neely
Salon expresses sadness for L.A.
It seems to me that every salon takes on a different vibe or personality, that is unique of that one evening, and not to be repeated, inimitable. I...
January 23, 2025
by Lori Cassels
On truth, Trump, Biden and BS
By the time this article appears, Donald Trump will have been sworn in again as President of the United States. The freezing temperatures will have...
January 22, 2025
by Stephen Butler
King's non-violence made radical demand for inclusion
Martin Luther King Jr. was transformed from a private citizen into a public figure one afternoon in early December 1955. He told his wife Coretta w...
January 17, 2025
by Peter McDermott
First names, nicknames up for forum discussion
The Irish Family History Forum will hold its January meeting on this Saturday morning, with topic under discussion being “Old Irish First Names and...
January 16, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
Cullinan's playing is sublime
Well, folks, here we are — it’s only the middle of January and I have an absolute gem in the media yoke that I’m excited to tell you about. “Here I...
January 15, 2025
by Daniel Neely