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Ellington Restaurant, July 22 -- Novelist Anthony C. Murphy’s work has been described as “funny, sweet, moving, gentle and bold,” all of which migh...

Forty years ago this week, I had my passport stamped at Shannon Airport with the official greeting: “Permitted to land in Ireland for three months....

Excitement is in the air in Wexford Town, because as you read this Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2024 is in full swing! Yes, the biggest week on the tr...

When President John F. Kennedy addressed crowds of well-wishers in Ireland during his June 1963 visit to the country, he employed a rhetorical devi...

In the Echo in May, Norah Woodsey wrote the essay “Anne Elliot’s feelings are timeless” about her latest novel “The States.” Here, the Brooklyn-bor...

The United States, claimed Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was “a Protestant country and the Catholics and Jews are here on sufferance.” Terry Golway wr...

Depending on when you read this, let me be the first to remind you that there are only 153 days until Christmas! Shocking, I know, but the good new...

A thirst has finally been quenched in Austin for an Irish pub in the city center. The Dead Rabbit, originally opened in 2012 in New York City by Be...

AN off the books IRA kidnapping of a leading Dublin barrister goes horribly wrong with leading operative JJ Hynes ferried away to Holland in its af...

My announcement “Senior in the House” caused laughter on a crowded New York City bus recently and brought a couple of young folks to their feet. Th...

If Bill Irwin might profess one secret about the writing of Samuel Beckett, it is that he hasn’t quite got it on the nose. “It’s a bugger of a play...

Upon stepping from the street into Nunu Fine Art, 381 Broome St., one can take a stroll back in time. One experiences the 1960s to the ’80s, specif...