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From left to right, Brendan Bell, flute [facing away]; Nathan Gourley, fiddle; Sean McComiskey, accordion; Daniel Neely, banjo; Cillian Vallely, ui...

A scene from “School Life.” PHOTO COURTESY OF MAGNOLIA PICTURES By Michael Gray The very notion of a boarding school for pre-teen boys and girls se...

Tupelo, a Dublin act that has performed on the Irish-American fest circuit, has downsized and upgraded. By Colleen Taylor What happens when a band ...

Moone High Cross Inn, in Moone, Co. Kildare, at autumn-time. MARGARET M. JOHNSON Ireland Hopping | Margaret M. Johnson The calendar still indicates...

Teresa Deevy’s grandniece and literary executor Jacqui Deevy and the Mint Theater Company’s Jonathan Bank outside the playwright’s home on Passage ...

Van Morrison is releasing his 37th studio album next month. By Colleen Taylor Typically, by the age of 70, most people concentrate on retirement. B...

A scene from one of the many great street attractions at the Fleadh in Ennis, Co. Clare. By Daniel Neely The streets were crowded in Ennis all week...

Tom Phelan. The author’s most recent tale in the Echo (“JohnJoe Enacts His Clever Plan”) ended: “JohnJoe wiped the muck and the cow dung off his we...

The Irish Hunger Memorial in Downtown Manhattan. BPCPARKS.ORG By Áine Ní Shionnaigh It is a damp spring morning in 1952 in the townland of Carrowdo...

Gary Craig. Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott For his first book “Seven Million,” Gary Craig returned to the scene of the crime, one that he ...

Music is the family business, but Ailie Blunnie has taken perhaps a bolder path than her near relatives. PHOTO BY POOKADUBH By Colleen Taylor Some ...

Pineapple Upside-Down Cakes. AAS2009 | DREAMSTIME. COM Ireland Hopping | Margaret M. Johnson Pineapple upside-down cake is a wonderful old-fashione...