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
A look back at 2024 adventures
The old Irish tradition of Nollaig na mBan (Women’s Christmas) on Jan. 6 has been making a comeback in recent years. Our New York group keeps getti...
January 12, 2025
by Maura Mulligan
Culture
TRASNA MHEIRICEÁ: The transatlantic portal they didn't close down
Aonach Mhacha in Ireland's ecclesiastical capital Armagh and the Celtic Junction Arts Center in Minnesota joined forces at the end of 2024 to forge...
January 12, 2025
by Aileen Gorman Leong