Culture

By Daniel Neely Sometimes you have to search far and wide to find the best out there, but sometimes you only need to look in your own backyard. Hai...

Hozier's "Take Me to Church" is not a typical pop song. By Colleen Taylor The continued, international elation inspired by Ireland’s passing of the...

Playwright Brona Crehan By Peter McDermott pmcdermott@irishecho.com Although business, trade and investment will get plenty of air time at the 6th ...

Actor Jack O’Connell, center, actor-playwright Erin Layton and actor-playwright Don Creedon were in the audience last night for this month’s Artist...

Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott When Elise Juska’s most recent novel was published in hard cover last year, the Philadelphia Inquirer said ...

Willow Sea and Tracy Friel are Grounds for Invasion. By Colleen Taylor I’m feeling very cool this week. Walking about the streets with my headphone...

“Brownstone Dreams” – an extract By Kevin R. McPartland Staggering slightly and mumbling, Bobby Dutton made his way across the schoolyard of P.S. 1...

The round tower over the burial site of Glasnevin Cemetery founder Daniel O’Connell. PHOTOCALL IRELAND By Michael Gray Media vita in morte sumus: i...

Whistle player Allison Haugh in silhouette at the Fleadh. PHOTO: MARIANNE MANGAN By Daniel Neely Last weekend, Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann's North ...

Mick Flannery is not a country singer, but his style sometimes reflects his Nashville start. By Colleen Taylor Cork singer Mick Flannery found his ...

The Gene Siskel Film Center on Sept. 25-27 expects to see some of the same ethnic swagger that made James Cagney famous. By Mike Houlihan I auditio...

By Tom Fleming letters@irishecho.com What is the most important argument in American history? The quarrel between North and South that led to the m...