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By Colleen Taylor How they do it we’ll probably never know, but the High Kings have produced yet another extraordinary album. “Grace & Glory,” thei...

By Irish Echo Staff Frank McCourt is still with us. In spirit and in words. And in the minds of those who want to learn more about an extraordinary...

By Irish Echo Staff Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University has acquired the painting “Rainbow’s End” by the Scottish-Irish artist W...

At Tuesday’s opening night gala for Ireland 100 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. were Vice President Joe Biden, actress and artist-in-resi...

By Daniel Neely Last Saturday, I had the opportunity to catch Open the Door for Three at the Irish Arts Center in New York City. The group, which i...

In 2015, Lisa Hannigan recorded her rendition of “Danny Boy” for the television show “Fargo.” By Colleen Taylor This week, I’ve been getting lost i...

Fishamble's artistic director Jim Culleton. PHOTO BY PATRICK REDMOND By Irish Echo Staff What Ireland’s President Higgins has called a “brilliant p...

Stephen Mullen recently met up with his dad Frank’s friends from his student days in Chicago in the early 1970s, P.J. and Mary O’Dea, along with do...

Mick McAuley’s “Highs and Bellows” is a substantial album. By Daniel Neely In the player this week is musician, composer and songwriter Mick McAule...

Walking on Cars, a band out of Dingle, Co. Kerry, begins an American tour on May 18 at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn. By Colleen Taylo...

Dublin-born interior designer Claire McGovern began her American career in San Francisco, but is now mainly based in New York. PHOTO: PETER MCDERMO...

By Michael Gray John Carney, rising star of Irish cinema, scored a big success nine years ago with his directorial debut “Once”, a charming and unc...