Culture
Colm O'Brien offers new fruit of his work
Each time I discover a talented Irish artist who is bringing their music to America it's like unwrapping a Christmas present. I admire the packagin...
December 12, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Center & Moloney, serve up Christmas treat
Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely For the past several years, New York City's Irish Arts Center has presented "An Irish Christmas," Mick Moloney'...
December 12, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Day-Lewis channels 16th prez in ‘Lincoln’
Silver Screen / By Karen Butler Double Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis has admitted that playing America’s 16th president in “Lincoln” was initially ...
December 04, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Recalling simpler time in idyllic neighborhood
Between the LInes / By Peter McDermott In a 1998 Newsday article about a Queens neighborhood, a local said: "We’re not Utopia, but we’re the closes...
December 04, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Smith’s collaborations set high standard
Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely Jesse Smith has been a part of a lot of great albums. There’s “Think Before You Think” with Danú (2000), his so...
December 04, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Holland is at once hip and traditional
Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely I came across an album in my apartment last week that I really should have gotten to months ago, Gráinne Hollan...
November 23, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Envoy's memoirs tell of U.S.-Irish tension
Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott In 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt appointed David Gray, a member both of the WASP elite and his own fam...
November 21, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Yet another ‘great night!’ at Thalia Café
By Charles Hale One of the outgrowths and benefits of the Irish American Writers & Artists’ salons has been the increasing number of collaborations...
November 21, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Doolan’s new passion is Galway venue
At the opening night of the Irish Film New York last month, Lelia Doolan was a hard woman to catch. But, eventually she had some time to sit with t...
November 21, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Rian’ showcases Ó Maonlaí’s musical passion
This past summer Irish rocker Joe Hurley, curated OurLand, a dynamic outdoor celebration of Irish heritage at Lincoln center. Now it’s Liam Ó Maonl...
November 07, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
TradConnect is resource for fans, musicians
Last week, I spoke with Tony Lawless, a fiddle and guitar player from Dublin who runs Tradconnect.com, a very impressive (and free!) website whose ...
November 07, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Leitrim’s Hyland strikes a chord in NYC
Niamh Hyland may not always have been sure what path her life would take, but she knew that it would involve music. Tall, with short-cut auburn hai...
October 24, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff