Culture

“69th NYS Memorial Mass, St. Brigid’s Church, August 14, 1861, Imagined,” a painting by Patricia Melvin. By Peter McDermott pmcdermott@irishecho.co...

Fan Eva Murphy wrote her tribute to singer David Bowie in Grand Social in Dublin on Monday evening. PHOTOCALL By Colleen Taylor This week, the worl...

Prize-winning writer Brian Ó Broin with his wife Jo Schuster and their children Ána and Fiona. Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott The protagon...

Luke Kelly in 1967. On Friday night, the New York Irish Center, Long Island City, will present “The Performer,” which has rare, largely unseen perf...

Maura Mulligan at the head of the table with some of the Nollaig na mBan participants. By Maura Mulligan There was a time when women of Ireland wor...

Nuala Kennedy. By Daniel Neely Back in 2012 my wife and I were having a pint at Connolly’s Bar in Kinvara and who walks in but Nuala Kennedy with h...

Kodaline. PHOTO: JOSH SHINNER By Colleen Taylor In 2012, Kodaline very quickly became one of Ireland’s most successful 21st century international b...

Rodney Edwards. Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott Rodney Edwards is a busy man. He works for the Impartial Reporter in Enniskillen and in tha...

By Seamus Beirne "To Hell or Connaught," Oliver Cromwell's infamous threat against the native Irish in the 17th century, sent an unmistakable warni...

By Daniel Neely In 2012, I met Gráinne Holland, a fabulous singer from Belfast, at a Tourism Ireland function in Manhattan. She had recently releas...

SOAK, AKA Bridie Monds-Watson. By Colleen Taylor Every year on the brink of the New Year, I like to review my favorite albums of the past year. The...

Sarah Street's "The Last Rose of Summer" begins in Bantry, Co. Cork. By Sean Devlin On a rainy Monday night at Manhattan’s Irish Arts Center, Irish...