Culture
'Jimmy's Hall' cast put through its paces
Barry Ward and Simone Kirby in a scene from “Jimmy’s Hall.” By Frances Scanlon letters@irishecho.com If you go to “Jimmy’s Hall,” which opens in th...
June 30, 2015
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Crowley’s passion is evident in book
Jimmy Crowley began writing the "Songs of Cork" column in Evening Echo in 2002. By Daniel Neely letters@irishecho.com I imagine there isn’t a music...
June 29, 2015
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Literary day marked by ‘invigorating’ night
Salon Diary / By Karen Daly Conor McCourt and Laure Sullivan. The IAW&A Salon at the Cell Theatre occurred on that revered date in the Irish cultur...
June 26, 2015
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Feeling like you’re there
Tim V. Smyth and Carol Anne McGowan, aka Hidden Highways, will be touring Ireland throughout the summer. By Colleen Taylor letters@irishecho.com Fo...
June 25, 2015
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Doyle debut is ‘darkly exhilarating’
Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott Rob Doyle. PHOTO BY AL HIGGINS Rob Doyle, who holds a first-class honors degree in philosophy and an MPhil ...
June 24, 2015
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Corofin grapples with sudden death
Deborah Kruel Rupy plays Mary in "The Caretaker of Corofin." By Peter McDermott pmcdermott@irishecho.com It was late on New Year’s Eve, 1986, in Co...
June 23, 2015
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
CD joins ranks of session classics
By Daniel Neely There’s a pub in Camden Town, London, called the Good Mixer where the Britpop scene has gone to drink, fight and carry on for the b...
June 22, 2015
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
‘It’s nice to be first’: Enright
The multiple-awarding winning novelist Anne Enright was named in January to the new official position of laureate for Irish fiction. PHOTO: HUGH CH...
June 19, 2015
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Irish, U.S. fests showcase talent
Michigan’s the Moxie Strings will be on stage at the Great American Irish Festival in Frankfort, N.Y., in July. By Colleen Taylor letters@irishecho...
June 17, 2015
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Man who said no to ‘never’
Ed Lucas with his son Christopher Lucas Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott Said the 14-year Yankees star and current Dodgers manager Don Matti...
June 17, 2015
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Dad wasn't a Dev fan
Éamon de Valera on the campaign trail in 1951. By Tom Phelan letters@irishecho.com I was 10 years old when Éamon de Valera came to Mountmellick on ...
June 16, 2015
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Yeats’s tower was retreat, inspiration
W.B. Yeats in 1923. BALLYLEE PHOTOS BY DEIRDRE HOLMES By Peter McDermott pmcdermott@irishecho.com A generous check from an American lawyer has boos...
June 13, 2015
by Irish Echo Staff