Culture
Young stars paved way for ‘Yes’ vote
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...
May 29, 2015
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Array of talent at 6th annual NYNB
Playwright Brona Crehan By Peter McDermott pmcdermott@irishecho.com Although business, trade and investment will get plenty of air time at the 6th ...
May 28, 2015
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
A shout-out for the arts
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...
May 27, 2015
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
The confinement and the comfort
Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott When Elise Juska’s most recent novel was published in hard cover last year, the Philadelphia Inquirer said ...
May 26, 2015
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Unapologetically contemporary
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...
May 22, 2015
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
New Irish-American Writing
“Brownstone Dreams” – an extract By Kevin R. McPartland Staggering slightly and mumbling, Bobby Dutton made his way across the schoolyard of P.S. 1...
May 21, 2015
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Where Dublin’s departed rest
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...
May 20, 2015
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Musical standards high in Parsippany
Whistle player Allison Haugh in silhouette at the Fleadh. PHOTO: MARIANNE MANGAN By Daniel Neely Last weekend, Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann's North ...
May 19, 2015
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Flannery’s latest is probing, beautiful
Mick Flannery is not a country singer, but his style sometimes reflects his Nashville start. By Colleen Taylor Cork singer Mick Flannery found his ...
May 18, 2015
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Why Chicago is hosting a Hooley
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...
May 15, 2015
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
The legacy of the great divide
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...
May 14, 2015
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Tenor Emmet Cahill the latest Midlands star
By Áine Ní Shionnaigh Chatting to Emmet Cahill earlier this week is like catching up with a long lost friend. He has a hint of an accent which I st...
May 13, 2015
by Irish Echo Staff