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Bartender Lisa Loughery and Irish Cottage owner Kathleen McNulty. PHOTO: PETER MCDERMOTT By Peter McDermott pmcdermott@irishecho.com The death last...

Dylan Foley was a North American winner at last year’s Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann. Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely Two of the events that loom l...

By Christine Breen letters@irishecho.com Everybody’s life is a story. Mine begins in New York but ends up in the West of Ireland in a place called ...

Larry Kirwan. STACEY MCCARTHY PHOTOGRAPHY By Peter McDermott Pierce Turner will be joined by his former singing partner Larry Kirwan for one specia...

Brendan Goggins and Aaron Souza in Janice Young’s "Who Got the Girl," which will be performed this week at the Poor Mouth Theatre Company as part o...

Music Notes / By Colleen Taylor In a world where the Strypes are making retro sounds young again, a Dublin band is reinvigorating nostalgic rock fr...

"Double Agent" author Peter Duffy. PHOTO BY RAN GRAFF By Peter McDermott When the “SS Washington” docked at Pier 59 in New York on Feb. 8, 1940, th...

Peggy Olson (Elizabeth Moss) and Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser) in a scene set in P.J. Clarke's during the first season of “Mad Men.” PHOTO: CA...

EVENTS 1686 – Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan. 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta – ou...

EVENTS 1848 – Women's rights: a two-day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York. 1903 – Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de Fran...

EVENTS 1969 – After a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a bridge and his passenger, M...

1938 – Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan. 1955 – Disneyland is d...