Culture

Theatre / By Orla O’Sullivan “Airswimming” * Written by Charlotte Jones * Directed by John Keating * Starring Aedín Moloney and Rachel Pickup * The...

Shilelagh Law: “Live at Connollys” A 19-track disc that captures the excitement of a live Shilelagh Law show! Recorded at Connollys Klub 45, a venu...

By Liz Noonan Michael Brunnock: “The Orchard” “The Orchard” is the third solo album from the immensely talented New York City-based singer-songwrit...

In my very first article for the Irish Echo, published in the Jan. 4-10, 2012, issue, I shared with you my New Year's resolution - to step it out, ...

President Michael D. Higgins has led the tributes to the poet Dennis O'Driscoll who died suddenly on Christmas Eve at the age 58. The career civil ...

Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely In my very first column for the Irish Echo, I made allusion to John Whelan’s cameo (alongside Joanie Madden and...

Salon Diary / By Charles Hale "Artists Without Walls," a new initiative created by Charles R. Hale, co-founder of the Irish American Writers & Arti...

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...

Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely For the past several years, New York City's Irish Arts Center has presented "An Irish Christmas," Mick Moloney'...

Silver Screen / By Karen Butler Double Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis has admitted that playing America’s 16th president in “Lincoln” was initially ...

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...

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...