Culture

On the last Sunday in July when thousands were climbing Croagh Patrick in my native County Mayo, the women of Nollaig na mBan NY and friends celebr...

This is a good year for anniversaries in the GAA, who themselves are celebrating their 140th anniversary. The Ladies Gaelic football Association ar...

An informed public had reason to be grateful last week that we still have a media with the resources to check stuff. The New York Times, most promi...

Ellington Restaurant, July 22 -- Novelist Anthony C. Murphy’s work has been described as “funny, sweet, moving, gentle and bold,” all of which migh...

Forty years ago this week, I had my passport stamped at Shannon Airport with the official greeting: “Permitted to land in Ireland for three months....

Excitement is in the air in Wexford Town, because as you read this Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2024 is in full swing! Yes, the biggest week on the tr...

When President John F. Kennedy addressed crowds of well-wishers in Ireland during his June 1963 visit to the country, he employed a rhetorical devi...

In the Echo in May, Norah Woodsey wrote the essay “Anne Elliot’s feelings are timeless” about her latest novel “The States.” Here, the Brooklyn-bor...

The United States, claimed Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was “a Protestant country and the Catholics and Jews are here on sufferance.” Terry Golway wr...

Depending on when you read this, let me be the first to remind you that there are only 153 days until Christmas! Shocking, I know, but the good new...

A thirst has finally been quenched in Austin for an Irish pub in the city center. The Dead Rabbit, originally opened in 2012 in New York City by Be...

AN off the books IRA kidnapping of a leading Dublin barrister goes horribly wrong with leading operative JJ Hynes ferried away to Holland in its af...