Faith meets politics
Gov. Mario Cuomo stepped up to the mic at the University of Notre Dame on Sept. 13, 1984, just two months after he’d given an electrifying keynote ...
May 20, 2024
by Peter McDermott
'Whirring Wings' is wonderful
I’ll start out this week by congratulating everyone who competed in this year’s Mid-Atlantic Fleadh, which concluded on this past Sunday out in Par...
May 16, 2024
by Daniel Neely
Roots in military service
For its next meeting on Saturday morning, May 18, the Irish Family History Forum features author and leading genealogist Rhonda McClure who will de...
May 10, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff
Mother's Day Memories
Mother’s Day, a national holiday celebrated on the second Sunday of May in the United States, was created by Anna Jarvis in 1908 to recognize the c...
May 08, 2024
by Margaret M. Johnson
Arkins's collection is top-shelf
Best of luck to all the competitors at Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann’s Mid-Atlantic Fleadh! For those who mightn’t know, this weekend is the big even...
May 07, 2024
by Daniel Neely
Bealtaine celebrated at Westbury, West 38th Street
On a sun-lit Sunday afternoon, April 28 to be exact, members and friends of Nollaig na mBan NY gathered at The Westbury Pub (20 West 38th St., Manh...
May 06, 2024
by Bernadette Cullen
Culture
Like a Full-Force Gael: Connemara Poet's Memorable Fulbright Year at CUA
Fulbrighter, file, first-class ambassador of the Irish language, community organizer…and the list goes on for Spiddal native, Seán Ó Coistealbha, a...
May 05, 2024
by Aileen Gorman Leong
New York City Irish Dance Fest for Pier 1 on Sunday, May 5
The New York City Irish Dance Festival 2024 will take place on this Sunday, May 5, from 12 noon through 6 p.m. at Pier 1 on the Hudson River, end o...
May 03, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff
'A wake to show our love'
Irish American Writers & Artists packed the Ellington restaurant’s party room for an Irish Wake for our beloved Malachy McCourt, an IAW&A founding ...
May 02, 2024
by Karen Daly
Anne Elliot's feelings are timeless
Every fictional story is a mosaic assembled from the author’s experiences. Moments they lived through, stories handed down to them from distant tim...
May 01, 2024
by Norah Woodsey.
Gradam concert, awards ceremony for TG4 on Sunday
First off, congratulations to the organizers and attendees of the Patsy Touhey Memorial Weekend. Held this past weekend at the Canadian American Cl...
April 29, 2024
by Daniel Neely
Culture
THEATRE REVIEW: Project Children is funny, poignant and still relevant
IT'S difficult to imagine that there was a time in our recent history when parents sent their children away to America during the summer to escape ...
April 25, 2024
by Anthony Neeson