Culture

Irish-American actor Mark Wahlberg said he is cautious when adopting dialects for film roles since he has witnessed some excruciating imitations of...

A wise woman once said: "Find fitness with fun dancing. It makes you forget about the dreaded exercise." It was Paula Abdul, and if you're wonderin...

Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott The protagonist in Yvonne Cassidy’s second novel “What Might Have Been Me” has a decision to make that is a...

By Orla O'Sullivan letters@irishecho.com Aedín Moloney, who wonders why she always gets cast as "tough" women, ends an interview recounting how she...

Sounds Around / By Liz Noonan I'm so lost in Heidi Talbot's new album "Angels Without Wings" that I can hardly snap out of my delectable musical cl...

Saturday, Feb. 2, from 11:30 a.m. until 1 p.m., the Irish Language & Gaelic Culture classes of the Irish Studies Institute at Molloy College will c...

Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely The melodeon seems to be having something of a resurgence. Back in December I wrote about the Tin Sandwich Band...

Page Turner /By Peter McDermott In the 1963-set novel “Ratlines,” Irish Minister of Justice Charles J. Haughey has a mission for Lieut. Albert Ryan...

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, ...