Culture
All aboard the McNulty Family’s Irish Showboat
By Earle Hitchner [caption id="attachment_63590" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Feet fly as Eileen and Peter McNulty high-step to their m...
March 02, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Franny's memory still inspires 30 years on
By Peter McDermott [caption id="attachment_42199" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Mary O'Dowd of the Frances Pope Memorial Foundation."][/...
January 26, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Joe Derrane is the Irish Echo’s top traditional artist of 2010
By Earle Hitchner Since 1993, the Irish Echo has honored these 16 musicians -- and two radio hosts -- with its highest annual accolade, “Traditiona...
January 19, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Moloney's medal
By Peter McDermott [caption id="attachment_22305" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Paddy Moloney with his actor daughter Aedin Moloney. "]"...
January 12, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
In this corner . . .
By Jay Mwamba [caption id="attachment_22255" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Holt McCallany in "Lights Out""][/caption] Six-foot-two, well...
January 05, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
'Wales' a Christmas delight
By Joseph Hurley [caption id="attachment_22214" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="From left: Martin Vidnovic, Victoria Mallory, Simon Jones,...
December 21, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
So good, it's scary
By Joe Hurley "Haunted" by Edna O'Brien • Theater A, 59E59 Theaters • Through Jan. 2, 2011 Edna O'Brien wrote her first novel in 1960, a full half-...
December 15, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
When Falls, Shankill were on same side
Books / By Peter McDermott In a note on terminology before he begins his "Belfast Boys: How Unionists and Nationalists Fought and Died Together in ...
December 08, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
O'Hare wasted in drab play
By Joseph Hurley “Elling” From Novels By Ingvar Ambjornsen • With Denis O’Hare (pictured on the left above) and Brendan Fraser, directed by Doug Hu...
December 01, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
The best concert I barely saw
By Earle Hitchner As emcee and frequent backstage manager, I missed most of the concert tribute to Joe Derrane inside Stage One of the Fairfield Th...
November 24, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Brooklyn-based artist readies for Enniskillen exhibit
By Peter McDermott Don't expect ever to buy an art masterpiece on the streets of New York. That's advice from Tom Bevan, a Belfast-born sculptor wh...
November 17, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Where credit is 'Due'
By Karen Butler [caption id="attachment_21927" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Zach Galifianakis, left, and Robert Downey star in the buddy ...
November 10, 2010
by Irish Echo Staff