Up an ancient stair to a culinary treasure in the heart of Dublin
Dublin’s Winding Stair bookshop is located in a beautiful, yellow-fronted building that dates to 1875. After various uses, including an auction hou...
January 31, 2024
by Margaret M. Johnson
Lives of Brigid a 'great window'
Saint Brigid was working in Ireland at a time “when Christianity was a relatively new and foreign religion.” That’s one of the few things, writes a...
January 30, 2024
by Peter McDermott
Collection has trad world buzzing
You know, it’s great when an album shows up that’s made by a group of extraordinarily talented young people who share a vision for how traditional ...
January 29, 2024
by Daniel Neely
Podcast focuses on Jan. 30, 1972
The podcast has brought about an audio renaissance. The same was said two decades ago about the weblog, AKA blogs, and text, and for the same reaso...
January 26, 2024
by Peter McDermott
Yeats vs. Shaw's 'Irish' play
The W.B. Yeats Society of New York will host a joint program, “Yeats vs Shaw’s ‘John Bull’s Other Island,’” with the Gingold Theatrical Group at Ar...
January 25, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff
Munster towns inspire mysteries
Carlene O’Connor has taken a 180-degree turn, and her fans and the critics have taken it with her. She is the author of the Irish Village Mysteries...
January 24, 2024
by Peter McDermott
CCÉ headed for Buffalo in April
“Celtic Cross’s singer Katherine Fee provided one of the evening’s classiest moments was she asked for everyone in the house who had worked on Ceol...
January 23, 2024
by Daniel Neely
One soldier's exuberant tale
Anyone who survived Leaving Cert Irish probably came across “Dialann Deoraí” (“Diary of an Exile”) as a required text. It was a remarkable book by ...
January 22, 2024
by Seamus Scanlon
Fiction on the cutting edge
Few can disagree that Irish writing has been thriving as never before, and in just about every fictional genre and category. Two Irish Times opinio...
January 19, 2024
by Peter McDermott
Drink it While it's Hot!
Serious tea drinkers and wellness enthusiasts celebrate “National Hot Tea Month” in January. During the month, many extol the virtues of tea drinki...
January 18, 2024
by Margaret M. Johnson
Last voices of the revolution
Eighty years on from the end of the Civil War in 2003 — to my mind — there didn't seem to be much about it in terms of public conversation, coverag...
January 17, 2024
by Tom Hurley
WFUV's 'Ceol na nGael' has been community's friend for 50 years
Congratulations to WFUV’s “Ceol na nGael” radio program, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this weekend with a gala concert at Symphony Spa...
January 16, 2024
by Daniel Neely