'Enlarging idea of Irishness'
[The original version of this article was published in the print edition of the Irish Echo on Wednesday, Nov. 22. It has been slightly amended sinc...
November 26, 2023
by Peter McDermott
Wider release for 'Job of Songs'
Two years ago, almost to the day, I wrote about a trailer for a documentary film that was in screenings called “The Job of Songs.” Unfortunately, I...
November 22, 2023
by Daniel Neely
A national trauma chronicled
“Jacqueline Kennedy and Nellie Connally stood a few feet apart, awaiting news of their gravely wounded husbands. Both knew the President’s wounds h...
November 21, 2023
by Peter McDermott
West Cork Wonderful! Part 3
Part Three, Irish Food Icons West Cork, the area stretching (west to east) from the Beara Peninsula to Kinsale, is filled to the brim with candy-co...
November 20, 2023
by Margaret M. Johnson
A Perfect Dish for Thanksgiving
Paradiso, one of Ireland's first and most well-known vegetarian restaurants (16 Lancaster Quay, Cork City), is well known for its imaginative dishe...
November 17, 2023
by Margaret M. Johnson
Reverie Road debut is fabulous
Folks, a reminder that this weekend the second annual Irish Tenor Banjo Summit will happen at Baltimore’s Creative Alliance. It starts with a céilí...
November 16, 2023
by Daniel Neely
Pitiless scourge has mellowed
Irish journalist Fintan O’Toole was at the Irish Arts Center last week to deliver a fascinating and wide-ranging talk entitled “What’s Irish Now?”,...
November 15, 2023
by Michael Gray
Griffith's Valuation talk at IFHF
On this Saturday morning, Nov. 18, the Irish Family History Forum will discuss Griffith’s Valuation. The program will begin at 10 a.m., at Bethpage...
November 14, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Seeking quiet, finding bliss
I sat down in a Queens restaurant recently with playwright Honor Molloy for Hobnobs, tea and conversation. Talk of “Dublin Noir,” Molloy’s latest p...
November 13, 2023
by Breege Boyne
Officers evade justice in killings
James Patrick “Jim” Conroy was born in Dublin in 1897 and died in Southern California in 1981. His path early in life was typical of many of those ...
November 10, 2023
by Peter McDermott
West Cork Wonderful! Part Two, Dear Old Skibbereen
West Cork, the area stretching (west to east) from the Beara Peninsula to Kinsale, is filled to the brim with candy-colored villages, rugged landsc...
November 09, 2023
by Margaret M. Johnson
‘Translations’ veers off course
When we revert back to the romance of the past, it evokes an eventual disdain for ourselves; not merely for the falsifications and self-deception s...
November 08, 2023
by Kevin Phoenix