'An Féar Fada Fliuch' premieres
The premiere of the Irish language version of Seamus Scanlon’s award winning play The Long Wet Grass | An Féar Fada Fliuch took place in Queens at ...
October 04, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Apples: U-Pick, U-Bake
It’s official: the fall equinox and the first day of autumn arrived on Saturday, Sept. 23, at 02:50 A.M. EDT in the Northern Hemisphere, and nearly...
September 29, 2023
by Margaret M. Johnson
NYIC unveils fall program
The New York Irish Center has a packed schedule over the next two months before the Christmas season kicks off in December. We present here a diary...
September 28, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Children's books launch at NYIC
The New York Irish Center launched its fall season with the Queens Irish Heritage Festival on last Saturday afternoon and continues tomorrow night,...
September 27, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Views from the war zones
John Lee had a question about culture shock for foreign correspondent Jane Ferguson. The podcaster and his colleague Martin Nutty were interviewing...
September 26, 2023
by Peter McDermott
Banjoists are headed to Baltimore
Banjo drivers! Book your flights and pack your things, because the second annual Irish Tenor Banjo Summit is coming up this Nov. 17-19 at the Creat...
September 24, 2023
by Daniel Neely
Sinéad O'Connor tribute on Oct. 2
“From the moment she burst onto the music scene in the mid ’80s, Sinéad O’Connor did things differently. In an Ireland ensnared by its past, Sinéad...
September 22, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Annual Queens Irish Heritage Festival this Saturday afternoon
The New York Irish Center will present three continuous hours of music and dance set against Manhattan’s skyline at the annual Queens Irish Heritag...
September 21, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
The empire's march is halted
Three legions of the Roman military – the 17th, 18th and 19th – slowly made their way towards their winter encampment near Cologne on the Rhine in ...
September 19, 2023
by Peter McDermott
4th NYC production for 'Boann'
When you produce a staged reading or low-budget production of a play, the often-quixotic hope is that an industry person will attend and offer the ...
September 19, 2023
by John Kearns.
'Beo' is a spectacular album
Folks, if you love a hard-hitting pure-drop trad album the way I do, well, “Beo,” the new album from Pádraic Keane, Páraic Mac Donnchadha & Macdara...
September 17, 2023
by Daniel Neely
D'Arcy shows open in NYC
Maeve D’Arcy’s second solo show with Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, “Ogham,” opened last evening in conjunction with “The Mermaid in the Hospital,” a th...
September 15, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff