Opinion
KIRWAN: Until We Meet Again in the Spring
The ospreys are gone. They left in the weeks after Labor Day. When they get the call – genetic or atmospheric - they don’t delay, it’s a long way t...
September 22, 2023
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
O'SHEA: Child Rearing in 20th Century Ireland
It is a truism accepted in most cultures that children thrive in a supportive family and in a community where they feel valued and encouraged. The ...
September 21, 2023
by By Gerry O'Shea
Opinion
EDITORIAL: The Assembly Returns
The world returns to Manhattan this week for the annual gathering that is the opening of the United Nations General Assembly. For some, the visits ...
September 20, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Casting A Light
The New York Times described Megan Stack's Sunday, September 3 Opinion Section front page story as an "essay." Some essay. Stack, billed by the Tim...
September 13, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
ADAMS: Unique Robert Ballagh Moore Street Print
As regular readers of this column know I have been involved for a very long time in the campaign to protect and develop as a historic and cultural ...
September 08, 2023
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
OSHEA: Strong Trade Unions Needed in America
In John Lennon’s fine album titled “Working Class Hero” he bemoans the betrayal of the American working class, “duped by religion, sex and TV” into...
September 07, 2023
by By Gerry O'Shea
Opinion
KIRWAN Musings and Mutterings in a Country Graveyard
I often take a train to New Haven nowadays, and since I find trains very relaxing I invariably feel drowsy as we pull out of Grand Central Station....
September 07, 2023
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
EDITORIAL: A Complex Moment
As the British government barrels along towards passing its widely unwanted legacy bill, and before he set off for a visit to the Middle East, Tána...
September 06, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
ADAMS: The Long Road To Cork
In 1986 I gave a talk at a Sinn Féin conference which became known by activists of my vintage as The Road to Cork or The Bus to Cork. More of that ...
August 31, 2023
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
O'SHEA: Playing God and Pulling Rightward
In her recent erudite book, "Playing God: American Catholic Bishops and the Far Right," Mary Jo McConahay describes in detail how the American Cath...
August 31, 2023
by Gerry O'Shea
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Carnage On The Roads
For anyone who has driven in Ireland this is a familiar picture or memory. You have left the motorway and are driving on a two lane road with hills...
August 30, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
ADAMS: Memories of Visiting the Hunger Strikers
This column will be in Cork, le cuidiu Dia, to attend the National Hunger Strike Commemoration on Sunday. It’s the first time that this annual even...
August 25, 2023
by Gerry Adams
