Opinion
KIRWAN: Coming Live and Loud....From Dundalk
All right! Hands up – who has been to Dundalk in the Wee County Louth? Not many, I’d suggest. I’ve only been there once and that was for a much nee...
May 19, 2022
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Legacy Doesn't Disappear
The issues swirling around the North right now, its political, social and economic life, seems both new and familiar. There's Brexit and the Protoc...
May 18, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
News
The Irishman Who Filmed Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On September 9, 1945 a cameraman of the United States Army Air Force entered the devastated city of Nagasaki in Japan with a group of American pres...
May 13, 2022
by By Joseph McCabe
Opinion
John Mitchel’s Ireland: 'A most precious union'
In the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd and the subsequent Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, much has been written with reg...
May 12, 2022
by By David Collopy
Opinion
ADAMS: It Was Truly a Transformative Election
It was never supposed to be like this. I watched with interest as one BBC presenter, reporting on the Assembly election results, told his largely B...
May 12, 2022
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
O'SHEA: Putin’s Invasion Was a Massive Miscalculation
I was among the many “experts” convinced that Vladimir Putin would not invade Ukraine. Our thinking still seems logical: why would he attack the se...
May 12, 2022
by By Gerry O'Shea
AIHS Needs New Leadership, Not Location
The recent revelation by President General Michael Higgins of his agenda for the American Irish Historical Society is as regrettable as it is predi...
May 11, 2022
by Brian McCabe
Opinion
EDITORIAL: History Is Made
When all the votes were counted the view of the past gave way to a view into the future. Voters in Northern Ireland have made history with an Assem...
May 11, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
ADAMS: Candidatitis
I first published this article in 2005 and again, slightly amended in 2016. It is dedicated to all candidates from all parties and none, and their ...
May 05, 2022
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
KIRWAN: Remembering a Warrior For Us All
She was known as “the most dangerous woman in the world” and she reveled in the title. The poor and the dispossessed adored her. The rich and the p...
May 04, 2022
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
EDITORIAL Time For That Envoy
Politics in Northern Ireland could be turned on its head this week. And that's just the politics. Add in the Good Friday Agreement, Brexit and the ...
May 04, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
A Ship and the Embodiment of Irish America's Soul
Just a couple of weeks ago, on April 14, media outlets were showing dramatic images of the USS The Sullivans, a World War II destroyer that was on ...
April 28, 2022
by By Neil F. Cosgrove
AIHS Needs New Leadership, Not Location
