Opinion

This editorial was first published in the Andersonstown News, our sister paper in the North of Ireland where St Patrick's Day is not a public holid...

Canal Street in Lower Manhattan runs just over a mile from East Broadway to West Street. It’s big, broad and bustling and many the famous person fr...

Editor: At the Irish Echo-supported HEAL Palestine fundraiser on Feb. 26, many longtime supporters of Irish freedom were there. Of course, our comm...

Taoiseach Micheál Martin came and went. On his own steam. He duly delivered the bowl of shamrock and could probably pat himself on the back for avo...

IT has been a very busy and eventful couple of weeks for all of those who speak and enjoy the Irish language and who have campaigned for decades ag...

This year, as we mark the 101st anniversary of diplomatic relations between the United States and the Republic of Ireland, we celebrate a partnersh...

It has been nearly five years since Quinnipiac University closed Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum for unclear reasons. The art collection remains shut...

"The United States and Ireland also enjoy a long friendship strengthened by economic ties, a shared commitment to democracy, and the timeless value...

Editor: The relationship between the United States and its traditional partners has been upended beyond belief. There is no understanding the logic...

Who was the most successful Irish-American woman? In my book, she was a fugitive, a prisoner, vivacious, beloved, despised, and competitive. She co...

It could be a bowl of comfort in a sea of troubles. Then again.... With the Oval Office all of a sudden looking more like a ring, or an octagon, al...

ON Tuesday we buried our friend and comrade Brendan McFarlane. Bik texted me just two weeks or so ago to say he was back in hospital. He had been b...