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Opinion: Honoring the Legacy of Ireland's Great Hunger Museum
It has been nearly five years since Quinnipiac University closed Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum for unclear reasons. The art collection remains shut...
March 13, 2025
by Fintan O'Toole
Opinion
EDITORIAL: Any Room For A Saint?
"The United States and Ireland also enjoy a long friendship strengthened by economic ties, a shared commitment to democracy, and the timeless value...
March 12, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
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LETTER: Upended Beyond Belief
Editor: The relationship between the United States and its traditional partners has been upended beyond belief. There is no understanding the logic...
March 12, 2025
by James P. Kelly
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KIRWAN: A Standout Among Irish-American Women
Who was the most successful Irish-American woman? In my book, she was a fugitive, a prisoner, vivacious, beloved, despised, and competitive. She co...
March 06, 2025
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
EDITORIAL: A Bowl Of Auld....
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...
March 05, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
GERRY ADAMS: Bik was the man the hunger strikers trusted
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...
March 04, 2025
by Gerry Adams
Opinion
EDITORIAL: A Godless Embrace
In the messy and oft sordid affair that is global geopolitics you sometimes have to deal with the devil. But you don't have to embrace him. But, sa...
February 26, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
LETTER: BAND ON 32ND U.S. TOUR
Editor: Renowned Irish folk band, The Druids, will set out on their 32nd tour of the United States at the end of February, bringing their captivati...
February 24, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
Opinion
LETTER: Eyes on Ireland
Editor: Ireland currently enjoys a relatively low corporate tax rate (12.5%) and a tax treaty with the U.S. This has created an incentive for U.S. ...
February 24, 2025
by Michael R. George, New York, NY
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Opinion: Dublin had its something from Irish America, so what about that small something that was promised in return?
Quid pro Quo is all the rage in America at the minute. The Mayor of New York Eric Adams (below) got his. In return for joining Team Trump as water ...
February 23, 2025
by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
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KIRWAN; Stuck With United While Admiring Forest
Like many people from Ireland I support an English football team. As I brace myself for sneers of contempt curried by hollow words of patronizing p...
February 20, 2025
by Larry Kirwan
Opinion
EDITORIAL: More Than an Ocean Apart
One thing that we are privileged to be able to do in these pages is cast an eye to both sides of the Atlantic, at government and governance in Irel...
February 19, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff