Community Features & Events
Sergeant Terry Dunn's Career Load of Stories
Somebody the other day remarked to me that she was “not rich but blessed.” Some of us indeed are blessed with Irish blood and some doubly so with t...
June 24, 2024
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
Daltaí dedication shines brightly on Philly’s Irish language Saturday
It’s aways sunny at Philadelphia’s 'Satharn na nGael', and this year’s Daltaí na Gaeilge Irish language day proved no different, with this passiona...
June 17, 2024
by Aileen Gorman Leong
Remembering ‘Longest Day’ author Cornelius Ryan
Cornelius Ryan passed away on November 23, 1974. So this year marks both the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy and the 50th annive...
June 06, 2024
by Ray O'Hanlon
Community Features & Events
Tony O’Reilly Was a Giant in Many Fields
How and where to sum up a life as varied and rich as that of Tony O’Reilly? I think of Walt Whitman’s “I am large. I contain multitudes .” As Taois...
May 30, 2024
by By Ted Smyth
Community Features & Events
Jim Sweeney: From Firefighting to Union Organizing
“Comin’ in hot!” is a skydiving expression. I’ll bet they’ve been saying that about Jim Sweeney his whole life. He’s a former Chicago Firefighter, ...
May 20, 2024
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
WATCH: Adams Urges Nominations for Echo Labor Awards
Just seven days remain for nominations for the 14th annual Irish Echo Labor Awards in New York. Scheduled for the Edison Hotel on 6 September, the ...
May 14, 2024
by Anthony Neeson
Community Features & Events
This Book Hasn’t Aged – And That’s a Problem
Back in the spring of 2021 I was feeling nervous. Not about Covid, or at least not entirely. And it wasn’t nerves over the publishing of my book, “...
May 09, 2024
by Ray O'Hanlon
Culture
Like a Full-Force Gael: Connemara Poet's Memorable Fulbright Year at CUA
Fulbrighter, file, first-class ambassador of the Irish language, community organizer…and the list goes on for Spiddal native, Seán Ó Coistealbha, a...
May 05, 2024
by Aileen Gorman Leong
Community Features & Events
Learners on song at annual Lá na Gaeilge in Glucksman Ireland House
As early morning April showers faded into memory, an afternoon sunlight stretched its limbs across Washington Square Park, falling gently upon the ...
May 05, 2024
by Aileen Gorman Leong
Community Features & Events
An Eyewitness to War and Peace
While we are all heartened by the productive cooperation in Northern Ireland between the Sinn Fein First Minister Michele O’Neill and the DUP Deput...
May 02, 2024
by By Ted Smyth
CHICAGO CALLING: A Windy City Landmark which Epitomizes the Irish Pub Experience
“Jeopardy” comes on the tube on Fridays at 3:30pm and that’s when the Landmark Pub starts to jump. It’s a little bit like walking into a sit-com. T...
April 25, 2024
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
Project Children marks 50, honors Denis, unveils plans for next chapter
A special evening celebrating 50 years of the trailblazing Project Children initiative which united thousands of Irish American families with child...
April 21, 2024
by Anthony Neeson
Remembering ‘Longest Day’ author Cornelius Ryan
CHICAGO CALLING: A Windy City Landmark which Epitomizes the Irish Pub Experience
