Community Features & Events
89-years-young San Fran jurist Jim Brosnahan is still up for a courtroom scrap
Above all else, legendary San Francisco lawyer Jim Brosnhan is a scrapper. For sure, he represents a white-shoe law firm with skyscraper offices in...
September 02, 2023
by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
Community Features & Events
Here comes the judge? Brehon Lawyer Lyons in Running for Bench Role
“I really have a love for the law, I have a passion for it, and passion for the work. And it's something that really interests me.” 56-year-old Des...
August 27, 2023
by Peter Nolan
Community Features & Events
Chicago Calling: Galway girl who is toast of the Windy City
Caught up with my favorite bartender from back in the day for lunch the other day. She’s a blonde bombshell as well as delightful company and a cha...
August 23, 2023
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
Sun, Prairie Wind and a Lingering Sadness
As Joe McCann wrote in a recent feature posted by the Echo online, fifty years on from the Native American occupation of Wounded Knee it is clear t...
August 15, 2023
by Ray O'Hanlon
Community Features & Events
Billy Lawless, The Irish Oak
Back in 2006 I was walking down Michigan Avenue in Chicago and bumped into my old friend Billy Lawless. We had met years earlier when I wrote a sto...
August 11, 2023
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
Meet the Irish midwife unlocking the superpower of women
How does one become the Nurse of the Year? After all, there are a lot of nurses. Well, for Dublin born Dr. Sally McNally it began when, inspired by...
August 02, 2023
by Peter Nolan
Community Features & Events
Wounded Knee siege had 'profound effect on mindset of native peoples'
FIFTY years on from the Native American occupation of Wounded Knee it is clear to see the stand-off - which was the longest standing instance of ci...
July 24, 2023
by Joe McCann
Community Features & Events
Meet the New Yorker who threw up comfortable Big Apple career to help Ukraine's terrorized children
Just about a year ago things were going pretty well professionally for Kevin McCabe Jr. Since 2012 the Queens native had been working his way up th...
July 12, 2023
by Peter Nolan
Community Features & Events
The Enduring Legacy of JFK's 1963 Irish Visit
“I am the President of the United States, not you. When I say I want to go to Ireland, it means that I’m going to Ireland. Make the arrangements.” ...
June 27, 2023
by By James J. Brosnahan and Dan VanDeMortel
Community Features & Events
Chicago Calling: "Darlin’ girl from Clare" to lead Irish tour
Musical history buffs have fiercely debated over the last hundred years as to who was the original “Darlin’ Girl from Clare” epitomized in the deli...
June 26, 2023
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
Honoring Irish Famine Victims on Staten Island
An annual International Famine Commemoration Day ceremony occurred on May 21 at the former Marine Hospital and Quarantine Station on Staten Island....
June 26, 2023
by By Loretto Horrigan Leary
Community Features & Events
TRASNA MHEIRICEÁ: Celebrating Irish language at annual Irish Arts Center Lá na Gaeilge
Gaeilgeoirí gathered at the Irish Arts Center in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen area on May 13 for the annual Lá na Gaeilge — blessed by a beautiful Big...
June 01, 2023
by Aileen Gorman Leong
