Community Features & Events
CHICAGO CALLING: Fr Tom overcame loss to minister to Windy City faithful
How do we know if we’re in the middle of a personal, emotional, and spiritual crisis in our lives? You’re a 16-year-old at Marist High School in 19...
November 29, 2022
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
Last call for young guns as 40 under 40 deadline looms
Time is running out for the new generation of Irish American leaders to be listed on the prestigious Irish Echo 40 under 40 listing. Each year, our...
November 28, 2022
by Anthony Neeson
Community Features & Events
Unmarked graves of Leadville, CO, tell tale of impoverished Irish
Put it down to a New York - centric big city bias but when I think of the Irish diaspora my mind automatically drifts to Hell’s Kitchen, the Marble...
November 07, 2022
by Peter Nolan
Community Features & Events
Houlihan's hooley makes Ireland return
I’m relaxing with room service in my suite at the Fitzpatrick Castle in Killiney, just outside Dublin. The rest of our group returned to Chicago ve...
November 01, 2022
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
Carney's Capitol Hill-based FEDNET aims for 'no-nonsense viewer perspective'
We live in polarizing times. Politicians that were once considered colleagues with differing viewpoints now appear to be deadly enemies. Compromise...
October 20, 2022
by Peter Nolan
‘Rosary Rally’ in the public square
AOH Mahoning County Division 6 and LAOH Mahoning County in Youngstown, Ohio, participated in the seventh annual Greater Youngstown Our Lady of Fati...
October 20, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Community Features & Events
Catherine O’Connell, Chicago's Celtic Nightingale
I dropped by a funeral the other day to visit an old friend. Sabina O’Donohue was 94 and had emigrated from Ballyglass, County Mayo, Ireland to Chi...
October 20, 2022
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
Albany's Conradh wants to share gift with others
Craobh Chumar an Dá Uisce, or the Two Rivers Gaelic League, is a branch of Conradh na Gaeilge, founded in Albany, NY, in 2016, which takes its name...
October 17, 2022
by Aileen Gorman Leong
Community Features & Events
Irish are a big part of Youngstown's story
Between 1880 and 1900, approximately 1.8 million people that were born in Ireland were living in the United States. In Ohio, 55,018 native Irish pe...
October 17, 2022
by Tim O’Bryan (AOH)
McLean Avenue Fall Festival 2022
McLean Avenue Merchants Association with the support of Mayor Spano and the City of Yonkers Fall Festival was officially opened this morning Mayor ...
October 15, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Community Features & Events
Kells culture Fest goes west to San Fran
Some of Ireland’s leading writers and a sprinkling of music drew hundreds of people to the United Irish Cultural Center in San Francisco from 30 Se...
October 12, 2022
by Dee Hurley
Community Features & Events
Forgotten Irish mining families remembered in moving Leadville, Colorado ceremony
Several hundred people gathered last month to unveil the first phase of a memorial to Irish miners and their families who died and were buried in u...
October 08, 2022
by Aileen Gorman Leong