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
Community Features & Events
CHICAGO CALLING: Shout-out for Charlie Carey and the Southside Irish
“You can take the kid out of the Southside, but you’ll never get the Southside out of that kid!” That’s an ancient Chicago epigram that celebrates ...
September 30, 2022
by Mike Houlihan
News
Spotlight: Business booster Moran builds firm foundation for small companies
It is no secret that the past couple of Covid years, coupled with the cost-of-living crisis, have taken a toll on countless businesses across the U...
September 22, 2022
by Peter Nolan
Community Features & Events
Chicago Calling: Chief O'Neill's, the pub you've been practicing for
Almost 24 years ago an elegant Irish pub took up residence in the Avondale neighborhood on Chicago’s Elston Avenue, in the former home of the infam...
September 15, 2022
by Mike Houlihan
Secretary Walsh salute for labor icon Terry O'Sullivan
LiUNA General President Terry O'Sullivan is presented with the 2022 Irish Echo Labor Leader of the Year Award by Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh las...
September 09, 2022
by Anthony Neeson