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All you need to say is, "The President asked me to be here today." This is the advice I get from my seatmate Joseph, who, unlike me, has been to th...

Boston --- On St. Patrick’s Day it is good to remember that St. Patrick was the first, and possibly the only, saint in recorded history to emphatic...

The Irish diaspora stamped itself on my heart more than a decade ago. It happened on a bright, cloudless afternoon. Gold had appeared on the trees....

The dark news ricocheted quickly throughout Ireland and across the global Irish Diaspora. On January 12 a young woman was brutally attacked and mur...

People often ask why I wrote my first novel, “Briarhill to Brooklyn: An Irish Family’s Journey to Freedom and Opportunity.” The answer is pretty si...

And so 2022. The year when Ireland can be sensed anew, the year when Ireland can be anticipated anew. The year when Ireland can be reached and embr...

The Irish community in New York is a massive self-organizing thing. It confounds those outside of its embrace, and often those within it, with the ...

Many people assume the Irish first arrived in Boston during the Irish Famine period of the 19th century, but in fact they had a strong presence her...

I spin the cool silver around my finger, running my thumb over the design I know by heart. Looking at my hand, I let my eyes trace over the image o...

The only arts awards event in all of Irish America is back — with a determination to celebrate the very best of Irish arts and culture on the other...

The Irish Echo's 15th annual Irish Top 40 Under 40 Awards, took place on Friday, February 25, 2022. This hugely popular event is a celebration of Irish and Irish Americans who have distinguished themselves in their respective fields of work before reaching the age of forty.

Deirdre Feerick grew up on the Sunnyside/Long Island City border, “with a lot of people who were members of unions who fought really hard over the ...