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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“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.” ...

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...

An annual International Famine Commemoration Day ceremony occurred on May 21 at the former Marine Hospital and Quarantine Station on Staten Island....

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...

This week there is a conference in Sligo that will consider and remember….the Spanish Armada. Yes, that Armada. Think about it, but had the Armada ...

Ireland’s film industry has been placed firmly in the spotlight recently with Oscar nominations, locations lauded, and artists receiving worldwide ...

There was a time when Buffalo's moniker - The Queen City - reflected its glory as burgeoning transit hub for transatlantic trade and gateway to New...