Community Features & Events

The New York City Knights of Saint Patrick have been stepping up their support for Downstate regional Irish cultural events and Saint Patrick’s Day...

The Kennedy Space Center memorializes the most famous Irish American of them all. Just a short distance away, meanwhile, the profession that has do...

Lieutenant Tom Dolan of the Ramapo, New York Police Department exemplifies the Irish American law enforcement officer’s fusion of Irish heritage an...

GOP New York Rep. Mike Lawler addressed a full house of law enforcement officials at the Irish Echo Law & Order Awards last night, paying tribute t...

From August 10-17, 2025, novelist S. Kirk Walsh (of the national bestseller The Elephant of Belfast) and award-winning poet and Fulbright recipient...

Trailblazing labor leader John Sameulsen was feted as Irishman of the Year at the The Grand Council of United Emerald Societies annual dinner in An...

Hollywood star Angie Dickinson made a splash playing TV’s “Sgt. Pepper Anderson,” LAPD’s top undercover cop, on her show “Police Woman” from 1974-7...

Irish America rolled out the green carpet for Olympic gold medal winner Mary Peters at a special Nollaig na mBan celebration in Washington D.C. las...

Celtic Junction Arts Center has taken the wraps off an extraordinary concert series showcasing world-renowned Celtic and folk artists at both its i...

Celebrated Northern Irish Olympian Mary Peters will score another first when she headlines the annual Washington D.C. celebration of Nollaig na mBa...

Born in Buffalo New York, Pete Nolan hit Chicago at its cataclysmic peak. It was 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King had just been assassinated, then Bobb...

Since coming to America I have enjoyed Christmas in New York, particularly the days running up to the holiday. But Christmas, crazy busy that it is...