Landscape worked its way into poems on Clare sabbatical
In May 2019, my wife and I flew from Detroit, Mich., to Dublin, rented a car and drove to County Clare, or Kilkee, to be specific. A poet friend, T...
March 08, 2022
by David James
To Ukraine, With Love
Pic of Day: Pictured Tuesday are Hugh Flynn and Kevin Finneran beside a row of trucks awaiting departure from South Terminal Road, Dublin Port. "Ai...
March 08, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Ukraine Dominates Coveney NY Visit
Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney is in New York for a two visit that will be dominated by meetings focused on the war in Ukraine. But Coveney w...
March 08, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Sports
Concerts pushing fixtures around
Singer Ed Sheeran is causing problems for sport administrators in Ireland this year. The redhead from Halifax in West Yorkshire has Irish connectio...
March 07, 2022
by Sean Creedon
Driver Rear Ends Russian Embassy
Pic of Day: A lorry driver expressed his disgust with the Russian war against Ukraine Monday by reversing his truck though the gates of the Russian...
March 07, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Full Page NYT ad for AIHS
The move to sell the American Irish Historical Society on Fifth Avenue appears to be ramping up. The real estate firm Brown Harris Stevens took out...
March 07, 2022
by Ray O'Hanlon
Reading Hopkins
Fordham University’s the Rev. Dr. Francis X. McAloon SJ will give a talk with discussion titled “Reading Gerard Manley Hopkins as Spiritual Practic...
March 06, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Boo Hoo
Yury Filatov, Russia’s ambassador to Ireland, has accused protesters of being “rough and really aggressive” at the Russian embassy in Dublin and of...
March 04, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Joy and Disappointment After Great Hunger Decision
"The Irish-American Community of Connecticut has saved Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum Collection." That was the first line in a posting on the websi...
March 04, 2022
by Ray O'Hanlon
At Home With Covid
Pic of Day: President Michael D. Higgins and Sabina Higgins, pictured here in a file photo, having displayed mild COVID-19 symptoms Friday morning ...
March 04, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
A 'golden opportunity' for love
Mike Farragher has been married happily for 29 years to his college sweetheart, and so he’s probably a good person to ask for advice about love. An...
March 04, 2022
by Peter McDermott
Homepage
DEIRDRE FEERICK: On the frontlines of labor fight for respect and dignity
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 ...
March 04, 2022
by Peter Nolan