Imbolg is time to count blessings
On Feb.1, Imbolg rings in the spring season in Ireland and other Celtic lands. It is the time of new birth when lambs are born and the first flower...
February 07, 2022
by Maura Mulligan
End of the Day
Pic of Day: It is both a winter sunset and an early spring one if you go by the old Celtic calendar. Either way the sun is putting on quite a show ...
February 04, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Webinar Hears of 19 Collusion Murders
Fiona O’Hagan and Una Casey, whose husbands were among 19 collusion murder victims named in the Operation Greenwich report, heard Congressman Brian...
February 04, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Dublin transformed
Geographer Joseph Brady observed once that some of his fellow Dubliners seemed to know more about their city in medieval times than the present or ...
February 03, 2022
by Peter McDermott
Another Armada
Pic of Day: There hasn't been this many navy ships off the Irish coast since, well, the Spanish Armada in 1588. With the arrival of a Russian floti...
February 03, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Givan Resignation Leads to Election Call
Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald has called for early elections after the North's First Minister Paul Givan resigned after just 231 days in th...
February 03, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
A Festival of Remembrance
As all that is well must end well, so too does the 14th annual Origin’s 1st Irish Festival, which concluded on Monday with reflections of hope and ...
February 03, 2022
by Kevin Phoenix
Remembering Police Officer Gilroy, 49 years on
The law enforcement community will turn out again today in their thousands to honor fallen hero Wilbert Mora, who was tragically gunned down in Har...
February 02, 2022
by Geoffrey Cobb
Joyce's Masterpiece Marks 100
Pic of Day: Pictured Wednesday morning is Niamh Ní Chuirc as the Friends of Joyce took delivery of a cake celebrating today’s 100th anniversary of ...
February 02, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Relief for the Undocumented...in Ireland
A plan to allow thousands of undocumented migrants permission to stay in Ireland has been set in motion. There are up to 17,000 people living in Ir...
February 02, 2022
by Anthony Neeson
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The Alabama Irish: Flying the flag in the Deep South
As I left an evening reception at the Huntsville home of Michael and Lisa Bollinger, mainstays of the most active chapter of the Ancient Order of H...
February 02, 2022
by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
A Cross For Brigid
Pic of Day: Pictured outside Temple Street Hospital in Dublin today and holding a St. Brigid's Cross is Clinical Nurse Manager Suzanne Kernan. Fron...
February 01, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff