Culture
San Fran dance heritage guardians step out lightly with Iowa partners
“Keepers of the Steps,” an Irish dance historical preservation, archive, and outreach program, has quickly grown to be a cornerstone program for th...
August 12, 2024
by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
Community Features & Events
Comptroller to address Labor Leaders on NY pension fund peace process investments
New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli will highlight the key role of labor in advancing the Irish peace process when he addresses the 14th annual...
July 24, 2024
by Anthony Neeson
Community Features & Events
In the Windy City, who you gonna call? Cyril Regan, of course
Chicago Democratic politics is a blood sport. When a senior pol can feel the breath of opponents on his neck as they leak items to the gossip colum...
July 22, 2024
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
Echoes of faraway Ireland in a peaceful place
Bronte, Sydney --- As places go for resting through all eternity, this is one of the better located. The cemetery seems to tumble down towards the ...
July 17, 2024
by Ray O'Hanlon
Community Features & Events
Restaurant Guys Redux Brings Taste of Ireland to Podcast World
Having combined their considerable culinary talents to create two of New Jersey's finest eateries, restaurant partners Francis Schott and Mark Pasc...
July 14, 2024
by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
Community Features & Events
Sergeant Terry Dunn's Career Load of Stories
Somebody the other day remarked to me that she was “not rich but blessed.” Some of us indeed are blessed with Irish blood and some doubly so with t...
June 24, 2024
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
Daltaí dedication shines brightly on Philly’s Irish language Saturday
It’s aways sunny at Philadelphia’s 'Satharn na nGael', and this year’s Daltaí na Gaeilge Irish language day proved no different, with this passiona...
June 17, 2024
by Aileen Gorman Leong
Remembering ‘Longest Day’ author Cornelius Ryan
Cornelius Ryan passed away on November 23, 1974. So this year marks both the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy and the 50th annive...
June 06, 2024
by Ray O'Hanlon
Community Features & Events
Tony O’Reilly Was a Giant in Many Fields
How and where to sum up a life as varied and rich as that of Tony O’Reilly? I think of Walt Whitman’s “I am large. I contain multitudes .” As Taois...
May 30, 2024
by By Ted Smyth
Community Features & Events
Jim Sweeney: From Firefighting to Union Organizing
“Comin’ in hot!” is a skydiving expression. I’ll bet they’ve been saying that about Jim Sweeney his whole life. He’s a former Chicago Firefighter, ...
May 20, 2024
by Mike Houlihan
Community Features & Events
WATCH: Adams Urges Nominations for Echo Labor Awards
Just seven days remain for nominations for the 14th annual Irish Echo Labor Awards in New York. Scheduled for the Edison Hotel on 6 September, the ...
May 14, 2024
by Anthony Neeson
Community Features & Events
This Book Hasn’t Aged – And That’s a Problem
Back in the spring of 2021 I was feeling nervous. Not about Covid, or at least not entirely. And it wasn’t nerves over the publishing of my book, “...
May 09, 2024
by Ray O'Hanlon
Remembering ‘Longest Day’ author Cornelius Ryan
