THE Irish language has more than two thousand years of unbroken history behind it. Apart from Greek, it has the oldest literature of any living Eur...

For and Against a United Ireland. By Fintan O'Toole and Sam McBride. Blackwell's. For most readers of The Irish Echo, the prospect of a united Irel...

Pic of Day: Irish soldiers engaged in a map reading challenge in full combat gear on a warm spring day on the Curragh Plains in County Kildare. Pho...

Pic of Day: Irish soldiers engaged in a map reading challenge in full combat gear on a warm spring day on the Curragh Plains in County Kildare. Pho...

SOUTH BOSTON --- Despite monthly meetings of city officials and law enforcement agencies, coupled with outreach to area schools and colleges about ...

Pic of Day: Taoiseach Micheál Martin with Congressman Mike Lawler and renowned Irish dancers Michael and Matthew Gardiner at Capitol Hill during St...

When I was a boy in Ireland, Saint Patrick’s Day was one of the worst days of the year. The pubs were closed and you could almost touch the gloom o...

The line above is from "Politics" by William Butler Yeats. It's a short poem that sets the writer's priorities straight. Forget politics and forget...

The first shamrock summit took place on a summit - literally. That would have been, as the story goes, the fifth century encounter between Saint Pa...

For and Against a United Ireland. By Fintan O'Toole and Sam McBride. Blackwell's. For most readers of The Irish Echo, the prospect of a united Irel...

Derry-based songwriter Colm Warren has re-emerged with a new single and video aiming to speak up for families living with Down syndrome. Warren’s n...

What happens when an actual trained historian decides to use years of research as the raw material for a work of fiction? Well, for one thing, the ...

St Patrick's Day festivities got off to a blistering start in Central Park on Saturday past when the Options Technology team in New York launched t...

On Saturday, March 7, the 51st Queens County Saint Patrick’s Day Parade commenced at Rockaway Beach, defying typical Irish weather. Grand Marshal M...

Galway 0-20 Dublin 1-15 Dublin manager Ger Brennan was philosophical about his own sending off and his team’s defeat which has led to relegation by...

One of Ireland’s most beloved sports broadcasters, Michael Lyster, has died at the age of 71. The Galway native joined RTÉ in 47 years ago and was ...