Peter McDermott

Peter McDermott joined the Irish Echo’s full-time editorial staff in 2004. Before that he was a frequent contributor to the Echo and to Newsday, and he has written also for a variety of publications in Ireland, including the Irish Times, the Sunday Press and the Irish Examiner. He is a graduate of University College Dublin (BA, MA).

Latest Stories

'Irish racing is thriving' 'Irish racing is thriving'
Robbie Dolan showed that you can never count the Irish out when it comes to racing. The County Kildare-born jockey rode Knight’s Choice to the 2024...
November 20, 2024 by Peter McDermott
Build it and they will come Build it and they will come
“We all tend to see our participation as the train’s first stop.” So says James F. Olwell in “The Art of Being Irish in Hell’s Kitchen.” The Bronx-...
November 14, 2024 by Peter McDermott
Revolution in the capital Revolution in the capital
“On the whole, given fair weather, no place can look brighter, livelier, or more lovely than the much-maligned City of Dublin, and its ample square...
November 07, 2024 by Peter McDermott
Last pitch to my friend 'Joe' Last pitch to my friend 'Joe'
You are not a business person, but I believe you'd have done a better job of preserving and building upon a $500 million legacy, which is the estim...
October 30, 2024 by Peter McDermott
A life in paint A life in paint
“I think of him now, as I did then, as driven by an insatiable desire for art-making, looking, studying, talking.” The words are from Wales-based t...
October 23, 2024 by Peter McDermott
Award Night Award Night
Novelist Alice McDermott will receive the 2024 Eugene O’Neill Lifetime Achievement Award at a New York ceremony next Monday evening, Oct. 21. The I...
October 16, 2024 by Peter McDermott
O'Dwyer was warrior for justice O'Dwyer was warrior for justice
Harold Seaman and Vincent Forte were at the center of two cases that Paul O’Dwyer would never and could never forget. The two young men met the sam...
October 10, 2024 by Peter McDermott
Lincoln's coalition of the sane Lincoln's coalition of the sane
Editorialists, teachers, clergymen and politicians from the post-Civil War era onwards loved their Abraham Lincoln quotes. A favorite was: “You can...
October 04, 2024 by Peter McDermott
Please don't KISS! We're the GAA Please don't KISS! We're the GAA
“The All-Ireland SFC GAA round-robin format is to remain in place for 2025,” reported extra.ie on Sept. 8. “GAA Central Council yesterday decided t...
September 20, 2024 by Peter McDermott
KC battles lax firearms laws KC battles lax firearms laws
Tombstone’s City Marshal Virgil Earp got a tip-off on Oct. 26, 1881 – Ike Clanton and several members of the gang known as the Cowboys were plannin...
September 13, 2024 by Peter McDermott
Facing grief head-on far away Facing grief head-on far away
In 2019, Rosie Schaap left her home in Brooklyn, a place that is world famous, to live in Glenarm, Co. Antrim, a village that even some in Northern...
August 26, 2024 by Peter McDermott
A young writer willing to learn A young writer willing to learn
“Equally horrified” was the combined response from Brian Friel’s agent in New York and his editor at the New Yorker magazine to his news that he’d ...
August 20, 2024 by Peter McDermott

 

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