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

Love story based on true events Love story based on true events
James McVeigh’s first novel begins in a Belfast at war. James McCann meets a spirited and beautiful young woman named Rose Rafferty and a romance d...
May 25, 2022 by Peter McDermott
A long journey to a better life A long journey to a better life
“Nowadays you can go on Google and look up pictures of Australia.” So said theatre director Nicola Murphy, throwing into stark relief the leap of f...
May 19, 2022 by Peter McDermott
Irish gather, ponder in 'The Lobby' Irish gather, ponder in 'The Lobby'
Someone leaves, and the person they’re looking for arrives. That happens more than once in “The Lobby,” it being a comedy farce. The opposite was t...
May 10, 2022 by Peter McDermott
Most notorious and most riotous Most notorious and most riotous
”Between the years 1848 and 1851 over 4,000 Irish females took passage on ships from Ireland to Australia under the Orphan Emigration Scheme, estab...
May 05, 2022 by Peter McDermott
Elliott is ready for NYC return Elliott is ready for NYC return
You could say it’s been two steps forward and one step back for Dan Elliott. But that might minimize just how tough the Covid era has been on him a...
May 04, 2022 by Peter McDermott
MTA boss Lieber is upbeat about mass transit MTA boss Lieber is upbeat about mass transit
Janno Lieber has a message for the Irish. Well, specifically the MTA Chairman and CEO has in mind people living in Woodlawn, when getting out word ...
May 04, 2022 by Peter McDermott
'Alive with the sense of mystery' 'Alive with the sense of mystery'
“It was a glorious time.” That’s how David James described his stay in the West Clare cottage of fellow poet Thomas Lynch. His more than a month ne...
April 21, 2022 by Peter McDermott
Lancet, W.H.O. force rethink on Covid numbers Lancet, W.H.O. force rethink on Covid numbers
The Republic of Ireland had an excess mortality rate of 12.5 per 100,000 people during 2020 and 2021, according to a major global study in the Lanc...
April 19, 2022 by Peter McDermott
Letting the art do the talking Letting the art do the talking
Sometimes the interviews on TV don’t do it. People have become immune to the horror, in Vinnie Nauheimer’s view. Twenty years ago this week, his fa...
April 01, 2022 by Peter McDermott
'A new way in, a new perspective' 'A new way in, a new perspective'
In praising “Bone and Marrow/Cnámh agus Smior” as a “landmark collection,” Foster Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford Ian McBrid...
March 25, 2022 by Peter McDermott
Follow your passion! Follow your passion!
It started with “Toy Story.” It was 1995 and Jordan Lawlor was just 3. “I was lucky to have my parents introduce me to the cinema at a young age,” ...
March 18, 2022 by Peter McDermott
Present is trip of a lifetime Present is trip of a lifetime
“Mass is not supposed to be entertainment.” That’s what Sean Gunning’s wife Reggie would say, he reports in “The Best Present Ever: A Sinner’s Guid...
March 16, 2022 by Peter McDermott

 

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