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 has bachelor's and master's degrees from University College Dublin.

Latest Stories

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
Man City still the team to beat: United, Arsenal, Liverpool fans Man City still the team to beat: United, Arsenal, Liverpool fans
It’s a measure of Manchester City’s preeminence right now that they’re the bookies’ favorites to win the 2024-25 Premier League title. Yes, they ar...
August 15, 2024 by Peter McDermott
Walz roots traced to Wexford Walz roots traced to Wexford
Well, that didn’t take long. Just days after the German-Swedish Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota became the presumptive Democratic vice-presidential cand...
August 13, 2024 by Peter McDermott
Family ties Family ties
An informed public had reason to be grateful last week that we still have a media with the resources to check stuff. The New York Times, most promi...
August 08, 2024 by Peter McDermott
Renewed focus on Harris roots Renewed focus on Harris roots
The Irish Echo, it seems, was the only publication to point out in 2020 that former Vice President Joseph R. Biden, the Democratic Party’s presiden...
August 01, 2024 by Peter McDermott
Outsiders make common cause Outsiders make common cause
The United States, claimed Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was “a Protestant country and the Catholics and Jews are here on sufferance.” Terry Golway wr...
July 25, 2024 by Peter McDermott

 



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