Culture
Texas Irish Writers Plan Dublin-Belfast Summer Workshop
From August 10-17, 2025, novelist S. Kirk Walsh (of the national bestseller The Elephant of Belfast) and award-winning poet and Fulbright recipient...
January 28, 2025
by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
Oats are January 'Grain of the Month'
Considering the freezing temperatures and snowy conditions that seem to be everywhere this month — literally, from Kansas City to Killarney — it’s ...
January 24, 2025
by Margaret M. Johnson
Superb pure-drop played with class by Gavin and Gannon
Folks, for the past 17 years Knoxville, Tenn., has played host to an outstanding annual event called the “Tune Junkie Weekend” and as fate would ha...
January 24, 2025
by Daniel Neely
Salon expresses sadness for L.A.
It seems to me that every salon takes on a different vibe or personality, that is unique of that one evening, and not to be repeated, inimitable. I...
January 23, 2025
by Lori Cassels
On truth, Trump, Biden and BS
By the time this article appears, Donald Trump will have been sworn in again as President of the United States. The freezing temperatures will have...
January 22, 2025
by Stephen Butler
King's non-violence made radical demand for inclusion
Martin Luther King Jr. was transformed from a private citizen into a public figure one afternoon in early December 1955. He told his wife Coretta w...
January 17, 2025
by Peter McDermott
First names, nicknames up for forum discussion
The Irish Family History Forum will hold its January meeting on this Saturday morning, with topic under discussion being “Old Irish First Names and...
January 16, 2025
by Irish Echo Staff
Cullinan's playing is sublime
Well, folks, here we are — it’s only the middle of January and I have an absolute gem in the media yoke that I’m excited to tell you about. “Here I...
January 15, 2025
by Daniel Neely
A look back at 2024 adventures
The old Irish tradition of Nollaig na mBan (Women’s Christmas) on Jan. 6 has been making a comeback in recent years. Our New York group keeps getti...
January 12, 2025
by Maura Mulligan
Culture
TRASNA MHEIRICEÁ: The transatlantic portal they didn't close down
Aonach Mhacha in Ireland's ecclesiastical capital Armagh and the Celtic Junction Arts Center in Minnesota joined forces at the end of 2024 to forge...
January 12, 2025
by Aileen Gorman Leong
Culture
Twin Cities talented line-up will blow away winter blues
Celtic Junction Arts Center has taken the wraps off an extraordinary concert series showcasing world-renowned Celtic and folk artists at both its i...
January 10, 2025
by Anthony Neeson
Culture
REVIEW: ‘Say Nothing’ says a lot; none of it convincing
Irish American author Timothy O’Grady finds the new Disney+ series too slight to be taken seriously. THE hit television series ‘Say Nothing’, curre...
January 09, 2025
by Timothy O'Grady
Oats are January 'Grain of the Month'
Superb pure-drop played with class by Gavin and Gannon
Salon expresses sadness for L.A.
On truth, Trump, Biden and BS
King's non-violence made radical demand for inclusion
First names, nicknames up for forum discussion
Cullinan's playing is sublime
A look back at 2024 adventures
