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The Village Lions in action By Mike Malone The Village Lions Rugby Club, hatched by Dublin-reared Alan Whelan out of his Red Lion pub on Bleecker S...

By Olive Collins In the mid-90’s I attended a St. Patrick’s Day party in Israel where most of us were Scottish, Welsh and Irish. A man from Jamaica...

Pictured (l-r) at the Ireland Funds gala are: Kyle Clifford, Vice President of Development of The Ireland Funds America; Caitriona Fottrell, The Ir...

Diane Ní Chanainn. Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely One day a little while back the CD for Diane Ní Chanainn’s album “Idir Muir Agus Sliabh” (Be...

Ailbhe Fitzpatrick, who is from Malahide, Co. Dublin, lives and works in Santa Monica, Calif. By Peter McDermott It was a case of “Ailbhe, we hardl...

Michael Brendan Dougherty. PHOTO BY GINA SIERRA Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott “It wasn’t homesickness that burdened my mother with the id...

Aimee Louise O’Sullivan. PHOTOS BY JOANNE STEINHARDT Salon Diary / By Brendan Costello Jr. The April 16 Irish American Writers and Artists Salon br...

Pulitzer-Prize winner Frank McCourt famously said of his youngest sibling: “Alphie is the poet in the family.” Now almost three years after Alphie ...

By Daniel Neely Dan Milner is a name surely familiar to much of the Echo’s readership. Among many other things, he was a founding member of the ban...

Painter Rodney Dickson – who grew up in Newtownards, Co. Down, went to art school in Liverpool and has long been resident in Brooklyn – is pictured...

Hilary Mhic Suibhne. Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott Bilingualism was where it was at in 18th and 19th century Ireland – at least when it c...

A still from from the making of the Irish short documentary “99 Problems,” which will be screened at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. PHOTO BY MA...