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Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely I want to start off this week by recognizing New York-based concertina player Mattie Talty, who passed away on ...

Book Review / By Gerry O'Shea “We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It: A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood,” by Tom Phelan; published by Gallery Books in hard...

Professor Kevin Kenny, the author of "Diaspora," will speak about the Paxton Boys, an 18th-century Pennsylvania militia, at Glucksman Ireland House...

George William Russell. © ARMAGH COUNTY MUSEUM COLLECTION By Irish Echo Staff A largely forgotten figure in Irish history whose ideas were embraced...

Professor Kevin Kenny. Kevin Kenny, Professor of History and Glucksman Professor in Irish Studies at New York University, will on Friday evening, A...

ANNAPUSTYNNIKOVA | DREAMSTIME.COM Ireland Hopping | By Margaret M. Johnson If we were in Ireland this week, we’d all be scurrying to find the perfe...

Pete Hamill, left, and Jimmy Breslin back in the day. By Ed Curtin Growing up Irish Catholic in the Bronx in the 1960s I was an avid reader of the ...

Members of the Irish Citizen Army inside the General Post Office during Easter Week, 1916. By Geoffrey Cobb As a historian, I attend many historica...

Tom Vaughan-Lawlor in “Maze.” By Frances Scanlon It's hard to believe but throughout April 2019 a number of events will observe the twenty-fifth an...

Gina Marie Guadagnino. Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott Gina Marie Guadagnino’s debut novel “The Parting Glass” has been described as “‘Down...

Darina Allen. PHOTOS BY MARGARET M. JOHNSON Ireland Hopping / By Margaret M. Johnson Three of Ireland’s leading chefs crossed the pond last week to...

Barry Ward as Gordon Close in “Maze,” which is opening tonight in New York. By Evan Short The legacy of the conflict is daily news in the Northern ...