Culture
McCabe in Amazon film festival
Emma Ishta starring as Leda in "Shadow Puppet." By Nora Scally Daniel James McCabe paints a searing portrait of sexual assault in his short film “S...
June 18, 2019
by Nora Scally
Culture
Dingle: Better Than Ever
Helen and Brian Heaton of Castlewood House. Ireland Hopping / By Margaret M. Johnson If you’ve never been to Dingle, or haven’t been there in a whi...
June 14, 2019
by Margaret M. Johnson
Culture
Makem’s legacy lives on in Milwaukee
Two of the iconic Tommy Makem display items at the Ward Irish Music Archives. By Irish Echo Staff The Ward Irish Music Archives of CelticMKE and th...
June 14, 2019
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Salon honors railway workers
Theodore Wheeler, Felicity White, Maggie Smith Hurt, Vanessa Dobles, Bob Churchill, Drucilla Wall, Adrian Koesters and Eamonn Wall at the Irish Ame...
June 13, 2019
by Eamonn Wall
Culture
The cry goes up: What about Walt?
Walt Whitman as photographed by Mathew Brady. By Frances Scanlon The Landmarks Preservation Commission, created in the 1960s in a well-spring hue a...
June 12, 2019
by Frances Scanlon
Culture
Reilly’s ‘Danni’ is up for Amazon award
It’s awards season! Well, short-film awards season, specifically the Amazon All Voices Film Festival. Amazon Prime video is hosting its first ever ...
June 11, 2019
by Nora Scally
Culture
Castlewellan is again Ulster host
St Cecilia's Grúpa Cheoil from New York. PHOTO BY MARIANNE MANGAN. By Daniel Neely As many of this column’s readers will know, Comhaltas Ceoltóirí ...
June 10, 2019
by Daniel Neely
Culture
Connecticut fair returns June 22-23
The New York band Emish will appear at the Connecticut Irish Festival later this month. The Connecticut Irish Festival, New Haven County’s oldest f...
June 07, 2019
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Novelist Gilman to give McCourt lecture
Frank McCourt with his former teacher Sister Rita when he visited Limerick City in July 1997. ROLLING NEWS.IE The 9th Annual Frank McCourt Memorial...
June 07, 2019
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
A must see in Dublin!
Harry Clarke, ‘The Eve of St Agnes’ (6th of 8 stained glass panels) (1924). Collection & © Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin. (Reg. No. 1442.06) Art lovers...
June 06, 2019
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Chronicling Latin America’s Irish
Charlie O’Brien. By Geoffrey Cobb Charlie O’Brien is a unique singer, songwriter and documentary filmmaker from Killarney, Co Kerry, but he finds h...
June 06, 2019
by Geoffrey Cobb
Culture
Reexamining an historic relationship
Trina Vargo. PHOTO BY CAROL CLAYTON Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott Progressives and the labor movement have been attacking the “Horatio Al...
June 05, 2019
by Peter McDermott