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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...

Lisa McCleary, a 26-year-old artist from County Wicklow, will have her first U.S. solo show on Monday, April 29, to Friday, May 3, in New York City...

ZI3000 | DREAMSTIME IRELAND HOPPING | By Margaret M. Johnson When I’m really stuck for a quick spring supper, I turn to eggs. Not fried, poached, o...

Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely If you’re a fan of traditional music and engaged on social media, you’ve surely seen the video of Daoirí Farrel...

Joseph O’Connor will return with the Frank McCourt Creative Writing Summer School in June. By Peter McDermott Writer Joseph O’Connor has long been ...

Tara O’Grady performing with the Black Velvet Band. PHOTO BY DAN BROWN Salon Diary / By Karen Daly IAW&A joined charismatic singer Tara O’Grady to ...

Annie Reilly. By Geoffrey Cobb T.S. Elliot once noted that April was the cruelest of months, but who cares what he said anyway, for he was nothing ...

Ye Vagabonds’ Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn. By Daniel Neely On Saturday, I spent the evening over at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall space to see the ...