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SALLY SCOTT | DREAMSTIME Ireland Hopping | By Margaret M. Johnson If rhubarb hasn’t made its official appearance yet where you live, you can expect...

Some members of the Kilfenora Céilí Band in the studio. Music Notes / By Colleen Taylor There’s no better gateway to nostalgia than a céilí band co...

Tara O’Grady will sign books on this Friday at Kew &Willow Books, 81-63 Lefferts Blvd., Kew Gardens, Queens, New York City, at 7 p.m. PHOTO BY RICH...

Bina McLoughlin. Film Review / By Peter McDermott Bina McLoughlin was unhappy that her application to the minister for a house-renovation grant was...

John Kearns and Annalisa Chamberlin. PHOTOS BY DAN BROWN Salon Diary / By Karen Daly Poet Marcia B. Loughran summed up the mid-March IAW&A Salon at...

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 ...