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Joanie Madden, pictured front left with Cherish the Ladies, will receive the Eugene O’Neill Lifetime Achievement Award on Monday, Nov. 12. Traditio...

PHOTO BY MARGARET M. JOHNSON Ireland Hopping | By Margaret M. Johnson The ancient Celtic harvest feast called Samhain (pronounced SAH-win) marks th...

Writer Anne Higgins Petz has followed up her 2012 “Irish Crosswords: Puzzles that Bring You a Taste of the Emerald Isle” (she’s been a crossword se...

Niamh Hyland and Michael Brunnock. By Irish Echo Staff Niamh Hyland and Michael Brunnock met quite by chance, courtesy of a date one of them was on...

“The Stars of the Commitments” first made their name in the iconic movie directed by Alan Parker. Music Notes / By Colleen Taylor Ken McCluskey has...

The Martin Hayes Quartet. Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely Is there a person more hard wired into the nuanced world of traditional music at this...

PHOTO BY KERRYGOLD Ireland Hopping / By Margaret M. Johnson With Thanksgiving approaching, the thought of what “sides” to serve with turkey looms l...

LEGHONWNEY DRAMA GROUP presents Wake in the West By playwright, Michael J. Ginnelly's Saturday, October 27 at 8pm and Sunday, October 28 at 2pm. St...

The following is an extract from Seamus Beirne’s “In Search of Brigid Coltrane,” published on Sept. 6 by Fireship Press, is a historical thriller s...

Sue Hubbard’s latest novel “Rainsongs” has just been published in the U.S. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE AUTHOR Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott “‘R...

Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely With Stevie Dunne’s newest, “Live at the Crosskeys Inn,” in the player this week, it’s the “glory-beaming banjo...

Gina Costigan. By Irish Echo Staff “The Blood Flow Game” by Seamus Scanlon of City College's Center for Worker Education has a free rehearsed table...