Culture
Bringing character to Co. Down tunes
“A Deep Pool” is the latest offering from Seamus Sands Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely In the player this week is “A Deep Pool,” the newest fro...
July 31, 2018
by Daniel Neely
Culture
What we owe one another
Poet Caoilinn Hughes’s debut novel is “Orchid & the Wasp.” PHOTOGRAPH BY DANIJEL MIHAJLOVIĆ Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott When asked to d...
July 30, 2018
by Peter McDermott
Culture
Music fans – check out Westport!
Westport at night. Music Notes / By Colleen Taylor People go to the west coast of Mayo for the views—Achill, Clare Island, the Great Western Greenw...
July 27, 2018
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
The Wolfe Tones now
The Wolfe Tones pictured on stage. Alex Fell writes in the foreword to her latest book “it is not possible for a band to be much more successful th...
July 26, 2018
by Alex Fell
Culture
Fleadh features tribute to GFA
Marisa Tomei being interviewed during the Galway Film Fleadh. PHOTOS BY ADRIAN REYES By Jeanne L. Logan While events on the world stage fret and st...
July 24, 2018
by Jeanne L. Logan
Culture
O’Reilly focuses on ‘involuntary memory’
“Bear with Spoon and Egg.” By Peter McDermott The title of Irish sculptor Patrick O’Reilly’s second exhibition at Gallery Valois America in New Yor...
July 23, 2018
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Artistic independence declared
Kevin McPartland. Salon Diary / By Mark William Butler PHOTOS BY DAN BROWN The celebration came a day early at the Irish-American Writers & Artists...
July 20, 2018
by Mark William Butler
Culture
Madden to receive 2018 O’Neill award
Joanie Madden. Musician Joanie Madden has been announced as this year’s recipient of the Eugene O’Neill Lifetime Achievement Award. The Irish Ameri...
July 19, 2018
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Irish Hotels and Resorts Rank Among the ‘Best’
An aerial view of Ballyfin. IRELAND HOPPING | By Margaret M. Johnson Part 1 [Part 2 will be published in the Irish Echo on Aug. 1] It’s now mid-Jul...
July 18, 2018
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Writing the memoir of a con man
Richard Flanagan’s seventh novel, “First Person,” was published recently in the United States. His sixth, “The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” won ...
July 17, 2018
by Peter McDermott
Culture
CIAW craic was simply brilliant
Musicians of all ages were much in evidence in East Durham. By Daniel Neely If you weren’t up in East Durham, N.Y., last week for the Catskills Iri...
July 16, 2018
by Daniel Neely
Culture
‘McGowan’ makes Tokyo transition
The Tokyo premiere of “The McGowan Trilogy,” by New York-based Galway author Seamus Scanlon, took place today at the Setagaya Public Theatre. The t...
July 13, 2018
by Irish Echo Staff