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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...

By Gerry Adams Last week I attended the launch of Christine Kinealy’s authoritative and revealing two volumes on the life and times of Frederick Do...

By Daniel Neely One of the interesting things about traditional music is that despite the shared repertory of tunes and songs, there exists a great...

Micheal O’Siadhail. PHOTO BY MICHAEL SHEEHAN By Peter McDermott The Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual at Loyola University, Chicago, presen...

In approaching “Burning Down,” Ashley Davis said “Go big…because why not?” Music Notes / By Colleen Taylor There are musicians who are steadfast—wh...

Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott “The Long-winded Lady” contributed sketches to the New Yorker’s “Talk of the Town” column that are celebrat...

Mushrooms on toast. DESISLAVA VASILIVA | DREAMSTIME.COM IRELAND HOPPING | By Margaret M. Johnson I’ve just returned from a cruise that included sto...

Jesse Smith's nuanced eye is at work in many trad posters and album covers. By Daniel Neely Walk into a place like the Druid pub in Cambridge and o...

Liam Ó Maonlaí is touring the U.S. this month. PHOTO BY TARA KEANE By Stephanie Wells Liam Ó Maonlaí has been the charismatic front man for the int...