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Mike Houlihan By Irish Echo Staff Are you the next John Ford? Well, if you think you might be, Mike Houlihan would love to hear from you. He is loo...

Dave Browne, left, and Dave Rooney are the Black Donnellys By Nora Scally letters@irishecho.com You may have heard of the Black Donnellys, the Iris...

Olivia Callaghan works as a producer in a “high energy and very fast-paced field.” PHOTO BY PETER MCDERMOTT By Peter McDermott When County Roscommo...

Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely Readers will recall that back in March I wrote about Cormac Breatnach’s fascinating album “The Whistle Blower,”...

Finbarr Clancy, Darren Holden and Brian Dunphy are the High Kings. Music Notes / By Colleen Taylor Being an American in Dublin, I often have friend...

Yvonne Cassidy. Salon Diary / By Karen Daly Dedicating the recent second annual IAW&A Pride Salon to the memory of murdered journalist Lyra McKee, ...

Dublin-born, L.A.-based director Ciarán Foy is looking to Irish myth and folklore for new movie ideas. By Nora Scally The glamour of Hollywood is s...

Damien O'Reilly. Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely It used to be that music lovers could buy albums based on the label that released them and be ...

"The Great Unexpected" is Dan Mooney's second novel. PHOTO BY GLIC MEDIA Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott The head nurse/owner of Hilltop Nu...

The Screaming Orphans. By Colleen Taylor Last week I reviewed some of the biggest and best Irish music fests in the continental U.S. Thankfully, ou...

The author’s mother posing on a mower in the late 1930s. Tom Phelan’s latest book “We Were Rich and We Didn’t Know It: A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood...

Eugene O’Donnell, right, with Mick Moloney. Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely Sad news from the world of Irish traditional music to report on wit...