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About her play “Charolais,” television actor Noni Stapleton says: “Think ‘Father Ted’ meets John B. Keane, directed by Tarantino.” PHOTO BY DEBORAH...

Liam O'Connor. By Daniel Neely Last month at the Fleadh in Ennis, Paul Brock asked me if I’d yet heard Liam O’Connor’s CD “The Loom.” I confessed I...

Father Patrick Moloney enters the Kenneth B. Keating Federal Building in Rochester during the 1994 trial. PHOTO BY BURR LEWIS, COURTESTY OF THE DEM...

From left to right, Brendan Bell, flute [facing away]; Nathan Gourley, fiddle; Sean McComiskey, accordion; Daniel Neely, banjo; Cillian Vallely, ui...

A scene from “School Life.” PHOTO COURTESY OF MAGNOLIA PICTURES By Michael Gray The very notion of a boarding school for pre-teen boys and girls se...

Tupelo, a Dublin act that has performed on the Irish-American fest circuit, has downsized and upgraded. By Colleen Taylor What happens when a band ...

Moone High Cross Inn, in Moone, Co. Kildare, at autumn-time. MARGARET M. JOHNSON Ireland Hopping | Margaret M. Johnson The calendar still indicates...

Teresa Deevy’s grandniece and literary executor Jacqui Deevy and the Mint Theater Company’s Jonathan Bank outside the playwright’s home on Passage ...

Van Morrison is releasing his 37th studio album next month. By Colleen Taylor Typically, by the age of 70, most people concentrate on retirement. B...

A scene from one of the many great street attractions at the Fleadh in Ennis, Co. Clare. By Daniel Neely The streets were crowded in Ennis all week...

Tom Phelan. The author’s most recent tale in the Echo (“JohnJoe Enacts His Clever Plan”) ended: “JohnJoe wiped the muck and the cow dung off his we...

The Irish Hunger Memorial in Downtown Manhattan. BPCPARKS.ORG By Áine Ní Shionnaigh It is a damp spring morning in 1952 in the townland of Carrowdo...