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The Narrowbacks. By Irish Echo Staff All hands on deck at Gavin’s Irish Country Inn where preparations are underway for the 2nd Annual Gavin’s Iris...

The Phelan homestead. By Tom Phelan In the early 1930s, my father, JohnJoe Phelan, having borne the dictatorship of his father until the old man di...

Brendan Costello. PHOTOS BY CHRISTOPHER BOOTH By Maureen Hossbacher A song in Gaelic was the fitting start to a special IAW&A Salon with an immigra...

Tommy Peoples’s new album is “Recorded at Fiddler’s Hearth,” while his “Ó Am Go hAm” is a fiddle tutor and tunebook of 383 pages. By Daniel Neely T...

The Coronas, who improve a few of their songs by translating them for Irish-language compilation albums, will tour Canada and the U.S. in the fall....

The recently restored St. Brigid’s Church in the East Village, Manhattan, was one of Patrick Keely’s earliest projects. PHOTO: PETER MCDERMOTT By G...

Eileen Gannon teaches at St. Louis Irish Arts, an organization her parents have led for decades Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely Eileen Gannon i...

Thomas Fleming, who has died, was a prolific novelist and historian. He also wrote, in his late 70s, “Mysteries of My Father: An Irish-American Mem...

Niamh Regan should not to be missed in 2017, says the Irish Times. Music Notes / By Colleen Taylor Galway Girls strike again. Niamh Regan is latest...

Author Tom Fleming By Ray O’Hanlon The death has taken place of novelist and historian Thomas Fleming, one of the most prolific Irish Americans wri...

McSorley’s, like the AIHS, is a New York institution By Irish Echo Staff “Success in the City” bills itself the young professionals’ wing of the Am...

Team Ireland has lots of enthusiastic family support. In the category of, for now at least, “not many people know that”: Ireland has an internation...