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John Spinks wearing the Newcastle colors. The Premier League kicks off again tomorrow night when Arsenal host Leicester City and so we've asked som...

Malachy McCourt, seated in the center, with from left, John Brennan, Arianne Hutch, Caroline McEvoy, Annalisa Chamberlin, Guenevere Donohue, Bernad...

Pierre Salinger was the first White House press secretary to be a celebrity in his own right. Between the Lines / By Peter McDermott “The mood in t...

By Daniel Neely In a little over a week’s time, close to 20 bands from all over the world will assemble at the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in Ennis, ...

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...