Culture
Galway’s Regan keeps it simple
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...
July 26, 2017
by Colleen Taylor
Culture
Author Tom Fleming dead at 90
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...
July 25, 2017
by Ray O'Hanlon
Culture
Historical Society hosts McSorley’s
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...
July 24, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Relying on kindness of strangers, friends
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...
July 21, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Last call for a great bartender
George Kornienko. By Pat Fenton I’m thinking of George Kornienko a/k/a “George the Bartender” tonight. The bar was called Rocky Sullivan’s. It was ...
July 20, 2017
by Pat Fenton
Culture
Richardson on CD mission for Mercy
Haley Richardson. By Daniel Neely I recently dug into “Trad Teens: Music for Mercy,” a fundraising CD produced by the great Haley Richardson. For t...
July 19, 2017
by Daniel Neely
Culture
Craic was mighty during CIAW
The final concert during the Catskills Irish Arts Week. By Daniel Neely It had been several years since I’d been up to the Catskills Irish Arts Wee...
July 18, 2017
by Daniel Neely
Culture
Great things ahead for fun, innovative group
TooFools are a Dublin duo with lots of backup. By Colleen Taylor I’ve been all folked up on the column recently, so I thought I’d mix it up this we...
July 17, 2017
by Colleen Taylor
Culture
Altar boy days
Tom Phelan on a recent visit to his native Mountmellick, Co. Laois. PHOTO BY PATRICIA PHELAN By Tom Phelan Learning the responses for the Latin Mas...
July 13, 2017
by Tom Phelan
Culture
‘Powerful, graceful and honest’
Sally Rooney’s “Conversations with Friends” is published in the U.S. this week. PHOTO BY JONNY L. DAVIES Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott “J...
July 12, 2017
by Peter McDermott
Culture
McDonnell relishes WWII miniseries role
Captain Ronald Dreyfuss (Aaron Staton), Rose Coyne (Hattie Morahan) and Michael Coyne (Owen McDonnell) in the miniseries "My Mother and Other Stran...
July 11, 2017
by Karen Butler
Culture
Luxury Ireland in Laois
Ballyfin from the air. ANDREA JONES | GARDENEXPOSURES.CO.UK By Margaret Noonan While there seems to be a castle, crumbling ruin, or tower house aro...
July 10, 2017
by Margaret M. Johnson