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Galway’s Regan keeps it simple
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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...
Author Tom Fleming dead at 90
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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...
Historical Society hosts McSorley’s
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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...
Relying on kindness of strangers, friends
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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...
Last call for a great bartender
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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 ...
Richardson on CD mission for Mercy
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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...
Craic was mighty during CIAW
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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...
Great things ahead for fun, innovative group
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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...
Altar boy days
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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...
‘Powerful, graceful and honest’
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‘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...
McDonnell relishes WWII miniseries role
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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...
Luxury Ireland in Laois
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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...

 

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