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Deirdre Kinahan. PHOTO: BARRY CRONIN By Orla O’Sullivan Amid much discussion lately about how few female playwrights get their work produced, Deird...

Gaelic Storm By Colleen Taylor Gaelic Storm is able to churn out upbeat, witty albums like some kind of whimsical Irish cotton mill. I admit I’m in...

Some of the exhibiting artists attending the opening. Photo courtesy IACI. By Irish Echo Staff The Bourn Vincent Gallery at the University of Limer...

By Áine Ní Shionnaigh In 1800 the Acts of Union united the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland, abolishing the Irish Parliament. Ir...

FullSet’s latest album is “Notes Between the Lines.” By Daniel Neely It is the week after St. Patrick’s Day. I hope everyone reading out there had ...

Mick Moloney. PHOTO COURTNEY KING/EMERALD By Colleen Taylor This week, Dublin will commemorate the centenary of the Easter Rising. Naturally, music...

Weldon House postcard from the 1940s. Ads in the Brooklyn Eagle. By Pat Fenton The smells, and music and memories of places we remember are who we ...

Seán Farren, left, and John Hume talking to the media a few days before the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. ROLLING NEWS.IE Page Turn...

Lucy McDiarmid. PHOTO: XANTHE ELBRICK In 2015, the Irish Echo asked Lucy McDiarmid about her book “Poets and the Peacock Dinner: the literary histo...

Comedian Maeve Higgins, on left of picture, actor-playwright Honor Molloy, at the end of the table, and playwright Lisa Tierney-Keogh, at the podiu...

The High Kings. By Colleen Taylor Having spent St. Patrick’s Day in about 10 different cities and countless different music venues, it remains my f...

[caption id="attachment_82931" align="alignnone" width="300"] Martin O'Grady, left, and Erin Loughran, on right, with student on McLean Avenue.[/ca...