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Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott Rob Doyle. PHOTO BY AL HIGGINS Rob Doyle, who holds a first-class honors degree in philosophy and an MPhil ...

Deborah Kruel Rupy plays Mary in "The Caretaker of Corofin." By Peter McDermott pmcdermott@irishecho.com It was late on New Year’s Eve, 1986, in Co...

By Daniel Neely There’s a pub in Camden Town, London, called the Good Mixer where the Britpop scene has gone to drink, fight and carry on for the b...

The multiple-awarding winning novelist Anne Enright was named in January to the new official position of laureate for Irish fiction. PHOTO: HUGH CH...

Michigan’s the Moxie Strings will be on stage at the Great American Irish Festival in Frankfort, N.Y., in July. By Colleen Taylor letters@irishecho...

Ed Lucas with his son Christopher Lucas Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott Said the 14-year Yankees star and current Dodgers manager Don Matti...

Éamon de Valera on the campaign trail in 1951. By Tom Phelan letters@irishecho.com I was 10 years old when Éamon de Valera came to Mountmellick on ...

W.B. Yeats in 1923. BALLYLEE PHOTOS BY DEIRDRE HOLMES By Peter McDermott pmcdermott@irishecho.com A generous check from an American lawyer has boos...

Wales' Jack Harris cites Irish folk as an influence. By Colleen Taylor Summer is the season of folkies. As a self-professed folkie fetishist, I alw...

By Daniel Neely We Banjo 3 is a band comprised of high-caliber, imaginative players whose musical vision strikes a clean balance between Irish trad...

A portrait of William Butler Yeats by his father John Butler Yeats (1900). By Peter McDermott W.B Yeats is just so damned sexy. So Irish Repertory ...

By Daniel Neely A couple of weeks ago I previewed Tommy Sands’s show “The Ballad of a Songman” that took place at the Irish Arts Center on the 30th...