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[caption id="attachment_79844" align="alignnone" width="300"] Part of the museum at the Irish American Heritage Center.[/caption] By Máirtín Ó Muil...

If it’s late August it means the Fleadh is over and congratulations are in order! Earlier in the month, Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann branches from t...

The Jepettos label their sound “gritty folk lullaby.” By Colleen Taylor letters@irishecho.com It takes a certain kind of band to make the ukulele e...

Genevieve Hulme-Beaman. Orla O’Sullivan letters@irishecho.com The 1st Irish returns with a laugh next month for what is now the eighth year of Amer...

Beatles secretary Freda Kelly with Paul McCartney in the early 1960s. COURTESY OF FREDA KELLY By Peter McDermott Freda Kelly’s father was “old scho...

“Irish Music from the Hudson Valley” is one of the finest albums of instrumental Irish music in recent American memory. By Daniel Neely Two of Iris...

Recipes/ By Margaret M. Johnson PHOTO BY MARGARET M. JOHNSON Foodie friends in County Clare just alerted me to a major honor recently bestowed on t...

Juilliard graduate Emmett O’Hanlon feels at home with the music of his parents’ native land. By Colleen Taylor letters@irishecho.com After a lot of...

Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott Cathy Kelly likely didn’t set out to knock J.K. Rowling and her “Harry Potter” series or Dan Brown of “The ...

Maeve Higgins will host “One Night in Heaven." Orla O’Sullivan letters@irishecho.com More laughs, more commissions and more collaborative ventures ...

By Daniel Neely letters@irishecho.com There is scarcely a traditional musician who hasn’t been touched by the magisterial playing of the great fidd...

Evertonians all: Mark Taylor, holding his boy Sonny, is also pictured with, on the right, his dad Robert “Tate” Taylor and, in the center, Liverpoo...