Culture

By Orla O'Sullivan letters@irishecho.com Aedín Moloney, who wonders why she always gets cast as "tough" women, ends an interview recounting how she...

Sounds Around / By Liz Noonan I'm so lost in Heidi Talbot's new album "Angels Without Wings" that I can hardly snap out of my delectable musical cl...

Saturday, Feb. 2, from 11:30 a.m. until 1 p.m., the Irish Language & Gaelic Culture classes of the Irish Studies Institute at Molloy College will c...

Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely The melodeon seems to be having something of a resurgence. Back in December I wrote about the Tin Sandwich Band...

Page Turner /By Peter McDermott In the 1963-set novel “Ratlines,” Irish Minister of Justice Charles J. Haughey has a mission for Lieut. Albert Ryan...

Theatre / By Orla O’Sullivan “Airswimming” * Written by Charlotte Jones * Directed by John Keating * Starring Aedín Moloney and Rachel Pickup * The...

Shilelagh Law: “Live at Connollys” A 19-track disc that captures the excitement of a live Shilelagh Law show! Recorded at Connollys Klub 45, a venu...

By Liz Noonan Michael Brunnock: “The Orchard” “The Orchard” is the third solo album from the immensely talented New York City-based singer-songwrit...

In my very first article for the Irish Echo, published in the Jan. 4-10, 2012, issue, I shared with you my New Year's resolution - to step it out, ...

President Michael D. Higgins has led the tributes to the poet Dennis O'Driscoll who died suddenly on Christmas Eve at the age 58. The career civil ...

Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely In my very first column for the Irish Echo, I made allusion to John Whelan’s cameo (alongside Joanie Madden and...

Salon Diary / By Charles Hale "Artists Without Walls," a new initiative created by Charles R. Hale, co-founder of the Irish American Writers & Arti...