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Film Review / By Michael Gray Barry Ward and Simone Kirby in a scene from “Jimmy’s Hall.” SONY PICTURES CLASSICS Did you hear the one about the Iri...

Tulip Street By John Kearns An occasional carhorn sent a fading note of complaint down the narrow brick walls of Tulip Street. Potholes made the ca...

Salon Diary / by Jeanne D’Brant and John Kearns Donie Carroll. PHOTO: KEVIN MCPARTLAND The IAWA July Salon at Bar Thalia had a solid turnout who se...

Dubliner Gavin Glass’s latest CD “Sunday Songs” has received glowing reviews in Ireland. By Colleen Taylor letters@irishecho.com By now, the popula...

Larry Kirwan. By Irish Echo Staff Larry Kirwan has never been busier, it seems, since his band Black 47 called it a day last fall after 25 years. O...

Peter Harding. By Peter McDermott pmcdermott@irishecho.com “When my father came to America, he had a lot to learn,” said Connor Harding in a eulogy...

Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott Nuala O’Connor. PHOTO: EMILIA KRYSZTOFIAK “Secrets will always out,” the Dublin novelist Dermot Bolger wrot...

When did the poets eat a peacock? Seven poets gathered to eat a peacock over a century ago, Sunday, Jan. 18, 1914, at 12:30 p.m. And why would they...

Seamus Heaney was an original member of the Belfast Group organized at Queen’s University from 1963. He is pictured near his home in Dublin in 1995...

Maire Reilly and Maura Mulligan. By Maura Mulligan letters@irishecho.com The recent Bergen County Irish festival featured pipe bands, step dancers,...

Derry’s Bridie Monds-Watson, aka SOAK, is currently on a United States tour. By Colleen Taylor letters@irishecho.com Bridie Monds-Watson never goes...

Barry Ward as the activist James Gralton in a scene from the County Leitrim-set “Jimmy’s Hall.” SONY PICTURE CLASSICS By Karen Butler letters@irish...