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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...

Mark Wahlberg. PHOTO: WB By Karen Butler “Entourage,” the celebrated HBO series inspired by how Mark Wahlberg brought his childhood friends along w...

The Duhks will be performing at venues in the Northeast this summer. By Colleen Taylor When it comes to genre, everything is fair game for the Duhk...

Kate Lydic and Arielle Hoffman in a scene from “The Belle of Belfast.” PHOTO: CAROL ROSEGG Review by Sean Williams The Irish Repertory Theatre’s pr...