Culture

The Gene Siskel Film Center on Sept. 25-27 expects to see some of the same ethnic swagger that made James Cagney famous. By Mike Houlihan I auditio...

By Tom Fleming letters@irishecho.com What is the most important argument in American history? The quarrel between North and South that led to the m...

By Áine Ní Shionnaigh Chatting to Emmet Cahill earlier this week is like catching up with a long lost friend. He has a hint of an accent which I st...

Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott Mary Costello. PHOTO BY MARTINA KENJI Last year, Mary Costello joined the ranks of Irish writers who’ve mad...

Best-selling author and former IAW&A President T.J. English will read at the event supporting urban librarians. PHOTO: PETER MCDERMOTT By Karen Dal...

Celtic Cross on Stone Street. By Colleen Taylor It feels like “New York Irish” should be its own category on iTunes, have its own section in the re...

Norah Rendell’s “Spinning Yarns” is comprised of Irish, Scottish and English songs collected decades ago in Canada. By Daniel Neely New York City’s...

" A History of Irish Music" -- an extract Phil Lynott in 1984. PHOTOCALL IRELAND By Larry Kirwan It was hard to ignore Phil Lynott. He was like a f...

Tara Erraught. PHOTO: KRISTIN SPEED Tara Erraught, the 28-year-old mezzo-soprano from Dundalk, Co. Louth, will make her U.S. debut on Monday in Ros...

David English, left, and Wil Hart rehearse their respective roles of Johnny Boyle and IRA Mobiliser in “Juno and the Paycock.” By Peter McDermott p...

The work of Tipperary native Gemma Hayes has been featured on a number of primetime television shows, like “Grey’s Anatomy,” “One Tree Hill” and “P...

By Karen Daly The Irish American Writers & Artists salon followed last week’s launch party for IAW&A President Larry Kirwan’s new book, “A History ...