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Fresh or Frozen, Peas Rise to the Occasion
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Fresh or Frozen, Peas Rise to the Occasion
Burdock’s, an iconic Dublin chipper. PHOTO: MARGARET M. JOHNSON By Margaret M. Johnson As a food writer, I generally recommend using fresh ingredie...
Lamy gets help from trad’s finest
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Lamy gets help from trad’s finest
By Daniel Neely letters@irishecho.com Last week I visited NYC’s Irish Arts Center and saw the group This Is How We Fly perform. It was a wonderful ...
Two songwriters rapidly rising
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Two songwriters rapidly rising
“If You Got Love,” the latest from Róisín O, goes in a different direction to her debut “Secret Life of Blue.” By Colleen Taylor The Irish music sc...
When A-listers  joined the fray
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When A-listers joined the fray
A door into the past on Warren Street. PHOTO: PETER MCDERMOTT By Peter McDermott The novelist Norman Mailer said of Senator Robert Kennedy, “[I]t w...
Helping the peace with Piece
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Helping the peace with Piece
Piece wants to present the new face of Northern Ireland: youthful, fun and creative. The photo by Christopher Heaney is of Patrick and Tom McMeekin...
Orsi recalled by kin, friends
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Orsi recalled by kin, friends
Bartender Lisa Loughery and Irish Cottage owner Kathleen McNulty. PHOTO: PETER MCDERMOTT By Peter McDermott pmcdermott@irishecho.com The death last...
All roads lead to Parsippany
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All roads lead to Parsippany
Dylan Foley was a North American winner at last year’s Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann. Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely Two of the events that loom l...
Half Irish, half American, all writer
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Half Irish, half American, all writer
By Christine Breen letters@irishecho.com Everybody’s life is a story. Mine begins in New York but ends up in the West of Ireland in a place called ...
Kirwan & Turner ride again
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Kirwan & Turner ride again
Larry Kirwan. STACEY MCCARTHY PHOTOGRAPHY By Peter McDermott Pierce Turner will be joined by his former singing partner Larry Kirwan for one specia...
Poor Mouth carves out a niche
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Poor Mouth carves out a niche
Brendan Goggins and Aaron Souza in Janice Young’s "Who Got the Girl," which will be performed this week at the Poor Mouth Theatre Company as part o...
September Girls are  ambitious, productive
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September Girls are ambitious, productive
Music Notes / By Colleen Taylor In a world where the Strypes are making retro sounds young again, a Dublin band is reinvigorating nostalgic rock fr...
Forgotten hero
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Forgotten hero
"Double Agent" author Peter Duffy. PHOTO BY RAN GRAFF By Peter McDermott When the “SS Washington” docked at Pier 59 in New York on Feb. 8, 1940, th...

 

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