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Peggy Olson (Elizabeth Moss) and Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser) in a scene set in P.J. Clarke's during the first season of “Mad Men.” PHOTO: CA...

EVENTS 1686 – Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan. 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta – ou...

EVENTS 1848 – Women's rights: a two-day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York. 1903 – Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de Fran...

EVENTS 1969 – After a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a bridge and his passenger, M...

1938 – Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan. 1955 – Disneyland is d...

1. Keep her job in the public service or a bank when she got married. Female civil servants and other public servants (primary teachers from 1958 w...

Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott They say: write what you know. Stephan Talty, though, has written about where he knows in his sixth book, w...

Irish-American actor Mark Wahlberg said he is cautious when adopting dialects for film roles since he has witnessed some excruciating imitations of...

A wise woman once said: "Find fitness with fun dancing. It makes you forget about the dreaded exercise." It was Paula Abdul, and if you're wonderin...

Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott The protagonist in Yvonne Cassidy’s second novel “What Might Have Been Me” has a decision to make that is a...

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...