Culture
Doc profiles petite hipster with bullhorn
Not even the last of the good weather could deter New York’s Irish film fans from heading indoors at NYU Cantor Center last Friday night to watch t...
October 17, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Wee Craic: funny weird and funny ha-ha
By Orla O’Sullivan The Wee Craic festival wasn’t short on craic, just a smaller showcase for short films out of Ireland than the main Craic fest, h...
October 04, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Irish Film NY is back for 2nd year
Silver Screen / By Michael Gray Irish Film New York, in its second year on the NY cultural calendar, presents a diverse selection of new movies fro...
October 04, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Dubliner’s story told backwards
Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott Christine Dwyer Hickey believes she reads more short stories than anybody in Ireland. It’s a quite a claim ...
October 04, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
McCarthy essays published
“There is increasing interest in the achievements of constitutional nationalists who never espoused violence, and of liberals from the unionist tra...
September 19, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Dwyer Hickey for IAC, AIHS
Christine Dwyer Hickey, the award-winning Irish novelist and short story writer, will discuss her new novel, "The Cold Eye of Heaven" at two upcomi...
September 19, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Ex-cop Monaghan brings music to community
This year I ended my summer with sand between my toes, a starry night, a cool evening breeze and some mighty live music thanks to Irish American pe...
September 19, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Harpists are busier than ever across U.S.
Today I write from the air, en route to “CelticFest” in Jackson, Miss., for one of the American South’s great celebrations of traditional Irish mus...
September 19, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Ní Mhaonaigh's return
A rising young Irish artist returns for her second solo exhibit in New York beginning today. "Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh: New Paintings" is showing at the...
September 10, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Tyrrell’s voice reaches out beyond genres
For many, Seán Tyrrell needs no introduction. From his work with Davy Spillane to his one man shows, and his prodigious career as a solo recording ...
September 10, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Tales of survival in City of Light
A standing room only crowd greeted first time presenter Sanem Ozdural at the recent Irish American Writers & Artists’ Salon at the Cell Theater. Sa...
September 10, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Honoring labor
"This is a delusional time in American history," said New Jersey poet Daniel P. Quinn, heading into this Labor Day weekend. "We think we are middle...
August 31, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff