Culture
Sensational Julie Feeney hits New York
[caption id="attachment_71248" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Julie Feeney on stage. "][/caption] A truly brilliant artist will be in New...
April 25, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
John Cusack looks on the dark side
[caption id="attachment_71245" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="John Cusack and Brendan Gleeson in a scene from "The Raven.""][/caption] Ir...
April 25, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Augusta's thirty-year tradition of excellence
[caption id="attachment_71242" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="A session in full swing at Augusta. "][/caption] "With traditional music it...
April 25, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Marcus Robinson documents a rebirth on hollowed ground
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April 25, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Belfast experience hastened Callow’s career
In town with his one-man hit show “Being Shakespeare,” British actor Simon Callow took time out recently to recall his days at Queen’s University B...
April 18, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Dad’s memoir is still alive, alive o
[caption id="attachment_71113" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Honor Molloy’s novel “Smarty Girl” is also available in cake and audio form...
April 18, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
My granny and Che
My aunt turned 18 the year RFK was murdered. She loved Bobby. She is the least political of my family, but she was a child of the Sixties, and so s...
April 18, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Recently departed never forgot mentoring roles
[caption id="attachment_71107" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Barney McKenna was a household name from the 1960s on as the Dubliners’ ban...
April 18, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Friends recall idyllic summers in East Durham
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April 18, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
It’s hard not to be charmed by ‘Once’
[caption id="attachment_71062" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti."][/caption] “Once” * Music and lyrics by G...
April 18, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Speakers to look at wealth, poverty, upward mobility
The phenomenon of chain immigration from Ireland is one subject up for discussion at a one-day symposium at New York University on Saturday, April ...
April 11, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Warfield CD is product of years of research
In eight years you could earn a bachelor’s degree in history, go on to get your master’s, and maybe even a PhD… but what fun is that? The charismat...
April 11, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff