Poor Mouth to stage panto
It’s that time of year again! That is when the Poor Mouth Theatre Company presents a holiday panto in the Bronx. The company’s 10th annual pantomim...
December 07, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Debut album is a crowd-pleaser
In the media player this week is “Sailors on the Rock,” the debut album from John Nolan, John Reynolds, and Bruce Foley, three musicians who would ...
December 05, 2023
by Daniel Neely
Glenveagh inspires debut novel
Find a story you really, really want to write. That’s the view of Anne Madden, as we can see from her answers below, and it helps to explain how sh...
December 05, 2023
by Peter McDermott
Shane MacGowan was the poet laureate of the hyphenated people
The recent riots in Dublin, sparked by the stabbing of three children and a care assistant by a naturalized Irish citizen from Algeria, raised the ...
December 05, 2023
by Stephen Butler
Fruitcake is for Lovers! Part 2
Love it or hate it, fruitcake is one of Christmastime’s most iconic foods. I make no apologies for being one who loves it, and over the years I’ve ...
December 04, 2023
by Margaret M. Johnson
Salon samples cultures of Queens
Prolific writer Mary Lannon brought two of her cherished creative communities together for an Irish-American Writers & Artists Queens Writers Salon...
December 01, 2023
by Karen Daly
New York Irish Center presents immersive Christmas event
The New York Irish Center presents its annual holiday concert, “New York Croons for Christmas,” on Friday, Dec. 8 at 7pm. The event -- a fundraiser...
November 30, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Fruitcake is for Lovers! Part 1
Love it or hate it, fruitcake is one of Christmastime’s most iconic foods. I make no apologies for being one who loves it, and over the years I’ve ...
November 29, 2023
by Margaret M. Johnson
McGuire's latest links East, West
Is there anything Manus McGuire does that isn’t interesting? From bands like Buttons and Bows, Moving Cloud, Brock McGuire Band and Full Tilt, to s...
November 28, 2023
by Daniel Neely
'Enlarging idea of Irishness'
[The original version of this article was published in the print edition of the Irish Echo on Wednesday, Nov. 22. It has been slightly amended sinc...
November 26, 2023
by Peter McDermott
Wider release for 'Job of Songs'
Two years ago, almost to the day, I wrote about a trailer for a documentary film that was in screenings called “The Job of Songs.” Unfortunately, I...
November 22, 2023
by Daniel Neely
A national trauma chronicled
“Jacqueline Kennedy and Nellie Connally stood a few feet apart, awaiting news of their gravely wounded husbands. Both knew the President’s wounds h...
November 21, 2023
by Peter McDermott