Culture
Young people's author shifts to Jersey noir
[caption id="attachment_66534" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Eoin Colfer."][/caption] Eoin Colfer's entry into the world of crime fictio...
August 31, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
In sickness and in health
[caption id="attachment_66531" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Dean and Elaine celebrate New Year 2011. "][/caption] I left New York at th...
August 31, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Powerful work from a forgotten playwright
[caption id="attachment_66527" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Aidan Redmond and Rosie Benton in a scene from Temporal Powers, written by ...
August 31, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Daithi Sproule's found river of song
[caption id="attachment_66498" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Singer, guitarist, and composer Daithi Sproule."][/caption] My first exposu...
August 31, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
A great week in Ireland / Seachtain iontach in Éirinn
As always, it's great being in Ireland. Obviously the weather is brutal but that never gets to me -- it's to be expected! I am able to get lot of P...
August 24, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Wholly entertaining
"Sister Act" • Produced by Whoopi Goldberg, Directed by Jerry Zaks • Music: Alan Menken, Lyrics: Glenn Slater • Broadway Theater, NYC • Open-ended ...
August 24, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
After the downsizing
Thomas E. Kennedy's latest work "Falling Sideways" is a rare commodity, commented the Washington Post's Jonathan Yardley recently, a "literary nove...
August 24, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Making book on Joe Burke and Mairtin O'Connor
The most hallowed and dog-eared collections of Irish traditional tunes are those compiled by Bantry-born, longtime Chicago resident Francis O'Neill...
August 24, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Ridiculous, absurd, but instantly recognizable
Dublin's reforming Archbishop Diarmuid Martin might approve of the novel "The Brothers' Lot," which is set in a Dublin school run by the Brothers o...
August 17, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Earley shines in breakout role
"Death Takes a Holiday" By Thomas Meehan/Peter Stone • Music & Lyrics: Maury Yeston • Directed by Doug Hughes • Roundabout Theatre Company, Laura P...
August 17, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Cherish the Ladies travel down 'country crossroads'
For several years in a row, Vince Gill, who personifies the best in country music as a singer, multi-instrumentalist, and composer, hosted the Coun...
August 17, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Vindication can be sweet
Author John Connolly is expected at NYU in September. Between the Lines / By Peter McDermott William Geary was a 29-year-old policeman when he was ...
August 10, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff