Culture
Williams in a minor key
The Pretty Trap By Tennessee Williams • A Cause Celebre Production, Acorn Theatre, Theatre Row, NYC • Through August 21, 2011 If he were still aliv...
August 10, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
O'Brien and O Raghallaigh create a 'deadly buzz'
To bee or not to bee: that was the question facing native Dublin musicians Mick O'Brien and Caoimhin O Raghallaigh. How do they follow up the treme...
August 10, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
The write stuff
Celebrated NYPD detective and author, Ed Conlon, drew 104 years of family service in the Long Blue Line to a close two weeks ago with his retiremen...
August 04, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Daly shows mastery in 'Class'
Master Class by Terrence McNally • Starring Tyne Daly • Directed by Stephen Wadsworth • Manhattan Theatre Club, Samuel J. Friedman Theatre • Throug...
August 04, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Gleeson relishes cop role in 'The Guard'
Brendan Gleeson says the chance to play Irish Police Sergeant Gerry Boyle in the new dark comedy "The Guard" was simply too irresistible to pass up...
August 04, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Leo Moran, lead guitarist, The Saw Doctors
1. So give us a thumbnail sketch: where were you born and raised? Do you come from a musical family? I was born and reared in Boston, a place you a...
August 04, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Poet Terence Winch pours a potent 'fifth'
Poetry is a lie that tells the truth. No matter how autobiographical it may seem, no matter how enriched it is by actual people or incidents, verse...
August 03, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
War, in Hynes' sight
Irish theater director Garry Hynes says she has been looking forward to bringing her critically acclaimed production of Sean O'Casey's infrequently...
July 27, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
One man's view of the rise (and demise) of the Celtic Tiger
The Parting Glass By Dermot Bolger • With Ray Yeates • Directed by Mark O'Brien • at the Barrow Street Theatre • Through July 31, 2011 Boiled down ...
July 27, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Deferential Duff started worldwide movement
Frank Duff joined the civil service in Dublin in 1908, and his most interesting work in his early career there was on the land acts: "a revolution,...
July 27, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
O Grada and Donnelly dazzle in house concert
Every so often, I encounter a newspaper review so stupefyingly stupid that I wonder if the writer and his or her editor forgot their meds at the sa...
July 27, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Remembering my first job in New York
I remember when I arrived in New York for the first time. I had my J1 visa in my passport, $1000 in my pocket and my head was full of my American d...
July 21, 2011
by Irish Echo Staff