West Cork Wonderful! Part Two, Dear Old Skibbereen
West Cork, the area stretching (west to east) from the Beara Peninsula to Kinsale, is filled to the brim with candy-colored villages, rugged landsc...
November 09, 2023
by Margaret M. Johnson
‘Translations’ veers off course
When we revert back to the romance of the past, it evokes an eventual disdain for ourselves; not merely for the falsifications and self-deception s...
November 08, 2023
by Kevin Phoenix
A fire festival takes on climate
There were plenty of curious glances on Sunday, Oct. 29, as a steady stream of men and women, carrying mysterious bags and boxes, filed past the ch...
November 07, 2023
by Deirdre Batson
Unscripted musical evenings from Burke's cottage in the West
A couple of big, exciting concerts coming up to let readers know about, one in New York and the other in Chicago. The first is Tony DeMarco’s “New ...
November 06, 2023
by Daniel Neely
Revival for 'Working: A Musical' plus latest plays at IAC, NYIC
It began as a collected series of interviews with regular Americans. Four years later, in 1978, it was a musical that was nominated for six Tony Aw...
November 03, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
No, it's not all connected
We’re all conspiracy theorists, or at least we are in our personal lives. So argues Aoife Gallagher in her book “Web of Lies: The Lure and Danger o...
November 02, 2023
by Peter McDermott
Gallagher: A spell-binding artist
In 1970, both Rory Gallagher and guitar great Jimmy Hendrix played the Isle of Wight Festival. At a post-festival press conference, a reporter aske...
November 01, 2023
by Geoffrey Cobb
Ward Archive makes conference callout for April presentations
Recently, the Ward Irish Music Archive, the largest repository of Irish music and dance in the United States, put out a call for papers for an exci...
October 31, 2023
by Daniel Neely
Origin hosts gala, Rep presents Allegri choir on Monday evening
It will be a busy arts night in New York City on Monday with artistic director Michael Mellamphy presenting Origin Theatre Company’s annual gala, w...
October 27, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
My working-class New York Irish ancestors shared a common goal
“A distance achieved, thanks to the mystery of time, must not change events, landscapes, human figures into a tangle of shadows growing paler and p...
October 26, 2023
by Charles Hale
Derry ghostlore brought to life
Derry’s ghostlore brought to life Brace yourself for a haunting journey into the supernatural as the spine-tingling “Parade of Phantoms Audiobook” ...
October 26, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Clancy, McGrath, Quinn combine their talents for 'Tell Her I Am'
I want to open this week by congratulating Donie Carroll for the successful concert he put on last Friday at the New York Irish Center that helped ...
October 23, 2023
by Daniel Neely