Children's books launch at NYIC
The New York Irish Center launched its fall season with the Queens Irish Heritage Festival on last Saturday afternoon and continues tomorrow night,...
September 27, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Views from the war zones
John Lee had a question about culture shock for foreign correspondent Jane Ferguson. The podcaster and his colleague Martin Nutty were interviewing...
September 26, 2023
by Peter McDermott
Banjoists are headed to Baltimore
Banjo drivers! Book your flights and pack your things, because the second annual Irish Tenor Banjo Summit is coming up this Nov. 17-19 at the Creat...
September 24, 2023
by Daniel Neely
Sinéad O'Connor tribute on Oct. 2
“From the moment she burst onto the music scene in the mid ’80s, Sinéad O’Connor did things differently. In an Ireland ensnared by its past, Sinéad...
September 22, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
Annual Queens Irish Heritage Festival this Saturday afternoon
The New York Irish Center will present three continuous hours of music and dance set against Manhattan’s skyline at the annual Queens Irish Heritag...
September 21, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
The empire's march is halted
Three legions of the Roman military – the 17th, 18th and 19th – slowly made their way towards their winter encampment near Cologne on the Rhine in ...
September 19, 2023
by Peter McDermott
4th NYC production for 'Boann'
When you produce a staged reading or low-budget production of a play, the often-quixotic hope is that an industry person will attend and offer the ...
September 19, 2023
by John Kearns.
'Beo' is a spectacular album
Folks, if you love a hard-hitting pure-drop trad album the way I do, well, “Beo,” the new album from Pádraic Keane, Páraic Mac Donnchadha & Macdara...
September 17, 2023
by Daniel Neely
D'Arcy shows open in NYC
Maeve D’Arcy’s second solo show with Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, “Ogham,” opened last evening in conjunction with “The Mermaid in the Hospital,” a th...
September 15, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
'Silent Testimony' for New York
In May, I met a man at a Fleadh Ceol in Armagh whose life had been destroyed by the Northern Irish Troubles. Two of his children had been murdered ...
September 14, 2023
by Geoffrey Cobb
Big weekend for Irish dance
Sept. 15-17 is a “big weekend for Irish Dance in New York City and the perfect way to celebrate half-way to St. Patrick's Day.” So says Niall O’Lea...
September 13, 2023
by Irish Echo Staff
August salon portends busy fall
Irish American Writers & Artists' second summer salon at The Ellington saw another robust turnout and another great lineup of readers and presenter...
September 12, 2023
by Brendan Costello Jr.