Back home after 10 years away
Nancy Harris’s play “The Beacon,” which premiered in Galway at the Druid Theatre in 2019, is now receiving its North American premiere at the Irish...
September 19, 2024
by Cal Dillon
10th Annual Movie Hooley promises to be best yet
Hibernian Media proudly announces film selections for their 10th Annual Irish American Movie Hooley, scheduled this year at the Wilmette Theatre in...
September 18, 2024
by Mike Houlihan
KC battles lax firearms laws
Tombstone’s City Marshal Virgil Earp got a tip-off on Oct. 26, 1881 – Ike Clanton and several members of the gang known as the Cowboys were plannin...
September 13, 2024
by Peter McDermott
Cape Breton: Canada with a Celtic Heart, Part 1
When you arrive at Stanfield Airport in Halifax, Nova Scotia, you’re greeted in three languages: Pjila’si, the language of the Mi’Kmaq, the largest...
September 11, 2024
by Margaret M. Johnson
Blarney Star begins this Friday
If it’s fall in New York City, it means that a new season of Don Meade’s Blarney Star concert series is about to get underway. Hosted by Meade and ...
September 09, 2024
by Daniel Neely
How to find your female ancestors
“Researching Irish female ancestors presents a unique set of challenges that can both intrigue and frustrate genealogists. But employing creative r...
September 06, 2024
by Irish Echo Staff
Fall arts season begins this week
With Labor Day behind us, the Irish arts scene in New York City and beyond is moving into top gear for the fall season. So, what’s happening? Well,...
September 05, 2024
by Cal Dillon
Cuba's Fr. Varela helped unwanted Irish immigrants in New York
In the 1820s and 1830s, no priest was more loved and revered by the Irish community than a Gaelic-speaking Cuban priest, the Rev. Félix Varela. Tho...
September 04, 2024
by Geoffrey Cobb
Sept. 23 concert to recall titans
Each year in September, an New York City-based organization called “The Village Trip” stages a multi-sited festival to “celebrate arts and activism...
September 03, 2024
by Daniel Neely
Community Features & Events
Minnesota Centre celebrates grant success, launches new members' drive
The Celtic Junction Arts Center (CJAC) announces developments that further its mission to celebrate, preserve, and promote Irish cultural arts in M...
September 01, 2024
by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
Immigrant tales, memoirs, vignettes on summer's evening
A pleasant high summer’s evening saw a great turnout for a mid-August salon at The Ellington in uptown Manhattan. Tonight’s host was Katharine McNa...
August 29, 2024
by Anthony C. Murphy
Culture
Kneecap garners over $1.4m at Irish-UK box office
KNEECAP has smashed through the $1million mark at Irish and UK box office, after opening in Britain at the weekend. The eponymous movie about the W...
August 29, 2024
by Anthony Neeson