Squash for Thanksgiving: Let Us Count the Ways
Chances are you’re in the home stretch of your Thanksgiving dinner shopping, and another good bet is that you’ve already grabbed one of more types ...
November 18, 2022
by Margaret M. Johnson
Resilient Ellen left a light trace
“I never thought it would be me crossing. I thought such a journey was bigger than me, that I’d never manage it or have reason to. I was all for st...
November 16, 2022
by Peter McDermott
Ross captured Washington, burned White House
Many Irish Americans recall that the County Kilkenny-born James Hoban was the architect of the White House, but few recall the name of Major Genera...
November 16, 2022
by Geoffrey Cobb
Kirwan honored at O'Neill night
Irish-American Writers & Artists presented the 2022 Eugene O’Neill Lifetime Achievement Award to Larry Kirwan in recognition of his exemplary contr...
November 16, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
IMI: local in plan, global in scope
First off, congrats to We Banjo 3’s Enda Scahill for being one of the 2022 winners of the Steve Martin Banjo Prize! Launched in 2010 by actor/comed...
November 14, 2022
by Daniel Neely
Events online, hybrid & in-person
The San Francisco-based author Ethel Rohan will interview first-time novelist Louise Kennedy as part of Bookshop West Portal’s Irish author intervi...
November 10, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Celebrating Mick Moloney on Samhain
The excitement of a restriction-free Halloween in New York City was palpable everywhere on Oct. 31, but you didn’t have to take part in the revived...
November 10, 2022
by Deirdre Batson
Should the doctor prescribe fact or fiction?
In 1962, President John F. Kennedy declared in a speech at Yale that “the greatest enemy of truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived, ...
November 09, 2022
by Kevin Phoenix
Down's Hunter changed U.S. education
Down’s Hunter changed U.S. education Today corporal punishment is not a part of most children’s education thanks in part to Irishman Thomas Hunter,...
November 08, 2022
by Geoffrey Cobb
Dunne's 'Tides' is outstanding album of new songs
Readers, I’ve had Niamh Dunne’s new solo album “Tides” in my media player this week, and if it’s something new-fangled and cool that you’re after a...
November 07, 2022
by Daniel Neely
Artist O'Leary counts the cost
County Wexford-born artist Helen O’Leary will give a talk entitled “COST,” on next Tuesday, Nov. 8 at 6:30 p.m. ET as part of New York Studio Schoo...
November 04, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Kansas City Star doesn't suffer fools gladly
“The next Jackson County executive will face a long list of complicated, important issues: construction of a new jail, an aging downtown courthouse...
November 02, 2022
by Peter McDermott