Culture

Daniel T. Brown loves to hear the question “Are these true stories?” By Irish Echo Staff “There’s drama, comedy, and all of the colors in between.”...

Jack Talty and Maurice Gunning. Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely It used to be that you could go to a shop and buy music in person. You’d spend ...

Diane Charleton as Rosie Hackett. By Maura Mulligan In a welcome respite from pandemic fears and election hype, friends in Ireland and the UK accep...

Paul Edmund Strzelecki, unidentified photographer, silver gelatin negative copied from original daguerreotype, State Library of New South Wales. By...

A 1959 AEC Routemaster at the London Bus Museum. By Tom Phelan My accuser was sitting in the center seat at the rear of the upper floor of the bus....

Orla Brady. By Karen Butler Irish actress Orla Brady was up for a change after years of starring in serious dramas, so when “The South of Westerlie...

James and Moira Doherty, the founders of Sliabh Liag Distillers. By Peter McDermott “If it’s scary and exciting, you should do it, as far as I’m co...

Darina Allen. Ireland Hopping | By Margaret M. Johnson With only six weeks to go, Irish cooks have already started to think about the Christmas Cak...

Caroline B. Heafey. Page Turner / By Peter McDermott “The novel begins with the problem of what to do with a woman.” So writes Caroline B. Heafey i...

Ennis, Co. Clare-based Californian Amelia Baker performs under the name Cinder Well. PHOTO BY JIM GHEDI Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely Folks, ...

Photos by Margaret M. Johnson. Recipes | By Margaret M. Johnson PART II By Sunday, we'll have said good-bye to Halloween and the jack-o-lanterns th...

A construction worker and businessman attack a young man at the periphery of the Hard Hat Riot, on May 8, 1970. Neal Boenzi/The New York Times/Redu...