Culture
Armed with drumsticks and courage
Civil War-era drummer boys. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS By Patricia Mansfield Phelan Genealogists will tell you that one of the satisfactions of researchin...
June 17, 2020
by Patricia Mansfield Phelan
Culture
Reflections on Bloomsday 2020
James Joyce in Zurich, c. 1918. By Stephen Butler There will be no joy on Bloomsday this year. No “yes I said yes I will yes.” This year we won’t l...
June 16, 2020
by Stephen Butler
Culture
'Ulysses' revives Exodus for Irish story
Prof. Abby Bender. Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott Charles Stewart Parnell said in Committee Room 15 at Westminster as he was being toppled...
June 15, 2020
by Peter McDermott
Culture
Breakfast will Bloom online
Star of stage and screen Fionnula Flanagan pictured with Bloom’s Noel Donovan, left, and Origin founding director George Heslin at the 2019 edition...
June 12, 2020
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Celebrating James Joyce
Bread and Butter Pudding. Ireland Hopping | By Margaret M. Johnson Davy Byrnes, “Dublin’s literary pub,” is synonymous with James Joyce, a regular ...
June 11, 2020
by Margaret M. Johnson
Culture
Classic from Dublin’s 1st tram era
“Ulysses” via 22 CDs. By Peter McDermott This is our third week asking people in our arts community what they’ve been turning to culture-wise in th...
June 10, 2020
by Peter McDermott
Culture
Journey on America’s Main Street
The official Route 66 sign from 1926 until 1948. Screen Time / By Peter McDermott Using the Biblical three score and 10, you could say that 35 year...
June 09, 2020
by Peter McDermott
Culture
Blake dips into her Appalachian side
Aoife Blake. By Daniel Neely In the player this week is Aoife Blake’s new album “The Green Hills.” Originally from Galway but now living in Cork, B...
June 08, 2020
by Daniel Neely
Culture
I gCuimhne George Floyd
The NYIC Irish-language class before it went to Zoom. It has been focused on food and drink of late, but this week the theme dealt with the tragedy...
June 05, 2020
by Maura Mulligan
Culture
Catching up on Connolly’s Parker
Charlie Parker is the hero of John Connolly's "Every Dead Thing." By Peter McDermott Last week we asked some people in our artists and writers' com...
June 04, 2020
by Peter McDermott
Culture
Supreme Court’s ‘willful blindness’
Between the Lines / By Peter McDermott Louisville was among the cities that figured in the news Tuesday morning with turbulent events continuing th...
June 03, 2020
by Peter McDermott
Culture
Women's games for later in 2020
The Republic of Ireland’s Katie McCabe and manager Vera Pauw celebrate the win over Montenegro in Budya on March 11. INPHO/FILIP FILIPOVIC The Repu...
June 02, 2020
by Sean Creedon