Culture
On Heaney’s home ground
Brian McCormick, left, and Chris Heaney during a trip this year to New York. PHOTO BY PETER MCDERMOTT By Peter McDermott Twenty-one people work at ...
September 25, 2019
by Peter McDermott
Culture
Chutney Time: Let the Chopping Begin
PHOTO BY KERRYGOLD IRELAND HOPPING | By Margaret M. Johnson By definition, chutney is relish-like sauce made with fruit, sugar, spices, and vinegar...
September 24, 2019
by Margaret M. Johnson
Culture
Kin to honor poet McCrossan
New Yorker Patrick McCrosson, center, pictured with his cousin Reba McDaid Longhorn and her husband Victor Longhorn, who live in Woburn Sands in En...
September 23, 2019
by Peter McDermott
Culture
New insights into Hession’s genius
By Daniel Neely Folks who have been engaged with Irish traditional music over the last four decades or so will be well acquainted with the name Car...
September 20, 2019
by Daniel Neely
Culture
Sexton returns for premiere
Aidan Gillen and Laoisa Sexton in "“I Didn't... I Wasn't... I Amn't." Laoisa Sexton, who was for some years based in New York, is returning from Ir...
September 19, 2019
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Yeats themed exhibit for NY consulate
The Yeats poem “Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen” has inspired an eponymous art exhibit a hundred years later. By Irish Echo Staff An art exhibit that...
September 17, 2019
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Embracing Galway in the heart of Chicago
Aisling Ni Fhlaithearta By Mike Houlihan Ireland is a preview of heaven. There is no more beautiful place in the world than Eire. And Galway is Ire...
September 16, 2019
by Mike Houlihan
Culture
Duos with terrific chemistry, rapport
Alex Boatright and Shannon Dunne. By Daniel Neely Have you been paying attention to We Banjo 3’s fiddle player Fergal Scahill’s tune-a-day project ...
September 13, 2019
by Daniel Neely
Culture
Irish Center reading
Aoife Williamson Galway author and City College Downtown educator, Seamus Scanlon, will host an evening of theater, film, reading, discussion - and...
September 12, 2019
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Readying for 11th annual Hudson Valley Irish Fest
The Hudson Valley Irish Fest will take place on Saturday, September 28 By Irish Echo Staff The Hudson Valley Irish Fest returns to Peekskill’s Rive...
September 11, 2019
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
Immigration policy discussion at Great Hunger Museum
Caption with Jennings jpg: Kevin Jennings, president of the Tenement Museum in New York City. Photo courtesy of the Tenement Museum. By Irish Echo ...
September 10, 2019
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
The great All-Ireland Saturday replay
Croke Park will be packed again this Saturday evening It’s back to Croke Park for the All Ireland football final replay. The replay is set for an u...
September 09, 2019
by Irish Echo Staff