Culture
Reflecting on season’s grief, longing
“Holly Head,” Kate Rusby’s latest Christmas album made with her mostly Irish-born band, including husband Damian O’Kane, represents a shift from th...
December 12, 2019
by Colleen Taylor
Culture
Media savvy scholar tours U.S.
Cuan Ó Seireadáin is co-editor of “Douglas Hyde: My American Journey.” Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott People tend to know the same few bas...
December 10, 2019
by Peter McDermott
Culture
Easy Holiday Starters
PHOTO BY KERRYGOLD Holiday Countdown, Part III | By Margaret M. Johnson There’s nothing easier, or more refreshing, for a holiday meal than a simpl...
December 09, 2019
by Margaret M. Johnson
Culture
'The Gospel of John' for Sheen Center
Ken Jennings. Ken Jennings will perform “The Gospel of John” at the Sheen Center for Thought & Culture, beginning officially on Dec. 8 at 3 p.m. an...
December 06, 2019
by Irish Echo Staff
Culture
That wonderful trad time of year
Cherish the Ladies. Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely Finally, it’s December, the month where Christmas music finally becomes appropriate! And wi...
December 05, 2019
by Daniel Neely
Culture
Faha was a place of escape
Niall Williams's latest novel “This is Happiness” is published in the U.S. this week. PHOTO BY JOHN KELLY Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott “...
December 04, 2019
by Peter McDermott
Culture
Food & drink on Salon menu
Maria Deasy and Jack DiMonte. Salon Diary / By Karen Daly The late November IAW&A Salon at the Cell co-hosted by Nancy Oda and Kathleen Walsh D’Arc...
December 03, 2019
by Karen Daly
Culture
Last call for Farrell’s Houlihan
Jimmy Houlihan, left, who has retired from bartending, pictured with Pat Fenton in 2016 beside a mural of Farrell’s Bar, Brooklyn. The mural by Mil...
December 02, 2019
by Pat Fenton
Culture
NYU, UL forge music alliance
Loretta Brennan Glucksman, second from left, and Mick Moloney, second from right, were among those posing for pictures at the memorandum of underst...
November 27, 2019
by Daniel Neely
Culture
From the panto to Hollywood
Sarah-Kate Fenelon. By Peter McDermott During the summer, the Irish Echo asked County Wicklow native Sarah-Kate Fenelon to write about her life in ...
November 26, 2019
by Peter McDermott
Culture
The air in Clare
When they relocated to the West Clare house her grandfather had been born in, Chris Williams and her novelist husband Niall Williams’s new friend M...
November 25, 2019
by Niall Williams
Culture
Ready, Set, Cook: Part II
Fruitcake with icing ANNAPUSTYNNIKOVA| | DREAMSTIME.COM Holiday Countdown | By Margaret M. Johnson No other culinary tradition seems to divide the ...
November 22, 2019
by Margaret M. Johnson