Community Features & Events

“Keepers of the Steps,” an Irish dance historical preservation, archive, and outreach program, has quickly grown to be a cornerstone program for th...

New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli will highlight the key role of labor in advancing the Irish peace process when he addresses the 14th annual...

Chicago Democratic politics is a blood sport. When a senior pol can feel the breath of opponents on his neck as they leak items to the gossip colum...

Bronte, Sydney --- As places go for resting through all eternity, this is one of the better located. The cemetery seems to tumble down towards the ...

Having combined their considerable culinary talents to create two of New Jersey's finest eateries, restaurant partners Francis Schott and Mark Pasc...

Somebody the other day remarked to me that she was “not rich but blessed.” Some of us indeed are blessed with Irish blood and some doubly so with t...

It’s aways sunny at Philadelphia’s 'Satharn na nGael', and this year’s Daltaí na Gaeilge Irish language day proved no different, with this passiona...

Cornelius Ryan passed away on November 23, 1974. So this year marks both the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy and the 50th annive...

How and where to sum up a life as varied and rich as that of Tony O’Reilly? I think of Walt Whitman’s “I am large. I contain multitudes .” As Taois...

“Comin’ in hot!” is a skydiving expression. I’ll bet they’ve been saying that about Jim Sweeney his whole life. He’s a former Chicago Firefighter, ...

Just seven days remain for nominations for the 14th annual Irish Echo Labor Awards in New York. Scheduled for the Edison Hotel on 6 September, the ...

Back in the spring of 2021 I was feeling nervous. Not about Covid, or at least not entirely. And it wasn’t nerves over the publishing of my book, “...