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Time to dig deep for Ireland's green future

An Irish Heritage Tree is a living symbol planted in Ireland that celebrates your Irish roots and special family connections. I am inviting represe...

April 13, 2021 by Irish Echo Staff

Culture

Wine not whine is the best response to restaurant restrictions says Irish American pioneer of the Zoom Dinner

When the Covid hurricane struck in mid-March, most US restaurants pulled down the shutters and called it a day. That was never an option, though, f...

July 28, 2020 by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir

Virus Fightback: Irish American Campfire gathering builds support from across nation

When it was thought the solution to the coronavirus crisis would be a fairly straighforward 12-week lockdown, most Irish organisations across the U...

July 26, 2020 by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir

2019 40 Under 40 People's Choice Poll

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The People's Choice poll is now closed......... The Winner will be revealed at the 2019 40 Under 40 Awards dinn...

February 05, 2019 by Irish Echo Staff

Law & Order Questionnaire

November 14, 2014 by Irish Echo Staff

Rallying to Padraig in hour of need

By Peter McDermott J1 visa-holder Pádraig Schäler was knocked off of his bike on Cape Cod on June 27 last. He had almost reached his destination, t...

April 09, 2014 by Irish Echo Staff

Wider ambitions all but done by Dec. 13

Between the Lines / By Peter McDermott Ron Ziegler, the White House press secretary under Richard Nixon, famously referred to the Watergate break-i...

January 14, 2014 by Irish Echo Staff

Suicide prevention is 'everyone's business'

Published in the Dec. 25, 2013-Jan. 7, 2014 issue Dr. Michael Murphy was pleased with a patient he’d seen earlier in the day. “He was the picture o...

January 02, 2014 by Irish Echo Staff

It's important to say 'probably'

Between the Lines / By Peter McDermott The New Orleans Connection/Part 1 NEW ORLEANS -- Last year I was invited to attend the annual gathering of t...

December 13, 2013 by Irish Echo Staff

10 things about Maeve Brennan, two of them suggestions [see 5, 7]

By Frances Scanlon 1. Maeve Brennan read her horoscope faithfully and daily; she was a Capricorn born on Jan. 6, 1917. 2. Maeve Brennan had a big h...

October 31, 2013 by Irish Echo Staff

Why some media outlets put victim on trial

Between the Lines / By Peter McDermott The bodies pile up in “The Wire” as quickly as they do in “The Tudors.” The setting, though, is 21st century...

August 01, 2013 by Irish Echo Staff

Recent Irish productions have ear for God

Theatre / By Orla O’Sullivan Is it some sign of the times that of the small universe of Irish plays in April and May three concerned characters get...

June 19, 2013 by Irish Echo Staff

Belfast’s ‘wee yard’ made ships, men

Theatre / By Orla O'Sullivan “The Boat Factory” * By Dan Gordon * Starring Dan Gordon and Michael Condron * Directed by Philip Crawford * at 59E59 ...

June 19, 2013 by Irish Echo Staff

Bar patrons fail to put cork on feelings

Theater / By Orla O’Sullivan “The Weir” * By Conor McPherson * Starring Dan Butler, Billy Carter, Sean Gormley, John Keating and Tessa Klein * Dire...

June 19, 2013 by Irish Echo Staff

After sad passing, looking to life of happiness

Irish Language / By Elaine Ní Bhraonáin This is the first time I have written in almost a year. The reason being that I needed to focus on getting ...

June 19, 2013 by Irish Echo Staff

End of print? Not so fast, say seniors

By Peter McDermott Bridget Cagney’s mother read to her every night when she was a small child. “Then when I learnt to read books and newspapers, an...

May 28, 2013 by Irish Echo Staff