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All Roads Lead to Iona, Irish America's University, for Third Big Irish Campfire
For Irish American activists, all roads will lead to New Rochelle, NY on 19 August 2022. Their destination: the third annual Big Irish Campfire on ...
July 05, 2022
by Anthony Neeson
Happy and Sad on the Fourth of July
A Happy Fourth of July to all our readers and advertisers. Yes, happiness, but amid yet another shooting outrage. On this, our nation's birthday, w...
July 04, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
This Irish America
Michael J D'Arcy
Michael D’Arcy passed away peacefully on Wednesday June 22nd, at the age of 85, in his home in Carlsbad, California.
July 01, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Trophy On Tour
Pic of Day: Will Shane Lowry win back the Claret Jug at St. Andrew's later this month? The 2019 Open champion is engaged in the Irish Open this wee...
July 01, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Irish Brewery Opens in Greater Boston
BOSTON --- There are over 9,000 independent craft breweries in America, none of them Irish. Until now. Enter Carl Sharpley of Ballinamore, County L...
July 01, 2022
by By Jim Smith
Irish Pride On The March
Pic of Day: More than 120 friends and supporters joined the Irish Consulate float in New York City’s annual Pride march down 5th Avenue on Sunday J...
June 30, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
David Tubiolo Writes Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson will be getting a letter from the county just north of the city he was born in. Westchester County legislator David Tubiolo has penne...
June 30, 2022
by Ray O'Hanlon
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Chicago Calling: The Filipino piper leading the police band
Irish Elvis was born on The West Side of Chicago. Diane Short emigrated to America from New Castle, County Down, Ireland, working in a beauty shop ...
June 30, 2022
by Mike Houlihan
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Trasna Mheiriceá: The St Louis computer wizard revolutionizing Irish language learning
If we allowed ourselves to reminisce and think back on our school days, remembering how we rhymed off our 12 times tables and reeled off our agam, ...
June 30, 2022
by Aileen Gorman Leong
Raindrops Keep Falling...
Pic of Day: Taoiseach Taoiseach Micheál Martin is not delivering a rendition of the famous song but rather briefing reporters on his government's w...
June 29, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
An Irishman Comes Home: JFK in Ireland
After a three day visit to Ireland at the end of June 1963, President John F. Kennedy bid farewell to the people and the land of his ancestors. “Yo...
June 29, 2022
by Mark C. Reynolds
Treasure trove of letters
Pic of the Day: Flor MacCarthy and Erskine Childers at Monday evening’s reception at the Consulate of Ireland in New York to mark the U.S. publicat...
June 28, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff