Gibbons is Cleveland Mayo Society Person of the Year
The Cleveland Mayo Society has named Entrepreneur Michael E. Gibbons as its Person of the Year. A native Clevelander with roots in Counties Mayo an...
August 18, 2022
by J.C. Sullivan
Horse Show Week in Dublin
Pic of Day: The Dublin horse Show is taking place this week at the RDS in Dublin. Pictured is Jamie Smyth with "Rocky" from Belfast. Photo by Sasko...
August 17, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Tributes Paid to John Kelly, 78
Many tributes are being paid to journalist John Kelly, who died in Dublin Tuesday aged 78. To all these the Irish Echo would like to add its own. J...
August 17, 2022
by Ray O'Hanlon
News
AAIDN founder travels to Ireland to promote Black and Green common ground
Every Irish American is familiar with the searing images of a dispossessed people having to leave Ireland during the Great Hunger — an exodus that ...
August 16, 2022
by Joe McCann
News
Labor chief says Irish radicals trailblazed workers' rights battle in New York
James Connolly’s legacy is hard to quantify, given how large his presence remains in both Irish politics and in the trade union movement. Connolly ...
August 16, 2022
by Joe McCann
Battle Long Over
Pic of Day: Kinsale under a blue Cork sky and from Charles Fort at the mouth of its harbor. The scene of the Battle of Kinsale in 1601, the town kn...
August 16, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Eugene O'Neill Award for Kirwan
Larry Kirwan has covered many bases in his storied career. All those bases will be duly acknowledged this coming October when the Black 47 founder ...
August 16, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Roses On Irish Tour
Pic of Day: The International Rose of Tralee Tour visited Tipperary over the weekend so shining a spotlight on the beautiful county as part of thei...
August 15, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Stranger Things in County Mayo
Reports are doing the rounds in East Mayo of a Eucharistic Miracle that has taken place in St. Joseph’s Church in Aghamore. Many believe that the s...
August 15, 2022
by By Tom Caulfield
News
Campfire 2022 - A chance to reset the Irish American compass
Truth be told, I'm not much of a camper. And that's coming from a guy who once bivouacked on California's Channel Islands, complete with breathtaki...
August 15, 2022
by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
Embracing a dangerous new label
Mahatma Gandhi was a Hindu, and he was a nationalist. It would’ve been wrong, however, to describe him as a Hindu nationalist. Indeed, that was the...
August 12, 2022
by Peter McDermott
Gridiron Clash for Dublin
Pic of Day: Northwestern Wildcats will take on Nebraska Cornhuskers at Dublin’s Aviva Stadium on August 27 for the Aer Lingus College Football Clas...
August 12, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff