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Pic of Day: New York bar and restaurant owner Tom McGrath and Mary Peters, the 1972 women's Olympic pentathlon gold medalist, pictured together at ...

Just over one hundred years ago, the fledgling Irish Free State sent Mr. Timothy Smiddy to Washington, D.C. Ambassador Smiddy was the new Irish sta...

Pic of Day: Participants in the annual New Year's swim in Castletownshend, County Cork enjoying relatively benign conditions, though colder weather...

Siobhan Dennehy, a tireless and outstanding frontline advocate for Irish immigrants in the United States, and a champion for quality of life for th...

The Irish Echo team wishes all our readers, advertisers and friends a peaceful and prosperous New Year. Many challenges — and opportunities — lie a...

Photo of the Day: Birmingham Six member Paddy Hill points angrily to the Old Bailey in London in March, 1991 after being released. Along with fello...

October 3, 2025 will be a significant anniversary in the story of immigration in America. That date will mark the 60th anniversary of the signing i...

Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday, December 29 and at the age of 100, was the first U.S. president to break with the orthodoxy of non-interference on t...

Pic of Day: People are on the move for Christmas. Pictured is the scene at Heuston Train Station in Dublin as passengers leave the Irish capital fo...

Dear Friends, A Chairde, as we prepare for the holiday season and the start of a New Year, I would like to take a moment to look back at the journe...

Bethann Rooney is at peace when she’s at sea. The director of the Port of New York, however, was forced to change course as a young woman, having i...

I went to see "The Agreement" at The Gate in Dublin recently, Owen McCafferty’s valiant attempt at dramatizing the historical sausage-making that b...