Joy and Disappointment After Great Hunger Decision
"The Irish-American Community of Connecticut has saved Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum Collection." That was the first line in a posting on the websi...
March 04, 2022
by Ray O'Hanlon
At Home With Covid
Pic of Day: President Michael D. Higgins and Sabina Higgins, pictured here in a file photo, having displayed mild COVID-19 symptoms Friday morning ...
March 04, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
A 'golden opportunity' for love
Mike Farragher has been married happily for 29 years to his college sweetheart, and so he’s probably a good person to ask for advice about love. An...
March 04, 2022
by Peter McDermott
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DEIRDRE FEERICK: On the frontlines of labor fight for respect and dignity
Deirdre Feerick grew up on the Sunnyside/Long Island City border, “with a lot of people who were members of unions who fought really hard over the ...
March 04, 2022
by Peter Nolan
Great Hunger Museum Moving to Fairfield, CT
Ireland's Great Hunger Museum will be staying in Connecticut but will be moving from Hamden to Fairfield. The Echo reported Thursday that a decisio...
March 04, 2022
by Ray O'Hanlon
Hibernians Highlighting Heritage During March
The Ancient Order of Hibernians is running a series of videos and seminars in support of Irish American Heritage Month. Said a release from the Hib...
March 03, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Aer Lingus to Resume San Francisco Service
With Tourism Ireland leaders moving from this week to dramatically raise the profile of Ireland as a destination for North American visitors in 202...
March 03, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
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TRASNA MEIRICEÁ: Irish language is no problem for Houston students
In a city forever associated with the space program, the William J. Flynn Center for Irish Studies at the University of St Thomas in Houston, TX, c...
March 03, 2022
by Aileen Gorman-Leong in Philadelphia
Great Hunger Museum Decision Believed Imminent
A decision on the future of the Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut could come come with the next few days, or indeed as ea...
March 03, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Nealo makes 'pretty seamless transition'
Nealo has never been afraid to make the big leap. There’ve been two in recent times, one of which brings him to the New York stage on March 12. The...
March 03, 2022
by Peter McDermott
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CHICAGO CALLING: His career at a dead end, Irish centre dynamo 'Geno' Cooney found a new life as a funeral director
“Ya can’t get to heaven, unless you go to Cooney’s!” So they said about Cooney Funeral Home in the old Chicago Irish neighborhood of St. Andrew’s p...
March 03, 2022
by Mike Houlihan
Solemn Moment at Emerald Celebration
Pic of Day: For the first time in two years, the Irish community of Rockland County, New York, was able to hold its traditional start to Irish Amer...
March 03, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff