Taoiseach Expresses Ireland's Outrage Over Russian Invasion
Russia's attack on Ukraine "is an outrageous and moral breach of the most fundamental principles of international law," Taoiseach Micheál Martin ha...
February 24, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
A remarkable artist and activist
In Mount Jerome cemetery, not far from Dublin’s Grand Canal at Harold’s Cross, the epitaph on one gravestone reads: “Artist and Friend of the Poor....
February 23, 2022
by Peter McDermott
Martin Remembers Victims of the Holocaust
Pic of Day: For many, the events swirling around Russia and Ukraine bring back stark memories of World War II. Taoiseach Micheál Martin may well ha...
February 23, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Fire Sale And High Tail
One important aspect linking the situation swirling around both the American Irish Historical Society and the Great Hunger Museum is that the respe...
February 23, 2022
by Ray O'Hanlon
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Speaking Irish at the highest Level
Members of the Pop-Up Gaeltacht, Colorado could lay claim to speaking Irish at the highest levels in the United States. Denver’s mile-high city is ...
February 23, 2022
by By Aileen Gorman Leong
Welcoming the New U.S. Ambassador
Pic of Day: Taoiseach Micheál Martin recently welcomed the new U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, Claire Cronin, and her family to Government Buildings in...
February 22, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
A Triple Whammy of Storms
18,000 homes and businesses in the Republic of Ireland and 10,000 in Northern Ireland were without power Monday after the third storm to hit the is...
February 22, 2022
by Anthony Neeson
Boston's Ed Flynn is a Man on a Mission
BOSTON --- Walking around South Boston can be dangerous these days, and residents are fed up with reckless drivers who have little regard for cross...
February 21, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
White Plains Parade Returns
After a two year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic the White Plains, New York St. Patrick's Day Parade is set to return on Saturday, March 12 wit...
February 21, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Storm Eunice Batters Ireland
Pic of Day: Steer clear! A car takes evasive actions as waves top the harbor wall in Howth, County Dublin. much of Ireland has been battered by Sto...
February 18, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
The Building, The Collection, The Very Essence
There's more than bricks, mortar and artifacts involved in the debate and discussions surrounding the Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University ...
February 18, 2022
by Ray O'Hanlon
Diamond: man of many enthusiasms
The metropolitan New York Irish and Irish-American communities recently lost another great sports personality and aficionado. Pat Diamond, a Derry ...
February 18, 2022
by Frank Brady