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The Alabama Irish: Flying the flag in the Deep South
As I left an evening reception at the Huntsville home of Michael and Lisa Bollinger, mainstays of the most active chapter of the Ancient Order of H...
February 02, 2022
by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir
A Cross For Brigid
Pic of Day: Pictured outside Temple Street Hospital in Dublin today and holding a St. Brigid's Cross is Clinical Nurse Manager Suzanne Kernan. Fron...
February 01, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Celebrating St. Brigid Worldwide
The Irish Department of Foreign Affairs initiative "To Be Irish" is marking today, February 1, St. Brigid’s Day (Lá Fhéile Bríde), with a program o...
January 31, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Mary Remembers
Photo of the Day: Mary O'Neill is pictured beside the Bloody Sunday memorial in Derry. Mary can be seen in the background of the famous photo of Bi...
January 31, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Russians Give, Eh, Water
The Russians are not known for giving up ground easily. But water? Well, they are apparently a little more fluid on that. The Russian government ha...
January 31, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
New York's Mayor Walker: Charming and Corrupt
Jimmy Walker epitomized Jazz Age New York. Charming and beloved, but also embodying all that was wrong with Tammany Hall politicians, Walker was fo...
January 31, 2022
by Geoffrey Cobb
Bloody Sunday Fiftieth Anniversary Marked
Bloody Sunday in Derry occurred fifty years ago today. The gunning down of civilian civil rights marchers was one of the most shocking in modern Ir...
January 30, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Irish Fishing Boats Versus....
Pic of Day: Pride of the Russian fleet: the guided missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov is dubbed a "carrier killer." Well, it might have to face off wi...
January 28, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Foreign Affairs Defends, Concedes
Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs has defended its record with regard to working on behalf of the undocumented Irish in the U.S. But it has c...
January 28, 2022
by Ray O'Hanlon
Fishing Meets Diplomacy
Pic of Day: Pictured (l-r) Brendan Byrne, CEO of the Irish Fish Processors and Exporters Association and Patrick Murphy, CEO Irish South and West F...
January 27, 2022
by Irish Echo Staff
Irish Fishermen Take on the Russians
The Russians are coming. So are the Irish fishermen. Scores of Irish fishing boats are planning to head for the area of the Atlantic where a Russia...
January 27, 2022
by Ray O'Hanlon
A phony Tenement controversy
As reported in last week’s issue, Kia Corthron will tonight discuss her new novel, “Moon and the Mars,” at the Irish Arts Center. The book is descr...
January 26, 2022
by Peter McDermott