News
Diversity Visa, a grizzled survivor, under fire again
Charles Schumer when he was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives By Ray O’Hanlon If Johnny in Donegal and Mary in Cork wake up some mornin...
November 03, 2017
by Ray O'Hanlon
News
Golden Bridges conference for Boston on November 17
Massachusetts State Representative Dan Ryan, Connla McCann, Director Golden Bridges, and Sean Moynihan, Honorary Chair of Golden Bridges launch thi...
November 02, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff
News
David Crosby’s 26.2 life affirming miles
David Crosby with his wife Katie and their kids By Ray O’Hanlon David Crosby will be putting heart and two souls into his running of the New York C...
November 02, 2017
by Ray O'Hanlon
News
Condemnation and commendation follow fatal New York terror attack
Officer Ryan Nash. Facebook photo. By Ray O’Hanlon Other-worldly hatred was unleashed on the capital of the world Tuesday afternoon and people from...
November 01, 2017
by Ray O'Hanlon
Culture
Making sense of the Umbrella Man
Featured in many bizarre conspiracy theories in connection with JFK's assassination, Louis Steven Witt, aka the Umbrella Man, was in fact a peaceful right-wing protester against President Kennedy's foreign policy, which he and many in Dallas saw as "appeasing" communists. The umbrella was an allusion to Neville Chamberlain, who as British Prime Minister, pursued the policy of appeasement of Nazis in the late 1930s.
November 01, 2017
by Peter McDermott
News
From under hoods and into the woods
Paul Nixon’s wood carving of witch with Halloween very much in mind By Ray O’Hanlon If Leonardo da Vinci was up on his Halloween he would give Paul...
October 31, 2017
by Ray O'Hanlon
News
A hellish image as cemetery gates burn
Fire consumes the gates of Belfast’s Milltown Cemetery By Anthony Neeson Condemnation has been swift after the gates of Belfast’s main Catholic cem...
October 30, 2017
by Anthony Neeson
News
This much is certain: it was so ridiculously easy
Dealey Plaza By Ray O’Hanlon Standing on the Grassy Knoll it was not hard at all to imagine a second gunman. But that’s the story of the JFK assass...
October 27, 2017
by Ray O'Hanlon
News
New book tells the full Conlon story
The cover of the new biography of Gerry Conlon By Ray O’Hanlon Gerry Conlon’s life story has already been aired on the big screen. But movies skip ...
October 26, 2017
by Ray O'Hanlon
News
Meara giving Red Bulls a tinge of green
Ryan Meara By Max O’Neill The New York Red Bulls have an Irish ace up their collective sleeve. Goalkeeper Ryan Meara is indeed very connected to hi...
October 25, 2017
by Max O'Neill
News
Brexit will see North demand for Irish passports surge says Varadkar
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and President Emmanuel Macron at their joint press conference in Paris. By Evan Short Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said that m...
October 25, 2017
by Evan Short
News
Ibrahim Halawa finally arrives home to Ireland
Ibrahim Halawa wraps the Irish tricolor around himself at Dublin airport earlier today. RollingNews.ie photo. By Evan Short Ibrahim Halawa, who spe...
October 24, 2017
by Evan Short