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Putting feel-good into Cork blues
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Putting feel-good into Cork blues
One Horse Pony. By Colleen Taylor This week, I was looking for some fun, whimsical music, and I found it in the Cork blues band One Horse Pony. As ...
Ballymurphy Families quit meeting with Brokenshire
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Ballymurphy Families quit meeting with Brokenshire
Members of the Ballymurphy Families. John Teggart is third from left. By Irish Echo Staff Members of the Ballymurphy Families group have walked out...
U.S. not worth trip anymore: Irvine
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U.S. not worth trip anymore: Irvine
From left: Glen Hansard, Elvis Costello, Imelda May, Andy Irvine, Lisa Hannigan and John Sheehan at the Celebration of British and Irish Culture Co...
Brexit dominates Flanagan NY program
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Brexit dominates Flanagan NY program
Pictured prior to departing for New York is Minister Flanagan with Irish UN Youth Delegates Samantha O'Brien O'Reilly from Meath, and Colm O’Rourke...
Irish have the last word at Antietam
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Irish have the last word at Antietam
Then Irish Ambassador to the United States, Sean O’Huiginn, is pictured here in 1997 at the unveiling of the monument to the Union Irish Brigade wh...
Ireland to review retiree policy
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Ireland to review retiree policy
Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality, Frances Fitzgerald. By Ray O’Hanlon The loud knocking on Ireland’s door would appear to be having s...
One woman’s fight to honor Canada’s Famine Irish
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One woman’s fight to honor Canada’s Famine Irish
Elaine Gannon, now known as Catholine Butler, at the base of the Celtic Cross at Martindale Pioneer Cemetery. By Maura De Freitas Along the banks o...
California gets its first Famine memorial
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California gets its first Famine memorial
Attending the unveiling of the new memorial were members of the Irish Cultural Society of Stanislaus County, Irish American Unity Conference, Campa...
Inquiry call after Project Eagle TV probe
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Inquiry call after Project Eagle TV probe
NAMA headquarters in Dublin By Evan Short Calls are growing for a cross-border inquiry into the sale of NAMA’s Northern Ireland portfolio which has...
Names in the order of life and love
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Names in the order of life and love
Some of the names surrounding one of the reflecting pools at the 9/11 Memorial. By Ray O’Hanlon At first it was frustrating. I couldn’t find the na...
Pieta House breaking the silence over suicide
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Pieta House breaking the silence over suicide
The Pieta House U.S. operation is based in the New York Irish Center in Queens By Joan Freeman I want you to imagine a jumbo jet filled with men, w...
So what’s the beef with Irish jerky?
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So what’s the beef with Irish jerky?
Colm Connolly home on the farm with the “Rucksnacks.” By Evan Short Just how good is Irish beef? Well, if you really want to know ask the German go...

 

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