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By Daniel Neely As you read this, the 2016 Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann is raging away in Ennis, Co. Clare. I hadn’t arrived at the time of writing, b...

Everton, the next generation. PHOTO: MARK TAYLOR Arsenal Scott Silver, Los Angeles native, Belfast resident Again, we don't have the depth to compe...

Pádraig Duggan shared Donegal with the world By Colleen Taylor This week, the Celtic music genre lost an important father figure. Pádraig Duggan, o...

Ireland's Gary and Paul O'Donovan celebrate with their silver medals. INPHO/MORGAN TREACY By Irish Echo Staff Call them the Irish Boys in the Boat....

PHOTO: MARGARET M. JOHNSON By Margaret M. Johnson If you love good food, you’ll want to visit Northern Ireland in 2016 for its “Year of Food and Dr...

What passes for “culture” for some in Belfast By Evan Short Nationalist leaders have said they were abandoned by the government and police in Belfa...

Aidan Beatty is the author of "Masculinity and Power in Irish Nationalism." Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott In a recent essay in the Irish ...

By Evan Short A film about IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands has broken Irish box office records after opening last weekend. “Bobby Sands: 66 Days” ha...

Part of the attraction: scenery like that of the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare. ROLLINGNEWS.IE By Ray O'Hanlon rohanlon@irishecho.com Many Americ...

Bishop Edward Daly. ROLLINGNEWS.IE By Anthony Neeson Tributes have poured in for Bishop Edward Daly who died earlier Monday at age 82. For many, Da...

Aoife Scott, left, and her cousins Danny O’Reilly and Róisín O performed together recently at Kilmainham Gaol. By Colleen Taylor The Black Family n...

By Patrice Brady Before relocating to America my relationship to U.S. politicians and parties was limited to my ability to name the last few presid...