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Richard V. Spencer has been confirmed by the Senate as U.S. Navy Secretary By Ray O’Hanlon The campaign to have the name of Vietnam War hero and Ma...

By Ray O’Hanlon While there has been some confusion over the recent election of new members to the board of the New York St. Patrick’s Day Parade, ...

Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Conrad Tribble By Irish Echo Staff The Ancient Order of Hibernians has urged the U.S. State Department to expre...

James McCloughan in Vietnam By Ray O’Hanlon It’s been a while coming, but an Irish American hero of the Vietnam War will today be presented with th...

One of America’s most respected labor figures, John Samuelsen, International President of transit workers union TWU, has been named as recipient of...

Bernard J. McNamara. By Ray O’Hanlon It was awarded an ocean away, lost on the other side of a river, found and returned to a Bronx family that inc...

James Brokenshire By James Brokenshire Northern Ireland and the United States have a very special relationship. It’s almost 20 years since the Belf...

Congressman Richard Neal delivering the eulogy at today’s memorial gathering for Martin McGuinness on Capitol Hill By Anthony Neeson Sinn Féin Pres...

In the proposed form for the 2020 U.S. census “Irish” has its own box while a space below could be used to add in another origin such as Scottish, ...

The late Martin McGuinness By Irish Echo Staff Martin McGuinness was remembered at a Mass in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan back on April 24....

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson By Ray O’Hanlon Irish America’s tail is up over Brexit. Following the call by the Ancient Order of Hibernians for ...

St. Veronica’s Church on Christopher Street. PHOTOS BY PETER MCDERMOTT By Peter McDermott The parish newsletter of April 30 contained some shocking...