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As is the case every four years, Irish Americans find themselves facing a difficult decision on election day, November 6. Once again, there are two...

America is at a crossroads, and this election will decide whether the American government will take control its budget, create the opportunities fo...

The Irish Echo office is located in Lower Manhattan and has been without power since Hurricane Sandy struck on Monday. We hope to have the office o...

"A grand affair." That's how Dan Murphy described the final commissioning of the U.S. Navy ship named after his hero son. The USS Michael Murphy is...

Galway fiddler Larry Reynolds, widely credited for keeping Irish traditional music vibrant in greater Boston over the past sixty years, died last W...

By Frieda Klotz Wearing jeans and a white aertex t-shirt with the FAI logo, Alisha Jordan looked a picture of health on a recent afternoon in the B...

By Ray O'Hanlon A fundraiser in support of the upcoming "Famine Tribunal" at Fordham Law School is set for this coming Saturday, September 29, at H...

By Ray O'Hanlon Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore and tourism minister Leo Varadkar are in New York this week to formally launch "The Gathering," the year-lon...

Addressing the annual Irish Labor 50 awards night Monday, LIUNA General President, Terry O'Sullivan, said the honorees "reflect and embody the grea...

By Irish Echo Staff The life of John Corridan, the Jesuit priest who campaigned for New York’s longshoremen in post-war New York, will be at rememb...

[caption id="attachment_73456" align="alignnone" width="600"] The Ireland-U.S. Council's recent Golf Day in Ireland was held at Dun Laoghaire Golf ...

Talk about 40 Shades of Grey! History's tints are legion and encompass every color in the spectrum. And yet we often speak of the past as though et...