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By Irish Echo Staff In 1845, Frederick Douglass, then an escaped slave from Maryland living in Massachusetts, traveled to Ireland and Britain, in p...

By Sean Lehane An American man accused of murdering a County Wexford woman in Japan last year has said he had no reason to kill her. Nicola Furlong...

By Ray O'Hanlon Just when you thought it was safe to don your Aran knits. T-shirts and other clothing items depicting St. Patrick's Day as an excus...

By Irish Echo Staff The Eastchester Irish American Social Club is readying for the Westchester County community's 9th annual St. Patrick's Day Para...

By Irish Echo Staff John Deasy and Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore "enjoyed a frank exchange in the Dáil" last week on the issue of the undocumented Irish i...

Cardinals O'Malley and Dolan seen as papal contenders By Jim Smith BOSTON --- It might end up being Red Sox versus Yankees - in the conclave. The n...

Bayonne's mayor, Mark A. Smith, is planning to turn the New Jersey city green to mark St. Patrick's Day. Three weeks of celebration kick off this S...

By Sean Lehane The Food Safety Authority of Ireland has said it is confident in its meat testing after a supermarket chain appeared to cast doubt o...

Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Eamon Gilmore, has welcomed the announcement by President Obama that the United States will la...

Calls grow for Oscar to honor Maureen O'Hara By Ray O'Hanlon Oscars will be flying around the room at the Academy Awards this weekend, but unless t...

By Irish Echo Staff The leaders of three main Irish American organizations have renewed their offensive against the U.S. Justice Department subpoen...

By Sean Lehane Ireland's bank deal with the European Central Bank is an "historic step on the road to economic recovery," Taoiseach Enda Kenny has ...