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"I really tried to think of every excuse I could not to do it because I thought he needed somebody else. I think I gave him a few names, actually,"...

By a wide margin, Noel Hill and Tony MacMahon's "I gNoc na Grai" ("In Knocknagree") finished as the top Irish traditional album of the decade. Ther...

If pure, unabashed silliness were in extremely short supply on New York stages, "Flanagan's Wake," arriving in the city after a lengthy run in Chic...

"I'm looking forward to going," President Obama told the Echo in casual remarks at a recent holiday party at the White House. U.S. embassy staff in...

But though Annie's descendants believed that there were actual photographs of Annie in existence, searches did not turn up any as the Annie story r...

McCann, whose literary star has been steadily rising in recent years, achieved a significant breakthrough in 2009 when the won the National Book Aw...

"America is simultaneously the most professedly Christian of the developed nations and the least Christian in its behavior," he wrote in the piece ...

But the third annual Ancient Order of Hibernians "Polar Plunge" in Sea Bright, New Jersey, will have a distinctly icy element to it given recent we...

Speaking publicly on Monday afternoon for the first time since a television station announced on St Stephen's Day that he had been diagnosed with p...

King had indicated that he would run but last September signaled that he was out of the 2010 race. Now, according to a report in the Capitol Hill d...

Having transferred its triumphant production of Eugene O'Neill's "The Emperor Jones" to the Soho Playhouse at 15 Vandam St., NYC for an extended ru...

It was launched this year and it will really help your Irish, even if you only spend 10 minutes a day on it. There are hundreds of Irish language w...