This Irish America
Both stepoff and kickoff
Members of the O'Malley School of Irish Dance were at the Kitchen 21 Restaurant in Coney Island for the Irish American Building Society Charities K...
June 15, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff
This Irish America
Frampton to fight July 29
Carl Frampton, his manager Barry McGuigan and Andres Gutierrez at the Europa Hotel in Belfast earlier today announcing a Frampton/Gutierrez WBC fea...
June 14, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff
This Irish America
That’s all folks!
Taoiseach Enda Kenny leaves Government Buildings in Dublin today to tender his resignation as head of government to President Michael D. Higgins. R...
June 13, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff
This Irish America
Work resumes at Duffy’s cut
Work has resumed at Duffy’s Cut, the site near Malvern, Pennsylvania where dozens of Irish railroad workers met a grim fate in the early 1830s. Pic...
June 12, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff
This Irish America
Meanwhile, in Dublin
As voters in Britain and Northern Ireland went to the polls to elect a new government, new Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar was contemplating governan...
June 09, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff
This Irish America
Irish-Russian movie to open
Irish Screen America’s Niall McKay, left, pictured with Johnny O’Reilly, the writer-director of the Russian-language feature film “Moscow Never Sle...
June 08, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff
This Irish America
Going through her steps
A competitor gives it her best step in the Irish dance competition at the 44th annual Rockland County Feis. Photo by Bob Reers.
June 07, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff
This Irish America
The ties that bind
Limerick Mayor Kiernan O'Hanlon was in Boston on an economic mission and met with former Mayor of Boston and U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican Ray Fly...
June 06, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff
This Irish America
Bernie and Jane drop by
Senator Bernie Sanders was in Dublin over the weekend to attend the Dalkey Book Festival, during which he was interviewed by Irish economist David ...
June 05, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff
This Irish America
UFT remembers McCourt
Ellen Frey McCourt, center, was guest of honor at the 6th Annual Frank McCourt Memorial Lecture, which was hosted by the United Federation of Teach...
June 02, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff
This Irish America
Walking in memory of Ireland’s Great Hunger
The Great Hunger is being marked this week by a group of academics, dressed in period costume and following in the footsteps of one thousand four h...
June 01, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff
This Irish America
Don’t try this at the gas station
Crew members on the USS Michael Murphy carrying out in-flight refueling of an H60 helicopter. U.S. Navy photo.
May 31, 2017
by Irish Echo Staff