The idea has been floated before, but this time it has the backing of key members of Congress. Friends of Ireland Caucus Co-Chairs Congressman ...

James Greene on the Kevin Bell memorial bench. A 26.2 mile marathon would have impressed. But James Greene has tagged on extra miles to set a ...

Taoiseach Micheál Martin met with Senator Charles Schumer during his St. Patrick's Day visit to Washington, D.C.

Good fences make good neighbors,” wrote Robert Frost. What he didn’t say was that porous fences can lead to murder. In ...

As the twenty-first century opened, Irish was everywhere all at once—on television, the internet, stages, screens, and bestseller lists,” Marion ...

It has been nearly five years since Quinnipiac University closed Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum for unclear reasons. The art ...

Though Seán Ó Riada almost singlehandedly changed the course of Irish traditional music, few people today fully appreciate his massive legacy. The ...

In two previous outings at The Theater at Madison Square Garden -- both successful defenses of his WBC super welterweight Continental Americas ...

Taoiseach Micheál Martin presented President Donald Trump with the traditional Bowl of Shamrock in the White House on ...

Saint Patrick’s Day is an opportunity for tens of millions of people with Irish heritage in the United States and all around ...

Harry S. Truman was famously from Independence, Mo. He lived much of his life there, and it’s where the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & ...

The Echo's Saint Patrick's Day edition is out and the front page is our now traditional recreation of the issue from March, ...