“You and me are neither here nor there, young fellah,” the auld lad said to me one night in The Archway. I wasn’t sure w...

There is so much good music coming out of Ireland today, it sometimes makes the head spin. Not so long ago Scotland was ruling the Celtic ...

  “Make America Great Again.” I’ve often wondered, to what era our president is referring?    The 1950’s springs to mind...

New York neighborhoods used to be measured by the quality of their saloons. One of the reasons Brooklyn’s Bay Ridge always hovered near the ...

Almost 18 years ago I wrote my first column for The Irish Echo. It concerned an official projection that in order to stay solvent Social Sec...

With its working class roots and boozy background, rock ‘n’ roll often teeters on the edge of chaos and violence.   Rock music, on the other...

We Irish tend to admire our writers. After all, it’s a lonely old job - long hours spent mooning into monitors, broken only by visits to the...