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  • 2 weeks ago | irishecho.com | Mike Houlihan |Geoffrey Cobb |Anthony Neeson

    The recently-installed Lord Mayor of Belfast Tracy Kelly, was in the Big Apple this week to address the 16th annual New York-New Belfast conference. On hand to greet her for, what Lord Mayor Kelly said, was her second visit to New York was State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli who has made repeated investments in Northern Ireland start-ups in order to boost the peace process.

  • 2 weeks ago | irishecho.com | Sean Creedon |Conor McParland |Geoffrey Cobb

    Except for Dublin, no city has played a greater role in the development of Irish literature than the French capital Paris. It’s hard to believe how many great Irish writers spent major parts of their lives in Paris. The city’s special ambiance and intellectual freedom have captivated many of Ireland’s greatest writers, allowing them to find their voices, realize their literary talents and publish their works.  Many of the greatest works of Irish literature were written in the city.

  • 1 month ago | irishecho.com | Sean Creedon |Geoffrey Cobb |Mike Houlihan

    Tommy Finnegan is the son of a Chicago Firefighter and has been playing the pipes in The Shannon Rovers Pipe Band for 27 years. He sez, “I’m not musically inclined.”  He got the itch to join the band when he was a little kid, meeting the late Irish rebel and Rovers founder Tommy Ryan at a family party and told him he wanted to play the bass drum.

  • 1 month ago | irishecho.com | Sean Creedon |Geoffrey Cobb |Ray O'Hanlon

    Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost is the newly elected Pope. The College of Cardinals voted four times before white smoke appeared from the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel. The new pope has taken the name Leo XIV. A graduate of Villanova University, Prevost has been based in Rome for a number of years. His roots are on Chicago's South Side. “Peace be with all you,” were his first words to the crowd in a packed St. Peter's Square.

  • 1 month ago | irishecho.com | Ray O'Hanlon |Jay Mwamba |Daniel Neely |Geoffrey Cobb

    Ironically, the artist who best captured the subtle and ephemeral beauty of the West of Ireland was an outsider. Belfast-born Paul Henry painted canvases that are regarded as the best canvases ever painted of the region. No artist influenced Irish and international perceptions of rural traditional life and the landscape more than he did. Earlier artists had painted Irish landscapes, but these scenes looked like paintings in England or France.

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