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1 week 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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1 week ago | 
irishecho.com | Ray O'Hanlon |Jay Mwamba |Daniel Neely
Cliona Ward, an Irish woman who has been legally resident in the U.S. for 30 years but who was recently detained by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement, has been released.
The release followed a May 7 hearing in Tacoma, Washington where Ward, 54, was being held.
Last month she was detained by federal authorities at San Francisco International Airport after returning from Ireland where she had visited her father, who is in ill health.
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1 week ago | 
irishecho.com | Geoffrey Cobb |Jay Mwamba
A Robin's Work News May 02, 2025 by Irish Echo Staff Pic of Day: A new study shows an alarming and continuing decline of bird populations in the United States. This Irish (European) Robin is more concerned with seasonal duties though would certainly be concerned for those avian cousins across the Atlantic. RollingNews.ie photo.
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2 weeks ago | 
irishecho.com | Geoffrey Cobb |Jay Mwamba
Our New York Irish history can often lie hiding in plain sight, especially in Astoria, Queens. If you peer between the cracks of a chain link fence on 21st Street and 26th Avenue, there, you might notice a small, forlorn graveyard with a few ancient, weathered gravestones, many of which have sunk partially back into the ground while a few others have toppled over.
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2 weeks ago | 
irishecho.com | Larry Kirwan |Jay Mwamba
Donal Ward’s Bua Boxing Gym, the first Irish-owned gym in New York since the McLaughlin brothers’ Irish Ropes closed down in Far Rockaway 19 years ago, is celebrating a notable accomplishment almost a year and a half after its opening.
Dundalk native Timmy Egan’s recent Madison Square Garden victory over Yonali Sanchez in MSG Boxing’s Ring Masters 165-pound novice final produced Bua’s first amateur champion – and one trained by Ward himself.
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4 weeks ago | 
irishecho.com | Peter J. McDermott |Margaret Johnson |Jay Mwamba |Cal Dillon
As another year enters Spring, so does the return of the annual Craic Session. With a line-up of Irish talent ready to bring their voices to New York City, including Stefan Murphy and Saarloos, this year’s assembly will also see an appearance from Scottish-born singer Natalie Clark. As the Craic Session approaches, I talked with the West Coast-based Clark about her adjustments to California living.
“The difference in lifestyle is that you can be outside,” Clark said.
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4 weeks ago | 
irishecho.com | Peter J. McDermott |Margaret Johnson |Jay Mwamba
New York State Senator Sean Ryan says he has secured a $1 million capital grant to fund a renovation project at the Buffalo Irish Center.
Senator Ryan announced the funding at a special celebration that featured music from Buffalo’s Emerald Isle Band, a performance by students from the Rince na Tiarna Irish Dance School, and a poetry reading by Keelie Sheridan of the Irish Classical Theatre Company.
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4 weeks ago | 
irishecho.com | Margaret Johnson |Jay Mwamba |Peter J. McDermott
"Holy Week is always hot here, but the current temperatures of 100 Fahrenheit are more penance than we need, even during Lent!”
So the Rev. Joseph E. Mulligan has reported from Managua in recent days.
When I interviewed him in the Nicaraguan capital just before Easter 15 years ago, it was hot, although not anywhere close to 100 degrees.
As it happened, the freezing winters during his time as a federal prisoner at the facility at Sandstone, Minn., came back to him in the conversation.
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1 month ago | 
irishecho.com | P.J. Cunningham |Maureen Hossbacher |Jay Mwamba
Irish super middleweight prospect Tommy “The Governor” Hyde, seven of whose 10 professional fights have been in the U.S., takes his knockout power to Melbourne, Australia, this Saturday for an eight-rounder with Tanzania’s Anuary Mlawa. Presented by Sam LaBruna, the bout at The Melbourne Pavilion will be streamed live globally on http://streems.com.au/.
In Mlawa, the towering Hyde, who stands at 6-feet-4 inches, faces a southpaw [8-2, 4 KOs], who at 26 is one year older than him.
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1 month ago | 
irishecho.com | Máirtín Ó Muilleoir |Jay Mwamba
Dear Editor,
On behalf of HEAL Palestine, I want to express our deep gratitude to the Irish Echo and to the organizers of Keening for Gaza in New York on 26 February for your generous support during this terrible time of massacring and starving of the people of Gaza.
The connection between Ireland and Palestine runs deep, shaped by histories of colonial violence, resistance, and the resilience of a long-oppressed but proud people.
