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Peter McDermott @pmcdnyc

Works at Irish Echo.

Joined April 2011
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Some dystopian news via @CNN Five Things: irishecho.com/2025/8/the-dys…
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Vermeer's Woman Writing a Letter With her Maid from @NGIreland is at @frickcollection until Aug. 31. @IrelandinNY @IrishEcho Free to people under 25. irishecho.com/2025/7/vermeer…

Vermeers spend time at the Frick

“I know how difficult it is. Everyone wants your Vermeer.” So said Axel Rüger, the director of the Frick Collection, when thanking the National Gal...

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Remember them on this July 4

On April 24, Robert Crimo III was sentenced to seven consecutive life terms along with 50 years in prison for each person injured. That was in Illi...

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The @UBuffalo boasts largest James Joyce collection in the world. It has advanced plans to build a UB James Joyce Museum on campus. irishecho.com/2025/5/buffalo… @IrelandEmbUSA @IrelandinNY @IrishEcho

Buffalo moving to the next level with Joyce treasure troves

The right person, in the right place, at the right time. That in essence explains how the University at Buffalo came to have the largest James Joyc...

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irishecho.com/2025/4/luke-an… Joe Mulligan S.J. has had an interesting career working non-violently for justice. Spent 1970-72 in federal prison for activities opposing the draft. Worked with Christian Base Communities in Managua since 1986. Latest book is about St. Luke's Gospel.

The Gospel of Luke and the call to do justice

"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 ...

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“The buck stops here” meets “All politics is local” — the rise of Harry S. Truman. irishecho.com/2025/3/the-buc…

The buck doesn't stop anymore

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 & Muse...

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100 years of the New Yorker irishecho.com/2025/2/irish-f…

Irish flourish at the New Yorker

Anne Enright made a shortlist of two. Back in the spring of 2016, the novelist was asked by the New Yorker’s fiction editor Deborah Treisman to sel...

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On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a look at the civil rights leader’s philosophy of non-violence in pursuit of change: irishecho.com/2025/1/king-s-… #mlkday2025

King's non-violence made radical demand for inclusion

Martin Luther King Jr. was transformed from a private citizen into a public figure one afternoon in early December 1955. He told his wife Coretta w...

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Some authors' (including @KevinHolohan ) responses to @IrishEcho Q & A in 2024. @FourCourtsPress
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Regulars at @nyirishcenter reveal their memories of Christmas past: irishecho.com/2024/12/christ… @IrishEcho

'Christmases were wonderful'

The Christmas of the past can seem better than the Christmas of the present. Why is that? One answer is: We had less, but what we did have was more...

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Karen Dunak’s bio of Jackie Kennedy is “media history at its finest.” irishecho.com/2024/12/breath… @nyupress @irishecho

'Breathtaking look' at Jackie

A December 1958 issue of Time magazine focused on six likely Democratic candidates for the U.S. presidency in 1960 and also the “Hopefuls’ Helpmate...

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Family dinner, culture war

[Top: “Above all! Let’s not talk about the Dreyfus Affair!” Bottom: “They talked about it…” Lorraine Beitler Collection of the Dreyfus Affair. Univ...

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irishecho.com/2024/11/irish-… @IrishEcho @IrelandinNY

'Irish racing is thriving'

Robbie Dolan showed that you can never count the Irish out when it comes to racing. The County Kildare-born jockey rode Knight’s Choice to the 2024...

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Last pitch to my friend 'Joe'

You are not a business person, but I believe you'd have done a better job of preserving and building upon a $500 million legacy, which is the estim...

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irishecho.com/2024/10/a-life… @BelfastHome @irishecho @TheHughLane

A life in paint

“I think of him now, as I did then, as driven by an insatiable desire for art-making, looking, studying, talking.” The words are from Wales-based t...

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Alice McDermott answered some questions from the Irish Echo ahead of receiving the Eugene O’Neill Lifetime Achievement Award from @IrishAmWA on this coming Monday evening. @IrelandinNY @IrishEcho @IrishRep irishecho.com/2024/10/award-…

Award Night

Novelist Alice McDermott will receive the 2024 Eugene O’Neill Lifetime Achievement Award at a New York ceremony next Monday evening, Oct. 21. The I...

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How the party of Lincoln became the party of the Dixiecrats @IrishEcho irishecho.com/2024/10/lincol…

Lincoln's coalition of the sane

Editorialists, teachers, clergymen and politicians from the post-Civil War era onwards loved their Abraham Lincoln quotes. A favorite was: “You can...

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1st ever individual winner of a Pulitzer for @newsday, Tom Darcy (1970, editorial cartooning), is focus of exhibition at Nunu Fine Art, on Broome irishecho.com/2024/7/father-… @newsday @irishecho @joanwalsh @DanBarryNYT

Father, son artists in dialogue

Upon stepping from the street into Nunu Fine Art, 381 Broome St., one can take a stroll back in time. One experiences the 1960s to the ’80s, specif...

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Interviews with an Islander from County Sligo form the core of Maura Gilligan’s “substantial” book: irishecho.com/2024/7/intervi… @IrelandinNY

Interviews with an Islander

The story of Maura Gilligan’s book “The Tide is Coming” begins with an interview with John McGowan of Coney Island, Co. Sligo, on a Thursday aftern...

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