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Music Featured Artist: Shilelagh Law's second album is about to hit the streets! Unfortunately, they haven't sent us an advance copy. Until they do, you can read all about Half the Bottle Down, a record that very likely breaks many laws, natural and otherwise. Read more... TIS has arranged the rerelease of Four to the Bar's last album, Another Son. Web Site \| Mailing List \| Buy \| Wholesale Read more...	Books Rebels Without a Pause: Edmund Rutherfurd's The Rebels of Ireland is now in paperback. Covering 300 years of Irish history, it wears the "saga" moniker well. Read more... Bring the Kids: In true American folktale tradition, Mary Pope Osborne's New York's Bravest renders a loving portrait of a man who symbolizes all that we respect and admire in firefighters: courage, willing sacrifice, tireless service to others. Read more... Embracing the Inner Yank: In Irish America: Coming Into Clover, Maureen Dezell goes to work defining Irish America like a sculptor at a block of marble, awakening the beauty within by chipping away the parts that aren't part of it. Read more... Godfather of Ceol: Liam Clancy is an exceptional performer, an accomplished actor, and the most gifted folk singer on record. His new autobiography is a fascinating work that will delight fans and should be required reading for Irish performers. Read more... In Short: We were shocked—shocked!—to realize that we were not only learning, but learning new things, and furthermore absorbing rich, intelligent substance from Edward T. O'Donnell's new book, 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About Irish-American History. Read more...

Business From the Irish Echo: According to one of the country's top economists, Dermot O'Brien, the Irish economy will continue to boom for another decade. Read more...
Pub Life Check out the first installment in RePatExPat's Stumbling Tour of New York, demonstrating once and for all that only the strong imbibe. Read more...
Theatre From the Irish Echo: Eugene O'Neill's "The Personal Equation" is currently being produced at the Playwrights Theater's home at New York University's Provincetown Playhouse on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village, the most ambitious O'Neill undertaking in the Playwrights Theater's three-season history. The play demonstrates a good deal of what O'Neill was, both as a youthful idealist and as the towering figure he would one day become. Read more...
Gaeilge From the New York Times: Once perceived as the tongue of the poor and uneducated -- those from the "back of beyond" -- Gaelic is coming to represent the self-confidence born of recent economic and cultural success. Read more...
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