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The Old Sod Blooms
at Philly Flower Show
It wasn’t merely the classic ‘bit of the auld sod’ when
the Legends of Ireland commanded center stage at the Philadelphia Flower
Show in early March. more...
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(Irish America Magazine)
June/July 2007
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Irish Eye on Hollywood
The Tribeca Film Festival opened in late April, and Cillian Murphy’s
latest effort was among the ˝lms featured. more...
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(Irish America Magazine)
June/July 2007
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De Valera’s “Tree of Liberty” at Notre Dame
Captured in May 1918 and imprisoned in Lincoln Prison, England, Eamon de
Valera, Ireland’s future president, escaped in dramatic fashion on February
3, 1919. more...
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(Irish America Magazine)
June/July 2007
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While Memory Brings Us Back Again
Memory is the bond that ties us to home, even when we are far away. And
now a stirring book produced by The Aisling Irish Community Center in
Yonkers explores the connections Irish immigrants to New York have with
their native land.. more...
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(Irish America Magazine)
June/July 2007
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Stars of the Southwest
With an estimated 450,000 Irish and counting living in Arizona, it’s
suitable that the Irish Cultural Center of Phoenix’s expansion plans
were celebrated with an exhibit of one of the largest and finest private
Irish art collections in the world. more...
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(Irish America Magazine)
June/July 2007
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Irish Writers Remembered
John McGahern, who once said that writing fiction is “linked to
the realization that we’re not going to live forever and the way
of saying and the language become more important than the story,”
was remembered at NYU’s Glucksman Ireland House in New York on March
29. . more...
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(Irish America Magazine)
June/July 2007
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The Prosecutor Goes to
Dublin
Fresh from securing a conviction of Vice President Dick Cheney’s
chief of staff Scooter Libby, Chicago federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald
appeared in Dublin the day before St. Patrick’s Day to talk about
international prosecution of crime.. more...
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(Irish America Magazine)
June/July 2007
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Quote Unquote
Why don’t we get married, ah go on and marry me, ah come on for f****sake
marry me. more...
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(Irish America Magazine)
June/July 2007
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Four Centuries of the Irish in N.J.
A special exhibition, which opened on March 11 and ran through May 11, at
the Newark Public Library, highlighted the rich history, civic roles and
cultural contributions made by Irish men and women to the City of Newark and
the state of New Jersey from colonial times to the present. more...
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(Irish America Magazine)
June/July 2007
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Duddy on the Move
IBA Middleweight champion John Duddy stretched his unbeaten run to 19-0
when he defeated Anthony “The Bullet” Bonsante by technical
decision after nine rounds in Madison Square Garden on March 16. more... |
(Irish America Magazine)
June/July 2007
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Irish Studies Group Meets in NYC
The 45th Annual Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies brought
scholars from around the country and across the sea to the CUNY Graduate
Center in New York City. more...
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(Irish America Magazine)
June/July 2007
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Taking Care of Business
A smiling, confident Richard M. Daley took the stage at Chicago’s
Hilton & Towers on election night, holding hands high with his cancer-surviving
wife, Maggie, and ready to eclipse his father as the city’s longest-serving
mayor. more...
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(Irish America Magazine)
June/July 2007
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