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Armagh: The Orchard County

From ancient kings to Bramley apples and modern-day resilience, this quiet corner of Northern Ireland offers rich rewards for travelers tracing roots and chasing meaning. County Armagh doesn’t scream for attention – and…

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London’s Irish Mozart: Sir Arthur Sullivan

If asked to name a writer of Irish background, many of us could rattle off a half-dozen names like we were reciting our date of birth. But if asked to name an Irish…

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Irish Eye on Hollywood: May / June 2019

BUCKLE UP FOR BUCKLEY We may look back on 2019 as the moment the entertainment…

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Solas Award for Menino

Boston’s Irish Immigration Center is awarding its ninth annual Solas Award to Mayor Thomas Menino…

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December 14, 1715

Thomas Dognan, the 2nd Earl of Limerick, member of the Irish Parliament and governor of the colony of New York, died on this day in 1715. Dognan was born to a Catholic family in County Kildare. Because of their religion, they fled to France. He served in an Irish regiment in France and achieved the rank of colonel in 1674. Due to the order that called all British subjects serving in France back to England, Dognan returned to London. He was given a high ranking commission by the Duke of York in Flanders. James, the Duke of York, had become Lord Proprietor of New York after the English had acquired the colony from the Dutch. He then appointed Dognan as the first provincial governor (1683-1688) of the colony.

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