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Quote Unquote

“Everything I’ve ever tried to say on screen comes from that small island and its people. To be honored by The Irish Post – a paper that has followed the Irish story in Britain for…

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Learning Lessons of the Tourism Trade

Derry native Eimear Doherty experienced her first U.S. Thanksgiving this past November, complete with the big parade on TV, board games with friends, and a traditional meal with all the trimmings. “I got…

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Sean Cummins: Firefighter

Dublin man Sean Cummins narrowly escaped death on September 11 as he had swapped shifts…

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Christine Kinealy and Caroilin Callery on the walk from Roscommon to Dublin in memory of the exiles of 1847.
In the Shoes of Refugees

Walking in the footsteps of 1,490 Irish exiled in 1847. In 2017, and again in…

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July 26, 1856

George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin on this day in 1856. Shaw, Ireland’s famous playwright and most well known for his works like “Pygmalion,” is amongst the four Irishmen who have received the Nobel Peace Prize for literature. In 1925, he was awarded the prize, just two years after William Butler Yeats won the award. Shaw was also well known for being a Socialist, writing essays such as “How to Settle the Irish Question” (1917).

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