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Elvis Presley performing with Scotty Moore and Bill Black in 1956.

“That’s All Right”

On the 70th anniversary of Elvis’ “That’s All Right” recording, Noel Shine looks back with nostalgia on the song that changed the world. The seventieth anniversary of the recording of Elvis’ first record,…

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Annie Moore’s Long Lost Irish Cousins

Megan Smolenyak writes about a decade-long search that finally turned up the Irish cousins of Annie Moore of Ellis Island fame. Thanks to improved access to a variety of resources, Irish genealogy is…

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IRISH AMERICA ARCHIVES

Jim Dwyer: The Journalist

In the aftermath of our national tragedy came the need for understanding. The need to…

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Emory To Extend Irish Collection

Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Library has received a $34,000 grant from the…

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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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