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Hibernia | Honoring Our Heritage & Empowering The Next Generation

Irish American Partnership: Investing in Ireland’s Future For the Irish American Partnership, the future of Ireland is all about its youth. The belief that Ireland’s future is all about its youth was on…

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Photo Album: “Give Me a Wee Step”

In this photograph taken in 1925, my mother Kathleen (far left), her mother and father Sam and Ellen Bell, and 10 other siblings pose as they leave their home in Crossgar, County Down….

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The Cry of the Curlew

Irish Plant and Animal Life Endangered ℘℘℘ One third of the species of Irish plant…

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A Call to Remember

The Irish Memorial in Philadelphia is one of many Famine memorials springing up across the…

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June 6, 1880

William “W.T.” Cosgrave, the first President of the Executive Council or prime minister of the Irish Free State, was born on this day in 1880. After attending the first Sinn Fein convention in 1905, Cosgrave became politically active. He joined the Irish volunteers in 1913 and took part in the Easter Rising of 1916. He was arrested for his role and chose to serve a penal sentence in Wales. After being released under a general amnesty, Cosgrave was elected to serve in the Dail Eireann. He differed with Eamon de Valera in many respects. When the Irish Free State came into being on December 6, 1922, Cosgrave was elected the first prime minister and served for ten years.

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