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Irish America

By Kelly Candaele, ContributorMarch / April 1996

Ulysses S. Grant The Irish Visit, 1879

By Kelly Candaele, Contributor
March / April 1996

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Ulysses S. Grant, in his visit to Ireland in 1879, covered much of the same territory as President Clinton did on his visit in 1995. Ulysses S. Grant was not actually president of the United States when he arrived in Dublin from London on January 3, 1879. His tenure as a two-term Republican president had ended in March of 1877. He was succeeded by Rutherford B. Hayes, … [Read more...] about Ulysses S. Grant The Irish Visit, 1879

October 15, 1995

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Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize for Literature on this day in 1995. Heaney became the fourth Irish writer to be honored with the Nobel Prize, following WB Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, and Samuel Beckett. The Nobel committee awarded Heaney for his "works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past." … [Read more...] about October 15, 1995

March 9, 1995

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U.S. President Bill Clinton approved a visa for Irish nationalist leader Gerry Adams to enter the United States on this day in 1995. Adams is the current president of Sinn Féin who, in the late 1980s, became an important figure in the Northern Ireland peace process. Several days after granting Adams' visa, President Clinton welcomed him as a guest to Congress's 1995 St. … [Read more...] about March 9, 1995

September 8, 1994

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A Roundabout Theater Company revival of Brian Friel's famous 1964 play "Philadelphia Here I Come!" opens at the Criterion Center in New York. The production starred Robert Sean Leonard as Gareth O'Donnell as well as a supporting cast of notable Irish character actors, including Milo O'Shea, Pauline Flanagan, Leo Leyden and Jarlath Conroy. "This 1964 work established the Irish … [Read more...] about September 8, 1994

May 19, 1994

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Jacqueline "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis, died in New York. She was born Jacqueline Bouvier in Southampton, New York (her mother's family were of Irish descent from Co. Cork) to a socially prominent family. She worked as a photographer before marrying John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1953. As First Lady, 1961-63, she oversaw the restoration of the White House and had it declared by … [Read more...] about May 19, 1994