For the second straight White House election, the Democratic and Republican candidates for vice president grew up in strong Irish American and Catholic families. Eyebrow-arching in itself, the fact that these four figures share a similar heritage helps illustrate what you might call the Irish political diaspora within the U.S. From the time of the Great Hunger through the early … [Read more...] about Continuity and Change: The Irish Role in American Politics
Weekly Comment: Irish-run Sepsis Awareness PSA Goes Viral
By Áine Mc Manamon, Advertising and Editorial Assistant
September 30, 2016
September 30, 2016
A new public service announcement campaign from the Rory Staunton Foundation for Sepsis Prevention, founded by one of Irish America’s 2016 Healthcare and Life Sciences 50 honorees, has gone viral. The new campaign called “Know the Signs of Sepsis,” is a series of videos featuring parents who have lost their children to sepsis. In each video, parents share their children’s final … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment: Irish-run Sepsis Awareness PSA Goes Viral
Weekly Comment: 9/11 Fifteen Years On
Back in July, on a hot afternoon at Kennedy International Airport in Queens, a truck carried a 40,000-pound piece of debris – draped in an American flag – out of a building known as Hangar 17. The building, for well over a decade, housed over 2,000 items collected from the rubble of the World Trade Center. But, as the New York Times noted, Hangar 17’s “storage room is now … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment: 9/11 Fifteen Years On
Citigroup’s Daniel Keegan Named Wall Street 50 Keynote
By Irish America Staff
September 2, 2016
September 2, 2016
Irish America is pleased to announce Citigroup’s co-head of Global Equities Daniel Keegan as keynote speaker at the 19th annual Irish America Wall Street 50 awards dinner on October 12th at the Metropolitan Club in Manhattan. Keegan, who was appointed co-head of the group in May, previously served for three years as head of Equities Americas at Citi and joined Citi in 2007 as … [Read more...] about Citigroup’s Daniel Keegan Named Wall Street 50 Keynote
Weekly Comment: House of Waterford Crystal Celebrates One-Millionth Visitor
By Áine Mc Manamon
August 23, 2016.
August 23, 2016.
August 19th marked a historic day for the House of Waterford Crystal as they welcomed their one-millionth visitor, Gladys Aycock from North Carolina, to their headquarters in Waterford city, Ireland. After booking a tour of the factory on her first trip to Ireland’s east coast, Gladys was greeted with a VIP reception upon her arrival at the House of Waterford Crystal. … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment: House of Waterford Crystal Celebrates One-Millionth Visitor