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Ireland: A Quilt of Many Patches and Colors

By Kelly Candaele
IA Newsletter August 26, 2023

August 25, 2023 by Leave a Comment

Kelly Candaele and Declan Kiberd in Dublin in April 2023.

It is somehow fitting that the Good Friday Peace Agreement of 1998 has become inseparable from Irish poetry. If, for a moment, “hope and history rhymed” or those involved in resolving the conflict “walked on air against their better judgment,” politicians and other speechifiers have poet Seamus Heaney to thank for their grab-bag of metaphorical phrases. In an earlier era of … [Read more...] about Ireland: A Quilt of Many Patches and Colors

Ireland’s Newest Museum

August 3, 2023 by Leave a Comment

Ireland's newest museum showcases one of life's oldest rituals. The Irish wake dates back to ancient Celtic tradition and over time has become folklore. Now, in Waterford, the oldest urban domestic building in Ireland home to the island’s newest museum which traces the customs, traditions, and superstitions associated with death from the earliest times to the twentieth … [Read more...] about Ireland’s Newest Museum

Aer Lingus has a New Home at JFK

IA Newsletter, April 29, 2023

April 25, 2023 by 1 Comment

JFK Terminal 7 will be the new home to Aer Lingus On Thursday, April 27, 2023, Aer Lingus will be making the move to Terminal 7 at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. To make your journey easier, the Aer Lingus Lounge is also relocating to Terminal 7. Just five minutes from the boarding gates, Business Class customers and Aer Club card holders can relax here before their … [Read more...] about Aer Lingus has a New Home at JFK

The MacBride Principles

October 7, 2022 by Leave a Comment

by Niall O'Dowd from Irish America's Premiere Issue in 1985 Editor's Introduction: The MacBride Principles aimed to secure the elimination of religious or anti-Catholic discrimination in the hiring process or employment practices of U.S. corporations with subsidiaries in Northern Ireland. The Principles would forbid the subsidiary companies from exporting their respective … [Read more...] about The MacBride Principles

African American Irish Diaspora Network Celebrates Inaugural Diaspora Leadership Awards at NYC Gala  

October 6, 2022 by Leave a Comment

A milestone event took place on Thursday evening September 29, 2022, in New York City when the African American Irish Diaspora, an organization whose mission is to foster relations between African Americans and Ireland based on shared heritage and culture, held its Inaugural Diaspora Leadership Awards Gala. In addition to a stellar line-up of honorees, the event featured … [Read more...] about African American Irish Diaspora Network Celebrates Inaugural Diaspora Leadership Awards at NYC Gala  

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Albert Reynolds, Taoiseach from 1992 to 1994, was born on this day in Co. Roscommon in 1932. Reynolds became wealthy during the 1960s after opening up a series of dance halls and developing a series of business contacts. He became interested in politics in the 1970s during the Irish Arms Crisis. He was elected to the Dail Eireann under the Fianna Fail party in 1977. He acted as Minister for Post and Telegraphs, Minister for Transport, Minister for Industry and Energy, Minister for Industry and Commerce and Minister for Finance. Reynolds was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, however his short time as Taoiseach and leader of Fianna Fail was criticized.

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