On June 5, 2002, Maureen Murray of The Northern Ireland Women's Initiative (NIWI) hosted a luncheon at her home in New York City to launch a new fundraising campaign to announce the next phase of DemocraShe, a six-week comprehensive training program in politics, policy and media for women in Northern Ireland. NIWI successfully trained 102 women from eight political parties for … [Read more...] about Women in N.I. Politics
2002
The Irish Hunger Memorial
On Tuesday, July 16, New York Governor Pataki led a dedication ceremony for The Irish Hunger Memorial at Battery Park City. The memorial was designed by Brian Tolle, who visited the deserted Achill Island Village of Slievemore before submitting his plan, which includes a ruined cottage, deserted potato furrows, uncultivated land and a high wall of alternating layers of stone … [Read more...] about The Irish Hunger Memorial
AIF’s New York Gala Dinner
The American Ireland fund held their annual New York Dinner on May 2, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, raising a record $3million. The gala event attracted 1,500, among whom were special guests Irish tenor Ronan Tynan, New York Met great Rusty Staub, the founder of The New York Police and Fire Widows and Children's Benefit fund, and The Chieftains, who received the AIF's … [Read more...] about AIF’s New York Gala Dinner
Ali’s Irish Roots
While Muhammad Ali's biographer, Thomas Hauser, established some years ago that Ali's great-grandfather was Abe Grady from County Clare, the Heritage Centre in Corofin, County Clare, has now established that Grady was an Ennis man. Born in the 1840s, Grady settled in Kentucky and married an African-American woman. Their son also married an African-American woman and the … [Read more...] about Ali’s Irish Roots
Hitching in Ireland with Mom
In this land of fiercely independent people, who value their poets as highly as their warriors, our strategy was to be road warriors by day and elegant country houseguests in the evening... In 1922, my grandfather, James O'Sullivan, a captain in the fight for Ireland's independence, emigrated from Ireland to the United States via Canada -- one year after the partition of … [Read more...] about Hitching in Ireland with Mom