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2010

Help from Afar

By Dr. Christine Kinealy, Contributor
June / July 2010

March 24, 2023 by Leave a Comment

The Irish Famine was the first national disaster to attract international fundraising activities. These activities cut across traditional divides of religion, nationality, class and gender. Such a response was unprecedented. The earliest fund-raising activities took place at the end of 1845. The first place to send money to Ireland was Calcutta in India. The fundraising was … [Read more...] about Help from Afar

The Spoilers of Our Land

By Dr. Christine Kinealy, Contributor
June / July 2010

March 10, 2023 by Leave a Comment

How the British Government Responded to the Great Hunger In January 1847, the Nation published a poem entitled ‘The Stricken Land.’ It was a searing indictment of the policies of the British Government in the wake of the second failure of the potato crop only a few months earlier.  It was written by a young woman, Jane Elgee, who was drawn from the Protestant … [Read more...] about The Spoilers of Our Land

Magnificent Munster

By Irish America Staff

March 9, 2021 by Leave a Comment

Munster is located in the southern part of Ireland and consists of six counties: Cork, Clare, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary, and Waterford. Its main centers of population include Cork City, the country’s third-largest city after Dublin and Belfast; Limerick, the nearest city to Shannon Airport; and Waterford, on the southeast coast. It boasts a wide range of scenery, including the … [Read more...] about Magnificent Munster

The Photo Historian of Ireland: Sean Sexton

By Marilyn Cole Lownes, Contributor
October / November 2010

October 1, 2010 by 3 Comments

Take an aerial view of a dreary road in Walthamstow, a soulless part of the East End of London, and you will easily spot which house Sean Sexton lives in. For there, nestled among the rows of uniform, somewhat neglected and overgrown urban back yards, you will see a garden poetically “planted” with artifacts and statues, paying homage to their owner’s passion for Greek and … [Read more...] about The Photo Historian of Ireland: Sean Sexton

The First Word: A Window From the Past

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
October / November 2010

October 1, 2010 by Leave a Comment

One of the more difficult tasks I’ve undertaken as your editor was making a selection from Sean Sexton’s vast collection of photographs to showcase in this issue. Of his 20,000 Irish photographs, dating from the mid-1800s to the 1930s, Sean picked 125 for me to choose from. Over many transatlantic phone conversations as we worked out the details, I came to appreciate both … [Read more...] about The First Word: A Window From the Past

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June 2, 1949

The Ireland Act, which recognized the special relationship of Irish citizens to the U.K., is passed by parliament on this day in 1949. When passed and officially enacted on April 18 of that same year, the Ireland Act ended Ireland’s status as a British dominion, therefore ending Ireland’s membership to the British Commonwealth. This also had an affect on Irish citizens, who would no longer be recognized as British subjects, but they would not be treated as simply “foreigners.” This act also declared that Northern Ireland would remain a part of the U.K., within the Commonwealth.

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