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August September 2013 Issue

Irish Methodist Church Elects Its First Female Leader

By Adam Farley, Editorial Assistant
August / September 2013

August 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Reverend Dr. Heather Morris

Reverend Dr. Heather Morris was installed as the new president of the Methodist Church in Ireland this June, becoming the first female to hold not only that post, but the first female head of any of Ireland’s four main churches. Dr. Morris was elected to the position last summer, and the confirmation took place at the church’s national conference in Carrickfergus on June 12th. … [Read more...] about Irish Methodist Church Elects Its First Female Leader

“Rory’s Regulations” Will Fight Sepsis in New York Hospitals

By Kelly Fincham, Contributor
August / September 2013

August 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Orlaith, Rory, Kathleen and Ciaran Staunton. Photo: Sean McPhail

New York has become the first state in the U.S. to mandate a series of protocols to diagnose and treat sepsis before it turns fatal. The protocols have been named “Rory’s Regulations” for 12-year-old Irish American Rory Staunton who died from an undiagnosed case of sepsis on April 1, 2012. Doctors failed to recognize that Rory was suffering from sepsis until it was too … [Read more...] about “Rory’s Regulations” Will Fight Sepsis in New York Hospitals

Study Shows Immigrants Give More to Medicare Than They Take Out

By Adam Farley, Editorial Assistant
August / September 2013

August 1, 2013 by 1 Comment

President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Medicare bill, July 30, 1965.

As the United States Congress debates an immigration reform bill that would provide a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants (which includes about 50,000 illegal Irish immigrants), Harvard researchers have published a study that challenges widely-held notions of the relationship between immigrants and the U.S.’s entitlement programs. Published in the May … [Read more...] about Study Shows Immigrants Give More to Medicare Than They Take Out

Quinnipiac Opens State-of-the-Art Medical School

By Turlough McConnell, Contributor
August / September 2013

August 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment

The interior plans for Quinnipiac University's Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine.

The new Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut is attracting students in primary care medicine. Dr. Bruce Koeppen didn’t just do a double take in 2009 when he first read the announcement that Quinnipiac University was planning to build a medical school. He took action. The Yale-educated Koeppen, then dean for academic affairs at the … [Read more...] about Quinnipiac Opens State-of-the-Art Medical School

Irish Eye on Hollywood

By Tom Deignan, Contributor
August / September 2013

August 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Ginnifer Goodwin as Jackie O and Robert Lowe as JFK in the upcoming National Geographic adaptation of Bill O'Reilly's Killing Kennedy.

The latest news and releases from your favorite Irish and Irish-American stars. 1. The news that The Sopranos star James Gandolfini died of a heart attack at the age of 51 shocked Hollywood and the millions of Americans who were reluctantly seduced by the New Jersey gangster Gandolfini portrayed. Gandolfini’s life was the ultimate immigrant success story (his father was born … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood

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In opposition to the 1800 Acts of Union, Irish nationalist and rebel Robert Emmet returned to Ireland, after attempting to secure aid from the French, to plan a rebellion. On the evening of July 23, 1803, a rising erupted in Dublin. The rebels attempted to seize Dublin Castle, but failed, and the rising only amounted to a large-scale riot. The British military was able to stop the riot, leaving fifty rebels dead and Emmet to hang on September 20, 1803.

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