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December January 2017 Issue

The Image Maker

By Adam Farley, Deputy Editor
December / January 2017

December 2, 2016 by 2 Comments

FleishmanHillard president and CEO John Saunders is Irish America’s 2016 Business 100 Keynote Speaker. He believes brands get the reputation they deserve, and he wants to keep it that way by holding them to responsible, authentic, and purpose-driven missions and practices. ℘℘℘ It all began with a horse race. It was late 1985 when the news broke that Budweiser would begin … [Read more...] about The Image Maker

The 2016 Business 100

By Irish America Staff
December / January 2017

December 2, 2016 by Leave a Comment

Now entering its fourth decade, the Irish America Business 100 has a long history of providing recognition to a fundamental core of American business. It can be easy to assume that the Irish in America and their descendants are a monolithic bloc, but as this list has continually shown, there is no single story of Irish American success, interest, venture, or course. Those we … [Read more...] about The 2016 Business 100

A Nation of Immigrants?

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
December / January 2017

December 2, 2016 by Leave a Comment

“Immigration policy should be generous; it should be fair; it should be flexible. With such a policy we can turn to the world, and to our own past, with clean hands and a clear conscience.” – John F. Kennedy This past Thanksgiving, as I made my way to a friend's for a home-cooked meal, I thought about my early years in New York when I worked most holidays at my waitressing … [Read more...] about A Nation of Immigrants?

McGregor Trailblazes UFC

By Olivia O’Mahony, Editorial Assistant
December / January 2017

December 2, 2016 by Leave a Comment

Ultimate Fighting Championship featherweight champion Conor McGregor (below) became the only mixed martial artist in history to hold two UFC titles simultaneously in November, when the Dubliner took down hitherto lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez at Madison Square Garden. Alvarez’s loss came as a second-round technical knockout, with the referee calling the fight off when … [Read more...] about McGregor Trailblazes UFC

Bono Named Among Glamour’s Women of the Year

By Olivia O’Mahony, Editorial Assistant
December / January 2017

December 2, 2016 by Leave a Comment

U2 lead and lifelong humanitarian Bono was named among Glamour magazine’s ten Women of the Year in November, breaking a 26-year-long precedent of honoring, naturally, women. The magazine wrote that, while for years the Women of the Year advisory board, which is made up of past winners and Glamour editors, “put the kibosh on naming a Man of the Year on the grounds that men … [Read more...] about Bono Named Among Glamour’s Women of the Year

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June 24, 1875

Forrest Reid, Irish novelist and literary critic, was born on this day in Belfast in 1875. To this day, Reid is regarded amongst the likes of J.M. Barrie and Hugh Walpole as a pre-war British boyhood novelist. His most famous work was Young Tom, for which he won a James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1944.

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