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Honoring Influential Irish Women
on St. Brigid’s Day 2024

IA Newsletter, February 3, 2024

February 2, 2024 by Leave a Comment

Corina Galvin, Sinead Naughton, and Fiona Walsh Are the first to receive “Women Of Ireland Awards” On St. Brigid's Day the New York Irish Center in Long Island City, inaugurated the Women of Ireland Awards, a new award recognizing achievement in business, community support, and the arts, and presented to three New York area-based women of Irish descent. The first honorees, … [Read more...] about Honoring Influential Irish Women
on St. Brigid’s Day 2024

Francesca Federico
Visions, Longing, and Madness

IA Newsletter June 24, 2023

June 22, 2023 by Leave a Comment

Hailed by Opera News as having a voice of “such strong presence and beauty of tone that she left one longing for more,"  Irish-American soprano Francesca Federico is an acclaimed interpreter of opera and Irish folk music. She recently completed a Fulbright arts residency at Limerick’s Irish World Academy, focusing on the origins of Irish traditional music in 20th-century … [Read more...] about Francesca Federico
Visions, Longing, and Madness

Hibernia: News

By Sharon Ní Chonchúir
Spring 2023

April 20, 2023 by Leave a Comment

Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin launched Volume XIII (13) in the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series on February 22.  Since 1997, the Department of Foreign Affairs has worked with the Royal Irish Academy and the National Archives to create this series and has now succeeded in compiling a collection … [Read more...] about Hibernia: News

Hibernia: News from Ireland and Irish America

Written by Sharon Ní Chonchúir and Emily Moriarty

December 15, 2022 by 1 Comment

Advocate for Women's Health Dies Ireland lost an outstanding advocate for women’s health when Vicky Phelan died at the age of 48 on Monday, November 14. Vicky first came to public attention outside the Irish Court on April 25, 2018. That was when she first told her story of being diagnosed with terminal cervical cancer in 2014, three years after a smear test had shown no … [Read more...] about Hibernia: News from Ireland and Irish America

2022 – 2023 Fulbright Irish Awards

September 16, 2021 by Leave a Comment

The Fulbright awards provide opportunities for passionate Irish and EU scholars, students and professionals (with 5 years relevant experience) to undertake programmes and collaborate with experts at a U.S. institution or organisation of their choice, from August 2022-August 2023.  This year sees the addition of Fulbright-Frederick and Ann Douglass Award, launched in cooperation … [Read more...] about 2022 – 2023 Fulbright Irish Awards

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December 15, 1930

Edna O’Brien, Irish novelist and short story writer, was born on this day in County Clare in 1930. Born to strictly religious parents, O’Brien described her childhood as suffocating. She was educated from 1941 to 1946 by the Sisters of Mercy. She then went on to receive a license in pharmacy in 1950. O’Brien turned to writing and published “The County Girls” in 1960. It was the first in a trilogy that was banned from Ireland. In 2009, she received the Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award at the Irish Book Awards in Dublin.

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