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America’s Birth Certificate’s Irish Connection

By Seamus McKee

June 18, 2026

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John Dunlap: The Irish-born Printer of the Declaration of Independence At the age of ten John Dunlap was sent to Philadelphia to help his immigrant uncle who was a printer there. He took over his uncle’s business and became the official printer to the provisional government of the 13 states which rebelled against British rule. On the night of July 4, 1776, Dunlap printed … [Read more...] about America’s Birth Certificate’s Irish Connection

Blazes Boylan

Compiled by Emer Mullins

July August 1993

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Twenty-two years in the music business, three previous songs in Ireland's National Song Contest and suddenly it was all happening for Jimmy Walsh, who kept on plugging until he made it. Walsh's song "In Your Eyes" won the Eurovision Song Contest, the biggest competition of its kind in Europe which is broadcast live via satellite. Over three hundred million people watched Niamh … [Read more...] about Blazes Boylan

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

IA Newsletter, February 3, 2024

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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

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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

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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