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Elizabeth Crowley Carries On
The Family Tradition of Public Service

By Tom Deignan
IA Newsletter August 20, 2022

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Elizabeth Crowley spent this week knocking on doors and shaking hands at subway stations across the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens – where she was born into an Irish Catholic family of 15 children. “I wouldn't be the person I am today if I didn’t have the love and support of my big Irish family,” says Crowley, a one-time member of the New York City … [Read more...] about Elizabeth Crowley Carries On
The Family Tradition of Public Service

David Trimble: Man of War, Man of Peace

By Niall O'Dowd
IA Newsletter, July 30, 2022

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David Trimble will rightfully go down in history as a courageous leader, irrespective of how difficult a person he was to deal with. David Trimble had an extraordinary beginning in Northern Ireland politics. He joined Vanguard, a crypto-fascist movement that was intent on ethnic cleansing Catholics from Northern Ireland and was led by Ulster’s very own little Hitler, … [Read more...] about David Trimble: Man of War, Man of Peace

O’Rourke Slams Texas Governor Over Role in Dead Children Tragedy

By Niall O'Dowd
IA Newsletter May 25, 2022

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"Every American was entitled to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.' Those little kids had those guarantees ripped away from them." Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic challenger for Texas governor, went into the lion’s den when he confronted current occupant Greg Abbott during a press conference Abbott was holding after the horrific killings in Uvalde. Some of the … [Read more...] about O’Rourke Slams Texas Governor Over Role in Dead Children Tragedy

George Mitchell’s Mandate

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
May / June 1995

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President Clinton's Economic Advisor to Ireland When Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell announced he would not seek re-election it came as a surprise to many, not least his Maine constituents who had given him 80 percent of the votes in the 1988 election. When the 61-year-old senator then turned down a Supreme Court nomination to the great disappointment of the President, … [Read more...] about George Mitchell’s Mandate

The New “Special Relationship”

By Niall O'Dowd
May/ June 1995

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President Clinton's Commitment to Ireland The White House economic conference on Ireland on May 24-26, 1995 will be the latest in a series of Irish initiatives by President Clinton. Niall O'Dowd reports on the making of a new "special relationship." On May 24 President Bill Clinton will become the first U.S. president ever to deliver a major speech on Irish issues when he … [Read more...] about The New “Special Relationship”