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Salute to Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum

Salute to Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum

Turlough McConnell
IA Newsletter October 23, 2021

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Committee to Save the Museum plans street art, live music, other festivities to salute institution unexpectedly closed by Quinnipiac University. The Committee to Save Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum will host a salute to the museum on Saturday, Oct. 30, from 1–5 p.m. on Woodruff Street at Whitney Avenue. The event is free and open to the public. The committee was created in … [Read more...] about Salute to Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum

Sláinte: Breakfast at Brennan’s


By Edythe Preet

January 2000

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The most misunderstood metropolis in the United States is New Orleans. Mention the city and the mind instantly provides Francophile associations. The French Quarter is its most famous neighborhood, France's pre-Lenten Mardi Gras celebration is the biggest annual bash, and Fleurs de Lis flutter on the municipal flag. Regardless of popular thinking, New Orleans could as easily … [Read more...] about Sláinte: Breakfast at Brennan’s

A Night to Remember


By Frank McCourt

January 2000

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Frank McCourt's second book, 'Tis, follows, where Angela's Ashes leaves off with the young Limerick man making his way in New York. In the following excerpt, Frank's pal Paddy McGovern takes him to an Irish dance hall. Paddy Arthur McGovern warns me that if I keep on listening to that noisy jazz music I'll wind up like the Lennon brothers so American I'll forget I’m Irish … [Read more...] about A Night to Remember

Black, Brown, and Green Voices:
Where Do We Go From Here?

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New York University Publishes Report on Diversity in Irish America – and Announces Major International Online Conference in November New York University is marking the start of Black History Month Ireland with the publication of a new report on the Black, Brown and Green Voices Project – and the announcement of an online conference, “Where Do We Go from Here? … [Read more...] about Black, Brown, and Green Voices:
Where Do We Go From Here?

Black, Brown, and Green Voices:
Interview with Irish Nigerian-American Jurist Debo P. Adegbile

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A conversation with the United States Civil Rights commissioner, the distinguished son of Irish and Nigerian immigrants to New York NYU’s Glucksman Ireland House will present on Monday, May 23, a public online interview with Debo Patrick Adegbile, jurist and commissioner of the United States Civil Rights Commission. Adegbile, an NYU alumnus, will be interviewed by NYU … [Read more...] about Black, Brown, and Green Voices:
Interview with Irish Nigerian-American Jurist Debo P. Adegbile