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News Roundup March 19, 2022

By Róisín Chapman
IA Newsletter March 19, 2022

March 18, 2022 by Leave a Comment

Last NYC St. Patrick's Parade for Pipe Major Joe Brady This week Ireland and various cities across the world celebrated St. Patrick’s Day. In New York City, crowds of people in shamrock hats and tri-color flags flanked the streets as the city’s St. Patrick’s parade returned after a two-year hiatus. And leading the parade, as always, was Pipe Major Joe Brady. The day was … [Read more...] about News Roundup March 19, 2022

News Roundup

By Róisín Chapman
IA Newsletter November 13, 2021

November 12, 2021 by Leave a Comment

Irish Minister on Trade Promotion Visit to U.S. The United States welcomed its first foreign visitors after 600 days of closed borders, and the Irish government was quick to reconnect with its diaspora on the East Coast. Robert Troy, the Irish minister for Trade Promotion was in New York to meet with Irish companies doing business in the U.S., and to show support for Irish … [Read more...] about News Roundup

Belfast and Young Plato

By Tom Deignan
IA Newsletter November 13, 2021

November 11, 2021 by Leave a Comment

In just a few weeks, Ireland - and the world - will mark the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday.”  That was the gruesome, January 1972 day when British soldiers opened fire on civil rights marchers in Derry, killing over a dozen, and sending the Northern Ireland Troubles into a violent new phase. All those bullets and bombs have made it difficult to tell more intimate … [Read more...] about Belfast and Young Plato

Exploring Ulster

By Irish America staff

March 9, 2021 by Leave a Comment

The northern-most province of Ulster contains a diverse array of cultures and sites, which, combined, tell the tale of modern Ireland, a place of history, pluralism, and an evolving culture. Ulster is divided into nine counties including the six that comprise Northern Ireland: Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, and Tyrone, as well as Cavan, Donegal, and Monaghan of … [Read more...] about Exploring Ulster

A Forgotten Irish
Civil Rights Trailblazer

January 14, 2021 by Leave a Comment

By Tom Deignan In 1957, Martin Luther King. Jr. paid a visit to a Tennessee community organizing camp where he heard Pete Seeger perform a revised version of an old gospel tune for the first time. Within a decade, “We Shall Overcome” would become an anthem for civil rights marchers from Birmingham to Belfast. Martin Luther King Day in the U.S. is a fitting time … [Read more...] about A Forgotten Irish
Civil Rights Trailblazer

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Archbishop Paul Cullen of Dublin becomes the first Irish cardinal on this day in 1866. Born in Co. Kildare, Cullen went on to study at the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. Cullen was appointed rector of Irish College and helped secure the college’s future. While rector from 1832-1850, he forged a close friendship with Pope Gregory XVI and Pope Pius IX and helped safeguard the interests of the Irish church. He was first made Archbishop of Armagh and then transferred to Archbishop of Dublin in 1852, where he would be later made a cardinal.

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