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From Whence I Came
The Kennedy Legacy,
Ireland and America

March 12, 2021 by Leave a Comment

St. Patrick's Day Book Launch CelebrationMonday, March 15th at 2:00pm EST, 6:00pm Ireland on ZoomJoin the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, Consulate General of Ireland in Boston, and Embassy of Ireland, USA for a virtual 2021 St. Patrick’s Day celebration with Taoiseach Micheál Martin. The program will honor the 40th anniversary of the founding of … [Read more...] about From Whence I Came
The Kennedy Legacy,
Ireland and America

Greatest Irish Americans
Book Launch

By Irish America Staff
June / July 2001

June 1, 2001 by Leave a Comment

Irish Tenor Ronan Tynan and actor Milo O'Shea were just two of the Irish luminaries who turned out to celebrate the launch of Greatest Irish Americans of the 20th Century edited by our own Patricia Harty. The event was hosted by Mutual of America in their beautiful Sky Club, 35 floors above Park Avenue in New York City.Several of the authors who contributed essays to the book, … [Read more...] about Greatest Irish Americans
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