Brian Ruane

Brian Ruane: A View from One Wall Street

By Sheila Langan, Deputy Editor
October / November 2011

October 1, 2011 by By <a href="irishamerica.com/sheila-langan">Sheila Langan</a>, Deputy Editor<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2011-archive/October-November-2011/">October / November 2011</a> Leave a Comment

Born in the U.S. and raised in Ireland, BNY Mellon's Brian Ruane represents a new kind of Irish presence on Wall Street. His success is built on a sound understanding of financial practices on both sides of the Atlantic. As Ireland emerges from its post Celtic Tiger hangover it is men like Brian Ruane who will be important to building new confidence in the structures there. … [Read more...] about Brian Ruane: A View from One Wall Street

September 25, 1917

Thomas Ashe, member of the Gaelic League, the Irish Republican Brotherhood and one of the founders of the Irish Volunteers, died from a hunger strike on this day in 1917. Ashe, who was born in Co. Kerry, took part in the Easter Uprising of 1916 as a commander of the Fingal Battalion of the Irish Volunteers. On May 8, 1916, both Ashe and De Valera were court martialled by the British and sentenced to death. He was released but then charged with sedition and returned to prison in August of 1917. There, he began a hunger strike in protest that he be treated with a prisoner of war status.

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