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Bruce Morrison

Celebrating the 2013 Irish America Hall of Fame

June / July 2013

May 15, 2013 by Leave a Comment

The 2013 Hall of Fame Inductees: Vice President Joe Biden, John Fitzpatrick, Bruce Morrison, 2011 inductee Jean Kennedy Smith, Bob Devlin and Brian Burns. Photos: Sade Joseph and Margaret Purcell Roddy.

The 2013 class of Hall of Fame honorees were inducted at a luncheon and ceremony on March 21, at the Marriott Essex House in Manhattan. Before a gathering of close to 300, a bagpiper led in the 2013 inductees: Vice President Joe Biden, art collector and benefactor Brian Burns, businessman and philanthropist Bob Devlin, hotelier and humanitarian John Fitzpatrick, former U.S. … [Read more...] about Celebrating the 2013 Irish America Hall of Fame

Celebrating Joe Biden and the 2013 Irish America Hall of Fame Inductees

March 23, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Comhghairdeas to all of our inductees! On Thursday, March 21 Irish America was honored to induct the 2013 class of honorees into the Irish America Hall of Fame. Vice President Joe Biden, art collector and benefactor Brian Burns, businessman and philanthropist Bob Devlin, hotelier and humanitarian John Fitzpatrick and immigration reformer and former congressman Bruce Morrison … [Read more...] about Celebrating Joe Biden and the 2013 Irish America Hall of Fame Inductees

Bruce Morrison: Immigration Reformer & Peacekeeper

By Sheila Langan, Deputy Editor
April / May 2013

March 20, 2013 by 1 Comment

Bruce Morrison

A lawyer, lobbyist and former U.S. congressman, Bruce Morrison is not an unlikely hero. Since his days as a student organizer at the University of Illinois, where he founded and chaired the Graduate Student Association, to the ground breaking immigration reform he ushered in at the close of his four terms in Congress, he has long held justice for the overlooked as a top … [Read more...] about Bruce Morrison: Immigration Reformer & Peacekeeper

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