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Business 100 Winter 2025 Destination Spotlight The Dunbrody

The Dunbrody & the Irish America Hall of Fame  

By Aideen ní Riada Wolpe • Photos By Mary Browne

January 2, 2026 by 1 Comment

The story of how JFK’s roots helped to revive an Irish town, and how the Dunbrody Famine Ship and Irish Emigrant ­Experience became the home of the Irish America Hall of Fame.  In the late 1980s, New Ross was an unemployment blackspot. Its salvation came from a volunteer group of local business people who banded together to revive their struggling town. As the ancestral home of … [Read more...] about The Dunbrody & the Irish America Hall of Fame  

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Jacqueline “Jackie” Kennedy Onassis, died in New York. She was born Jacqueline Bouvier in Southampton, New York (her mother’s family were of Irish descent from Co. Cork) to a socially prominent family. She worked as a photographer before marrying John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1953. As First Lady, 1961-63, she oversaw the restoration of the White House and had it declared by Congress a national museum. After the assassination of her husband, Jackie returned to private life. In 1968, she married shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis. Following Aristotle’s death in 1975, she worked as an editor at Doubleday until her death in 1994 following a diagnosis of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. She is remembered for her style and grace. She also helped restore New York’s Grand Central station.

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