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Ireland Launches Campaign to
Bring Emigrants Back

By Julia Brodsky, Editorial Assistant
February / March 2016

February 11, 2016 by Leave a Comment

In early December of 2015, the Irish government launched a campaign to bring its emigrants home to help grow the economy. Inspired in part by #hometovote, the hashtag that urged Irish abroad to come home to vote in the marriage equality referendum, the #hometowork campaign displayed posters in Ireland’s major airports just in time for heavy holiday traffic. One poster showed a … [Read more...] about Ireland Launches Campaign to
Bring Emigrants Back

Dublin Mayor
Launches NYC Campaign

By Mairead Carey, Contributor
February / March 2002

February 1, 2002 by Leave a Comment

Dublin's Lord Mayor Michael Mulcahy has launched a campaign called "Shoulder to Shoulder" in solidarity with the people of New York. The "civic solidarity campaign" will see plaques erected at Dublin fire and garda stations in memory of those who died in the September 11 attacks. It is also hoped that at least 100 firefighters and police who were injured or traumatized by the … [Read more...] about Dublin Mayor
Launches NYC Campaign

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September 11, 2002

In an effort to show solidarity and support for the United States just a year after the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, all Irish businesses, schools and shops came to a close at 1:46pm on this day in 2002. This time marked the exact moment, in Irish time, that the first plane hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. A year earlier, on the day of 9/11, President Mary McAleese went on RTE Radio to express her shock in the wake of the attacks.

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