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Weekly Comment:
Celebrating 25 Years of Glucksman Ireland House

By Miriam Nyhan
January 26, 2018

January 29, 2018 by By Miriam Nyhan <br/>January 26, 2018 1 Comment

After a quarter century, New York University's Glucksman Ireland House celebrates its achievements and looks forward to the next 25 years with their 2018 Gala Dinner. ℘℘℘ It is difficult to believe it but 2018 marks twenty-five years of Glucksman Ireland House, the prestigious home to Irish and Irish-American studies at New York University. This special milestone will be marked … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment:
Celebrating 25 Years of Glucksman Ireland House

September 19, 1880

The term “boycotting”- a form of non-violent protesting – entered the English language on this day in 1880. Coined by Charles Stewart Parnell in his speech on land tenants at Ennis, he said, “I wish to point out a better way, a more Christian way which will give the lost man an opportunity of repenting. When a man takes a farm from which another has been evicted, you must shun him on the roadside, on the streets, in the shop and even in the place of worship by putting him in a ‘moral Coventry.’ You must show him your detestation of the crime he has committed.”

Weekly Comment:
Celebrating 25 Years of Glucksman Ireland House

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