Co-Operation Ireland

Co-Operation Ireland’s
Annual Dinner

By Irish America Staff
June / July 2005

June 1, 2005 by By Irish America Staff<br/><a href=“https://irishamerica.com/archives/2005-archive/june-july-2005/”>June / July 2005</a> Leave a Comment

Co-Operation Ireland, a non-partisan charity dedicated to promoting peace throughout all of Northern Ireland and Ireland, held its annual dinner on March 14 at the New York Plaza. The evening highlighted the organization's 26 years of peace and reconciliation work and honored the secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Paul Murphy, MP (above). ♦ … [Read more...] about Co-Operation Ireland’s
Annual Dinner

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.

Co-Operation Ireland’s
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