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Concern Celebrates 50 Years

By Maggie Holland, Editorial Assistant
January / February 2019

December 22, 2018 by By <a href="https://irishamerica.com/2019/05/maggie-holland/">Maggie Holland</a>, Editorial Assistant<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2019-archive/january-february-2019/">January / February 2019</a> Leave a Comment

On Tuesday, December 4, at Cipriani Wall Street, Concern Worldwide US held its 22nd Annual Seeds of Hope Award Dinner, which this year also marked the 50th anniversary of its founding in Dublin in 1968. Over 700 guests attended the international humanitarian organization’s largest fundraising event, helping raise more than $2 million to benefit Concern’s work in twenty-five … [Read more...] about Concern Celebrates 50 Years

Women of Concern Annual Luncheon

By Irish America Staff
September / October 2018

September 1, 2018 by </a> By Irish America Staff<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2018-archive/september-october-2018/">September / October 2018</a> Leave a Comment

The Women of Concern Annual Luncheon was held on Thursday, June 21 at the Pierre Hotel, with two very worthy honorees, Aine Brazil, Vice Chairman of Thornton Tomasetti, and William Moore, Executive Director of the Eleanor Crook Foundation. Aine, who was born in County Galway, is a leading structural engineer on such projects as the Hudson Yards development on the west side of … [Read more...] about Women of Concern Annual Luncheon

October 22, 1906

The famous pianist Charles Lynch was born on this day in 1906. Born in Co. Cork to a well off family descended from novelist Maria Edgeworth (Castle Rackrent), Lynch gave his first piano recital at the young age of nine. At fifteen, he won a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music, London. He became famous through out England and premiered the works of several 20th century composers. His greatest achievement was when he played all of Liszt’s transcriptions of Beethoven’s symphonies.

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