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Music and Merriment at Irish America’s 2019 Hall of Fame

By Maggie Holland, Assistant Editor
March 2019

March 22, 2019 by By <a href="https://irishamerica.com/2019/05/maggie-holland/">Maggie Holland</a>, Assistant Editor<br/> March 2019 Leave a Comment

On Thursday, March 14, hundreds gathered in the Cotillion Room of the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan for Irish America magazine’s 10th annual Hall of Fame luncheon. This year’s inductees were lawyer, public servant, and peacemaker John C. Dearie; broadcaster Adrian Flannelly; Academy Award-winning director Terry George; Irish Repertory Theatre founders Charlotte Moore and … [Read more...] about Music and Merriment at Irish America’s 2019 Hall of Fame

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.”

Music and Merriment at Irish America’s 2019 Hall of Fame

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