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Fundraiser for
Irish Breast Cancer

By Irish America Staff
August / September 2001

August 1, 2001 by

The New York dinner for the International Breast Cancer Foundation for Ireland was held at the Metropolitan Club in New York on April 25. The foundation sponsors post-graduate specialist studies for Irish doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York. Funds from the dinner will also refurbish a family room at the national radiation center. St. Luke's Hospital in … [Read more...] about Fundraiser for
Irish Breast Cancer

The American Ireland Fund Goes Hollywood

By Frank Prendergast

January February 1993

January 9, 1993 by Leave a Comment

The event was a gala dinner honoring vaudeville, screen, and television star Donald Award.O'Connor as the recipient of the 1992 Heritage Co-chairmen for the dinner were motion picture legend Gene Kelly and Michael J. Roarty, Executive Vice President of Anheuser-Busch. The chairman for the dinner was television and motion picture executive Frank Price and the master of … [Read more...] about The American Ireland Fund Goes Hollywood

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September 10, 1923

On this day in 1923, the then Irish Free State was admitted into the League of Nations, the predecessor to today’s United Nations. After the League of Nations was first established in 1919, there were many efforts made by some organizations in Ireland in to join the League. However, this task proved more difficult due to some opinions that joining a body founded by England would make it harder for Ireland to achieve independence. After joining on this day, WT Cosgrave, President of the Executive Council in Ireland, made a speech on the Irish admittance to the League of Nations.

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