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News Roundup March 16, 2024

By Mary Cucinell
IA Newsletter
March 16, 2024

March 14, 2024 by Leave a Comment

Ireland’s Passport to be Updated in 2025 The St. Patrick’s Day Parade will be led up Fifth Avenue by the “Fighting 69th” accompanied by two Irish Wolfhounds, the official mascot of the regiment. Beginning in 2025, a sketch of the Irish Wolfhound, inspired by a three-year-old wolfhound named Boánn from the Boyne Valley will also appear on millions of Irish passports. The … [Read more...] about News Roundup March 16, 2024

Ireland Announces Online Passport Applications

By Adam Farley, Deputy Editor
June / July 2017

May 24, 2017 by Leave a Comment

In March the Irish government rolled out a major change to its passport issuing office, allowing Irish citizens to renew their passports online, from anywhere in the world. The service, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Charlie Flanagan said, “is one of the most significant innovations in customer service that this department has delivered over the past 15 years.” The new … [Read more...] about Ireland Announces Online Passport Applications

English or Irish?

By Brian Dooley, Contributor
October / November 2000

October 1, 2000 by 2 Comments

My south London schoolmates and I struggled with our Irishness during the 1970s. Nearly all of us had Irish parents who had settled in England in the 1940s and 1950s, but we had been born and raised in London. Did that make us English or Irish? Most of us made regular summer trips to Ireland, looked Irish, even knew a few Irish words. Some of us just felt Irish – all our … [Read more...] about English or Irish?

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June 16, 1904

Historically known as Bloomsday, June 16, 1904 marks the day during which all of Joyce’s Ulysses takes place. Joyce chose the date as a way to commemorate his first date with Nora Barnacle. “Bloomsday” was not established until 1954, on the 50th anniversary of the book’s events. In Dublin, several people dress in costume and retrace Leopold Bloom’s route through Dublin. Landmarks, like Davey Byrne’s pub are visited. Readings of the book are also a common event of the day.

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