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Jack Finucane

News: Remembering Aengus & Jack

By Sharon Ní Chonchúir, Contributor
March / April 2020

March 1, 2020 by Leave a Comment

The Finucane brothers were unstoppable forces, seeing no such thing as an unsolvable problem. There was a sense of immediacy about them…a kind of raw humanity,” president of Ireland Michael D. Higgins said in response to the plans to erect a bench in memory of Aengus and Jack Finucane along the banks of the River Shannon in Limerick City, where the brothers were born. Aengus … [Read more...] about News: Remembering Aengus & Jack

Mission Possible:
Concern Worldwide at 50

By Ed Kenney Jr. and Kieran McConville
Photos Courtesy of Concern Worldwide
June / July 2018

May 9, 2018 by Leave a Comment

Concern, Ireland’s largest humanitarian aid agency, has been serving the poorest of the poor for 50 years. Ed Kenney Jr. and Kieran McConville, both of whom work for Concern, explore the organization’s history. ℘℘℘ The story begins 50 years ago in the parlor of a modest townhouse on Northumberland Road in Dublin, moving on quickly to a 600-ton cargo ship called the Columcille, … [Read more...] about Mission Possible:
Concern Worldwide at 50

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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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