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Irish America Celebrates 2017 Healthcare & Life Sciences 50

By Irish America Staff
September 7, 2017

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Irish America magazine celebrated its annual Healthcare and Life Sciences 50 Awards at a dinner event at the New York Yacht Club September 6. The event, co-hosted by Irish clinical research company ICON plc, paid tribute to the impressive range of the Irish in the medical profession and the work of the best Irish and Irish American healthcare professionals featured in the … [Read more...] about Irish America Celebrates 2017 Healthcare & Life Sciences 50

Irish America Celebrates Annual Healthcare & Life Sciences 50

By Irish America Staff
October 6, 2015

October 6, 2016 by Leave a Comment

Irish America celebrated its annual Healthcare and Life Sciences 50 Awards Reception, co-hosted with ICON plc, on October 5 in Manhattan. The Healthcare and Life Sciences 50 aims to recognize the best and brightest professionals in the medical industry and highlight the work they are doing to improve the lives of their communities and our healthcare industry. “There’s a lot of … [Read more...] about Irish America Celebrates Annual Healthcare & Life Sciences 50

February 3, 1919

On this day in 1919, Eamon de Valera escaped from Lincoln Prison in England. His escape was aided by fellow nationalists Harry Boland and Michael Collins. De Valera’s escape entailed a copy of the key which fit the locks of the jail. He also dressed up as a woman. Several other Sinn Fein members who had been arrested along with him on May 17, 1918 for allegedly taking part in the “German Plot,” also escaped Lincoln Gaol on this day. The German Plot centered on the spurious British accusation that the Irish had been plotting an uprising aided by the Germans, which would have distracted from wartime efforts abroad.

Irish America Celebrates 2017 Healthcare & Life Sciences 50

Irish America Celebrates Annual Healthcare & Life Sciences 50

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