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Climate Change: A Mum’s Mission

By Mary Gallagher, Assistant Editor
August / September 2019

August 1, 2019 by By <a href="https://irishamerica.com/2018/06/mary-gallagher/">Mary Gallagher</a>, Assistant Editor<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2019-archive/august-september-2019/">August / September 2019</a> Leave a Comment

Trócaire’s Lorna Tevnan Gold on saving the future from the present. ℘℘℘ Dr. Lorna Tevnan Gold of the Irish humanitarian organization Trócaire has been working to change environmental policy and appealing to the public to see climate change for the impending disaster already-in-motion that it is for the past 15 years, and now she’s written a book about it. Climate Generation – … [Read more...] about Climate Change: A Mum’s Mission

October 20, 1933

“A Soldier’s Song” becomes the official National Anthem of Ireland on this day in 1933. Written by Peader Keaney and composed by Patrick Heeney in 1907, the song was first published in 1912 and quickly became very popular. It was used as a marching song by Irish Volunteers and the IRA during the Irish War of Independence. After the establishment of the Free State, “A Soldier’s Song” continued to be used by the army. The government purchased the copyright for the song on this day. The anthem was translated into the Irish language, “Amhran na bhFiann,” by Liam O Rinn.

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