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Solas Award for Menino

By Irish America Staff
December / January 2003

December 1, 2002 by Leave a Comment

Boston's Irish Immigration Center is awarding its ninth annual Solas Award to Mayor Thomas Menino in recognition of his administration's work on behalf of immigrants and refugees. The award ceremony will take place on December 3, 2002 at the Boston Westin Hotel in Copley Square. Solas is the Irish word for light and the award was created to recognize people with a steadfast … [Read more...] about Solas Award for Menino

Solas for Clinton

By Irish America Staff
December / January 2002

December 1, 2001 by Leave a Comment

The Irish Immigration Center in Boston is having its annual fundraising awards luncheon on November 20 at the Boston Copley Mariot Hotel. This ear's winner of The Solas Award will be former president Bill Clinton for his tireless effort to bring peace to Ireland. It was his influence and intervention that proved vital in bringing about the Good Friday Agreement. Senator Ted … [Read more...] about Solas for Clinton

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The statutes of Kilkenny passed. The Statutes of Kilkenny were a series of thirty-five acts passed at Kilkenny in 1366. The laws were ordained to put a stop to the Anglo-Normans becoming more Irish than the Irish themselves. Under the statutes, marriage between the Anglo-Normans (English) and the Irish was banned. No English man could sell an Irishman a horse or arms even in peacetime. There was even a ban on Irish games. . . “do not, henceforth, use the plays which men call horlings, with great sticks and a ball upon the ground, from which great evils and maims have arisen….”

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