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News Roundup February 18, 2023

Emily Moriarty
IA Newsletter February 18, 2023

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Ireland Sends Largest Ever Airlift Relief to Turkey and Syria Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheàl Martin T.D. announced the airlift departure of over 100 tons of disaster relief supplies from Ireland’s emergency stocks to the earthquake survivors in Turkey and Syria. The airlift left the UN’S Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) in Dubai on Thursday, February … [Read more...] about News Roundup February 18, 2023

Hibernia People

By Darina Molloy, Contributor

January 2000

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Il Papa Meets Il Bono "Holy Father, this is Mr. Bono -- he's a pop singer." With these words the U2 lead singer was introduced to Pope John Paul II at the Vatican in September. Bono and former Boomtown Rats frontman Bob Geldof met with the pope as part of a campaign the two celebrities are promoting to wipe out the Third World Debt. "The pope's everyday courage amazes me," said … [Read more...] about Hibernia People

Great Irish Song Stamps

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
May / June 2019

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U2 and The Cranberries are among notable Irish musicians featured on a new set of stamps celebrating great Irish songs. The Cranberries’ global smash hit “Dreams” is included along with U2’s “With or Without You,” “Danny Boy” by John McCormack, and “On Raglan Road” by Luke Kelly. Each of the songs have been chosen by An Post (the Irish postal administration) because of the way … [Read more...] about Great Irish Song Stamps

The Last Word:
Irish American Agitation in the Age of Trump

By Kerry McElroy, Contributor
February / March 2018

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U2, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, and the Irish trying to save America. In autumn 2017, U2 released their 14th studio album, Songs of Experience. Critical reception on the album was mixed – was it a superstar older rock band’s attempt at political relevance, or a late-career classic infused with the urgency of Brexit, Trump, and a world thrown into uncertainty? In December 2017, the … [Read more...] about The Last Word:
Irish American Agitation in the Age of Trump

Bono Named Among Glamour’s Women of the Year

By Olivia O’Mahony, Editorial Assistant
December / January 2017

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U2 lead and lifelong humanitarian Bono was named among Glamour magazine’s ten Women of the Year in November, breaking a 26-year-long precedent of honoring, naturally, women. The magazine wrote that, while for years the Women of the Year advisory board, which is made up of past winners and Glamour editors, “put the kibosh on naming a Man of the Year on the grounds that men … [Read more...] about Bono Named Among Glamour’s Women of the Year