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Campbell Returns to Ireland for Dublin Lecture

By Olivia O'Mahoney
April / May 2018

February 28, 2018 by Leave a Comment

Distinguished parasitologist, Nobel prize winner, and 2017 Irish America Hall of Fame inductee Dr. William Campbell delivered an academic discourse at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin in November. Campbell, who was in Ireland to receive the Presidential Distinguished Service Award, was born in 1930 in Ramelton, County Donegal, and has held honorary membership of the Royal … [Read more...] about Campbell Returns to Ireland for Dublin Lecture

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The Best of the Irish Diaspora Honored in Dublin


By Irish America Staff
December 1, 2017

December 1, 2017 by 2 Comments

Ten members of the global Irish diaspora, including Irish America’s own editor-in-chief Patricia Harty, received Ireland’s top honor for civilians living abroad for service to the Republic of Ireland. The ceremony, held November 30 at Áras an Uachraráin, the official residence of the president of Ireland. In addition to Patricia Harty, three other U.S. residents received the … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment:
The Best of the Irish Diaspora Honored in Dublin

Irish Scientist Wins Nobel Prize

By R. Bryan Willits, Editorial Assistant
December / January 2016

December 3, 2015 by Leave a Comment

Irish scientist William C. Campbell, a researcher at Drew University in New Jersey, has been awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Satoshi Ōmura and Tu Youyou. Campbell, from Donegal, is the second ever Irish-born scientist to win the Nobel Prize (after Ernest Walton in 1951). The 2015 prize winners all made discoveries that are being used to … [Read more...] about Irish Scientist Wins Nobel Prize

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June 13, 1865

William Butler Yeats, Ireland’s most famous poet and one of the leading literary figures of the 20th century, was born in Sandyhurst, Co. Dublin on this day in 1865 to an upper class Protestant family. He spent much of his childhood in Co. Sligo, which heavily influenced Yeats’s natural themes, and he read classics like Shakespeare, Donne, Alighieri and Shelley. With Lady Gregory, he helped establish the Gaelic Literary Revival and founded the Abbey Theater in Dublin. He was the first Irishman awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923, followed by Shaw, Beckett and Heaney.

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