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Women in Leadership: Her Place at the Table

By Irish America Staff
December / January 2018href="https://www.irishamerica.com/in-this-issue-2018-december-jan/"> By Irish America Staff
December / January 2018

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Enterprise Ireland hosted their inaugural female leadership and entrepreneurship event in New York City in November with Ireland’s then-Tánaiste (deputy prime minister) Frances Fitzgerald and Enterprise Ireland CEO Julie Sinnamon addressing more than 100 corporate leaders and entrepreneurs. The event, titled “Her Place at the Table,” was part of Enterprise Ireland’s trade and … [Read more...] about Women in Leadership: Her Place at the Table

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

Weekly Comment:
Call for Irish Women’s Suffragette Artifacts


By Irish America
June 3, 2016

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An Irish researcher is currently undertaking a public appeal for information on surviving objects related to the Irish women suffragettes who fought for the right to vote nationally almost a hundred years ago. Donna Gilligan is a museum archaeologist and material culture historian who is compiling a research thesis on the visual and material culture of the Irish women’s … [Read more...] about Weekly Comment:
Call for Irish Women’s Suffragette Artifacts

Sláinte! Women Rule

By Edythe Preet, Columnist

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“I was elected by the women of Ireland who, instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.” – Mary Robinson, President of Ireland, 1990 – 1997 Several months ago, when 2016’s presidential campaign launched with more hoopla than has been seen in U.S. politics for more than a century, a Dublin-born friend told me he was placing his bet that, for the first time in American … [Read more...] about Sláinte! Women Rule

Anne Anderson Becomes First Female Member of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick

By R. Bryan Willits, Editorial Assistant
April / May 2016href="https://www.irishamerica.com/in-this-issue-2016-april-may"> By R. Bryan Willits, Editorial Assistant
April / May 2016

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Irish Ambassador Anne Anderson became the first women to be inducted into the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, an organization that has had an exclusively male membership since it was founded in Philadelphia in 1771. Twenty other women were also admitted as members at the Friendly Son’s 245th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Gala on Saturday, March 12. Anderson’s inclusion is also … [Read more...] about Anne Anderson Becomes First Female Member of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick