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Brooklyn Daily Eagle
January 5, 2018
His writings have also appeared in numerous literary anthologies including, “The Irish, a Treasury of Art and Literature” and the “Book of Irish Americans.” In addition, he has also worked as a New York City taxi cab driver, bartender and radio host. “Stoopdreamer” showtimes are Saturday, Jan. 13 at 8 p.m.ÃÂ ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
December 20, 2017
Irish-Americans have at times provided a counterbalance during the past 200 years, culminating in arms and funds for the 1916 Easter Rebellion and, more recently, support by Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan for the Irish peace process in the 1970s and 1980s, with President Bill ClintonÃÂ ...
IrishCentral
December 20, 2017
The Ancient Order of Hibernians in America is becoming younger every day. Young Irish-American adults are discovering the AOH, the oldest and largest Irish Catholic organization in the U.S. These new members are quickly emerging as the next generation of Irish American leaders. The HiberniansÃÂ ...
America Magazine
December 18, 2017
By the end of the 19th century, as Irish-Americans gained wealth and influence, they built the larger St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue. Lower Manhattan's immigrant neighborhoods, once home to the Irish and the Germans, became home to Russian Jews and Italians. Old St. Patrick's Church wasÃÂ ...
IrishCentral
December 18, 2017
If we seek to empathize with current immigrants from poorer countries and improve their experiences and living conditions, we can draw from Irish-American history in a variety of ways. Looking at this history allows us to highlight the hypocrisy in a historical sense of Irish Americans who have anti-immigrantÃÂ ...
History
December 18, 2017
So is the department's current commissioner, James O'Neill. Municipal police departments across the country celebrate the role of Irish-American cops with Emerald Societies—and there's historic reason for all of this. Through the 20th century, Irish-Americans dominated many urban police departments.
IrishCentral
December 17, 2017
I would argue, sadly, that many Irish Americans still know far too little about their difficult journeys in America. One reason for that is because the official version of American history now includes blacks and Hispanics alongside those old stalwart WASPs. But too often Irish Catholic immigrants are simplyÃÂ ...
Boston Irish Reporter
December 31, 1999
Collins's neatly combed and parted hair, bristling mustache, and intense eyes were a welcome sight back in the wards. In an 1884 speech, he urged that Irish Americans must never forget their roots, but that they must be assimilated into American life: “Those of us born in Ireland or who sprang from the IrishÃÂ ...
Boston Irish Reporter
December 31, 1999
ICE and the administration have refused to provide national numbers of Irish who have been swept up in the agency's net, leading to speculation that the White House does not want to anger the many older Irish-Americans who, although supportive of Trump's efforts vow to crack down on illegal immigrantsÃÂ ...
IrishCentral
December 10, 2017
Lest we get high and mighty here, thinking our fellow Irish Americans always seem to be on the right side of the law, ESP offers plenty of evidence to the contrary. Two fine, upstanding lads, Martin Farrell and John Joseph Coffey, served time at ESP for killing nightclub owner and racketeer William Weiss.
Haaretz
December 6, 2017
American Jews can support Israel (just as Irish Americans support Ireland), but they owe no loyalty to Israel and they don't have to pay a tax to support us. Israel, for its part, can assist Jews in trouble anywhere, letting them join us, welcoming them. But we don't belong to the same nation. Here in Israel we ...
Charlotte Observer
December 6, 2017
Thanks to Chris Teat for responding to “Graham defends Trumps tweeting and backs Moore” (Nov. 29) with basic tenets underlying the Christian faith – admitting our wrongs, taking responsibility, asking forgiveness, showing compassion, telling the truth. Franklin Graham's criticism of the media likewise ...
IrishCentral
December 5, 2017
The jokes that earned the biggest laughs may also be the ones that will have Irish Americans up in arms. (And we're called the snowflakes!) It certainly demonstrates that there is an opportunity to make such an attempt, if the people involved are willing and able to endure the wrath that will follow.
Irish Times
December 4, 2017
But the distinction is also about how Irish Americans see themselves. If you dress up as leprechauns on Saint Patrick's Day and vomit into newly green rivers then it's hard to complain if entertainers invoke variations on that imagery. Still, they could have tried just a little harder. Just a little. Anyway, it's no big ...
kwbe
December 4, 2017
(NEW YORK) — St. Patrick's Day arrived early on Saturday Night Live as musical guest U2 appeared with host Saorise [SUR-sha] Ronan, star of the critically acclaimed Lady Bird. The show featured guest appearances from Irish-Americans John McEnroe and Alec Baldwin. Baldwin once again appeared ...
Salt Lake Tribune
December 1, 2017
(Pablo Martinez Monsivais | The Associated Press) In this Sept. 1, 2015, file photo, James O'Keefe, President of Project Veritas Action, waits to be introduced during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington. Project Veritas, a conservative group known for undercover investigations, has ...
Princeton Alumni Weekly
November 30, 2017
Dougherty grew up in an Irish-American family in a neighborhood that was a meeting point for Irish-Americans, African Americans, and others. His father, a bookie and bartender, suffered heart attacks and a massive stroke when Dougherty was young, and the family scraped to get by. At West Philadelphia ...
Irish Echo
November 30, 2017
As Irish Americans, our collective experience lends itself to comparison and contemplative reflection. As the first immigrant group to come to the United States en masse, themes of xenophobia, poverty, tragedy and upward mobility, provide us with many avenues to look at today's immigrants. But it is crucial ...
New York Times
November 28, 2017
His parents, Hugh and Lillian, were first-generation Irish-Americans, and grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn and the ...
CNBC
November 27, 2017
And although not in huge numbers, new economic opportunities, cultural curiosity and family ties have meant these Irish-Americans are getting ...
PJ Media
November 26, 2017
should vote for a clean DREAM Act as Irish-Americans. When President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals was rescinded in ...
The Times
November 25, 2017
Irish-Americans say they are being robbed of their identity by online systems that do not recognise their names. The “keep the apostrophe” ...
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
November 19, 2017
VENICE — Lillian Patricia Reilly made her mark in Venice as a champion for the visually impaired and in New York City as a member of the New York City Police Department. Reilly died Nov. 6 at age 94, after having a stroke at home in Venice. Friends and loved ones plan to celebrate her life on Saturday,ÃÂ ...
The Boston Globe
November 19, 2017
Kids lined up to welcome to welcome the Galway team onto the Fenway Park field on Sunday during the Players Champions Cup. By Cristela ...
MyWebTimes.com
November 6, 2017
According to the 2010 census, the 34 million Irish-Americans are seven times the population of the nation of Ireland itself. Ireland did not ...
IrishCentral
October 28, 2017
An IrishCentral.com poll of 1,368 Irish Americans under 45 reveals some startling facts - some good, some bad. The poll was taken ...
The Times
October 27, 2017
Irish-Americans who are settled in the US have little sympathy for the plight of undocumented recent emigrants, a study suggests. A report by ...
Phys.Org
October 26, 2017
... relationship between Ireland and the U.S. and an increasing distance between the next generation of Irish Americans and their Irish heritage.
Newsweek
October 24, 2017
I've lived there, and I care about the place, enough to notice that Irish-Americans are very different from the Irish-in-Ireland, and often have no ...
IrishCentral
October 20, 2017
An in-depth survey of Irish Americans under the age of 45 offers valuable insights into the lives, habits, likes and priorities of young Irish ...
Irish Times
October 19, 2017
Seven in 10 younger Irish-Americans say they would be interested in getting an Irish passport, while more than two-thirds believe it's important ...
Chestnut Hill Local
December 31, 1999
The answer for us absorbed Irish-Americans should be to go to any of the many Irish pubs or restaurants found in our big cosmopolitan city, but ...
The Intercept
December 31, 1999
Irish-Americans weren't quite as bad, but “virtually every Irish I've known gets mean when he drinks.” Italians “don't have their heads screwed ...
Irish Times
September 23, 2017
You can't tell Irish Americans, for example, that they shouldn't visit Ireland. He went to visit his family in Egypt and go on a holiday,” Mr HalawaÃÂ ...
IrishCentral
September 23, 2017
The journey to Port Arthur, just outside of Houston, began on September 11 at around 4 p.m. for Rockaway Irish Americans Ed Shevlin andÃÂ ...
Santa Fe New Mexican
September 23, 2017
... City's Bar Thalia and the Cell Theatre for established and emerging writers as an avenue to highlight the artistic traditions of Irish Americans.
RTE.ie
September 22, 2017
Those holding dual nationality has show an increase of more than 87% to 104,784 - Irish-Americans comprised the largest group, followed byÃÂ ...
Freeport Journal-Standard
September 22, 2017
Today many Irish Americans in Springfield are part of our protection from the 1 percent. To our shame we turned back a ship of Jews fleeingÃÂ ...
New York Times
September 9, 2017
It might surprise Irish-Americans, who tend to cling to the thatched-hut, Catholic Church-dominated, fighting-and-drinking image of EireÃÂ ...
Irish Echo
December 31, 1999
And even if they were, many Irish Americans are of the view that the United States has a legacy to protect in the Good Friday Agreement, theÃÂ ...
History News Network (HNN)
December 31, 1999
Instead, she wrote, “the documentary record better supports the earlier view that Irish-Americans have a communal recollection of NINAÃÂ ...
Galesburg Register-Mail
March 28, 2017
Shazia Rahman, an English professor at Western Illinois University, wrote a piece for Tri States Public Radio in which she expressed unease about the Macomb High School Bombers.
Ukiah Daily Journal
March 28, 2017
O'Toole blasted Irish-Americans who work in the White House, including press secretary Sean Spicer, chief strategist Stephen Bannon and counselor Kellyanne Conway.
Mountaintimes
March 27, 2017
The suffering, hopes and dreams of the unwelcome resonate with our history as Irish Americans. Our experience shares a common thread with all those who would seek a new life in America.
Asbury Park Press
March 27, 2017
Thankfully today second-, third-, and fourth-generation Irish Americans are finally realizing that dream. Yet, in having to take down my flag, I fear that dream is in peril again.
Baptist News Global
March 21, 2017
This big, city-wide party makes sense, as New York City claims the largest population of Irish Americans anywhere in the United States.
Irish Independent
March 19, 2017
From time to time, the involvement of Irish Americans in conservative politics crosses from curiosity into grievance for O'Dowd.
PRI
March 17, 2017
This "Irish slave" narrative is the latest in a long history of Irish Americans affirming their own group identity at the expense of black people.
Thrillist
March 17, 2017
The guy from Thin Lizzy!), so this infographic showing the percentage of Irish-Americans across the United States should be a treat for all those in observance.
newsnet5.com
March 16, 2017
Brook Park Mayor Thomas Coyne among Irish Americans invited by Trump to DC on St. Patrick's Day Eve. News 5 Staff. 12:31 PM, Mar 16, 2017.
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