Pic of Day: Jim Devine of Troy, New York, is in his native Belfast this week where he was given the red carpet treatment at Áras Uí Chonghaile – The James Connolly Centre — by visitor centre chairman Harry Connolly. Famously, Jim and his brothers erected a statue of James Connolly in his adopted city of Troy where the Irish revolutionary had once campaigned. Jim left Belfast when he was twenty and started work with the New York Telephone Company in Manhattan before taking up senior positions with the Communications Workers of America Union. For thirty years, Jim advocated for peace and justice in Ireland and helped establish the powerful Irish American Labor Coalition which successfully lobbied support for the peace process. Jim is pictured here on the left with Harry Connolly.
