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Sons salute Washington's Irish with plaque
[caption id="attachment_70276" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="The Friendly Sons from Morris County assembled at Old St. Patrick's Basilic...
March 14, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Reasons to reach Ireland's northern reaches
[caption id="attachment_70273" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="The architecturally extraordinary home of "Titanic Belfast. "][/caption] By...
March 14, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Frank Ryle teaches the art of the project
[caption id="attachment_70267" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Frank Ryle, book cover"][/caption] You would call Frank Ryle a quiet man, a...
March 14, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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A big Irish mac
[caption id="attachment_70264" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Frank Ryle. "][/caption] No surprise, but Irish beef makes a very good patt...
March 14, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Ed Flynn, the Bronx boss at FDR's side
FDR. When he was a young, prickly, state senator from the Hudson Valley, Franklin Delano Roosevelt made little secret about his distaste for his fe...
March 14, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Catching baseball memories with John Flaherty
[caption id="attachment_70258" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="John Flaherty's Yes Network job has him still working at Yankee Stadium. "]...
March 14, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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When New York stopped for Terence MacSwiney
[caption id="attachment_70254" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Terence MacSwiney."][/caption] On the morning of August 23rd, 1920, Day 11 ...
March 14, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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The forgotten Irish of the Burma Railway
Two brothers from Cork lie buried at opposite ends of the Burma Railway. The eldest, Lieutenant Richard Duke, died of a heart attack in May 1943, a...
March 14, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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In search of those extraordinary Scots-Irish
[caption id="attachment_70248" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption=" Karen F. McCarthy."][/caption] Journalist and author Karen F. McCarthy has...
March 14, 2012
by Karen F. McCarthy
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Private pitch to U.S. firms
A new initiative led by the Irish private sector aims to entice U.S. companies to set up shop in Ireland. "Ireland Gateway to Europe," is being bac...
March 14, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Massachusetts turns even greener in March
Celtic Woman. Boston --- As luck would have it, Massachusetts has been green all winter, thanks to the mild weather here in New England. And now th...
March 14, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Magazines push back against hierarchy’s hard line
A recent editorial argued: “Is the question of contraception coverage—something most American Catholics already have, and which the bishops have sa...
March 14, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff