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Home are the Oscar heroes
Oscar at the Divis. Oorlagh and Terry George, along with their Oscars, atop the Divis Flats in West Belfast.Belfast Oscar-winner Terry George has m...
March 14, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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A solemn reburial
Human remains have been unearthed from under the roots system of this tree at Duffy's Cut. They were buried with little or no ceremony 180 years ag...
March 07, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Payne had extensive Irish record
Congressman Donald Payne. Congressman Donald Payne, one of the nation's leading African American legislators who died this week from colon cancer a...
March 07, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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FF sorry as young bail
Martin at the ard fheis. Thousands of people have attended a Dublin jobs fair advertising overseas work opportunities, this as Fianna Fáil simultan...
March 07, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Hoboken not the same without its parade
[caption id="attachment_70132" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Some lady leprechauns take a smoke break."][/caption] Pub crawls didn't rep...
March 07, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Urban isn't alone
Cops were more in evidence this year than in parade years. Urban Outfitters is not alone among major retail corporations flogging clothing that man...
March 07, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Leaders' BC appeal in advance of Cameron visit
Cameron in D.C. next week. Three of the most prominent Irish-American organizations have issued a joint statement on the Boston College archive cas...
March 07, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Two charged in Belfast murder
A husband and wife have been charged with the murder of a man who was shot dead in Belfast last week. Charles Stephen Valliday, 40, and Julie-Ann V...
March 07, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Three icons looked at anew
They stared down at us from the walls of musty parlors. Seven somber men, faces cased with conviction: the signatories of the 1916 Proclamation. Th...
March 07, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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George returns to home shore
Terry and Oorlagh George back in Belfast. Film director Terry George has returned to his native County Down following his Oscar triumph in Hollywoo...
March 07, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Manhattan Mass in memory of Rosemary, Pat
[caption id="attachment_70115" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Pat Finucane."][/caption] The Brehon Law Society and he Rosemary Nelson Cam...
March 07, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff
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Sunnyside parade is big hit with young, old
Irish Minister of State Kathleen Lynch with Grand Marshal Peter Quinn before they marched down Skillman Avenue. “It’s a boy!” So announced the ball...
March 07, 2012
by Irish Echo Staff